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Slater Tow / Facebook Blog:
Timeline: Now Available Worldwide — We recently announced our plans to introduce Facebook Timeline, an entirely new kind of profile. — Timeline gives you an easy way to rediscover the things you shared, and collect your most important moments. It also lets you share new experiences …
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Mick Johnson / Facebook Blog:
Timeline Now Available on Mobile — Timeline gives you an easy way to see the things you've shared, and collect all your best moments in a single place. In addition to making timeline available on the web , today we're also launching timeline on Android and m.facebook.com.
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Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog:
Facebook Timeline goes live: Gives users seven-day grace
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Ryan Gavin / The Windows Blog:
IE to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 — Everyone benefits from an up-to-date browser. — Today we are sharing our plan to automatically upgrade Windows customers to the latest version of Internet Explorer available for their PC.
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Internet Explorer to start automatically updating itself in January
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Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:
Zeitgeist 2011: How the world searched — This year marks our 11th annual look back at the searches that compose the year's Zeitgeist—the spirit of the time. With Zeitgeist, we look at the most popular and the fastest rising terms—the terms with the highest growth in 2011—in many categories across many countries around the world.
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Lance Whitney / CNET News:
iPhone 5, Steve Jobs among top Google searches in 2011
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Source Reveals Facebook Is Gushing Cash — A well-placed mole has forwarded us the Silicon Valley equivalent of hard-core pornography: an explicit look at Facebook's finances. They're even more staggering than we expected. A gusher of profits has left the social network with a cash hoard …
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Bill Gates Confirms He Won't Return To Microsoft — Bill Gates refutes a full-time return to Microsoft, the company he founded, to spend the rest of his life working for his foundation. — Bill Gates today ruled out ever returning to the helm of Microsoft and dismissed harsh barbs by his former arch-rival Steve Jobs.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress — An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress — Today, a group of 83 prominent Internet inventors and engineers sent an open letter to members of the United States Congress, stating their opposition to the SOPA …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Tons Of Amendments Proposed For SOPA
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Kellex / Droid Life:
Within 2 Hours of Activation, Your Galaxy Nexus Will Receive an Update - Here are the Details — Once you have your Galaxy Nexus up and running for a couple of hours, an update will become available that brings you to Android 4.0.2 and build ICL53F. This is the update we showed you yesterday …
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Andy Rubin / Google Mobile Blog:
Galaxy Nexus now available in the U.S.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft takes the wraps off its So.cl social-search project — Summary: Microsoft is taking the wraps off a new learning tool, it social-search research project known as So.cl, from its FUSE Labs division. — Perhaps the best way to explain what Microsoft's new So.cl project …
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Marc Chacksfield / TechRadar.com:
Google granted driverless car patent — Kind of like auto-complete for journeys — Google has been granted a patent for driverless car technology, which can fully take over the control of a vehicle from a human driver. — This full-fat version of cruise control uses web functionality …
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
French President's Residence ‘Busted’ For BitTorrent Piracy — French President Nicholas Sarkozy is a man who has championed some of the most aggressive anti-piracy legislation in Europe. But today it's revealed that the occupants of his very own office and home are responsible …
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
US iPhone, iPad demand more than 40% stronger than expected — An Alphawise survey of American purchasing intentions indicates that US iPhone and iPad demand are stronger than expected; sales will continue to outperform expectations into 2012 and should enable Apple to beat estimates next year.
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John Cook / GeekWire:
Amazon selling more than a million Kindles per week, says demand accelerating for the Fire — It's going to be a Kindle kind of holiday for many folks around the globe. Amazon.com today said that it is selling Kindles at a rate of more than one million per week — marking the third consecutive week that it has topped that milestone.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Accel Leads $14M Round In Cloud-Based, Visual Presentation Software Prezi — Cloud-based presentation software Prezi has raised $14 million in Series B financing led by Accel Partners with Sunstone Capital participating in the round. Accel's Andrew Braccia will be joining Prezi's board of directors.
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Nielsen Wire:
New Mobile Obsession: U.S. Teens Triple Data Usage — Teens have officially joined the mobile Data Tsunami, more than tripling mobile data consumption in the past year while maintaining their stronghold as the leading message senders. Using recent data from monthly cell phone bills …
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Fortune, TechCrunch, The Next Web and INFOdocket
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Samsung's snarky TV ads have harshed the iPhone's vibe — Samsung's “buzz score” has overtaken Apple's in a key demographic, says YouGov — Click to enlarge. — The chart at right says it all. — Starting around Nov. 28 — six days after Samsung began airing its Galaxy Nexus ads mocking Apple's …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Stolen iPhone? Your iMessages may still be going to the wrong place — Those who have had a phone lost or stolen are familiar with the horrors that follow: the thief (or the person he sold your phone to) starts to send texts as you to your family and friends, leaving you scrambling to de-activate the device as soon as possible.
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Jason Goldberg / betashop:
Behind the Scenes: How Fab Raised $40 million with a lot of data and not much pain — Let's face it, fundraising can be a real pain in the ass for the entrepreneur. — It takes up a ton of time that can be otherwise spent managing the business. — Sure, it's a necessary evil, but it's also typically a big distraction.
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Ellis Hamburger / Business Insider:
Meet The Genius Behind Tweetbot, The Twitter App For iPhone Everyone's Going Nuts About — On Monday we spoke with Paul Haddad, the programmer behind Tweetbot, the best Twitter app in the App Store. — We asked Paul about what makes Tweetbot so good, and why tech fanatics are in a frenzy about it.
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Judge gives Universal Music 24 hours to explain takedown spree — A federal judge has given Universal Music Group until the end of the day Thursday to respond to charges that it abused the DMCA takedown process to censor a promotional music video by the locker site Megaupload.
Emil Protalinski / ZDNet:
Obama doesn't let his daughters on Facebook — Summary: Facebook may be the world's largest social network, but it's not allowed at the White House. US President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama don't let their daughters use the service. — US President Barack Obama …
Sony Ericsson Developer World:
Ice Cream Sandwich alpha ROM available for unlocked Xperia™ phones — To show our continuous support to the open developer community, and get your valuable feedback, we are today making an alpha ROM of Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0.1) for Xperia™ arc S, Xperia™ neo V and Xperia™ ray available for download.
Pew Internet:
Where people get information about restaurants and other local businesses — People looking for information about local restaurants and other businesses say they rely on the internet, especially search engines, ahead of any other source. Newspapers, both printed copies and the websites …
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