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4:35 AM ET, December 25, 2009

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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Purchased iSlate.com in 2007.  Apple's New Tablet Called iSlate?  —  With rumors of the Apple tablet reaching new highs, MacRumors has found evidence that Apple acquired the domain name iSlate.com presumably in preparation for the new device.  —  The iSlate.com domain was originally registered …
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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.
Reuters:
Apple shares hit new high on tablet excitement  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc shares reached their all-time high on Thursday as excitement builds over the expected release of its tablet computer.  —  Although Apple has never acknowledged that a device exists, anticipation is peaking as the company enters the new year.
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Want to connect your iPhone and Bluetooth keyboard?  There's a (jailbroken) app for that (Update: video!)  —  The wait has been long, but now there's finally a means by which to connect your dear, yet almost buttonless, iPhone or iPod touch to a Bluetooth keyboard for some more intense finger tapping action.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Is Coming Back To The iPhone Via The Browser, Thanks To VoiceCentral  —  Last summer, when Apple pulled third-party Google Voice applications from the App Store, one of them was VoiceCentral.  Apple's subsequent rejection of the official Google Voice app spurred an FCC investigation …
Sherri / philosecurity:
Our Google Government  —  Recently I saw an ad which read:  —  Google and State Gov  —  “Over 60% of the U.S. state governments have gone Google.”  —  Does this mean that we've now handed the majority of our state governments' operational data to a single privately-controlled company …
Discussion: VentureBeat and Google Blogoscoped
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Early Holiday Gift For Googlers: $2.3 Billion  —  Like many companies, Google has a tradition of giving holiday presents to its employees — an Android phone last year, $1000 in cash net of taxes the year before.  This year, they got Google's soon-to-be-released phone.
Discussion: SFGate
Google Watch:
Tracking Santa's Global Traversal The Google Way  —  It's that time of year when people love to track Santa, trying to figure out his route to deliver gifts across the world.  Google is all over it, picking up a tradition started by NORAD in 1955, which you can read about here.
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
New York Daily News Takes “Major” Stake In Content Aggregator Service Loud3r  —  It is the year of low-cost content creators and aggregators.  In that vein, Loud3r, a company that had to reboot earlier this year after some early missteps, has now raised a “multi-million” …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
SCVNGR Raises $4 Million From Google Ventures  —  SCVNGR, the platform that lets you build location-based games compatible with any mobile phone, is on a roll.  The company has just raised $4 million from Google Ventures, with participation from existing investor Highland Capital.
Discussion: Pulse2 and mocoNews, Thanks:daniel_levine
Schneier on Security:
Intercepting Predator Video  —  Sometimes mediocre encryption is better than strong encryption, and sometimes no encryption is better still.  —  The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Iraqi, and possibly also Afghan, militants are using commercial software to eavesdrop on U.S. Predators …
Discussion: rc3.org
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
Memory chip shortage seen in H2 2010: DRAMeXchange  —  LONDON (Reuters) - Memory chips for computers are likely to be in short supply by the second half of next year as consumers demand more capacity and companies embark on a delayed drive to replace PCs, industry tracker DRAMeXchange believes.
Discussion: DigiTimes, TG Daily and Maximum PC
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
IsoHunt Loses Big; Court Says: You Induce, You Lose  —  One of the many lawsuits against file sharing sites/search engines around the world is the IsoHunt lawsuit — yet another case where the entertainment industry decided a marginal player in the space didn't have enough attention and sued.
Robert McMillan / PC World:
Texas County to Name Drunk Drivers on Twitter  —  If you get busted for drunk driving in Montgomery County, Texas, this holiday season, your neighbors may hear about it on Twitter.  —  That's because the local district attorney's office has decided to publish the names of those charged …
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Footprint: real-time web stats, for free  —  While Google Analytics is a great product, one of the most frustrating aspects of it is the lack of any data about what's happening right now with your site's traffic.  —  In these days of the real-time web, shouldn't we have real-time web stats too?
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.
Discussion: Bits and Enterprise Irregulars, Thanks:atul
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes/MySpace Mystery Solved: A Christmas Miracle!  —  About 10 days ago, there was a post in this column about interest by News Corp. and its MySpace unit in Flixster, the popular social networking site for movies.  —  Titled “MySpace and News Corp. Eye Flixster (But for What?), I wrote:
Discussion: Crave
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
bizjournals:
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff Named 2009 Executive of the Year by the San Francisco Business Times  —  The San Francisco Business Times has named Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of Salesforce.com Inc., its 2009 Executive of the Year.  —  Benioff is being recognized as the executive …
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.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:   Report: Windows 7 hasn't hurt the Mac
 
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Venture Capital Dispatch:
With IPOs Popping And LPs Hopping, VCs Look Toward China
John Hering / CNET News:
Web-based Lookout protects mobile devices, data
Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:
Year in Review: Social networks come of age
Discussion: Forbes
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Managing the Wireless Data Deluge
Anupreeta Das / Reuters:
Qualcomm COO resigns to take CEO job elsewhere
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Clear Channel Radio Debuts Android Version of iheartradio App
Discussion: Erictric and Examiner
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google's dominance draws interest of regulators
Discussion: NBC Bay Area, Thanks:mrinaldesai
John Cox / Network World:
Forrester: Google Android smartphones to take 10% of market in 2010
Discussion: mocoNews
 Earlier Items: 
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
XBMC Updates to 9.11 Camelot, Brings Awesome New Look, Improved Features
Discussion: XBMC
Tom Spring / PC World:
E-Book Piracy: The Publishing Industry's Next Epic Saga?
Discussion: TeleRead and Digits
Serkan Toto / CrunchGear:
TDK develops method to tint touchscreens
David Coursey / PC World:
Vonage Offers Unlimited Int'l Calling for iPhone, Blackberry
Discussion: Digital Trends
Business Wire:
Random House English-Language Books Now Available to Kindle …
Josh Bernoff / AdAge:
Twitter at a Crossroads: Audience Growth Won't Be Enough in 2010
ABCNEWS:
Pepsi's Big Gamble: Ditching Super Bowl for Social Media
 

 
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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

Patrick Frater / Variety:
Tencent Music reports Q4 revenue down 7% YoY to $971M and a $198M profit; in 2023, paying subscribers rose 21% YoY to 107M and net profit rose 36% YoY to $735M

 
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