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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Executive Leaves After iPhone Antenna Troubles — Mark Papermaster, the Apple executive in charge of hardware for the company's flagship iPhone, has left the company in the wake of widely reported problems with the antenna of the recently introduced iPhone 4.
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Fortune, Gizmodo, The Register, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, Computerworld, Macworld, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Engadget, PadGadget, TiPb, CNET News, OnlyKent.com, Phone Arena, NBC Bay Area, Geek.com, Bloomberg, Electronista, Ars Technica, Gizmodo Australia, The Next Web, App Advice, iPhone Savior, 9 to 5 Mac, Silicon Alley Insider, Phones Review, everythingiCafe, Examiner, MacStories, iPhone Download Blog, AppleInsider and Neowin.net
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Mark Papermaster Leaves Apple; Responsible for iPhone 4 Antenna — Miguel Helft, reporting for the NYT: … From what I've heard, it's clear he was sacked. Papermaster was a conspicuous absence at the Antennagate press conference. Inside Apple, he's “the guy responsible for the antenna” …
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TechCrunch and Phones Review
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
HP after Hurd: May the CEO guessing game begin — The abrupt resignation of HP CEO Mark Hurd will spark a lot of speculation about his successor. Who will run HP next? — As analyzed earlier, Hurd stepped down over a sexual harassment claim. A few key facts: — Hurd resigned.
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SFGate, Pulse2, WebProNews, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, Deal Journal, Techie Buzz, Digital Daily, CNET News and Geek.com
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
H.P. Ousts Chief for Hiding Payments to Friend
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Gawker, CNBC, Daring Fireball, I4U News, Engadget, Silicon Alley Insider, Business Wire, MacNN and TechFlash
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Why would Mark Hurd take such risks as the head of HP?
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CNET News, HP and Silicon Alley Insider
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla plans to silently update Firefox — Joins Google, Adobe in auto-update movement to take patching out of users' hands — Computerworld - Taking a page from rival Google's playbook, Mozilla plans to introduce silent, behind-the-scenes security updating to Firefox 4.
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Chuck Falzone / AndroidGuys:
First Look at New HTC/Verizon World Phone — AndroidGuys.com has just received exclusive photos of a new HTC Android phone that will not be released by Verizon til 2011. The Verizon-branded prototype also included a Vodaphone SIM card, indicating that it will run on both CDMA and GSM networks.
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Fortune, Gizmodo, Androinica, Gizmodo Australia, Gadgetell, Phones Review, Engadget, Teens in Tech, Softpedia News, Fone Arena and EuroDroid
Tech Eye:
Mobile ads will be as annoying as TV ads — It was only a matter of time before smartphones started to get irritating, and we mean more irritating than the novelty alarm which wakes you up before the morning slog to work. TV ad irritating, Go Compare irritating, Compare the Meerkat irritating.
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Wall Street Journal
Abdullah Al-Shihri / Associated Press:
Saudi reaches deal on BlackBerry, avoiding ban — RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia and the makers of the BlackBerry have reached a preliminary deal on granting access to users' data that will avert a ban on the phone's messenger service in the kingdom, Saudi officials said Saturday.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Digg To AOL Exodus Claims Biz Dev VP Bob Buch — Former Digg biz dev head Bob Buch will as of Monday take on a new role as AOL's VP of Business Development. Buch will be joining Digg's former Chief Strategy Officer Mike Maser, former Marketing Manager Aubrey Sabala, and former Head …
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
SoftLayer, The Planet Outline Merger Plans — SoftLayer Technologies and The Planet are discussing a blockbuster merger that will make the combined entity one of the world's largest providers of web hosting and cloud computing services. The new company will have more than 25,000 customers and manage more than 78,000 servers.
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Houston Chronicle and www.thehostingnews.com
Brad Linder / Liliputing:
Don't bank on KMart's $150 Augen tablet getting Android Market access — When KMart started advertising that the Augen GenTouch78 tablet which the store was selling for $150 would have access to the Android Market, I was skeptical. Google may not review every app in the Android Market with as much rigor …
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LAPTOP Mag, TeleRead, GottaBeMobile, Engadget and Gadgetell
Vivek Wadhwa / TechCrunch:
Why We Need To Abolish Software Patents — During my tech days, I co-authored four software patents. Each cost my startup about $15,000—which seemed like a fortune in those days. I didn't really expect these to give me any advantage; after all if my competitors had half a brain …
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Sadagopan's weblog …
Jim Harper / Wall Street Journal:
It's Modern Trade: Web Users Get as Much as They Give — If you surf the web, congratulations! You are part of the information economy. Data gleaned from your communications and transactions grease the gears of modern commerce. Not everyone is celebrating, of course.
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dantynan's blog and Technology Liberation Front
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Nicholas Carr / Wall Street Journal:
Tracking Is an Assault on Liberty, With Real Dangers
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Rough Type
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Big Macs on campus — In five years, Apple has switched places with Dell as the student laptop of choice — Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) dropped nearly 2.5% in the opening hour of trading Wednesday thanks in part to a downgrade by Global Equities Research's Trip Chowdhry that included this bulletpoint:
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Education IT Blog and 9 to 5 Mac
