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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple's iTunes Pitch: TV for $30 a Month — Would you pay $30 a month to watch TV via iTunes? — That's the pitch Apple has been making to TV networks in recent weeks. The company is trying to round up support for a monthly subscription service that would deliver TV programs via its multimedia software, multiple sources tell me.
David Mendez / OS X Daily:
Hackintosh Netbook users take note: Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update kills support for Atom Processor — It's not out in the wild yet, but 10.6.2 has been confirmed to kill support for the Intel Atom processor, this is especially important for Hackintosh users who have hacked various Atom based netbooks to run Snow Leopard.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Next Hot e-Reader: The iPhone — Yesterday at the urging of a friend, I ordered “Your Brain at Work” by David Rock on my iPod touch via the Amazon Kindle app. In doing so, I became one of many people who are helping the iPhone become more than just a phone. It's latest role: e-reader.
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Peter Farago / blog.flurry.com:
Flurry Smartphone Industry Pulse, October 2009 — The data in this report is computed from a sample size of over 2,500 applications, 40 million consumers and 4 platforms: Apple (iPhone and iPod Touch), Blackberry, JavaME and Google Android. — After Playing Games, iPhone Gets Serious about Books
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Dennis Yu / TechCrunch:
How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insider's Confession — Last night we wrote about the lead generation scams within social gaming networks. This is a guest post by Dennis Yu, the CEO of BlitzLocal, a privately held 50 person advertising agency in Denver, Colorado, specializing …
Elke Michlmayr / The Official Google Blog:
Google Search by voice travels the world, finds Nokia, learns Chinese — (Cross-posted with the Google Mobile Blog) — Google Search by voice has grown up quickly. Some might say that search by voice has matured from a toddler to a tween. It's certainly been traveling across …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
GSM DROID with multitouch pinch-to-zoom demoed on video hating America — The GSM flavor of Motorola's DROID, or Milestone as it will be known in Europe, has multitouch built-in to the UI. For reasons we can only assume have something to do with an unspoken intellectual property agreement between Google …
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Boy Genius Report:
Verizon to aim for the smartphone crown — One of our really solid connects just had some information for us and we think you're going to love it. With the Motorola DROID being Verizon's hot handset at the moment, you'd figure that the Moto would be it for a while, right?
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
A Tweet Unleashes Vitriol on a User in Britain — LONDON — In the realm of Twitter insults, it was at the far end of mild. “Much as I admire and adore the chap, they are a bit ... boring,” a Twitter user called brumplum wrote Saturday, speaking of the tweets of Stephen Fry, the British writer, actor and television personality.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype, Founders Settlement in the Works — The ongoing legal scuffle between Skype, a division of eBay, and its founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, may soon see a resolution, according to someone familiar with the situation. The parties are in discussions to resolve the various issues.
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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Do-It-Yourself iPhone Apps — Services that do the coding for you make it easy for nontechies to create iPhone apps. Applications to the Apple App Store are exploding — Justin Sullivan/Getty Images — Tom Johnson is no engineer. But that didn't stop him from creating software that helps him market his wedding-video business.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
New Netvibes Will Be World's Biggest Real-Time Feed Reader — The next version of popular web dashboard service Netvibes will push “near real-time” updates from feeds to the browser, a dramatic change in how the service works. Those feeds will be served up along with the standard suite …
Bill Carter / New York Times:
DVR, Once TV's Mortal Foe, Helps Ratings — In what may seem a media business version of the Stockholm syndrome, television network executives have fallen in love with a former tormentor: the digital video recorder. — The reason is not simply that more households own DVRs …
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Inside one of the world's largest data centers — CHICAGO—On the outside, Microsoft's massive new data center resembles the other buildings in the industrial area. — Even the inside of the building doesn't look like that much. The ground floor looks like a large indoor parking lot filled with a few parked trailers.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Windows 7's share jumps 40% in first week of release — It's an even bigger hit in Eastern Europe, where piracy abounds — Computerworld - Windows 7's market share surged nearly 40% in the week following its release, according to Web measurement company Net Applications.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
XM SkyDock now available for iPod touch and iPhone drivers — We know what iPhone owners want: Rosie O'Donnell talking on their car radios from coast-to-coast. Good, 'cause the $120 XM SkyDock is now available for purchase giving you full, touchscreen control and tagging capabilities over your in-car satellite radio.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Amazon Closes Zappos Deal, Ends Up Paying $1.2 Billion — Amazon earlier this morning announced the official closing of the acquisition of Zappos, a deal which we broke the news about back in July. Turns out the valuation of the online footwear and clothing retailer went up from the reported $928 million …
New York Times:
Comcast Said to Be Close to Gaining NBC Universal — By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN — General Electric and the cable giant Comcast have moved closer to a deal giving control of NBC Universal to Comcast, and a formal announcement could be made sometime next week, people briefed on the talks said Sunday.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google Equals Apple In Value. And Vice Versa! — People often compare market capitalization (current share price times the number of shares outstanding) for public companies as an indicator of success / failure, and one surpassing the other as a sign that one is overtaking the other …
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Rachel Shields / The Independent:
Illegal downloaders ‘spend the most on music’, says poll — People who illegally download music from the internet also spend more money on music than anyone else, according to a new study. The survey, published today, found that those who admit illegally downloading music spent an average …
Reuters:
Microsoft and OpenX forge Web ad deal — SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Online advertising start-up OpenX and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) announced a partnership to promote each other's Internet technologies to their respective customers. The deal will significantly expand the distribution …
Joe Weisenthal / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hector Ruiz Loses Chairman Job After Galleon Bust — After he was outed last week for being a tipster in the Galleon insider trading case, former AMD (AMD) CEO Hector Ruiz has stepped down as CEO Chairman of GLOBALFOUNDRIES. — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Hector Ruiz …
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Mark Davis / Sprint Connection:
Sprint's 4G service expands to Chicago, Dallas, North Carolina markets — Color in the areas of Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Charlotte, N.C., Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and Greensboro, N.C., on Sprint's widening map of 4G, fourth-generation, wireless service areas.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple's iPhone sees tepid sales debut in China — Hundreds of people showed up for the iPhone launch party in Beijing last week, but the handset failed to sell out in many Chinese stores. — Compared to iPhone debuts in the U.S. and Japan, the Chinese launch was “subdued,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
