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| Matthew Izatt / Gmail Blog: |
The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0 — Six months ago, our team set out to completely rebuild the Gmail app for iPhone and iPad to give you you a faster, sleeker, and easier experience on iOS. The result? Version 2.0. With version 2.0 of the app, you'll get a totally new look and feel …
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Colin Nederkoorn, The Next Web, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Mac, PC Magazine, IntoMobile, MacStories, GadgeTell, Ars Technica, CNNMoney.com, Daring Fireball, PadGadget, digitaltrends.com, Redmond Pie, BetaNews, MobileSyrup.com, Gotta Be Mobile, AllThingsD, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo, TUAW, TechSpot, VentureBeat, gHacks Technology News, iPhone Hacks, ReadWrite, Droid Life, nbcnews.com, Lifehacker, MacRumors, TG Daily, WebProNews, CNET, Gizmodo, SocialTimes, everythingiCafe, Mashable! and Softpedia News. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Gmail 2.0 is a promising but ultimately flawed option for iOS users — Almost, but not quite the Gmail app we've been waiting for — When Google first launched its first dedicated Gmail app for iOS last year, it was a buggy embarrassment that lacked many of the key features found … | Travis Kalanick / Uber Blog: |
DC Council Clears Path for Uber's Future — Uber Faithful - — Today is a *really* big day for Uber. REALLY BIG. One which will keep Uber rolling in the nation's capital for years to come, with the full support of city officials. Today the DC Council unanimously passed a legislative framework for …
| Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Explainer-in-Chief Can't Explain Apple — As Google Inc. battles rivals ranging from Apple Inc. to Internet companies that allege it fixes its search results, Eric Schmidt has become the search giant's peacemaker and explainer-in-chief. — Google's former CEO and current executive chairman met …
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The Verge, CNET, Electronista, Search Engine Land and Digits
| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
| Reuters: |
U.S. fails to win early limit on Net controls at global gathering — (Reuters) - A U.S. and Canadian proposal to protect the Internet from new international regulation has failed to win prompt backing from other countries, setting up potentially tough negotiations to rewrite a telecom treaty.
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Hillicon Valley, The Next Web and Business Week
| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
iTunes Gets an Upgrade Without Missing a Beat — Apple's iTunes is the world's most popular computer program for playing, managing and buying music, movies and TV shows. The company estimates the number of copies in active use to be in the high hundreds of millions.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Kindle FreeTime Unlimited Offers Restricted Access To Content For Kids From Disney, Nickelodeon, DC Comics, And More — Amazon today launched FreeTime Unlimited, a subscription service that offers movies, games, and books for the kids. The launch follows the recent software update to Kindle Fire … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Facebook to replace Infosys as part of the NASDAQ 100 Index on December 12th — Facebook will replace Infosys as part of the NASDAQ 100, the basket of companies that determine the movement of the NASDAQ index. — The move is affirmation of Facebook's status in the technology space …
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CNET, TechCrunch, Focus on Funds, NASDAQ.com and AllFacebook
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Netflix scores US subscription service exclusive to Disney's first-run films in multi-year deal — Today, Walt Disney studios and Netflix entered into a multi-year agreement that makes the online video distributor the only US subscription service with licensing to show first-run live-action and animated films from the studio.| Julianne Pepitone / CNNMoney: |
| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
Toshiba intros Excite 10 SE tablet with Android 4.1, available December 6th for $350 — Toshiba's been relatively quiet on the tablet front since announcing its Excite lineup back in April, but today the company's making a mild comeback with a hot-off-the-press, Jelly Bean-loaded slate.
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CNET, BGR, PR Newswire, PhoneDog.com, TechRadar.com, The Droid Guy, Maximum PC and Gizmodo
| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
| Sameer Singh / Tech-Thoughts: |
iPad Mini & iPad Shipments: Q4 2012 Estimate based on Supply, Latent Demand & Cannibalization — With the launch of the iPad Mini and 4th Generation iPad, iPad sales are set for another holiday surge. Since we've already estimated cannibalization & latent demand for the iPad Mini …
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Computerworld, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, CNET, InvestorPlace and ZDNet
| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Loren Brichter: Designs on the future of iOS apps — When is a word game for the iPhone not just entertainment but an experiment into the future of how mobile apps work? When it's a game made by mobile developer and designer Loren Brichter. — At 28, he's already left quite a stamp on mobile interfaces …
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TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com and MacRumors
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft opens its Socl social-search site to any and all testers — Summary: Microsoft is opening up its Socl social-networking research project. There are still no public plans as to when, how and if Microsoft will take Socl commercial. — On December 4, Microsoft's FuSE team took … | Casey Chan / Gizmodo: |
This Hilarious Video Shows Everything That's Annoying About Instagram — Because we're all egomaniacs who like to moonlight as artistic geniuses and because damn near everybody uses Instagram, the filtered photo sharing social network has devolved into a thumb scrolling exercise …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
YouTube for iOS updated with iPad, iPhone 5 support, AirPlay and performance improvements — Google has today updated the YouTube app for iOS with support for the iPhone 5′s display, as well as the ability to stream videos over AirPlay to the Apple TV or other enabled devices more easily.| Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
Zite 2.0: A smarter, snappier personalized magazine for iOS — With its completely redesigned apps for iPhone and iPad, the CNN-owned Zite is aiming to make it easier than ever to find the news that matters to you. — A look at Zite 2.0, as seen on an iPad.| Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
Obama signs Safe Web Act into law — President Obama signed into law on Tuesday a bill that would reauthorize the Federal Trade Commission's authority to clamp down on Internet fraud and online scammers based abroad. — Outgoing California Republican Rep. Mary Bono Mack was the lead co-sponsor …
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| Alyson Raletz / Kansas City Business Journal: |
Google considers but drops plans to include phone service, too … Google Inc. considered offering phone services with its ultra-fast Internet and TV packages in Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., but the company took a pass once it started doing some digging into federal and state regulations, a Google executive said Monday.
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| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Apple Lifts Two-Per-Customer Order Limit on iPhone 5 — In yet another sign that Apple's iPhone 5 stocks are returning to normal, Apple has lifted its limit of two iPhone 5's per customer. The top boilerplate in this image is from last week when Apple began selling the GSM iPhone 5 unlocked in the U.S. …
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CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, Electronista and iClarified
| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
PeopleBrowsr Claims “Twitter Changed Position On Eve of Discovery” Over Federal Jurisdiction Request — Tonight, PeopleBrowsr, the company that filed a restraining order against Twitter to keep a hold of its firehose of data after Twitter decided to end the deal it had in place with them, came out to discuss the latest in its case.
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| Charles Mead / Bloomberg: |
Intel Raises $6 Billion in Bond Sale to Buy Back Stock — Intel Corp. (INTC) sold $6 billion of bonds in the largest dollar-denominated sale since Abbott Laboratories raised $14.7 billion on Nov. 5, Bloomberg data show. — The offering, which topped the company's previous record …
| Douglas Macmillan / Bloomberg: |
No VC: Why Techmeme's Gabe Rivera Resists Investors — This is the fifth in a five-part series called “No VC,” which highlights startups that have succeeded without venture capital, the lifeblood of Silicon Valley. — Gabe Rivera often hears from Silicon Valley's elite …
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broadstuff. Tweets: @alexia, @qthrul, @seth, @davemcclure, @gaberivera, @jtemple, @jordandhudson, @rafat and @mathewi. Thanks:@skaseyfarrar
| Susan Stellin / New York Times: |
Border Agents' Power to Search Devices Is Facing Increasing Challenges in Court — The government has historically had broad power to search travelers and their property at the border. But that prerogative is being challenged as more people travel with extensive personal and business information …
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| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Google Ventures leads $10M investment in firm that measures mobile ads — As more consumers use smartphones to help them shop, advertisers are growing worried about how they will reach those customers. Unlike web sites, which allow brands to target specific users, mobile phones …
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NYT Bits, AdExchanger, AllThingsD, Xconomy and TechCrunch
| Karishma Vaswani / BBC: |
Blackberry BBM Money app to launch in Indonesia — Blackberry remains very popular in Indonesia — Blackberry is to enter the peer-to-peer money transfer market. BBM Money will soon allow owners of its handsets to send money to each other that can then be withdrawn from banks' cash machines.
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