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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook's "Beacon" Infuriate Users, MoveOn — Facebook's "social ads" so far appear to be a flop. Not only was the "once in a hundred years" announcement largely a yawn, the complaints of Facebook users and MoveOn about the primal annoying-ness of "Beacon" are right on the money.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Fantasy Of The Day: The Kindle Will Save Papers — Did you know that in addition to its odd pay-per-blog scheme, Amazon's Kindle also offers readers a chance to pay to read online newspapers? We haven't spent time talking about it, because it's so clearly a non-starter.
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Reuters:
T-Mobile says to sell iPhone without contract — FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom's (DTEGn.DE) T-Mobile will allow customers in Germany to buy Apple's (AAPL.O) iPhone without having to sign a T-Mobile contract after rival Vodafone (VOD.L) obtained a court injunction against it.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:T-Mobile Germany Sells $1,478 Unlocked iPhone to Avoid Legal …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Feedster Quietly Dies... So Which Blog Search Engine Do You Use? — Blog search engine Feedster has had the following notice on its frontpage for at least a few weeks now: — There is no sign of life on the site and the Feedster blog has already been killed off (the big 404 in the sky).
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Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
Rock the Halo theme free for Guitar Hero III tomorrow — Like the Pilgrims and Native Americans breaking bread together, Microsoft and Activision are giving Xbox 360 owners something to truly be thankful for tomorrow: the Halo theme (MJOLNIR Mix edition, featuring fretwork by none other than Steve Vai) is coming to Guitar Hero III.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Newspaper Ads Tank Again, Industry Shrinking Fast — Newspaper ads got crushed again in Q3: Down 7.4% year over year. Online revenue is growing, but isn't offsetting the declines in print revenue. Alan Mutter, the dean of newspaper analysis, says the quarterly decline doesn't even begin …
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Bloomberg, Editor and Publisher, HipMojo.com, Tim Oren's Due Diligence, WebProNews, mathewingram.com/work and Reuters
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
MacBook, MacBook Pro owners suffer keyboard freezing with Leopard — Some users of Apple's Intel-based portables are reporting that their keyboards are periodically seizing up during use, especially after upgrading to Mac OS X Leopard. — Numerous posts in Apple's support forums for the MacBook …
Arn / MacRumors:
'Don't Give Up on Vista' Web Ad — Several readers have noted a new web-only advertisement from Apple that has appeared on a number of sites, including News.com, Engadget.com, and PCMag.com. — The Apple advertisement features "Mac" and "PC" as played by Justin Long and John Hodgman in a web ad composed of two separate components.
Lester Haines / The Register:
Wii grasses up cheating wife — US soldier discovers incriminating 'Mii' — A US soldier discovered his missus had been playing away at home after spotting a suspicious "Mii" on his Nintendo Wii, the Evening Standard reports. — The man, known only as Tony, returned from a year in Iraq …
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Making Social Connections and Selling Cookies — FOR decades, Nabisco has sold cookies called Social Tea and crackers called Sociables. Now a competitor, Pepperidge Farm, is going all social, too, by entering the increasingly popular field known as social media with a Web site devoted to social networking.
Search Engine Watch:
How to Integrate PPC and Display Advertising — Large brands can benefit from adjusting their online advertising spending on a cyclical basis between display advertising — designed to build impressions and awareness — and PPC (define) campaigns that focus on conversion and ROI (define).
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Memory test - Firefox 2.0.0.9 vs Firefox 3.0 b 1 — Does Firefox 3.0 beta 1 do a better job of handling memory than earlier versions? In a test put Firefox 3.0 beta up against Firefox 2.0.0.9 in a series of tests. … OK, with that out of the way, on with the tests. I simulated three different browsing scenarios:
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Why the Sidekick Slide is dying — I've had one issue with my Slide shutting down and now we know what the problem is with the random power cycling. I'm glad Motorola has found the problem and is working to resolve it, but I think my days with the Sidekick are coming to an end.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Wii Light Sword brings out the Skywalker in you — We knew it was just a matter of time before something like this happened, particularly with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed headed to the Wii next Spring, but it's good to see a lightsaber attachment come early.
