Mashable!:
The Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition, our annual contest highlighting the very best the web has to offer, is entering its final round. The 70,000+ nominees have been narrowed down to just 5 finalists per category, and y (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Black Friday is a week away, and thousands of markdowns are already announced. Our master list of Giz-friendly deals—a hefty read—includes similar items priced differently at different stores. Keep it refreshed, cuz we'll be (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Sony keeps flip-flopping over adding music downloads to the PlayStation Network (PSN). After scrapping plans to add a music store to the gaming network—complete with the ability (Read More)
Gizmodo:
I get that this Flo TV iPhone demo is just a proof of concept. That's fine! I'm just a little confused as to what the concept is. Is it just what they're showing us? A Flo TV app, that requires some kind of accessory to tune (Read More)
Mashable!:
Sony is one of world’s best known brands when it comes to home electronics, gadgetry, and entertainment. However, the landscape has changed in recent years. You can have the best media player around, but if you don’t offer us (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
CAIRO — Egyptian soccer fans burned Algerian flags and rioted outside the Algerian Embassy in Cairo, smashing cars and shop windows, in an escalating row between the two countries over a bitter World Cup rivalry.Egyptian fans (Read More)
The Guardian:
In a stormy week all round it has been pretty grim at Westminster where the winds of change are blowing."Gordon, your time is up and there won't be a replay!" concluded taxfree, following the Queen's speech. "This speech is (Read More)
Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
So how's Twitter going to make any money? One of its biggest fans, British actor and polymath Stephen Fry, gave co-founder Biz Stone one idea when the pair shared a Nesta panel in London on Thursday…"Supposing I was to say t (Read More)
The Guardian:
Charging to read news content is like 'putting genie back in bottle', says Twitter co-founder Biz StoneThe co-founder of Twitter today warned Rupert Murdoch that his plans to charge for online content, and block Google from (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Emily Steel, Reporter, The Wall Street JournalWashington policy makers, long concerned about how marketers use consumers’ personal data to their guide sales pitches on the Internet, have stepped up scrutiny of the increasi (Read More)
Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
Microsoft Office 2010 is continuing and completing the transition that started with Office 2007, and should be an attractive upgrade for companies finally moving on from Windows XP and Office XP or 2003. And with the free bet (Read More)
The Guardian:
Finding a last-minute replacement to front a show can be a delicate businessFor reasons both related to farmyard animals (a bucking bullock and swine flu) David Dimbleby missed his first Question Time and Bruce Forsyth was u (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Research firm Gartner has just put out a list of the top ten mobile applications of the future. Well, not the distant future, but the far off year of 2012. Nothing on the list is all that surprising or, in many cases, even al (Read More)
Search Engine Land:
Yahoo has decided to discontinue its “Go” mobile app. Go was originally part of a larger “three screen” strategy that included TV and mobile delivery of Yahoo content. The Go app was intended as a way to have a richer, self-c (Read More)
mashable:
Megan Berry is an evangelist for Mobclix, the industry’s largest mobile ad exchange, working on social media and marketing. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and the Mobclix blog. You can follow her on Twitter as @meganbe (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Bill Stone, president of FLO TV, talks about mobile TV handheld from Dean Takahashi on Vimeo.Bill Stone, president of Qualcomm’s FLO TV division, is making a huge bet that users won’t mind paying for mobile TV subscriptions f (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
PM to open access to 2,000 data sets in victory for Guardian's Free our Data campaignThe government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April, in a victory for the Guardian's thr (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Social Networking continues to be the killer app for mobile and Twitter is no exception. Loved by both handset makers and mobile networks alike the microblogging service is seen a potential driver in selling more expensive ha (Read More)
The Guardian:
Orange, which runs TV services in France, Spain and Poland, to offer tweet-as-you-watch service and integrated mobile featuresTwitter users will soon be able to tweet to each other via their TV sets while watching entertainme (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
With the possible exception of Britney Spears and Madonna, few would die for a wireless microphone. But you would be wrong to think it is not a subject capable of stoking passion. Much of the live entertainment industry in Br (Read More)