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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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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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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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eWeek, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, Computerworld and Fortune
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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Dow Jones Newswires, PC Magazine, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, 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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Examiner, Dennis Fisher, datasecurityblog.wordpress.com, Computerworld, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, PC World, CNET News, LAPTOP Magazine, SecurityWeek and Techland
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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, InfoWorld, Datamation.com, Washington Post, Mobile and Softpedia News
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, ITworld.com, TechFlash and Digits
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 …
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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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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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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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, MacRumors and Electronista
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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SlashGear, MacNN, everythingiCafe, IntoMobile, Ubergizmo, App Advice, CNET News, The Verge, PhoneArena, Cult of Mac and Gizmodo UK
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, Andrew Munn, IntoMobile, Electronista, Android Phone Fans and PhoneArena
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 …
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, Electronista and IBM
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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Electronista:
Cox TV Connect brings in-home iPad TV streaming — Cox TV Connect relies on local link for live TV — Cox on Monday tried its formal hand at a live TV streaming app with the formal rollout of Cox TV Connect for the iPad (free, App Store). As with those from most other cable providers …
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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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GottaBeMobile, Electronista, PC World and Gizmodo
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
StumbleUpon's Mobile Growth Rockets 800%; Company Unveils Major Redesign With 250 Brand Partners — StumbleUpon, the discovery engine that enables its users to “Stumble” onto personalized web content, unveiled a major redesign Monday, introducing a slew of upgrades that include a streamlined interface …
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Technologizer, GigaOM, Social Markets, AllThingsD, ReadWriteWeb, PC Magazine, MediaPost, Marketing Land and VentureBeat, Thanks:jengapokers
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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Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
Starbucks apps account for 26M mobile payments and $110M in card reloads — The Starbucks brand may be synonymous with pricey lattes, but the coffee conglomerate has pushed a number of mobile initiatives in 2011 to make its name also stand for digital innovation. New numbers released Monday suggest that the strategy is working.
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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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Gizmodo, CNET News, SlashGear, Inside Search, Mashable!, LAUNCH, Google Operating System, The Verge, Lifehacker and WebProNews
