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Nick Bilton / Bits:
What Did Microsoft and Adobe Chiefs Talk About? — Left Brendan Smialowski/Bloomberg; right, Matthew Staver/Bloomberg. — Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer of Adobe. At right, Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft. — Steven A. Ballmer …
Stan Medvedenko / Sony Insider:
Sizes And Pricing for Sony Google TV Family Leaked — Many of our readers out there are pretty excited about the Sony Google TV. We've written about it nearly a dozen times and it's basically a television with an Intel processor and the ability to fully surf the web (including flash sites).
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VentureBeat, GeekSugar, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Geek.com, The Wire, The Toybox Blog, TechEye, Gadget Lab, Fortune, eHomeUpgrade, iThinkDifferent, Erictric, Product Reviews Net, I4U News, Techie Buzz, Newlaunches.com, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Fast Company, TechSpot, CrunchGear, Engadget and Between the Lines Blog
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Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Am I Blind, Or Am I Just Not ‘Seeing’ What's So Great About Google TV? — You can't see it, but I'm tapping out over here. Why? Because for the life of me I cannot understand the hype surrounding Google TV (and by extension, the Logitech Revue and other, similar items).
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eWeek
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Verizon, Apple quarreled over iPhone retail options, digital content — Major sticking points in negotiations between Verizon and Apple have reportedly been the wireless carrier's interest in allowing retail partners to sell the iPhone, and Verizon's promotion of its V Cast digital video-on-demand store.
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CNNMoney.com, DSLreports, DailyTech, Digits, VatorNews, VentureBeat, Gawker, The Atlantic Online and MacDailyNews
Ryan Block / gdgt:
With Antennagate over, is Glassgate next for the iPhone 4? — Whether or not you've experienced the iPhone 4's famed death grip, or even believe it's a real phenomenon (and based on extensive personal experience I can assure you that it is), the whole Antennagate scandal undoubtedly left …
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Silicon Alley Insider, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Engadget, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, Phone Arena, IntoMobile, Geek.com, iLounge, Gizmodo and Edible Apple, Thanks:atul
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Verizon prez: ‘Microsoft is not at the forefront of our mind’ — Some juicy remarks today from Lowell McAdam, president and COO of Verizon Communications and CEO of Verizon Wireless, about Microsoft and its standing — or lack thereof — in the mobile business.
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PC World and The Next Web
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Verizon's McAdam talks 4G (Q&A)
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The Seattle Times, msnbc.com, GMSV and Engadget, Thanks:rawmeet
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Bit.ly Raises $10 Million Series B, Still Growing Like Crazy — It looks like short links are here to stay, at least for a while longer. Bit.ly, the largest independent link shortening service out there, closed a $10 million Series B financing. The round was led by RRE Ventures, with AOL Ventures also becoming a new investor.
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MediaMemo, Silicon Alley Insider and bit.ly blog
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Oops! That Facebook Location Patent Forgot To Mention Crowley's Earlier Dodgeball Patent — Earlier this week, Facebook was granted a broad patent on mobile location-based social networks. It seems to cover everything from members of a social network sharing their location with each …
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Silicon Alley Insider, TechEye and The Huffington Post
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Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Sorry Facebook, Google Already Had A Patent On Location-Based Social Networks — Facebook created quite a stir yesterday when it emerged that the company has a patent on location-based social networking, a very competitive and crowded field Facebook has just entered.
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Wired In Blog| BNET, Tech Report, ReadWriteWeb and TechCrunch
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Facebook Groups: Privacy Blunder or Twitter Replacement? — Facebook rolled out a comprehensive upgrade to its Groups feature on Wednesday, but judging by some of the responses from both high-profile users and regular Facebook fans, the ability to “tag” anyone and add them to a group automatically …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Cisco: The Umi Is Simply Too Expensive To Drive Much Demand — I said it yesterday, and now the Street is saying it: Cisco (CSCO) has got to be kidding if they think people are going to line up to buy their Umi home video conferencing system with a price tag of $599 - plus $24.99 for monthly service.
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InformationWeek, CloudAve, Technologizer, Network World and Engadget
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Cisco's Umi home telepresence system: A shadow corporate system?
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internetnews.com and Cisco Blog
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google News Testing Twitter Integration With “Friends” — Google is apparently testing a new feature that lets you connect your Twitter account to Google News. Some people are seeing a “Friends” box on the right hand side of Google News. — The friends box asks you to enter your Twitter username and click “Save.”
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GigaOM, Search Engine Watch, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch and The Blog Herald, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Japan's DeNA Mulling $400+ Million Acquisition of ngmoco — Japanese gaming company DeNA is considering an acquisition of San Francisco-based ngmoco, we've heard from multiple sources. The price, says one source, is north of $400 million, although that probably includes …
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VentureBeat, Touch Arcade and www.pocketgamer.biz
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Skype's Android shackles are broken, 3G calling hacked into reality — Well, that didn't take long. Just days after the official Skype application finally landed in the Android Market, along comes an .apk that's far more salacious for Americans. Thanks to xeudoxus over at Droid Forums …
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Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, Phone Arena and Electronista
Yehuda Katz / Katz Got Your Tongue?:
What's Wrong with “HTML5″ — In the past year or so, the term “HTML5″ has increasingly been picked up by the tech press as the successor to “DHTML”, “Web 2.0″ or “Ajax”. When used by the tech press, it is becoming a generic term for “the next generation of web technology” …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Rolling Out New “Accordion” Search & Other Features — Yahoo is launching a number of search enhancements this evening that start to deliver on the UI innovation that the company has been promising since the Microsoft search deal was announced. It's part of Yahoo's bid to remain relevant …
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Datamation, Guardian, PC World, Computerworld, Technologizer, TechCrunch, Yahoo! Search Blog, paidContent, AdAge, MediaFile, The Register, CNET News, Softpedia News, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Journal, MediaPost and BoomTown, Thanks:atul
Kevin Krause / Android Phone Fans:
AT&T Early Upgrade Fee for Smartphones Goes from $75 to $200 — Hardly a week goes by that a new smartphone option doesn't pop up for major carriers, and with new choices comes higher consumer desire to upgrade early. AT&T is keenly aware of this, and the company that just added a handful …
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Tech Trader Daily and WMExperts
Business Week:
Oracle's Larry Ellison Beats Up on His Rivals—Again — The CEO's public attacks on rivals are a sign that competition is heating up in enterprise computing — Thank heavens for Larry Ellison. Without the smack-talking Oracle (ORCL) co-founder and chief executive officer …
Larry Magid / CNET News:
Study: 92% of U.S. 2-year-olds have online record — There has been a lot of concern about young people posting too much information about themselves online, but a study commissioned by security company AVG found that 92 percent of U.S. children have some type of online presence by the time they are 2 years old.
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Mashable!, PC Magazine, Business Wire and John Battelle's Searchblog
Stuart Parmenter / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo is Now Available — Our first Firefox 4 beta for mobile is now available to download and test. It's built on the same technology platform as Firefox for the desktop and optimized for browsing on a mobile phone. Firefox beta for mobile comes …
Jeff / HootSuite blog:
HootSuite Mobile Apps Go Free for iPhone and Android on Oct. 13 — Mobile HootSuite fans will enjoy an added bonus next week - as of noon PST on October 13, the full version of HootSuite for iPhone and HootSuite for Android will be absolutely FREE to download.
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Thoughts from the Sidelines, Droid Life, IntoMobile, Android Phone Fans and The Next Web
Michibusch / The Twitter Engineering Blog:
Twitter's New Search Architecture — If we have done a good job then most of you shouldn't have noticed that we launched a new backend for search on twitter.com during the last few weeks! One of our main goals, but also biggest challenges, was a smooth switch from the old architecture to the new one …
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Computerworld, PC Magazine, I4U News, louisgray.com, Search Engine Journal, The Next Web, VatorNews, msnbc.com, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Search Engine Roundtable, Pluggd.in and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:atul
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Twitter Hits 1 Billion Queries Per Day, Announces New Search Tech
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Fast Company, Silicon Alley Insider and TechCrunch
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Evan Williams on Decentralized Social Networks — Twitter founder Evan Williams says Twitter is open enough to be interoperable with decentralized social networks built by other people, but that none have overcome the trade-off in user experience innovation that comes with decentralization.
Erik Siemers / San Jose Business Journal:
CollegeNET sues Google over ‘Speedbook’ — Google Inc.'s heavily-anticipated tablet PC dubbed the “Speedbook” is being challenged in federal court by Portland-based software firm CollegeNET Inc. — In a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Portland, Ore., CollegeNET said it already owns …
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Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Akamai employee charged with fraud — An employee of Cambridge Internet company Akamai Technologies Inc. was arrested yesterday and charged with wire fraud after allegedly trying to sell confidential information about the firm to a foreign government, according to the US attorney's office.
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CNET News and Hillicon Valley
Daily Mail:
Facebook denies claims that iPhone app means private phone numbers can be seen by anyone — Facebook tonight denied claims that private phone numbers could be seen by anyone thanks to its iPhone app. — Bloggers said that he internet giant's iPhone application to ‘sync’ information …
