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4:10 AM ET, November 25, 2009

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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
What's Really Behind the Rupe-a-Dope With Google and Microsoft?  Here Are Five Possibilities!  —  Please see this disclosure related to me and Google.  —  There certainly is a lot of noisy swirl of late around the escalating fight between Google and some traditional media companies over content online.
Discussion: MediaPost and Guardian, Thanks:atul
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Under The Hood: Google News & Ranking Stories
Thanks:atul
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
Amazon Upgrades Users' Kindles, Automatically  —  Owners of new Amazon Kindles are about to get two improvements to their e-readers.  They won't have to do anything; indeed, they might not even notice the upgrade.  —  AFP/Getty Images  —  The changes — to software called firmware …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Amazon bolsters battery life for Kindle; Adds native PDF reader
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Chrome OS like lightning from a USB key: we could get used to this  —  We finally got around to prepping a USB key so we could boot to Chrome OS natively, and let us tell you: it's a world of difference.  Of course, running something natively instead of virtualized is always going to be a treat …
Discussion: Technologizer and Netbooked
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
The Most Influential Websites in the World: Wikipedia #1, Twitter #4 With a Bullet  —  A year ago we profiled an oddly-named service called ://URLFAN, which we concluded was a good ‘Influence Index’ for the Web. ://URLFAN ranks websites by popularity, based on blog mentions.
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Creates Dual-Class Stock Structure  —  Facebook Inc. has established a dual class stock structure, a move that helps lay the groundwork for an eventual initial public offering.  —  The company is in the process of converting all current shareholders to Class B stock …
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Take-down notices going after Microsoft Cofee  —  You'll recall that CrunchGear broke the news regarding the leak of Microsoft Cofee, a suite of applications used by law enforcement officials for their own devices.  The leak came from a popular BitTorrent site, and then spread to The Pirate Bay and all over the Internet.
Discussion: The Register
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Microsoft CFO Liddell Leaving; Replaced By Peter Klein  —  Microsoft (MSFT) this afternoon announced that CFO Chris Liddell is leaving the company at the end of 2009, and will be replaced by Peter Klein, who is now CFO of the Microsoft Business Division.  —  Liddell joined the company in May 2005 …
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Dropbox Raises $7.25M, Crosses 3M Users  —  Updated with new information from Dropbox: You don't go into file backup and syncing for the fame and glory, but that's what it seems to be yielding for 2-year-old Dropbox.  Simply put, people — including my GigaOM coworkers and I — love Dropbox because it works.
Discussion: TechCrunch, Thanks:chrismessina
Google Mobile Blog:
Get movie trailers and more with Google Search for mobile  —  Heads up, movie fans — today we've launched a mobile version of our new Google Search results for movies, which makes it easier to plan a trip to the movies.  Just go to google.com in the web browser on your iPhone, Palm WebOS …
Discussion: 901am, ResourceShelf and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:atul
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Leaked Video: Swyping Versus iPhone Typing.  (Swype For Android Is Next).  —  A year ago, Swype launched a new way to type on a touchscreen phone at TechCrunch50.  Swype was created by the inventor of the T9 predictive typing system used on most phones today because he felt that new text input methods …
Susan Wojcicki / The Official Google Blog:
New search ad formats  —  At Google, we're committed to giving you the information you want — regardless of the form in which it might appear.  —  Text is often useful, but sometimes videos and pictures are a more effective way to receive information.  For example, if you want to learn a magic trick …
Aza Raskin / Aza's Thoughts:
Identity in the Browser (Firefox)  —  Identity will be one of the defining themes in the next five years of the Web.  Nearly every site has a concept of a user account, registration, and identity.  Searching for “sign in” on Google yields over 1.8 billion hits.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker:
Hands-On Look at What's New in Office 2010  —  Now that we've had some time to play with the Office 2010 Professional Beta, we thought we'd share what's new and useful inside Microsoft's big suite.  Take a gander at the pictorial evidence below.  —  Overall, Office 2010 is not the kind …
Discussion: Gadget Venue
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YC-Funded WakeMate Helps You Kiss Groggy Mornings Goodbye  —  Ah, the curse of the groggy morning.  You may have followed all the rules: no caffeine before bed, an early bedtime, and all the rest.  But your best efforts are oftentimes for naught, foiled by the mysterious ways of sleep cycles.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Mobile Web Usage Continues To Explode As Opera Mini Nears 40 Million Monthly Users  —  We all know the Mobile web is exploding in popularity.  Opera Mini, Opera's mobile browser, grew its monthly users by 11 percent to nearly 40 million users in October from 32 million users in August.
Venture Capital Dispatch:
VC-Backed Co. Pushes Envelope With Postmarked Email Service  —  With more people emailing and fewer people sending physical mail in recent years, the U.S. Postal Service is taking steps to move into the digital world - and using a venture-backed company to do so.
Discussion: VentureBeat
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Hulu's Massive Traffic Bump?  Thank ABC, New TV Season  —  Viewing Follows TV Patterns as Site Nears Fourth-Quarter Ad Sell Out  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Hulu nation is growing — and fast.  —  Fueled by the fall TV season and the addition of ABC shows to its library …
Discussion: SEO and Tech Daily and NewTeeVee, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Mark Harris / Times of London:
The Googlephone: Google gears up for attack on mobile-phone market  —  The internet giant is about to launch a system offering free calls - along with the mother of all handsets.  —  Google is gearing up for an all-out assault on the mobile-phone market that will include a new …
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Sony VAIO X gets OS X Snow Leopard  —  There's a lot to like about Sony's VAIO X ultraportable - its indecently-skinny build, the engineering intelligence that went into its design, and its lengthy battery life just to name a few things - but if you're less than inspired by Windows 7 then how about a Mac OS X version?
Bill Gorman / TV by the numbers:
TiVo Loses 314,000 Subscribers, Worst Quarterly Subscriber Fall Yet, Now Below 3 Million  —  TiVo Loses 314,000 Subscribers vs. 146,000 in Previous Quarter Even by the standards of its continuing loss of subscribers, the last quarter was a particularly bad one for TiVo.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook co-founder's Asana raises $9M from Benchmark, Andreessen-Horowitz  —  Asana, the productivity management startup from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and lead engineer Justin Rosenstein, has raked in $9 million from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz.
Associated Press:
Verizon opposes Sprint's “Most Dependable” claim  —  NEW YORK — A national advertising watchdog is asking Sprint Nextel Corp. to drop its ads calling itself “America's most dependable 3G network.”  —  The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus …
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Canadian, Australian antitrust cops clear Microsoft-Yahoo deal  —  Updated 2:21 p.m.: Added more information and background.  —  The Canadian and Australian antitrust authorities have cleared Microsoft and Yahoo's proposed Web-search partnership, eliminating two potential barriers to combining Yahoo search and Bing.
Tyler Tschida / App Advice:
Riptide Reveals Early In-App Purchase Results For Their Free Game Gravity Sling  —  Apple's decision on October 15th to allow free apps to include in-app purchases certainly generated a lot of buzz among developers, and now, thanks to iPhone game developer Riptide, we finally have some results …
Cody Barbierri / VentureBeat:
Siri raises $15.5M more for virtual personal assistant  —  For those of you awaiting the next generation of personal assistants, San Jose startup Siri, who's product aims to be a virtual personal assistant (VPA), has just raised $15.5 million in round two funding from Menlo Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures says VentureWire.
Discussion: Pulse2 and Internet2Go
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics  —  Last week, Microsoft showed off some browser technology that could help Internet Explorer leapfrog the competition.  But if Mozilla succeeds in its hope, Microsoft could be playing catch-up instead.  —  The technology in question …
Chris Hall / Pocket-lint.com:
PHOTOS: First ELSE hands-on  —  “There are problems in the market.  The First ELSE solves them”, says Amir Kupervas, ELSE CEO, boldly, launching a handset that promises to change the way we think about our phones.  —  Today saw the launch to press and business partners of the First ELSE handset …
 
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Grant Gross / Computerworld:
U.S. senators ask EU to hurry probe of Oracle-Sun
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
New Developer Policies Go Into Effect On December 16
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‘NYT’ Partners with Samsung to Offer Netbook Discount
Simon Sage / IntoMobile:
Bing Available on More BlackBerrys
Discussion: Search Blog and BerryReview.com
Nathan Becker / Digits:
Online Shopping Up From Last Year, but Well Below Trend
Discussion: internetnews.com
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple seeks permanent injunction to prevent Psystar sales
Discussion: Macsimum News
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch Europe:
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Core i7 iMacs showing up DOA — including ours