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9:25 AM ET, December 7, 2009

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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
HTC's 2010 roadmap goes on display?  —  Those among us with minds like steel traps might recall that HTC's 2009 was leaked with shocking accuracy way back in January of this year, which lends some credibility to this already-believable series of slides we have seemingly showing off …
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Your First Look at Nook: The Technologizer Review  —  In retrospect, it was probably inevitable.  Bookselling behemoth Barnes & Noble has spent much of the past decade and a half duking it out with online archrival Amazon.com.  So when Amazon unveiled its Kindle e-reader two years ago …
Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Introduces Ad Interest Manager  —  Provides Consumers with Greater Transparency and Control over Their Online Advertising Experience  —  Today Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) released a beta version of a new consumer tool called Ad Interest Manager, which takes transparency in online advertising …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Adds New Privacy Tool for Users, Just as FTC Privacy Hearings Start Today (and MicroHoo Regulatory Approval Is Pending)  —  Yahoo announced a new consumer tool this morning, called “Ad Interest Manager.”  —  BoomTown is going to ignore the could-it-be-duller name for the feature …
Discussion: VentureBeat and PC World
Om Malik / GigaOM:
All Hail The iPod Touch  —  As the competition for smart phone domination starts to heat up, it is becoming increasingly clear that the iPod Touch is Apple's ace-up-its-sleeve, and according to a report by Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics company, 24 million iPod Touches represent …
Discussion: Brainstorm Tech and 9 to 5 Mac
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Peter Farago / blog.flurry.com:
Flurry Smartphone Industry Pulse, November 2009
Discussion: AppleInsider, Mashable! and VentureBeat
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
See That Funny 2D Barcode In The Store Window?  It Might Pull Up A Google Listing.  —  What if every store had a bar-code sticker on its window so that you could pull out your iPhone, wave it in front of the bar code and get all sorts of information about that business—the telephone number, photos, customer reviews?
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Joins Twitter (With An Awful Name)  —  Back in March, Google CEO Eric Schmidt caused a little controversy when he was quoted as thinking of Twitter (and the other micro-messaging services like it) as a “sort of poor man's email systems.”  He later clarified his remarks a bit.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Aardvark Mulls Over A $30+ Million Offer From Google  —  Social search service Aardvark is considering accepting a $30+ million offer by Google, say multiple sources close to the companies (one source says it's $40 million).  The company, which was founded by ex-Googlers, has raised around $6 million in venture capital to date.
Discussion: VentureBeat
Jason Holt / Google LatLong:
Sometimes eight screens are better than one  —  Back in June of 2008, some of my fellow engineers and I got to thinking: how could we recreate the experience of seeing the impressive imagery from our geo products in a more seamless way?  We scrounged some spare Linux workstations …
Discussion: TechCrunch
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
Why Open Source Phones Still Fail  —  Free software is all about the unexpected.  Carriers hate the unexpected.  —  The ultimate hacker phone, the Nokia N900 is the truest expression of Linux—the OS and the philosophy—that you'll find on mobile this year.  It's a great niche gadget.
Discussion: ExtremeTech
Deborah Solomon / New York Times:
Book Learning — Questions for Jeffrey P. Bezos  —  The Kindle, an electronic reader brought out by Amazon two years ago, has become your company's best-selling product and a great success story.  But several rival e-readers are coming out in time for Christmas.  What do you think of the Nook, for instance, from Barnes & Noble?
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TBIResearch:
Kindle Fantasies Are Running Wild — But, For Now, Amazon Is Losing Its Shirt
Discussion: Beyond Search and TeleRead
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple to Skip Intel Arrandale?  Demands Alternative Chip?  —  BrightSideofNews claims that Apple is refusing to accept Intel's upcoming mobile Arrandale chip which incorporates Intel's integrated graphics chipset: … The report has generated some debate in our Waiting for Arrandale thread …
 
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Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Zappos.com Offers an Actual World Catalog
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
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PC World:
Lawsuit Alleges Palm Pre Violates Copyright
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Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac
New York Times:
Secret's Out: Sample Sales Move Online
Discussion: Bits, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Internet entrepreneur Calacanis launches Open Angel Forum …
Discussion: RyanSpoon.com, Thanks:paulboutin
 Earlier Items: 
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Local Governments Offer Data to Miners
Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
Devices to Take Textbooks Beyond Text
Discussion: TeleRead
Tony Bradley / PC World:
Larrabee Project a Casualty of Intel's Legal Battles
 

 
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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”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

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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