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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia unveils flagship N97 phone [update: video!]  —  Details are in, Nokia has a new flagship phone.  The N97 packs a 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel (that's a 16:9 aspect ratio) resistive touchscreen display with tactile feedback and QWERTY keyboard into this sliding communicator with an …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Nokia N97: the ultimate Facebook device  —  UPDATE: here's a short video of the N97 in action last night at dinner.  —  I have a second video that shows the photo viewing, which looks a lot like how the iPhone does it.  —  Nokia just announced the N97.  I got a chance to play with it last night …
John Mahoney / Gizmodo:
Nokia N97 Unveiled, The First High-End N-Series Touch Phone  —  It's been a long time coming, but after dabbling with touch on the midrange 5800, Nokia has finally brought a touchscreen to its brand new flagship S60 smartphone, the N97.  —  But it's not quite a full dive into touch …
Discussion: Engadget and Symbian-Guru.com
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Nokia Joins the Do-It-All Push  —  New Smartphone Will Offer a Touch Screen, Fast Internet Access and Customized Features; Maps Show Landmarks in 3-D  —  Nokia Corp. unveiled an ambitious new smartphone with a touch-sensitive screen, a slide-out full keyboard, and access to a range …
Discussion: Alley Insider and Reuters
Rafe Blandford / All About Symbian:
Nokia N97 - Nseries with touch and QWERTY  —  Nokia today announced the launch of the Nokia N97.  It is the first touch-enabled Nseries device and has a horizontal tilt-slide form factor.  It transforms from a touch slate to a landscape QWERTY device.  The device, which has an Internet …
Business Week:
Michael Wolff's Calm, Reasoned Analysis Of MySpace, And The “Cretins” That Flock To It  —  Part of writing my latest column required interviewing Michael Wolff, a friend and the author of the new Rupert Murdoch bio “The Man Who Owns The News.”  After some negotiation, the interview took the form of a lengthy discussion-cum-argument.
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Henry Blodget / Alley Insider:   Michael Wolff: MySpace And Its Braindead Users Are Going To Zero
Leahculver / The Pownce Blog:
Goodbye Pownce, Hello Six Apart  —  We have some very big news today at Pownce.  We will be closing the service and Mike and I, along with the Pownce technology, have joined Six Apart, the company behind such great blogging software as Movable Type, TypePad and Vox.
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Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus  —  One of Apple's better Mac vs PC ads features a strong message that Windows computers are a magnet for viruses (malware) but Macs are automatically protected.  As PC “ah-choos” his way through an infection, Mac offers a tissue and smugly infers …
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple now “encourages” antivirus use for Mac OS X
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Google's New Open Stack Expanding - Sans Facebook, Microsoft  —  A couple of weeks ago we celebrated the first birthday of Google's OpenSocial project, an open API framework for social networks and websites.  Google's OpenSocial Blog recently presented some statistics, including that OpenSocial …
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Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:
Not even close  —  Pownce is dead.  So what.  Micromessaging has always been about the next phase beyond email, and oh so not about competition between micromessaging vendors.  Twitter is the Kleenex of the space and has survived its most difficult phase.  There is no competition for Twitter, not even close.
Discussion: Twitterrati
Google Mac Blog:
Google Calendar now supports Apple iCal  —  The Google Calendar team is proud to announce the public release of our support for the CalDAV protocol.  You can now use Apple iCal with your Google Calendar, so you can work even when you're offline, sync almost instantly, respond to invitations …
Dan Nystedt / PC World:
Netbooks Dominate Cyber Monday on Amazon  —  Netbooks dominated the Computers & PC hardware bestsellers list on Amazon.com on Cyber Monday in the U.S., the biggest online shopping day of the year.  —  The mini-laptops, with 7-inch to 10-inch screens, are popular because they're about half …
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel, Hitachi to develop solid-state drives  —  Intel will target solid-state drives for server computers in a tie up with Hitachi that was announced Monday night.  —  Intel and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) said they will “jointly develop and deliver” Serial Attached SCSI …
Discussion: The Register
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:   In Deal With Hitachi, Intel Will Expand Its Flash Memory Business
Microsoft:
Xbox 360 Registers Biggest Black Friday in Its History  —  Xbox 360 consoles and games sell at record levels; outsells PlayStation 3 by three-to-one ratio.  —  Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system kicked off the holidays with record-breaking console sales …
Sydney Morning Herald:
Take note PayPal, cashing in on a legend is ‘degrading’  —  The PayPal ad with the modified $50 note featuring David Unaipon as seen on the side of a bus.  —  Asher Moses  —  The family of the Aboriginal inventor and writer pictured on the $50 note have called on PayPal to pull down its …
Discussion: TechCrunch
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
gOS Cloud - From zero to web browser in just a few seconds  —  gOS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that's designed to make it easy to interface with web-based applications like Gmail, YouTube, and Meebo.  It uses the slightly OS X-like Enlightenment desktop environment …
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
High-quality unboxing photos of Apple's LED Cinema Display  —  Apple's first LED-backlit and DisplayPort-based desktop monitor has arrived at AppleInsider; we now have high-quality photos as well as some early impressions.  —  The new 24-inch screen will seem instantly familiar to anyone who's used …
Discussion: CrunchGear and Engadget
Rory Cellan-Jones / dot.life blog:
Twitter - the Mumbai myths  —  It has quickly become the received wisdom amongst new and old media commentators - Twitter came of age last week during the Mumbai terror attacks.  It is true that the micro-blogging service did provide vast amounts of information, at breakneck speed …
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF to Fight Against Telecom Immunity in Tuesday Hearing  —  Unconstitutional Law Cannot Shut Courthouse Door on Americans' Privacy Claims  —  San Francisco - On Tuesday, December 2, at 10 a.m., the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will challenge the constitutionality of a federal law aimed …
Discussion: p2pnet and CNET News
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Google: Could They Have Two Down Rev Years Ahead?  —  Here's a scary thought for Google (GOOG) shareholders: What if the company's revenues were to shrink in 2009 - and then shrink again in 2010?  —  That's the unpleasant scenario that Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry laid out in a research note today.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Yahoo Rumor Mill-The Broken Clock Will Be Right at Some Time  —  [UPDATED: I added a stronger first sentence to leave no doubt about there is no Microsoft-Yahoo deal at the present time and to be clear I am not backing off on my weekend post on the topic.]
Discussion: Forbes
Leslie Cauley / USA Today:
FCC to vote on free broadband Internet across USA  —  Free broadband for America has inched closer to reality: The plan, after two years of debate, is finally on the calendar for a full vote by the Federal Communications Commission.  —  Assuming the plan is approved at the FCC's Dec. 18 meeting …
Discussion: ChannelWeb and Hear 2.0
Brent Goldman / Facebook Developers:
Check Out the New Developer Application Settings Editor  —  We're always looking for ways to make developing Facebook Platform applications easier for you.  Today we want to show you how we're improving the way you configure your application settings.  —  The application settings editor …
Discussion: Inside Facebook and All Facebook
 
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