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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple posts Black Friday sale teaser — In advance of the biggest shopping day of the year, Apple has posted a teaser for a Nov. 26 Black Friday sale on its website, telling customers to come back to the Apple Online Store on Friday for a special “holiday shopping event.”
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TechCrunch, SlashGear, 9 to 5 Mac, I4U News and The Huffington Post
Firt / Mobile Web Programming:
Safari on iPhone & iPad 4.2: Accelerometer, WebSockets & better HTML5 support — iOS 4.2 is a free update for every iPhone, iPod or iPad device available now. This new release provides some major changes on HTML5 and W3C future standards support, like WebSockets and Accelerometer support …
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Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Erictric, CNET News, MacStories, Crave and planet iPad
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Video Support for AirPlay Is Limited in iOS 4.2 — AirPlay is the killer feature for Apple TV. But perhaps we'd better keep that in the future tense for now: it's going to be the killer feature for Apple TV. After installing today's various software updates for iOS devices …
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Apple Gazette, The Apple Core Blog, TiPb and Macworld
Dwight Silverman / Houston Chronicle:
Is your iPhone's music gone after updating to iOS 4.2.1? Here's a fix
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TechCrunch, Zero Day Blog, ThinkMobile, Geek.com, Go Rumors and greg hughes
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Ars goes hands-on with AirPlay on iOS 4.2 and Apple TV
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AppleInsider, MacStories, CNET News, Faster Forward, Computerworld, SAI, App Advice, Engadget, CrunchGear, VentureBeat, Bits, BGR, GigaOM and Apple
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google: Chrome OS Still Coming This Year (It Just Might Be In Beta Form) — There's a lot of hoopla right now that Google's Chrome OS has been delayed and will miss the stated release date of “this year”. Much of this is based off of the comment that Google CEO Eric Schmidt made last week …
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GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Electricpig.co.uk and Examiner
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
So... whatever happened to Google's Chrome OS?
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Fortune, The Next Web, Hardware 2.0 Blog and Electronista
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Google CEO Schmidt: No Chrome OS Netbooks for Christmas
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Google Watch, IntoMobile, The Register, Geek.com, Electronista, THINQ.co.uk, DailyTech and Go Rumors
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
How Amazon.com undersells Best Buy, the Apple store, and almost everybody else. … Like This Story … - NATO Should Get Out of Afghanistan and Get Back to Defending Europe- What Happened When Slate Asked a Body-Scanner Executive To Get Scanned- The Incredibly Innovative Air Conditioners …
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The Atlantic Online
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Phil Schiller has a Twitter — Apple's VP of iOS Scott Forstall got a Twitter back in mid-July and today Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller got his verified. We've honestly been following his account for a while now but only very recently could it have been verified …
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TechCrunch, MacStories, The Next Web and MacNN, Thanks:markgurman
Google Enterprise Blog:
A bridge to the cloud: Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office now available to early testers — Tens of millions of people have moved to Google Docs because it's 100% web: it provides real-time collaboration in the browser, with no software to install, manage or upgrade.
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Softpedia News, Nicke's shared items …, WebProNews, MSDN Blogs, PC Magazine, USA Today, ITProPortal, Ubergizmo, Digitizor, The Register, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Neowin.net, SAI, V3.co.uk, GigaOM, Relevant Results, All about Microsoft Blog, Examiner, VentureBeat, GottaBeMobile, Download Squad, Switched, Erictric, Voices on All Things Digital, Gizmodo and Winrumors
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook could fragment web — Founder of world wide web says some of the most successful social networking sites ‘have begun to chip away at its principles’ — Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites represent “one of several threats” to the future of the world wide web …
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PC Pro, Digital Society, Adotas, MediaFile, The Next Web, The Tech Herald … and THINQ.co.uk
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Svpply Is a Social Shopping Site With a Funny Name, Good Buzz and a New Funding Round — One thing the first Web boom got right: Amazon, eBay and the other big e-commerce sites that made it really easy to buy stuff on the Internet. — But those sites are efficient places to get the things you know you want.
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mokoyfman.com, VatorNews, SiliconANGLE, BoomTown and bijan sabet
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
News Corp's Upcoming iPad App ‘The Daily’ to Pioneer New Recurring Subscription Billing — So the cat — or at least part of the cat — is out of the bag on Apple's upcoming support for recurring subscription billing for content. Edward Helmore, reporting for The Guardian yesterday:
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Electronista:
Apple, News Corp seen launchng Daily, iTunes subs on Dec. 9
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The Register, Thanks:jonfingas
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Verizon proposes wholesale rewrite of US telecom law — Here's something you don't see every day: Verizon just put out a press release titled “Congress Needs to Update the Nation's Antiquated and Anti-Competitive Telecom Rules.” Yeah, no tip-toeing around here — Verizon public policy VP Tom Tauke straight …
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Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Yelp Introduces Check-In Offers — Foursquare may have pioneered the idea of rewards and specials associated with checkins, but everyone from Facebook to SCVNGR has followed suit. Today, Yelp joins the fray, giving business owners the ability to add “Check-in Offers” to their venues.
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Fast Company, Yelp Official Blog, Search Engine Land and BlogsDNA
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
FCC Updating 911 for the Texting Generation, SRSLY — In a bid to bring the life-saving emergency service 911 into the 21st century, the FCC is looking at letting citizens report crimes through text messages and even stream video from their mobile phones to emergency centers.
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IntoMobile, Electronista and Gizmodo
Violet Blue / Tech Broiler Blog:
No “Gay” or “Sex” In Yahoo! Clues: The Emergent Trend of Filtered Results — I asked, and now I'm telling: looks like Yahoo! Clues, the new keyword search and comparison tool, has a problem with the gays. — Yahoo!'s new research tool Clues appears to be part of the growing trend …
Thanks:violetblue
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Accel Partners' Extraordinary 2005 Fund IX — In 2005 Accel Partners closed its $440 million Accel 9 Fund. That fund may not go down in history as the most profitable venture fund ever, but it will certainly be one to remember. Why? Facebook, for the most part.
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Tech Trader Daily
Don Clark / Digits:
Intel Offers Silicon With New Packages, Deals — Most personal computer makers buy chips the way Intel wants to offer them. But the technology giant has learned it needs to be more flexible in other markets, as an unusual arrangement with another Silicon Valley company shows.
Surur / WMPoweruser.com:
Silverlight coming to Xbox 360-the circle is complete — Microsoft has put out a job advert asking for a software development engineer to bring Silverlight to the Xbox 360. — Silverlight is already the development basis of Windows phone 7, and of course already runs on the desktop.
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Gizmodo, TechTrends, The Next Web, Kotaku, Neowin.net, MobileTechWorld, Ubergizmo and Eurogamer
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Facebook Tries To Silence Lamebook: Removes Its Page, Blocks Links And Likes — Another chapter in the Facebook vs. Lamebook, errmm, book: the social networking giant has confirmed to us that it has moved to diligently block all outgoing links to Lamebook.com, shut down the two-person company's Facebook Page …
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NBC Bay Area, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Pulse2 and Neowin.net
DigiTimes:
Acer likely to debut Android 2.2 tablet PC along with Wintel model in New York, say Taiwan makers — Acer will unveil a 10-inch Intel-Windows 7 tablet PC at a press conference scheduled for November 23 in New York and may debut a 7-inch Android 2.2 (Froyo) model as well, according to Taiwan-based makers of notebooks and components.
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The Next Web, IntoMobile, Android and Me, I4U News, ThinkMobile, Softpedia News and TechEye
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Badgeville Investors Now Betting $2.5 Million That You'll Want To Check In To Websites — TechCrunch Disrupt Audience Choice winner Badgeville announces a $2.5 million Series A round today in order to apply its badge-based game mechanics across the web. Investors in the round include eBay …
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VatorNews, VentureBeat, EngageDigital, Pulse2 and Scobleizer
Simon Mackie / GigaOM:
Opera 11 Beta Introduces Tab Stacking, Extensions — The beta of Opera 11, released today, continues Opera Software's long tradition of innovating in the browser space by introducing a neat new feature: tab stacking. The idea is that users can stack tabs to group them by site or by theme …
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Inquirer, Lifehacker, CNET News and Softpedia News
Financial Times:
Spotify under pressure over US launch — By Tim Bradshaw in London, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Spotify is considering a US launch of its digital jukebox service without all four major record labels signed up as pressure builds on its management …
Joe Flint / Company Town:
In win for networks, federal judge issues temporary restraining order against FilmOn.com — A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against FilmOn.com Plc., a company that had been streaming the signals of television stations over the Internet without permission of the stations …
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paidContent:UK and MediaMemo
