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Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple execs book flight time for mystery product, ‘not iPhone’, bafflement follows — We're deciphering Apple executives and their fourth quarter statements right now - but the initial take away at this stage is the company's mysterious admission that “air freight costs” are set to rise “abnormally” in the company's first quarter.
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Apple's Tim Cook scoffs at iPhone competitors — The iPhone was the hot new thing a year or two ago, but now it's seeing increasing competition from Google, Palm, and others — for example, my editor Matt Marshall just declared that he's abandoning his iPhone for Droid, the Android phone coming at the end of the month.
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
The new iPod nano: A flop? — The good news in Apple's earnings call this afternoon, according to CFO Peter Oppenheimer, is that the Cupertino company has sold more Macs and iPhones than it ever has in the past, beating previous Mac sales records by 444,000 or 17% year over year …
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Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results — Most Profitable Quarter Ever; Record Mac and iPhone Sales — Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended September 26, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion, or $1.82 per diluted share.
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AppleInsider:
Apple profits surge 46% on record sales of 3M Macs, 7.4M iPhones — Apple said Monday that fourth-quarter profits rose more than 46 percent to 1.67 billion, or $1.82 per diluted share, on sales of $9.87 billion for the three-month period ended September 26, 2009.
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Barnes & Noble ‘Nook’ e-reader with color touchscreen out Tuesday for $259, says WSJ (update: Best Buy connection?) — Looks like the cat's out of the bag. The Wall Street Journal's had a glimpse at what it says is an upcoming ad for Barnes & Noble's impending announcement …
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
First Images: BlackBerry Watch is FOR REAL! — * Update - Just to be clear as I've seen some confusion in the commments, but as far as we know at this time the inPulse watch is not being made by/for BlackBerry (it won't feature a BlackBerry logo), but is being made for use with BlackBerry Smartphones.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Apple to introduce host of new machines, new multitouch input devices tomorrow? — We're not sure why John Gruber and Dan Lyons are having some sort of megalomaniacal Apple super-pundit standoff, but we'll sit here and take the spoils: Gruber's just one-upped Lyons's earlier vague tease …
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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
This shouldn't be the image of Hack Day — I love hack days. I was working in the vicinity of Chad Dickerson when he organised the first internal Yahoo! Hack Day back in 2005, and I've since participated in hack day events at Yahoo!, Global Radio and the Guardian.
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
LEAKED: Details of the Facebook Home Page Redesign [Screenshots] — A few weeks ago, we caught wind that Facebook was testing a new homepage design. Screenshots revealed a few interesting changes, such as a decrease in size for the Facebook Publisher box and a new, Friendfeed-like “Top News” filter for the news feed.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The New Twitter Hole That Probably Isn't — Earlier this evening the LA Times Tech Blog ran a post claming that Google has unrestricted access to Twitter's protected tweets, or, as the Times put it, the “key to the city”. And you can apparently search those tweets with a not-too-difficult advanced Google search.
Jeff Aguero / The Official Google Blog:
Flying in a WiFi wonderland: Free Internet from Google on Virgin America flights — We know the holiday season seems to come earlier every year (sorry, Halloween), but before you make your final travel plans, we're excited to let you know that we're partnering with Virgin America …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Twitter hits five billion tweets — Former Current Media executive Robin Sloan appears to have posted Twitter's five billionth tweet, in the form of a reply to another user that otherwise read only “Oh lord.” — The landmark status of Sloan's tweet, which he has nicknamed “The Pentagigatweet …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Photobucket To Be Valued At $60 Million In Sale To Ontela — Lots more details are coming in on the Photobucket fire sale by MySpace/News Corp. The sale is all but complete, say new sources. And the buyer is definitely Washington state based Ontela. — Ontela, a mobile photo upload …
Craig Newmark / The Huffington Post:
A Nerd's Take On The Future Of News Media — There are a lot of new technologies which already affect news consumption and future business models. As a nerd, I'm excited by the new tech, particularly mobile, including new display systems and pervasive connectivity.
Steven Levy / Wired News:
Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter — Last August, the people who putatively run Twitter — the small crew that three years ago launched the world's fastest-growing communications medium — announced a relatively minor change in the way the site functions.
Dan Bricklin:
VisiCalc turns 30 and SocialCalc turns 1.0 — According to my notebook from 1979, 30 years ago today Dan Fylstra, head of Personal Software, our Bay Area publisher, told me that he had the first production VisiCalc packages in hand. I received mine the next day (Saturday delivery).
Knot Pipatsrisawat / Facebook Blog:
Giving Groups a Stronger Voice — Facebook Groups have long been a part of the Facebook experience as a way for people to organize and discuss particular issues of interest. However, until now, Group activities have been isolated to the group page and it was often difficult to find out what currently was going on within a group.
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Apm / alarm:clock:
Tweet Ad Network Ad.ly Funded — LA-based Ad.ly, which has developed in-stream advertising on Twitter, has raised $500K. The round came from GRP Partners. Ad.ly monetizes Twitter feeds from people who have 7 figure followers, as well as those we have fewer.
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springdesign.com:
Spring Design Announces Dual-Screen, — Google Android-based E-book Reader, Hyperlinking Text with Multimedia — Secondary color touchscreen supplements text with web-based or any linked multimedia content; Enables users to enhance original text with their own embedded video, audio, photos and notes
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Internet Archive's BookServer could ‘dominate’ Amazon — SAN FRANCISCO—An initiative in the works from the nonprofit Internet Archive to centralize the electronic distribution of commercially viable books could upend the publishing industry and declaw Amazon.com, an industry analyst said.
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Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets — America's spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. — In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community …
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Video game sales break 6-month losing streak, eke out tiny gain in September — Halo: ODST, released in September, topped that month's games chart. Credit: Bungie. — Sales of video games and consoles in the U.S. eked out a tiny gain in September, ending a 6-month streak of year-over-year declines.
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Ad agencies stump for Microsoft-Yahoo search deal — An advertising industry association—backed by four of the world's largest ad agencies—sent a letter to the Department of Justice Monday endorsing the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal, saying it “enhances competition.”
Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
Why the Borg's copycat business model no longer works — So I had brunch with Larry yesterday and he showed up carrying the Sunday Times and we were talking about the huge and incredibly embarrassing photo (above) of Ballmer that they ran on the front of their business cover.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
T-Mobile Tap coming November 11, Samsung Behold II on November 18? — The CLIQ might be getting the lion's share of the Android spotlight on T-Mobile at the moment, but it's not the only Google-equipped gear in the carrier's pipeline — the other big news there would be the Behold II from Samsung …
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
EU's MySQL inquiry may backfire for open source — It takes time, leadership, and a fair amount of luck to successfully build an open-source community. It also takes money. Lots of it, if IBM's $1 billion commitment to Linux is any indication. — Unfortunately, the return …
