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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Amazon's Fire, Some Say, May Become the Edsel of Tablets — The Kindle Fire, Amazon's heavily promoted tablet, is less than a blazing success with many of its early users. The most disgruntled are packing the device up and firing it back to the retailer. — A few of their many complaints: there is no external volume control.
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CNET News, The Verge, Electronista and TeleRead, Thanks:hunterwalk
Mercury News:
Google founders offer ‘100 percent’ funding to save Hangar One, but no word back from NASA — Hangar One, once home to the Navy's giant airships at Moffett Field, finally has a few willing benefactors: Google's top three executives have offered to salvage the historic landmark. — No word yet on NASA's response.
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Techi.com, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Tech Trade, AllThingsD, @dannysullivan, Gizmodo, The Verge, 9to5Google, Business Insider and SlashGear
Andy Baio / Waxy.org:
No Copyright Intended — On October 26, a YouTube user named crimewriter95 posted a full-length version of Pulp Fiction, rearranged in chronological order. — A couple things struck me about this video. — First, I'm surprised that a full-length, 2.5-hour very slight remix of a popular film …
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@qthrul, YouTube Blog, VentureBeat, WebProNews and Boing Boing
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Falcone's LightSquared Said to Disrupt 75% of GPS in Tests — Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) — Philip Falcone's proposed LightSquared Inc. wireless service caused interference to 75 percent of global-positioning system receivers examined in a U.S. government test, according to a draft summary of results.
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Examiner, Ars Technica, Engadget, The Verge, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Neowin.net, CNET News, Wall Street Journal, Slashdot, Bloomberg, Electronista and Light Reading
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Shockingly Unshocking: Two Congressional Staffers Who Helped Write SOPA/PIPA Become Entertainment Industry Lobbyists — Two high level Congressional staffers who have been instrumental in creating or moving forward both PROTECT IP (PIPA) and SOPA have left their jobs on Capitol Hill …
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TechSpot, Boing Boing and Slashdot
Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:
Pincus Faceoff With Zuckerberg Shows Fearsome Prelude to Zynga's IPO: Tech — When Zynga Inc. reached an impasse while negotiating a five-year partnership with Facebook Inc. in August 2010, Chief Executive Officer Mark Pincus demanded a one- on-one meeting with Mark Zuckerberg.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Meet Niklas Zennstrom's New, Mysterious ‘Free Broadband’ Venture: FreedomPop — I'd never heard of FreedomPop until earlier this morning, when the company announced a partnership with U.S. wireless broadband network operator LightSquared. — FreedomPop, according to the press release …
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Ology, Neowin.net, Ubergizmo, The Register and Light Reading
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Louis C.K. Doesn't Get Torrents, But Gets Distribution — Stand-up comedian Louis C.K is selling a direct download of his show at the Beacon Theater for 5 dollars. No DRM, no forced email spam, no expensive middle-man - just value for value. That's how easy and convenient video distribution …
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TechCrunch, SuperSite for Windows, VentureBeat, Examiner, Pulse2, @grg, On The Air, @donttrythis and Gizmodo
comScore, Inc.:
U.S. Online Holiday Spending Approaches $25 Billion for the Season, Up 15 Percent vs. Year Ago — Upcoming “Green Monday” (Dec. 12) to Contend with Cyber Monday for Heaviest Online Spending Day of the Year — comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
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CNET News, TechCrunch, Reuters, VentureBeat and BizReport
Shan Li / Los Angeles Times:
Furor surrounds Amazon's price-comparison app — Retailers and a senator denounce a one-day promotional offer that will give discounts to Amazon customers who use the Price Check app while browsing at physical stores. — Amazon's Price Check app has users identify a product by scanning its bar code …
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TechNewsWorld, @qthrul, TechCrunch, @joshconstine, @dannysullivan, Times of India and PC World
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Slipstream: Bill Would Let Video Consumers Disclose All Their Choices — IF Netflix has its way, Facebook members in the United States may soon be able to see which of their friends and family members have just video-streamed “Paranormal Activity” or “Boys Don't Cry.”
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Browser Study Sheds Light On Firefox's Insecurity (And Google Approves This Message) — Illustration by Galit Weisberg. Click on the image to see his original. — Updated with a response from Mozilla. — When Google funds a study on browser security and allows it to be published …
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eWeek, PC Magazine, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Pulse2, Slashdot, Techie Buzz, The Register, Neowin.net, Computerworld, Gizmodo and SecurityWeek, Thanks:forbestech
