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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Apple Threatens Search Giants' Mobile Ad Shares — Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! have swiftly lost share in the U.S. mobile advertising market to Apple's new iAd. Independent rivals such as Jumptap and Millennial Media are gaining, too — Apple (AAPL) may be gaining share …
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Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac, asymco, MacRumors, Internet2Go, AppleInsider, Neowin.net, DailyTech, TiPb, Phone Arena, RCR Wireless News, Macsimum News, www.pocketgamer.biz, Cult of Mac, TechEye, FierceMobileContent, Adotas, MacStories and iClarified
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Is Working to Ease Wiretaps on the Internet — WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Study Finds That Apple Dominates Tech News — A new study confirms what some in the technology industry have long sensed: that Apple commands an inordinate amount of the media's attention. A yearlong look at technology news coverage by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence …
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Neowin.net, 9 to 5 Mac, FM Blog and iClarified
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Journalism.org:
WHEN TECHNOLOGY MAKES HEADLINES — THE MEDIA'S DOUBLE VISION ABOUT THE DIGITAL AGE — The mainstream news media have offered the American public a divided view of how information technology influences society, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Wall Street Journal:
To Advertisers, Twitter's a Fledgling — Twitter Inc.'s foray into advertising is receiving mixed reviews among marketers, underscoring the challenges of turning the popular micro-blogging service into a highly profitable enterprise. — The popularity of Twitter has fueled expectations …
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VatorNews, Silicon Alley Insider, Going Social Now and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter's Promoted Tweets Sell for $100K and Up
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Silicon Alley Insider, The Next Web and AdAge, more at Mediagazer »
Paul Thurrott / Windows Phone Secrets:
Windows Phone US launch is November 8 — I mentioned on this week's Windows Weekly podcast that the October 11 date people have been tossing around for the Windows Phone launch was incorrect. (Microsoft is holding an annual event in NYC on that day, but it's unrelated to Windows Phone.)
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Engadget, PC World, VatorNews, IntoMobile, Silicon Alley Insider, Telegraph, GottaBeMobile, Obsessable, SiliconANGLE, WMExperts, Techland, Electronista, Inquirer, Ubergizmo, SuperSite Blog, TechSpot, MobileTechWorld, Newlaunches.com, SlashGear, Softpedia News, TG Daily, Geek.com, The Next Web, MobileCrunch, Electricpig.co.uk, Go Rumors, Erictric, WMPoweruser.com, MobileBurn.com, Rev2.org, Gadgetell and The Tech Herald …, Thanks:rawmeet
Jon Orlin / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Disrupt LIVE Webcast, Day One (TCTV) — Standby in 3 - 2 - 1: We are now live from San Francisco with TechCrunch Disrupt. If you can't make the conference in person, you can still watch all the great panels, fireside chats, product launches, and the Startup Battlefield, plus a few surprises on TechCrunch TV.
Bryan Jacobs / Gizmodo:
How Shazam Works To Identify (Nearly) Every Song You Throw At It — Many of us are prone to using the Shazam music-identification service whenever we encounter unfamiliar songs. After all, it's just so easy to whip out our phones, open an app, and know everything about a mystery song in seconds.
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Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
We Just Watched A Movie In 3D On An iPhone, And It Was Awesome — Here's something you probably didn't know your iPhone could do: display movies in 3D. — Actually, it can't quite yet. But a company called Spatial View is launching an online 3D movie store, 3DeeCentral …
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Android Tapp, Ubergizmo and Electronista
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Apple granted patent for handheld that recognizes your hands — You could probably fill a book with Apple patent applications that never amounted to anything, but here's one that's at least been granted — a “handheld device” that uses capacitive sensors to recognize your identity …
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Stowe Boyd, TechSpot, App Advice and Techie Buzz
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AngelGate: Chris Sacca Responds To Ron Conway — Quick summary of “AngelGate” to date: — A Blogger Walks Into A Bar — Dave McClure Gets Mad — Dave McClure Gets Really Mad — Ron Conway Goes Nuclear — Ron Conway Clarifies — As I said the other day, there would be more private emails getting published.
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Andy Beard and BoomTown
Reuters:
Welcome to Nokia, Mr. Elop — (Reuters) - The company many see as among the most innovative in the world is a strange mix of intensity and laid-back cool. Its products are revolutionary and have transformed an entire industry, says the author of a definitive history of the firm.
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Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Nokia's Bureaucracy Stifled Innovation, Ex-Managers Say
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VentureBeat, Internet2Go, Boy Genius Report, FierceWireless, LAPTOP Mag, Phone Arena, SlashGear, THINQ.co.uk, asymco, IntoMobile, Digital Daily, The Nokia Blog, The Huffington Post and Gizmodo
Serkan Toto / CrunchGear:
Galapagos: Sharp Announces 5.5-Inch And 10.8-Inch Android Tablets (Video) — It took them a while, but now it seems Sharp is serious about entering the e-book and tablet business. The company announced “Galapagos"in Tokyo today [press release in English], with Galapagos being the (terrible) …
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Engadget, PC World, SHARP World Index, Macworld, Inquirer, AndroidGuys, VatorNews, jkOnTheRun, Gearlog, Pocket-lint, Gadget Lab, GottaBeMobile, The Digital Reader, Liliputing, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Geek.com, Ubergizmo, Go Rumors, Bloomberg and Electronista
Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
HTC CEO Peter Chou discusses future of smartphones — If an HTC smartphone is going to have antenna problems, one of the first people to find out probably will be Peter Chou. — The chief executive of the hot Taiwanese phone maker carries more phones than a shopping-mall kiosk.
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Digital Trends, DailyTech, MobileTechWorld and WMPoweruser.com
Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:
33 million people played Zynga games - yesterday — Of Zynga's 215 million active monthly users, 33 million of them played Zynga games - just yesterday, said Zynga founder and CEO Mark Pincus just now at TechCrunch Disrupt here in San Francisco. — “We measure every click, every game, every day.
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GigaOM and TechCrunch
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Judge puts hammer down on Hurt Locker P2P subpoena — A federal judge in South Dakota this week quashed a US Copyright Group subpoena targeting an ISP in his state. Why? Jurisdiction, and a fax machine. — Regional Internet service provider Midcontinent wasn't amused when it received …
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CNET News and DSLreports
David Kirkpatrick / Washington Post:
Five myths about Facebook — Movies often have Web sites, but it's not so often that Web sites have movies. Facebook, of course, is not just any Web site; in the 6 1/2 years since founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg started the social networking service in his Harvard dorm room …
Jeremy Kirk / PC World:
EU Drops Two Apple IPhone Antitrust Investigations — The European Commission has dropped two antitrust investigations concerning Apple's iPhone after the company reversed two policies that drew the regulator's scrutiny. — The Commission launched the investigations earlier …
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TechEye, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Inquirer, GMSV and App Advice
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The real-time curation wars (exclusive first look at Curated.by) — Back in March I wrote a post about the seven needs of real-time curators. Over the next week or so no less than three companies are shipping services that will fulfill that dream with tools that comply with all seven needs.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
U.S. Digital Music Sales Plateau in First Half of 2010 — Reuters reports on data from research firm Nielsen showing that U.S. digital music sales plateaued in the first half of 2010, marking a dramatic decrease from the 28% growth enjoyed just two years ago.
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Reuters, Macsimum News, Engadget and MacNN
Robin Wauters / TechCrunchIT:
IBM Buys Data Center Switching Company BLADE Network Technologies For $400M — IBM today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BLADE Network Technologies, a privately held data center switching company based in Santa Clara, California. — Financial terms were not disclosed.
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Where is the Next Great Smartphone from Palm and HP? — It's been about three months since HP finalized its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm, and there's obviously some digesting and transitioning going on. — But the growing question is: When are we going to see some new webOS handset hardware from HP and Palm?
