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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Video Demonstrates Wired's Concept iTablet App — Who takes Apple's rumored touchscreen tablet seriously? Wired's parent company Condé Nast. Earlier this week, the corporation revealed its plans to work with Adobe to repurpose magazine content for upcoming digital devices, including the Apple tablet (if it is indeed real).
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Bing / Search Blog:
Committed to Comprehensive Results — There's been some buzz today based on a post by Nicholas D. Kristof at the New York Times suggesting that Bing filters results for searches conducted outside of the People's Republic of China (PRC) using Simplified Chinese characters for their query.
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Nicholas Kristof / Nicholas D. Kristof:
Boycott Microsoft Bing — Critics have accused President Obama of kowtowing to Chinese leaders, by failing to meet dissidents, toning down his criticisms and delaying a meeting with the Dalai Lama. On balance, I think that criticism is premature: Confrontation doesn't help with China and can hurt …
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LiveSide, Mashable!, Lockergnome Blog Network, Life On the Wicked Stage, Gizmodo Australia and Slashdot, Thanks:atul
eMarketer:
Data on Twitter Decline Stacks Up — Tweeting no more? — First, spectacular growth. Then a summertime slowdown. And now, in fall 2009, US traffic to Twitter.com is declining. — According to data provided to eMarketer by Nielsen, traffic to Twitter.com was down a dramatic 27.8% between September …
Laura Northrup / Consumerist:
Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids Warranty — Unless you've just arrived in 2009 on a time machine, you know that smoking isn't good for you. Did you know, that smoking isn't good for your computer, either? It's true, at least according to Apple.
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Examining Windows 7's fast start — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer got lots of attention yesterday when he announced that the company has sold twice as many copies of Windows 7 as it did any previous version of the operating system in its first month. It's “a fantastic start,” he told shareholders at the company's annual meeting.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google To Shut Down GrandCentral Website — Google Voice was GrandCentral before Google acquired that company back in 2007. Like most Google acquisitions it took a long time to fully rebuild the service on Google's infrastructure, and even today Google Voice is still in private beta.
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
AP Scans Sarah Palin Book Without Permission; Look Out Google Book Search — Google, accused by some as being a book thief, now has company — the Associated Press. The AP patted itself on the back in an internal memo that detailed how it scanned a copy of Sarah Palin's book without permission, to make it searchable.
Matthew Newman / Bloomberg:
Oracle $7.4 Billion Sun Takeover May Be Blocked by EU on Competition Issue — Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — Oracle Corp.'s planned $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. may be blocked by European Union regulators because of concerns Oracle might be able to eliminate Sun's MySQL database product …
Examiner:
Apple to release iPod Touch with camera this Spring? — We have heard from an inside source who claims the camera version of the iPod Touch 3G will be released this Spring. The source confirms to us that the iPod Touch 3G with camera had actually been planned for release this past September, but had problems passing quality control.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Gmail Creator Thinks Email Will Last Forever. And Hasn't Tried Google Wave. — “Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all.” - Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, co-founder of FriendFeed, currently doing vague infrastructure things at Facebook.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle — One thing that strikes me about Chrome OS and Litl is that neither bother trying to do everything Windows or Mac OS X can do. Not even close. I don't think either even bothers trying to serve as one's primary computer.
David Coursey / PC World:
Brin: Two Google Operating Systems May Become One — It has been difficult for Google to explain away the seeming conflict between Chrome OS and Android. — Saying that Chrome is for the Internet and Android for devices, requires a belief that users actually make the distinction.
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