1. Apple in 'advanced' acquisition talks with Lala 2 hours ago   permalink

Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick

Sources with knowledge of the talks say a deal for Lala, a streaming-music service, is close to being finalized. Does Apple plan to stream music?

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MacNN :   Apple very near acquisition of Lala?

CNET / Gizmodo :   Apple In 'Advanced' Acquisition Talks With Lala

Barb Dybwad / Mashable! :   Apple Close to Acquiring Streaming Music Service Lala Paul Bonanos / GigaOM :   Apple in Talks to Acquire Lala: Report Podcast / Between the Lines :   Apple about to acquire Lala. Are iTunes music streams coming? MacRumors :   Apple Looking to Acquire Music Streaming Service Lala? Jim Dalrymple / The Loop :   Apple in talks to buy Lala streaming music service

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2. Google Acquires AppJet 3 hours ago   permalink

AppJet and the Google PR Team / The EtherPad Blog

We are happy to announce that AppJet Inc. has been acquired by Google. The EtherPad team will continue its work on realtime collaboration by joining the Google Wave team. For Current Users and Customers: What will happen to my account? Will I still be able to use EtherPad? The EtherPad site will stay online through March 2010 with some ...

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ACM Google Books Narrows its Scope in Proposed Amended Settlement   —  The Google Books project, where the company scans books, indexes them, and makes either snippets, selections, or the whole work available online, has a long legal history. The nature of the project raises concerns over copyright, not only the legality of making snippets available for search on the web. ... Mike Masnick / Techdirt Is Google Banning AdSense On Sites It Thinks Have Infringing Content?   —  Thomas O'Toole points us to yet another issue with Google customer service, where an author who holds the copyright on his own books published them online but was denied the ability to put AdSense on the site , after Google told him it had found "it contains copyrighted material." Of course, this makes no sense. Nearly every website "contains ... WSJ / WSJ.com Tech Today: Comcast, GE Strike NBC Deal, Microsoft and Google Revamp Maps   —  Comcast agreed to take control of NBC Universal from GE, Microsoft unveiled a new feature for Bing Maps that incorporates users' images, as the company seeks to best Google in online mapping technology. Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf Google Launches Their Own Dictionary   —  As many of you know, for years Google has hyperlinked search terms (right below the blue bar, at the top-right side of the page) and linked them to a dictionary (and lots of other reference material (some good/some questionable) at Answers.com. As of today, the link goes to Google’s own dictionary. You can also get [...] Chris / Chris Pirillo How Did Friday Get Here Already?   —  How Did Friday Get Here Already? is a post from Chris Pirillo I noticed a little while ago that my friend Mark Horvath mentioned that he somehow lost a day, and it’s now Thursday. Well, let’s correct that. Since it’s well after midnight now, it’s actually Friday already! How the heck did that happen? I swear the week just ... PC World Latest Google Public DNS, Cisco Gets Tandberg   —  Google is getting into the DNS resolution business with a new service out in an experimental version, while Microsoft also is experimenting with a maps service... TIME.com Top Business Stories Google's Year-End Roundup of Most Popular Web Searches   —  Twitter has its trends, but Google has billions of search queries, a treasure trove of data that is still the best window into what people are interested in on the Web Google Earth Blog Milan, Italy now in 3D   —  To go along with the cities they've recently added to Building Maker , Google has just released 3D buildings for Milan, Italy . As with all of their recent 3D releases, the number of buildings in Milan is staggering. They have very solid coverage for an area of more than 20 square miles in the heart of the city. This video from Google shows some ... Search Engine Guide 6 Common Google Maps Problems & the Solutions   —  by Jeff Howard Google is paving the way for small business owners to take a proactive approach toward online marketing. For lots of folks seeking better local exposure claiming their business at the Google Local Business Center is their first step into the realm of search marketing. But, it's not always smooth sailing. The maps system has bugs, ... QuickOnlineTips / Quick Online Tips Google Model Your Town Competition   —  Google has announced the first international Google Model Your Town Competition and invites people to use free sketching tools to create a 3D portrait of their community and ensure its place on the 3D world map. Buildings can be modeled with SketchUp, a free 3D modeling program from Google or using Building Maker if your town is [...] Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land Answers.com Loses “Pole Position” To Google Dictionary   —  Answers.com has a strong URL (if not a brand) and lots of traffic, more than 25 million monthly unique users. It was the source of definitions in the “definitions” link in the upper right of Google SERPs. The key word in that last sentence is “was.” As of yesterday, without fanfare, Google replaced Answers.com with its [...] Barry / Search Engine Roundtable Google Begins Banning AdWords Advertisers Again: December '09 Big Ban   —  As you know, Google promised to ban AdWords advertisers at a higher rate and began doing so in late September and throughout November but promised to really step it up later last month. I spotted a new thread at Google... Mike Swift / LXer Linux News Microsoft, Google in battle to win over students   —  As they plunged into a project on ancient Egypt this fall, Jay Martino's Cupertino Middle School students probably didn't realize they were on the front lines of a high-stakes battle between Google and Microsoft. But the sixth-graders, who did the entire research project on a "walled" network of student Web sites using document-sharing software ... Erik J. Barzeski / NSLo Are You Using Google’s New DNS Service?   —  Are you using Google's new DNS service? Yes No View Results Why or why not? Answer and share your thoughts below in the comments. © iacas for NSLog();, 2009. | Permalink MacInTouch Update: Google App Engine SDK 1.2.8   —  Google's software development kit for building web applications now includes support for media file attachments in outgoing mail (MPEG, MPEG-4, QuickTime, and AVI video files and FLAC, MIDI, MPEG-3, Ogg Vorbis, AIFF, and WAV audio files), partial support for data class inheritance in the Java JDO and JPA interfaces, management of task queues from ... Matt Wells / Media Media Talk podcast: Google News, Simon Heffer and Desert Island Discs   —  Matt Wells is joined by Maggie Brown and John Plunkett on this week's Media Talk , and we start by discussing Rupert Murdoch's (small) victory in his battle against free online news. Google News has agreed to limit users' free access to paid-for sites . Is the News Corp chairman trying to have his cake and eat it? Also in the podcast, complaints ... NEWS / Gadgetell So Hot Right Now: Top 10 Gadgetell posts for the week of   —  Section: Haven’t caught all of the Gadgetell news this week? Here’s your chance to catch up on this week’s top 10 articles! Chromium OS gets slimmed down, now fits and runs on a 1GB flash drive ” Been wanting to check out and run Chromium OS and felt left out because you did not have a spare 4GB USB flash drive or SD card ...

3. Grep and print control characters in file 7 hours ago   permalink

Linuxtoday.com

"Also if you know what to grep for, say in above example the control character is ^B (hex x02); then you can directly grep for it like this

4. Create a holiday wish list to get the gifts you want 3 hours ago   permalink

Don Reisinger / Webware.com

If you're planning to create a holiday wish list this year, we have you covered with some nice options from across the Web.

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New Scientist CultureLab's holiday wish list   —  From graphic novels and science poetry to video games and e-readers, it's our wish list for fabulous holiday gifts

New Scientist Holiday wish list: A box full of Einstein   —  This superbly illustrated book on Einstein's life and work, which contains rare facsimile documents, makes a distracting present for Einstein aficionados Digg.com Cool stuff: Your 2009 holiday gift guide   —  Here are the best HDTVs, e-readers, smartphones and some surprise goodies to wrap up for yourself or anyone on your list. Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook Holidays Dominate The Top 20 Up-and-Coming Facebook Applications List   —  Holiday Facebook applications are now so popular with users that they’re squeezing out our usual mix of social games, quizzes, and generally-themed gift-giving apps on our weekly up-and-comers list on AppData. To be clear, this list only looks at applications that grew the most and ended the past week with between 100,000 and 1 million [...] MAKE Make: Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Dangerous giving   —  "Security is mostly a superstition," wrote Helen Keller. "It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." If you know someone whose life is lacking excitement, perhaps you can kick start 2010 by giving them a few badly-needed thrills. But you don't want to go overboard, so we've developed the list to help you give ... Wired.com Video Department / Wired Top Stories Wish List: 5 Toys That Bring Out Your Inner Geek   —  Our elf shows off some gizmos that promise to let your inner geek play with your inner child -- such gems as The Dangerous Book for Boys Classic Chemistry Set, the Star Wars Force Trainer, BuckyBalls Rare Earth Magnets and the E-Flite Blade mSR RC Helicopter. PhysOrg Team / PhysOrg.com Tech accessories can spice up holiday list   —  As much as I love buying big-ticket items such as TVs, computers, cell phones and cameras, I also love buying accessories for those items just as much, maybe even more. Barry / Search Engine Roundtable Where the Google Holiday Gifts for 2009?   —  Every year Google gives some of their AdWords advertisers and AdSense publishers holiday gifts. Typically, the gifts are delivered by now - but not one advertiser or publisher have posted in a forum or on a blog about receiving a...

5. CNET News Daily Podcast: Vevo: The MTV of new media? 2 hours ago   permalink

Erica Ogg / CNET

MTV doesn't show much more than reality TV programming these days, so video-sharing site Vevo is looking to fill that void. Already armed with the video libraries of record labels Universal and Sony, word comes today that EMI is on the verge of signing with Vevo as well. That would leave Warner Music Group as the lone holdout among major labels. ...

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The Seattle Times Oilman seen on MTV show indicted on fraud charges   —  A Kentucky oilman featured on an MTV show about lavish teenage birthday parties has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Nashville on charges of money laundering and securities fraud.

6. Build muscle, charge your phone with YoGen 48 minutes ago   permalink

Sharon Vaknin / Countdown to CES

Easy Energy will launch the YoGen at CES 2010, a mobile charger that solely relies on hand power. The pocket-size charger lets you generates energy by repeatedly pulling a ripcord.

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7. Some Avast users must re-install flagged files 52 minutes ago   permalink

CNET

Avast has fixed a bad virus definition file update that marked hundreds of clean files falsely as threats, but some users are still dealing with the fallout.

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8. Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: Air travel tech 1 hour ago   permalink

CNET

Rafe Needleman interviews Patrick Smith of Salon's Ask the Pilot, and Evan Konwiser of the new Flightcaster service, on how technology is changing commercial air travel, for the better and the worse.

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Dir.salon.com Ask the Pilot   —  Copyright © 2009 Salon Media Group, Inc. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. SALON® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon Media Group Inc. CNET :    Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: Air travel tech

9. Vendors to launch Atom N450-based netbooks on 13 hours ago   permalink

Www.digitimes.com

Asustek Computer, Acer, Lenovo and even Micro-Star International (MSI), which originally planned to launch in December, are all set to launch their Atom N450-based netbooks on January 11, 2010, complying with their agreement with Intel to only launch the products after January 10.

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Danny Allen / Gizmodo :   Netbooks: What You Need to Know About the Next 6 Months

Vladislav Savov / Engadget :   Atom N450 netbook torrent undammed on January 11 next year?

The Tech Report :   Report: Pine Trail netbooks to show up on January 11 Kevin C. Tofel / JkOnTheRun :   Intel Pine Trail Netbooks Available After CES Linux for Devices :   Pineview netbooks won't be ready for the holidays Editor / PRO :   Next-gen netbooks arriving 11 January? Home :   Massive Atom N450 netbooks release is delayed Electronista :   Blitz of Pine Trail Atom netbooks due Jan. 11?

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TechSpot Intel Pine Trail netbooks available after CES   —  Netbooks based on Intel's next-generation Pine Trail platform are set to launch right after CES 2010, on January 11, according to Digitimes. This doesn't change time frames from what was previously expected, but puts a firm date on when customers will actually be able to buy one of these devices. A soft-launch could take place later this month, ...

10. Nook ship date pushed back to January 15th for new pre-orders, no Nooks in stores before Christmas? 6 hours ago   permalink

Laura June / Engadget

Last night, we got a tip telling us that this morning, Barnes and Noble's ship date for the Nook would slip further -- from the previously known date of January 11th to January 15th. And hey, what do you know? The BN website is now showing an expected ship date of January 15th -- though it seems this would be the shipping date for new pre-orders,

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I4u / I4U News :   No Nooks Before Christmas, Jan. 15 Ship Date

Mark Wilson / Gizmodo :   Nook Shipments Pushed Back AGAIN, Now January 15

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Ross Miller / Engadget Nook early adopters promised a December 9th shipment, $10 online gift certificate   —  We already made it clear that the January 15th Nook date applies only to new orders, and while Barnes & Noble 's retail outlets may not be getting any love (read: no units will be in stock for sale, as confirmed today), many of the faithful who pre-ordered early are receiving a happy note from the company right now with a not-quite-firm ...

Randy / RandyRants Sister's Christmas Catechism   —  Went to go see Sister's Christmas Catechism last night at the ACT Theater - funny freakin' play! Highly recommended. First off, if you are Catholic or have ever been to Catholic school (and have a sense of humor) this is a must see. Simple, really: it's like being back in school with a nun for a teacher that is the combination of all the Sister' ... Martin / GHacks technology news Christmas Giveaway Recover My Files   —  There are basically two options when dealing with data loss. The first is to access data backups to recover files while the second relies on file recovery software to recover the data. What many users do not know is the fact that the operating system is not removing files completely from the hard drive if [...] Darren / DarrenBarefoot.com A Reasonably Funny Christmas Card   —  I don’t know what’s up with all the Christmas content, but we needed some cards last night and I spotted this one. As Christmas cards go, it’s not bad. Apologies for the lousy photo. Click for bigilization: When I tweeted about this, Siobhan referred me to this animated Christmas special by Simpsons creator Matt Groening. Sam mcloughln / PalmAddicts Yeti celebrates Christmas on the iPhone   —  [From ROOT9 MediaLab] Root9 released the ultimate Christmas surprise for the Yetisports community today: After the worldwide success of Yetisports "Pengu Throw" on iPhone, the Xmas special "Christmas Candy Climb" is now available in the App store. Vienna, 4th December 2009. 250 million people have played the Yetisports online series so far. The ... Hamilton Nolan / Gawker How to Celebrate a Recession Christmas   —  Hallmark writers are staying off welfare this Christmas by writing cards bearing recession-ized slogans like "This wasn't the year that any of us had hoped for." GEE THANKS. I think we can do better than that. Actual caption of a Hallmark "difficult times" Xmas card, via the WSJ : We can say it: this wasn't the year that any of us had hoped for. ... Allison Waldman / TV Squad Kristin Chenoweth's Christmas movie and Promises, Promises, too   —  Remember back in May when I wrote about Kristin Chenoweth making a Fa La La La La Lifetime TV movie for Christmas ? Well, I did, and now the picture is upon us. The 12 Men of Christmas , premieres Saturday, December 5 at 9 p.m. on Lifetime . So on Saturday night, instead of going to a holiday party or shopping for gifts, gather around the TV and ... Electronista Ellen DeGeneres gives away free Nooks, Palm Pixies, more   —  On her talk show on Thursday, Ellen DeGeneres gave away a Palm Pixi cellphone, Barnes & Noble's Nook reader, a MiFi 2200 mobile hotspot, a Powermat wireless charger and Nokia Booklet 3G netbook to every member in her audience. The bundle was the first in a series of giveaways, dubbed 12 Days of Giveaways.... Silicon.com Happy Christmas for retailers as UK shoppers shell out £5bn   —  Monday is set to be the biggest-spending day of the year with UK consumers shelling out £350m. According to retail association IMRG, UK shoppers will spend an expected £5bn this month - a year-on-year increase of 14 per cent. Brandrepublic / Brand Republic British Airways rolls out Christmas 'homecoming' campaign   —  LONDON - British Airways has launched a Christmas-themed outdoor campaign to run at Heathrow Terminal 5 and other airport terminals around the UK. Philip Smith / FIXYOURTHINKING.COM Should We Celebrate Christmas?   —  I posted this on my ATLIBERTYTOSAY.COM website and thought I'd share it here to get more exposure:Part I: "X-MAS"I remember when I was 5 that my mother was so proud of me because I went up to the preacher at our church to point out that the church bulletin said, "X-mas Service". I quipped that one "shouldn't 'X' out Christ because it was his ... William Lefkovics / MS Exchange Blog Old Quotes from an Old Exchange List   —  It was over a decade ago that I started with Exchange 5.0. Inevitably, there arose questions and circumstances not covered by the Help files or knowledge base articles. Like many others, I found an Exchange Server e-mail list where peers... Pareene / Gawker Glenn Beck's Christmas Sweater : What Is Its Deal?   —  Morning zoo DJ and political nihilist Glenn Beck 's stage show The Christmas Sweater , true-fake parableof dreamt-but-real death and being a dick to your grandparents , is destined to be a holiday classic—a Charlie Brown Christmas for the hateful and deranged. You should probably read the incredible summaries posted by those who witnessed ...

11. Add two USB ports to a standard outlet 8 hours ago   permalink

Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear

Hot off yesterday’s news of the DIY USB wall outlet (replace your standard outlet plugs with two USB plugs) comes a product that addresses the shortcomings inherent with getting rid of the standard plugs altogether: a wall plate with both standard and USB plugs. Problem solved – and it only costs $10.

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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo :   $10 USB Power Outlets Sound Like a No-Brainer

Alexander Grundner / EHomeUpgrade :   TruePower UCS Power Outlet with Built-In USB Ports

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Charlie Sorrel / Wired Clever Power Outlet Incorporates Dual USB Chargers   —  Gadget Lab reader Michael Lowdermilk writes: Hi Charlie, Since you’re a power junkie I wanted to get your feedback on what you think about adding USB ports to power outlets. By “power junkie”, Michael isn’t referring to my constant attempts to wrest control of the Gadget Lab from its esteemed editor (damn your physical ...

Robert Nelson / Gadgetell TruePower unveils a power outlet with two built-in USB ports for only $9.95   —  Section: Gadgets / Other , Household We have recently seen a little trick floating around the Internet showing off how to switch a standard power outlet to a few USB ports, which honestly was a little bit of a hacked together job. But that does not mean we cannot still have a wall outlet with a built-in USB port or two. And on top of that, this ... Newlaunches.com DIY in-wall USB Charger Mod saves you the load of chargers   —  You MP3 Player and mobile phone can now be charged easily with just the USB cable by your side, rather than a silly dock or a charger. All you need to do is pick a pair of USB chargers from USB and get rid of all the extra chassis. Do some simple wiring up and you’re all set with a cool USB charging station all ready, and neat, on your wall.... Andrew Liszewski / OhGizmo! PhotoFast microSD USB Flash Drive   —  By Andrew Liszewski Remember the PhotoFast compact flash adapter that would accept up to 4 microSD cards, allowing them to be used in a CF-only DSLR? Well the company’s JBOD USB Flash Drive is the exact same idea. It uses the JBOD or ‘just a bunch of disks’ protocol to make up to 4 microSD cards [...] Dena Cassella / Digital Trends TruePower’s Power Outlet With Built-in USB Ports   —  TruePower combined two standard three-prong outlets and two USB ports into one power outlet. Webmaster / The Mac Observer Ted Landau's User Friendly Blog: USB Feature Returns to FileApp   —  In this follow-up to my previous article on the controversy surrounding FileApp, I bring some good news: the USB feature (that Apple required to be removed) is coming back. At least for some users. For the details regarding this and related matters, read on...

12. Apple sued for infringing digital camera patent with iPhone 5 hours ago   permalink

Www.loopinsight.com

St. Clair is not new to the patent infringement lawsuit game. In 2001, it sued Sony for infringing the same patents and won a $25 million judgement against the company. In 2003, it sued Canon and was awarded $34 million in damages.

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John Herrman / Gizmodo :   Apple Sued For iPhone Patent Infringement, Again

Nicholas Deleon / MobileCrunch :   Apple hit with iPhone digital camera patent lawsuit

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Mike Abundo / 901am Droid Ad Calls iPhone Digitally Clueless   —  Once again, Verizon plays up the hardcore techie appeal of the Google Android-based Motorola Droid. Related posts: Motorola DROID is All Geared Up to Battle the iPhone and Others New Droid App Missed the Point Why the iPhone’s Beauty Matters The Genius of Droid’s Geeky Marketing

13. Secret Motorola LaJolla could be the cheapest Android phone yet 7 hours ago   permalink

Androidandme.com

We have been sitting on this information for awhile, but the pieces are beginning to fall into place. Motorola recently released the source code for the CLIQ Android phone. Hidden inside the code was mention of several other upcoming Android phones. The usbloader makes specific mention of the Morrison (CLIQ), Motus, and Zeppelin which were ...

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Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo :   Low-end Motorola La Jolla Won't be the Jewel of the Androids

Paul Miller / Engadget :   Motorola prepping 'La Jolla' low-end Android clamshell?

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Phonearena / Phone Arena The Motorola La Jolla will be an affordable Android handset?   —  The source code of the Motorola CLIQ reveals the codename La Jolla and certain details about the new device... Photos: Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo :    Low-end Motorola La Jolla Won't be the Jewel of the Androids Paul Miller / Engadget :    Motorola prepping 'La Jolla' low-end Android clamshell?

Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch The Missing Sync for Android now available   —  Just about each and every time we review an Android phone, one of the first questions that shows up in the comments is, “So – how is it at syncing?” The answer to that is a bit complex. If you’re just looking to sync with Google services (like Gmail, Google Calendar, etc.), it’s great. Anything [...]

I4u / I4U News Motorola Plans 7 Phone Chinese Onslaught   —  Motorola is back...with a vengeance! Since the highly public success of the Motorola Droid, the once-dying company seems to full of vim and vigor. Shanzai.com reports that the manufacturer has seven new Ophones planned for launch in 2010, along with "... Christina Warren / Mashable! Analyst: App Store Could Hit 300,000 Apps Next Year   —  As we approach the end of 2009, industry analysts and pundits are all racing to share their thoughts and predictions for what’s going to be big news in 2010 (don’t worry, Mashable will be making our predictions in the coming weeks). Yesterday, IDC announced their Top 10 Predictions for 2010 . We’ll spare you the boring industry ... Ubergizmo Motorola La Jolla points towards affordability   —  The Motorola La Jolla, also known as "The Jewel" in Spanish, is surprisingly ironic considering the La Jolla has been targeted to be an affordable Android-powered cellphone. Makes us wonder what kind of jewel Motorola is hinting at with this - perhaps the superb bargain type which offers unprecedented functionality and capability at rock bottom ... Ubergizmo Motorola Sholes Tablet Appears Again   —  While there still isn’t any official confirmation on the Motorola Scholes just yet, more pictures of it seem to have appeared online. If the rumors are true, this device will be powered by Android 2.1 and will sport features such as a 3.7-inch touchscreen, FM radio, 5-megapixel camera. Word on the street is that it will be released on ... Bonnie Cha / Crave HTC Droid Eris to get Android update in 2010   —  Verizon announces that it will bring an OS update to the HTC Droid Eris in the first quarter of 2010. Originally posted at Android Atlas Sam mcloughln / PalmAddicts Mark/Space Ships PC and Mac Versions of The Missing Sync for Android   —  [From Mark Space] The Missing Sync for Android Syncs Contacts, Music, Photos, Podcasts, Ringtones, Video and Documents between Android Phones and a PC or Mac Computer Los Gatos, CA - December 7, 2009 - Mark/Space(R), creator of award-winning desktop and handheld synchronization software, announced the immediate release of their all-in-one sync ... Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless Motorola: WiMAX experience paves LTE path   —  Motorola has generally been outshone in the LTE arena by the likes of Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia Siemens Networks. However, the company believes its work in WiMAX will give it a leg up on the LTE competition. Bruce Brda, Motorola's senior vice president and wireless networks general manager, told Telephony that the work the ... Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report Motorola Sholes tablet gets shot up in China? More than one coming?   —  Motorola is pretty darn lucky the overly masculine design of the DROID was as well received as it was, but we have a gut feeling its luck will expire with the number you see above. So far a face without… Editor / Java.net blogs Poll Result: Mixed Views on Java's Parallel Programming Capabilities and Needs   —  The results of this past week's poll demonstrate varying views among the Java developer community on Java's current support for parallel programming, and the need for additional support (for example, through the addition of closures). A total of 256 votes were cast in the poll. Here is the exact question and the results: Is Java's parallel ... Chris Meadows / TeleRead Motorola Droid, the first Android 2.0 device, get a thumbs-up from Ars Technica: Potential e-book reader?   —  The Motorola Droid smartphone, the first Android 2.0 device, gets an impressive, six-page review in Ars Technica. It has a number of interesting features, including a big (for a smartphone) 3.7” screen that might make it attractive to people wanting to read e-books. Read the full review, but on the whole Ars calls it “a [...] Techworld.com News Motorola invests in touch screen user interfaces   —  Mobile maker splashes on French company Motorola’s venture capital arm invested an undisclosed amount in a company that it believes represents the future of touch-based user interfaces. Phonearena / Phone Arena New pictures of Motorola Sholes tablet reveal 5MP camera, FM radio   —  A new series of pictures reveal a little bulge on the side of the Motorola Sholes tablet, a 5MP camera, FM radio and a 3.7 inch display... Photos: MacRumors Motorola Invests in Acoustic Multi-Touch Company   —  Motorola announced this week that they have invested in a multi-touch company named Sensitive Object. This startup company is working on a new form of multi-touch using "acoustic tactilization" that is said to offer "lower cost and higher performanc... EWeek New Twitter Mobile a Joy Compared to Old Twitter Mobile   —  Twitter Dec. 3 introduced a new mobile Web site that provides a richer experience for users of Apple's iPhone and smartphones based on Google's Android operating system, among others. Twitter programmers used company APIs to build a new mobile Web client that works best on Webkit browsers, which come installed on Apple iPhone, Android, Nokia S60 ... Newlaunches.com Motorola Sholes Tablet sneaks out to China under XT7021 alias   —  Motorola is on a roll with Android devices and more coming out the wahzoo. The latest device the Sholes tablet that’s a bit like their DROID handset that comes sans QWERTY keyboard but with the 3.7-inch screen was spotted in China under an alias. The XT7021 aka Motorola Sholes Tablet was seen sporting an Android version 2.1 OS. Its other ... 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14. Web-TV Divide Is Back in Focus With NBC Sale 10 hours ago   permalink

BRIAN STELTER / NYT

How people watch TV on demand will be a critical issue for Comcast, which is set to become a co-owner of Hulu.

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15. An In-Depth Look At Pivot, Microsoft’s Newest Data Visualization Tool 7 hours ago   permalink

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At Microsoft's PDC event a few weeks ago, Microsoft Live Labs introduced a new technology, called Pivot, to make sense of interconnectedness between objects on the web. The underlying premise of Pivot is to view relationships between "collections" of individual information on the the web. Many of the connections between items on the web aren't ...

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16. Verizon doubles some fees 3 hours ago   permalink

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Before you go shopping for a new smart phone this holiday season, keep this in mind: Verizon Wireless, the largest provider of mobile-phone services, has doubled its early termination fee for high-end handsets if you decide to go with a different carrier.

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Zeman / Phone Scoop FCC Taking On Verizon's New ETF   —  The Federal Communication Commission has opened an investigation into the recent change that Verizon Wireless has made to its early termination fee policy. Verizon doubled the fee for premium devices from $175 to $350. Verizon contends that consumers can ... (follow link to read) Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me Verizon confirms HTC Droid Eris to get Android 2.x update   —  Eris can and will be upgraded to newer a Android operating system software in first quarter 2010.

17. Microsoft Decision Brings It Closer to Settling Case 4 hours ago   permalink

KEVIN / NYT

To appease regulators and rival browser makers in Europe, the company says it will change the display of a ballot screen.

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18. Kodak selling OLED display business to LG, cross-licensing like there's no tomorrow 7 hours ago   permalink

Paul Miller / Engadget

It was always hard to comprehend Kodak as a display technology company while maintaining a zero presence in the TV or monitor industry, and now, after developing the first OLED material way back in the 70s and plenty of beautiful displays since, Kodak is getting out of the OLED game. They're selling to LG, who first inked a deal with Kodak back ...

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19. Hit the mark with Video Targeting 3 hours ago   permalink

Aaron / YouTube Biz Blog

Much of our recent work at YouTube has focused on making it easy for advertisers and agencies to run integrated, targeted and measurable campaigns across the internet. This has involved a lot of product, sales and back-end integration with Google products (like AdWords and TV ads ), so we can build easy-to-use, scalable options for advertisers on ...

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20. Senators urge more cost controls in health bill 44 minutes ago   permalink

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three moderate senators whose votes may be pivotal to overhauling the U.S. healthcare system came together on Friday to offer an amendment to bolster cost controls in the massive legislation.

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The Seattle Times 'Doughnut hole' unites seniors wary of health bill   —  Lawmakers have wooed seniors skeptical of the health care overhaul by emphasizing the plan would close the "doughnut hole" - a gap in Medicare drug coverage that can cost thousands of dollars a year.

The Seattle Times Health care issues: Medical cost inflation   —  THE POLITICS: Health care spending over the past year increased by 3.2 percent even as overall consumer prices dropped 2.1 percent. That's not unusual in the United States, where health care spending rises at rates substantially higher than inflation. Analysts agree on any number of reasons for the increases, but tend to disagree on which cause ...