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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 …
New York Times:
Virtual Goods Start Bringing Real Paydays — SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley may have discovered the perfect business: charging real money for products that do not exist. — These so-called virtual goods, like a $1 illustration of a Champagne bottle on Facebook or the $2.50 Halloween costume …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
How investigators tracked down a Modern Warfare 2 cyber pirate — The posting last Thursday on Craigslist was alarming. Someone was selling a Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle, with both a console and a game, for $500. The problem was that Modern Warfare 2, one of the most anticipated games of the year …
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.
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?
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 …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Skype Founders Assembling Killer Team For New Online Music Startup — Now that they got what they wanted - a renewed stake and board representation in the Skype that will be spun off eBay soon - the Scandinavian duo Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis can divert more of their attention again …
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.
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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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.
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.
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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