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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Notebook sales growth goes negative. Can we blame the iPad yet? — Thursday night, just as a tornado — or something like it — was knocking down the trees that grow in our Brooklyn neighborhood, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty issued a report to clients with a chart (copied above) …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Best Buy CEO: iPad Cannibalizing Up To 50 Percent Of Laptop Sales — One line buried in a Wall Street Journal story is making the rounds as the latest evidence of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad power: Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn “said internal estimates showed that the iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs by as much as 50 percent.”
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Airplay is Apple's ‘Go to Market’ Internet TV strategy — Jobs' war on Flash video and growing iOS device line have all led up to this... Steve Jobs told the AllThingsD audience a few months ago that the reason no one including Google and Apple have been successful in the TV space …
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MacDailyNews:
With Apple TV, any H.264 Web content can be broadcast over AirPlay to your HDTV — The features and descriptions of the new Apple TV “on Apple's site right now is a red herring,” Seth Weintraub writes for 9 To 5 Mac. “I think a much bigger use will be what puts these in almost every house in America …
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Sorry, But McDonald's Did Not See a 33% Increase in Foot Traffic Because of Foursquare — According to a current headline on TechMeme, McDonalds saw a 33% increase in foot traffic to its stores when it ran a promotion during Foursquare Day earlier this year.
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Future Tense and The Huffington Post
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Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog:
Case Study: McDonald's ups foot traffic 33% on Foursquare Day
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VatorNews, Adotas, Mashable!, Silicon Alley Insider and Mobile Entertainment
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Windows Phone 7 will be GSM-only in 2010 — When Windows Phone 7 arrives later this year, it will be sold globally, but only for GSM networks. Microsoft has opted to delay until next year the CDMA version as it works to finish work on its major rewrite of its phone operating system.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Schmidt: Listing Google's 200 Ranking Factors Would Reveal Business Secrets — Google's been under fire in various quarters, including the New York Times, that it should open up about how its ranking algorithm works. I think offering the exact formula would be difficult plus potentially give away trade secrets.
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Google's Chief on Social, Mobile and Conflict
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Hillicon Valley and SiliconANGLE, Thanks:atul
Kristin / Bing Maps Blog:
Bing Maps Gets Transit Directions — Commuters rejoice! Today Bing Maps added transit routing to its directions options. So, for those of you who like to take the bus, subway, or local rail you now can turn to Bing Maps. This is a very important feature for us as public transit grows in popularity and coverage.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Expands Instant Personalization Program, Adds Rotten Tomatoes As Partner — Facebook has just expanded its highly controversial Instant Personalization program — which allows select third-party sites to access some of your data without requiring you to login or ‘Connect’ — to popular movie reviews community Rotten Tomatoes.
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Austin Haugen / Facebook Blog:
A New Movie Experience, Starring You and Your Friends
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ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, msnbc.com and Reuters
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Why Yahoo plays well in Peoria — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—In the men's room outside the media briefing room here at Yahoo's headquarters, there's a dual sink with mismatched faucets: one modern hands-free sensor-activated model and a more traditional hand-operated one.
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Fred / A VC:
Social Layers and Social Intention — I read Mike Arrington's post on Google's social efforts just now. I have not seen any of Google's work. I have not been briefed. I really have no clue what they are building. But this quote got my attention: … Q. Why did Twitter succeed and FriendFeed fail?
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PC World, TomsTechBlog.com, TechCrunch and All Facebook
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The Unwelcome Return of “Best Viewed With Internet Explorer” — Remember the bad old days of the Internet, when it wasn't a given that one primary objective of any Web site should be to work equally well in any modern browser? Some sites slapped “Best Viewed With Internet Explorer” or …
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Telegraph, jd/adobe, MSDN Blogs, Delicate Genius Blog, Softpedia News and Computerworld
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
HDCP antipiracy leak opens doors for black boxes — An antipiracy code used in set-top boxes, Blu-ray and DVD players has been cracked and published on the Internet, and as a result, we may soon see devices on the market that allow people to make unauthorized copies of movies.
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
LG CEO Resigns Over Poor Smartphone Performance — The CEO of South Korean consumer electronics giant LG resigned today because of the company's poor performance in the smartphone space. Yong Nam will be replaced by Bon Joon Koo, currently the head of LG International.
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Electronista, Boy Genius Report, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, The Next Web and CNET News
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
New Apple TV's iOS can be jailbroken and made to run apps? — Remember the mysterious reference to iProd 2,1 that appeared in the iPad's code? We thought it might be a new CDMA or camera-equipped iPad, but it just might have been the new iOS-based Apple TV instead.
Bloomberg:
Hewlett-Packard Said to Be Near Decision on Hurd's Successor — Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) — Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board is nearing a decision on a successor to Mark Hurd as chief executive officer, and is leaning toward picking an internal candidate, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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CNET News, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Electronista, DailyFinance and Bloomberg
Serge Lachapelle / Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Video chat enhancements — If you use video chat in Gmail, you might be interested in a new Labs feature we just rolled out that allows you to preview new video chat features before they're turned on for everyone. Visit the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, turn on …
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CNET News, Neowin.net, Softpedia News, Download Squad, The Next Web, Ubergizmo and Gizmodo
John Graham-Cumming:
A tale of two cultures — In recent days there's been much discussion of Digg and reddit that has concentrated on the technical and community aspects of the two sites. This commentary has overlooked a vital component to the difference between these two social news sites: company culture.
Andrew / Groublogpon:
Too much of a good thing? — Traditionally, the biggest problem for most small businesses is getting customers in the door. Now, Groupon has presented some businesses with an entirely new problem: what happens when you have too many customers? — There have been a handful …
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VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, Screenwerk, the Econsultancy blog, TechCrunch and GMSV
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Posterous fires back at TwitPic; releases an application so you can rescue your TwitPic images. — Over the past few months, Posterous has made some big changes that brought growing pains along with them. While introducing services that would import your data from 15 sites over 15 days …
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple's 27" LED Cinema Display Now On Sale — As anticipated, Apple has started selling the 27" Apple LED Cinema Display on their online store. — Connect the 27-inch Apple LED Cinema Display to your Mac and supersize your view with an incredible 2560-by-1440 resolution …
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Macworld, CNET News, Gadget Lab, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, TUAW, Engadget and Gizmodo
Jagdish Rebello, Phd / iSuppli:
Global Wireless Subscriptions Reach 5 Billion — Marking a major milestone in the history of technology, the number of worldwide subscriptions for wireless services is expected to reach 5 billion this month, equaling 73.4 percent of the earth's population, according to the market research firm iSuppli Corp.
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