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12:50 PM ET, November 13, 2009

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Chrome OS To Launch Within A Week  —  Google's Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we've heard from a reliable source.  Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall.  —  What can we expect?
Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Rupert Murdoch to remove News Corp's content from Google ‘in months’  —  Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, is prepared to remove his company's content from Google' search index “within months” as the pay versus free content debate reaches crisis point.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
News Corp Wants To “Lead” The Media Industry To Its Own Demise
Discussion: FishBowlNY
Billy Biggs / YouTube Blog:
1080p HD Comes to YouTube  —  We're excited to say that support for watching 1080p HD videos in full resolution is on its way.  Starting next week, YouTube's HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p, depending on the resolution of the original source, up from our maximum output of 720p today.
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Office 2010 beta leaks early  —  Those who can't wait until next week for the beta of Office 2010 can apparently find the code already on torrent Web sites.  —  According to Neowin, the beta code has popped up on peer-to-peer sites in recent days.  —  Meanwhile, another enthusiast site …
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
App Store dejection process - now Rogue Amoeba leaves the flock  —  The App Store rejection process continues to infuriate even long-term Apple developers, and something will have to change - today we see long time Mac developers, Rogue Amoeba, announce they will no longer develop apps …
Electronista:
Dell officially enters smartphones with Mini 3  —  Dell today formally entered the smartphone race by launching the Mini 3.  The full-touchscreen phone depends on a customized version of Android and will have different features based on the region.  While most details aren't available …
Discussion: MacDailyNews
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Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:
Dell smart phone to debut in China, Brazil
att.com:
AT&T Sets the Record Straight on Verizon Ads  —  To Our Customers: As the U.S. market leader in wireless data service, we typically don't respond to competitors' advertising.  However, some recent ads from Verizon are so blatantly false and misleading, that we want to set the record straight about AT&T's wireless data coverage.
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John C Abell / Epicenter:   In Escalating War Against Verizon, AT&T Is Getting Tone Deaf — and Outflanked
Google Voice Blog:
Google welcomes Gizmo5  —  Today we're pleased to announce we've acquired Gizmo5, a company that provides Internet-based calling software for mobile phones and computers.  While we don't have any specific features to announce right now, Gizmo5's engineers will be joining the Google Voice team …
Danny Allen / Gizmodo:
Sleek Vega Tablet with Android 2.0, Touchscreen, and 3G Arrives Next Year  —  I'm psyched to see Android moving into tablets.  Some of the first will be from Innovative Converged Devices (ICD), who say their Tegra-powered 7-, 11-, and 15-inch tablets will arrive through “tier one” carriers in the first half of 2010.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
How Google Voice Violates Google's Own Privacy Policy (Updated)  —  I've had a nagging frustration in my otherwise perfect relationship with Google Voice.  The service systematically replaces my friend's phone numbers with their Google Voice numbers when they call, even when they aren't calling from Google Voice.
Discussion: internetnews.com and Seeking Alpha
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Trouble At Twitter: U.S. Visitors Down 8 Percent In October  —  Ever since last summer, Twitter's growth in the U.S. has been stalling.  But in October, the number of people who visited Twitter.com from the U.S. actually declined for the first time by 8 percent month-over-month.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Pingdom Says People Are Tweeting 27 Million Times A Day
Discussion: Pulse2
CNET News:
Verizon tests sending RIAA copyright notices  —  Verizon Communications customers who pirate music files may soon receive an unwelcome letter from the company.  —  Verizon, the second-largest phone company in the United States, is expected to begin issuing “copyright notices” …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
My world has changed (and I get to share with you)  —  Twitter's new list feature is one of those things that seems simple on the surface and is easily ignored.  —  But it has deeply changed how I get my news and how I interact with the tech community.  —  Click through these lists …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook VP Leaves A Love Letter For Apple  —  “For every dev that leaves iPhone in frustration, 1000 new ones join up. iPhone is an unstoppable train regardless of how much we complain.”  - Joe Hewitt in a tweet yesterday.  —  How right he is.  —  Facebook's VP of Communications Elliot Schrage …
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Facebook: Please Back Developers vs iPhone
Discussion: Fast Company, WebNewser and InformationWeek, Thanks:atul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yes, A Beta Version Of Chrome For Mac Is Just Weeks Away  —  Yesterday, there were a number of stories suggesting that a beta version of Chrome for Mac was due in early December.  These stemmed from CNET's Stephen Shankland digging around a Chrome Extension Google Group page where Nick Baum …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Boo.com Got Sold Again!  —  This is big news for people who experienced the dotcom crash, survived and brought home a t-shirt: Boo.com, once an online fashion retail outlet that went spectacularly bust in early 2000 after burning through approximately $135 million in VC money in about a year and a half, just got acquired (once again).
Discussion: webresint.com
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint.com:
The Apple iPod touch you can't buy  —  Hands on with Apple's iPod retail card scanner in store  —  Apple has started rolling out its tricked out iPod touch to its stores, to allow its salespeople to swipe your credit card regardless of where you are in the store.?
Discussion: CrunchGear, Thanks:stuartmiles
CNET News:
A CNET Conversation with Eric Schmidt  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—It has been quite a year for Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and upon the close of his interview this week with CNET, he ruefully shook his head in acknowledgment that the world is not likely to slow down for the perhaps the most influential company on the Internet.
Discussion: Beet.TV and Softpedia News
Preston Gralla / Preston Gralla's blog:
Google excec: Don't quit Microsoft Office for Google Docs —  yet  —  A Google executive has admitted what most already people know: Google Docs simply isn't good enough yet for prime time.  “We wouldn't ask people to get rid of Microsoft Office and use Google Docs because it is not mature yet …
Discussion: CNET News and Mashable!
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft opens up Windows 7 to advertisers via downloadable themes  —  The same way that it already allows advertisers to buy placement on various Microsoft sites and properties, Microsoft may allow them to extend their brands onto Windows 7.  —  The ads aren't being foisted on Windows 7 users.
Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:
Start-up claims its DVDs last 1,000 years  —  The DiamonDisc uses standard DVD players and burn software  —  Computerworld - If you really, really need to make sure those precious photos of yours last virtually forever - or at least longer than the average two- to five-year lifespan of consumer-grade DVDs …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Dolly Parton Says: You Should Try IE8 Webslices!  —  In what's got to be the most amusing celebrity tech endorsement of the season so far, Dolly Parton has gone on YouTube endorsing Microsoft's IE8.  It's got this great webslices feature, you see.  “You've got to have Internet Explorer 8 to use webslices …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
How to Secure Your Jailbroken iPhone  —  Earlier this week, the news of the first iPhone worm made its way around the net.  Since the worm only targeted jailbroken devices and then only those which had the SSH program installed, there wasn't a need for concern on the part of most iPhone users.
Associated Press:
Swiss Privacy Agency to Sue Google Over Street View  —  GENEVA — Google's unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object — Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy.  —  The country's privacy watchdog announced Friday that it plans to haul …
 
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 More Items: 
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
iPhone Game Maker Apologizes for Stealing Phone Numbers, Calls Lawsuit “Meritless”
Discussion: Macworld
Press Association:
Hacker shouldn't be extradited: MPs
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Windows Marketplace's newest anti-piracy measures already thwarted
Discussion: WMPoweruser.com and Download Squad
Jgb / alarm:clock:
TV Yidiots at Yidio Raise $500K
Discussion: internetnews.com
Erin Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
AP To Ask Google For A Better Search Ranking
 Earlier Items: 
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The GeoAPI Launches For Places, Tweets, Flickr Photos, And More
Choire / The Awl:
What Were Black People Talking About on Twitter Last Night?
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
A single smartphone can DoS federal wiretaps
Discussion: Softpedia News
Chris Ariens / WebNewser:
CNN.com Shutters Anchor-Driven Newscasts
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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