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November 30, 2012, 11:20 AM
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| Matthew Prince / CloudFlare blog: |
How Syria Turned Off the Internet — Today, 29 November 2012, between 1026 and 1029 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of the Internet stopped. At CloudFlare, we witnessed the drop off. We've spent the morning studying the situation to understand what happened.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google reactivates Speak2Tweet for Syrian Internet cutoff — A service to broadcast voice messages over Twitter is back up and running as Google tries to sidestep Syria's Net blackout — but it might not work so well with curtailed Syrians phone services. — Google and Twitter have restarted …
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple's new redesigned iMacs go on sale in the US, 21.5-inch models shipping in 1-3 days — Announcing earlier in the week that its new iMacs would go on sale at the end of November, Apple has pushed live orders for its new redesigned iMac models in the US but also in Canada and across Europe …
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| Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica: |
21" iMac teardown shows newly rearranged innards — Tight packaging means design changes over previous model. — Image from Kodawarisan — The redesigned slimmer 21" iMac has gone on sale on the web and at Apple stores, and Japanese Apple enthusiast site Kodawarisan has what appears …
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| MG Siegler / TechCrunch: |
iTunes — It Goes To 11. (In Design, If Not Performance.) — Yes, that headline. Obvious. But appropriate. — Yes, after much delay (about a month), iTunes 11 is here today. And yes, it is one of the biggest overhauls of the media management service yet. Perhaps the biggest.
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Facebook given 72 hours to remove paedophile monitoring page — A convicted sex offender has won a High Court order for the removal of a Facebook page set up to monitor paedophiles in Northern Ireland. — A judge ruled some content amounted to prima facie harassment of the man and risked infringing his human rights.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
After Deal Changes With Zynga, Facebook Could Now Make Its Own Games — Could Facebook delve into the game-making business? — According to documents filed with the SEC, it's possible. — Facebook and gaming giant Zynga revised their long-standing contract agreements on Thursday …
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Judge says “no fundamental right to use Facebook,” tosses antitrust case — A federal judge ruled that Facebook has the right to exclude users if they install a program that alters the look of its website and swaps out its ad offerings. — In a ruling issued Thursday in San Diego … | Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Said to Plan Next Xbox Console for 2013 Holiday Season — The Halo 4 game by Xbox 360 was launched on Nov. 6, 2012. The next version of Microsoft's Xbox video-game machine is scheduled to be available for the holiday season in 2013. — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple's iPad Mini, 4th Gen iPad Arrives In China December 7, iPhone 5 Follows December 14 — Apple has just announced the official release date of the iPad mini, 4th generation iPad and iPhone 5 in China. The tablets will go on sale next Friday, December 7 in that country …
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| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Scoop: Key pricing and launch details of Redbox Instant revealed — The online video joint venture Redbox Instant by Verizon is set to launch sometime before the end of the year. The service is currently being tested in private beta, and Verizon and Redbox have kept mum on some key details.| Mike Senese / Wired: |
Staples Announces In-Store 3-D Printing Service — Pretty soon you'll be able to print your 3-D projects at the local Staples. — A new service called “Staples Easy 3D” will allow customers to upload their designs to Staples' website, then pick up the printed objects at their local office supply megastore … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Tor operator charged for child porn transmitted over his servers — Enlarge / A court order served on Austrian Tor operator William Weber. — An Austrian operator of Tor servers—that were used to anonymously route huge amounts of traffic over the Internet—has been charged with distributing child pornography.
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| Andrew Auernheimer / Wired: |
Forget Disclosure — Hackers Should Keep Security Holes to Themselves — Editor's Note: The author of this opinion piece, aka “weev,” was found guilty last week of computer intrusion for obtaining the unprotected e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T's website, and passing them to a journalist.| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
BPI To UK Pirate Party: Shut Down Your Pirate Bay Proxy — As soon as the High Court ordered several UK ISPs to block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay earlier this year, many users of the site flocked to the proxy service of the UK Pirate Party. — For millions of UK Internet users …
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| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Voice calls over 4G LTE networks are battery killers — Every mobile carrier wants to replace their old voice services with new VoIP-based systems utilizing their 4G networks, but it looks like they've got some big kinks to iron out in the technology first.
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| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
Peter Thiel And Existing Investors Put Another $49 Million In Accounting Software Company Xero — PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, along with existing investors, has invested $49 million in Xero, the online accounting software for small businesses. — It is Thiel's third investment in Xero.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Apple begins selling unlocked iPhone 5 in the US, starting from $649 — It's that special time of the year... that is, when Apple decides to unfetter the iPhone for US shoppers. The Cupertino crew has quietly started selling the iPhone 5 in an unlocked, off-contract form that will work on GSM …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Griffin Launching Official Lightning Connector Cables Next Week — Griffin today announced the upcoming release of Apple-certified Lightning charge and sync cables for the iPhone 5, 5th generation iPod touch, fourth generation iPad and iPad mini. — Though there have been several unofficial …
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Apptopia Mobile App Bazaar Gains Momentum — So you've built the mobile app, and you've got a bunch of people using it, but it's no Instagram. Now what? It's not as easy to raise Series A funding as it used to be, and mobile apps are a tough, hits-driven business.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Baidu's language R&D centre brings voice unlocking to new Lenovo phone in first product launch — Chinese search giant Baidu's new language research centre in Singapore is releasing its first consumer-facing technology after it announced its speaker verification technology is embedded in Lenovo's latest Chinese smartphone.
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U.S., Europe Antitrust Chiefs to Huddle on Google — The top U.S. and European antitrust officials leading separate probes of Google Inc. are set to meet in Europe next week, according to people familiar with the matter, amid indications that the two investigations may not conclude at the same time.
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