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Sony, Warner not part of Google Music upgrade | Media Maverick - CNET News | |

Digital image can dupe Android face-based lock | InSecurity Complex - CNET News | |

Voice behind British Siri goes public despite Apple warning | Apple - CNET News | |

Steve Jobs nominated for Time Person of the Year | Digital Media - CNET News | |

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Unfortunately for Flash, Japan is a unique phone market, and DoCoMo is a unique operator. The DoCoMo deal could not be duplicated on most phone platforms other than iMode. Macromedia, and later Adobe, was now trapped by its own success. To make Flash Lite a standard in mobile, it would have needed to give away the player, undercutting its lucrative DoCoMo deal. When you have a whole business unit focused on making money from licensing the player, giving it away would mean missing revenue projections and laying off a lot of people. Macromedia chose the revenue, and Flash Lite never became a mobile standard.

“Operating System confusion and lack of ‘tablet’ apps on the Android side may have helped keep Android tablets at bay however, the iPad 2 is starting to show its age and the new Kindle Fire is about to make the scene with a very attractive $199 price point,” Retrevo’s Andrew Eisner wrote on a company blog. “As popular as the Kindle Fire appears in this study, whether it lives up to expectations on things like battery life, performance, image quality, etc, the picture could get brighter or less bright for the Kindle Fire.”

Icelandic MP and former WikiLeaks volunteer Birgitta Jonsdottir has slammed the decision by US courts to open her Twitter account to the US authorities and is taking her case to the Council of Europe.

Searching Google for information about “Cain Sharon Bialek” and other keywords related to the sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain? Instead of the most recent news report popping up first on Wednesday, the Cain campaign paid for search results to produce an ad with links to a new Web site, CainTruth, devoted to defending Mr. Cain, the Republican presidential candidate, and telling his side of the story. Herman Cain’s campaign has paid for search results to produce an ad with links to a new Web site, www.CainTruth.com.

People Now Watch Videos Nearly 30 Percent Longer On Tablets Than Desktops | TechCrunch | |

Meet Dag Kittlaus, the guy who made Siri and became a millionaire following a personal phone call from Steve Jobs | ...

Components Spied For 15-Inch Air-Style MacBook Pro

Official Google Blog: Greater choice for wireless access point owners | |

Google Launches 24×7 Phone Support To ‘Apps For Business’ Customers (Hooray For Humans!) | TechCrunch | |

At Web censorship hearing, Congress guns for "pro-pirate" Google | | ?

Samsung's Galaxy Nexus, the first smartphone running Android 4.0 (also known as Ice Cream Sandwich), will be available through Canadian wireless carriers starting Dec. 7 and is already shipping in the U.K.. Verizon Wireless still hasn't announced a release date for the device in U.S.

Approximately 99.6 percent of any given pair of Facebook users can be connected via five degrees (or six hops, as Facebook put it), but 92 percent can be linked via four degrees, or five hops, Facebook said. "And as Facebook has grown over the years, representing an ever larger fraction of the global population, it has become steadily more connected. The average distance in 2008 was 5.28 hops, while now it is 4.74," the team found.

Apple is likely to outshine Hewlett-Packard as the world's top PC maker before the second half of next year, says research firm Canalys, but it'll need some help from the iPad 3.

Among the casualties (some of which had previously been announced): Google’s Wikipedia challenger, Google Knol, Google Friend Connect (which is being supplanted by Google+), and Google Wave — which Google ended development on a year ago and will soon close down entirely.

Samsung pokes fun at Apple fanbois

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