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3:55 PM ET, November 12, 2009

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Intel:
AMD and Intel Announce Settlement of All Antitrust and IP Disputes  —  Intel Corporation and Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) today announced a comprehensive agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes between the companies, including antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes.
Avner Ronen / Boxee Blog:
a Boxee Box is coming!  —  We launched our public alpha for Mac/Linux in January at CES.  During the show we met with several device manufactures interested in embedding Boxee into their existing devices or building a dedicated Boxee device.  —  I am very happy to announce we have signed our first partnership with a CE company.
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Another Web Video Face-Off: Roku vs. Boxee
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:taylorbuley
Chromium Blog:
A 2x Faster Web  —  Today we'd like to share with the web community information about SPDY, pronounced “SPeeDY”, an early-stage research project that is part of our effort to make the web faster.  SPDY is at its core an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web.
Discussion: TechCrunch, Mashable! and Webmonkey, Thanks:atul
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:   SPDY: Google Wants to Speed Up the Web With New Protocol
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Dell's Zino HD is a Candy-Colored Mac Mini Killer  —  Dell's new Zino HD mini-computers look good enough to eat.  And, even more important if you are the sole geek of the the house, good enough to put in the living room.  —  The Zino HD wants to sit by your TV, and is a full-on entertainment PC.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Palm Pixi review  —  It's hard to believe that Palm is already pushing its second webOS device, the Pixi, out the door.  It seems like just a few weeks ago that we were eagerly awaiting the release of the Pre, a phone that was considered to be the last gasp for the badly ailing company …
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Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
Palm Pixi Makes Early Appearance in Walmart Display
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
How we really designed the look and feel of Windows 7  —  An inaccurate quote has been floating around the Internet today about the design origins of Windows 7 and whether its look and feel was “borrowed” from Mac OS X. Unfortunately this came from a Microsoft employee who was not involved in any aspect of designing Windows 7.
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Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Microsoft damage control after marketer claims Win7 inspired by Mac
Discussion: Softpedia News
Staska / Unwired View:
Apple patents improved digital ink recognition techniques for pen-aware tablet  —  The rumors about he upcoming Apple tablet have been flying around far and wide lately.  —  Well, actually, the rumors about the upcoming Apple tablet have been flying around for years now.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Would Someone Please Explain To News Corp How Google Works?  —  Yet another News Corporation executive is talking about Google, and yet again, I feel like they have no concept about how Google interacts with their web pages.  Which is frightening, since they're being very vocal about how they're supposedly wronged by Google.
Discussion: paidContent and Techdirt, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
News Corp. COO: The Journal's Leaky Wall Strategy Makes No Sense
Discussion: paidContent
Casey Whitelaw / Google Wave Blog:
Follow your waves  —  We've received lots of feedback from Wavers that the public waves they read were clogging up their inboxes.  Today, we've introduced a new concept to Google Wave—"following" waves.  Now, clicking on a public wave no longer causes it to appear (and stay) in your inbox …
Discussion: VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Lifehacker
Dr. Wreck / phoneWreck:
Motorola Droid Teardown Images!  —  Ladies and Gentlemen, the moment you have all been waiting for has arrived.  Dr.Wreck has fully dissasembled his Brand New Motorola Droid from Verizon.  —  Stay tuned to his Twitter, and RSS feed for all the details as they come out!
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Apple's Global Retail Invasion  —  Apple Inc. has opened lots of stores over the past couple of years, but today's New York City event is a little different than most.  —  That's because senior vice president Ron Johnson, Apple's retail guru, had some comments to share about the company's upcoming retail plans for 2010.
Discussion: MacRumors and Digits
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny  —  “My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple's policies.”  - Joe Hewitt  —  Facebook developer Joe Hewitt, the man behind the immensely popular Facebook application for iPhone, has just tweeted that he's done with the project:
Dan Stokeley / The Official Google Blog:
Google's movie showtimes, digitally remastered  —  Did you know you can immediately discover movie times and locations by typing a simple search on Google?  For example, search for [where the wild things are] and you'll see times and places to watch the film, or try [glendale 18 los angeles] to see movies playing at your local theater.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Chrome OS Browser to Mimic Windows Explorer?  —  When Google announced its plans for a new cloud-based operating system built around the Web browser, there was some concern about the OS' capabilities.  Although a lot of our computing can now be done in the Web browser these days thanks …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Wistron: Readius-like ereader with pull-out flexible display launching in 2010  —  We've had a soft spot for Polymer Vision in the fetid hollows of that place you call a heart ever since we pressed flesh to its Readius back in February 2008.  Unfortunately, we had to let go of any hope …
Roger Cheng / Dow Jones Newswires:
Qualcomm CEO: AT&T To Launch First Smartbook  —  NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- AT&T Inc. (T) will sell the first smartbook using Qualcomm Inc.'s (QCOM) Snapdragon chip, according to Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs.  —  Jacobs, speaking at the company's investor day conference, unveiled the product …
socalTECH.com:
Chumby Ships New Internet Clock Radio  —  San Diego-based Chumby, which develops Internet-connected, highly programmable Internet alarm clocks, said today that it has released a new product called the chumby one.  The firm said the chumby one is a Wi-Fi connected, Internet clock radio, and will cost $119.95.
Galen Gruman / InfoWorld:
Ultimate mobile deathmatch: iPhone vs. BlackBerry vs. Droid vs. Pre  —  Despite the Droid, the iPhone and BlackBerry remain on top; use our ratings calculator to determine the best smartphone for you  —  The Android 2.0-based Motorola Droid does — but not as much as Motorola and Verizon Wireless would like you to believe.
Kevin Ohannessian / Fast Company:
Facebook and Twitter Come to Xbox Live This Tuesday  —  The next update to the Xbox Live network will be coming Tuesday, November 17 according to Live's General Manager, Marc Whitten (left).  The new features are contributing to “turning Xbox and Live into this rich media portal …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
My scareware night and how McAfee lost a customer  —  I had an ugly run-in with scareware last night, but I'm not sure what left me more annoyed: The dreaded Antivirus Pro 2009 scareware or McAfee, my anti-virus software provider.  —  First, my PC was overtaken by Antivirus Pro 2009, which is a rogue anti-spyware application.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Full Streams Ahead: Clicker's TV Search Engine Is Now Open To The Public  —  Clicker, the startup that looks to be a comprehensive video search engine for television content on the web, has launched to the public.  The site made its public debut at TechCrunch50, where it generated quite a bit …
Leslie Cauley / USA Today:
AT&T demands Verizon pull its ads comparing coverage  —  AT&T on Wednesday upped the ante in its legal spat with Verizon, accusing it in an amended complaint of twisting facts in a trio of holiday ads to make AT&T's wireless network coverage look a lot worse than it is.
Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:
Tech Sector Employment Still in Slump  —  As Silicon Valley rides a recovery in the technology sector, local companies such as Google Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. have said they will beef up their work forces.  But judging by California's employment data, such hiring has yet to happen.
Discussion: Daily Bits
 
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Matt Peckham / PC World:
Banned Xbox 360s Flooding Craigslist, Ebay
Discussion: Network World and eWeek
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Modern Warfare 2 sells 5 million in a day
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Britney's Twitter feed hacked again
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
How iPhone Apps Are Raking In Cash From Virtual Goods
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Broadcom goes open source and hell freezes over
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TomTom, Navigon update iPhone apps with new features, improvements
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
How Demand Media Produces 4,000 Pieces of Content a Day
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Sneak Peek At NYT's Latest Online News Reader Prototype
Discussion: GottaBeMobile.com, Thanks:atul
Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo:
Windows Mobile Marketplace Adds Non-Mobile App Store