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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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Business Insider, Street Fight, Marketing Pilgrim, @jason, TechSpot, The Register, memeburn, FierceMobileContent, Forbes, TechCrunch, BetaNews and Computerworld
Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog:
Facebook flaw allows access to private photos — Summary: A flaw in Facebook allows users to access private photos that are hidden from view, through no less than the social network's own image reporting tool. — Reporting features in Facebook apparently can allow users to access personal …
Dirk Dougherty / Android Developers Blog:
10 Billion Android Market downloads and counting — [This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] — One billion is a pretty big number by any measurement. However, when it's describing the speed at which something is growing, it's simply amazing.
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Between the Lines Blog, Inside Mobile Apps, Bits, Android Phone Fans, MobileSyrup.com, Pocket-lint and SlashGear
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Phil Nickinson / Android Central:
A slew of popular apps suddenly are 10 cents in the Android Market
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TechCrunch, IntoMobile, Electronista, The Verge, Gizmodo UK, GigaOM and Androinica, more at Mediagazer »
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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Eric Ravenscraft / RootzWiki:
[EXCLUSIVE] Galaxy Nexus To Drop Stateside December 9th
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Engadget, Business Insider, Android and Me, Dow Jones Newswires, CNET News, Android Community and PhoneArena
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Why Europe's trustbusters targeted Apple's e-book ‘cartel’ — The antitrust probe dates back to a deal Steve Jobs cut with five publishers in Jan. 2010 — The language of the European Commission's press release Tuesday announcing the start of a formal antitrust investigation of Apple …
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VentureBeat, Mashable!, 9to5Mac and MacStories, more at Mediagazer »
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
EC Opens Antitrust Proceedings To Investigate Apple, E-book Publishers ‘Cartel’
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CNET News, EU Press Room, Washington Post, BBC, The Register, Bloomberg, DailyTech, BGR, Reuters, GigaOM, TUAW, paidContent, WebProNews, AllThingsD, Business Insider, Inquirer, The Verge, PalmAddicts, Computerworld, Good E-Reader, Engadget, SlashGear, Neowin.net, London Calling Blog, Electronista and Softpedia News, more at Mediagazer »
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
The BBC's global iPlayer expands to iPhone and iPod Touch — Five months after BBC Worldwide launched its global iPlayer app to 11 Western European countries on iPad, the commercial arm of the UK broadcaster has announced that it's making the app available on iPhone and iPod Touch too.
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MacRumors, The Verge, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, iPhone Buzz, MacStories, SlashGear, MacNN and iClarified
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Cisco solidifies cloud strategy, launches CloudVerse — Summary: Cisco goes public with its cloud strategy, a framework called CloudVerse that's designed to cater to all flavors of cloud computing. — Cisco on Tuesday publicly rolled out its cloud computing strategy dubbed CloudVerse …
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eWeek, AllThingsD and Bits
Robert Scoble / Google+:
Yahoo News is seeing huge returns from Facebook's Open Graph, is this the future of Flickr? — Here Mike Kerns, who runs social and personalization at +Yahoo! News talks to me about the effects Yahoo has seen thanks to the inclusion of Open Graph technology from Facebook (AKA “frictionless sharing").
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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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TechCrunch, Technologizer, blog.chron.com and iDownloadBlog.com
Levi Sumagaysay / GMSV:
PayPal regrets Regretsy holiday-donation flap — PayPal is being branded a Scrooge over the news that it is forcing Regretsy to refund donations it had collected for poor children for the holidays. — Regretsy, a Southern California-based website that bills itself as “the fail blog of hand crafts …
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TechCrunch, The PayPal Blog, @timcohn and Gawker
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Chris Morran / The Consumerist:
PayPal Rains On Regretsy's Secret Santa Campaign Over Use Of Wrong Button
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Forbes, VentureBeat, Regretsy, Regretsy, Business Insider, The Consumerist, Mashable!, Geek.com, The Consumerist, @stshank and Daily Dot
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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Hardware 2.0 Blog, eWeek, ReadWriteWeb, AllThingsD, Business Insider, CNET News, WebProNews, PhoneArena, GottaBeMobile, Google Watch, Electronista and TeleRead, more at Mediagazer »
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Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Amazon Kindle Fire owners reporting Wi-Fi bug
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BGR, Fortune, Gizmodo, GeekWire, PhoneArena and Datamation.com
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
‘Steve Jobs’ Becomes Amazon's Best-Selling Book of 2011 — As predicted by Amazon following its release, Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs has become the retailer's best-selling book of 2011. The milestone is a remarkable one given that the book did not debut until late October.
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GigaOM, Gawker, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Edible Apple and MacNN
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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PalmAddicts and MacStories, Thanks:harrymccracken
Anne-Gabrielle Dauba Pantanacce / European Public …:
Inaugurating our new French headquarters — Last year, our Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt promised to open a research and development and culture centre in France. Today, Eric returned to Paris to inaugurate our new 10,000-square meter office in a refurbished 19th century Second Empire building near the St. Lazare Train Station.
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Larry Page and Softpedia News
Reuters:
Chinese court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name — (Reuters) - A court in southern China has rejected a lawsuit by Apple Inc, accusing a Chinese technology company of infringing its iPad trademark, a newspaper reported on Tuesday, the latest move in a protracted tug-of-war over the name.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Electronista and PhoneArena
Date By Categories / Nmap Hackers:
C|Net Download.Com is now bundling Nmap with malware! — Hi Folks. I've just discovered that C|Net's Download.Com site has started wrapping their Nmap downloads (as well as other free software like VLC) in a trojan installer which does things like installing a sketchy “StartNow” toolbar …
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 …
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Friending Facebook Blog, All Facebook, Gawker, Business Insider and Softpedia News
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Consumer Reports rates AT&T the worst among U.S. carriers (again), Verizon is the best — Consumer Reports, a U.S. monthly influencing purchasing decisions with its reviews and comparisons of consumer products, announced today that it rated AT&T the worst among wireless operators in the United States.
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AllThingsD, Between the Lines Blog, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, BGR, CNET News, PhoneArena, Consumer Reports News and Know Your Cell
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, O'Grady's PowerPage, PadGadget, Fudzilla, Mashable!, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, T3 News, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm and App Advice
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.
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MobileSyrup.com, WebProNews, The Verge, Mashable!, Appolicious Advisor, GeekWire and The Seattle Times
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Amazon invests in Foxit to boost PDF support in Kindle devices and apps — Major online retailer Amazon has invested in Foxit Corporation, announcing today that it will work with the company to build out PDF support in its Kindle devices and also its Kindle reading applications.
