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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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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Gowalla Versus Foursquare: Why Pretty Doesn't Always Win — Gowalla, the geo-social app, will soon be no more. The founders will be joining Facebook and shutting down the product a couple months after trying to reposition the app as a social travel guide.
Dan Rosenberg / 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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Examiner, Dennis Fisher, Gizmodo, Computerworld, CNET News, PC Advisor, PC Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, SecurityWeek, Techland, Slashdot and Inquirer
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Mikael Ricknäs / PC World:
European Regulators Start Investigating Carrier IQ
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CNET News, VentureBeat, Help Net Security, Washington Post, SlashGear, MobileBurn.com, Engadget, Datamation.com, InfoWorld, Mobile and Softpedia News
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
RIM Blindsided by Kindle Fire Pricing — If you recently purchased one of Research In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBooks at a significant discount, you may have Amazon to thank for it. — The move to slash $200 and then $300 from the device's retail price was evidently made to battle the Fire's loss-leading $199 price.
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Amazon may own half of Android tablet market next year
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Computerworld, Fortune, PhoneArena and 9to5Mac
Jakob Nielsen / Alertbox:
Kindle Fire Usability Findings … Amazon.com's new Kindle Fire offers a disappointingly poor user experience. Using the web with the Silk browser is clunky and error-prone. Reading downloaded magazines is not much better. Still, user testing with the Fire did help us understand …
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JR Raphael / Computerworld:
Confirmed: Verizon Galaxy Nexus won't support Google Wallet (but will receive Google updates) — With the launch of Verizon's Galaxy Nexus growing closer, rumors about the device are starting to pour out at a breakneck speed. As such, I thought now might be a good time to do a quick round of fact vs. fiction.
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9to5Google, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Droid Life, Android Community, Know Your Cell and IntoMobile
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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
WSJ: Verizon's Galaxy Nexus to run $299.99 on contract
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
There And Back Again: A Lengthy Weighing Of The Galaxy Nexus And iPhone 4S
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9to5Google, Real Dan Lyons Web Site, eWeek, ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, PC World and Phones Review
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn, Central Figure in Pretexting Case, Dies — Patricia Dunn, the former HP chairman who was the central figure in the 2006 spying scandal that rocked the company's boardroom early during the tenure of then-CEO Mark Hurd, has died, sources confirm to AllThingsD.
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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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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
The Rise of Google, the Ascent of Facebook and the Decline of Everyone Else — If you pay the slightest bit of attention to Internet advertising, you know this. But it's always good to see it spelled out: Look how ginormous Google is! — This exclamation point comes courtesy of Zenith Optimedia …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Apple vs. Samsung ruling divulges secret details — (Reuters) - A U.S. court error on Friday offered a brief glimpse at information that Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have tried to shield from the public during their high-stakes patent litigation.
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Techie Buzz, MacRumors and Electronista
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Android graphics, rendering, and hardware acceleration explained by Google — Dianne Hackborn, part of Google's Android engineering group, has taken to the company's Google+ social network to distribute some “true facts” about Android's graphics and rendering.
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The Register, Electronista, IntoMobile, Andrew Munn, Android Phone Fans and PhoneArena
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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PC World, Gizmodo and Electronista
Felix Salmon:
Why Apple's cheap — I'm going to take one last bite at the Apple valuation question, since I'm happier now about why Apple's trading where it's trading than I was when I wrote my original post. — The first thing to note, as pointed out by Tadas Viskanta, is that Apple's now a megacap, and that changes quite a few things.
Tom Simonite / Technology Review:
IBM Makes Revolutionary Racetrack Memory Using Existing Tools — Racetrack memory could someday supersede flash in terms of density and cost. — IBM has shown that a revolutionary new type of computer memory—one that combines the large capacity of traditional hard disks with the speed …
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The Register, Electronista, The Verge, IBM and Slashdot
Joichi Ito / New York Times:
In an Open-Source Society, Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants — The Internet isn't really a technology. It's a belief system, a philosophy about the effectiveness of decentralized, bottom-up innovation. And it's a philosophy that has begun to change how we think about creativity itself.
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Rene Ritchie / TiPb:
iOS version code-names — While Android's dessert-derived code-names like Cupcake and Ice Cream Sandwich are publicly pitched by Google and used by media, Apple's iOS code-names don't get anywhere nearly as much attention. Developer Steve Troughton-Smith, however, gave them some Twitter love this morning.
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The Verge, MacNN, PhoneArena, Cult of Mac, IntoMobile, CNET News, Ubergizmo, App Advice, Gizmodo UK, iDownloadBlog.com and GizmoCrazed
Abby Rogers / Business Insider:
Over 100,000 XXX Domain Names Are Going Live Tomorrow At 11 EST — The next generation of online porn launches tomorrow at 11 AM EST. — We asked the guy behind XXX domain names who stands to benefit from the changeover. — ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley has been working …
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Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
Starbucks apps account for 26M mobile payments and $110M in card reloads — The Starbucks brand may be synonymous with pricey lattes, but the coffee conglomerate has pushed a number of mobile initiatives in 2011 to make its name also stand for digital innovation. New numbers released Monday suggest that the strategy is working.
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Kevin Murphy / The Register:
Bankrupt Borders flogs 65,536 IP addresses at $12 a pop — Scarce network numbers offloaded to healthcare biz — The bankrupt bookseller Borders wants to sell its stash of 65,536 IP addresses to healthcare software vendor Cerner for $12 per address. — The bust high street chain filed …
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Communications …, CircleID and DomainIncite
Electronista:
Cox TV Connect brings in-home iPad TV streaming — Cox TV Connect relies on local link for live TV — Cox on Monday tried its formal hand at a live TV streaming app with the formal rollout of Cox TV Connect for the iPad (free, App Store). As with those from most other cable providers …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Adds Graphical Math Calculator To Search Results — Google announced their answer to Wolfram Alpha's advanced math skills with math graphing functionality on Google search results. — All you need to do is type basic and complex math functions into the Google search box and Google will return neat graphics.
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Gizmodo, The Verge, Inside Search, Mashable!, LAUNCH, Google Operating System and WebProNews
Agam Shah / PC World:
Tablet Priced Under $100 With Android 4.0 Surfaces — A first-of-its-kind tablet with Google's Android 4.0 priced under US$100 is now available in China, and will reach other countries soon, according to companies that helped build the device. — Ainol's Novo7 tablet has a 7-inch capacitive screen …
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The Verge, Android Phone Fans, MobileWhack.com, SlashGear, MIPS Technologies Home, AndroidGuys, Pocketables and Engadget
Jason Cornwell / Gmail Blog:
Designing Gmail's new left navigation — One of our goals for the Gmail's new look was to make Gmail feel more like a native application with independently scrolling panels rather than a website that scrolls as a single page. This design approach brings with it many advantages …
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Juan Carlos Perez / Techworld:
Google plans to seek Books lawsuit dismissal — The move may indicate that Google and the plaintiffs, including the Authors Guild, are giving up on a settlement — After a so-far fruitless three-year effort to settle the case, Google and the plaintiffs suing it for alleged book-related …
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