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iFixit:
Apple TV 2nd Generation Teardown — After acquiring a small brown box during a daring heist this morning, we finally have the new Apple TV in our destructive mitts! Will this be the device that changes the direction of Apple as we know it? Tune in as we take apart the 2nd generation Apple TV.
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, Computerworld, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iLounge, Gizmodo, TiPb, Electronista, Gadget Lab, SlashGear, CrunchGear, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Daring Fireball, Ubergizmo, TUAW and iClarified
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple TV review (2010) — You've been waiting, and it's finally here: the Apple TV review. Months before Steve Jobs announced the new set top box at Apple's annual fall event, we had been reporting on news that the company would strike out again into the TV market, offering a small …
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App Advice, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, Computerworld, 9 to 5 Mac, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, AppScout, Gizmodo, Gadget Lab, mobiputing, eHomeUpgrade, TiPb, Switched, MacDailyNews, TUAW and PadGadget
Wiltse Carpenter / Gmail Blog:
Turn off Gmail's conversation view — The way Gmail organizes mail into conversations is like cilantro. You either love it — and, like me, enjoy the nice citrusy, herbal finish it gives to everything from salsa to curry — or you hate it. And those of you who hate it hate it enough …
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InformationWeek, Technologizer, VentureBeat, Digits, Google Enterprise Blog, Download Squad, Google Operating System, Googling Google Blog, Computerworld, BetaNews, PC World, CloudAve, Fortune, ReadWriteWeb, SocialTimes.com, Google Watch, CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, Neowin.net, Techie Buzz, Mashable!, Boy Genius Report, The Next Web, 901am, Erictric, Techland, SlashGear, SiliconANGLE, Pocket-lint, Geek.com, Switched and Search Engine Journal
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Facebook and Skype Readying Deep Integration Partnership — You didn't think Facebook would integrate with Google (GOOG) Voice, did you? — Actually, according to sources close to the situation, Facebook and Skype are poised to announce a significant and wide-ranging partnership …
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ReadWriteWeb, USA Today, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Bits, Macworld, Inside Facebook, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, Computerworld, Startup Meme, Mobilized, Telegraph, TechEye, Mashable!, Telecompetitor, GeekSugar, Black Web 2.0, NBC Bay Area, SiliconANGLE, Internet2Go, 901am, Erictric, RCR Unplugged, Techland, CNET News, Boy Genius Report, Download Squad, Softpedia News, All Facebook, dailywireless.org, VatorNews, TechSpot, Go Rumors, Switched, Silicon Alley Insider, The Next Web, Covering Web, Electronista, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo and The Atlantic Online
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Should Facebook Buy Skype? — Photo of Skype CEO Josh Silverman By Phil Wolff via Flickr — Ever since Skype was freed from the shackles of eBay, I've marveled at the company's management team led by its CEO, Josh Silverman. Sure, it has a whole lot of powerful backers, but in the end, it's the team and their strategy.
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eWeek, Tech Trader Daily, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb and Digital Daily
Ross Kelly / Wall Street Journal:
Dell to Launch 7-Inch Tablet in Weeks Ahead — SYDNEY—Dell Inc. will launch its seven-inch tablet in the next few weeks and a 10-inch tablet within 6-12 months, Dell Greater China President Amit Midha said Wednesday. — Texas-based Dell has joined a host of computer makers rushing to offer tablets …
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Gizmodo, internetnews.com, Computerworld, Between the Lines Blog, SlashGear, Digital Daily, Gadget Lab, MacRumors, DailyTech, msnbc.com, GottaBeMobile, Fast Company, Phone Arena, iThinkDifferent, Cult of Mac, Android Phone Fans, PhoneDog.com, Erictric, Appolicious Advisor, Techie Buzz, Boy Genius Report, Techland, IntoMobile, AppleInsider, Engadget, Android and Me, AndroidGuys, Silicon Alley Insider, Electronista, TechSpot, Gadgetell, I4U News, The Tech Report, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, Liliputing, Tech Trader Daily and Know Your Cell
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's Why Google Needs To Buy Twitter Immediately — Angel investor Dave McClure pointed out yesterday what is obvious to everyone but Google: Google needs to buy Twitter immediately. — We've been urging Google to buy Twitter for more than 18 months now, and it would have cost the company …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog
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McClure to Google: Buy Twitter
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Colin Walker, Adotas, GMSV and L.A. Times Tech Blog
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
When Google Wanted To Sell To Excite For Under $1 Million — And They Passed — On stage today at our TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures, recalled a story from the days when he backed Excite, one of the original Internet portals.
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NBC Bay Area and Geek.com
Mark Sigal / O'Reilly Radar:
Apple's segmentation strategy, and the folly of conventional wisdom — There is a myth, more of a meme actually, about the ‘inevitability’ of commoditization. It is a view of the world that sees things linearly, in terms of singularities, and the so-called “one right path.”
Sharon Pian Chan / Seattle Times:
Q&A with Steve Ballmer on mobile, search and Facebook — Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer sat down with The Seattle Times for a Q and A on the eve of the annual company meeting on Sept. 28, 2010. Here is the story. — With the imminent launch of a new Windows mobile phone …
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IntoMobile, Beyond Binary, Search Engine Land, Electronista, Softpedia News, Engadget, TechSpot and The Microsoft Blog
James Ledbetter / Slate:
The strange but inevitable rise of e-reader pornography. — As I write this, the most downloaded item for Amazon's Kindle is a novel by Jenna Bayley-Burke called Compromising Positions. Here is part of the plot description: “David Strong knows how to do a lot of things …
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broadstuff
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Amazon Android app store T&Cs leak — Amazon still aren't talking about the rumored Android app store they're tipped to be working on - which would sit alongside the official Android Market and offer users an alternative source for software - but the App Store Distribution Agreement participating developers …
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BetaNews, O'Reilly Radar, ReadWriteWeb, Google Android News …, Ubergizmo, Android Tapp, Gizmodo, mobiputing, Droid Life and Android Phone Fans
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Engadget's Founder on TechCrunch Under AOL — Michael Arrington, one of the most outspoken and wild tech bloggers, is about to get a corporate boss, following AOL's purchase of his site, TechCrunch. — Peter Rojas once found himself in a similar position. He founded Engadget in 2004.
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MediaVidea and Computerworld, more at Mediagazer »
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why We Sold TechCrunch To AOL, And Where We Go From Here
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Robert X. Cringely's blog, eSarcasm, rc3.org, alarm:clock, Search Engine Journal, Fast Company, Softpedia News, Wall Street Journal, CrunchGear, Guardian, LaptopMemo, Webmetricsguru and broadstuff, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:atul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
You'll Be Able To Deposit Checks To PayPal Via Mobile Pictures In The Next Day Or So — Last month, we noted that PayPal would soon launch a new version of their iPhone app that would be more check-friendly. That app should be released in the next day or so, PayPal's Laura Chambers revealed …
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SiliconANGLE, IntoMobile and Gizmodo
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
The 4chan porn leak: First of many? — The Web probably looks a lot less anonymous and private to the thousands of people whose identities were posted to the Internet this weekend alongside the names of the pornographic films they are accused of downloading.
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The Not-So Private Parts
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Cisco to Unveil an Affordable Home TelePresence Product for Consumers Next Week — Cisco, the networking giant, is making yet another big step into the consumer space, with the introduction next week of an inexpensive home telepresence product for personal use.
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CNET News, Engadget, NewTeeVee, ReadWriteWeb, Network World, Gizmodo and SlashGear
Robin Sloan / Twitter Blog:
Tweets in your media, media in your Tweets — On a sunny September Sunday inside a non-descript trailer in downtown Los Angeles, media evolved. — There—in the shadow of the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, next to an outdoor stage where Justin Bieber would soon perform …
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TechSpot
Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
With LinkedIn Signal, Twitter And LinkedIn Collide — LinkedIn's CEO Jeff Weiner has just unveiled LinkedIn Signal at TechCrunch Disrupt, a new feature that neatly marries the worlds of LinkedIn and Twitter and allows users to apply the professional social network's filters to Twitter's firehose.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Black Web 2.0, The LinkedIn Blog and Velocity
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Facebook's Sandberg: In The Future, All Media Will Be Personalized — There will always be a place for mass marketing, but in the next three- to five years, a website that isn't tailored to a specific user's interest will be an anachronism, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told Arianna Huffington at the latter's Advertising Week event.
Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
Deleted Facebook and MySpace Posts Are Discoverable—Romano v. Steelcase — On my personal blog, I have repeatedly blogged about plaintiffs who tell one story in court only to have that story undone by their postings to social networking sites. See, e.g., Sedie v. US, People v. Franco …
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The Register and Metropolis
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Xbox Live Fall 2010 Dashboard Update preview: ESPN, Netflix search, Kinect, and more! — Shortly before Kinect hits store shelves on November 4th, Microsoft plans on rolling out the Fall Update to Xbox Live — even sooner for those who signed up for the preview program.
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Xbox Press, Gear Live, Obsessable, GeekSmack, Gizmodo, Joystiq, PaulColligan.com and The Business Of Online Video
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
TweetBeat Wants To Kill Hashtags On Twitter By Making Them Obsolete — Back in June we previewed a new product by social media search engine Kosmix called TweetBeat. Essentially, it's a way to follow news being discussed on Twitter in realtime. Today during our TechCrunch Disrupt conference …
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VentureBeat, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Kosmix Blog and The Next Web, Thanks:manyam_mallela
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
The Short Lifespan of a Tweet: Retweets Only Happen Within the First Hour — For some, Twitter is a social network and for others it is just a broadcast medium. Judging from the latest data from social media analytics and monitoring service Sysomos, for the majority of users, Twitter is indeed mostly a broadcast medium.
David Carnoy / Crave: The gadget blog:
Sonos Controller for iPad now available — The Sonos Controller for iPad is a free download (Sonos system required for use). — For those of you who have a Sonos system and an iPad, there's good news: the Sonos Controller for iPad is now available in the App Store as a free download.
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PC World, Boy Genius Report, GeekTonic, Gadget Lab and Cult of Mac
Horace Dediu / asymco:
Unix's Revenge — With QNX now firmly roadmapped at RIM and Android spreading among vendors like a virus, I wanted to point out that these operating systems share one ancestor: Unix. — A technical triumph — Technically Linux, which underlies Android, among others …
