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Josh Williams / Gowalla Blog:
Gowalla is Going to Facebook — Three years ago Gowalla's journey began when I took a photograph of Lake Tahoe on my iPhone. I had just finished a phone call with my dad, and I wanted nothing more than to share that photo and place with him. Not just in a text message or status update sort of way …
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TechCrunch, BetaNews, Digital Media Wire, Unfiltered Opinion …, Guardian, ReadWriteWeb, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNET News, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, Inside Facebook, All Facebook, SlashGear, Digits, Engadget, We Are Social, AllThingsD, Social Markets, Bokardo, Marketing Land, Bits, paidContent, the Econsultancy blog, Inside Mobile Apps, NBC Bay Area, GigaOM, VentureBeat, The Verge, About Foursquare, WebProNews, @maxvoltar, Pulse2, The Next Web, IntoMobile, @methodshop, @dannysullivan, Electronista, Computer Business Review, www.pocketgamer.biz and Softpedia News, Thanks:philtoronto
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Gowalla Confirms It Will Shut Down As Founders and Team Members Join Facebook — Following reports that the company as a whole had been acquired, Gowalla today announced that its founders and several team members have joined Facebook and will move to its Palo Alto headquarters.
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Mashable!, VatorNews, PE Hub Blog, CNN, Washington Post, Mobile Marketing Watch, @edzitron and silicontap.com
Dan Rosenberg / It's Bugs All the Way Down:
CarrierIQ: The Real Story — Since the beginning of the media frenzy over CarrierIQ, I have repeatedly stated that based on my knowledge of the software, claims that keystrokes, SMS bodies, email bodies, and other data of this nature are being collected are erroneous.
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PC Magazine, PC World, LAPTOP Magazine, Dennis Fisher, Techland, SecurityWeek, Inquirer and CNET News
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Mikael Ricknäs / PC World:
European Regulators Start Investigating Carrier IQ
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VentureBeat, Engadget, CNET News, Washington Post, Help Net Security, SlashGear, InfoWorld, MobileBurn.com, Mobile, Softpedia News and The Verge
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Windows 8 will be ‘largely irrelevant’ to traditional PC users: IDC — Summary: IDC's top 10 system software predictions for 2012 are out. One of them casts doubt on Microsoft's potential market for Windows 8 among traditional PC users. — It's that time of year: The time when prognosticators …
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Seattle Times, SlashGear, Neowin.net, Ars Technica, Technologizer, IDC, Computerworld, Electronista, MacDailyNews, CodenameWindows and Softpedia News
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft upgrades Xbox Live with 40 entertainment services, live TV, and Kinect voice control — Xbox Live isn't just an online gaming service anymore. Microsoft is announcing today that the new version of its Xbox Live user interface will help transform entertainment on the television.
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MediaPost, Bits, GeekWire, CNET News, The Verge, Daring Fireball, The Official Microsoft Blog, Kotaku, New York Times, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Forbes, Redmond Pie, Pulse2, Digits, WebProNews, Microsoft, Games.com The Blog …, GeekWire, BGR, Electronista, @longzheng, The Verge, paidContent, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Guardian, WinRumors, The Tech Trade, GeekWire, Robert Scoble and @manan, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:deantak
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Sean Buckley / Engadget:
Xbox 360 Dashboard update review (fall 2011)
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Dice Blog Network, AllThingsD, Computerworld, WebProNews, Electronista, Engadget, Lucas Gonze's blog, WinRumors and CNET News
Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Xbox Companion for Windows Phone coming December 6th
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Microsoft Advertising Blog, Forrester Blogs, BetaNews, GigaOM, Gadget Lab, The Register, GeekSugar, Search Engine Land, TechSpot, istartedsomething, Electronista, Bing, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Digital Trends, Gizmodo UK, Lost Remote, the Econsultancy blog, Gizmodo, Neowin.net, SlashGear, LiveSide.net, Smartphones …, VG247, Engadget, T3 News, Phones Review, Pocket-lint and WMPoweruser
Electronista:
Dell drops Streak 7, backs out of Android tablets in US — Dell quits Android tablet arena in short term — Dell on Monday confirmed that it had stopped selling the Streak 7. The tablet is no longer available online and is withdrawing just months after Dell axed the Streak 5.
Heather Timmons / India Ink:
India Asks Google, Facebook to Screen User Content — The Indian government has asked Internet companies and social media sites like Facebook to prescreen user content from India and to remove disparaging, inflammatory or defamatory content before it goes online, three executives in the information technology industry say.
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PC Magazine, All Facebook, MediaNama, TechCrunch, Techdirt, Pulse2, Mashable!, WebProNews, Neowin.net and Digital Inspiration …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Apple vs. Samsung ruling divulges secret details — (Reuters) - A U.S. court error on Friday offered a brief glimpse at information that Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have tried to shield from the public during their high-stakes patent litigation.
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MacRumors
Kevin Murphy / The Register:
Bankrupt Borders flogs 65,536 IP addresses at $12 a pop — Scarce network numbers offloaded to healthcare biz — The bankrupt bookseller Borders wants to sell its stash of 65,536 IP addresses to healthcare software vendor Cerner for $12 per address. — The bust high street chain filed …
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CircleID and DomainIncite
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Coming next year: Ting, the less-evil mobile carrier — Cellular carriers are evil. — Or dumb. Because what but an evil or dumb company would punish its best customers for underestimating the amount of their product that they want? Cellular overage charges are insultingly high.
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Gizmodo and Technologizer
Jason Cornwell / Gmail Blog:
Designing Gmail's new left navigation — One of our goals for the Gmail's new look was to make Gmail feel more like a native application with independently scrolling panels rather than a website that scrolls as a single page. This design approach brings with it many advantages …
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9to5Google
Abby Rogers / Business Insider:
Over 100,000 XXX Domain Names Are Going Live Tomorrow At 11 EST — The next generation of online porn launches tomorrow at 11 AM EST. — We asked the guy behind XXX domain names who stands to benefit from the changeover. — ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley has been working …
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Ever Heard of the App Touch? Nobody Has, but 12M People Already Use It. — An under-the-radar Canadian start-up with more than 12 million users for its free texting app is now trying to break out as a mobile social leader. — Enflick, which makes the popular PingChat …
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GigaOM, Engadget, Social Markets, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, MacNN and The Domains
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Inside iPhone 4S US mobile data: AT&T vs Sprint vs Verizon — Apple now sells iPhones that work on three of the top four national US mobile carriers. Here's a look at how well you can expect Apple's latest smartphones to work on each of these mobile data networks, based on real world testing of each carrier's data throughput.
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CNET News, DSLreports and Mobiledia
Joichi Ito / New York Times:
In an Open-Source Society, Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants — The Internet isn't really a technology. It's a belief system, a philosophy about the effectiveness of decentralized, bottom-up innovation. And it's a philosophy that has begun to change how we think about creativity itself.
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Joi Ito's Web
comScore, Inc.:
$6 Billion in ‘Cyber Week’ U.S. Online Spending Sets New Weekly Record as Three Individual Days Surpass $1 Billion Threshold — Free Shipping Incentive Used on Nearly Two-Thirds of Online Transactions During Most Recent Two Weeks — comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
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TechFlash, Marketing Land, CNET News, Adotas, AllThingsD, Fortune, VatorNews, WebProNews, Techland, CIO Network, VentureBeat and TechCrunch
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Grading the Digital School: Khan Academy Blends Its YouTube Approach With Classrooms — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jesse Roe, a ninth-grade math teacher at a charter school here called Summit, has a peephole into the brains of each of his 38 students. — He can see that a girl sitting against the wall …
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TechCrunch
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Sony to drop Ericsson brand in mid-2012, focus only on smartphones — Sony has said that it will drop the Ericsson brand from smartphone devices in mid-2012 following its acquisition of Ericsson's 50% stake in the Sony Ericsson joint venture for €1.05 billion in October.
Michael Kan / Computerworld:
Microsoft delays Windows Phone 7 China delivery to 2012 — Microsoft had planned to launch the operating system in China in late 2011 — Microsoft expects its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system to launch in China during the first half of 2012, rather than in late 2011 as originally planned, the company said Saturday.
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Engadget, WinRumors, BetaNews, Neowin.net and WMPoweruser
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
There And Back Again: A Lengthy Weighing Of The Galaxy Nexus And iPhone 4S — Before me sit two phones. On the left is the iPhone 4S, which I bought (and signed my soul over to Verizon for) in October. On the right sits a loaner GSM version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, sporting Android 4.0.
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Computerworld, eWeek, ReadWriteWeb, Droid Life, IntoMobile, PC World and GottaBeMobile
Christina Bonnington / Gadget Lab:
Ill-Advised Hack Brings Siri to Jailbroken iPhone 4s — iPhone 4 or 4S? A screenshot of Siri on an iPhone 4. Image: Jon Snyder/Wired.com — A new hack delivers the Siri digital assistant to jailbroken iPhone 4s, but we advise would-be tinkerers to think long and hard before acting on the invasive software surgery.
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iDownloadBlog.com and VentureBeat
