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3:55 PM ET, November 26, 2009

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Mac Pro / AppleInsider:
Apple MacBook Pro prices slashed by up to $300, iMacs by $180  —  One Apple authorized reseller upped the ante overnight in the ongoing Black Friday Mac price war, slashing Mac notebook prices by up to $300 and iMac prices by up to $180.  —  Macs  —  Responding to steep discounts offered by MacMall …
Discussion: Macworld and Electronista
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Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple Black Friday deals revealed (down under)  —  Apple's Black Friday sales have begun - in Australia - there the company's range of discount deals have just this minute gone live on the Apple Store online.  —  There's special deals across the company's product range …
Discussion: Inside Social Games and MacRumors, Thanks:llsethj
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Mininova Deletes All Infringing Torrents and Goes ‘Legal’  —  Mininova's decision to delete all infringing torrents from its index marks the end of an era that started five years ago.  —  In December 2004, the demise of the mighty Suprnova left a meteor crater in the fledgling BitTorrent landscape.
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Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Microsoft ‘worked with Apple’ for Silverlight on iPhone, says Goldfarb  —  It was an impressive demonstration, once they got it working: H.264 video streaming wirelessly (and slowly, at least during the caching sequence) using Microsoft's Silverlight video streaming, to an Apple iPhone.
Graham Cluley / Graham Cluley's blog:
Ikee worm author gets job at iPhone app firm  —  The author of the world's first iPhone worm must be feeling pretty chirpy today, because he's managed to get himself a job as an iPhone application developer.  —  21-year-old Australian Ashley Towns, revealed that he was going to join mogeneration …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
What If Steve Jobs Hadn't Returned To Apple In 1997?  —  Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Traditionally we take stock of the things that we're thankful for on this day each year.  And I realized that one of those things is Steve Jobs.  I'm thankful that he returned to Apple in 1997 and did the things he has done since.
Discussion: The iPhone Blog
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Black Friday Is for Suckers  —  Netbooks, e-book readers, and other post-Thanksgiving bargains to avoid.  —  Black Friday is a treacherous time.  Lured in by the promise of fantastic bargains, you flock to local big-box retailers, facing the threat of injury or even death to grab unbelievably cheap “doorbuster” gizmos.
Erik / Wikimedia blog:
Wikipedia's Volunteer Story  —  What's happening to Wikipedia's volunteer community?  Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that “Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages”.  The article is a comprehensive description of the challenges and opportunities facing the Wikipedia community.
Discussion: Andrew Lih and Telegraph
Adobe AIR Team Blog:
Official Avatar Interactive Trailer Powered by Adobe AIR  —  To promote the upcoming release of the much anticipated Avatar motion picture, 20th Century Fox just released an interactive trailer powered by Adobe AIR that provides exclusive content to fans including video interviews with the cast.
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Colin Gibbs / GigaOM:
Qualcomm's Mobile Payment Strategy: Fix the “Costanza Wallet”  —  While Qualcomm for many is synonymous with wireless, the company acquired Atlanta-based mobile banking startup Firethorn two years ago with an eye to also becoming a major player in the mobile payment space.
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
More emerges on Microsoft's dance with newspapers  —  We've been doing some more digging on the definitive moves by Microsoft to woo newspapers over to Bing and away from Google, a story we broke two weeks ago.  —  Since then there have been some follow-up by various media outlets …
Discussion: Seeking Alpha, Thanks:sohear
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia X6 Comes with Music and capacitive touchscreen: shipping now  —  What are you thankful for today?  If you live in Finland or the UK and pre-ordered a X6 then you might be obliged to Nokia for having just set your new handset free.  That's right pilgrims, Nokia's new flagship Comes with Music handset is now shipping.
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Gestalt Grows Up  —  Last week, we discussed the fact that Microsoft invests heavily in both HTML5 and Silverlight, two technologies that other companies would have you believe are mortally opposed.
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Official Avatar Interactive Trailer Powered by Adobe AIR  —  To promote the upcoming release of the much anticipated Avatar motion picture, 20th Century Fox just released an interactive trailer powered by Adobe AIR …
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Google Mobile Blog:
Google Search by voice: Now in Times Square!  —  If you've been to Times Square in New York City over the past couple weeks, on any day from 12:30-2:00pm or 6:30-8:00pm, you may have noticed that Google Search …
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LeWeb program announced with 1400 participants already signed up - are you coming?  —  LeWeb is proud to announce today our program for this year.  Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan, Marissa Mayer & Chad Hurley of Google …
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Google backs bid to restore trust in adsNEW!
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Draws A Line In The Sand For Third Party Ad Networks
Discussion: Facebook Developers
Alex Williams / ReadWriteWeb:
Merrill Lynch: Cloud Computing Market Will Reach $160 Billion...Really?
Discussion: Money Morning
Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Microsoft's Xbox Live Sees 2 Million Facebook Users in First Week — What's Next?
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Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Why Google Will Buy Milo.com
Louis Gray:
Is There a Looming Battle Over OAuth's Successor?
Discussion: Stay N' Alive, Thanks:atul
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March / Bloomberg:
Draper Fisher to Raise $400 Million for Startups in India, U.S.
Discussion: The Next Web
Brian Heater / AppScout:
New Site Logs iPhone App Store Rejections
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Google's Not Done Giving: Free Wi-Fi in Even More Airports
Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Talking to Developers About New Plans for Its Virtual Currency
Discussion: Softpedia News, Thanks:mrinaldesai