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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple tablet: For video, not books? — Chatting with a Canadian analyst, Cupertino execs offer hints about Apple's future plans — Apple executives (AAPL) have strict rules about not discussing products that the company has not announced. But they'll talk about market opportunities …
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Ars Technica, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, TECH.BLORGE.com, MacNN, Computerworld, Macsimum News and 9 to 5 Mac
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
How Google Voice Is Growing — The call-management service has more than 1 million users and may be expanded abroad, Google tells U.S. regulators — In response to questions by U.S. regulators, Google (GOOG) handed over information about the number of users for its Google Voice communication service …
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CNET News, Between the Lines, Silicon Alley Insider, AppScout, WMExperts and PC Magazine, Thanks:atul
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Introducing Cisco's FlipShare TV — How I love thee, FCC, and thy never-ending bounty of product announcements. Scanning through the filings this evening, I solved the Flip remote control radiation test report mystery. After perusing the unreleased “FlipShare TV” product manual …
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Silicon Alley Insider, CrunchGear, NewTeeVee, SlashGear, Electricpig.co.uk, I4U News, TechVi and Engadget
Lex Friedman / Macworld:
Ad man behind ‘1984,’ ‘Think Different,’ and 'I'm a Mac' stepping down — PEOPLE WHO READ THIS ALSO READ: — Lee Clow has served as the chief creative officer TBWA/Media Arts Lab, which handles Apple's advertising business, for a long time. Clow is the man behind Apple's iconic “1984” …
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Kunur Patel / AdAge:Duncan Milner Ascends at TBWA/Media Arts Lab
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MediaPost, AppleInsider, Silicon Alley Insider, The Huffington Post, Macsimum News and MacNN
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
ICANN Moves Ahead With Non-Latin Web Addresses (Video) — As expected, regulatory body ICANN has approved plans to let web addresses be written in non-Latin characters in a move that it calls the “biggest technical change” to how the Internet works since its invention four decades ago.
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Download Squad, Guardian, eWeek, Ars Technica, Epicenter, Computerworld, ICANN, Switched, Reuters, The Mac Observer and CircleID
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Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPhone launches in China, faces challenges — Apple's iPhone launched in China this morning, but the introduction of the hot US product has hit a little snag - the first iterations to reach market lack WiFI, even though local law was recently changed to permit inclusion of support for the standard.
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Andrew Heining / Christian Science Monitor:
Google's fade-in homepage confuses — It's no bar code logo, but Google's latest home page experiment has some searching for an explanation. — The search giant has always been a fan of minimalist design, but its latest trick - a google.com that loads with simply a white page …
Venture Capital Dispatch:
For Facebook And Zappos, Two Divergent Views Of Its Employees — For fast-growing technology start-ups, there are many approaches to employee hiring and retention. — Two of the more successful Internet start-ups, Facebook Inc. and Zappos Inc., have very different methods …
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
27-inch iMacs having performance issues? — It's not at all clear what the root cause of the problem is, but we've noticed a big uptick in people complaining about performance issues on new 27-inch iMacs on Apple's support boards. The most common symptom seems to be incredibly slow Flash video playback …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, I4U News, T3.com News, The Next Web, Electricpig and TUAW
BillShrink Guy / Shrinkage Is Good:
Total Cost of Ownership: Motorola Droid vs iPhone 3GS vs Palm Pre vs MyTouch 3G — After months and months of blogger buzz and a heavy veil of secrecy, the new Motorola Droid by Verizon Wireless is set to launch within days, just in time for the holiday season.
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Bing / Search Blog:
Bing for mobile now live at m.bing.com — Today we released an update to the Bing for mobile browser at m.bing.com. In addition to being a great resource for local searches, quick answers, and maps, we have some new features to tell you about: — NFL feature - type a team or player and see upcoming games, stats, and scores.
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mocoNews, All about Microsoft, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, AppScout, WMExperts and geeksmack.net
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services — Starting November 16, Microsoft is ending distribution and sales of its Microsoft Office Accounting product. Company officials began notifying customers of the decision on October 30. — All Microsoft Office Accounting products …
Tameka Kee / mocoNews:
Admitting Defeat, Nokia To Pull Plug On N-Gage Games Platform — Nokia is shutting down N-Gage, its beleaguered, two-year-old mobile games service. The company will still sell N-Gage games through the end of September 2010, and players will still be able to interact via the N-Gage Arena, but after that the service will go dark.
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Digits, BetaNews, Reuters, N-Gage, Engadget, InformationWeek, CellPassion, Electronista and Phone Scoop, Thanks:josephtartakoff
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Twitter Tricks And Treats For Halloween — Twitter tweeted out a message today about a special Halloween feature if you Tweet “#trick” or “#treat.” It was difficult to figure out at first, but if you tweet either from your Twitter home page (this is key, you can't enable the feature …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Tortures Little Kids With Bing Jingle — Maybe you'll recall when I ripped apart the Bing jingle winner back in August. It was bad — real bad. But its creator, Jonathan Mann is a talented guy, and even made a jingle ripping me, which was both better than the Bing one, and funny.
Jason Snell / Macworld:
Marvel Comics come to iPhone — Excelsior! Comixology, makers of the free comic-book app Comics, have brought one of the “big two” comics publishers to the iPhone for the first time. — On Thursday the company announced that, effective immediately, several comics from Marvel Comics …
MIT:
MIT researchers develop Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) — MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project is a collaboration between …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
How Sanjay Jha Overhauled Motorola's Culture — Sanjay Jha seems to be on track to pull Motorola's cellphone division out of a tailspin. — The company is hardly flying high. It reported ever-so-slightly better than expected third-quarter earnings Thursday morning (meaning it earned a penny a share …
Biz / Twitter Blog:
There's a List for That — We're putting the finishing touches on our new Lists feature and we're really excited about the folks who have already taken a lot of time creating awesome lists. From the @time list of funny people to your own list of people who make you laugh …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Bling Nation Raises $20 Million For Cell Phone Payment System — What recession? Startup Bling Nation just raised $20 million in Series B funding from Balderton Capital for a new cell phone payment system. This brings the startup's total funding to $33 million since its launch in 2007.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Apple, AT&T Hit With Another iPhone MMS Class Action — It isn't the first, and I assume it's not going to be the last either. — Apple and AT&T are facing a new putative class action from an iPhone user who alleges that the companies misrepresented the phone's MMS (multimedia messaging service) capabilities.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Platform Live Status Now Up And Running — For any Facebook developer, platform downtime is a fact of life. While Facebook has built a relatively stable platform, there are many occasions where it goes down for a period of time. For developers this can be extremely difficult …
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Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Vuze CEO on TV Everywhere, competition (uh, or lack thereof) — Gilles BianRosa, CEO of online video sharing service Vuze, is surrounded by startup carnage. — He's seen the failure of many entrepreneurs trying to create online video distribution sites. Others have had to rewrite …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Is Google's Behavioral Targeting A Bust? Only 25 Percent Of AdSense Publishers Use It — For advertisers on the Web, behavioral targeting is held out as the nirvana they've been waiting for: the ability to show ads only to those people most likely to be interested in them based on their past behavior.
Steven Musil / CNET News:
Facebook awarded $711 million in spam lawsuit — Facebook was awarded $711 million in damages in a judgment Thursday against self-described “spam king” Sanford Wallace. — Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California granted Facebook's application …
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Wall Street Journal:
Net Neutrality: Spur to Entrepreneurship . . . An open wireless network will unleash investment. — Printer — Friendly — Last Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed a rule intended to preserve the ability of individuals to access all lawful content …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Going Full Gilt: DailyCandy Gets Into Sample-Sale Game — Like a lot of media companies that rely on advertising revenue these days, DailyCandy is eager to diversify its revenue streams. To that end, the Comcast-owned fashion and lifestyles site and e-newsletter has introduced Swirl …
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