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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Online Sales Huge On Black Friday, Apple Retail Mac Down — Update: Munster has issued a new Black Friday report that includes e-commerce information. — It looks like Apple's Web business was huge: Sales were up 39% year-over-year on Black Friday, according to comScore …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The End Of The CrunchPad — It was so close I could taste it. Two weeks ago we were ready to publicly launch the CrunchPad. The device was stable enough for a demo. It went hours without crashing. We could even let people play with the device themselves - the user interface …
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Stewart / Alsop-Louie Partners:
Droid Doesn't: It's Not Ready For Prime Time — The Motorola Droid is truly terrible, in part because it has such promise (and has been amazingly well reviewed — I worry I'm missing something). Ironically, most of the blame for the cruddiness of the phone really should be laid at Google's feet, not Motorola's.
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Kindle has best sales month in November, Amazon says — Kindles are still available, while Sony and Nook e-readers are out of stock — Computerworld - November was the best sales month ever for the Kindle e-reader, even before traditionally heavy sales on Cyber Monday, Amazon.com Inc. said early today.
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Mike Elgan / Computerworld:
7 reasons why e-book readers make lousy gifts this year — An e-reader seems like a sweet, substantive and long-lasting gift. But so is a fruitcake. — Computerworld - Two years ago, the best holiday gift was an Amazon Kindle — if you could get your hands on one.
Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times:
Apple, Chip Bully? — Chipmakers Claim iPhone Maker Disrupts Flash Market — There are growing complaints in the semiconductor industry that Apple, the “smart” phone maker extraordinaire and major chip buyer, is manipulating NAND flash memory prices through its “questionable” purchasing strategies, industry sources said Sunday.
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Bing / Search Blog:
Top Bing Searches in 2009 — Cue Music. Awwww, 2009. It was a year of UFO shaped dirigibles, mom jeans on pop stars, real housewives, a new president, and a new decision engine. Oh and there may have been something about Vampires too, we weren't really paying attention.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The New TweetDeck Goes List Crazy And Adds Maps To GeoTweets — Streamreaders just keep getting better and better. A new version of TweetDeck is rolling out today with some major improvements, including support for Lists, Retweets, maps for geo-tagged messages, and LinkedIn streams.
Royal Pingdom:
Study: Males vs. females in social networks — Have you ever wondered how many of Twitter's users are women? Or men? What about Facebook, MySpace, Digg, LinkedIn, and other sites in the social media sphere? — We have tracked down this information for a number of social network sites (19 of them).
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Open Source as a Model for Business Is Elusive — SAN FRANCISCO — In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program's creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of volunteers contribute improvements that are also freely shared.
Jeremy Kirk / PC World:
Latest Microsoft Patches Cause Black Screen of Death — Microsoft's latest round of security patches appears to be causing some PCs to seize up and display a black screen, rending the computer useless. — The problem affects Microsoft products including Windows 7, Vista and XP operating systems …
David Carr / New York Times:
The Fall and Rise of Media — Historically, young women and men who sought to thrive in publishing made their way to Manhattan. Once there, they were told, they would work in marginal jobs for indifferent bosses doing mundane tasks and then one day, if they did all of that without whimper or complaint …
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
LEAK: The Google Phone “Is a Certainty” — According to a trusted source who's seen it with their own eyes, the Google Phone “is a certainty.” — And by “Google Phone” we don't simply mean another Android handset. We're talking about Google-branded hardware running a version of Android we haven't yet seen.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Android Phone Fans, I4U News, Electronista, SlashGear, Techland, GottaBeMobile.com and AndroidOS.in
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
AOL Automates Its Story Factory. Does that Kill an Associated Content Deal? — A couple of weeks ago, AOL told Wall Street it will be cutting its payroll by one-third, via buyouts and layoffs. Now comes its plan to make the remaining employees more productive: New technology that assigns and even edits stories automatically.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:AOL's Armstrong Orders Up News That's Automated And Advertorial
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The State of Windows 7 Satisfaction — Windows 7 is scarcely more than a month old. Most of the people who will eventually use it haven't gotten around to trying it yet; those that have are still settling in. And the Win 7 experience will change rapidly as remaining bugs are squashed …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Features Chrome For Mac Beta Will Be Missing — As we've noted, Chrome for Mac is getting very, very close to its official beta launch. The team is down to a mere 8 bugs to fix before it's ready (and it looks like the list has been trimmed to 7 as of a few hours ago).
Simone Weichselbaum / NY Daily News:
Gangs in New York talk Twitter: Use tweets to trash-talk rivals, plan fights — The city's street gangs are becoming tweet gangs. — Manhattan's young thugs have turned to Twitter, and the cops who track them are fast behind, the Daily News has learned. — It's old-school crime meets …
Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
More On Seesmic's Vision of Programmable Twitter clients — I announced during Ray Ozzie's keynote at the Microsoft PDC that Seesmic is building a programmable Twitter client so I am glad that Dave Winer likes this idea too and might be interested in building the first features.
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
LG, AT&T Announce 1-GHz Projector Phone — Here's a whole bunch of firsts for the U.S.: LG today announced the Expo, a Windows Mobile 6.5-based smartphone with a built-in fingerprint sensor and optional pico-projector powered by a Qualcomm 1-GHz processor that I assume is their Snapdragon chipset, though LG doesn't say.
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Stolen Belgian iPhones Starting To Appear on Russian Black Market … Batches of stolen iPhones snagged during the “Great iPhone Heist” in Belgium earlier this month are showing up on the Russian black market. — Two weeks ago, thieves made off with 3,000-4,000 iPhone 3GS …
Alexandria Sage / Reuters:
Barnes & Noble delays Nook shipments to stores — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc (BKS.N) said on Sunday it would delay shipments of its newly launched Nook electronic reader to stores as the company strives to deliver preordered devices to consumers before the holidays.
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
PC vendors pessimistic toward future of MIDs — Several members of Intel's Mobile Internet Device Innovation Alliance (MIDIA) have quit development of the mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and turned to work on products such as smartbooks and e-book readers, according to sources from ex-members.
