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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.”
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Engadget, I4U News and The Register
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 …
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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 …
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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
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Foursquare Blog:
So, that was a bummer. — Yesterday, we experienced a very long downtime. All told, we were down for about 11 hours, which is unacceptably long. It sucked for everyone (including our team - we all check in everyday, too). We know how frustrating this was for all of you because many of you told us …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Foursquare Explains Yesterday's 11 Hour Outage: An Overloading Of Database Shards — As you may have noticed yesterday, Foursquare was down. Very down. In fact, that service says that total downtime was around 11 hours all told. That's not good. And they know it.
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ProgrammableWeb
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.
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StatCounter Global Stats:
Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser falls below 50% of worldwide market for first time — Boston, USA and Dublin, Ireland; Tuesday, 5th October 2010:Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser has fallen below 50% of the worldwide market for the first time according to StatCounter.
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Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:
The new Internet craze: splitting hairs over fractional Web browser …
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Lifehacker
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.
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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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) …
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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 …
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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.
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk and VatorNews
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Engadget's Darren Murph nabs Guinness World Record for most blog posts ever written! — We always knew Darren Murph had oodles of talent and was extremely prolific — but now the man has got the paper to seriously prove it. Our own Mr. Murph was just awarded the Guinness World Record for most posts ever by a blogger.
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The Next Web and PSFK
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.
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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:
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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Hillicon Valley
Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:
Toshiba to Launch Tablets World-wide in 2011 — CHIBA, Japan—Toshiba Corp. plans to launch tablet computing devices in the U.S., Japan and elsewhere early next year, a top Toshiba engineer said in an interview. — “The market for tablets is very hot right now,” said Hideo Kasuya …
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SlashGear, netbooknews.com and Electronista
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.
