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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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Gadget Lab, Engadget, MAGGadget, AppleInsider, Electricpig.co.uk, The Register, SlashGear, NewTeeVee, CNET News, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Computerworld, Electronista, CrunchGear, TiPb, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, iLounge, Ubergizmo, iClarified, TG Daily, TUAW, everythingiCafe and PC Magazine
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Teardown reveals new Apple TV comes with 8GB flash storage — The new Apple TV no longer allows users to purchase and store content on the device, but Apple still managed to cram in 8GB of flash storage, as well as 256MB of integrated RAM. The discovery was made by gadget repair site iFixit during …
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Computerworld, Boy Genius Report, Engadget, Gadget Lab, AppleInsider and Ubergizmo
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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Electronista, Seattle Times, BlogsDNA, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, AppScout, Computerworld, Gadget Lab, mobiputing, eHomeUpgrade, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Covering Web, App Advice, MacDailyNews, Daring Fireball, Switched, MacStories, PadGadget and TiPb
Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:
Feature: There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be ugly — Twenty years ago, the fastest Internet backbone links were 1.5Mbps. Today we argue whether that's a fast enough minimum to connect home users. In 1993, 1.3 million machines were connected to the Internet.
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Elizabeth Montalbano / InformationWeek:
White House Sets IPv6 Transition Deadlines
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eWeek, ZDNet and The Register, Thanks:hornokplease
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Google's Mayer criticizes content “locked” inside Facebook — Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search and user experience, mostly dodged questions on-stage today about the company's future plans, including rumors of some sort of social networking service in the works.
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Ben Serridge / Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing the Google Phone Gallery — Here at Google, we're thrilled with the global adoption of Android and with the high quality of devices that are coming to market around the world. Since there are so many great phones, we wanted to make the selection process a little easier for people who are in the market for a new one.
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Search Engine Land, asymco, MobileCrunch, Android and Me, Electricpig.co.uk, Widgets Lab, Androinica, Mobile Knots, Pocket-lint, mocoNews, Mashable!, Android Police, Google Android News …, Phone Arena, BuzzingUp, Erictric, MobileContentToday, Softpedia News, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Pulse2 and Gizmodo
Christopher Beam / Slate:
The Other Social Network — It launched first. It had cooler features. Why did Columbia's Campus Network lose out to Harvard's Facebook? In a parallel universe, there is a blockbuster movie coming out this weekend about a Web site that changed the world. It's called The Social Network.
David Pogue / New York Times:
A Simple Swipe on a Phone, and You're Paid — It's always thrilling when somebody looks at the Way Things Have Always Been Done, and then asks: Why? — And then goes on to change the world forever. — 1967: Why is it necessary to wait in line for a human teller if all you want to do is withdraw cash?
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Tech giants back Microsoft in changing patent litigation — An impressive list of industry heavyweights filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court today to back up Microsoft in its bid to change a central standard by which patent-infringement lawsuits are won and lost.
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Computerworld, Inquirer, LAW.com and Ars Technica
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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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Mashable!, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Erictric
JBC / Nokia Conversations:
Nokia N8 is shipping (photos) — SALO, Finland and BEIJING, China - The first Nokia N8 devices have left the factories in Finland and China and are now making their way around the world. First recipients will be those who pre-ordered and with the highest ever pre-order for a Nokia device …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Qwiki Wins TechCrunch Disrupt: Information Consumption To Be Disrupted — The votes have been tallied. The judges have weighed in. A battlefield of twenty-seven startups was whittled down to a final, elite group of seven. And now the winner has been chosen: Qwiki has taken the top prize at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco.
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VentureBeat, AppScout, The Next Web, down the avenue and CNN
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.
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Between the Lines Blog, Silicon Alley Insider, CNET News, Wall Street Journal, mocoNews, VentureBeat and Tech Trader Daily
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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eWeek, Search Engine Watch, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Search Engine Land and webpronews.com
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Marissa Mayer: Orkut's U.S. Failure Was Due To Slow Performance After Fast Growth — Today at our TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Google's Marissa Mayer took the stage to talk a bit with our own Michael Arrington. After she revealed a couple new Google Instant features, she went right into another topic: social.
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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ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, Fortune, webpronews.com, dailywireless.org, FM Blog and Bits, Thanks:atul
Graham Cluley / Graham Cluley's blog:
Inside Facebook security, and how to better protect your account — Facebook's Nick Bilogorskiy kicked off proceedings at the Virus Bulletin 2010 conference in Vancouver this morning, giving the social network's view on the scale of the cybercrime problem. — Bilogorskiy, who heads …
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Microsoft: Windows Live Spaces already dead, WordPress.com will only get 1% of 30M users — Windows Live Spaces' shutdown may not be a big win for WordPress.com, after all. According to internal e-mail messages obtained by Betanews, Microsoft expects only about 1 percent of Windows Live Spaces bloggers to move to WordPress.com.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Michael Arrington's Road To Millions — Earlier this week, AOL snapped up TechCrunch, a technology blog network started by former attorney Michael Arrington for an undisclosed amount of money. The final price is said to be somewhere between $25 million to $60 million.
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Internet Tethering coming to iPad? — Although Steve Jobs told a Swedish DJ that internet tethering (iPhone's connection used for a WiFi iPad, in this case) wouldn't be coming to the iPad, beta 2 of iOS 4.2 for iPad tells a different story. Hidden within the APN network settings on the iPad 3G …
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Mobile-Geeks, Covering Web, I4U News, Gizmodo and iClarified, Thanks:koenven
Chris / Adventures in Capitalism:
Did Peter Thiel Make The Single Best Investment In History? — In 2005, Peter Thiel paid $500,000 for a 10% stake in Facebook. — Today, with Facebook's estimated value topping $33 billion, his stake is worth between $2-3 billion. That's a 6,000x return on his capital in 5 years.
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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InformationWeek, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Colin Walker, Adotas, DealBook and GMSV
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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Digits, 9 to 5 Mac, BlogsDNA, Phone Arena, Cult of Mac, SiliconANGLE, LaptopMemo, IntoMobile, Boy Genius Report, The Atlantic Online, Ubergizmo and Gizmodo
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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MediaFile, Fortune, NBC Bay Area and Geek.com
