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Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Android Will Blow Past Apple And RIM To Become Second Biggest Mobile OS This Year — Google's Android will become the second-biggest mobile operating system in the world sometime this year, according to the latest report from Gartner. — Nokia's Symbian will have more marketshare …
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Nokia:
Nokia appoints Stephen Elop to President and CEO as of September 21, 2010 — Espoo, Finland -Nokia's Board of Directors has appointed Stephen Elop President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia as of September 21. Elop currently heads Microsoft's Business Division.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Nokia Makes The Same Mistake Again: Hires A Manager, Not A Product Visionary
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TechFlash, GMSV, Computerworld, Microsoft and Daring Fireball
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Can a Microsoft man fix Nokia? Here are 6 things that have to happen
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Fast Company, Stowe Boyd and SlashGear, more at Mediagazer »
Gareth Beavis / TechRadar.com:
Google: ‘Android not optimised for tablets’ — Gingerbread seems likely to be tablet-friendly OS — Google has stated that it currently isn't using Android on any tablets, hinting that it will have a tablet-centric OS soon. — Although Gingerbread and Honeycomb have been strongly tipped …
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WMUR:
Police: Thieves Robbed Homes Based On Facebook Posts — Off-Duty Police Officer Who Heard Fireworks Credited With Cracking Case — NASHUA, N.H. — Nashua police are crediting an alert off-duty police officer who heard fireworks with cracking a burglary ring that targeted homes known to be empty because of Facebook postings.
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Bloomberg:
JPMorgan Said to Test IPhone for E-Mail as More Bankers Bypass BlackBerry — JPMorgan Chase & Co. may soon let employees use iPhones for corporate e-mail, making it an alternative to Research in Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry at the bank for the first time, two people familiar with the situation said.
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Newsday's Ad For Its iPad App Is Brilliant — Newsday just released the funniest, most clever ad for an iPad application we've ever seen. Enjoy! — Get Alerts for these topics » — Short URL … Blackboard Home » … Sponsored Link: — Receive email updates on new comments!
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Byron Acohido / USA Today:
Bing exec: Google Instant may be fast, but Bing results are smarter — Not to take anything away from the top-flight Google engineers responsible for Google Instant, but a young Australian tech geek, named Long Zheng , tweaked Microsoft's Bing search engine to do the same basic functions back in August 2009.
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Microsoft Watch, Search Engine Journal, istartedsomething, LiveSide.net and Nine By Blue, Thanks:atul
Jon Udell / O'Reilly Radar:
Twitter kills the password anti-pattern, but at what cost? — Last week Twitter ended basic name/password authentication to its API. This was announced well in advance. Still, like many procrastinators, I found myself scrambling to learn what is now the only available way to authenticate to the Twitter API: OAuth.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
How The “Focus On First” Helps Hide Google's Relevancy Problems — In January, I was invited to speak to Google's search quality team about issues I had with Google's search results. My topic? For queries where I know a subject really well, I often found Google provided some pretty poor results …
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Conversation Marketing and Google Watch
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Office for Mac 2011 coming October 26th according to Amazon — Earlier today we reported on a rumor that Office for Mac 2011 will be launching on October 27th, but tonight we've discovered otherwise. When browsing for Office for Mac 2011 on Amazon there's a noted date of October 26th …
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Computerworld, All about Microsoft Blog, Neowin.net, The Next Web, TUAW, Gizmodo and Go Rumors, Thanks:beautifulcode
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: IAC Finally Kills Off Bloglines — It's finally happened. Bloglines,the troubled RSS feed reader owned by IAC, will officially be shut down, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively. The site has had a tumultuous history, so it's unsurprising that IAC has finally put the platform out of its misery.
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The Ask.com Blog, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent, Silicon Alley Insider and The Blog Herald
Alyson Shontell / War Room:
Why I Quit My CTO Job At Facebook And Started Quora — When Adam D'Angelo quit his job as Facebook's CTO in January, the blogosphere was buzzing. — It was, after all, his second time quitting Facebook, the hottest company in Silicon Valley. — But months later, the young talent reappeared …
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BBC:
Sex movie worm spreads worldwide — The worm spreads using tricks pioneered by worms such as the ILoveYou virus — A booby-trapped e-mail that promises free sex movies is racking up victims around the world, warn security firms. — Some variants of the Windows worm contain a link to PDF that a recipient has been told to expect.
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
“Here You Have” Virus May Be Linked To Libyan Hacker
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CrunchGear, Thanks:seo_philly
Laszlo Bock / The Official Google Blog:
Responding to the fires in San Bruno — Like many friends in the Bay Area and across the country, I've been stunned by the images of raging fires in San Bruno. Nearly 40 structures have been destroyed and 120 damaged, with several fatalities and multiple injuries after the explosion of a gas line.
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple to discontinue free iPhone Bumper Case program on Sept. 30 — When Steve Jobs announced during a press conference in July that all iPhone 4 users would receive a free case, he set a deadline of September 30 to reevaluate the program. Apple has, and they will discontinue it.
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Facetime coming to iChat, Windows? — Mac4ever this morning posts that Facetime, Apple's open source video chatting protocol, will be coming to iChat very soon, adding desktop Macs to the machines that are able to video chat with Apple's camera-wielding iOS devices.
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IntoMobile, TiPb, everythingiCafe, The Next Web, Macsimum News, MacRumors, Engadget, App Advice and LOOPRumors
Russell Garland / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Venrock Shapes Up With A View To The Long Race — Founded in 1969, Venrock has roots stretching back to the 1930s, when Laurance Rockefeller began investing in a hot sector - aviation. — That history makes it one of the oldest venture firms in the business and is a telling example …
Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
The Side-Effects of Google Instant — If you haven't tried Google Instant yet, you're either not much of a Net surfer or you live outside the U.S. (where it seems Instant is slow to roll out). It's impressive, intuitive, and a little annoying, almost as if Google is trying to guess what's going on inside your head.
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Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Wordpress Channels Tumblr with Subscriptions — Blogging platform WordPress has been working hard lately to increase a sense of community on the site. Last month, WordPress.com users got the ability to “like” each others' posts and today, the site is introducing a subscription feature.
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WordPress.com News, The Blog Herald and The Next Web
Jeff Gillis / Google Analytics Blog:
More On Instant Search — Since this week's launch of Instant Search, we've been asked how to track Instant Search in Google Analytics, and in particular, whether it's possible to see partial Instant Search queries in your reports. — You actually don't need to do anything to track Instant Search queries in Google Analytics.
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Xconomy, Lauren Weinstein's Blog and The Microsoft Blog
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Provides us with a Peek at Spirals, a new iTunes UI Feature — It's no secret that Steve Jobs has had a serious cube fetish over the years. So he's decided to shake things up a bit this year and shift his passion to all things spiral and/or cylindrical.
