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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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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Gowalla Versus Foursquare: Why Pretty Doesn't Always Win — Gowalla, the geo-social app, will soon be no more. The founders will be joining Facebook and shutting down the product a couple months after trying to reposition the app as a social travel guide.
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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Gizmodo, Dennis Fisher, PC Magazine, CNET News, Computerworld, PC Advisor, LAPTOP Magazine, SecurityWeek, Techland, Inquirer and Slashdot
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Mikael Ricknäs / PC World:
European Regulators Start Investigating Carrier IQ
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CNET News, VentureBeat, Washington Post, Help Net Security, SlashGear, MobileBurn.com, Engadget, Datamation.com, InfoWorld, Mobile, Softpedia News and The Verge
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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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Amazon may own half of Android tablet market next year
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Computerworld, Fortune, PhoneArena and 9to5Mac
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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AllThingsD, paidContent and Kindle Review, more at Mediagazer »
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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PC Magazine, PC World, Ars Technica, IDC, Electronista, SlashGear, Neowin.net, AllThingsD, Seattle Times, The Tech Report, CodenameWindows, Technologizer, MacDailyNews and Softpedia News
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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CNET News, The Register, eWeek, Bits, Business Insider, Electronista and Wall Street Journal
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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PC World, Gizmodo and Electronista
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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Techie Buzz, MacRumors and Electronista
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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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
WSJ: Verizon's Galaxy Nexus to run $299.99 on contract — The Wall Street Journal is reporting this afternoon that Verizon's version of the Galaxy Nexus will run $299.99 on a new two-year contract — standard fare alongside the HTC Rezound and Motorola Droid RAZR, both of which share that price point.
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9to5Google, PC Magazine, Screenwerk, LAPTOP Magazine, paidContent, Business Insider, Dow Jones Newswires, Android Phone Fans, Engadget and BGR
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
There And Back Again: A Lengthy Weighing Of The Galaxy Nexus And iPhone 4S
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9to5Google, Real Dan Lyons Web Site, Droid Life, Computerworld, eWeek, ReadWriteWeb, PC World, Phones Review and GottaBeMobile
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.
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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The Verge, MacNN, App Advice, Cult of Mac, IntoMobile, CNET News, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo UK, iDownloadBlog.com and GizmoCrazed
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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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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Betabeat
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, IntoMobile, Andrew Munn, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena and Dianne Hackborn
Kevin Murphy / The Register:
Bankrupt Borders flogs 65,536 IP addresses at $12 a pop — Scarce network numbers offloaded to healthcare biz — The bankrupt bookseller Borders wants to sell its stash of 65,536 IP addresses to healthcare software vendor Cerner for $12 per address. — The bust high street chain filed …
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Communications …, CircleID and DomainIncite
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, The Verge, IBM and Slashdot
Electronista:
Dell drops Streak 7, backs out of Android tablets in US — Dell quits Android tablet arena in short term — Dell on Monday confirmed that it had stopped selling the Streak 7. The tablet is no longer available online and is withdrawing just months after Dell axed the Streak 5.
Jason Cornwell / Gmail Blog:
Designing Gmail's new left navigation — One of our goals for the Gmail's new look was to make Gmail feel more like a native application with independently scrolling panels rather than a website that scrolls as a single page. This design approach brings with it many advantages …
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9to5Google
Agam Shah / PC World:
Tablet Priced Under $100 With Android 4.0 Surfaces — A first-of-its-kind tablet with Google's Android 4.0 priced under US$100 is now available in China, and will reach other countries soon, according to companies that helped build the device. — Ainol's Novo7 tablet has a 7-inch capacitive screen …
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MIPS Technologies Home, Android Phone Fans, MobileWhack.com and Pocketables
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Adds Graphical Math Calculator To Search Results — Google announced their answer to Wolfram Alpha's advanced math skills with math graphing functionality on Google search results. — All you need to do is type basic and complex math functions into the Google search box and Google will return neat graphics.
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The Verge, Gizmodo, Inside Search, Mashable!, LAUNCH, Google Operating System and WebProNews
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Grading the Digital School: Khan Academy Blends Its YouTube Approach With Classrooms — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jesse Roe, a ninth-grade math teacher at a charter school here called Summit, has a peephole into the brains of each of his 38 students. — He can see that a girl sitting against the wall …
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Inside iPhone 4S US mobile data: AT&T vs Sprint vs Verizon — Apple now sells iPhones that work on three of the top four national US mobile carriers. Here's a look at how well you can expect Apple's latest smartphones to work on each of these mobile data networks, based on real world testing of each carrier's data throughput.
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CNET News, mocoNews, Mobiledia and DSLreports
