1. How the unions react to critics  permalink

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Unions don’t like feedback, do they?   —  Protesters don’t like … protesters. Interesting how they manhandle this guy who ask them to take a wage cut: This entry was posted on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 1:24 am and is filed under irishblogs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2. The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch  permalink

The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch

If you're a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on. This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek , a cute little device built by Peek that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It won't surf the web. It won't make phone calls. It won'

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The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch Twitter Upgrades Its Search Engine   —  After months of saying that improvements were coming to its search engine, Twitter has announced a small but critical upgrade. In a blog post , Twitter says it has started an experiment that will “show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful.” No details on how that will be determined, but it ...

Scriptingnewsmail / Scripting News
The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch Twitter needs a command-line   —  Imagine a terminal program that accepted commands like: twitter follow davewiner twitter follow ev twitter unfollow sexygirl209 twitter addtolist scoble halfmoonbay -u The first few commands are obvious, the last would add scoble to a list called halfmoonbay and unfollow him. I stumbled across this as I was thinking about how to implement ...

3. YouTube Is Falling Apart Again  permalink

YouTube Is Falling Apart Again
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch

The ads are destroying YouTube. At least this one is. It is a video ad for sustainable energy company from Spain called Acciona . Yeah, I had never heard of them either. The video starts with this Euro-dude in a suit starting to blow up and crack apart like he's made from plaster. Halfway through, the actual video player crack in half, and all ...

4. A new workout for the Wii  permalink

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Ubisoft's upcoming fitness game, YourShape, promises an experience a step up from Wii Fit. In the process, can it help revitalize the Nintendo console?

5. Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web  permalink

Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

Up until now, if you wanted to use the location-based service Gowalla on the go, you had to have an iPhone. Today, that expands to Android. But rather than building an app, Gowalla has extended support to Android using the mobile web . This works because Android's browser is closely tied to the device and is able to access location information, ...

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Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web Android Developer Challenge 2 Finalists Posted, Final Judging Begins   —  Early this morning, 200 Android developers woke up to one hell of an e-mail: they’d made it into the final round of the second Android Developer Challenge, and were thus one giant step closer to as much as $250,000.

6. Microsoft Sites Captures Largest Share of Time Spent Online Worldwide  permalink

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RESTON, VA, November 6, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of online engagement at the top worldwide properties based on data from its comScore World Metrix service. The study found that Microsoft Sites captured nearly 15 percent of time spent online worldwide in September, ...

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Google CEO: Hopefully we won't repeat Microsoft's mistakes   —  Google CEO Eric Schmidt was on FOX Business Network on Thursday night talking about the slowly recovering economy. But his interview with host Neil Cavuto quickly turned to Google's continuing world takeover – "I'm sure you come in peace," Cavuto said – and how Google can avoid the antitrust challenges companies like Microsoft have ...

7. Applied Materials Buying Advent Solar Assets, Cheap  permalink

Applied Materials Buying Advent Solar Assets, Cheap
Earth2tech.com

Chip equipment maker Applied Materials announced this afternoon that it is acquiring 7-year-old startup Advent Solar. Applied’s solar acquisition investments now total more than $1 billion, including $330 million for Italy’s Baccini and $483 million for Swiss solar wafer equipment company HCT Shaping Systems. But today’s ...

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8. EMI to offer instant concert recordings  permalink

EMI to offer instant concert recordings
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The name of the initiative, Abbey Road Live, is a bit misleading--it doesn't have anything to do with the Beatles album or the recording studio after which it was named.

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EMI launches ‘Abbey Road Live’   —  EMI has announced that it has launched 'Abbey Road Live', a new live music recording and production service. 'Abbey Road Live' offers fans the opportunity to purchase high quality recordings of music events, instantly, at concert venues that they have just attended.

9. Netflix Wants 50 Percent Discount Under Release Delay Scenario  permalink

Netflix Wants 50 Percent Discount Under Release Delay Scenario
Joseph Tartakoff / PaidContent

The studios have put the screws to Redbox and Netflix ( NSDQ: NFLX ) in order to get them to take new releases at a later date. Redbox has sued all the big studios —but Netflix is taking a different tack. During the company’s most recent earnings call, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said acknowledged the impact that cheap rentals were ...

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Netflix Wants 50 Percent Discount Under Release Delay Scenario Netflix likes price-window tradeoff   —  NOV. 6 | PHYSICAL: Netflix will accept a one-month delay on new releases—an option it is discussing with several major studios—but only if its inventory cost is slashed by as much as half, according to sources.

10. Sesame Street, Droid get Google's love  permalink

Sesame Street, Droid get Google's love
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Bert and Ernie shared space on Google's home page on Friday with an ad for Motorola's Droid, the Verizon Wireless smartphone that went on sale on Friday.

11. Downloads  permalink

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12. Peek was worth a peek  permalink

Peek was worth a peek
Scriptingnewsmail / Scripting News

I thought perhaps the Peek email device might be a good service to get for a family member who's not very technical. I wanted them to have access to text messaging, and thought its advertised simplicity might be the answer. So I bought a device for $49 and bought one month of service for $19.95, with the understanding that it's not a service plan,

13. Survey: Xbox 360 low on kids' holiday wish lists  permalink

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This holiday season, more kids want a new Nintendo DSi, Sony PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Wii than want a Microsoft Xbox 360, according to a survey by Game Crazy.

14. Exclusive video of the Litl Webbook  permalink

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When news of the Litl Webbook broke out on Wednesday, I was pleased to learn that the company is located here in Boston, since there aren’t nearly as many people in this area making actual hardware devices, as opposed to software and web companies.

15. Reminder: We are Retiring pre-Rev A OAuth on Monday, November 9th  permalink

Yahoo! Developer Network Blog

Many of you may have already seen our forum post from October 14, 2009 talking about how Yahoo! is retiring the use of the pre-Rev A OAuth flow for its APIs and services. Why are we retiring pre-Rev A OAuth? There was a security vulnerability found within pre-Rev A OAuth early this year. The new OAuth 1.0 A revision has been put into place to ...

16. Clicker: A One-Stop Shop For Online Video  permalink

Clicker: A One-Stop Shop For Online Video
Readwriteweb / ReadWriteWeb

Finding specific online videos from TV networks and independent producers can often be a daunting challenge. Some TV shows are on Hulu , some can only be found as paid downloads on iTunes or Amazon and some are only available for streaming on the network's and producer's own sites. Clicker wants to change this by making it easier to find shows ...

17. Rich Carriers Got Richer in Q3  permalink

Rich Carriers Got Richer in Q3
Colin Gibbs / GigaOM

The rich mobile carriers got a little richer in the third quarter, as the nation’s top two operators increased their leads over the rest of the field. Verizon Wireless added a million subscribers and posted revenue of $15.8 billion, up 24.4 percent year-over-year, while AT&T reported 2 million net adds — thanks largely to [...]

18. Cloud Computing Expo Floor Opens to Large Crowds in Santa Clara  permalink

Cloud Computing Expo Floor Opens to Large Crowds in Santa Clara
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SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held on November 2 - 4, 2009, in Santa Clara, attracted more than 40 sponsors with over 2,000 delegates, a record attendance. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud ...

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19. EBay Inc. and Silver Lake Investor Group Settle Skype Litigation with Joltid Limited  permalink

EBay Inc. and Silver Lake Investor Group Settle Skype Litigation with Joltid Limited
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SAN JOSE – November 6, 2009 – eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) today announced that the investor group led by Silver Lake, which had previously entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Skype from the company, has reached a settlement agreement with Joltid Limited and Joost N.V. that gives Skype ownership over all ...

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20. Learn How TechSoup Can Help Your Organization  permalink

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Join TechSoup.org content creators, community leaders, and customer service support on November 12 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon Pacific for a tour of how your organization can use all that TechSoup has to offer to improve your technology and help reach your mission. TechSoup , a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is working toward a time when every nonprofit ...