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Microsoft.com:
Windows Phone Newsroom: Live Press Conference — Windows Phone 7 Keynote Oct. 11, 2010 The joint press conference on Windows Phone 7 with Microsoft and AT&T will be webcast here beginning at 6:30 a.m. PDT/9:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, Oct. 11.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Live from Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 launch event — 9:28AM “Our program will begin in just a few moments... please find a seat.” — 9:27AM We've seen a few folks from Samsung, AT&T and HTC floating around — the partners are definitely present. LG people — holla at us!
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Microsoft:
Windows Phone 7: A Fresh Start for the Smartphone — The phone delivers a new user experience by integrating the things users really want to do, creating a balance between getting work done and having fun. — The goal for Microsoft's latest smartphone is an ambitious one …
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TechFlash, ZDNet and ReadWriteWeb
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Microsoft and Partners Unveil Windows Phone 7 Global Portfolio — First phones available soon from leading mobile operators around the world. — Microsoft Corp. today joined its partners in revealing nine new Windows Phone 7 handsets that will be available this holiday season …
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Windows Phone Blog, GigaOM, Bink.nu, The Next Web and Neowin.net
Chris Jones / The Windows Blog:
Windows Live and Windows Phone 7 — As announced today in New York, Windows Phone 7 is coming soon! We've been working hard over the last several months to make sure Windows Live can connect you to your stuff and the people you care about across your Windows PC, your phone, and the web.
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Samsung Omnia 7 Windows Phone 7 handset outed early — Samsung's Omnia 7 has joined the LG Optimus 7 in getting an early Windows Phone 7 reveal this morning, with the company's Russian arm outing the 4-inch Super AMOLED WVGA handset already. The 122.4 x 64.2 x 10.99 mm smartphone runs …
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Chris Davies / SlashGear:
LG Optimus 7 Windows Phone 7 smartphone gets early reveal — It's Windows Phone 7 day and we've a feeling someone over at LG is going to get a scolding since they've pulled the trigger early on their smartphone announcement. The LG Optimus 7 is the company's entrant to the WP7 market …
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PC World, eWeek, Computerworld, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Gizmodo, LG Blog, everythingWM, I4U News, Cellpassion, WMPoweruser.com, IntoMobile, Unwired View, MobileCrunch, The Next Web, WPCentral.com and Electronista
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
HTC HD7: Hello, All 4.3-Inches of Windows Phone 7
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Computerworld, ZDNet, PC World, Telegraph, MobileCrunch, GottaBeMobile and Windows Phone Secrets
Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
Finding Your Way Through the Mall or the Airport, With a Cellphone Map — SAN FRANCISCO — Mobile phone maps have guided people through streets and alleys around the globe. But when those people step into a sprawling building, they can get lost. — Inside, people have to ask strangers …
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Travis Larchuk / NPR:
The Zombie Network: Beware ‘Free Public WiFi’ … It's in your airports, your coffee shops and your libraries: “Free Public WiFi.” — Despite its enticing name, the network, available in thousands of locations across the United States, does not actually provide access to the Internet.
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Lifehacker, The Next Web and InformationWeek
Chris O'Brien / Mercury News:
Why cell phones may be more dangerous than we think — After many years of increasingly erratic behavior, Alan Marks, of Lafayette, suddenly experienced a severe seizure in the middle of the night. His wife, Ellie, called 911 and Marks was rushed to the hospital, where tests revealed …
New York Times:
After Building an Audience, Twitter Turns to Ads — Twitter at last looks serious about making money. — In the last two weeks, the company has introduced several advertising plans, courted Madison Avenue at Advertising Week, the annual industry conference, and promoted Dick Costolo …
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Lars Aronsson / Androinica:
Instant Heart Rate measures your heart rate using your phone's camera, and it works — There are certain innovative apps that manage to impress you the first time you use them and make you wonder exactly what goes on behind the scenes. A few examples are the classic music identifying service Shazam …
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Download Squad, App Advice, Android Community and IntoMobile
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Being Eric Schmidt (On Facebook) — I'd like to apologize to Google CEO Eric Schmidt for impersonating him on Facebook today. — It's actually pretty easy, too easy, to do this. A reader emailed earlier today letting us know that someone had been impersonating them on Facebook based on a real, but unused, email account.
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Gawker and Softpedia News
Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
Wider Streets for Internet Traffic — OUR taste for the Internet is insatiable — traffic is growing so fast that its transmission systems may soon be filled to capacity. But scientists are coping, finding ingenious ways to satisfy our deep bandwidth hunger.
TmoNews:
Is This The T-Mobile HTC HD7? — With only a day left until the Windows Phone 7 Launch Party and the HTC HD7 all but confirmed for Magenta, one of our ninjas dropped something interesting in our inbox. Above you will see what seem to be the very first T-Mobile branded HTC HD7/Schubert images.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
R&D: Short-term focus, cynicism hampers us — Google creates a car that uses artificial intelligence to drive itself and the tech conversation automatically goes from research and development to the search giant's motives to future business models. — Can't we just sit back and enjoy a neat technology breakthrough for a few hours?
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Technically Incorrect, Silicon Alley Insider and Softpedia News
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why do technology research? Is Google's car going to lead anywhere?
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Quick Online Tips, Googling Google Blog and Silicon Alley Insider, Thanks:mamk
Beth Snyder Bulik / AdAge:
Boomers — Yes, Boomers — Spend the Most on Tech — Due to Broad Demographic Grouping Problems, Biggest Misconception About Group Is That They're All the Same — YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) — Marilynn Mobley has a desktop at work, a laptop at home, a netbook for travel, an Android smartphone and just last week she bought an iPad.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
