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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
New Digital Publishing Venture Boasts Access To 144 Million-Plus Audience; Squires Talks — Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith (NYSE: MDP), News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Time Inc. are making it formal: the five publishers are equity partners in a new digital publishing venture with grand designs.
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MacRumors, Hearst Corporation, AppleInsider, Silicon Alley Insider, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Gawker, Engadget and Mashable!
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Now's the Time, Finally: Publishers Announce Their “Hulu for Magazines.” Next Up: Building It. — So here you go: The magazine industry is finally ready to announce that it is forming a joint venture to distribute and sell digital versions of its products.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Chrome For Mac Is Here! — The wait is over. Google Chrome for Mac is now available in beta. It's still missing a few features that are in the Windows version (like support for extensions), but the browser is lickety-split and more-or-less stable. — I've been holding off really using Chrome until now.
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Macworld, Download Squad, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, Digital Daily, MacRumors, Mashable!, Pocket-lint.com, InformationWeek and MacNN
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Brian Rakowski / The Official Google Blog:
Google Chrome for the holidays: Mac, Linux and extensions in beta — There was nothing more excruciating for me as a kid than seeing the presents pile up under the Christmas tree but knowing that I couldn't open them until Christmas morning. On the Google Chrome team …
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CNET News, Google Mac Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Chromium Blog, Mark Evans Tech, AdaptiveBlue Blog and GottaBeMobile.com
Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
Google Chrome Extensions Gallery is open for business! — Those of you who have been waiting for the official Google Chrome Extensions gallery to open, wait no more! The switch has been flipped and Google's repository is now open the the public. — Things have been fairly active already …
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Rafe Needleman / Crave: The gadget blog:
Hands-on with the JooJoo — CNET snagged the first journalists' demo of the new JooJoo (formerly CrunchPad) Web slate on Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan's San Francisco media tour. Quick impressions: yeah, this is a really cool device. Everyone reading a tech site like CNET will want one.
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Engadget, PC World, I4U News, Gadget Lab, techblog.dallasnews.com, ITworld.com, The iPhone Blog, SlashGear, Internet2Go, 901am and GottaBeMobile.com, Thanks:mgcreed
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
How Microsoft stacks up against Google's latest search and mobile wares — Hoping (unsuccessfully so) to head off the glowing press Google was bound to get this week for its “future of search” preview, Microsoft showed off some of its latest enhancements to Bing last week.
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Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:Relevance meets the real-time web
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MediaPost, PC World, New York Times, Quick Online Tips, Telegraph, IntoMobile, Android and Me, ReadWriteWeb, Geek.com, Mashable!, Guardian, Softpedia News, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Roundtable, 901am, Android Phone Fans, LiveSide, Google Blogoscoped, Seeking Alpha, pluGGd.in, Computerworld, GeekBrief.TV, TechCrunch, Tech Beat, DVICE, blogs.ft.com, VentureBeat, MySpace Press Room, Beyond Search, BetaNews, Socialmedia.biz, Matt Cutts and The Register, Thanks:atul
Gmail Blog:
Offline Gmail graduates from Labs — Almost a year ago, we launched Offline Gmail in Gmail Labs. By installing Offline Gmail, you're able to use the normal Gmail interface to read and write mail, search, and organize, even when there's no internet connection.
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Technologizer, eWeek, CNET News, Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, Geek.com and jkOnTheRun
Mel Martin / TUAW:
Dragon Dictation comes to the iPhone. Wow. — Put this into the 'I didn't think they could ever get this to work on an iPhone' category. — I'm talking about Dragon Dictation [iTunes link] from Nuance, the developers of the very popular Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC.
Connie Guglielmo / Bloomberg:
Dell Rings Up $6.5 Million in Sales Using Twitter Promotions — Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) — Dell Inc., relying on social- networking sites to drum up sales of personal computers, said its promotions on Twitter have helped generate more than $6.5 million in orders for PCs, accessories and software.
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Direct2Dell, Erictric, Guardian, the Econsultancy blog, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Boy Genius Report
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
LaLa Was Bought By Apple For $17 Million, Not $80 Million — Sometimes you have to apply the smell test to what your sources are telling you, and the rumors we're hearing about Apple's purchase of music service LaLa are definitely smelling a little off. $80 million for LaLa? That isn't what we're hearing.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Seagate finally makes move from hard drives to flash storage — Seagate makes about $10 billion a year in revenues from its 30-year-old hard drive business. But today, after two years of study, the company is launching a new flash memory storage business.
The Official Google Blog:
Fighting fraud online: taking “Google Money” scammers to court — “Use Google to Make 1000s of Dollars!” or “Easy Cash with Google: You Could be Making up to $978 a Day Working from Home!” You may have seen offers like these using Google's name or logo that sounded too good to be true.
Christopher Breen / Macworld:
Boxee shows off beta version with improved interface — At an event in Brooklyn on Monday, Boxee showed off the upcoming beta version of its media center application for OS X, Windows, Linux, and Apple TV. The Boxee software, based on the open-source XBMC, lets you watch and listen …
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Geek.com, eWeek, NewTeeVee, Boxee Blog, New York Times, PC World, L.A. Times Tech Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, Softpedia News, Gadget Lab, Pocket-lint.com, Gadgetell, VentureBeat, Download Squad, blogs.ft.com, Technologizer, Technology Trends, GeekTonic, eHomeUpgrade, cubicgarden.com, Lifehacker, Mashable! and CNET News
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Mark Hachman / Gearlog:$200 Boxee Box Based on D-Link
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Engadget, Seth Weintraub's blog, Gadgetsteria, paidContent, Mashable!, Electronista and CrunchGear
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple reveals best-selling iTunes content, iPhone apps of 2009 — Apple this week revealed the most critically acclaimed and best selling content of the year in the iTunes Store, the world's most popular online music seller and mobile application destination.
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MacRumors
Joel / Socialthing! blog:
Transition to AIM Lifestream — The last 10 months have been quite amazing for the Socialthing team. We finished off an integration with the Bebo.com team and began work on the AIM Lifestream, which officially launched in September. — The AIM Lifestream is the lifestreaming platform …
Thanks:chrismessina
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
A Million People Riding Google Wave. Most Of Them On Their Stomachs. — The first time you go surfing, it's a pretty significant achievement to just stand up on the board and ride a wave. Most people never leave their stomachs, or when they do, they fly face first into the wave.
Dave Caolo / TUAW:
The first iPhone development reality show? — We've heard stories of rapidly-developed iPhone applications before, but we've never seen the process play out live before our eyes (well, some of us haven't). That's exactly what the guys at Command Guru are doing: Developing an iPhone app …
Robert McMillan / PC World:
New Cloud-based Service Steals Wi-Fi Passwords — For US$34, a new cloud-based hacking service can crack a WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) network password in just 20 minutes, its creator says. — Launched Monday, the WPA Cracker service bills itself as a useful tool for security auditors …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: MSN Inks New Deal With Wonderwall Creator BermanBraun for Online Lifestyle Site — MSN will announce a new deal with BermanBraun-the Hollywood production company run by former Yahoo media chief and well-known television exec Lloyd Braun (pictured here)-to create …
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Twitter Deal: CelebrityTweet Acquired by Russell Simmons — You would think that Web sites that simply aggregate tweets from lists of users would become somewhat irrelevant with the introduction of Twitter Lists. — But apparently, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons doesn't think so …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
NPR Makes Its Mobile Website Appalicious (And Readies An Android App) — National Public Radio has the fourth most popular news app in the iTunes store in the U.S., but now it is taking some of that Appalicious goodness to the mobile browser. Today it launched a new version of its mobile website at http …
Google LatLong:
Changing your perspective — As an avid travel planner or discerning house hunter, you might always be looking for another view of a location before you make your final decision. On the Google Maps team we're always looking for ways to make search experiences like this more useful for you.
