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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple posts Black Friday sale teaser — In advance of the biggest shopping day of the year, Apple has posted a teaser for a Nov. 26 Black Friday sale on its website, telling customers to come back to the Apple Online Store on Friday for a special “holiday shopping event.”
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TechCrunch, Softpedia News, SlashGear, 9 to 5 Mac, GottaBeMobile, I4U News and IntoMobile
Google Enterprise Blog:
A bridge to the cloud: Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office now available to early testers — Tens of millions of people have moved to Google Docs because it's 100% web: it provides real-time collaboration in the browser, with no software to install, manage or upgrade.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google: Chrome OS Still Coming This Year (It Just Might Be In Beta Form) — There's a lot of hoopla right now that Google's Chrome OS has been delayed and will miss the stated release date of “this year”. Much of this is based off of the comment that Google CEO Eric Schmidt made last week …
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Electricpig.co.uk, Examiner and SlashGear
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
So... whatever happened to Google's Chrome OS? — It was just about a year and a half ago that Google started talking up plans for its Chrome OS. As I recall, a number of bloggers and reporters began tolling the death knell for Windows at that time, claiming Google's “operating-system-less” …
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Fortune, The Next Web, Hardware 2.0 Blog and Electronista
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Google CEO Schmidt: No Chrome OS Netbooks for Christmas
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Google Watch, IntoMobile, Geek.com, The Register, Electronista, THINQ.co.uk and Go Rumors
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Video Support for AirPlay Is Limited in iOS 4.2 — AirPlay is the killer feature for Apple TV. But perhaps we'd better keep that in the future tense for now: it's going to be the killer feature for Apple TV. After installing today's various software updates for iOS devices …
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The Apple Core Blog, Macworld and TiPb
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Dwight Silverman / Houston Chronicle:
Is your iPhone's music gone after updating to iOS 4.2.1? Here's a fix — If you're an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch user, you probably know that Apple released the latest update to the operating system that powers those devices. iOS 4.2.1 is now flowing through the tubes …
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Geek.com, Zero Day Blog, ThinkMobile, greg hughes, Go Rumors and TechCrunch
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook could fragment web — Founder of world wide web says some of the most successful social networking sites ‘have begun to chip away at its principles’ — Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites represent “one of several threats” to the future of the world wide web …
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PC Pro, Digital Society, Adotas, MediaFile, The Next Web and The Tech Herald …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Svpply Is a Social Shopping Site With a Funny Name, Good Buzz and a New Funding Round — One thing the first Web boom got right: Amazon, eBay and the other big e-commerce sites that made it really easy to buy stuff on the Internet. — But those sites are efficient places to get the things you know you want.
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mokoyfman.com, VatorNews, SiliconANGLE and BoomTown
Firt / Mobile Web Programming:
Safari on iPhone & iPad 4.2: Accelerometer, WebSockets & better HTML5 support — iOS 4.2 is a free update for every iPhone, iPod or iPad device available now. This new release provides some major changes on HTML5 and W3C future standards support, like WebSockets and Accelerometer support …
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Pocket-lint, SlashGear and MacStories
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
News Corp's Upcoming iPad App ‘The Daily’ to Pioneer New Recurring Subscription Billing — So the cat — or at least part of the cat — is out of the bag on Apple's upcoming support for recurring subscription billing for content. Edward Helmore, reporting for The Guardian yesterday:
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Electronista:
Apple, News Corp seen launchng Daily, iTunes subs on Dec. 9
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Phil Schiller has a Twitter — Apple's VP of iOS Scott Forstall got a Twitter back in mid-July and today Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller got his verified. We've honestly been following his account for a while now but only very recently could it have been verified …
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TechCrunch, MacStories, The Next Web and MacNN, Thanks:markgurman
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Facebook Tries To Silence Lamebook: Removes Its Page, Blocks Links And Likes — Another chapter in the Facebook vs. Lamebook, errmm, book: the social networking giant has confirmed to us that it has moved to diligently block all outgoing links to Lamebook.com, shut down the two-person company's Facebook Page …
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NBC Bay Area, Pulse2, L.A. Times Tech Blog and Neowin.net
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Accel Partners' Extraordinary 2005 Fund IX — In 2005 Accel Partners closed its $440 million Accel 9 Fund. That fund may not go down in history as the most profitable venture fund ever, but it will certainly be one to remember. Why? Facebook, for the most part.
Surur / WMPoweruser.com:
Silverlight coming to Xbox 360-the circle is complete — Microsoft has put out a job advert asking for a software development engineer to bring Silverlight to the Xbox 360. — Silverlight is already the development basis of Windows phone 7, and of course already runs on the desktop.
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Gizmodo, The Next Web, Kotaku, Neowin.net, MobileTechWorld, Eurogamer, TechTrends and Ubergizmo
Don Clark / Digits:
Intel Offers Silicon With New Packages, Deals — Most personal computer makers buy chips the way Intel wants to offer them. But the technology giant has learned it needs to be more flexible in other markets, as an unusual arrangement with another Silicon Valley company shows.
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Yelp Introduces Check-In Offers — Foursquare may have pioneered the idea of rewards and specials associated with checkins, but everyone from Facebook to SCVNGR has followed suit. Today, Yelp joins the fray, giving business owners the ability to add “Check-in Offers” to their venues.
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Search Engine Land, Yelp Official Blog and BlogsDNA
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
FCC Updating 911 for the Texting Generation, SRSLY — In a bid to bring the life-saving emergency service 911 into the 21st century, the FCC is looking at letting citizens report crimes through text messages and even stream video from their mobile phones to emergency centers.
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IntoMobile, Gizmodo and Electronista
Foursquare Blog:
We're heading west! — In the past year, we had a major growth spurt: from about 100,000 to over 4.5 million users; from a single phone platform to six; from 50-person foursquare flashmobs to 1,000 person epic swarms; and we now have thousands of developers building on the the foursquare API.
Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:
Twitter's Creative Director Talks Design, UX and Inspiration — In the web design community, Doug Bowman has distinguished himself both as an individual and as a part of big-name creative teams. Currently, he is Twitter's creative director, a job he took after leaving Google last year.
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
How Amazon.com undersells Best Buy, the Apple store, and almost everybody else. … Like This Story … - NATO Should Get Out of Afghanistan and Get Back to Defending Europe- What Happened When Slate Asked a Body-Scanner Executive To Get Scanned- The Incredibly Innovative Air Conditioners …
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Financial Times:
Spotify under pressure over US launch — By Tim Bradshaw in London, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Spotify is considering a US launch of its digital jukebox service without all four major record labels signed up as pressure builds on its management …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Badgeville Investors Now Betting $2.5 Million That You'll Want To Check In To Websites — TechCrunch Disrupt Audience Choice winner Badgeville announces a $2.5 million Series A round today in order to apply its badge-based game mechanics across the web. Investors in the round include eBay …
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Tris Hussey / The Next Web:
Instapaper for iOS updated to support AirPrint and more — One of our favorite services and iOS apps, Instapaper, has bumped up the iOS version of the app (the paid one) to 3.2.1 and one of the key new feature enhancements is support for AirPrint. — Marco has also updated the share panel …
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Nicke's shared items … and Instapaper Blog
Jessie / The Official Netflix Blog:
A new plan for watching instantly, plus price changes to existing unlimited plans — Hi, Jessie Becker here, VP Marketing, with an update about changes we are making today to our plans and prices. — First, we are now offering a new $7.99 a month plan which lets you instantly watch unlimited TV episodes …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Study: Fifth of Facebook users exposed to malware — Security software manufacturer BitDefender released Monday some statistics gleaned from Safego, a Facebook application that it offers to users of the social-network to keep an eye on their vulnerability to malware.
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