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Joanna Stern / Gizmodo:
Intel Next-Gen Mobile Platforms Make Windows 7 Launch an Awesome Time to Buy a Laptop — Windows 7's launch is going to be a hell of a busy time for laptops. Expect a slew of higher-end Intel Core i7 mobile rigs and thin notebooks powered by new dual-core ULV processors when the OS ships.
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Joanna Stern / Gizmodo:
MSI Confirms Wind U150 Netbook with Touchscreen and Intel's Next Atom — We heard that MSI may release a touchscreen netbook with Intel's next generation Pine Trail Atom platform, and it will. According to MSI, the new Intel Atom chipset is planned to be officially launched at CES.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
RSS: A good idea at the time but there are better ways now — The Google Reader team posted a blog entry today with some results of a survey it conducted. The team wanted to know what an elite group of “Power Readers” were reading online - presumably using their Google Reader account …
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Zach Yeskel / Official Google Reader Blog:
Looking for great stuff to read? — Where do Arianna Huffington and Thomas Friedman go to get different perspectives on the news? Which economics sites does Nobel prize winner Paul Krugman read? What sites and blogs do the editors of Lifehacker, Boing Boing and Kottke read?
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Who's Driving Twitter's Popularity? Not Teenagers — Kristen Nagy, an 18-year-old from Sparta, N.J., sends and receives 500 text messages a day. But she never uses Twitter, even though it publishes similar snippets of conversations and observations. — “I just think it's weird …
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Bits, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Fimoculous.com, TECH.BLORGE.com and Silicon Alley Insider, Thanks:mrinaldesai
AWS Evangelist / Amazon Web Services Blog:
Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) — Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets you create your own logically isolated set of Amazon EC2 instances and connect it to your existing network using an IPsec VPN connection. This new offering lets you take advantage of the low cost …
James / Dave Naylor a UK SEO and Search Marketing:
Twitter Exploit Still Works — Yesterday I posted an article about a serious vulnerability I found in Twitter. As it was a bit on the geeky side, it may well have gone over a few people's heads, so I thought I'd try to explain it in a bit more detail. Incidentally I don't think Twitter …
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft apologizes for race-swap photo incident — Microsoft apologized Tuesday for using photo editing techniques to change the race of a person depicted on the company's Web site. — In a photo on its U.S. Web site">photo on the company's U.S. Web site, three businesspeople—one black …
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Associated Press, MediaMemo, Guardian, TechCrunch, GMSV, Beyond Binary, Mashable! and ReadWriteWeb
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Aaron / YouTube Biz Blog:
In the future, everyone will monetize their 15 minutes — We first launched the YouTube Partnership Program (YPP) to help some of our more popular users make money from their videos on YouTube. While we've focused on accepting prolific users who regularly produce videos that reach a wide audience …
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Podcasting News, Telegraph, Digits, Softpedia News, ReadWriteWeb, internetnews.com, broadstuff, Agence France Presse, WebProNews, the Econsultancy blog, Pulse2, Search Engine Journal, Bloomberg, Bloggers Blog, CNET News, Seeking Alpha, NewTeeVee, paidContent, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable!, Search Engine Watch, AppScout, TechCrunch, Tech Beat and Bits
Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Nokia to offer ARM-based smartbook in addition to Booklet 3G, say Taiwan makers — Nokia, in addition to its recently unveiled netbook, the Nokia Booklet 3G, will offer an ARM-based smartbook and soon settle ODM orders, according to Taiwan-based handset makers.
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jkOnTheRun, Fone Arena, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Engadget, IntoMobile and Electricpig.co.uk
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter's Golden Ratio (That No One Likes To Talk About) — If you're new to Twitter, life is easy. A notification comes in that someone is following you, and you probably follow them back. After all, you're going to want some tweets in your stream. After a couple dozen of those …
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple to retain, redesign plastic MacBook family — Once rumored for extinction, Apple's entry-level polycarbonate MacBooks are on the verge of a refresh that will solidify them at the base of the Mac maker's notebook offerings for the foreseeable future, AppleInsider has learned.
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Apple adds malware blocker in Snow Leopard — Apple's commercials may give the impression that Macs are virus-free (.mov) but the company isn't taking any chances with the newest Mac OS X refresh. — Apple has quietly added a new Snow Leopard feature to scan software downloads for malware …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Free Software Foundation trashes Windows 7 — The Free Software Foundation is using the launch of Windows 7 to try to convince businesses to dump Windows in favor of an open-source operating system. — (Credit: Free Software Foundation) — Home - News - Beyond Binary — Beyond Binary
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft: Prove you're human by reading and regurgitating an ad — Looks like nothing is safe from becoming an advertisement these days. A newly surfaced Microsoft patent application proposes to create ads out of human interactive proofs, also known as CAPTCHAs, those lines of fuzzy …
MediaShift:
Was Twitter Document Theft and Publication by TechCrunch Legal? — In June of this year, the personal email account of a Twitter employee was accessed, apparently as a result of an insecure password. By Twitter's own account, the unauthorized access to that account was the first in a series …
Don Reisinger / CNET News:
Behind 10 eyebrow-raising App Store rejections — Frustrated programmers have highlighted what they believe to be double standards, strange policies, and flip-flopping among Apple's App Store guards. — Several developers whose applications have been rejected from the store …
Jordan Weitz / Google LatLong:
Arterial traffic available on Google Maps — Commuters have long relied on traffic sites to help them determine their last-minute path around poor traffic on the highway. But if the traffic looks bad on the highways, you'll probably want to know how it looks on the alternate routes through arterials.
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Gadget Lab, Softpedia News, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, WebProNews, GPS Obsessed, NBC Bay Area, IntoMobile, Lifehacker, Hack a Day, dailywireless.org, Google Watch, jkOnTheRun, PreCentral.net, Ars Technica, Search Engine Land, CNET News, Mashable!, Google Operating System, Network World, Search Engine Watch, AppScout, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, James Fee GIS Blog, BetaNews, Google Mobile Blog, PalmAddicts, Google Maps Mania, silicontap.com, Lost Remote and digg.com
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Mininova Ordered to Remove All ‘Infringing’ Torrents — Mininova were sued this spring by BREIN, an outfit which protects the rights of several large entertainment industry corporations. — Today, the judge ruled that the world's largest BitTorrent indexer has been ordered to clean …
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Terrible Online Game with Terrible Ads Is Also Slimy, Litigous — Remember Evony, the online game whose banners epitomize the worst in online advertising? It turns out the company doesn't like people talking about its deceptive practices. — The company's banner ads featured buxom women never seen …
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Bgurley / abovethecrowd.com:
What Is Really Happening To The Venture Capital Industry? — Many are speculating that the year two thousand and nine represents a fundamental turning point for the venture capital industry. Some are arguing that the industry is in dire straits after years of poor performance.
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DailyFinance, bijan sabet, Deal Journal, VentureBeat, Venture Capital Dispatch and PE Hub Blog, Thanks:atul
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia bets on Linux in iPhone battle: sources — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia Oyj will try again to tackle Apple Inc's iPhone in the top-end of the handset market with a bet on Linux software, several industry sources told Reuters. — Top handset maker Nokia will show its first high-end phone running …
The Hill:
Obama's FCC to enforce ‘net neutrality’ — The Obama administration's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to keep the Internet free of increased user fees based on heavy Web traffic and slow downloads. — Julius Genachowski, the FCC chairman, told The Hill that his agency will support …
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GigaOM, savetheinternet.com/blog, The Microsoft Blog, Nextgov.com, On Deadline, eWeek and CircleID
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Wikipedia community grapples with changes — When it comes to Wikipedia, the “free encyclopedia that anyone can edit,” any kind of structural change is a very big deal. — That's why the current plan for a new rule that would require an editor's approval before any edits to articles about living persons go live is a very big deal.
Nathan Eddy / eWeek:
Worldwide Semiconducter Sales To Decline in 2009, Report Says — A report from research firm Gartner projects worldwide sales of semiconducters to decline 17.1 percent this year, compared to sales in 2008. — According to a report from information technology research company Gartner …
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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
‘The Analyzer’ Pleads Guilty in $10 Million Bank-Hacking Case — Ehud Tenenbaum, aka “The Analyzer,” quietly pleaded guilty in New York last week to a single count of bank-card fraud for his role in a sophisticated computer-hacking scheme that federal officials say scored $10 million from U.S. banks.
