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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft upgrades Xbox Live with 40 entertainment services, live TV, and Kinect voice control — Xbox Live isn't just an online gaming service anymore. Microsoft is announcing today that the new version of its Xbox Live user interface will help transform entertainment on the television.
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Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Xbox Companion for Windows Phone coming December 6th — If you read the press release put out earlier today, you probably saw the huge list of partners coming soon to Xbox 360 and may have missed the paragraph about the Xbox Companion app coming this week, so I wanted to share a few more details about it.
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Microsoft, LiveSide.net, Search Engine Land, Engadget, VG247, SlashGear, Hacking NetFlix and WMPoweruser
Sean Buckley / Engadget:
Xbox 360 Dashboard update (Fall 2011) review — Kiss that old “New Xbox Experience” goodbye — the Xbox Dashboard just went full Metro. Microsoft teased the console's latest overhaul back at E3, promising to “change living room entertainment forever.” The following months saw leaks …
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AllThingsD, Engadget and Electronista
Artem Russakovskii / Android Police:
Google Employees Are Receiving Ice Cream Sandwich OTAs On Their Nexus S Phones - Dogfooding Has Begun — Google has started the dogfooding process of testing the Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” update for the Nexus S, according to one of Google employees Adel Saoud.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Apple licensed iOS scrolling patent to Nokia and IBM, offered license to Samsung — Until now, it's been assumed that Apple's paying absolute hardball in its various patent lawsuits around the world — that the company has no interest in licensing its patents, especially patents that cover fundamental parts of iOS.
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Mashable!, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin.net, Examiner, Smash iPhone, Business Insider, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, Electronista, PhoneArena, CNET News, Gizmodo, AllThingsD and iClarified
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Denial of US preliminary injunction against Samsung shows low strategic value of Apple's design patents
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Computerworld, App Advice, CNET News, PC Magazine, MacStories, MacDailyNews, Redmond Pie and Reuters
Zee / The Next Web:
Zuckerberg answers the big question “Is Google+ a threat?” — The BBC aired a one hour profile of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday (if you're in the UK, you can watch it here). All in all, most of you will have heard every detail shared before; aside from perhaps one question …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Here's Gowalla CEO's Non-Denial Denial Email to Investors About Facebook Acquisition — Even Gowalla CEO Josh Williams isn't pretending a deal for Facebook to buy the location-sharing company isn't happening, as you can read in an email he sent to his investors below.
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Rev2.org, The Register and Pulse2
Fred Wilson / A VC:
Cheap Willl Be Smart. Expensive Will Be Dumb. — I wrote about this a while back but I've been refining and sharpening my thinking on the question of which devices will be smart and which devices will be dumb. It's an important question because it gets to what platforms developers should build on.
Susanna Kim / ABC News:
Tech Firm Implements Employee ‘Zero Email’ Policy — You've got mail-not. Employees of tech company Atos will be banned from sending emails under the company's new “zero email” policy. — CEO Thierry Breton of the French information technology company said only 10 percent …
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Business Insider, @qthrul, Larry Magid and GigaOM
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Mint Founder's New Project, Swift, Studies Personal Maglev Vehicles — Aaron Patzer, the founder of Mint, has a new project that he is spending half his time on (he continues to spend the other half as VP of Product Innovation at Intuit, which acquired Mint two years ago for $170 million).
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Swift Transportation, GigaOM and @fromedome
Susan P. Crawford / New York Times:
Internet Access and the New Divide — FOR the second year in a row, the Monday after Thanksgiving — so-called Cyber Monday, when online retailers offer discounts to lure holiday shoppers — was the biggest sales day of the year, totaling some $1.25 billion and overwhelming the sales figures racked …
Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog:
Firefox faces uncertain future as Google deal apparently ends — Summary: It hasn't been a good year for Firefox. Mozilla has lost share to Google, it's lost the loyalty of enterprise customers, and it's lost key talent. And a deal with Google that supplied 84% of its revenue last year was scheduled to end in November.
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Tech Europe, parislemon, Marco.org, Business Insider, Pulse2, ReadWriteWeb and WebProNews
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Sarah Frier / Business Week:
Mozilla's Catch-Up Strategy for Mobile
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IntoMobile, Thanks:sarahfrier
Paul Roberts / threatpost:
Microsoft Research: Spammers Act Just Like HIV Virus In Avoiding Filters — Security researchers often use language and metaphors from the natural world to describe problems in the virtual world. (Thus, our use of the terms “virus,” and “worm.") Now it turns out that the links may not be so arbitrary …
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Carrier IQ denies responsiblity for insecure log files, suggests manufacturers are to blame — We've just returned from a long and wide-ranging interview with Carrier IQ's Vice President of Marketing, Andrew Coward. We'll have much more on that discussion soon, but first there is one piece …
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Electronista and Slate
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David Kravets / Threat Level:
Carrier IQ Admits Holding ‘Treasure Trove’ of Consumer Data, But No Keystrokes
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Mashable!, The Register, NevilleHobson.com, Examiner, paidContent, CNET News and Blog of Rights
