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8:50 PM ET, November 27, 2011

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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Disruptions: Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It's Not Clear Why  —  Millions of Americans who got on a plane over the Thanksgiving holiday heard the admonition: “Please power down your electronic devices for takeoff.”  —  And absolutely everyone obeyed.  I know they did because no planes fell from the sky.
Discussion: @qthrul and @pkafka
Brian X. Chen / Bits:
A Look at Apple's Spot-the-Shopper Technology  —  A Black Friday visit to the Apple Store in Palo Alto, Calif., offered a glimpse of the new technology Apple is using to speed purchases.  —  A store employee, Diego Aguirre, demonstrated an internal iPhone application that, for the last few weeks …
Business Week:
In Some Virtual Worlds, the Thrill Is Gone  —  Zynga and other social game developers search for the next FarmVille-scale hit  —  Just a few weeks after Mafia Wars 2 went live on Facebook, Din Shlomi got tired of playing the game.  A self-described hard-core gamer from northern Israel …
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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
Zynga Builds Its CastleVille Walls, As Its Facebook Traffic Flattens And Falls  —  New Facebook game CastleVille is one of Zynga's fastest-growing titles ever, as it announced a few days ago.  That's good news for the company, but maybe not good enough when you consider the trajectory …
Discussion: Softpedia News, Thanks:eldon
Kellex / Droid Life:
DROID 4 vs. DROID RAZR - The Evolution of DROID, Specs, and Official Pictures  —  The DROID 4 has come from out of no where to having us within just a couple of weeks away from launch.  The current target date that we have seen from Verizon is December 8, the same day that we could potentially …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
My 10 years of blogging: Reflections, Lessons & Some Stats Too  —  Ten years is a long time.  Sometimes it is so long that one forgets a lot more than one remembers — like the fact that it I have been blogging for a decade.  I would have totally forgotten about the amount of time that has passed …
Discussion: @jason, Thanks:pkedrosky
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Data Furnaces Could Bring Heat to Homes  —  TO satisfy our ever-growing need for computing power, many technology companies have moved their work to data centers with tens of thousands of power-gobbling servers.  Concentrated in one place, the servers produce enormous heat.
Discussion: GeekWire and Feld Thoughts
Benjamin Wallace / Wired:
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin  —  In November 1, 2008, a man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin.  None of the list's veterans had heard of him, and what little information could be gleaned was murky and contradictory.
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
More EXOdesk details surface: 10-point touch, custom HTML5 apps  —  After teasing the EXOdesk themselves in a YouTube video, the company has passed along some details on the “interactive desk” to The Long Climb.  In addition to the (perhaps optimistic) rendering you see above …
Steve Cheney / TechCrunch:
How to Make Your Startup Go Viral The Pinterest Way  —  On Thanksgiving, Pinterest's co-founder Ben Silbermann sent an email to his entire user base saying thanks.  It was fitting, as Pinterest was born two years ago on Thanksgiving day 2009.  Ben had been working on a website with a few friends …
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Cloud centers bring high-tech flash but not many jobs to beaten-down towns  —  MAIDEN, N.C. — Here in this once-thriving town of furniture makers and textile mills, where Main Street businesses have vanished, nearby fast-food joints have closed and unemployment is rampant …
Discussion: Business Insider and Electronista
Maria Popova / Brain Pickings:
Steve Jobs and NeXT: Rare PBS Documentary circa 1986  —  A startup sentiment sandwich from the master chef, or why “reality distortion” helps sales but hurts design.  —  In 1985, shortly after being fired from Apple, Steve Jobs founded NeXT, the somewhat short-lived but revolutionary company focused …
 
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Azi Ronen / Broadband Traffic Management:
Rumors: Akamai to Buy Cotendo for $300M
Discussion: TechCrunch, Globes Online and Reuters
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
IBM: Black Friday Online Retail Spending Up 24.3 Percent
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