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Paul Miller / Engadget:
The new Apple TV for $99 — Steve Jobs just pulled out the world famous “one more thing” for nothing other than... a new Apple TV. It's now a streaming-focused device (as we predicted months ago) in a small matte black enclosure we're calling “the hockey puck.”
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Avner Ronen / Boxee Blog:
How Boxee Sees the Apple TV — Most of us at Boxee are Apple fanboys. If it is silver and it has the Apple logo on it, we pre-order it. If there's a line around the block, chances are we're in it. And everything stops at Boxee HQ while we unbox the latest gadget to come out of Cupertino.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's The Difference Between Apple TV And Google TV — Steve Jobs' Apple TV announcement today highlighted the huge difference between his company's efforts in the living room and Google's forthcoming Google TV. — Specifically, Google wants to turn your TV into a computer.
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Bill / The Official Netflix Blog:
Netflix comes to Apple TV
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Leland Rechis / Twitter Blog:
Twitter for iPad: Sharing content in Tweets — People are increasingly sharing different types of information on Twitter. For example, Tweets point to web pages, photos, videos, hashtags, people, check-ins, and more. Exploring Tweets is a great way to discover new and interesting information.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Twitter for iPad review — It's no secret that Twitter for iPhone (née Tweetie) is often regarded as the gold standard for mobile apps — it blends functionality, performance, and usability together with a dash of playful quirkiness that works so well Twitter just bought the app …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
iTunes 10 Is All About Ping, Apple's Social Network for Music — Ping is Apple's music social network that lives inside of iTunes—it's all about music discovery. Like Twitter, you can follow and be followed—your friends to see what they're listening to, or artists like Lady Gaga.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Ping Is the Future of Social Commerce — Apple announced on Wednesday a cornucopia of new hardware and software: sleek iPods, a brand new Internet-enabled video streaming device and new versions of its iOS software and iTunes 10. However, the most impressive to me by far was Ping …
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Zee / The Next Web:
iTunes 10 is Now Available for Download — Read updates first. — When officially out, you will be able to download iTunes 10 here, details of the release here and Apple's new social network “Ping” here. — Update: Although the site appears to show the download link for iTunes 10, the download itself is still 9.2.1.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Preview: Apple's Ping Music Social Network In Action On iOS [Pictures]
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Terry Myerson / Windows Phone Blog:
Windows Phone 7 - Released To Manufacturing — Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we're very excited to say that we've reached the biggest milestone for our internal team - the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Phone 7!
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Windows Phone 7 is done, with some extra Facebook integration
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Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Apple Announces The New iPod Touch: Dual Cameras, Retina Screen — Apple unveiled the new iPod touch today at their special event, along with several other music- and media-related devices. Of course, we've been hearing murmurs and leaks about it for some time now, and the new device pretty much tallies with our expectations.
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
iPod nano redesigned: smaller, lighter, better and costing $149 for 8GB or $179 for 16GB — Apple has just revealed its 6th generation iPod nano, which has been outfitted with just about the boldest redesign the portable media player has experienced yet. Gone is the clickwheel …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple's New iPod Touch and iPod Nano Commercials
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Jobs: Hey Google, We're Activating 230,000 NEW iOS Devices A Day
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AppleInsider:
iOS 4.2 for iPad coming in November, adds wireless printing and Air Play
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AppleInsider:
Apple's iOS 4.1 ships for iPhone next week, will add HDR photos
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Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Apple iPod touch Makes Play for Gaming Market
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Making Extraordinary Counteroffers To Stop Flow Of Employees To Facebook — Facebook is in what's called a recruiting sweet spot right now. Out of control growth in users and revenue and a nearly certain IPO run in the near future. That's when employee growth expands at the greatest rate …
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Connor Lanman / The Windows Blog:
Double rainbows in Redmond — ...as I said, “more to come”. — You may have heard of the Double Rainbow Video. The guy who filmed this, Paul “Bear” Vasquez, lives in Yosemite and in the past month has gotten huge traffic for his ‘vivid’ reaction to that double rainbow.
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Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Plan for nationwide free wireless broadband finally shot down — For four years the Federal Communications Commission tossed the idea around like a beach ball: a coast-to-coast free wireless service across the low end of the 2GHz “AWS-3” band. The service would pay for itself via advertisements …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
FCC seeks comment on two key elements of Google-Verizon net neutrality proposal
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David / TmoNews:
And Just Like That, T-Mobile G2 Pricing — So we've seen images, have a great guess at a release date and a pretty decent idea as to what to expect inside the device. How about price, you guys want to know price don't you? Well as the above image shows the price of the T-Mobile G2 …
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Amazon streaming 99-cent ABC and Fox shows... right now (update: purchases, not rentals!) — Eager to get on the new Apple TV's cheap 99-cent TV show rentals but not so pumped to wait four weeks for it to ship? No worries: Amazon's also now offering 99-cent [rentals] purchases of various ABC and FOX shows …
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Your Own Hot Spot, and Cheap — Someday, they'll build wireless Internet into every building, just the way they build in running water, heat and electricity today. Someday, we won't have to drive around town looking for a coffee shop when we need to check our e-mail.
Vinicius Vacanti / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yelp's First Daily Deal In San Francisco Gives Groupon A Beating — Yesterday, Yelp ran its first daily deal in San Fancisco, and it killed. — Yelp's first deal was for a massage in San Francisco, which are relatively common in the daily deal space — a $110 massage for $49 from the well-reviewed Psoas Massage + Bodywork.
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