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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
As Kindle Fire Faces Critics, Remedies Are Promised — 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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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Kindle Fire software update coming in less than two weeks, performance and UI improvements promised — In the wake of many user complaints about web browsing speeds and other performance issues, Amazon has told the New York Times that it will be releasing a software update for the Kindle Fire “in less than two weeks.”
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Mitch Lipka / Reuters:
Amazon's Kindle Fire lets kids charge up a storm
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Daring Fireball and Gadget Lab
DigiTimes:
Next generation iPads to be available in 3-4 months, say sources — The next generation iPads are expected to be available in the next 3-4 months as makers in the supply chain have started delivering parts and components for the new tablets to OEM contractors while reducing those prepared for iPad 2 …
Michael Robertson / GigaOM:
Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels — Imagine a new hot-dog selling venture. Let's also say there's only one supplier to purchase hot dogs from. Instead of simply charging a fixed price for hot dogs, that supplier demands the HIGHER of the following …
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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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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Sung-won Shim / Reuters:
Samsung says sells over 300 million mobile handsets in 2011 — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (005930.KS) said on Sunday its annual mobile handset sales this year had exceeded 300 million units for the first time in the company's history. — The world's second largest handset maker …
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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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Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal:
Judgment Day Looms for Apple, HTC — Apple Inc.'s claims that some smartphones running Google Inc.'s Android software copy its inventions are approaching their first big judgment day in the U.S. — The International Trade Commission in Washington on Wednesday is expected to rule on whether …
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ITProPortal and PhoneArena
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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Edmar Ferreira / TechCrunch:
Y Combinator Vs TechStars: Whose Companies Are Bringing In More Funding? — Y Combinator and TechStars are two of the first seed-stage venture funds, and they've each had some successful companies. But how can we analyze how they're doing so far? One way is acquisitions …
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Howard Lindzon
