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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Confirmed: Windows Phone 7 launches October 11th in New York City, and T-Mobile's on board — If there was any scrap of doubt in your mind, we'll obliterate it for you right now — October 11th is the day Windows Phone 7 will be unveiled in the US, not just at a fancy London event …
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AppleInsider, WMExperts, TmoNews, WMPoweruser.com and Electronista
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Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Ballmer Talks Windows Phone 7 — Microsoft Corp. has struggled for the past two years in the mobile-phone market. But CEO Steve Ballmer says his company finally has a compelling story. — On Oct. 11, Microsoft and its partners plan to announce the initial wave of handsets that will use Windows Phone 7 …
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Fortune, TechCrunch and Between the Lines Blog, Thanks:rawmeet
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
The OS Doesn't Matter... Once upon a time, operating systems used to matter a lot; they defined what a computer could and couldn't do. The “old” OS orchestrated the use of resources: memory, processors, I/O (input/output) to external devices (screen, keyboard, disks, network, printers...).
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Opening Weekend: The Social Network Tops Box Office With $23 Million In Ticket Sales — This probably isn't too surprising. The Social Network, which had received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics, topped the box office opening weekend with $23 million in ticket sales …
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USA Today, Hillicon Valley, Company Town, Reuters, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, NY Daily News, TheHDRoom and Gawker
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Jose Antonio Vargas / The Huffington Post:
The Social Disconnect — How Hollywood Misread Facebook — What's Your Reaction: … Everything that's wrong about The Social Network is summed up by its title. — The movie, opening nationwide today, is not interested in the concept of social networking or the actual usage of Facebook.
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New York Times and New York Times
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Verizon agrees to refund customers $90 million for wrongful data charges — Did you have a Verizon phone sans data plan, but get billed for data anyhow? Verizon Wireless is dropping $90 million to make things right next month. The New York Times reports that the company …
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Fortune, CNET News, Gizmodo, New York Times, mocoNews, Associated Press, FierceWireless, Post Tech, Phone Arena, GottaBeMobile, Boy Genius Report, Fox News, Reuters, Electronista, Neowin.net and The Tech Herald …
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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
FCC Probes Verizon Wireless for ‘Mystery’ Data Charges — Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) — Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. wireless company, is under investigation by the Federal Communications Commission for charging 15 million customers “mystery” fees for data use on their mobile phones.
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
If Web 1.0's Kryptonite Was the Bust, Web 2.0 Kryptonite Was the Grind — There were two surreal moments for me at Disrupt last week. The first was during the SV Angels Party when Hammer was dancing. It wasn't just because MC-Freaking-Hammer was doing to Hammer dance in a tux and nerd glasses in front of me.
Dennis Howlett / Irregular Enterprise Blog:
Hey Larry (Ellison), worry about your own stuff before firing barbs — Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle didn't take long before opining on Leo Apotheker's appointment as CEO H-P. … Such comments are both totally predictable and stand in sharp contrast to Apotheker's gracious response to the Red Stack threat.
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Randall Stross / New York Times:
What Steve Jobs Learned in the Wilderness — THE saga of Steven P. Jobs is so well known that it has entered the nation's mythology: he's the prodigal who returned to Apple in 1997, righted a listing ship and built it into one of the most valuable companies in the world.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Surface computing + augmented reality = Microsoft LightSpace — Microsoft is looking to extend its surface-computing work into the spatial-computing arena with a new research project known as LightSpace. — Andy Wilson, a Microsoft research who was key in bringing the Microsoft Surface tabletop to market …
Thanks:rawmeet
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
iPhone user privacy at risk from apps that transmit personal info — The user data collected by some iOS apps can be correlated to real-world identities, posing a privacy risk to iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users. According to research from Bucknell University, a majority of iOS apps transmit user data back to their own servers.
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