Top Items:
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Possible Apple tablet multi-touch tactile keyboard detailed — Apple's forthcoming tablet could employ a dynamic surface that gives users tactile feedback when typing in order to identify individual keys, according to a new patent application revealed this week.
RELATED:
Nick Bilton / Bits:
2010: The Year of the Tablet — An image from an Apple tablet patent. — Publishers made 2009 the year of the concept newspaper and magazine. Time Inc. teamed up with design company The Wonder Factory to create a fun concept video of the Sports Illustrated of the future.
Discussion:
Gadget Lab, App Advice, Ars Technica, Network World, AppleInsider, blogs.chron.com, Brainstorm Tech, jkOnTheRun, ChannelWeb, EverythingiCafe, VoIP Watch, MacRumors, GottaBeMobile.com, Edible Apple, The iPhone Blog, T3.com News, Silicon Alley Insider, MacNN, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, Gizmodo and Podcasting News
David Gelles / blogs.ft.com:Exclusive: Apple to host event in January
Discussion:
NEWSFACTOR, Brainstorm Tech, Reuters, PC World, Silicon Alley Insider, Computerworld, ITworld.com, TUAW, Gizmodo, Covering the Latest Gadgets …, eWeek, GottaBeMobile.com, Boy Genius Report, CNET News, I4U News, O'Grady's PowerPage, Newlaunches.com, Pocket-lint.com, LOOPRumors, internetnews.com, Redmond Pie, Shelly Palmer, MobileContentToday, The iPhone Blog, Tech Trader Daily, Network World, Maximum PC, Gadget Lab, iTWire, Appletell, Pulse2, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, Fast Company, VentureBeat, Electronista, PhoneDog.com, Technology News, The Register, iPhone Savior, Edible Apple, MediaMemo, MacRumors, Neowin.net, Techie Buzz, SFGate, Between the Lines, Guardian, EverythingiCafe, GeekSugar and Ubergizmo
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
DNS Issues Cause Downtime for Major Sites — Some of the web's most prominent sites experienced downtime and sluggishness Wednesday night due to problems with DNS services. The issues were most pronounced at UltraDNS, which reported that its performance problems were caused by an electronic attack.
RELATED:
ABCNEWS:
Pepsi's Big Gamble: Ditching Super Bowl for Social Media — Why Pepsi Is Pulling Out of the Big Game and What It Stands to Gain — This year for the first time in 23 years, Pepsi will not have ads in the Super Bowl telecast. No Cindy Crawford, Britney Spears or Justin Timberlake.
Paul Carton / ChangeWave HotWire Blog:
Windows 7 Accelerating Corporate PC Purchasing — By Andy Golub — ChangeWave's November corporate IT spending survey points to an uptick in IT spending for 1st Quarter 2010 - midst the strongest growth rate in 2 years. — Regarding PCs, the release of the Windows 7 operating system is the key factor driving growth.
RELATED:
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Report: Windows 7 hasn't hurt the Mac — A survey of corporate purchasing post-Windows 7 shows an uptick in Apple sales — At the end of ChangeWave's November survey of corporate IT spending — one that reports the strongest growth rate in two years — is the fever chart at right.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Top Ten IPO Candidates For 2010 — It's been a long drought for IPOs, but venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs are hopeful that 2010 will be the year they rain down on the Valley once gain. Earlier this year, a handful of IPOs trickled out, such as OpenTable, Rackspace, and A123Systems.
Thanks:atul
Twitter Blog:
Mixing It Up at 795 Folsom St — In August, we previewed expanded location support for developers. Last month we launched our Geotagging API with support from several of the top Twitter clients. When current location is added to tweets, new and valuable services emerge …
Discussion:
Technologizer, Download Squad, Digital Trends, Network World, eWeek, GPS Obsessed, Telegraph, O'Reilly Radar, Internet2Go, James Fee GIS Blog, BoomTown, paidContent, Pocket-lint.com, GigaOM, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Mashable!, techeblog.com, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Official GeoAPI Blog …, Screenwerk and Silicon Alley Insider
RELATED:
Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast:
Huge Evernote for iPhone Update: Offline notebooks and more! — Talk about a holiday gift! The Apple AppStore elves work in mysterious ways and they just approved the biggest Evernote for iPhone (version 3.2) in months! What's new? Offline notebooks! Speed improvements! Better note editing!
David Talbot / Technology Review:
Security in the Ether — Information technology's next grand challenge will be to secure the cloud—and prove we can trust it. — In 2006, when Amazon introduced the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), it was a watershed event in the quest to transform computing into a ubiquitous utility, like electricity.
David Coursey / PC World:
Vonage Offers Unlimited Int'l Calling for iPhone, Blackberry — Vonage now offers an unlimited $24.99-a-month international calling plan for iPhone and BlackBerry users, the company said Wednesday. The new “Vonage World Mobile” VoIP service competes with a $12.95-a-month service from Skype.
Discussion:
Digital Trends
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Mint.com beefing up for 2010, including Android app — Tis the season - the season for stressing over money and coming up with a game plan for keeping better track of spending in the new year, that is. — I'd received a couple of inquiries about Mint.com, the online personal finance tool …
Discussion:
jkOnTheRun
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
XBMC Updates to 9.11 Camelot, Brings Awesome New Look, Improved Features — Windows/Mac/Linux/and more: XBMC is a killer open-source, cross-platform media center, and today they've released XBMC 9.11, introducing a whole new default look and feel, and it's very friendly on the eyes.
Discussion:
XBMC
Josh Bernoff / AdAge:
Twitter at a Crossroads: Audience Growth Won't Be Enough in 2010 — Plus Other Predictions From Forrester — Forrester has just published our interactive marketing predictions for 2010: — Companies' use of social councils will attain budgets and power. — Listening-platform insights will go mainstream.
Discussion:
Internet Evolution
The How-To Geek / Lifehacker:
Microsoft Security Essentials Ranks as Best-Performing Free Antivirus — Anti-malware testing group AV-Comparatives.org not only gave Microsoft Security Essentials a top rating for malware removal, but now they've given it their best ranking in their performance test as well.
Discussion:
The Microsoft Blog
Sharon Noguchi / Mercury News:
San Jose police test head-mounted cameras for officers — San Jose police, under fire for interactions with the public that have turned violent, on Friday launched a pilot project equipping officers with head-mounted cameras to record contacts with civilians.
Discussion:
Newlaunches.com, Coolest Gadgets, Gizmodo, Gizmodo Australia, SlipperyBrick.com and CrunchGear
Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
Google Applications May Reach 150,000 in 2010 Amid Apple Chase — Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.'s Android mobile software may offer as many as 150,000 applications by the end of 2010, as the company chases Apple Inc. for downloads, according to a mobile-application research firm.
Business Wire:
Random House English-Language Books Now Available to Kindle Customers around the World — Already Available to Customers in the United States, Amazon Customers around the World Can Now Download English-Language Books from Random House in the Kindle Store — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) …
Discussion:
theBookseller.com
Tom Spring / PC World:
E-Book Piracy: The Publishing Industry's Next Epic Saga? — With the rise of e-book readers like the Kindle, Sony Reader, and Nook comes the scourge of the digital world: pirates. — Recommends — As e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle continue to rise, so follows the publishing industry's worst nightmare: e-book piracy.
Discussion:
Digits
Kathryn Edwards / Computerworld:
Noble ideas: Google Australia's engineering director — Google Australia's engineering director, Alan Noble, talks to Kathryn Edwards about the building businesses, following your own path and why government transparency is so important in the world of the participatory Web.
Erik Sherman / industry.bnet.com:
New Patent Test for Machines Using Mathematical Algorithms — Industries, particularly high tech, may be waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court decision, expected this coming spring, in the Bilski case to decide some fundamental questions of when you can patent business methods.
Serkan Toto / CrunchGear:
TDK develops method to tint touchscreens — I'm not really sure if that's something a lot of gadget freaks were waiting for, but here we go: TDK has found a cost-effective way to tint touchscreens. The company claims it can add color to transparent electrode sheets that serve as the basis of those screens.
