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AppleInsider:
Apple plans Mighty Mouse makeover — Twenty five years after introducing the world to mouse-based computing, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is now hoping to deliver significant advances to the input device by applying the company's extensive research and development in multitouch technologies, AppleInsider has learned.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
iPhone Market Share Could More Than Double When Apple Drops AT&T Exclusivity — Apple is stifling the iPhone's share of the mobile market by selling it through so few carriers. And when it eventually starts selling the iPhone at more carriers per country, its market share could more than double …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Broader distribution could double iPhone sales in 2010 - Morgan Stanley — One of the biggest drivers of Apple's (AAPL) growth — and the company's share price — over the next two years will be the expiration of the exclusivity deals Steve Jobs cut with carriers during the iPhone's first two years.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Vista/IE market share slide, Win 7/Firefox/Chrome surge — According to data supplied by web metrics firm Net Applications, both Vista and Internet Explorer lost market share during September, while Windows 7, Firefox and Chrome all saw a surge in market share.
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Evidence of Apple's tablet-like input interface reappears — In a new patent application revealed this week, Apple has again disclosed plans for a multi-touch surface that could accommodate two full hands and distinguish between palms and individual fingers for typing, gestures and more.
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PC World, 9 to 5 Mac, Fast Company, TeleRead, Silicon Alley Insider, TheAppleBlog, Engadget, The iPhone Blog, SlashGear, O'Grady's PowerPage, Mashable!, Tech Central, Electronista, Gizmodo, GottaBeMobile.com and TUAW, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Publishers Like Time Inc.'s “Hulu for Magazines” Pitch. What Will Apple and Amazon Say? — Earlier this year, Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore tasked her lieutenant, John Squires, with figuring out how to put the digital “genie back in the bottle.” Here's part of his answer: A Hulu for magazines.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Google Removes Pirate Bay Frontpage From Search Results — Removing search results is nothing new for Google. The company has been cleaning up its search results for years, following up on complaints from the Chinese government, and of course copyright holders.
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Russian investor buys more Facebook shares - sources — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies has begun buying more shares in Facebook, seeking to expand its stake in the world's No. 1 social networking company, two sources told Reuters.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Crowdsourcing coming to iPhone apps, big time — If you've ever been driving down the highway and looked at the Google Maps application on an iPhone to see what traffic is like ahead, you may have wondered where the data behind the green, yellow, and red lines indicating real-time vehicle flow come from.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype — I just got my Google Wave invite. No, I'm already out, so I can't send one to you, sorry. — But this service is way overhyped and as people start to use it they will realize it brings the worst of email and IM together: unproductivity.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Mass Bans & Warns AdWords Advertisers, But Why? — I have been watching ongoing complaints from Google AdWords advertisers for the past five days or so, in regards to Google both banning and warning of banning advertisers for having “poor quality landing pages.”
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Search Engine Roundtable
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
NPR Launching New Online Local Pilot With $3 Million From CPB, Knight — When Vivian Schiller took the job as CEO of NPR, she told paidContent she thought NPR was uniquely positioned in hyperlocal: “Big news organizations spend hours wondering how do I create the hyperlocal presence, you don't have the infrastructure.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Intuit and Mint promise “no changes”; but maybe a few would be OK — When it comes to personal finance software on the Web, I like Mint - even though I was a bit concerned that the site would change after Intuit announced the acquisition last month. But the message seems to be coming through loud …
Associated Press:
Eminem's music publisher, Apple settle dispute — Eminem's music publisher, Apple settle dispute — DETROIT - Apple Inc. and the music publisher for Eminem have settled a lawsuit over the digital downloading rights to many of the Detroit rapper's songs, a lawyer said Friday. Full Story »
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The $25 Million Demo. Yext Scores A Big Round From IVP After TechCrunch50 Debut. — Howard Lerman can be a little intense. After the CEO of Yext finished his demo at this year's Techcrunch50 (embedded below) he left one judge “speechless,” and during rehearsals Michael took him aside and asked him, “Are you on drugs?”
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
Cyclopedia mixes Wikipedia and augmented reality on the iPhone — Cyclopedia ($2 App store) is a new iPhone application that allows to to view geo-tagged Wikipedia articles in a augmented reality browser. The browser uses the iPhone's camera to create a backdrop while the Wikipedia articles …
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Jeremy Kirk / Computerworld:
Adobe, Google sued by Textscape over patents — Google and Adobe Systems have been sued by a New Jersey company for allegedly violating patents used for processing text, according to recent court filings. — Google and Adobe Systems have been sued by a New Jersey company …
Computerworld:
Sony prototype sends electricity through the air — Despite the numerous technologies that exist for sending data through the air there's one cable that most gadgets can't do without at some time. The power cable remains a necessary but sometimes unsightly part of many modern electronic appliances …
Federal Bureau of Investigation:
No, Your Social Networking “Friend” Isn't Really in Trouble Overseas — According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), there has been an increase in the number of hijacked social networking accounts reported to www.ic3.gov. — One of the more popular scams involves online criminals …
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Robert Lemos / Technology Review:
Researchers Hijack a Drive-By Botnet — The team gathered data on compromised pages and the would-be victims. — By infiltrating a criminal computer network aimed at infecting visitors to legitimate websites, university researchers have gained firsthand insight into the scale and scope of so-called “drive-by downloading.”
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Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:
Friendster bets its future on Southeast Asia — (10-01) 19:25 PDT — Before Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, Friendster was the social media king. Now, Friendster is barely an afterthought in its home country, although it hasn't disappeared. — The Mountain View firm is betting its future …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Technorati to change how it measures bloggers' influence — Technorati is about to make some big changes to the way it measures how important bloggers are. That means its top-100 list of the most influential bloggers is going to change. Some bloggers may be delighted by the changes …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Sidebar Will Deliver Personalized Mobile Apps And Content To Your Phone — With over 85,000 apps on Apple's App Store alone, the task to find apps tailored to your needs and likes is daunting. Who wants to sift through that? Sidebar is hoping to help smartphone users with the process of finding the perfect apps for their phones.
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
LinkedIn Launches Profile Organizer, Enters Salesforce Territory — The business social network LinkedIn is not just a way to connect with your business contacts. For a lot of recruiters, salespeople, and other professionals, it's a great business database for finding potential leads and new employees.
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Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost:
ComScore: Most Clicks Come From “Natural Born Clickers” — It's time for online marketers to forgo click-through rates for a better measure of success, according to new data from comScore in conjunction with media agency Starcom USA and behavioral targeting firm Tacoda.
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Soldiers' Data Still Being Downloaded Overseas, Firm Says — Sensitive Information Found by Using ‘Peer to Peer’ File-Sharing Software — The personal data of tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers — including those in the Special Forces — continue to be downloaded by unauthorized computer users …
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
IBM undercuts Google with discount e-mail service — SAN FRANCISCO — IBM Corp. is trying to stymie Google Inc.'s expansion into the business software market. — IBM is now selling a bare-bones e-mail service to companies for $36 annually per worker, undercutting a more comprehensive package …
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Deborah Gage / PE Hub Blog:
NVCA Is Happier With Congress — After all that lobbying, the National Venture Capital Association managed to get venture capitalists exempted from the proposed Private Fund Investment Advisors Registration Act that's been working its way through Congress. — There is now new language in the bill reads:
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Venture Capital Dispatch
Economist:
Laptops for all — A pioneering project's chequered start — FOR the past year the pupils of Escuela 95, in a poor neighbourhood of Montevideo, have had a new learning tool. Each has been issued with a laptop computer. This has been of particular help to the 30 or so children …
