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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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Forbes
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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CNET News, AllThingsD, PhoneArena, Google Watch, paidContent, Electronista, GottaBeMobile 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
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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Engadget, Fast Company, The Verge, 9to5Google, SplatF, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Phones Review, Reuters, CNET News, Daring Fireball, IntoMobile, Droid Life, Dow Jones Newswires, Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, Electronista, @dannysullivan, GottaBeMobile, PhoneArena, AndroidGuys, Android Phone Fans, Business Insider, Android Community, Screenwerk, LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, Softpedia News and TechCrunch
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple television rumored to come in 3 sizes, including 32" and 55" — Apple's full-fledged television set will arrive at the end of 2012 in three screen sizes, maxing out at 55 inches, a new rumor claims. — Citing sources in Japan, Australia's SmartHouse reported this week …
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Smarthouse, MacRumors, Softpedia News, Fudzilla, Mashable!, iDownloadBlog.com, T3 News, App Advice, Macgasm, iPhone, iClarified, MacDailyNews and SlashGear
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
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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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
How the iPad 2 Became My Favorite Computer — My iPad 2 and ZaggFolio, in the press room at IFA in Berlin, September 2011. — Can the iPad replace a PC? — Ever since Apple announced its tablet nearly two years ago, the Internet has been awash in discussion of this question.
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MacStories, GottaBeMobile and TeleRead, Thanks:harrymccracken
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.
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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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
EC Opens Formal Antitrust Proceedings To Investigate E-book Sales ‘Cartel’ — The European Commission this morning announced that it has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether a number of international ebook publishers have engaged in anti-competitive practices affecting …
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EU Press Room, Associated Press, mocoNews, The Verge, 9to5Mac and BBC
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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Ubergizmo, SlashGear, MacNN, Techie Buzz, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, everythingiCafe, CNET News, Cult of Mac, The Verge and Gizmodo UK
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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Inquirer, SlashGear, Techie Buzz, IntoMobile, Electronista and MacRumors
Zach Honig / Engadget:
Verizon lights one candle for LTE, confirms Xyboard Droid tablet name, December launch — Today marks one full year after Verizon first flipped the switch on LTE, with 365 days of 4G speeds for customers in 39 markets. By the end of next week, Big Red will light up a few more cities …
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Hey Facebook, Where's That Timeline and Open Graph You Promised? — Two and a half months after Facebook promised that a huge revision of its self-expression and sharing tools were coming soon, users and developers are still waiting. — Way back in September, Facebook told the world …
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Neowin.net
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
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 and IBM
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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Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Tech Trade, Electronista, The Register, eWeek, Bits, CNET News and Business Insider
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
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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Mashable!, GeekWire, The Seattle Times and FT Tech Hub
Inside Flipboard:
Flipboard Launches in China — Starting today, Chinese readers get their very own edition of Flipboard. It's the first international edition of Flipboard to launch, and it's in collaboration with Sina, China's largest Web portal and owner of Sina Weibo (), and Renren (.), one of China's most popular social networks.
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mocoNews, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, MacNN and Web 2.0 Asia Blog
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Don't write off Mozilla-Google revenue deal as dead — Mozilla and Google are renegotiating a deal by which Google shares ad revenue that results from searches the browser drives to its site. — The partnership, which Mozilla renewed in 2008 for three more year, was set to expire in November.
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PC World
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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Joi Ito's Web
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.
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 …
