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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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Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, Guardian, Digits, DSLreports, The Microsoft Blog, Gearlog, IntoMobile, GottaBeMobile, MSDN Blogs, Gizmodo, MacNN, 1001 Noisy Cameras, MWD Tech News, Phones Review and PC Magazine
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, Bits, eWeek, VentureBeat, ZDNet, BetaNews, paidContent, ReadWriteWeb and Tech Trader Daily
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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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Telegraph, Windows Phone Blog, GigaOM, Direct2Dell, 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.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
HTC HD7: Hello, All 4.3-Inches of Windows Phone 7 — The HD7 is the quintessential HTC phone—a 4.3-inch slab with a 1GHz processor, 16GB internal storage, 5-megapixel, 720p video-shooting camera, and naturally, a kickstand. Despite being oh-so-familiar, it could very still be the Windows Phone to get.
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Computerworld, ZDNet, PC World, Telegraph, MobileCrunch, GottaBeMobile, Gearlog, IntoMobile and Engadget
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Microsoft announces ten Windows Phone 7 handsets for 30 countries: October 21 in Europe and Asia, 8 November in US (Update: Video!) — It may have “Windows” in the branding, but Windows Phone 7 is not the desktop PC experience shoehorned into a cellphone. Microsoft tried that with Windows Mobile …
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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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Boy Genius Report, Fast Company, Computerworld, PC World, Samsung Hub, Gizmodo, Engadget, DailyTech, Gadget Lab, GeekSmack, WMPoweruser.com, Softpedia News, everythingWM, Neowin.net, Gadgetell, I4U News, IntoMobile, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Pocket-lint, Fone Arena, MobileCrunch, Recombu, Geek.com, Electronista, Phones Review and WPCentral.com
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
LG Optimus 7 Windows Phone 7 smartphone gets early reveal
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Gizmodo, PC World, eWeek, Computerworld, Pocket-lint, Engadget, LG Blog, Hardware 2.0 Blog, I4U News, everythingWM, Cellpassion, WMPoweruser.com, IntoMobile, Unwired View, MobileCrunch, The Next Web, Electronista and WPCentral.com
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
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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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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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Silicon Alley Insider and Lost Remote
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
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Tumbl.in Is StumbleUpon For Twitter — Tumbl.in, a project started at our TechCrunch Hackathon during TC Disrupt, is a like a StumbleUpon for Twitter, allowing you to “stumble across” links shared in your Twitter timeline, your Twitter favorites and your Twitter lists.
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VatorNews, The Next Web and Techie Buzz
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.
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
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
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
AT&T brings U-verse to Windows Phone 7, Xbox 360 — Well, it looks like AT&T has a few surprises of its own today — it's just announced that U-verse Mobile will be heading to Windows Phone 7 this fall and — get this — you don't even have to be a U-verse customer to use it.
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PR Newswire and Crave
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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BBC, bizjournals and Search Engine Roundtable
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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, TechCrunch, Googling Google Blog and Silicon Alley Insider, Thanks:mamk
