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12:00 PM ET, December 23, 2009

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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Google Nexus One Hands On  —  Thanks to a clandestine meeting with a source, I got a chance to play with and try out the Nexus One.  It's basically, from my time with it, Google's Droid killer.  It's thin, it's fast, it's better in every way.  —  My source was very firm about no photography …
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Google Nexus One stands with iPhone and Hero, interface gets a 5-minute walkthrough  —  The Google Nexus One trickle continues.  Today's two menu items include a 5-minute demonstration of the Android 2.1 interface — shaky, sure, but it's a pretty thorough rundown of all the menus.
Discussion: HTC Nexus One, Mashable! and Recombu
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Statement Regarding the United States Court of Appeals …
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Next-gen iPhone w/ 5-Megapixel camera for second half 2010 - WWDC launch?  —  Taiwanese sources suggest the debut of an all-new model iPhone, equipped with a 5-megapixel camera, could coincide with the currently mooted WWDC 2010 event in June.  —  Industry sources report orders …
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Research in Motion Statement Regarding December 22nd Service Outage - BlackBerry Messenger to Blame!  —  WOW.  BlackBerry Messenger brought down BBM.  Who would have thought.  Our CrackBerry readers were first to pick up on the issue and we were quick to report that BBM was on the fritz …
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Josh Wingrove / Globe and Mail:
BlackBerry outage sweeps North America
Financial Times:
Apple looks at internet TV foray  —  By Kenneth Li in New York and Joseph Menn in San Francisco  —  Apple is courting owners of US television networks, including CBS and Walt Disney, in the hope of launching a subscription television service over the internet next year, people familiar with the discussions said.
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Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
Strapped to Android, HTC Takes a Dizzying Ride to the Top  —  Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC is on a tear.  This year alone, the company has released five Android handsets.  Its next phone, the HTC Nexus One, aka the Googlephone, is among the most anticipated devices of 2010.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month  —  Five years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! in January, we're hearing from sources close to the project.  MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces …
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Ex-Microsoftie: Company today ‘a lot like IBM was in 1985’  —  Don Dodge made headlines last month when he was caught up in the tail end of Microsoft's first-ever round of mass layoffs.  He had been at Microsoft for five years, and as a start-up evangelist had become a well-liked figure in the world of budding tech companies.
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Firefox 4 Windows mockup provides 5 UI hints of things to come  —  Want a hint as to where Firefox will go next?  As a product visual designer at Mozilla, Stephen Horlander is the kind of guy who can make things happen — so when he shares updates and mockups on Firefox 4's user interface, we tend to pay attention.
Discussion: Download Squad, Gizmodo and Neowin.net
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
NVIDIA Ion 2 coming in early 2010, compatible with Pine Trail  —  Well, here we go: NVIDIA just gave us the heads-up that the next generation of Ion chips (which we'll be calling Ion 2 until it gets a proper name) will be compatible with Intel's new Pine Trail platform and arriving in Q1 of 2010.
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
The $75 Tablet Computer  —  Designer Yves Behar shares images and details from One Laptop Per Child's flashy PC plans.  —  Take a look at the designs for what could someday be the world's cheapest PC, and you may start to wish you were a third-grade child in Burundi.
Lauren Goode / Digits:
Sesame Bringing E-Books to the iPhone  —  Two weeks after Sesame Workshop said it would launch a line of digital books for children 2 to 6 years old, the nonprofit organization has launched an iPhone app that will let kids read Sesame books on a smartphone while listening to a recording of their parents' voice reading along.
DisplaySearch:
Mini-Note (Netbook) Shipments Grow 103% Y/Y in 2009; Revenues Up 72%  —  Mini-Notes Take 19.6% of Portable PC Shipments and 10.4% of Revenues; Share to Remain Stable in 2010  —  Notebook PC revenues are expected to be $109 billion in 2009, down almost 7% Y/Y, according to the DisplaySearch …
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED  —  Christopher “moot” Poole, the young founder of the irascible online forum 4chan, will speak in February at the TED conference, the elite gathering of thought leaders whose video-taped talks have become immensely popular online.
Andrew Nusca / SmartPlanet:
The science behind stronger display glass on your phone, computer  —  If you're the owner of a Motorola Droid phone, Dell Adamo laptop or Cowon S9 portable media player, have you noticed that it's awfully hard to break the glass of the display?  —  That's no accident.
Harris Interactive I Newsroom:
Internet Users Now Spending an Average of 13 Hours a Week Online  —  Half of adult Internet users bought something online in last month  —  A new Harris Poll finds that adult Internet users are now spending an average of 13 hours a week online.  Of course, people's usage varies greatly …
The Mercury:
iPhone cops nab drivers  —  IDIOT drivers are proving to be no match for new Tasmanian-designed technology in police cars and iPhones.  —  In the first eight minutes of the new system being turned on last week, a licence and registration check conducted while police were stopped at a traffic light …
Discussion: iLounge
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Android App Market Splinters  —  Netbook and tablet manufacturers are launching app stores for Android devices.  How many Android stores are too many?  —  Google designed its mobile operating system, Android, so anyone could grab the code and inject it into a product.
Discussion: MobileContentToday
Washington Post:
As attacks increase, U.S. struggles to recruit computer security experts  —  The federal government is struggling to fill a growing demand for skilled computer-security workers, from technicians to policymakers, at a time when network attacks are rising in frequency and sophistication.
Nicole Scott / netbooknews.com:
ASUS Eee pad comes with NVIDIA Tegra  —  The rumors brewing that ASUS is coming out with an Eee pad to the tablet market aren't exactly new, BUT that they are planning on using the NVIDIA Tegra platform is Amazing News!!!  The Eee PC platform has been exclusively using Intel CPUs for the past 2 years …
Christina Warren / Mashable!:
NPR News App Comes to Android  —  In August, NPR released its own iPhone app.  Not only does that app allow users to read through the latest stories, but it also supports listening to any NPR station or NPR program live, and makes past shows and podcasts available.
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