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10:36 AM ET, November 21, 2008

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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.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google, It Wasn't Broke  —  Bucket tests and experimental products are one thing.  But to mess with the real Google search is serious stuff.  Why did they do it?  —  Google's overall search share has grown substantially this year (and all other years since it went live).
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:   Inventor of the Wiki Responds to Google Search Wiki
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Apple releases the iPhone 2.2 update.  It's a big one  —  The signs were all pointing to a tomorrow launch of the 2.2 software update for the iPhone — Apple jumped the gun.  (Though I guess technically it is November 21st on the east coast of the U.S.) The update is available now through iTunes …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPhone 2.2 firmware update available now, Google Street View and plenty more  —  It's here.  Google Street View and over the air Podcast downloads from iTunes.  Yup, public transit and walking directions too and the ability to share your location via email.
Apple:
About the security content of iPhone OS 2.2 and iPhone OS for iPod touch 2.2  —  This document describes the security content of iPhone OS 2.2 and iPhone OS for iPod touch 2.2.  —  For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until …
Jason Snell / Macworld:
Apple releases iPhone 2.2 update  —  New version offers Maps upgrade, podcast-download features  —  Apple released a software update for both generations of the iPhone and iPod touch late Thursday night Pacific time.  The update, version 2.2, features major additions to the Maps application …
Discussion: MacUser
Verizon:
Personal Cell Phone Account Of President-Elect Obama Accessed By Unauthorized Employees  —  BASKING RIDGE, N.J. — Verizon Wireless President and CEO Lowell McAdam made the following statement today:  —  “This week we learned that a number of Verizon Wireless employees have, without authorization …
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CNN:
Obama's cell phone records breached  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Records from a cell phone used by President-elect Obama were improperly breached, apparently by employees of the cell phone company, Verizon Wireless said Thursday.  —  “This week we learned that a number of Verizon Wireless employees have …
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Verizon Wireless Tries To Grow The Mobile Web By Breaking It
Discussion: PC World and mocoNews.net
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 …
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Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins / Mashable!:
19-Year-Old Lifecaster Commits Suicide on Justin.TV [smcb]
Discussion: DailyTech and Valleywag
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
The GUI that almost conquered the pocket  —  Farewell then, UIQ  —  The death of UIQ deserves a footnote for posterity - and a chance to take look back at a decade in which almost everything that everyone predicted for mobile data proved to be wrong.  Given the way the market turned out, it didn't stand a chance.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
AMD's Phenom II show overclocking potential  —  After initial overclocking disappointment with the Phenom, AMD has put effort into giving the Phenom II a fair amount of overclocking overhead.  —  At a demo yesterday journalists were shown a 45nm Phenom II processor running at 4GHz air-cooled …
Discussion: Electronista
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Josh Walrath / PC Perspective:
5 GHZ+ Phenom II Overclock on Dry Ice
Sarahintampa / Channel 10:
Sync Your Live Writer Drafts With Mesh  —  If you're a blogger, then you're probably familiar with the Windows Live Writer program, arguably one of the best blogging tools out there.  However, because this program is a desktop software application, the drafts you saved on one computer …
Discussion: GottaBeMobile.com
Ouriel Ohayon / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Yahoo Finally Sells Off Kelkoo  —  Yahoo has been rumored to be selling Paris-based comparative shopping site Kelkoo for some time now, and it appears that they have found a buyer.  Yahoo acquired Kelkoo in 2004 for €475 million.  —  The company has been sold …
Discussion: CNET News and ComparisonEngines
Dusan Belic / IntoMobile:
Consumer Reports launches iPhone app just in time for Christmas  —  It's all about timing and Consumer Reports knows that.  Hence, they are launching a new application for iPhone and iPod Touch users just in time for the holiday shopping season.  Available for free at Apple's AppStore …
Discussion: PR Newswire
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
BitGravity Testing New “Multiview” Product; This Is How I Want To Watch Sports  —  Content Delivery Network BitGravity is testing a new product they're calling Multiview (at least internally) that delivers up to six different synchronized high definition video streams at once.
Discussion: Beet.TV
Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
Facebook's Land Grab in the Face of a Downturn  —  The social-networking site is moving aggressively to sign up more users around the world while much of Silicon Valley hunkers down  —  Watch the Video...  As gloom descends on Silicon Valley, most startups and giants are growing cautious and cutting back.
Discussion: Creative Capital
Rex Crum / MarketWatch:
Apple shares lose ‘iPhone premium’  —  Stock back to levels before blockbuster device was unveiled  —  SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — For nearly two years, since the introduction of the iPhone at the 2007 Macworld show, Apple Inc.'s stock had been on a tear that was impressive even for a company …
Howard Beck / New York Times:
The Real O'Neal Puts His Cyber Foot Down  —  Shaquille O'Neal had a problem.  An Internet impostor using his name was sending messages to unsuspecting Shaq fans.  So O'Neal did what any sensible, 7-foot-1, muscle-bound mammoth would do.  He started tweeting.
James Orry / VideoGamer.com:
PS3 Trophies to be mandatory from January 2009  —  Gamers won't have to put up with titles released without Trophies.  —  VideoGamer.com can exclusively reveal that from January 2009 all newly released PS3 games will be required by Sony to support the console's Trophy system.
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?
Discussion: Mark Evans and OStatic blogs
 
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Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:
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Wall Street Journal:
Disney Fights Pirates at Affiliate
Discussion: Valleywag
Dan Moren / Macworld:
The perfect storm of data loss: a cautionary tale
Robert MacMillan / Reuters:
Associated Press to cut 10 pct jobs in '09: sources
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Phishing, e-mail money laundering scams on the rise
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Parody Is Still Fair Use Last We Checked
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Another big batch of Microsoft e-mails
Discussion: TechFlash and The Microsoft Blog
kd.to_tumblr:
The Opposite of Momentum  —  or “Sophie's Choice” for Rubyists.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
For Sony, No Discounts Means Stress-Free Shopping
Discussion: TWICE
Brad Stone / Bits:
Sezmi, a TV 2.0 Start-Up, Cuts 20 Percent of Staff
Discussion: Startup Meme and NewTeeVee
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Twilio: Powerful API For Phone Services That Can Recreate …
Discussion: TechFlash
Clearwire News Room:
Clearwire Stockholders Approve Transaction to Combine Clearwire …
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google - the world's first firewalled monopoly
Discussion: Broadband Politics
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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