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First Hand Accounts Of Terrorist Attacks In India On Twitter, Flickr (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: First Hand Accounts Of Terrorist Attacks In India On Twitter, Flickr — Forget CNN, which so far has few details of the ongoing attacks in Mumbai, India that have left at least 80 dead (Update: they're starting to catch up now). People are givin ...
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Search the Web Through a Vertical Lens (Yahoo! Search Blog)
Yahoo! Search Blog: Search the Web Through a Vertical Lens — Over the last few months we've showcased a handful of innovative mashups that developers have created using Yahoo! Search BOSS. The creations have ranged in functionality and focus, but all have included interesting ...
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Samsung Blu-ray players to deliver Netflix in HD (James Plath/DVDTOWN.com News)
James Plath / DVDTOWN.com News: Samsung Blu-ray players to deliver Netflix in HD — Tools: — Recommend this news to a friend » — Samsung Electronics America, a market leader and award-winning manufacturer of consumer electronics, today annou ...
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BlackBerry Storm Downgraded to a Depression (David Pogue/New York Times)
David Pogue / New York Times: BlackBerry Storm Downgraded to a Depression — Research in Motion (RIM), the company who brought us the BlackBerry, has been on a roll lately. For a couple of years now, it's delivered a series of gorgeous, functional, supremely reliable smartphon ...
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Yahoo Launches "Vertical Lens" Search Through BOSS (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Yahoo Launches “Vertical Lens” Search Through BOSS — Yahoo announced an expansion to the BOSS technology named “vertical lens” technology. In short, this allows developers build their own vertical search engines usi ...
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SEC Outlines Its Reasoning For Shutting Down P2P Lender Prosper (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: SEC Outlines Its Reasoning For Shutting Down P2P Lender Prosper — Last month, peer-to-peer lender Prosper stopped all new lending on its site because of scrutiny by the SEC. Prosper agreed to register under the Securities Act, a process which can take ...
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Black Friday Discounts on Macs Have Begun (Arn/MacRumors)
Arn / MacRumors: Black Friday Discounts on Macs Have Begun — MacMall has announced their Black Friday sale which will runs from now until midnight P.T. on Friday, November 28th. Last year's MacMall sale delivered some of the largest discounts available online. This year ...
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Amazon.com Tries User-Generated Public Relations (Saul Hansell/Bits)
Saul Hansell / Bits: Amazon.com Tries User-Generated Public Relations — Just as Tom Sawyer got his friends to whitewash that fence, Internet companies have been delighted to offer their users the chance to perform many of the tasks they would otherwise have to hire people to do, fr ...
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Apple made to drop iPhone advert (BBC)
BBC: Apple made to drop iPhone advert — An Apple iPhone advert has been banned by the advertising standards watchdog for exaggerating the phone's speed. — The advert boasted the new 3G model was “really fast” and showed it loading internet pages in und ...
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Apple's deceptive iPhone ad banned in the UK (Jack Schofield/Guardian)
Jack Schofield / Guardian: Apple's deceptive iPhone ad banned in the UK — Apple's TV advert for the 3G iPhone has been attacked on the web for being deceptive, and as Media Guardian reported this morning, it has now been banned in the UK. The Advertising Standards Authority r ...
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How widely used is Chrome? More than I expected (Stephen Shankland/Webware.com)
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com: How widely used is Chrome? More than I expected — Chrome doesn't have much market share among CNET News visitors, but it's climbing. — (Credit: CNET News) — Is Google's Chrome browser mainstream? &mdas ...
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Google admits breaking App Store rules (Tom Krazit/CNET News)
Tom Krazit / CNET News: Google admits breaking App Store rules — Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple's iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone, but denied a more serious charge. &m ...
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Google silences Gmail security blogorumors (Dan Goodin/The Register)
Dan Goodin / The Register: Google silences Gmail security blogorumors — Domain hijack vuln doesn't exist — Google security pros have taken exception to recent reports of a Gmail vulnerability that led to a rash of domain hijackings. They were the result of a ...
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Sling Opens Up Its Hulu Competitor To The Public (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch: Sling Opens Up Its Hulu Competitor To The Public — Sling Media, the company behind the popular Slingbox TV-streaming hardware devices, has opened the gates to its video portal Sling.com. The site pits Sling directly against Joost and Hulu (though H ...
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Microsoft will NOT do their own phone anytime soon (Michael Gartenberg/MobileDevicesToday)
Michael Gartenberg / MobileDevicesToday: Microsoft will NOT do their own phone anytime soon — Rumors persist and folks believe that there will be a Zune or some other Microsoft branded phone. I've talked about this in the past but it's worth saying again. — ...
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Digital Sales Surpass CDs at Atlantic (Tim Arango/New York Times)
Tim Arango / New York Times: Digital Sales Surpass CDs at Atlantic — Since MP3s first became popular a decade ago, music industry executives have obsessed over this question: when would digital music revenue finally surpass compact disc sales? — For Atlantic Recor ...
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Gmail security and recent phishing activity (Chris Evans/Google Online Security Blog)
Chris Evans / Google Online Security Blog: Gmail security and recent phishing activity — We've seen some speculation recently about a purported security vulnerability in Gmail and the theft of several website owners' domains by unauthorized third parties. At Google we're comm ...
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Happier travels through Street View with Pegman (Google LatLong)
Google LatLong: Happier travels through Street View with Pegman — Today we're happy to announce some big improvements to the Street View feature in Google Maps! Thanks to feedback from our users, we've now made Street View even better and easier to use. — Fo ...
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E-Commerce Shrinks for First Time, Research Firm Says (Brad Stone/Bits)
Brad Stone / Bits: E-Commerce Shrinks for First Time, Research Firm Says — Just as many Web retailers feared, online shoppers are being unusually frugal this holiday season. — During the first 23 days of November, according to a report to be released later on Tues ...
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Microsoft's Zune To Evolve Into New "Pink" Smart Phone? (Jim Goldman/Tech Check with Jim Goldman)
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman: Microsoft's Zune To Evolve Into New “Pink” Smart Phone? — I'm hearing from a good source that Microsoft is ready to give a major facelift to the company's Zune music player that could mean its evolution into a new smart phone f ...
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