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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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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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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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Christopher Dawson / Googling Google Blog:
Google conversation view: Why would you disable it?
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PC World, Technologizer and Between the Lines Blog
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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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Should Facebook Buy Skype?
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eWeek, Tech Trader Daily, ReadWriteWeb, Digital Daily, Mashable! and Gizmodo
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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DealBook:
McClure to Google: Buy Twitter
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Adotas, Colin Walker, GMSV and L.A. Times Tech Blog
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, Digital Daily, SlashGear, internetnews.com, MacRumors, Computerworld, DailyTech, iThinkDifferent, Cult of Mac, Android Phone Fans, PhoneDog.com, Erictric, Appolicious Advisor, Techie Buzz, Gadget Lab, Boy Genius Report, Techland, IntoMobile, GottaBeMobile, AppleInsider, msnbc.com, Phone Arena, Android and Me, Fast Company, AndroidGuys, Engadget, Between the Lines Blog, Electronista, Silicon Alley Insider, TechSpot, Gadgetell, I4U News, The Tech Report, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, Liliputing, Tech Trader Daily, Know Your Cell, MobileBurn.com, Crave and iClarified
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Instant Gets Even More Instant With More Features And New Countries — Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Google's Marissa Mayer took the stage to talk with our own Michael Arrington. But before her talk she had a couple new things to announce.
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The Official Google Blog, PC World, Search Engine Land and Erictric
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Juan Carlos Perez / PC World:
Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi Pooh-poohs Google Instant — A top Microsoft official dismissed as conceptually misguided the new Instant feature that lets Google's search engine refresh search results on the fly while people type queries. — Yusuf Mehdi, who as senior vice president …
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TechCrunch, Search Engine Land and Mashable!
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Kevin Rose: Digg Turned Down $80 Million Acquisition Offer — At TechCrunch's Disrupt conference, Digg's founder Kevin Rose presented a very candid view of the current state of Digg during an interview with TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington. Rose admitted that he and the rest of the team made mistakes when they launched Digg v4.
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VentureBeat and TechCrunch
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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Fortune, NBC Bay Area and Geek.com
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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9 to 5 Mac, Phone Arena, Boy Genius Report, Cult of Mac, LaptopMemo, SiliconANGLE, IntoMobile and Gizmodo
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.”
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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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Slyck, Gawker and The Not-So Private Parts
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.
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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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.
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Fortune, ReadWriteWeb and Bits, Thanks:atul
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Major Meltdown at Yahoo As More Top Execs To Depart, Including U.S. Head Hilary Schneider — The executive turmoil at the very top of Yahoo continues, with the company poised to announce the resignations of three top execs, including U.S. head Hilary Schneider (pictured here), according to sources close to the situation.
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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O'Reilly Radar, BetaNews, Google Android News …, ReadWriteWeb, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, mobiputing, Droid Life, Android Tapp and Android Phone Fans
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, Electronista, MediaPost, Search Engine Land, Beyond Binary, Softpedia News, Engadget, TechSpot, Search Engine Watch, The Microsoft Blog and Go Rumors
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
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, The LinkedIn Blog, Black Web 2.0 and Velocity
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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Engadget, Network World, NewTeeVee, ReadWriteWeb, Gizmodo and SlashGear
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
webOS surpasses 5,000 apps — We've been keeping a bit of an eye on the webOS app count lately and it's time we called it (along with @webostoaster): webOS has surpassed the 5,000 app mark when you include all of the apps from various feeds and direct downloads now available for it.
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Erictric, PhoneDog.com and MobileCrunch
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, Gizmodo, Joystiq, GeekSmack, PaulColligan.com and The Business Of Online Video
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Twitter Shuts Out Political Advertisers, For Now — Many political candidates and their campaigns have embraced Twitter, but when they've come calling about advertising there, Twitter has not reciprocated. Twitter has only recently begun rolling out its paid products for advertisers …
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CNET News and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
