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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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Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Microsoft workers celebrated Windows Phone 7 RTM with iPhone hearses — Microsoft workers celebrated the release to manufacturing of Windows Phone 7 by parading through their Redmond campus on Friday with iPhone and BlackBerry hearses. — Employees dressed up in fancy dress and also modified cars to include Windows Phone branding.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Where Was Android In Microsoft's iPhone Funeral Procession? Taking The Pictures — Microsoft is a company that doesn't seem to be too concerned with saying outlandish things that may or may not result in the company having to remove a foot from its own mouth. This happens from the top on down.
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Ina Fried / Crave: The gadget blog:
Windows Phone 7 to hit Broadway Oct. 11 — Microsoft plans to hold a consumer press event in New York next month that will serve as, among other things, a formal kick-off for Windows Phone 7, CNET has confirmed. — The October 11 event isn't a pure Windows Phone launch, but rather a consumer-focused …
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Anupreeta Das / Wall Street Journal:
GoDaddy Is on the Block — GoDaddy.com, the closely-held company that registers Internet domain names, has put itself up for sale in an auction that could fetch more than $1 billion, people familiar with the matter said. — Qatalyst Partners, the boutique firm run by veteran technology …
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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Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T, Verizon, Sprint to Carry New Samsung Tablet — Samsung Electronics Co. has cut deals with Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp. and AT&T Inc. to carry its new Google-powered tablet computer, three people familiar with the matter said, a significant step as Samsung tries to take on Apple Inc.'s hot-selling iPad.
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AppleInsider:
Apple to move aggressively on FaceTime, camera-equipped iPads — Apple's iPad is unlikely to endure the company's traditional 12-month product cycle for iOS device refreshes before seeing its first major enhancements, AppleInsider has been told. — A version of the tablet device with a built …
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TechCrunch, MacRumors, Crave, Engadget Mobile, SlashGear, iClarified and Android Community
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Facetime coming to iChat, Windows?
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
A Time Capsule of Mark Zuckerberg From 2005 — Sometimes you have to admit that winners can see the future far before the rest of us. They might zig or zag on the way, but they have a clear idea of who they are, what they're doing, and where they want to head.
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Geoff Price / Office For Mac:
Office for Mac 2011 hits RTM — Houston, we have RTM! It's a big Friday in MacBU as we are celebrating the “Release to Manufacturing” of Office for Mac 2011. This means we've signed off on final testing and the product is officially getting sent on its way to production and to customers.
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AppleInsider, Neowin.net and Erictric
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Office for Mac 2011 coming October 26th according to Amazon
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Macworld, PC Magazine, The Next Web, Neowin.net, All about Microsoft Blog, TUAW, Gizmodo and Go Rumors, Thanks:beautifulcode
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.
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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Revamps Mail Service — Makeover Comes as Service Faces Slide in Users Amid Competition From Rivals — Yahoo Inc. is redesigning its email service to help stem a user decline and counter offerings from longtime rivals Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. as well as social-networking services such as Facebook and Twitter.
Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
Stanford student creates YouTube Instant, gets job offer from YouTube CEO — Stanford student Feross Aboukhadijeh, in a nod to the recent unveiling of Google Instant, has created a real-time search engine for YouTube videos — and it's caught the attention of YouTube CEO Chad Hurley.
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NewTeeVee, MediaMemo, Fast Company, Silicon Alley Insider, Engadget, Urlesque and PE Hub Blog, Thanks:atul
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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Bits, PadGadget, MediaMemo, TUAW and Laughing Squid
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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Fast Company, Microsoft Watch and Search Engine Journal, Thanks:atul
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Shashi Seth / Yahoo! Search Blog:
Back to the Future: Innovation is Alive in Search
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Gaurav Shukla / Androidos.in:
The Truth about $35 Android Tablet from Indian Government — Quick Note: What you are going to read now, I had never expected to write that but what can I do; the desire for cheap publicity has landed our government in this. I just wish that i am not true, but facts are in front of you.
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CrunchGear, Mobile Magazine, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans and Ubergizmo, Thanks:gauravshukla
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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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Can a Microsoft man fix Nokia? Here are 6 things that have to happen — Nokia has named Stephen Elop CEO beginning Sept. 21. Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will step down over 30 years that saw Nokia surge to be a global mobile leader, branch out into software and then lose momentum to Research in Motion, Apple and Android.
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Nokia:
Nokia appoints Stephen Elop to President and CEO as of September 21, 2010
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