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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Update On Google iPhone Voice Recognition App: Look For It On Monday — Google's voice recognition search application for the iPhone, originally set for launch on Friday, will likely go live sometime Monday, we've heard from a source with knowledge of the situation.
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Lose the BlackBerry? Yes He Can, Maybe — WASHINGTON — Sorry, Mr. President. Please surrender your BlackBerry. — Those are seven words President-elect Barack Obama is dreading but expecting to hear, friends and advisers say, when he takes office in 65 days.
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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Obama appoints YouTube (Google) as secretary of video — It's great that President-elect Barack Obama is delivering his regularly scheduled Saturday address in both audio and video form. After using the Internet to help him get elected and connect with younger voters …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Gets Out Of User Generated Video Business — AOL is on a product-cutting spree. In addition to the shuttering of XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile And Bluestring, the company will also be shutting down the AOL Video Uploads service starting this week. — Users must move their videos prior …
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
USB 3.0 to Deliver a Tenfold Speed Increase — Tighten your seat belts. Data transfer is going into overdrive as the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus, better known as USB, prepares to make a tenfold jump in speed. — That means the vast sea of USB devices — from HD camcorders to hard drives …
Randall Stross / New York Times:
What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science? — ELLEN SPERTUS, a graduate student at M.I.T., wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female?
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Local Wikipedia Blocked by German MP — Left-wing politician obtains injunction in light of Web pages on his Stasi past — Wikipedia is very popular in Germany. With some 825,000 articles, it is the second biggest edition after the English version. However, this weekend started with a shock for all German Wikipedia lovers.
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Sean P. Aune / Mashable!:
Black Friday Deals: 10 Best Resources — In the United States, the day after Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday. Many stores offer tremendous discounts starting very early in the morning. For some, the day becomes a major operation as they strategize where to go for the best deals.
Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
TV Breaks Out of the Box — My friend Susanna has never had a cable subscription. — Sure, she has occasionally felt left out of the national conversation over the years — mainly, when “The Sopranos” was on. But these days, when she's able to watch “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” …
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Malcolm Gladwell / Guardian:
A gift or hard graft? — We look at outrageously talented and successful people - the Beatles, Mozart, Rockefeller, Bill Gates - and assume there is such a thing as pure genius. Not necessarily, argues Malcolm Gladwell... The University of Michigan opened its new computer centre in 1971 …
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Santa Clara triple-killing suspect arrested — (11-15) 15:27 PST SANTA CLARA — Santa Clara police today arrested the fugitive suspect in the Friday's triple homicide at a semiconductor firm here. — Police said they arrested Jing Hua Wu, a recently laid off engineer …
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New York Times:
Packages You Won't Need a Saw to Open — SAN FRANCISCO — A number of retailers and manufacturers have a gift for holiday shoppers: product packaging that will not result in lacerations and stab wounds. — The companies, including Amazon.com, Sony, Microsoft and Best Buy …
