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Sydney Morning Herald:
Apple shops tablet around Australia — Apple is preparing to release a groundbreaking tablet computer in Australia and around the world early next year and has been in discussions with media companies about including their content on the device. — The tablet is tipped to be a larger version of the iPhone.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Phil Schiller: No More Apple Products This Year [Update: Apple Called] — People are mumbling about incoming this and that “coming soon” from Apple. Normally, we don't have a clue about what really goes one at Cupertino. Sometimes, however, we hit gold, lurking in the dark. Others, we get The Word.
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EverythingiCafe, 9 to 5 Mac, TheAppleBlog, AppleInsider, The Loop, I4U News, MacRumors and TUAW
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
What Does the New York Times Really Know About Apple's Tablet? “I Ain't Sayin',” Says Editor Bill Keller. — Leave it to the Apple-obsessed to go nuts over a three-word phrase in a week-old video of a two-week-old event. But that's what they did yesterday.
Android Developers Blog:
Announcing Android 2.0 support in the SDK! — I am excited to announce that the Android SDK now supports Android 2.0 (also known as Eclair). — Android 2.0 brings new developer APIs for sync, Bluetooth, and a few other areas. Using the new sync, account manager and contacts APIs …
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Computerworld, eWeek, internetnews.com, CNET News, MobileTechWorld, BetaNews, developer.android.com, The Unlockr, The Mark Bao Journal, Engadget Mobile, Mashable!, MacRumors, Android and Me, Google Android News …, PhoneNews.com, infoSync World, AndroidGuys, Android Central, IntoMobile, InformationWeek, Android Phone Fans, Boy Genius Report, 9 to 5 Mac, Daring Fireball, SlashGear, Erictric, dailywireless.org, Ubergizmo, jkOnTheRun, Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog and Pocket-lint.com, Thanks:atul
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Android 2.0 Official: It's the Android We've Been Waiting For — This is it: The official video laying out Android 2.0's new features, to go along with 2.0 support hitting the SDK today. Man, Android 2.0 is nice. — Highlights of Android 2. revealed in the video are a new contacts setup …
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ReadWriteWeb, Download Squad, internetnews.com, App Advice, MobileCrunch, AppScout and Electronista
Pierre Lebeau / Google Voice Blog:
Google Voice with your existing number — Google Voice is all about enabling choice: which phone you pick up your calls on, where to review your voicemail messages, how to send and reply to text messages, etc. So when it comes to your phone number, it was logical for us to also offer a choice of which number to use with Google Voice.
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Computerworld, BusinessWeek, The Official Google Blog, WebProNews, Search Engine Watch, Boy Genius Report, GigaOM, internetnews.com, BerryReview.com, Search Engine Land, CNET News, Understanding Google …, PreCentral.net, jkOnTheRun, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Gadgetell, I4U News, Google Watch, WMExperts, Gearlog, Disruptive Telephony, Telecompetitor and Engadget, Thanks:atul
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Google Voice Can Now Take Control Of Your Mobile Voicemail
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Electronista, Agence France Presse, Computerworld, Inc.com, Advocate's Studio and dailywireless.org
Boy Genius Report:
Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris launching November 6th on Verizon — One of our connects hit us up and informed us that the much-awaited Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris will be launching on the same day of November 6th. We previously heard from another source that Droid Eris would launch on the 6th …
Zee / TNW Appetite:
It's Official. Google Wave to Get Its Own App Store (with potentially more than just apps) — My fellow writer James Glick attended the Google Wave GTUG (Google Technology User Group) meeting in London yesterday and came away with a few interesting nuggets of information regarding the future of Google Wave.
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WebProNews, Mobilewhack.com, Fast Company, Maximum PC, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Download Squad, Erictric, TechRadar.com and Mashable!, Thanks:mgcreed
John P. Falcone / Crave: The gadget blog:
Roku introduces two new set-tops, teases additional content channels coming next month — Roku is prepping its set-top box line for the holiday season by adding two new models and new content “channels” due within the coming weeks. — The step-up Roku HD XR Player ($130) adds faster 802.11n.
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Contentinople, Ars Technica, BetaNews, NewTeeVee, Engadget, Computerworld, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Technologizer, Gearlog, TECH.BLORGE.com, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Zatz Not Funny!, OhGizmo!, The Business Of Online Video and Beet.TV, Thanks:beet_tv
AWS Evangelist / Amazon Web Services Blog:
Introducing Amazon RDS - The Amazon Relational Database Service — We are always looking for ways to make it faster, simpler, and more fun to develop applications of all types. Every hour that you don't spend fiddling with hardware, tracing cables, installing operating systems or managing databases …
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The Register, Industry Standard, All Things Distributed, VentureBeat, eWeek, Data Center Knowledge, CloudAve, Softpedia News, GigaOM, OakLeaf Systems, CNET News, The Mark Bao Journal and TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
InvestorPlace.com:
Apple Soars Behind iPhone 3GS Momentum — By Paul Carton, Director of Research, ChangeWave Research — These are heady times for the smart phone market, with consumer buying plans near record levels. Moreover, electronics spending in general shows signs of a pick up.
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All Things Digital, AppleInsider, CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac, Brainstorm Tech, Electronista, BlackBerry Cool and MacDailyNews
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
VMWare Fusion 3.0 - shipping today — With Windows 7 out the breech and Snow Leopard already purring on many Macs, news that VMWare Fusion 3.0 ships today, October 27, is well-timed. — You may have missed the brilliant weekend deal which enabled you to pick up a copy …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Microsoft's MSN Is in Early Talks With MySpace About Music Tie-Up — Microsoft's MSN is in preliminary talks with MySpace about using the social networking site's music service, MySpace Music, to help power music offerings on the giant portal. — While sources at both companies cautioned …
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Fast Company, Tech Trader Daily, Computerworld, paidContent, NEWS.com.au, Contentinople, WebProNews, Pulse2, MediaFile and Softpedia News
Liang Chen / business.globaltimes.cn:
Google accused of ‘malicious revenge’ — Google, the search-engine giant, is in the spotlight again after blocking the book channel of the People's Daily website, allegedly for having carried stories about Google's recent copyright conflict with Chinese writers.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Gawker Scammed By Malware Crew Pretending To Be Suzuki — Gawker Media just got scammed by a malware company pretending to be Suzuki. — The “ads” crashed readers' browsers, and, in some cases, installed spyware. — Gawker—no babes in the woods on this issue—have been kind enough …
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BBC, Zero Day, Gizmodo, The Register, Graham Cluley's blog, the Econsultancy blog, Threat Level and The Blog Herald
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo To Launch Real Time Search, Too — Not wanting to be left completely behind, Yahoo will soon launch their own real time search engine too. But unlike Microsoft and Google, they won't be partnering with Twitter and Facebook directly for the data (perhaps memories of their ill-fated blog search engine from 2005 linger).
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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Diller eyes deal making with possible Ask.com sale — * Q3 rev down 9 pct due to weaker ad sales — * Shares up 1 percent. — * Open to consolidation in search business (Adds analyst comments, CEO comments, new first sentence) — Barry Diller may be about to hang a ‘for sale’ on Ask.com …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
The Shopping Spree Continues; Cisco Buys ScanSafe For $183 Million — Cisco has added another company to its coffers with the acquisition of ScanSafe for $183 million. A few weeks ago, Cisco announced a $2.9 billion acquisition of mobile networking infrastructure provider Starent Networks …
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Cisco, Between the Lines, The Register, VentureBeat, Maximum PC, eWeek, CNET News, Digital Daily and internetnews.com
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Facebook Password Reset Confirmation Email Contains Virus [ALERT] — Another new virus is spreading through social networks, this time, via Facebook. This one - known as Bredolab - masks itself as a “Password Reset Confirmation Email,” appears to come from Facebook, and attaches a file that purports to contain a new password.
David Carnoy / Crave: The gadget blog:
Apple set to raise curtain on fourth Manhattan store — While it was confirmed several months ago that Apple would be opening a fourth Manhattan retail store on the Upper West Side, the company appears to be just days away from taking the wraps off the somewhat secretive project.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Global Phone Number Provider iNum Brings HD Voice Calling To Skype — Tomorrow at the eComm Europe 2009 event, Brussels-based provider of international VoIP origination services and telephone numbers Voxbone will be officially announcing that its global phone number service iNum …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Barnes & Noble Won't Sell Nook To Go In All Stores — Its 700-plus U.S. stores should give Barnes & Noble an edge in the contest for e-reader dollars but many won't be selling the actual Nook on site. Instead, I was told as a customer, the booksellers will order a device for in-store customers …
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Engadget, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Gadget Lab, GottaBeMobile.com, Gizmodo and Gadgetell
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple: How Long a Rally? — Most analysts see further gains in Apple's stock price, but the bigger the company gets, the harder it will be to achieve game-changing growth — The rally that propelled Apple's shares to a record has sparked debate over how much further the stock could rise …
Robert Werlinger / PreCentral.net:
Pre to hit AT&T Soon? — We already know that the Pre is coming to Verizon in early 2010, but we're wondering if AT&T is going to get on the train. A tipster, in attendance of the Sprint Open Developers Conference has informed us that Palm gave a demo of the Pre running on AT&T's network just hours ago.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Old Trick Threatens the Newest Weapons — Despite a six-year effort to build trusted computer chips for military systems, the Pentagon now manufactures in secure facilities run by American companies only about 2 percent of the more than $3.5 billion of integrated circuits bought annually for use in military gear.
