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Bloomberg:
Facebook Said to Be Working on Phones With INQ for AT&T — Facebook Inc. is working with mobile-handset manufacturer INQ Mobile Ltd. on two smartphones that may be carried by AT&T Inc., according to three people familiar with the matter. — The devices, which will feature Facebook social …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Facebook Phone: All You Need To Know + New Details — Of all the recent technology news, the one that's held most of my interest is the existence of the Facebook phone. Why? Because I'd been aware of a project to build a phone based on Facebook for quite some time, though I hadn't been able to confirm it from multiple sources.
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Techcraver.com, TechCrunch, SlashGear, The Next Web, Electricpig.co.uk, I4U News and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:labnol
Roger Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon Wireless Readies Tiered Data Pricing — Verizon Communications Inc. Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg said the company's wireless arm expects to introduce its own form of tiered pricing, possibly over the next four to six months. — But Mr. Seidenberg said Verizon Wireless's offering …
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Verizon CEO hints iPhone not coming soon — NEW YORK - Comments from Verizon Communications Inc. CEO Ivan Seidenberg on Thursday left little room for the possibility of a Verizon version of the iPhone any time soon. — Speaking to investors at a Goldman Sachs conference …
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InformationWeek, AppleInsider, Computerworld, I4U News, Fortune, MacRumors, Silicon Alley Insider, TiPb, IntoMobile, Digits, Macsimum News, Digital Daily and SlashGear
David Heinemeier Hansson / Signal vs. Noise:
Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000 — Facebook is an amazing success as a social network. Anyone who can get 500 million people to connect, share photos, and click on little cows in Farmville deserves major kudos. — But the bulls**t monopoly-money evaluation merry-go-round has to stop.
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Robin Goad / Hitwise Intelligence:
Digg.com redesign alienates users — The Internet can be a fickle creature, but if there is one lesson that seems to consistently ring true it's this: don't alienate your core users. — It's a lesson that digg.com is learning the hard way. Having been a paragon of social bookmarking …
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ReadWriteWeb and The Next Web
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
Marvell's 1.5GHz, Triple Core ARM Processor Can Handle 140 Hours of Music on One Charge — The smartphone guts race just got a bit more interesting—dark horse Marvell has just outed the first ever 1.5GHz ARM tri-core mobile processor. The Armada 628 pairs two high-performance cores with one optimized for low-power.
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TechEye, IntoMobile, PR Newswire, Electronista and Boy Genius Report
Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
What Netflix CEO hopes U.S. won't notice — ‘Self-absorbed’ Americans may ignore Canada price disparity … The Hollywood Reporter: You're looking beyond the U.S. border for growth. Where will you expand next after Canada? — Reed Hastings: For now we're focused on Canada.
Brad Stone / Business Week:
Facebook Sells Your Friends — How Facebook plans to leverage its 550 million users into the greatest advertising juggernaut since ... O.K., only since Google. That's still huge — There were two obvious winners at the FIFA World Cup this summer. Spain took home the 13-pound …
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
An American in Paris Says Au Revoir to His Laptop — Lots of people are wondering whether a touch-based tablet computer that doesn't have a physical keyboard or run a traditional operating system can replace their laptops on the road. So I decided to find out.
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Gizmodo:
HP Slate Tablet Rears its Square-Edged Head in Leaked Video — Admittedly, we're more keen on HP's webOS tablet, or even the ditched Android tablet (basically, anything other than Windows 7!), but this leaked Slate video does suggest that maybe it will wind up in the hands of consumers after all.
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Bill Gates is richest person in America — still — Forbes' 2010 list of the 400 richest Americans is out, and guess who's still on top. — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is No. 16 with a net worth of $13.1 billion. Microsoft co-founder and Seattle mogul Paul Allen is No. 17 with $12.7 billion.
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Computerworld, ZDNet, TechFlash, The Register, Softpedia News, Guardian, TechEye, PadGadget, AppleInsider, MacRumors and CNET News
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Steven Bertoni / Money Talks:
Facebook's Zuckerberg Now Richer Than Apple's Steve Jobs
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
iPad, Apple's ‘Mac of the masses,’ predicted to sell 21M in 2011 — One prominent Wall Street analyst has increased is forecast for iPad sales in 2011 to 21 million, citing expansion of the device's availability, as well as rapid adoption in the enterprise sector.
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Fast Company, Silicon Alley Insider, msnbc.com, iClarified, Tech Trader Daily, Cult of Mac, Between the Lines Blog, MacDailyNews and I4U News
Dick Craddock / The Windows Blog:
More Hotmail updates on the way — We've kept ourselves busy this summer. A few months ago, we released a re-invented Windows Live Hotmail designed around what people said they wanted—a more efficient service to help them manage clutter with features like Sweep and one-click filters …
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ReadWriteWeb, LiveSide.net, All about Microsoft Blog and Techie Buzz
Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
LinkedIn Agrees to Buy Business Reviews Startup — The purchase of ChoiceVendor is the networking site's second acquisition — LinkedIn, the largest networking site for online professionals, bought ChoiceVendor Inc., a website for reviews of business service providers.
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Business Wire, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Screenwerk, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog and CNET News
Nick Bilton / New York Times:
Buyers Send iPhones on a Long Relay to China — They show up in the early-morning hours: Chinese men and women, waiting silently and somewhat nervously outside of Apple stores in New York. On some days the lines they form can be a block long. — These are not typical Apple fans.
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Computerworld, Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac and textually.org
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft to add Visual Basic to its Windows Phone 7 dev-tool list — Until today, Microsoft's advice to developers interested in writing Windows Phone 7 applications was to use C#, Silverlight or XNA. But on September 23, Microsoft officials said they'd be adding another requested tool to the Windows Phone 7 arsenal: Visual Basic.
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ReadWriteWeb, Ars Technica, BetaNews, Inquirer, eWeek and Windows Phone Developer Blog
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Show's Title, in Symbols, Defies DVRs — CBS knew that when it ordered a sitcom with a vulgar word in the title, it would get attention. The network also knew there would be some hand-wringing about the coarseness of popular culture. — Here's what the network did not know …
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Sid Yadav / VentureBeat:
Exclusive interview: The teens who took over Twitter — A teenage prank on Twitter turned into the hack heard round the world Tuesday — and VentureBeat now has the story behind it. Through an exclusive interview with the two New Zealand kids whose code spread around the world in minutes …
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Electronista:
HTC, Motorola close gap with Apple in JD Power phone ranks — JD Power today published a second study of cellphone satisfaction in the US that showed Android having closed the gap in perceived quality with the iPhone. Apple still earned top marks from owners with an exact 800 score …
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Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac, CNET News, PC World and IntoMobile
Bloomberg:
Blockbuster Files for Bankruptcy After Online Rivals Gain — Blockbuster Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection after failing to quickly adapt its movie- rental model from storefronts to mail-order and online technology pioneered by rivals such as Netflix Inc.
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Cyberwar Chief Calls for Secure Computer Network — FORT MEADE, Md. — The new commander of the military's cyberwarfare operations is advocating the creation of a separate, secure computer network to protect civilian government agencies and critical industries like the nation's power grid against attacks mounted over the Internet.
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Barbara Martinez / Wall Street Journal:
Zuckerberg to Donate $100 Million to Newark Schools — Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old founder and chief executive of Facebook, is expected to announce a donation of $100 million to the Newark public school system this week, in a bold and aggressive bid to turn around one of the country's worst performing school systems.
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft adds PowerPoint, Excel embeds for web sites, blog posts — It might have seemed impossible, but PowerPoint and Excel are about to become even more pervasive. — A new feature in Microsoft's Office Web Apps will give users the ability to embed their presentations and spreadsheets …
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The Microsoft Blog and BetaNews
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Mulve - The Nightmare-Scenario Music Downloading Tool — As pressure on file-sharing continues to mount, many people are searching for ‘safer’ methods to acquire music. Today we bring news of an application that seems to be almost too good to be true. With a huge database of songs …
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gHacks Technology News, Download Squad and hypebot
Andrew Liszewski / OhGizmo!:
Verbatim Clip-its - When A Paperclip Loves A Flash Drive Very Much... It's hard to imagine someone making something as simple as a USB flash drive more useful, besides of course larger capacities, but Verbatim's Clip-its are a clever mashup of a flash drive and a paperclip that end up being greater than the sum of their parts.
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Gadget Lab, SlashGear and Gizmodo
Chris Thompson / About Foursquare:
Foursquare experimenting with recommendations engine and “manufactured serendipity” — Each day in my office we face a challenge: where to eat lunch. We've tried building elaborate spreadsheets to track the local eateries and where we've been recently, but in the end we usually end up eating …
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Silicon Alley Insider and ReadWriteWeb
