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Susan Pulliam / Wall Street Journal:
Supply Data Now a Focus of Probe — Has the “channel check” become a criminal act? — Wall Street analysts have been left bewildered in recent days, as federal prosecutors begin to home in on insider-trading cases that appear to involve routinely published information about public-company supply chains.
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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple analysts under SEC investigation for ‘channel checks’ — The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission is investigating Wall Street analysts who cover Apple over the possibility that ‘channel checks,’ routine checks with suppliers and manufacturers, constitute insider trading.
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Fast Company, PhoneArena, blogs.chron.com, MacDailyNews and SAI
Steve Stecklow / Wall Street Journal:
Shunned Profiling Technology on the Verge of Comeback — One of the most potentially intrusive technologies for profiling and targeting Internet users with ads is on the verge of a comeback, two years after an outcry by privacy advocates in the U.S. and Britain appeared to kill it.
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GigaOM, DSLreports, Pulse2 and Hillicon Valley
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
iPhone gets UberTwitter client, BlackBerrys have one less reason to exist — If the name UberTwitter sounds familiar, that'll be because it's one of the more popular mobile Twitter clients, accounting for 10 million tweets each day from BlackBerry users around the globe. And now it's also available on the iPhone.
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Karen Gullo / Bloomberg:
SAP Must Pay Oracle $1.3 Billion Over Unit's Downloads — SAP AG, the world's largest maker of business application software, must pay $1.3 billion to Oracle Corp. for copyright infringement by a now-defunct software maintenance unit, a federal jury in California decided.
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Alex Williams / ReadWriteWeb:
Netflix's Advice on Moving to Amazon Web Services — The Netflix's video streaming service has nearly tripled in growth during the past year. To scale the service, Netflix has moved its API and other operations to Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the past several months.
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David Carnoy / Crave: The gadget blog:
Amazon Black Friday deal: $89 Kindle 2 — Alert. Amazon just slipped a little Black Friday deal onto its Facebook page: $89 for its second-generation Kindle. — Here's the full text of the message: … We don't know how long the deal will last (it starts at 9 a.m. PT) but the price seems somewhat enticing.
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VatorNews, Computerworld, The Apple Core Blog, PC World, CNET News, ClickZ, Gearlog, Erictric, BGR, Black Web 2.0, Fast Company, Android Community and CrunchGear
Jim Jansen / Pew Research Center:
The Better-Off Online — People in higher-income households are different from other Americans in their tech ownership and use. Analysis of several recent surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Projects finds key differences between those who live …
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SAI, Fast Company, Pew Internet, CNET News, Search Engine Land, blogs.chron.com, MediaPost and VatorNews
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Acer Iconia first hands-on! (update: video!) — Acer's dual-screen Iconia laptop is bold, for sure — eschewing a physical keyboard for another display — but its LCD panels are also mighty glossy. If you've got a light in the vicinity above you, there's gonna be glare — we saw it on stage, and we just saw it now in person.
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Ray Willington / Hot Hardware:
Acer's “Alive” Digital Content Platform: A New App Store Emerges
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Patent Office Agrees To Facebook's “Face” Trademark — Facebook is just a payment away from trademarking the word “Face.” As of today the U.S. Patent And Trademark Office has sent the social networking site a Notice of Allowance, which means they have agreed to grant the “Face” trademark to Facebook.
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Matt Cowan / Reuters:
Twitter co-founder hopes to create news network — (Reuters) - Biz Stone, the co-founder of popular microblogging site Twitter, is eager to harness the vast quantities of information that it helps its users share to create a news network, he told Reuters on Monday.
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SAI and WebProNews
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
A High-Tech Edge on Black Friday — Smartphone Apps Track the Latest Deals, What's in Stock; Reveal Your Location and Get a Coupon — Debbie Young has a secret weapon in her quest for Black Friday's best deals: her iPhone. — Using an app, or program, on her phone as a guide …
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Venture Capital Dispatch and PhoneArena
Andreas Constantinou / VisionMobile Blog:
Apps is the new Web: sowing the seeds for Web 3.0 — [With the phenomenal success of mobile apps, the world of content is migrating from web 2.0 to apps as the new format for creating, packaging, discovering, paying and interacting with information. Andreas Constantinou analyses how apps …
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
The Bubble Isn't Bad News for Angel Investors Alone — For months, there's been talk of a seed-stage bubble, and plenty of reason to believe it exists. Just one indicator is San Francisco magazine's newly published cover story on “Tech's New Angels.” It's fully 15 pages long …
Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
Salesforce names JP Rangaswami chief scientist — JP Rangaswami, the former chief scientist at BT, will take the same position at Salesforce.com. — Salesforce.com said Wednesday that Rangaswami will contribute to the company's product strategy and be an evangelist for cloud computing around the globe.
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CloudAve, CNET News, Computerworld and TechCrunch
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Flash Free: Aviary Hatches A Lightweight HTML5 Photo Editor For The Web — Aviary is very good at what they do. That is, offering relatively powerful tools for amateur artists to edit content online. But all of those tools are Flash-based. And some of Aviary's partners didn't like that too much, feeling they were too cumbersome.
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Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb and The Next Web
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Docs Gets Drag-and-Drop Uploads — Google just announced it's extending the drag-and-drop functionality in its online office suite, Google Docs. A few weeks ago, it introduced an image uploader for docs that worked the same way as the new feature does - you simply drag a file …
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Docs Blog, eWeek, Erictric, The Next Web and Google Operating System
Tony Romm / The Politico:
FCC readies for potential Net neutrality agenda — The Federal Communications Commission is pushing back its scheduled December open meeting from Dec. 15 to Dec. 21 — a six-day change that gives the agency extra time to decide its next move on Net neutrality.
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DSLreports, Electronista, Technology Liberation Front and dailywireless.org
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Bad Robot? Android Is Limiting Publishers' Payment Prospects — Publishers are increasingly confident about the prospects for tablet editions in the post-print area. But, when it comes to actually monetising the opportunity, Android's limitations mean iTunes Store remains the only real game in town for the forseeable future.
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SiliconANGLE and TeleRead
Nielsen Wire:
Kids in the U.S. Eyeing Big-Ticket Tech This Holiday Season — With Black Friday rapidly approaching, parents may want to get up early Friday morning to find deals, as a recent survey shows their kids are eyeing some wallet-stretching electronics this holiday season.
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thomascannon.net:
Android Data Stealing Vulnerability — While doing an application security assessment one evening I found a general vulnerability in Android which allows a malicious website to get the contents of any file stored on the SD card. It would also be possible to retrieve a limited range …
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The Register, SlashGear, Android Community, Inquirer, pocketnow.com and Android Police
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Delicious Founder Raises Funding For Tasty Labs' Take On Social Software — Earlier this month, we noted that Delicious founder Joshua Schachter, together with Nick Nguyen (the former director of add-ons for Mozilla) and Paul Rademacher, the ex-Googler known for creating “the first true Web 2.0 app” …
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Union Square Ventures, MediaMemo, VatorNews and SAI
Christopher Lawton / Wall Street Journal:
Indie App Stores Struggle — Long before Apple Inc. started selling trendy applications to iPhone users, there were online stores where consumers could download apps for their cellphones. But Apple's dominance and the entry of other giants into the apps store business is forcing these smaller players to change tactics to survive.
