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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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Phil Nickinson / Android Central:
A slew of popular apps suddenly are 10 cents in the Android Market
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IntoMobile, Electronista, Androinica, The Verge, Gizmodo UK and Tip Desk
Reuters:
Exclusive: Verizon to take on Netflix with Web service — (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc plans to launch a standalone service allowing customers to stream movies and television shows over the Web, in a fresh challenge to Netflix Inc and the traditional cable TV business, according to several people briefed on the plan.
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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 …
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The Verge, Techie Buzz, BetaNews, CNN, PC World, CNET News, LAUNCH, Business Insider, PetaPixel, Mashable!, Gizmodo UK, Techland, Digital Trends, The Not-So Private Parts, Neowin.net, The Register, WebProNews, gHacks Technology News, Get Off My Internets, NBC Bay Area, All Facebook, Threat Level, Gawker, Help Net Security, Daily Dot and Gizmodo
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Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog:
Facebook acknowledges photo privacy bug; Issues immediate fix
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Fox News and Technologizer
Curtis Cartier / The Daily Weekly:
Crystal Cox, Oregon Blogger, Isn't a Journalist, Concludes U.S. Court—Imposes $2.5 Million Judgement on Her — A U.S. District Court judge in Portland has drawn a line in the sand between “journalist” and “blogger.” And for Crystal Cox, a woman on the latter end of that comparison, the distinction has cost her $2.5 million.
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Betabeat, Street Fight, @jayrosen_nyu and @cshirky, more at Mediagazer »
Andrew Munn / Google+:
Follow up to “Android graphics true facts”, or The Reason Android is Laggy — Yesterday +Dianne Hackborn posted to Google+ an article that dismissed the common accusation that Android is laggy because UI rendering wasn't hardware accelerated until Honeycomb: — https://plus.google.com/105051985738280 261832/ posts/2FXDCz8x93s
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App Advice, Daring Fireball, Electronista, Android Phone Fans, ExtremeTech and Redmond Pie
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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iPhone, 9to5Mac, MacStories, Pulse2, iPhone Buzz, The Verge, SlashGear, TechCrunch and PC & Tech Authority, more at Mediagazer »
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:
Verizon issues new statement on Google Wallet, “continuing discussions with Google” — Following up on our Verizon blocking Google Wallet report last night, Verizon spokesperson extraordinaire Jeffrey Nelson just emailled us with an updated statement that moves from vagary to confusion.
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TechCrunch, Computerworld, Computerworld, CNET News, NFC World, PC World, The Verge, Electronista, mocoNews, Neowin.net and Engadget
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Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Isn't it ironic: Google Wallet “closed” on the airwaves Google lobbied the FCC to keep “open”
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BGR, The Register, Computerworld, PC Magazine and The Orange View
Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
Amazon Jabs At Brick-And-Mortar Retailers With Price Check Promotion — Not long after wrapping up their string of Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals, Amazon has pulled back the curtain on yet another way they'll be snagging purchases away from physical retail outlets.
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Tech Beat, Bits, TechFlash, Digits, AllThingsD, Amazon.com, PC World, Electronista, IntoMobile, @counternotions, GeekWire, 9to5Mac, Gawker, ReadWriteWeb and Mashable!
Maciej Ceglowski / Pinboard:
Don't Be A Free User — Were you a big Gowalla fan? Did you like Dodgeball? Did you think Trunk.ly (gasp!) was better than Pinboard? Did you make a lot of contributions to Nextstop? Do you miss Aardvark and EtherPad? Did “I Want Sandy” change your life?
Benoit Maison / Benoit Maison's blog:
Why Siri had to start in beta — Bashing Siri, the iPhone 4S virtual assistant, seems to be fashionable these days. Mat Honan declares it “Apple's broken promise”. CNN reports on Siri's alleged anti-abortion bias (via Danny Sullivan). Colbert weighs in.
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AppleInsider, LIVEdigitally, Edible Apple and iDownloadBlog.com
Eric Ravenscraft / RootzWiki:
[EXCLUSIVE] Galaxy Nexus To Drop Stateside December 9th — → Article: [EXCLUSIVE] Galaxy Nexus To Drop Stateside December 9th — We have been itching for a certain phone to come out some time this year but we are anticipating so much with the late release of Ice Cream Source form …
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eWeek, Gadget Lab, Engadget, VentureBeat, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, Android and Me, Business Insider, Android Community, CNET News, Electronista and PhoneArena
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Understanding Apple's endgame — Whenever you bring up Apple or any of its products, the conversation inevitably goes to market share. So much so that it seems clear to me that some people believe that Apple thinks about market share when it releases products. I don't believe that at all.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
With Eric Schmidt as backer, HealthTap raises $11.5M for mobile patient-doctor Q&A network — HealthTap has raised $11.5 million in a first round of funding to expand its expert online physician community, which answers questions that patients pose online or via smartphones.
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CNET News, VatorNews, TechCrunch and Social Markets
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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InfoWorld, GigaOM, eWeek, The Register, ReadWriteCloud, Bits, AllThingsD and Pulse2
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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Googling Google Blog, Larry Page, Pulse2 and 9to5Google
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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Financial Post, Pulse2, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, PhoneArena, Electronista and TUAW
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Actually, Windows 8 Will Be TOTALLY Relevant On Desktop PCs — Here's Why — Research firm IDC issued 10 predictions for 2012 over the weekend. — One of them seems to predict that Windows 8 will be a flop on desktop PCs, while doing OK in tablets. — As Mary Jo Foley reports …
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GeekWire, Windows 8 News, Rumors & Tips, WinRumors and Computerworld
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
New York Times's Reveal is the mirror of the future — Reveal, created by The NY Times Company Research & Development Lab, is a mirror platform that explores the roles information and media might play in our future routines. According to the team: We all experience the world in a highly personalized fashion.
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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Comcast: No plans for usage-based broadband pricing — Many cable operators are considering new pricing for broadband services that would link the amount of data their subscribers consume with the amount they pay. But Comcast isn't one of them, according to execs.
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DSLreports, The Verge and Electronista
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google+ To Take On Foursquare With Upcoming “Check-in Offers” Feature — It looks like Google+ is adding a feature that will allow users to “check-in” via the Google+ mobile application in order to receive a time-sensitive deal or discount. This feature is mentioned in Google Places's help documentation …
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VentureBeat, MacNN and Ubergizmo
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.
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 …
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Daring Fireball, The NeoSmart Files, Naked Security, VentureBeat, Krebs on Security, Geek.com and The Register
LG Nilsson / VR-Zone:
Intel's mobile Ivy Bridge CPU line-up revealed … We've already seen what Intel has for us as far as desktop systems are concerned for most of 2012, Ivy Bridge-E not being part of that roadmap, but what about the mobile market space? Well, we have plenty of details for you with regards …
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MacRumors, Electronista, OS X Daily, Laptops and Desktops Blog, O'Grady's PowerPage, 9to5Mac, The Verge and Softpedia News
Fred / A VC:
engag.io — About a month ago, William Mougayar, an AVC regular if there was ever one, emailed me about an idea he had to create a web service to make social conversations easier. We went back and forth on the idea. I pushed him to come up with a simple name and a simple UI.
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Engagio's Blog
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
SuccessFactors acquires Jobs2web for $110 million — Summary: SuccessFactors plans to integrate Jobs2web in its business execution software. — SuccessFactors, which was just acquired by SAP, is making an acquisition of its own with the purchase of Jobs2web for $110 million. .
