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Nielsen Wire:
Android Most Popular Operating System in U.S. Among Recent Smartphone Buyers  —  According to August data from The Nielsen Company, Android is now the most popular operating system among people who bought a smartphone in the past six months, while Blackberry RIM and Apple iOS …
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
The iPhone Has a Real Fight on Its Hands  —  Back in March, I wrote about the increasingly personal fight between Steven P. Jobs, the Apple chief executive, and Eric E. Schmidt, his Google counterpart.  In it, I quoted Mr. Jobs saying: “Make no mistake: Google wants to kill the iPhone.  We won't let them.”
Discussion: Engadget, The Register and I4U News
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Nielsen: Android Surges to No. 1 in Recent Sales  —  Nielsen is adding its voice to the chorus of research firms confirming the ascension of Android.  Nielsen said among recent acquirers of smartphones in the last six months through August, Android was the top platform in the U.S. with 32 percent …
Milan Broum / Google Mobile Blog:
Open your eyes: Google Goggles now available on iPhone in Google Mobile App  —  Searching with Google on your mobile phone can be an eye-opening experience.  Now your phone's camera can even help to find out more about the world around you.  —  Back in December we introduced Google Goggles on Android …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
As MeeGo VP Quits, Nokia CEO Taking Calls From Eric Schmidt  —  News broke this morning that Nokia's executive in charge of MeeGo devices, Ari Jaaksi, resigned last week.  This continues a string of high-profile people leaving the world's largest mobile phone company as it attempts to establish …
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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.
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:   Intel Says No MeeGo Handsets Until 2011
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Jason Calacanis: Revenge is a new editorial project to rival TechCrunch  —  Jason Calacanis is angry.  You can tell he's angry partly because he talks even faster than normal, but also because he's (still) spitting feathers about TechCrunch founder (and now AOL, employee) Mike Arrington.
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
Microsoft CEO says will see Windows slates by Christmas  —  (Reuters) - A Microsoft slate to counter Apple's popular iPad tablet computer will be seen by the Christmas holiday, Microsoft's Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday.  —  Ballmer did not say whether the palm-sized slates …
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Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Windows Slates coming at Christmas, unveiled on October 11
Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:
The new Internet craze: splitting hairs over fractional Web browser market share changes  —  In recent months you may have noticed a surge of posts by popular, authoritative tech sites on the topic of Web browser market shares.  They all take roughly the same format: a bold title …
Discussion: Lifehacker
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Google Asks Court to Toss Oracle's Android Lawsuit  —  Silicon Valley's latest Goliath versus Goliath battle is officially on.  —  Google today responded to Oracle's claims that its Android OS infringes copyrights and patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired as part of its purchase of Sun Microsystems earlier this year.
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.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
2 E-Books Cost More Than Amazon Hardcovers  —  Readers of e-books may not be able to turn paper pages, lend their copies to friends or file them away on living room bookshelves.  But they do have the comfort of knowing that they paid less for them than for hardcovers.
Yahoo / Yodel Anecdotal:
Yahoo! to Acquire Dapper to Extend Our Lead in Display Advertising  —  Yahoo! has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Dapper, a technology platform providing dynamic display ad creation and optimization.  —  Yahoo! is already the largest and most successful force in display advertising …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
How many iPads has Apple really sold?  —  A preview of what analysts expect from the company's fourth quarter earnings report  —  Sources: Company reports and the consensus estimate for Q4  —  Bernstein Research retail analyst Colin McGranahan created a bit of a stir Monday …
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple's Data Needs Mean $1.7 Million, Jacuzzi for Carolina Pair  —  Apple Inc. needed land owned by Donnie and Kathy Fulbright for a $1 billion data center in rural North Carolina.  The couple showed no interest in moving out of their home of 34 years in the town of Maiden.
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple TV Parts May Cost Less Than $64  —  CEO Steve Job's redesigned “hobby” device is 80 percent smaller and much more profitable to sell, says iSuppli, noting the Samsung A4 chip that also appears in the iPad and iPhone 4  —  The components in the latest version of Apple's (AAPL) …
Paul Glader / Digits:
Jack Welch Blasts H-P's Board  —  Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch sharply criticized Hewlett-Packard's board of directors on Tuesday at the World Business Forum in New York.  —  “The Hewlett-Packard board has committed sins over the last 10 years,” said Mr. Welch.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Will Launch A Groupon Clone  —  AOL plans to launch a Groupon clone called “Wow!”  —  Groupon is the service that sends its users a coupon in an email everyday.  The coupon doesn't work until enough email recipients agree to use it.  —  Here's how AOL describes the service on a placeholder page:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hipmunk Closes Hyper-Competitive Angel Round, Sans The Usual Suspects  —  There are two types of angel investors in Silicon Valley today.  The first type includes most of the “super angels,” who are trying to hold the line on $4 million valuations for early stage investments and as a group seem unwilling …
Discussion: alarm:clock and Mashable!
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Aiming to Learn as We Do, a Machine Teaches Itself  —  Give a computer a task that can be crisply defined — win at chess, predict the weather — and the machine bests humans nearly every time.  Yet when problems are nuanced or ambiguous, or require combining varied sources of information, computers are no match for human intelligence.
Discussion: Hillicon Valley
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Silicon Valley at a Cross Roads: Entertainment or Science?  —  I wrote a post Sunday about the difference between cultural waves in Silicon Valley and the individual companies that come out of them.  Many of the individual companies survive but the wave itself always has to crash.  That's the nature of waves.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
GetJar to give mobile games away to millions of users for free  —  Mobile app store operator GetJar plans to shake up the mobile game industry by giving away millions of copies of mobile games for free.  That's going to make it tough on companies that are trying to sell high-quality mobile games …
Jeremy Sikora / TiPb:
Netflix app for iPhone updated to include video out  —  The Netflix app for iPhone received a nice little update last night that includes video out support.  Yes, this means you are now able to use your iPhone 4 or iPod touch 4 to send any streaming video content available on Netflix directly to your TV.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Gizmodo, TUAW and Phone Arena
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Zynga Makes Another Acquisition-Dallas's Bonfire Studios  —  Zynga announced another small acquisition today, as it continues to vacuum up small independent online game developers across the U.S. and internationally.  —  This time it's Dallas-based Bonfire Studios, which the San Francisco …
 
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Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:
Toshiba to Launch Tablets World-wide in 2011
Discussion: SlashGear, Electronista and Liliputing
Amir Efrati / Digits:
Google to Supply Software Apps to New York Schools
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Engadget's Darren Murph nabs Guinness World Record for most blog posts ever written!
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AppleInsider:
Apple improves US iPhone 4 shipping times to 5-7 days
Discussion: App Advice
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
IBM throws its hat into the hosted e-mail ring with Exchange Online competitor
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Foundry Group Launches Second $225 Million Venture Fund
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
AppNexus Raises A Meaty $50 Million Series C For Realtime Ad Bidding Platform
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Marketers and Social Media: Cutting Through the Noise
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Pay Now, Read Later: Instapaper Starts Testing Subscriptions
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