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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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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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SFGate, Daring Fireball, Boy Genius Report, TiPb, I4U News and Electronista
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.
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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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ReadWriteWeb, SiliconANGLE, NewsGrange and The Next Web
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
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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.
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GigaOM, TechCrunch, Computerworld, CNET News, Electronista and Silicon Alley Insider
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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TechCrunch, The Next Web, mobiputing and MacStories
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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App Advice and MacStories
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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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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 …
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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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Silicon Alley Insider and Silicon Valley Sleuth
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
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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9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear, MacNN, Macsimum News, Cult of Mac and everythingiCafe
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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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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Fast Company, paidContent, TechCrunch and ReveNews
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 …
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Google Android News …, IntoMobile, ReadWriteWeb and mocoNews
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.
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Network World, Cult of Mac, Geeky-Gadgets and TiPb
DigiTimes:
Sintek denies sampling projected capacitive touch panels for iMac, says spokesman — Barry Wu, VP and spokesperson of Sintek Photronics has denied reports that the company is sampling projected capacitive touch panels for Apple's iMac. — An October 1, 2010 report cited industry sources saying Sintek …
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The Register, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, MacStories, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, Edible Apple, Erictric, I4U News and MacRumors
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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Zynga, VatorNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and paidContent
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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