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8:55 PM ET, November 20, 2008

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Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Google SearchWiki brings custom search results  —  Disagree with Google's search results?  You'll be able to do something about it with a change the company plans to release starting Thursday.  —  Google's SearchWiki is a feature that lets people elevate, delete, add, and annotate search results.
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The Official Google Blog:
SearchWiki: make search your own  —  Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results?  Maybe you're an avid hiker and the trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top.  Or perhaps it's not there at all and you'd like to add it.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:   Google SearchWiki Launches, Lets You Build Your Own Search Results Page
Marla Aaron / IAB:
Internet Advertising Revenues in Q3 '08 at Nearly $5.9 Billion  —  11% Increase from Q3 '07, Up Slightly from Q2 '08 Despite U.S. Economic Woes  —  The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising revenues reached almost $5.9 billion …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
BlackBerry Storm review  —  By now most of us have heard this story in one fashion or another: when Steve Jobs and Apple were in the planning stages of the iPhone, the first carrier they brought the device to was America's largest network, Verizon.  Even if you haven't heard how the tale ends …
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon BlackBerry Storm review
Discussion: IntoMobile and Associated Press
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
19-year-old Commits Suicide on Justin.tv  —  In a striking display of the power of live video, Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide on Wednesday while broadcasting himself on video site Justin.tv.  As we understand it from various forum posts, the 19-year-old Floridian was apparently egged …
Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
Teenagers' Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing  —  Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation.  —  “It may look as though kids are wasting a lot of time hanging …
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple developing always-on iPhone status indicators  —  Apple has conceptualized a means of displaying icon-like status indicators on the iPhone's displays even when the handset is locked and the backlight turned off, a new company filing shows.  —  The Cupertino-based electronics maker notes …
Clearwire News Room:
Clearwire Stockholders Approve Transaction to Combine Clearwire and Sprint's 4G Mobile WiMAX Business  —  Clearwire Secures Lender Consents for Transaction  —  Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR), one of the world's largest providers of personal broadband and mobile Internet service …
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Associated Press:
Clearwire shareholders approve deal with Sprint
Discussion: Electronista
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone Vulnerability, Fix Coming on November 21st in Firmware 2.2?  —  German publication Spiegel.de reports an newly announced iPhone vulnerability that can force a (potentially expensive) phone call to be made simply by visiting a webpage in Safari.  The vulnerability was to be announced …
Discussion: MacBlogz
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
iPhone security posting suggests 2.2 firmware tomorrow
Discussion: VentureBeat
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Orb 2.0 brings live television streaming to iPhone, no jailbreak needed  —  Orb, one of my long-time favorite applications for remotely streaming home media has finally come to the iTunes AppStore.  Up to now, Orb was only possible on jailbroken phones, but somehow, Apple has approved the application for everyday use.
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
Why Firefox Won't Survive Chrome  —  [Editor's Note: In a departure from form, I will mostly blog shorter posts today so that I can post more to Apple Watch and Microsoft Watch.  It's a stylistic experiment; please offer feedback in comments or by e-mail.]  —  GOT A TIP OR RUMOR?
Paul Carton / ChangeWave HotWire Blog:
A Historic Collapse in U.S. Corporate IT Spending  —  ChangeWave's latest corporate IT purchasing survey shows an accelerating collapse in U.S. business spending that has reached historic proportions - with record pullbacks occurring both in the current 4th Quarter and going forward.
Meghan Keane / Epicenter:
YouTube Tests Out High Quality, Stereo Surround Videos  —  YouTube has quietly started testing out real HD quality videos on a smattering of its content, a development that is getting attention from viewers in message boards and blog forums this week.  The new format could be a big move for YouTube …
Waxy.org:
The Faces of Mechanical Turk  —  When you experiment with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, it feels like magic.  You toss 500 questions into the ether, and the answers instantly start rolling in from anonymous workers around the world.  It was great for getting work done, but who are these people?
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft: IE 8 won't be done until 2009  —  Microsoft plans to offer one more public test version of Internet Explorer 8 before releasing the final version of the updated browser, the company said late Wednesday.  —  The next test, essentially a “release candidate” version will come in the first quarter of 2009.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple now No. 2 in corporate smartphone market share  —  While Research in Motion continues to dominate the corporate smartphone market, new data shows Apple to be chipping awake at the BlackBerry maker's lead after having recently bludgeoned Palm to become the second leading supplier of advanced handsets to businesses.
Discussion: IntoMobile
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Court filing: HP's Hurd complained to Ballmer about rocky Vista upgrades  —  In an e-mail message after Windows Vista's release, Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Mark Hurd complained to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer about the computer maker's “call lines being overrun” with customers' Windows …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Salesforce.com posts 43 percent revenue jump  —  Salesforce.com announced Thursday a 43 percent increase in third-quarter revenue, beating Wall Street's expectations.  —  Shares of Salesforce.com rose about 11 percent in after-hours trading to $25.30 a share.
Discussion: eWeek, Reuters and Tech Trader Daily
Dan Farber / CNET News:
Yahoo open pages continue to dribble out  —  Yahoo is continuing to dribble out its open platform.  —  The company on Thursday added an eBay Anywhere application to the dashboard area of the new home page in testing.  The eBay application allows users to monitor their buying and selling activities from the Yahoo home page.
Discussion: Yodel Anecdotal and TechCrunch
David LaGesse / US News:
America's Best Leaders  —  Home > Nation & World > America's Best Leaders  —  America's Best Leaders: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO  —  The founder of the massive online retailer is a true Internet pioneer … My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
Discussion: TechFlash and Andrea on Amazon …
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple DisplayPort-Dual Link DVI adapter delayed until December 23.  Bah!  Humbug!  —  I don't know what to say.  I am livid.  Not only has Apple charged me $100 to use my 30 inch screen with my Unibody MacBook, the adapter is huge and takes a USB port for power.  Oh, and there was a one month wait for these part initially.
Discussion: TheAppleBlog and Gizmodo
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Debating the Vices and Virtues of Google  —  The question on the table is “Google violates its 'don't be evil' motto.”  —  You can vote “yes” or “no” yourself in the comments below.  But first read some of the arguments put forward in an Oxford-style debate on the question held this week …
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Mufin Now Open to All: Discover Music by Sound Analysis on iTunes and Facebook  —  Mufin, the music recommendation engine that suggests songs based on their sound characteristics, is now open to everyone in public beta.  With the launch, Mufin is also introducing two new applications: Mufin for iTunes and Mufin for Facebook.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
College Stops Giving Students New Email Accounts: Start Of New Trend?  —  Officials at Boston College have made what may be a momentous decision: they've stopped doling out new email accounts to incoming students.  The officials realized that the students already had established digital identities …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The Twelve Greatest Defunct Tech Magazines Ever  —  And so it came to pass that on November 19th, 2008 publisher Ziff Davis announced that PC Magazine-in the print version that gave it its name-was going to the great newsstand in the sky.  When it gets there, it'll have plenty of company …
Discussion: MAKE Magazine
 
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Sezmi, a TV 2.0 Start-Up, Cuts 20 Percent of Staff
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Twilio: Powerful API For Phone Services That Can Recreate …
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google - the world's first firewalled monopoly
Discussion: Broadband Politics
Howard Dahdah / Computerworld:
Film industry sues iiNet over BitTorrent downloads
Discussion: Techdirt, DSLreports and TorrentFreak
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
It's Official: Yahoo Search Exec Suchter to Microsoft
John Cook / TechFlash:
Estately expands in Chicago, NY
Discussion: Brier Dudley's blog
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Amazon CTO: Cloud infrastructure keeps companies focused on innovation
Discussion: eWeek
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Is the Web Hurting Guilty Pleasure TV Shows?
Discussion: WatchingTV Online
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Canadian regulators allow P2P throttling
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Yes, Actually, Music Can Be Free
Dan Frommer / Alley Insider:
Kindle A Year Old, Hasn't Changed Reading... Yet (AMZN)
Discussion: Podcasting News
 

 
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