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Josh Williams / Gowalla Blog:
Gowalla is Going to Facebook — Three years ago Gowalla's journey began when I took a photograph of Lake Tahoe on my iPhone. I had just finished a phone call with my dad, and I wanted nothing more than to share that photo and place with him. Not just in a text message or status update sort of way …
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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Gowalla Founders v. Gowalla Investors — Location based service Gowalla is going to shut down at the end of January. The two founders, Josh Williams and Scott Raymond, will be heading off to Facebook. Loyal Gowalla users will be stranded as the service shuts down.
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Pulse2 and FierceMobileContent
Jakob Nielsen / Alertbox:
Kindle Fire Usability Findings … Amazon.com's new Kindle Fire offers a disappointingly poor user experience. Using the web with the Silk browser is clunky and error-prone. Reading downloaded magazines is not much better. Still, user testing with the Fire did help us understand …
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Google Watch, AllThingsD, paidContent, GottaBeMobile, Electronista and Kindle Review
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Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Amazon Kindle Fire owners reporting Wi-Fi bug
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Gizmodo, MacRumors, GeekWire, PhoneArena, Datamation.com and Computerworld
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
RIM Blindsided by Kindle Fire Pricing — If you recently purchased one of Research In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBooks at a significant discount, you may have Amazon to thank for it. — The move to slash $200 and then $300 from the device's retail price was evidently made to battle the Fire's loss-leading $199 price.
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JR Raphael / Computerworld:
Confirmed: Verizon Galaxy Nexus won't support Google Wallet (but will receive Google updates) — With the launch of Verizon's Galaxy Nexus growing closer, rumors about the device are starting to pour out at a breakneck speed. As such, I thought now might be a good time to do a quick round of fact vs. fiction.
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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
WSJ: Verizon's Galaxy Nexus to run $299.99 on contract
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The Verge, Dow Jones Newswires, VentureBeat, Android Phone Fans, PC Magazine, mocoNews, Business Insider, Screenwerk, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget and BGR
Dan Rosenberg / It's Bugs All the Way Down:
CarrierIQ: The Real Story — Since the beginning of the media frenzy over CarrierIQ, I have repeatedly stated that based on my knowledge of the software, claims that keystrokes, SMS bodies, email bodies, and other data of this nature are being collected are erroneous.
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Mikael Ricknäs / PC World:
European Regulators Start Investigating Carrier IQ
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VentureBeat, CNET News, Engadget, Help Net Security, SlashGear, MobileBurn.com, Datamation.com, InfoWorld, Washington Post, Mobile and Softpedia News
Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
You'll Never Guess Which Venture Capital Firms Won The IPO Battle This Year — A cluster of five companies generated nearly $10 billion in value for a few venture capital firms, according to our analysis of SEC filings. — Pandora, Groupon and a few others brought in huge returns …
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Battles Brain Drain — Internet Company Braces for Wave of Exits After Holidays — To the catalog of problems facing Yahoo Inc., add employees like Greg Cohn. — Mr. Cohn joined Yahoo six years ago as a business strategist, working his way up to become a senior director in charge of generating revenue for new initiatives.
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CNET News, TechFlash, ITworld.com and Digits
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
The Rise of Google, the Ascent of Facebook and the Decline of Everyone Else — If you pay the slightest bit of attention to Internet advertising, you know this. But it's always good to see it spelled out: Look how ginormous Google is! — This exclamation point comes courtesy of Zenith Optimedia …
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Mat Honan / Gizmodo:
Siri Is Apple's Broken Promise — A long time ago, I made a compact with Apple. “You can control my entire technological life, from my computer to my phone to my stereo. I'll pay premium prices. I'll dive into your product ecosystem, and buy books and music and movies and apps from you.
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Real Dan Lyons Web Site, Daring Fireball and iDownloadBlog.com
Rene Ritchie / TiPb:
iOS version code-names — While Android's dessert-derived code-names like Cupcake and Ice Cream Sandwich are publicly pitched by Google and used by media, Apple's iOS code-names don't get anywhere nearly as much attention. Developer Steve Troughton-Smith, however, gave them some Twitter love this morning.
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Techie Buzz, SlashGear, MacNN, App Advice, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo, CNET News, Cult of Mac, everythingiCafe, Gizmodo UK, The Verge, GizmoCrazed and iDownloadBlog.com
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn, Central Figure in Pretexting Case, Dies — Patricia Dunn, the former HP chairman who was the central figure in the 2006 spying scandal that rocked the company's boardroom early during the tenure of then-CEO Mark Hurd, has died, sources confirm to AllThingsD.
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Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Android graphics, rendering, and hardware acceleration explained by Google — Dianne Hackborn, part of Google's Android engineering group, has taken to the company's Google+ social network to distribute some “true facts” about Android's graphics and rendering.
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The Register, Electronista, Andrew Munn, IntoMobile, Android Phone Fans and PhoneArena
Reuters:
Exclusive: Apple vs. Samsung ruling divulges secret details — (Reuters) - A U.S. court error on Friday offered a brief glimpse at information that Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have tried to shield from the public during their high-stakes patent litigation.
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IntoMobile, Techie Buzz, Electronista and MacRumors
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Windows 8 will be ‘largely irrelevant’ to traditional PC users: IDC — Summary: IDC's top 10 system software predictions for 2012 are out. One of them casts doubt on Microsoft's potential market for Windows 8 among traditional PC users. — It's that time of year: The time when prognosticators …
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IDC, GottaBeMobile, PC Magazine, SlashGear, Ars Technica, PC World, Electronista, Neowin.net, The Tech Report, Seattle Times, CodenameWindows, MacDailyNews, AllThingsD, Technologizer and Softpedia News
Tom Simonite / Technology Review:
IBM Makes Revolutionary Racetrack Memory Using Existing Tools — Racetrack memory could someday supersede flash in terms of density and cost. — IBM has shown that a revolutionary new type of computer memory—one that combines the large capacity of traditional hard disks with the speed …
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The Register, Electronista, The Verge, IBM and Slashdot
Lauren Goode / AllThingsD:
Move Over, Picasso: Smartphone Photos Become Works of Art — Seems like only yesterday we were talking about the shift from analog photos to digital images that consumers can obsessively share online — and get immediate gratification from in the form of “likes.” — Now, photo printouts are all the rage again.
Felix Salmon:
Why Apple's cheap — I'm going to take one last bite at the Apple valuation question, since I'm happier now about why Apple's trading where it's trading than I was when I wrote my original post. — The first thing to note, as pointed out by Tadas Viskanta, is that Apple's now a megacap, and that changes quite a few things.
Joichi Ito / New York Times:
In an Open-Source Society, Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants — The Internet isn't really a technology. It's a belief system, a philosophy about the effectiveness of decentralized, bottom-up innovation. And it's a philosophy that has begun to change how we think about creativity itself.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
The Nerdy Address Of Facebook's New Headquarters? 1 Hacker Way — Apple has 1 Infinite Loop, Genentech has 1 DNA Way, and now Facebook has its own vanity headquarters address: 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, 94025. Seen here on a brand new business card of a Facebook employee …
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Coming next year: Ting, the less-evil mobile carrier — Cellular carriers are evil. — Or dumb. Because what but an evil or dumb company would punish its best customers for underestimating the amount of their product that they want? Cellular overage charges are insultingly high.
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Electronista, GottaBeMobile, PC World and Gizmodo
Abby Rogers / Business Insider:
Over 100,000 XXX Domain Names Are Going Live Tomorrow At 11 EST — The next generation of online porn launches tomorrow at 11 AM EST. — We asked the guy behind XXX domain names who stands to benefit from the changeover. — ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley has been working …
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