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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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BetaNews, Guardian, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNET News, Inside Facebook, ReadWriteWeb, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, All Facebook, Digits, AllThingsD, Social Markets, Bits, Inside Mobile Apps, paidContent, Engadget, GigaOM, VentureBeat, SlashGear, The Verge, About Foursquare, IntoMobile, Bokardo, @dannysullivan, @methodshop, Androinica, @maxvoltar, Electronista, Pulse2, The Next Web, www.pocketgamer.biz, Computer Business Review 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.
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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GeekWire, Forbes, Bits, Digits, The Verge, Redmond Pie, Kotaku, New York Times, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, TechCrunch, Pulse2, Microsoft, Games.com The Blog …, WebProNews, BGR, paidContent, The Official Microsoft Blog, Electronista, @longzheng, The Verge, VentureBeat, CNET News, WinRumors, Guardian, The Tech Trade, Robert Scoble and @manan, Thanks:deantak
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Sean Buckley / Engadget:
Xbox 360 Dashboard update review (fall 2011)
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Computerworld, AllThingsD, Electronista, Lucas Gonze's blog and Engadget
Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Xbox Companion for Windows Phone coming December 6th
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BetaNews, GigaOM, Forrester Blogs, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, The Register, Search Engine Land, Smartphones …, istartedsomething, Bing, Engadget, T3 News, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, LiveSide.net, Neowin.net, Gizmodo UK, Lost Remote, the Econsultancy blog, VG247, Phones Review, Pocket-lint, Hacking NetFlix and WMPoweruser
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Xbox TV: Live from Verizon in December; on-demand from Comcast in early 2012
Dan Rosenberg / vulnfactory.org:
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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Computerworld, Dennis Fisher, Technologizer, Techland, SecurityWeek and Inquirer
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Mikael Ricknäs / PC World:
European Regulators Start Investigating Carrier IQ
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CNET News, LAPTOP Magazine, Washington Post, Help Net Security, Mobile, SlashGear, InfoWorld, MobileBurn.com, Softpedia News, The Verge and Electronista
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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Computerworld, Seattle Times, Ars Technica, Technologizer, Electronista, IDC, CodenameWindows and Softpedia News
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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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Techdirt, TechCrunch, MediaNama, Pulse2, Neowin.net, New York Times, Mashable!, WebProNews and Digital Inspiration …
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.
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 and DSLreports
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, Social Markets, Engadget, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, MacNN and The Domains
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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Droid Life, ReadWriteWeb, eWeek, PC World, Phones Review, GottaBeMobile and Android Police
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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Techland
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, AllThingsD, Fortune, Adotas, CNET News, VatorNews, Techland, CIO Network, WebProNews, VentureBeat and TechCrunch
Steve Smith / Ordered List Blog:
Ordered List Acquired by GitHub — I'm excited to announce that as of today, the team at Ordered List officially joins GitHub in its quest to build the best developer tools in the world. We're bringing along our talent, our passion, and our products (Speaker Deck, Gaug.es, and Harmony).
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The GitHub Blog, VentureBeat and @orderedlist
