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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Now's the Time, Finally: Publishers Announce Their “Hulu for Magazines.”  Next Up: Building It.  —  So here you go: The magazine industry is finally ready to announce that it is forming a joint venture to distribute and sell digital versions of its products.
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac and Gizmodo
Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:
Relevance meets the real-time web  —  Search is a natural starting point for discovering the world's information, and we strive to bring you the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the multitude of devices you use to access it.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
How Microsoft stacks up against Google's latest search and mobile wares  —  Hoping (unsuccessfully so) to head off the glowing press Google was bound to get this week for its “future of search” preview, Microsoft showed off some of its latest enhancements to Bing last week.
Vic Gundotra / Google Mobile Blog:
Mobile Search for a New Era: Voice, Location and Sight
Rafe Needleman / Crave: The gadget blog:
Hands-on with the JooJoo  —  CNET snagged the first journalists' demo of the new JooJoo (formerly CrunchPad) Web slate on Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan's San Francisco media tour.  Quick impressions: yeah, this is a really cool device.  Everyone reading a tech site like CNET will want one.
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Gmail Blog:
Offline Gmail graduates from Labs  —  Almost a year ago, we launched Offline Gmail in Gmail Labs.  By installing Offline Gmail, you're able to use the normal Gmail interface to read and write mail, search, and organize, even when there's no internet connection.
Mel Martin / TUAW:
Dragon Dictation comes to the iPhone.  Wow.  —  Put this into the 'I didn't think they could ever get this to work on an iPhone' category.  —  I'm talking about Dragon Dictation [iTunes link] from Nuance, the developers of the very popular Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
LaLa Was Bought By Apple For $17 Million, Not $80 Million  —  Sometimes you have to apply the smell test to what your sources are telling you, and the rumors we're hearing about Apple's purchase of music service LaLa are definitely smelling a little off.  $80 million for LaLa?  That isn't what we're hearing.
Connie Guglielmo / Bloomberg:
Dell Rings Up $6.5 Million in Sales Using Twitter Promotions  —  Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) — Dell Inc., relying on social- networking sites to drum up sales of personal computers, said its promotions on Twitter have helped generate more than $6.5 million in orders for PCs, accessories and software.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Seagate finally makes move from hard drives to flash storage  —  Seagate makes about $10 billion a year in revenues from its 30-year-old hard drive business.  But today, after two years of study, the company is launching a new flash memory storage business.
Christopher Breen / Macworld:
Boxee shows off beta version with improved interface  —  At an event in Brooklyn on Monday, Boxee showed off the upcoming beta version of its media center application for OS X, Windows, Linux, and Apple TV.  The Boxee software, based on the open-source XBMC, lets you watch and listen …
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The Official Google Blog:
Fighting fraud online: taking “Google Money” scammers to court  —  “Use Google to Make 1000s of Dollars!” or “Easy Cash with Google: You Could be Making up to $978 a Day Working from Home!”  You may have seen offers like these using Google's name or logo that sounded too good to be true.
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple reveals best-selling iTunes content, iPhone apps of 2009  —  Apple this week revealed the most critically acclaimed and best selling content of the year in the iTunes Store, the world's most popular online music seller and mobile application destination.
Discussion: MacRumors
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
A Million People Riding Google Wave.  Most Of Them On Their Stomachs.  —  The first time you go surfing, it's a pretty significant achievement to just stand up on the board and ride a wave.  Most people never leave their stomachs, or when they do, they fly face first into the wave.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Chrome For Mac Is Here!  —  The wait is over.  Google Chrome for Mac is now available in beta.  —  It's still missing a few features that are in the Windows version, but it is lickety-split and more-or-less stable.  —  I've been holding off really using Chrome until now.
Robert McMillan / PC World:
New Cloud-based Service Steals Wi-Fi Passwords  —  For US$34, a new cloud-based hacking service can crack a WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) network password in just 20 minutes, its creator says.  —  Launched Monday, the WPA Cracker service bills itself as a useful tool for security auditors …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: MSN Inks New Deal With Wonderwall Creator BermanBraun for Online Lifestyle Site  —  MSN will announce a new deal with BermanBraun-the Hollywood production company run by former Yahoo media chief and well-known television exec Lloyd Braun (pictured here)-to create …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
NPR Makes Its Mobile Website Appalicious (And Readies An Android App)  —  National Public Radio has the fourth most popular news app in the iTunes store in the U.S., but now it is taking some of that Appalicious goodness to the mobile browser.  Today it launched a new version of its mobile website at http …
Discussion: Digital Daily and mocoNews
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft labs tests a Wikipedia of average Joes  —  The EntityCube listing for Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid.  —  Think of Microsoft's latest labs effort as the software maker's attempt to give everyone their own Wikipedia entry.  —  Dubbed EntityCube and now live to try out …
Discussion: The Microsoft Blog
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Gear6 Brings Memcached to Amazon's Cloud  —  Startup Gear6 today launched the availability of its memcached appliance on Amazon's Web Services platform, bringing a widely used distributed memory caching system for web companies to the cloud.  Gear6 will soon offer its beefed-up version …
Discussion: Data Center Knowledge
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Hyperlocal Aggregator Outside.in Raises $7 Million From CNN, Others  —  Time Warner's CNN is taking a stake in hyperlocal aggregator Outside.in—the latest example of a big media organization making a play in the hyperlocal space.  CNN is getting a share of Outside.in as part …
Rupert Murdoch / Wall Street Journal:
Journalism and Freedom  —  Government assistance is a greater threat to the press than any new technology.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  We are at a time when many news enterprises are shutting down or scaling back.  No doubt you will hear some tell you that journalism is in dire shape, and the triumph of digital is to blame.
appfreak:
Molinker on AppStore scam: “We don't know what's wrong so far”  —  As reported yesterday in the blog, a recent AppStore scandal has ended up with Molinker expelled by Apple.  The Chinese developer has been accused of pumping AppStore ratings, allegedly giving five star reviews to their own apps.
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Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Almost 1% Of The App Store Pulled Over A Rating Scam
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Forecast: Online Will Take More Ad Dollars Than Newspapers By 2015  —  Is the upswing in effect?  Three industry forecasts are raising their expectations for next year's ad spend...  Magna Global is predicting a six-percent rise, GroupM just .8 percent, and ZenithOptimedia is raising …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
 
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple appeals $21.7 million patent infringement decision
James Niccolai / Computerworld:
IBM offers hosted Tivoli monitoring for the midmarket
Discussion: eWeek
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Daylife gives publishers self-updating topic pages
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
PicScout expands catalog; adds Ito as adviser
Discussion: TechCrunch
Dave Caolo / TUAW:
The first iPhone development reality show?
Discussion: IntoMobile and Engadget
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
NutshellMail SAAS Tool Manages Facebook, Twitter Messages
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Travel Startup With Ties To Twitter Founders Gets Funding
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Look Up, Don't Look Down!  TC50 Star Tonchidot Raises $4 Million Series A
Discussion: VentureBeat and mocoNews
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Follow the money: The ROI Scareware, Spyware, click fraud, pharma spam
Discussion: Computerworld
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Assistly Comes Out Of Stealth, Adds Mark Cuban And David Liu As Advisors
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
If You Can Draw It on a Whiteboard, You Can Send It to a Kindle
Discussion: VoIP Watch
 

 
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EchoStar reports a Q3 net loss of $142M on revenue of $3.89B, with Sling TV adding 145K customers but satellite service Dish losing 188K; SATS falls 12.9%

 
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