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Ephraim Gadsby / Gawker:
Bill Keller: Apple Tablet ‘Impending’ — Bill Keller may have casually mentioned that Apple's not-officially-happening-but-clearly- happening tablet computer is imminent and that the New York Times are working to bring content to it. — Earlier this year a stealth team from the newspaper was rumoured …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple Tablet rumor roundup: NYT speaks of ‘impending Apple slate,’ new SIM tray leaks (video) — Bear with us as we bring you the latest rumors related to the most important product that never was: the Apple tablet. Today we have a pair of rumors bubbling to the surface of a delicious tattle brew.
Mark Kinsey / Facebook Developers:
Extending Facebook Share — Each week, users share more than 2 billion pieces of content on Facebook, and most of that sharing is facilitated by Facebook Share buttons across the Web, on websites like YouTube, Wall Street Journal, and Photobucket. With just a few lines of code …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Share Adds Live Share Counts, Analytics — Earlier this month TC writer MG Siegler wrote a post called The Speed of Share, where he noted that sharing content to Facebook wasn't as good an experience as it was for many of the various Twitter services like Tweetmeme.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Verizon Storm2 on October 28th, BlackBerry OS 5.0 for original Storm out now — If you have an original Storm purchased through Verizon then first, our condolences. At the risk of rubbing it in (since you're still on contract) we have to tell you that the second generation Storm2 …
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A Powerful New Storm Rolls Onto Verizon Wireless' Network On Oct. 2 — The BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone is available beginning Oct. 28 for $179.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement on a voice plan with an Email and Web feature or an Email and Web for BlackBerry plan.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Will There Be an Android App Boom Soon? — With a number of Google's Android OS-based smartphones on the horizon, developers are devoting significant resources to the mobile platform, which will result in a boom in Android apps, according to reports from two Silicon Valley startups, Flurry and AdMob.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Verizon preps fourth quarter device barrage; Droid will ‘stimulate demand’ — Verizon delivered a solid third quarter courtesy of its wireless business, which added 1.2 million net customers excluding acquisitions. The company also said it is set up for the fourth quarter with the launch …
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Andrew LaVallee / Digits:A Verizon iPhone Is 'Exclusively in Apple's Court,' Verizon Says
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Netflix Movies Stream to Sony's PlayStation 3 — Next month, the 9 million U.S. owners of Sony's PlayStation 3 game consoles will have another entertainment option available to them: streaming movies and TV shows from Netflix. — The long-awaited announcement gives Netflix another distribution channel …
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Steve Swasey / PlayStation.Blog:Netflix Coming Soon to PlayStation 3
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Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
HTC Launches Multi-Million Dollar Ad Campaign About ‘You’ To Become Household Name — HTC may be the most successful cellphone company you've never heard of. — At least that was the headline three years ago when the Taiwanese-based company was getting serious about establishing itself …
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PC World, Silicon Alley Insider, jkOnTheRun, WMPoweruser.com, IntoMobile, Electronista and MobileCrunch
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
AOL's Spinoff From Time Warner: The Process; AOL India May Be Retained By TW — AOL (NYSE: TWX) Inc, the new about-to-be-spun-off unit from Time Warner, has filed an amended filing with SEC detailing some of the spin-off specifics. This comes as it named nine new board member for the new company this morning.
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
MacBook Pros to receive new Quad-core processors in coming weeks? — An Applesana forum poster (via Applesfera) is reporting that the new Mac OS 10.6.2 OS build 10C531 contains the following references to new MacBook Pros: — Current MacBook Pros are Version 5_5.
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Max Kelly / Facebook Blog:
Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook — I'm facing an anniversary soon: I will have worked at Facebook for four years. I was originally drawn to the company for the opportunity to help build a technology that enables people to model their social network and interact with it online.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Palm Pixi Will Cost $99, Available Nov. 15 On Sprint — Sprint Nextel just announced that the new Palm Pixi will go on sale for $99 on Nov. 15. The Pixi is a smaller, skinnier answer to Palm's Pre. It's basically a souped-up version of its Centro device, which was especially popular with women.
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eWeek, BetaNews, Digital Daily, CrunchGear, Tech Trader Daily, Softpedia News, Gadget Lab, jkOnTheRun, Gizmodo, Gearlog and Electronista
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Microsoft, Google and the Bear — Excuse me for repeating a hoary old joke: … This succinctly describes the relationship when it comes to smartphones between Google (the camper with the running shoes), Microsoft (the other camper) and Apple (the bear). — I wrote an article in Monday's Times …
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New York Times, TUAW, Edible Apple, Open Source, Internet2Go, MobileTechWorld and Mobile Industry Review, Thanks:enauzer
Brough / Communications:
Has AT&T Wireless data congestion been self-inflicted? — We've all heard or read stories about how iPhone usage has overloaded the AT&T Wireless network but it's likely at least some of their problems are the result of configuration errors specifically, congestion collapse induced by misconfigured buffers in their mobile core network.
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers — SAN FRANCISCO — Companies big and small monitor Twitter to find out what their customers like and what they want changed. Twitter does the same. — It started two years ago as a bare-bones service, offering little more than the ability to post 140-character messages.
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Telegraph:
Ebooks helping surge in library members — E-books are helping libraries attract a flurry of new members, as readers embrace digital novels. — After years of library membership declining and fears that the public no longer wanted to borrow books, some institutions are reporting a spike …
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Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
GeoCities' time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today — We always imagined how this might end: GeoCities would finally take down all of the animated “under construction” signs, and we'd hear one last Midi file to the tune of horns playing taps. — Instead, GeoCities will probably go down with a whimper today.
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The Unlockr:
Mystery HTC Android Handset Has a Name and a Carrier — So do you remember the post we did on a certain mysterious HTC Android device that we've never seen before? — Well after doing some research I'm 90% positive as to what this phone is... Its the HTC Dragon! Well, sort of.
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
TomTom car mount now available at US Apple store for $120 — The Tomtom iPhone mounting kit is now available in the US Apple Store. We still think it is exploitation of iPhone customers when a full Tomtom can often be had for less than the $120 Apple Store price of the Mounting kit alone.
Nick Collins / Telegraph:
Twitter ‘costs British economy £1.38bn’ — Social networking websites such as Twitter are costing British businesses £1.38 billion a year in wasted time, a survey claims. — More than half of office workers use sites like Twitter and Facebook for personal use during the working day …
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Mashable!, TechCrunch Europe, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, CloudAve and Drew B's take on tech PR, Thanks:enauzer
Jason Hiner / Tech Sanity Check:
IT leaders trust Microsoft more than Google, 2-to-1 — Microsoft has a long history with CIOs. Google is one of the most trusted brands on earth. TechRepublic's CIO Jury ruled on which one IT trusts more. — Google has gotten much more aggressive about expanding beyond Web search in 2009.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Jeff Bezos, Spark Capital, Bet on Aviary, a Web-Based Would-Be Adobe — Last week, Jeff Bezos made $2 billion in one day, courtesy of a massive spike in Amazon shares. What will he do with the extra dough? — Perhaps plow it into more start-ups like Aviary, a Long Island-based design software company.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
85,000 reasons why Apple's iPhone isn't going to be disrupted — There's nothing geeks love more than to argue mobile phone platforms. Here's Matt Blaisdell saying that apps weren't key to iPhone's success. That's true, but now that Apple has apps the world has changed and challengers to the iPhone will find it very tough.
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The E-Reader Explosion: A Cheat Sheet — By almost any imaginable definition, last week was the newsiest ever in the still-new world of e-book readers. We witnessed the unveiling of Barnes & Noble's ambitious Nook. We got more details about Plastic Logic's long-awaited device.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Space.com & Related Sites Acquired by TopTenReviews — Didn't see this one coming, at least from the buyer's side: The consumer media division of Imaginova, which includes Space.com, LiveScience.com and Newsarama.com, has been acquired by Ogden, Utah-based online tech/reviews company TopTenReviews, for an undisclosed amount.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple to spend $4 million on Chicago subway station renovations — Apple has reportedly agreed to spend more than $4 million to renovate a Chicago subway station adjacent to a future Apple Store site, and also earned the right of first refusal to name the public transit stop.
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