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1:15 AM ET, December 8, 2009

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Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:
Relevance meets the real-time web  —  Search is a natural starting point for discovering the world's information, and we strive to bring you the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the multitude of devices you use to access it.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Aims To Push The Speed Of Light With Realtime Results.  Seriously.  —  Today, at its Search Event in Mountain View, Google Fellow Amit Singhal took the stage to announce a big new feature for the search giant: Realtime.  “It's Google's relevance technology meeting the realtime web,” is how Singhal described it.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Will Be Google-able (If Your Profile is Set to Public)
Discussion: TechCrunch
Rafe Needleman / Crave: The gadget blog:
Hands-on with the JooJoo  —  CNET snagged the first journalists' demo of the new JooJoo (formerly CrunchPad) Web slate on Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan's San Francisco media tour.  Quick impressions: yeah, this is a really cool device.  Everyone reading a tech site like CNET will want one.
Discussion: SlashGear, PC World, Gadget Lab and MAKE Magazine, Thanks:mgcreed
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Crunchpad manufacturer renames product JooJoo, promises launch this Friday at $499  —  A year and a half ago, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington set out to build and sell a “dead-simple Web tablet for $200.”  —  His reasoning: There's a giant hole in the market for a computer bigger than an iPhone …
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Fusion Garage fires back at TechCrunch's Arrington, alleging broken promises  —  Fusion Garage this morning fired back at Michael Arrington, a blogger who last week accused the startup of treachery and theft of intellectual property.  —  Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan, the chief executive of Fusion Garage …
Discussion: PC World, Bits and eWeek
Christopher Breen / Macworld:
Boxee shows off beta version with improved interface  —  At an event in Brooklyn on Monday, Boxee showed off the upcoming beta version of its media center application for OS X, Windows, Linux, and Apple TV.  The Boxee software, based on the open-source XBMC, lets you watch and listen …
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Mark Hachman / Gearlog:
$200 Boxee Box Based on D-Link  —  Boxee hosted an event Monday night at a club in Brooklyn, where the social entertainment platform joined forces with D-Link for the “Boxee Box” Internet-connected set-top box.  —  The “Boxee Box” has an odd, “sunken cube” shape, just shorter than a soda can …
Vic Gundotra / Google Mobile Blog:
Mobile Search for a New Era: Voice, Location and Sight  —  Editor's note: today Google held a launch event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.  Fresh off the stage, we've invited Vic to highlight the mobile team's announcements, and the unique set of technologies that make them possible.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Lala's Fire Sale That Wasn't: What Apple Really Paid  —  On Friday, I reported that Apple was buying Lala at a fire-sale price, which meant that investors in the music service wouldn't get their money back.  I was wrong.  —  Apple ended up paying around $80 million for the company, according to multiple sources.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
LaLa Was Bought By Apple For $17 Million, Not $80 Million
Discussion: Erictric, GeekSugar and MethodShop
Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Almost 1% Of The App Store Pulled Over A Rating Scam  —  Glyn Evans over at iphoneography brought a very interesting story to the public's attention this weekend.  A friend of his, SCW, was looking into some photography apps by the developer Molinker (the apps actually look curiously similar …
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The Official Google Blog:
Explore a whole new way to window shop, with Google and your mobile phone  —  What if you could decide where to shop, eat or hang out, with a little help from local Google users?  —  It might take you a while to ask them all, so to make it easier we've launched a new effort to send window decals …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Seagate finally makes move from hard drives to flash storage  —  Seagate makes about $10 billion a year in revenues from its 30-year-old hard drive business.  But today, after two years of study, the company is launching a new flash memory storage business.
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Hyperlocal Aggregator Outside.in Raises $7 Million From CNN, Others  —  Time Warner's CNN is taking a stake in hyperlocal aggregator Outside.in—the latest example of a big media organization making a play in the hyperlocal space.  CNN is getting a share of Outside.in as part …
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
If You Can Draw It on a Whiteboard, You Can Send It to a Kindle  —  As a “type A” student, I routinely tried to write down nearly everything my teachers wrote on the chalkboard.  Aside from blisters and far too many trips to the pencil sharpener, I'm not sure my approach yielded much.
Discussion: Ubergizmo
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Assistly Comes Out Of Stealth, Adds Mark Cuban And David Liu As Advisors  —  We've just gotten our first look at Assistly, a new startup that's looking to provide businesses with a robust platform for engaging customers on everything from Email to Facebook and Twitter.
Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T releases Mark the Spot, a network failure reporting tool  —  Poor AT&T, it must be tired of being tied to the whipping post and constantly flogged in the media for its abysmal network performance.  To address its network woes, AT&T has released a new iPhone application called Mark …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hold On, MySpace/Imeem Deal Ain't Done Yet, Being Renegotiated  —  Last month we broke the news that MySpace was acquiring music service iMeem, and that an agreement had been signed between the two companies.  —  All of that was accurate, including the $1 million fire sale price.
Rupert Murdoch / Wall Street Journal:
Journalism and Freedom  —  Government assistance is a greater threat to the press than any new technology.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  We are at a time when many news enterprises are shutting down or scaling back.  No doubt you will hear some tell you that journalism is in dire shape, and the triumph of digital is to blame.
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Judge Finalizes $675,000 RIAA Piracy Verdict, Won't Gag Defendant  —  A federal judge on Monday finalized a $675,000 jury verdict against a defendant who went to trial after the Recording Industry Association of America sued him for file sharing.  —  U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner presided …
Discussion: Ars Technica and Techdirt
Tim Lohman / Computerworld:
VMware developing dual OS smartphone virtualisation  —  Work and home phones apps and calls will run on the same handset at the same time via virtualisation  —  VMware has flagged smartphones as the next platform in the evolution of virtualisation, but at least one major competitor …
Mel Martin / TUAW:
Dragon Dictation comes to the iPhone.  Wow.  —  Put this into the 'I didn't think they could ever get this to work on an iPhone' category.  —  I'm talking about Dragon Dictation [iTunes link] from Nuance, the developers of the very popular Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC.
Discussion: Gizmodo
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Online Sample Sale Site Ideeli Raises A Whopping $20 Million  —  We've written about the rapid growth of online sample sales; with the latest news coming from the rumored acquisition of European sample sale site Vente-Privee by Amazon for an estimated $3.01 billion .
Discussion: alarm:clock and PE Hub Blog
Jheary / Network World:
Cisco Completes Acquisition of Cloud Based ScanSafe  —  Scansafe web security technology to be integrated into Cisco SSL client  —  ScanSafe is a best of breed software as a service “cloud” web security player.  Given that most threats are now propagated via port 80/443 this technology is in high demand.
Discussion: TMCnet and CNN
Colin Gibbs / GigaOM:
Verizon Promises LTE Speeds of 5-12 Mbps  —  Verizon Wireless has finally disclosed expected speeds for its upcoming LTE network, saying the technology will support average data rates per user of 5-12 Mbps on download and 2-5 Mbps on uploads.  LTE latency will be roughly one-fourth …
DigiTimes:
Flextronics lands 2 million netbook order from HP for 2010, says paper  —  Flextronics has recently landed orders for two million netbooks from Hewlett-Packard (HP) for 2010 through the vendor's e-bidding system with a manufacturing quote of US$45 for each unit, according …
Discussion: Liliputing
Maple Leafs / Toronto Star:
Geist: Record industry faces liability over ‘infringement’  —  Chet Baker was a leading jazz musician in the 1950s, playing trumpet and providing vocals.  Baker died in 1988, yet he is about to add a new claim to fame as the lead plaintiff in possibly the largest copyright infringement case in Canadian history.
Reuters:
EBay and Craigslist square off in Delaware court  —  GEORGETOWN, Delaware (Reuters) - EBay has put its former chief executive, Meg Whitman, on the witness stand on Monday to make the case that Craigslist unfairly denied the Internet giant a seat on its board.
Discussion: Bloomberg and craigslist blog
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google - from friend to foe?  —  Two bright young men transformed an idea into the era's dominant technology company by outmaneuvering lumbering giants in the field.  As the upstart blossomed into a titan in its own right, its behavior sparked allegations of monopolistic practices and drew the eye of the Justice Department.
 
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Tim Adams / Guardian:
Will e-books spell end of great writing?
Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Stations Turn Apps Into Cash
Discussion: mocoNews
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
FTC Will Review Google's Proposed Acquisition of AdMob
Discussion: Digital Daily and mocoNews
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Nvidia Soars As Intel Cancels Graphics Chip
Discussion: PC World
Michael Muchmore / PC Magazine:
Glide Takes on Google with Search-Centric Web OS
Discussion: Macsimum News
Sean Michael Kerner / internetnews.com:
Red Hat Tunes Up Real-Time OS
Discussion: The Register
Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Comcast Says Online Video Is Good, As Long as It Doesn't Encourage Cord-Cutting
Discussion: NewTeeVee and paidContent
 Earlier Items: 
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Alicia Keys Streams New Album On Facebook
Discussion: Inside Facebook and All Facebook
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
Opera 10.10 Smashes Download Records
Nielsen Wire:
Three Screen Report: TV Remains Strong as DVR and Online Video Show Most Growth
Discussion: CNET News, MediaPost and NewTeeVee
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
About @EricSchmidt: Google CEO Gets A Better Twitter Name
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google's Personalized Results: The “New Normal” …
Discussion: Beyond Search, Thanks:atul
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Vevo's “Hulu for Music” …
Discussion: Pulse2, 901am, NewTeeVee and AppScout
 

 
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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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