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The Anti LumberJack / Gizmodo:
Barnes and Noble's E-Reader Like a Kindle/iPhone Chimera: First Photos and Details — Barnes and Noble's late to e-books. But the company's new gadget—first seen here—should address the weaknesses of all other readers with multiple screens, each playing to tech strengths.
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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Wi-Fi Is About to Get a Whole Lot Easier — A consortium that includes Intel, Cisco, and Apple is set to release new technology called Wi-Fi Direct that will turn a slew of gadgets into hotspots — Going Wi-Fi is about to get a lot easier. For many consumers, setting up an in-home Wi-Fi connection point is something of a hassle.
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Wi-Fi Alliance:Wi-Fi Alliance® announces groundbreaking specification …
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Ben Sillis / Electricpig.co.uk:
Acer Android smartphone hands-on! — UPDATE: The Acer Android smartphone is the A1, and it comes with Android version 1.6 - AKA Donut. Acer's talking about it right now at its London prezzer, so more details to come. — UPDATE 2: Acer's dancing to two different tunes here.
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Sebastian Rupley / GigaOM:Acer's Dual-Boot Netbook, Liquid Phone: More Open Doors for Android?
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New York Times:
BlackBerry, Upgraded, Aims to Suit Every User — The Storm was supposed to be the smartphone that would keep Verizon Wireless customers from deserting to Apple's iPhone, which runs on AT&T's network. — Research In Motion, the company that created the BlackBerry phones that business users find …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Applause For Finland: First Country To Make Broadband Access A Legal Right — Kudos to the Finnish government, which has just introduced laws guaranteeing broadband access to every person living in Finland (5.5 million people, give or take). — This is reportedly a first worldwide.
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PC World, Gizmodo, DSLreports, IntoMobile, CNET News, The Next Web, geeksmack.net, Technologizer and Erictric, Thanks:atul
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Walmart Offering $45 Unlimited Cellphone Plan Nationwide — Walmart has been beta testing their exclusive Straight Talk no-contract wireless service for months, but now the retailer will offer two low-cost wireless plans nationwide starting October 18th, including an unlimited plan for just $45.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Michael Dell: Netbooks go sour after 36 hours — You'll be happier if you give me more money — According to Michael Dell, a netbook is a dream purchase - until it's about 36 hours. — “If you take a user who's used to a 14- or 15-inch notebook and you say 'Here's a 10-inch netbook,' they're gonna say 'Hey, this is so fantastic.
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Laura June / Engadget:
Acer: we'll overtake Dell as world's number two PC maker... soon — Acer's President Gianfranco Lanci is talking some big talk these days, but not completely without reason. The Taiwan-based computer manufacturer says it does not expect to see a decline in revenue this year over last …
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Sneak peek: Family Guy meets Windows 7 — Microsoft has teamed up with Fox to deliver a 30-minute Family Guy comedy special on November 8. Yes, you read that right: Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein have been tapped to market Windows 7, and we've got the sneak peek.
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Computerworld, Channel 10, Technologizer, Pulse2, Fast Company, Microsoft, CrunchGear, GMSV, Microsoft Watch and Lockergnome Blog Network
Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:
Google Wave's Best Use Cases — Last week we asked a simple question: How will you use Google Wave? Over 600 responses later, we're sending Wave nominations to the people who had the best use cases. Here are a few. — Education: Increasing Interactivity and Collaborative Learning
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Blogger / Dial-a-Phone:
Motorola Comeback Plan Revealed — With all that talk about the Motorola Sholes, Tao, A855 going on, we decided it was time for a little bit of digging. And look what we've stumbled across, only Motorola's Q4 2009 and Q1 2010 Roadmap! — The Roadmap shows Motorola's Medium and Higher Tier Social Smartphones.
Ellen McGirt / Fast Company:
Intel Risks It All (Again) — How Sean Maloney and brand guru Deborah Conrad are helping Intel's first carpet-dweller CEO reengineer the company once known as Chipzilla — and free the bong. — When Paul Otellini, Intel's famously reserved CEO first heard the news, he got quiet.
AppleInsider:
Mac sales grow 11.8% as Apple takes 9.4% U.S. market share — Mac sales saw double-digit growth in the third quarter of 2009, maintaining Apple's position as the fourth-largest U.S. PC manufacturer, according to new data released Wednesday from IDC. — Overall, Apple came in fourth for U.S. vendors …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Want That Early Chrome OS Build? You Got It. — The hits keep on coming from Jonathan Frederickson, the TechCrunch reader who turned our initial revelation of a “chromeos” folder on the Chromium build site into a full-on walk through. Today, he's doing what Google won't: Making the early Chrome OS build available for download.
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Google Watch, PC World, Living in a Google World, The Next Web, Gizmodo, LinuxWorld.com, Redmond Pie, Erictric, Electricpig.co.uk and geeksmack.net
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Is Steve Jobs more popular than Jesus? — Apple's CEO tops two polls in one week. Will no one rid us of these meddlesome lists? — Photo: Apple Inc. — Last Thursday, Oct. 8, an Agenda Setters panel named Steve Jobs the most influential individual in the global technology industry …
Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo:
Next-Generation Flip MinoHD: Sleeker Design, Double the Memory — The newest Flip MinoHD was just announced, and it's a lot like the first-gen, but with upgrades all around. You've got double the memory, a much sleeker aluminum design, bigger screen and HDMI port. Sweet!
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Still Hoping to Sell Music by the Month — SAN FRANCISCO — The idea of selling monthly subscriptions to a vast catalog of online music has met with only limited success. That isn't stopping a new batch of entrepreneurs from trying to make it work. — The latest and perhaps …
Chris O'Brien / Mercury News:
After 32 years, Ellison just getting started — I could trot out all sorts of metrics to make the case that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has reached a new pinnacle of power and influence. — But in truth, there's no better testament to Ellison's ascent than the 37,000 people …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
AT&T Attacks Google Voice Again — This Time With Nuns — Is this nun praying for Google Voice? — AT&T today countered Google's claims that it's blocking Google Voice calls to rural areas because they're directed to free conference call lines and sex hotlines engaged in the dubious practice …
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Jeff Weiner / The LinkedIn Blog:
LinkedIn: 50 million professionals worldwide — As of early this morning, LinkedIn has 50 million users worldwide and we're growing that figure at roughly one new member per second. When LinkedIn launched in 2003, it took 477 days — almost a year and four months — to reach our first million members.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
TheFind launches “buying engine,” product search from 500,000 stores — TheFind, a Mountain View, Calif-based startup that applies machine learning and semantic search to shopping, says comparison buying sites only skim the surface of all the millions of products out there on the web.
Theo Valich / Bright Side Of News:
nVidia Tegra wins contract for next-gen Nintendo DS — When Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of nVidia announced that he expects to see Tegra capturing 50% of nVidia's revenue within the next couple of years, a lot of people thought that this is a smoke screen to sway the attention from its battles against AMD and Intel.
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Chad / That Smith:
Google Wave Add-on for Firefox — Google probably isn't going to be happy about this, but I present to you the first ever Google Wave Notifier... for Firefox. — This add-on reuses code from my other add-on, the Google Voice Add-on for Firefox (I'm great with names).
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Digg's Vote-for-Ads Experiment Is Raising Revenue — When the social news site Digg introduced sponsored links into its main news flow this summer, the company knew it was taking a gamble. Would the notoriously rambunctious community revolt or boycott the site for cluttering up its news feed with advertisements?
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Virtual goods sales to hit $1 billion in 2009 as social games pay off big — Thanks to the astonishing growth of games on social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, the U.S. virtual goods market is poised to clear $1 billion in revenues in 2009, more than doubling from a year earlier, according to a new report.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Layar Brings Augmented Reality Browser To The iPhone (Screenshots) — Half an hour ago, I just had an iPhone 3GS. Now, I have an iPhone 3GS with Layar installed. — It was one of the main questions I had for the Dutch company, which markets an augmented reality browser …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The New Technorati — Technorati relaunched its site tonight, changing and adding key features. Most notable is an expanded and fresher top 100 blogs list, and a new feature that lets authors post their content directly to the site. — In 2007 Technorati redesigned the look and functionality of its home page three times.
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