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8:55 AM ET, October 5, 2010

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Evan Williams / Twitter Blog:
#newtwitterceo  —  By all accounts Twitter is on a roll.  We've redesigned our web site to great user feedback.  Our user and usage numbers are growing at a rapid clip all around the world.  We've launched an early, but successful, monetization effort.  And, many top engineers …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Evan Williams And Dick Costolo: New Twitter Triggered CEO Change  —  As you may have heard by now, Twitter has a new CEO.  Former COO Dick Costolo is taking over from Evan Williams as the head of the company.  A few minutes ago, I got a chance to speak to both of them about the change.
Discussion: VatorNews
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Dick Costolo Is Now CEO Of Twitter: It's Time To Make A LOT Of Money
Discussion: HipMojo.com
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Meet The Management: Twitter Clarifies Just Who Exactly Is Running The Joint Now
Discussion: Mashable! and VentureBeat
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Twitter's New CEO Will be Good for Everyone
Discussion: The Next Web
Peter Parkes / The Big Blog:
Skype now available for Android phones  —  You've been asking us for it - and now it's here.  Skype is now available on a wide range of Android phones, so you can save money and stay in touch when you're out and about.  Visit skype.com/m on your phone to download, or read on to find out what's inside.
John Melloy / Fast Money:
iPad Adoption Rate Fastest Ever, Passing DVD Player  —  Apple's iPad sold three million units in the first 80 days after its April release and its current sales rate is about 4.5 million units per quarter, according to Bernstein Research.  This sales rate is blowing past the one million units …
Ambarish Kenghe / Google TV Blog:
Here comes Google TV  —  It's been almost five months since we introduced Google TV to the world at Google I/O, and today we're happy to give you an update on our progress.  For those who haven't yet heard of it, Google TV is a new way to think about TV: it's a platform that combines …
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Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
Palm ‘Mansion’ coming: 800x480, no physical keyboard  —  Device rumors surrounding Palm smartphones are starting to heat up.  After we saw the P102 appear in a certification database (and subsequently get pulled) and heard that we might see something in October, another very reliable tipster …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Exclusive: First Photo of Jungle, Panasonic's Portable Online Gaming System  —  This is Jungle.  It's the first portable gaming console designed exclusively for online gaming and MMORPGs.  And it's from the company who gave us the 3DO nearly 20 years ago.  —  Sure, the PSP and Nintendo DS …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Holding Special Event This Wednesday  —  It's been a big couple of months for Facebook — the site launched its Places feature in August, had a major gaming-focused event two weeks ago, and recently revamped its photos feature to allow for high-resolution uploads (which is a big deal).
Discussion: Electricpig, All Facebook and msnbc.com
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Apple Challenges $625.5 Million Mirror Worlds Patent Verdict  —  Apple Inc. is challenging a jury verdict last week in which the computer maker was ordered to pay as much as $625.5 million to Mirror Worlds LLC for infringing patents related to how documents are displayed digitally.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Applications Install Just Fine on Apple TV  —  iPhone developer Steven Troughton-Smith has found out that you can easily install applications into the Apple TV.  However, don't expect them to run your favoritest game on it just yet.  You will need a launcher for that.
Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
Android Invasion  —  How a tiny piece of software created by a few Google engineers is ushering in the mobile revolution and reshaping the fortunes of the world's biggest tech companies.  —  Nobody ever imagined how quickly the Android mobile-phone platform would take off-not even Andy Rubin …
Discussion: IntoMobile, Phone Arena, Gizmodo and Fortune, Thanks:atul
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Fring is now on Android.  FringOut takes on Skype at $.01 per minute.  —  You might remember a few months ago when Fring and Skype got into a heated battle of sorts.  Fring, an application that allows for voice and video calling from your iPhone, had enabled people to make video calls using Skype's system.
Roger Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
T-Mobile to Sell Microsoft Windows Phone  —  T-Mobile USA will join AT&T Inc. in selling a smartphone using Microsoft Corp.'s revamped mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, according to people familiar with the launch plans.  —  T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
HTC Mozart Windows Phone 7 specifications leak, ‘late October’ UK launch confirmed
Cpen / Twitter Blog:
Promoted Promotions  —  When we launched Promoted Tweets back in April, we said that we would be doing lots of experimenting and iterating, as is typical with everything else at Twitter.  Since then, we've done and learned a lot - such as adding Promoted Trends to our suite of Promoted Products …
Julio Ojeda-Zapata / Your Tech Weblog:
Microsoft to do direct battle with Apple at Mall of America  —  A Microsoft retail store is coming to the Mall of America and — get this — it's directly across from one of Apple's famed retail stores.  —  Microsoft is a notorious imitator of all things Apple, and it's doing it again …
Royal Pingdom:
Chrome rapidly catching up to Firefox  —  Google's Chrome web browser has only been around for two years, but with an almost frantic pace of development it's already gone through more iterations in that brief time than many other software products do in a decade.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia's MeeGo device chief quits  —  The VP in charge of Nokia's MeeGo Devices has resigned.  Ari Jaaksi confirmed to Finland's Talous Sanomat that he resigned last week.  According to a Nokia spokesman his departure does not affect MeeGo's rollout schedule which had called for a first device to be delivered before the end of 2010.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Unable To Find A Better Exit, Qualcomm Cancels Consumer-Direct FLO TV  —  Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) is shutting down its struggling direct-to-consumer FLO TV operations, paidContent has learned.  According to sources familiar with the situation, the staff was informed late last week by Bill Stone …
Gabriella Coleman / The Atlantic Online:
The Anthropology of Hackers  —  Editor's Note: Pasty kids with greasy hair typing on command lines.  Dark villains of the networked world.  Security magicians with odd political beliefs.  We have a lot of ideas about who hackers are, but very few people have actually tried to seriously investigate …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Pay Now, Read Later: Instapaper Starts Testing Subscriptions
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Michael M. Grynbaum / City Room:
Phone Carriers Sign On to Bring Service to Subways
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Hulu CEO to Big Media: Serve Consumers or Lose Them
Discussion: WebProNews
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
TabbedOut Raises $2 Million For Restaurant Mobile Payment Platform
Discussion: GigaOM and SiliconANGLE
Electronista:
ThinkPad gets NVIDIA Optimus video, hits 60m sold
Discussion: Engadget and Technologizer
Rachel King / The Toybox Blog:
Kylo TV web browser revamped with improved search, integration …
Discussion: kylo.tv and SlashGear
Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Foursquare Is Back!
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Yelp and CityGrid demonstrate the meaning of “coopetition”
Discussion: Local SEO Guide and Screenwerk
 Earlier Items: 
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Virgin Mobile rolls out Android-based Samsung Intercept: $249 prepaid
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
As the Twitter App Ecosystem Tightens, 12seconds Calls it Quits
Discussion: TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Numbers: How Goldman Sachs values each Microsoft division
Discussion: Platformonomics, ITworld.com and Computerworld, Thanks:atul
Ashley Brown / The Windows Blog:
Windows 7 Family Pack Makes a Comeback Today
Jared Newman / PC World:
Toshiba's Glasses-Free 3D TV: Same Old Problems
Discussion: BBC and TechSpot
Eyk Henning / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon to Acquire Online Retailer BuyVip
Discussion: TechFlash
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Skype To Appoint A New CEO, Cisco SVP Tony Bates
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule
 
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