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CrunchGear’s Best of Black Friday: Almost $300 Off Apple Gear
Posted from TechCrunch 21 hours ago
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Get thee to the Applery - or MacMall, MacConnection, or, better yet, Amazon - for some great deals on MacBooks, MB Pros, and iMacs. The Mac Pro, for example, is going for $284 off list at Amazon, making it about $2,500. (original story)
Want A Kindle Before Christmas? Get Ready To Pay
Posted from TechCrunch 21 hours ago
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Last year Amazon had trouble filling orders of the then-new Kindle, so eBay took over and prices rocketed to $1,500. This year, same problem. Amazon says orders for Kindles will take 11-13 weeks to fulfill (which is, we believe, when they will launch the Kindle 2). So you aren't getting one by Chris... (original story)
Icahn Picks Up More Yahoo Shares On The Cheap
Posted from TechCrunch 21 hours ago
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Carl Icahn bought up another 6.8 million shares of Yahoo earlier this week, bringing his total holdings to 75.6 million shares (just north of 5 percent). He paid just under $10 a share, or about a third of what he paid last May when he started building the bulk of his position. Of course, now he controls three seats on Yahoo's board, including the one he occupies. So he is personally involved in the search for a new CEO to replace Jerry Yang, and he knows the stock will probably react favorably to the announcement of any new leadership. Why not buy now before the news when the stock is h... (original story)
OpenStreetMap Is Creating A Free, Editable World Map
Posted from TechCrunch 21 hours ago
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This is a guest post by Ed Freyfogle, co-founder of the Nestoria property search engine: OpenStreetMap started four years ago in the UK as a project to create a free and editable world map. What began as a few geogeeks wandering the streets with their GPS's has turned into a global movement with ove... (original story)
When Everyone Is A Blogger, Nothing You Say Is Off The Record
Posted from TechCrunch 21 hours ago
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There's a lot of buzz here in the Belgian blogosphere and mainstream media about an incident involving a New York-based blogger, who was fired from her job as a bartender after publishing a post on the bar visit of a Belgian politician. Current Belgian Minister of Defense Pieter De Crem apparently... (original story)
Live Cashback Having A Bad Black Friday
Posted from TechCrunch 21 hours ago
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Microsoft lined up some great deals for Live Cashback users today. But users are reporting that the site has been down much of the morning, and more than half of my attempts to connect are timing out. Given the high volume of ecommerce sales that take place today, that's not good. It's also not so great for Microsoft's expanding cloud computing efforts. If Microsoft can't keep their own sites live on heavy traffic days, they can't expect other companies to have faith in them as a platform either. Live Cashback first launched in May 2008 to give users a refund on purchases. (original story)
Secrecy or Transparency? One Startup's Experience
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 21 hours ago
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Editor's note: we're currently running a series of posts from our long-term sponsors, focused on use cases and business advice. We hope you find these posts useful and we encourage you to support our sponsors by trying out their products. Use of hosted software as a service (SaaS) is growing like crazy, and most products are constantly evolving. What is the best strategy for a tech startup: share its product road map (i.e. its development plans) with the outside world, or keep its cards close to the chest? Sponsor Product Road Map: Secrecy or Transparency? Mike McDerment from FreshBooks arg... (original story)
Another Microsoft Yahoo Deal in the Works?
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 21 hours ago
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Yet another report has surfaced that Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo!. Not only is a different number being reported - $20 billion - but there is a new twist: Microsoft only wants Yahoo's online search business. Given Steve Ballmer only last month said of a deal with Yahoo!: "There are prob... (original story)
Nimbuzz IM for the iPhone: Friendly to Fat Fingers
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 21 hours ago
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One of the common complaints about the Apple iPhone - beyond the inability to cut and paste - has been that such a powerful communications platform is sorely lacking in one particular respect: instant messaging. But Apple's shortcoming in terms of a universal IM client is the iPhone development com... (original story)
7 Fun Facts for Thanksgiving
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 21 hours ago
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Celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, Thanksgiving is considered an important day by most Americans; a time to take stock of all the things we are thankful for. So it's a good time to take a quick look at some fun facts and trivia surrounding Thanksgiving. Please enjoy. Sponsor 1. Popula... (original story)
NaNoWriMo: 'National Novel Writing Month' Still Going Strong After 10 Years
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 21 hours ago
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5 years ago, before this blog was a media business, I participated in NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. It's an annual creative writing project, in which participants try to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. I did it in November 2003 and documented it in ReadWriteWeb. While the resulting work of art was very average, and thankfully long ago purged from the RWW server, I had a lot of fun writing the book and discovered some new things about myself. In this post I check back in with the NaNoWriMo website to see what's changed over the years; and how much social web tec... (original story)
Ecorio: Tracking Your Carbon Footprint via Mobile Phone
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 21 hours ago
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How can your mobile phone help you live a greener life? Quite easily, it turns out - if you have a G1. Ecorio is a carbon footprint calculator developed by five guys from Ontario, and one of the ten apps awarded $275,000 by the recent Android Developer Challenge. Sponsor How Ecorio Works Once you've downloaded the application, Ecorio runs in the background and keeps track of your trips using G1's GPS navigation feature. Once your carbon footprint has been established, Ecorio lets you take action by offering three features: Reduce, Inspire, Offset - the 'rio' half of the product name. R... (original story)
The Cost of Prudence
Posted from TechCrunch 21 hours ago
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Bureaucracy kills innovation. We all know that. But why? Partly, it's because bureaucracy grows out of prudence, a desire not to repeat the mistakes of the past. With the current economic crisis, for example, you can be sure that a lot more checks will be put into place—both in Washington and in corporate boardrooms—to prevent the excesses that got us into this situation from happening again. Governments and corporations alike react to crises by implementing more rules and regulations. Putting checks in place, after all, is the prudent thing to do. But bureaucracies, and the che... (original story)
Weekly Wrapup: Health 2.0, Tips for Web BigCos, Jobwire Graphs, And More...
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 21 hours ago
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It's time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we gave you an overview of health 2.0 and followed up with a RWW Live podcast on the topic. We also looked at the state of the art in recommendation technologies and offered some tips for the Internet bigcos as they head into 2009. On the product side, we further analyzed Google's search wiki experiment, listed the favorite mobile apps of the RWW writers and our readers, and looked at Firefox China version. We also have highlights from the Enterprise Channel and our brand new product that tracks h... (original story)
CrunchBase: Are You In It?
Posted from TechCrunch 21 hours ago
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CrunchBase, our free database of startup and people information, continues to grow thanks to countless additions and corrections by the community. The site now has entries on 20,000 people, 10,000 companies and over 1,000 venture funds. The majority of content is added by the community (CrunchBase... (original story)
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