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5:15 PM ET, November 28, 2007

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Om Malik / GigaOM:
With Google's My Location, Who Needs a GPS?  —  Despite all the hoopla around location-based services, the fact of the matter is that a mere 15 percent of handsets have a built-in Global Positioning System.  Given Google's recent wireless push, one shouldn't be surprised that Google is releasing …
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Maps for Mobile Shows Your Location  —  The latest version of Google Maps for mobile phones has a new feature called "my location".  Instead of having to enter your location, Google Maps is able to find it.  If your phone has GPS support the location detection should be very good …
Google:
Google Announces Launch of Google Maps for Mobile With "My Location" Technology  —  Google today announced the release of version 2.0 of Google Maps for mobile, its innovative and widely used mobile mapping and local search application.  New in v2.0 is a beta version of Google's "My Location" …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Google releases useful "my location" feature for cellphones
Discussion: Gizmodo, SMS Text News and PC World
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Office 2008 for Mac to feature iPhone sync capability  —  Microsoft is planning to provide as part of Office 2008 for Mac — the final version of which is due January 2008 — technology that will allow users to export PowerPoint 2008 presentations onto their iPods and/or iPhones.
Discussion: Computerworld
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Foresee Results:
Customer Satisfaction on Cyber Monday Up Slightly From Last Year, According to Study by ForeSee Results  —  Cyber Monday shoppers were more satisfied with their online experience in 2007 than they were in 2006, according to a new study from leading online customer satisfaction measurement firm ForeSee Results.
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Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Laptops for kids group sued over keyboard design  —  A Nigerian entrepreneur based in Natick says the One Laptop Per Child Foundation of Cambridge stole his company's design for a multilingual keyboard.  —  Ade Oyegbola, founder and chief executive of Lagos Analysis Corp., or Lancor …
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Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
Nigerian Keyboard Company Suing OLPC for Patent Infringement [Bad News]
Discussion: InfoWorld and Engadget
Google Blogoscoped:
What the Google Intranet Looks Like  —  What do around 16,000 Google employees stare at in the morning when they've arrived at the office?  They might be looking at Moma, the name for the Google intranet.  The meaning of the name of "Moma" is a mystery even to some of the employees working on it …
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Social Site Rankings (October, 2007)  —  Last month, I asked comScore to run some numbers on traffic to social sites (comScore calls them social networking sites, but they are not all social networks).  This month, I asked them to do the same run again for October, 2007.
CNN:
LinkedIn CEO: We'd only sell for "a helluva lot"  —  I sat down Tuesday afternoon in Mountain View, Calif., with Dan Nye, the newish CEO (he joined earlier this year) of LinkedIn.  That's the company that is like Facebook for grownups, a businessperson's social networking site.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google Gadgets go cross-platform  —  Google is adding support for Google Gadgets in its Google Desktop for the Mac software.  Google Gadgets, as you probably know, are mini applications with dynamic content that offer quick access for things like newsfeeds and to-do lists.
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Is CondéNet's Web Approach Paying Off?  —  CondéNet today plans to announce it has struck a deal to distribute videos from its various Web sites, which cover topics such as food and travel, via YouTube.  It is the latest in a string of partnerships for the digital division …
BBC:
Carphone misleading over iPhone  —  Staff at the UK's biggest mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse, have been caught misleading customers about Apple's popular iPhone handset.  —  Undercover researchers from BBC One's Watchdog found staff made false claims about what would happen if a phone was stolen and hadn't been insured.
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Microsoft hit with $5 million lawsuit over Halo 3, Xbox 360 problems  —  The Bungie-developed Halo 3 is designed to be hand-in-glove compatible with the Xbox 360, right?  A federal lawsuit filed against Microsoft and Bungie last week attempts to throw some serious doubt into the mix.
Discussion: Gizmodo
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Disney To Make Up To 20 Startup Acquisitions In Next 24 Months  —  A new group has been created within the corporate strategy group at Disney, we've heard, and they are gearing up to make a number of consumer Internet acquisitions over the next 24 months.  They're already in early stage discussions …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
 
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
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Agence France Presse:
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
EMI's Hands squeezes trade bodies
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Micron reveals RealSSD lineup of 32GB / 64GB SSDs
Discussion: Between the Lines and Gizmodo
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Microsoft Left Out Of Black Friday Console Wars?
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Asus resolves Eee GPL violation, releases asus_acpi code changes
Discussion: eeepc.asus.com and Digg
T_Korea / Telecoms Korea News Service:
LG Phone Battery Explosion Kills Korean
PC World:
'Crackstation' Uses Game Console for Hacking
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Corbis Offers Free Photos to Bloggers - With a Catch
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Novell-SCO case finally heading to trial
Discussion: The Register and Open Source
Chris Soghoian / CNET News.com:
AT&T quietly rolls out reasonably-priced unbundled DSL
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Cable Industry Wins Compromise on F.C.C. Plans
France 24:
iPhone is launched in France at 749 euros
 

 
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