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Robert Andrews / mocoNews:
‘Nokia Is Back’ And Ballsy; 'We're Not Sorry We're Not Apple' — Nokia's beaten-down top dogs opened their annual Nokia (NYSE: NOK) World show in London Tuesday morning with a blunt and rousing pep talk and a direct riposte to their competitors. — “We're not going to apologise for the fact …
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Mobile Entertainment, Nokia, IntoMobile, Bloomberg, MobileCrunch, Digital Daily, Guardian, DailyFinance, Boy Genius Report, Gadget Lab, Ars Technica, Electronista, Jonny Evans's blog, Fast Company, Phone Arena, BBC, The Register, Telegraph, Silicon Alley Insider, Gearlog, GigaOM, TechEye, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, Inquirer, WebProNews, Go Rumors, Softpedia News and Engadget
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Michael Gartenberg / SlashGear:
A Week with the Nokia N8: Can Symbian Survive?
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broadstuff and Engadget
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
HDCP ‘master key’ supposedly released, unlocks HDTV copy protection permanently — Just as the MPAA is preparing to offer movies to customers at home while they're still in theaters by limiting playback to DRM-protected digital outputs only, the HDCP protocol they rely on may have been cracked wide open.
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BetaNews, Computerworld, Ars Technica, Inquirer, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Slyck, Geek.com, Geekosystem, Boing Boing, I4U News, gHacks Technology News, TechSpot, TechCrunch, DailyTech, Techdirt, Electronista, TeleRead, GeekSmack, Neowin.net and MacNN
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Nielsen: Bing Passes Yahoo To Become #2 Search Engine — According to Nielsen data out this morning Microsoft's Bing has passed Yahoo to become the number two search engine in the US. Nielsen says that Google's August share is 65% (and growth is flat) but that Bing and Yahoo have now switched places:
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PC World, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, MediaPost, Nielsen Wire, GigaOM, Ars Technica, mocoNews, Bits, Search Engine Watch, Tnooz, GeekSmack, Thoughts from the Sidelines, BoomTown, msnbc.com, Softpedia News, The Next Web, John Battelle's Searchblog, CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Trader Daily, FierceWireless and The Huffington Post
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Bing overtakes Yahoo, and that's not a good thing — Short-sighted armchair analysts, pundits and Microsoft managers will rejoice in Bing snatching the No. 2 spot from Yahoo in U.S. search share. Everyone should cool their jets. Yahoo's losses are Microsoft's losses.
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Microsoft Watch and Seattle Times
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
QOTD: The Ninja Throwing Stars? They're For My Friend Larry Ellison ... Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs said he'll never come back to Japan after officials at an airport barred him from taking Ninja throwing stars aboard his private plane, SPA! magazine reported in its latest issue.
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Bloomberg, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, Geekosystem, eSarcasm, TechCrunch, Gadget Lab, Fortune, msnbc.com, Network World, The Register, Boing Boing, The Next Web, TiPb, Gearlog, Techland, Geek.com, The Loop, MacRumors, MacNN, everythingiCafe and iClarified
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Google Zeitgeist: Cirque de Soleil and Free Google TVs — Quite an Oprah moment at Google (GOOG) Zeitgeist today. A source who's attending the event — which is being held in Paradise Valley, Arizona this year — tells me that its 600 attendees were given a doozy of a parting gift: Google TV, 6 months of Dish service and a Bravia TV.
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eHomeUpgrade, Andy Beard, Silicon Alley Insider and Electronista
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Employees Excited About Twitter's “Big Night” Tonight, But Aren't Giving Much Away — Like just about everyone else in the Bay Area media business, we were instructed yesterday to show up at Twitter for “an event” taking place around 4 PM PT or so. The invite itself gives absolutely no hints …
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ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, Neon Tommy and Mobile Entertainment, Thanks:atul
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
How to get a job at Google, interview questions, hiring process — The Google hiring process is designed to hire the most talented, creative, and articulate people in the world who will be the best fit for Google. The Google culture is different. You notice it the moment you walk on campus.
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Google Watch and The Next Web, Thanks:dondodge
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter is NOT a Social Network, Says Twitter Exec — Kevin Thau, Twitter's VP for business and corporate development, announced during a presentation at Nokia World 2010 today that everyone's favorite micro-blogging network is not actually a social network. — It's not, you say?
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Pretzel Logic, Download Squad and The Next Web
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ron Conway's Confidential Investment Guide: The Tech Megatrends — Angel investors SV Angel, led by Ron Conway invests so early in startups that he looks mostly at the team and current tech trends when making investment decisions. — Last year he was focusing on real time and location startups.
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ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider and broadstuff
Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
IBM Chief Slams H-P — International Business Machines Corp. chief Samuel J. Palmisano stepped into the debate around Hewlett-Packard Co., sharply criticizing his rival for its expensive acquisition of 3PAR Inc. and giving a large severance package to former chief executive Mark Hurd.
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Zillow Replaces C.E.O. and Hints at a Public Offering — Is Zillow, the real estate Web site, getting ready to go public? — On Tuesday, Zillow announced that its co-founder and chief executive, Rich Barton, would step down as chief executive and become executive chairman.
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GigaOM, The Digital Home, The Seattle Times, Local Onliner, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, BoomTown and PE Hub Blog
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Nokia hires Peter Skillman, former Palm Design VP, as MeeGo user experience chief (update: confirmed) — Now this, this is what we call exciting. Nokia has managed to scoop up Peter Skillman from the wreckage of the HP/Palm merger. One of the many senior VPs to leave Palm upon its assimilation …
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VentureBeat, Boy Genius Report, Electronista and PreCentral.net
Pew Internet:
The Rise of Apps Culture — Some 35% of U.S. adults have software applications or “apps” on their phones, yet only 24% of adults use those apps. Many adults who have apps on their phones, particularly older adults, do not use them, and 11% of cell owners are not sure if their phone is equipped with apps.
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MediaPost, ReadWriteWeb, Post Tech, CNET News, Hillicon Valley, Nieman Journalism Lab and textually.org, more at Mediagazer »
Ben Bowers / Engadget:
Google TV officially launching October 17th? — It's been no secret that Google TV is scheduled to arrive sometime this fall and we've already seen the Logitech Revue box hardware pass the FCC, but a tipster has just shared an internal Best Buy document with us disclosing …
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The Toybox Blog, The Digital Home, TechSpot, Fortune, GeekSugar, Gadgetell, Go Rumors, Fast Company, I4U News, Androidos.in, Ubergizmo, GeekSmack and Pulse2
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Evan Williams Coughed Up $7,500 For Twitter.com Back In The Day — Mid-2006, when Twitter was born, the domain name Twitter.com changed hands for $7,500, chief executive and co-founder Evan Williams tweeted yesterday night. — Roughly four years, 145 million users and 300,000 third-party applications later …
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Silicon Alley Insider, Domain Name Wire and Computerworld
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
DEMO: Parallels launches mobile virtualization app for iPad and iPhone — Parallels is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.
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The Microsoft Blog, jkOnTheRun and down the avenue
Tom Abate / San Francisco Chronicle:
Instead of IPOs, startups look to be acquired — The market for initial public offerings remains badly broken in the aftermath of the financial panic of 2008, but its malaise began even earlier. — “The ecosystem that allowed young companies to go public has been destroyed,” …
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MediaPost and Silicon Alley Insider
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Samsung's i8700 Windows Phone 7 handset goes through the video leak ritual — It's well known around these parts that if you aspire to be a highly desirable smartphone, you have to leak out in three clearly delineated stages: pictures, video, and specs. We've seen the i8700 a couple …
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Thoughts from the Sidelines, Electronista, MobileCrunch, MobileTechWorld and Phones Review
Esther Shein / InformationWeek:
Microsoft Launches Massive Wireless Hotspot — The “White-Fi” network on the company's Redmond, Wash. campus runs over white space spectrum left over from the conversion of TV signals from analog to digital. — Microsoft workers both in buildings and aboard a shuttle bus are testing …
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ReadWriteWeb, The Politico, Google Public Policy Blog, SiliconANGLE, DSLreports, BetaNews, CNET News and The Register
Paul McNamara / Network World:
Linus Torvalds becomes an American citizen — Having brought his open-source work and family to the United States from Finland some time ago, Linus Torvalds has marked an important personal milestone by attaining U.S. citizenship. — Congratulations, Linus.
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The H Open Source, Silicon Forest and Geekosystem
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Most Clicked Mobile Ads Aren't On Android or iPhone — Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and the iPhone's iOS may be the lead operating systems battling it out for smartphone supremacy, but when it comes to getting users around the world to click on ads, good-old flip-phones and Nokia's Symbian OS-powered phones beat them hands down.
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MarketingVOX and WebProNews, Thanks:rsingel
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
GCreep: Google Engineer Stalked Teens, Spied on Chats — We entrust Google with our most private communications because we assume the company takes every precaution to safeguard our data. It doesn't. A Google engineer spied on four underage teens for months before the company was notified of the abuses.
Brad Linder / Liliputing:
Dell previews the DUO 10 inch convertible tablet-style notebook — We've seen a lot of companies introduce slate-style tablets without physical keyboards over the past few months, but once upon a time the words “tablet computer” brought up a different image — of a laptop with touchscreen display …
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Electronista, Engadget, PC Magazine, CNET News, UMPCPortal, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile, eHomeUpgrade and Techland
Elia Freedman / Elia Insider:
Fighting The Wrong Fight — We have been distracted by ridiculous arguments and fabricated “wars” for too long. We have been distracted by thinking that Google is Microsoft and Apple is Apple in a doomed fight already fought 20 years ago. — But that is not the fight we should be caring about at all.
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Daring Fireball, TiPb and Geekosystem, Thanks:turoczy
Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils New LifeCam With Stunning 1080p HD Sensor: Closest Thing to Being There in Person — LifeCam Studio is the perfect HD video calling companion for Windows Live Messenger 2011. — Microsoft Corp. today sets a new standard in webcams with LifeCam Studio, featuring sharp high-definition …
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Gadget Lab, SlashGear, Softpedia News, The Microsoft Blog, Electronista and LiveSide.net
Wall Street Journal:
Nokia Chairman to Step Down in 2012 — Nokia Corp. Chairman Jorma Ollila, the executive credited with turning the Finnish company into the world's largest handset maker, plans to step down in 2012, a spokeswoman said. — Tuesday's surprise announcement, coming just days after Nokia …
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Digits, eWeek, paidContent, Digital Daily, IntoMobile, GMSV, dailywireless.org, Gizmodo, TechCrunch Europe, Crave and The Next Web, Thanks:michaelkroker
