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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Report: Apple to launch Verizon iPhone in Q3 2010 — A new report citing sources in the Taiwan handset supply chain says Apple has contracted to produce a UMTS/CDMA hybrid iPhone due in the third quarter of next year that will enable the company to sell a single global handset to all carriers …
Jeff Bertolucci / PC World:
Black Friday Starts Now for Savvy Shoppers — If you love Black Friday bargains, but hate the idea of pre-dawn lines, surly shoppers, and the risk of bodily harm just to score a bargain Blu-ray player or Xbox console, major U.S. retailers have an alternative: Why not shop early?
Farhad Manjoo / Glamour:
Marissa Mayer: The Visionary — You do it. Your mom does it. Nearly every American does it: We google, about 7 billion times a month. And each time, itâs like a trip into Marissa Mayerâs mind. That sunny logo, blessedly spare interface and perfect list of links you get in response to a query are all pure Mayer.
Ryan Pollock / Google Mobile Blog:
NYC subway maps in your pocket with Google Maps for mobile — Hey New Yorkers — looking for somewhere to celebrate the Yankees' 27th World Series title? It's now easier than ever to carry a NYC subway map in your pocket. — A few weeks ago we announced the Layers feature on Google Maps for BlackBerry …
Eric Eldon / Inside Social Games:
Zynga Launches FishVille — How Big Will This Virtual Aquarium Game Get? — Zynga, the largest developer on Facebook — and one that has come under increasing scrutiny recently for its use of scammy advertising offers in games — has just soft-launched a new title called FishVille.
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Daniel Lyons / Techtonic Shifts:Is Facebook a Paradise for Scammers?
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Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
OpenOfficeMouse Is An 18 Button Freak, But I Want It — 18 programmable buttons. E-I-G-H-T-E-E-N! Forget the 512k of flash memory, analog Xbox 360-style joystick, basic scroll wheel and whatever-else-is-in-there. 18 buttons! Yes, I'm a button lover. Yes, I just had an orgasm.
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft tops Google, Yahoo, Facebook in worldwide Web use — Windows Live Messenger led Microsoft's Web properties in capturing 14.5 percent of total time spent online in September worldwide, handily beating Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other sites, according to analysis firm comScore.
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Kim Hart / The Hill:
Pressure on Google over blocked calls — Pressure is growing on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to come down on tech giant Google for blocking access to certain telephone numbers with its Google Voice service. — The issue involves fees that traditional phone companies are forced …
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Lessons From the War Over Skype — The dust has settled, the ink on the deal has dried, and one of the biggest sideshows in Silicon Valley this year appears to be over. The litigation between eBay, the buyers of Skype and its original founders has been dropped, and the deal …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:My Thoughts on the Skype Settlement: Winners & Losers Scorecard
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Jeff Longo / MacRumors:
RadioShack To Sell iPhone — In a brief press release today, RadioShack announced that it will begin selling the iPhone starting with the Dallas-Fort Worth and New York City markets later this month. RadioShack plans to sell the iPhone across the U.S. in 2010.
Christian Zibreg / Geek.com:
Mozilla posts Firefox 3.5.5 — A maintenance update fixed five stability related bugs, three of which have been labeled as critical. No major security concerns have been reported since the Firefox 3.5.4 release. — Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5.5 Thursday, an incremental Firefox update that brought no new features.
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Lady Gaga Goes Exclusive With Google — Last week Google made a big announcement around enhanced search features for music discovery. Now when you search for a song, album, lyrics, or an artist, your search results will include streaming audio previews and purchase options.
Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:
Verizon launches Droid to few lines, but much excitement — Verizon Wireless launches its first two Android phones this morning, and though the launch was not greeted with the same crowds and lines that accompanied previous iPhone launches, customers said they were excited about the devices, especially the Motorola Droid.
Stephanie N. Mehta / Brainstorm Tech:
Will Microsoft become the General Motors of software? — It has near-monopoly status and nimble, disruptive competitors. We've seen this movie before. — By Jay R. Galbraith, president and founder, Galbraith Management Consultants — Galbraith questions Microsoft's resolve to change.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Is Verizon's New Early-Termination Fee Anti-Consumer? — Beginning Nov. 15, Verizon subscribers looking to get out of their smart-phone contracts early will pay $350 for the privilege. That early-termination fee is double the current one, but Verizon insists it's justified because of the higher prices of today's phones.
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Luke Plunkett / Kotaku:
Nintendo: There Is No Wii HD — Speaking on GameTrailers TV, Nintendo of America's Reggie Fils-Aime has, with a smile and some stern words, crushed into tiny, tiny pieces the prospect of a HD revision of the Wii. — Chatting with host Geoff Keighley, Fils-Aime said of the rumour …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Bettween Makes Tracking And Sharing Twitter Conversations A Breeze — With Twitter rolling out its own retweet functionality soon, people will be pointing their followers to more users they may not be engaging with yet, which will spark users to follow more people and hence increase the amount of conversations on Twitter.
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
October 2009 OS stats: Windows 7 passes Snow Leopard, Linux — In less than two weeks of general availability, Windows 7 has already captured a market share that is greater than Snow Leopard and Linux. Details inside. — Windows 7 arrived two weeks ago and so far it's selling quite well.
