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Horacio Gutierrez / TechNet Blogs:
Microsoft sues Motorola over Android patent infringements — As many of you may have seen, Microsoft filed an action today in the International Trade Commission and in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against Motorola, Inc. for infringement of nine Microsoft patents by Motorola's Android-based smartphones.
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Aiming at Android, Microsoft sues Motorola — Microsoft today sued Motorola, alleging several of the cell phone maker's Android devices infringe on Redmond's patents — Microsoft both sued Motorola in U.S. District Court in Washington and brought a complaint before both the International Trade Commission.
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VentureBeat, The Microsoft Blog, TechFlash, BetaNews, silicontap.com and WinBeta
Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Microsoft using anti-Linux tactic against Google's Android
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Computerworld and Silicon Alley Insider
Stephen Baker / NPD Group Blog:
I Own An iPad, So What Do I do With It? — NPD has released the second in its series of iPad surveys. While the first looked at buying intentions prior to the launch this one is more focused on what the current ownership looks like and how those owners are using their iPad.
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Digital Daily, NPD Group, BetaNews, AppleInsider, SlashGear, I4U News, Fortune, iLounge, msnbc.com and Silicon Alley Insider
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPad's ‘Cannibalization’ of Notebook Computers Disputed
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Computerworld, NPD Group and Electronista
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
HP Stock Tanks After It Hires No-Name CEO — Leo Apotheker's run at HP is off to a rough start. — After HP named Apotheker CEO, its stock is down 4% in after hours trading, which means he's already destroyed $4.45 billion in shareholder value! — Not really Apotheker's fault …
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Ben Worthen / Digits:
Larry Ellison “Speechless” Over H-P's New CEO
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Silicon Alley Insider
Erica Ogg / CNET News:
New HP chief sees software as ‘the glue’
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Crave, Inquirer, ReadWriteWeb and Silicon Alley Insider
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's Why Yahoo And AOL Should Immediately Merge — The two struggling Internet giants of the 1990s, Yahoo and AOL, should merge. — Immediately. — (In fact, it's ridiculous that they haven't already). — This idea isn't new—we've been calling for it for three years, and …
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The Business of Search, Adotas, GMSV, Fortune and BoomTown
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
As an ex-Yahoo and a New-AOL'er, My Thoughts on One Portal to Rule Them All — This is going to come as a shock to you: But suddenly and for the first time in years, I really care about the future of AOL. And, because I used to host a show on Yahoo Finance, the story floating around …
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C for Coding and Silicon Alley Insider
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Verizon scoop extravaganza: Motorola Venus with portrait QWERTY, Stingray LTE tablet, and more? — We've been tipped by multiple sources today on some interesting developments in Verizon's roadmap over the next couple quarters, and if you're a BlackBerry fan, an Android fan …
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VentureBeat, IntoMobile, Liliputing, LAPTOP Magazine, Pocket-lint, Android Community, I4U News, Zatz Not Funny!, Yahoo! News, Softpedia News, Electronista, Gadgetell, Android and Me, CrackBerry.com blogs, BB Geeks, Erictric, FierceWireless, Fone Arena, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, Droid Life and MobileCrunch
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Ugliest Girl At The Dance: How Yahoo Destroyed Yelp's Google Acquisition — A fascinating footnote to the failed Google acquisition of Yelp last December: a Yahoo counteroffer killed the deal, say two source with knowledge of the situation. — As of December 17 Yelp was in the final stages …
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Pulse2, Adotas and MediaPost Raw
Mark Ward / BBC:
Change to ‘Bios’ will make for PCs that boot in seconds — The Bios in modern computers dates from the earliest IBM PCs — New PCs could start in just seconds, thanks to an update to one of the oldest parts of desktop computers. — The upgrade will spell the end for the 25-year-old PC start …
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CrunchGear and Pocket-lint
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Stop It. Google Won't Buy Twitter. — Today I landed from a trip to the world of the non-tech obsessed (PA and OH) to find my newsfeed was full of speculation that Google MUST buy Twitter, or be damned to obscurity in a race it's already losing to Facebook. Not so fast.
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Regular Geek, FM Blog and MediaPost Raw
Marc Hedlund / Marc Hedlund's blog:
Why Wesabe Lost to Mint — A number of people have asked and speculated about why the company I co-founded, Wesabe, shut down earlier this summer. Some of the claims or guesses about it are just factually wrong; others seem misinformed to me; others seem to have some truth. I thought I'd add my own opinion.
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ReadWriteWeb, Domain Name Wire, TechCrunch, Communications … and Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Samsung terminates support for Symbian — It was almost a year ago that a senior Samsung VP was quoted expressing plans to drop Symbian. Samsung quickly backtracked on those comments with a vague commitment to its multi-OS strategy. Well, the other shoe just dropped via an email sent …
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Electronista, Samsung Mobile Innovator, Crave, Mashable!, MobileCrunch, Pulse2, IntoMobile, Phone Arena, Computerworld, The Register, Inquirer, Boy Genius Report, Gizmodo, V3.co.uk, Electricpig.co.uk, Mobile Knots, mobiputing, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, All About Symbian, VentureBeat and Phones Review
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Privately held Facebook in 5-for-1 stock split — (Reuters) - Facebook, the world's No.1 Internet social network, is splitting shares in the privately held company. — A Facebook spokesman told Reuters on Friday that Facebook will enact a 5-for-1 split of the company's shares …
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CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider and Felix Salmon
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Microsoft Appoints New Presidents—For Mobile, Entertainment And Office — Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is turning to its existing executive ranks to fill the vacancies left by the departures of entertainment and devices president Robbie Bach and business division president Stephen Elop.
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VentureBeat, All about Microsoft Blog, Microsoft, Technology News, The Microsoft Blog, The Next Web and Electronista
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Google Instant in Chrome Is Awesome, Even More Useful than on Google.com — If you're keen on the as-you-type search results you get from Google Instant, you'll really like Instant integrated with Chrome's omnibox. Just launch your beta/dev/canary release, type about:labs, enable Instant …
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CNET News
John Boitnott / VentureBeat:
Is it too late for a Digg comeback? — Social news aggregator site Digg.com is trying to work its way out of the traffic hole it created with its botched redesign attempt. Today it announced the return of several popular features from its previous version.
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The Atlantic Online, TechCrunch, Digg Blog and MediaPost Raw
ABCNEWS:
FBI: Crime Ring Stole $70 Million Using Computer Virus — Zeus Trojan Malware Steals Bank Account Passwords; Five Hackers Arrested in Ukraine — An Eastern European cybercrime ring stole $70 million from US banks, the FBI announced today. In additions to the dozens of individuals charged …
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Computerworld and Federal Bureau …
Ryan Gavin / The Windows Blog:
IE9 Beta Momentum in September - 6 Million Downloads — Internet Explorer 9 Beta made its debut earlier this month and was met with warm reception by our customers and partners. As we have talked about previously, one of the ways we measure success for IE is through customers choosing our latest product offerings.
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PC World, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, ConceivablyTech, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, The Next Web, Download Squad, Web Browsers and MSDN Blogs
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Blue Arrows Hit Google Instant — Did you notice the blue arrow that's showing next to the first result in Google's listings? It's part of the new keyboard navigation system that rolled out for Google Instant this week. — A reader contacted us about the arrow that he started seeing …
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Crave and Funneled E-Commerce
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Apple Settles Lawsuit Over Online Music Distribution Patent — Back in May, a patent troll called Sharing Sound sued a host of companies, alleging that all of them infringed on a (ridiculously broad) patent for online music distribution. — Targets were Apple (iTunes), Microsoft (Zune) …
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