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8:40 PM ET, October 5, 2010

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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 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 …
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 …
Discussion: VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable! and The Next Web, Thanks:atul
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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.
Discussion: ProgrammableWeb
Eran Shir / eran's posterous:
Why Did we sell Dapper to Yahoo?  —  A few hours ago we signed an agreement to sell Dapper, my four year old baby, to Yahoo! for an undisclosed sum that someone will probably leak to Kara Swisher in a day or two.  I thought this an opportune occasion to summarize an amazing four years …
Discussion: ClickZ
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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 …
Discussion: Lifehacker
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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.
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
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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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Google responds to Oracle's Android patent lawsuit, we break it down
Discussion: OSNews, Thanks:rawmeet
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 …
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 …
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.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Bar Spy: Apple Trying To Hire a Blogger?  —  Apple's PR staff would be well advised to reach out more to bloggers, or even blog on their own.  So the mysterious overture Apple made to a TechCrunch editor at a Cupertino, California brewhouse could be a big positive step.
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) …
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.
Discussion: The Next Web and PSFK
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Want to own FaceMash.com, the precursor to Facebook?  Now you can.  —  Of course, it will (at this point) set you back a mere $8,000.  That is, if nobody else bids.  —  FaceMash.com, the site that eventually became Facebook, is up on the auction block at Flippa.  Worried that it might not be the real thing?
Discussion: Flippa, TechCrunch and ITworld.com
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!
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.
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.
Joseph Tartakoff / mocoNews:
Qualcomm Goes Public With Flo TV Cancellation  —  After 36 hours of radio silence, Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) is finally acknowledging that it is canceling its direct-to-consumer FLO TV operations.  The company says in a statement that it is suspending direct to consumer sales of new devices …
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.
Christopher Mims / Technology Review:
Where's All the Free Wi-Fi We Were Promised?  —  Municipal WiFi was supposed to bridge the digital divide.  Here's why it failed.  —  Municipal WiFi was the free, ubiquitous mesh of wireless internet access that was supposed to carpet bomb the digital divide back to the stone age.  —  So what happened?
 
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Ben Yoskovitz / Instigator Blog:
A Postmortem Analysis of Standout Jobs
Discussion: GigaOM
Joel Mathis / Macworld:
Apple boots BitTorrent-related app from store
Discussion: Erictric and iHackintosh
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Verizon announces the Droid Pro — and it's not what anyone expected
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Pulse Takes An Angel Round, But Where Are The Angels?
Kyle Bennett / [H]ard|OCP:
NVIDIA Enters Retail with Direct Sales at Best Buy
Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:
Toshiba to Launch Tablets World-wide in 2011
Amir Efrati / Digits:
Google to Supply Software Apps to New York Schools
 Earlier Items: 
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Silicon Valley at a Cross Roads: Entertainment or Science?
AppleInsider:
Apple improves US iPhone 4 shipping times to 5-7 days
Discussion: App Advice and Engadget
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
IBM throws its hat into the hosted e-mail ring with Exchange Online competitor
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Aiming to Learn as We Do, a Machine Teaches Itself
Discussion: Hillicon Valley
 

 
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Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant who was among the first in the industry to shake publishers into confronting the digital disruption, died on Nov. 7 at 77

Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads
 
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