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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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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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TechFlash, ThinkMobile, The Praized Blog, GigaOM, internetnews.com, PE Hub Blog, Computerworld, DailyTech, WebProNews, Droid Life, Google Android News …, Neowin.net, mocoNews, Yahoo! News, Engadget, Latest Voice,IMS 2.0 news, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Techland, I4U News, BetaNews, PC World, IntoMobile, Fortune, AppleInsider, Electronista, Android Phone Fans, TiPb, Boy Genius Report, DailyFinance, VentureBeat, AndroidGuys, SiliconANGLE, TG Daily, MobileBurn.com, Digital Daily, Internet2Go, Digits, ReadWriteWeb, Daring Fireball, , Adotas, iLounge, Tech Trader Daily, Silicon Alley Insider and The Next Web, Thanks:atul
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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Boy Genius Report, Engadget, TechCrunch, Pulse2, Gizmodo, eWeek, VentureBeat, MacStories, ReadWriteWeb, WebProNews, Black Web 2.0, , Phone Arena, BlogsDNA, Appletell, App Advice, Macworld, Redmond Pie, Switched, Search Engine Journal, iThinkDifferent, TheAppleBlog, IntoMobile, TUAW, The Next Web, Phones Review, Erictric, Gadgetwise, Ubergizmo, Network World, displayblog, Cult of Mac, Search Engine Land, CNET News, Electronista, ResourceShelf and TiPb
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The $4 Million Line — I wrote about two startups today that raised angel-sized financing rounds of around $1 million each: Hipmunk and Alphonso Labs. What caught my eye about both deals is this - neither had involvement from the so called “super angels” (except Hipmunk, which took an investment from SV Angel).
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Pulse Takes An Angel Round, But Where Are The Angels?
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hipmunk Closes Hyper-Competitive Angel Round, Sans The Usual Suspects
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Mashable! and alarm:clock
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
A Facebook Redesign Likely Being Unveiled Tomorrow After An Employee “Lockdown” — As you're probably aware by now, Facebook is holding an event at their headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. The invite we received didn't seem to give any real clues about what would be announced, but that didn't stop everyone from guessing anyway.
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Velocity, Geek.com, The Huffington Post, Gizmodo and Electricpig, Thanks:atul
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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louisgray.com, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Mashable!, CenterNetworks, About Foursquare, Erictric, ReadWriteWeb and The Next Web, Thanks:atul
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Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Foursquare Explains 11-Hour Outage, Then Site Crashes Again
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Erictric
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Sony's Google TV controller outed on ABC's Nightline (video) — Well, this is a bit unexpected. We just happened to catch ABC Nightline's Google TV special, and lo and behold, there's a sneak preview of Sony's Google TV ad blitz... and with it, a never-before-s een controller.
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VentureBeat, Product Reviews Net, TechCrunch, Sony Insider, The Brooks Review, Electronista and Gizmodo
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 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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Softpedia News, TechCrunch and Lifehacker
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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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 …
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ClickZ, Howard Lindzon and MediaNama
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Google responds to Oracle's Android patent lawsuit, we break it down — It's been just over a month and a half since Oracle first sued Google for infringing various Java-related patents in Android, and the big G's just filed its official response to the lawsuit after calling it “baseless.”
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Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, The Register, Digital Daily, OSNews, FierceMobileContent, GigaOM, Electronista and WebProNews, Thanks:rawmeet
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Verizon announces the Droid Pro — and it's not what anyone expected — Score one for Verizon! In a world full of constant, spot-on leaks (not that we're complaining), they've managed to not only launch a device without leaksters getting it first, but also make (intentionally or not) …
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Phone Scoop, Engadget, Boy Genius Report, Coolsmartphone News, Dow Jones Newswires, Product Reviews Net, GeekSmack, Verizon, Phone Arena and Electronista
Philip Winston / kmeme:
The Future of Google's Street View — The Need for Speed racing game franchise has been around for 16 years, sold over 100 million copies and generated more than $2.7B in revenue. People love to drive fast and they love to race, and it's much safer to do this in a video game than in the carpool lane.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook's “Like” Button Used To Be The “Awesome” Button … We can't get enough of Quora these days, basically because it connects people who have information to people who need it, and especially to those that didn't think they needed it. One of the things you thought you didn't need to know?
Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Credit Cards Will Go Electronic, Then Disappear Into iPhone 5 — Two bits of news chart the evolution and demise of that dumb piece of plastic in your wallet. First, it will get very intelligent. Second, it will disappear. — Push-button Dual Function Credit Cards
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VentureBeat and UMBC ebiquity
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
Shipping Wars: Retailers Team Up Against Amazon — Several dozen U.S. retailers are banding together to take on Amazon.com Inc. by striking at one of online shoppers' biggest concerns: shipping costs. — Under a cooperative program called ShopRunner, launched on Tuesday …
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TechFlash and Voices on All Things Digital
Dan Rayburn / The Business Of Online Video:
Apple TV and Roku Go Head-To-Head, Here's The Winner — What's better, the new Apple TV or the newly announced lineup of Roku boxes? That's the question I keep getting asked now that both devices are in the market. Over the past week, I've had the chance to use both the Apple TV …
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Robert Lemos / PC World:
Microsoft Wants ‘Sick’ PCs Banned From the Internet — The software giant is calling for a collective health policy to certify a computer's health and restrict the Internet access of PCs infected with malware. — Recommends — The problem with PCs infected with bots …
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TechEye, Computerworld, InformationWeek, Softpedia News and TechNet Blogs
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
PayPal check capture arrives for iPhone — Last week we told you about the upcoming check capture feature in the iPhone PayPal app. This new feature uses your device's camera to capture checks so they can be deposited into your PayPal account. This feature is similar to the Chase banking app …
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Mobile-Geeks, Erictric and BlogsDNA
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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IntoMobile, Phone Arena, Boy Genius Report, Pulse2, Mobilized, SlashGear and Adotas
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Facebook co-founder gives additional $50,000 to legalize marijuana in California — Facebook has rejected advertising from Proposition 19 activists who are trying to decriminalize marijuana in California. — But Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has contributed an additional $50,000 …
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Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
KISS frontman on P2P: “Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars.” — The bassist and businessman behind the legendary rock band KISS was on hand at the MIPCOM convention in Cannes, France on Tuesday. And Gene Simmons had a message for aspiring entertainers everywhere: sue first, think later.
