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6:30 AM ET, October 12, 2010

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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:

Why Windows Phone 7 Will Make Android Look Chaotic — Microsoft may be late to the game with a consumer-savvy phone OS, but Windows Phone 7 is aiming to do right a lot of what Google is doing wrong. Based on what I saw during a visit to Microsoft's headquarters two weeks ago …

Discussion: Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, 901am and Tech Sanity Check

Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:

Dell Venue Pro: Windows Phone 7's Dark Horse? Hands On — I want to love the Dell Venue Pro. This is the Windows Phone 7 with a keyboard that might actually work: a vertical slider, so it's usable one-handed and it gets around Windows Phone 7's problems with rotating screens.

Discussion: TmoNews, Direct2Dell, T3.com News, Engadget, Fone Arena, The Register, ThinkMobile, I4U News and Smartphones …

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Windows Phone 7 Shows Why RIM, Nokia Need a Fresh Start

Discussion: Mashable!, Geek.com, displayblog, MSDN Blogs and Fast Company, Thanks:rawmeet

Laura Foy / Channel 9:
First Look: Windows Phone 7 Hardware

Discussion: ThinkMobile, everythingWM and TechNet Blogs

Matt Rosoff / Silicon Alley Insider:
SURPRISE: Developing For Windows Phone 7 Isn't A Total Waste Of Time

Discussion: Engadget, VentureBeat and Gizmodo, Thanks:rawmeet

Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Windows Phone 7 launch day app roundup

Discussion: CrunchGear, Black Web 2.0, CNET News, WebProNews, Ars Technica, Crave and Phones Review

Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Microsoft announces ten Windows Phone 7 handsets for 30 countries …

Discussion: PR Newswire, ClipperHouse, Telegraph, Redmond Pie, Black Web 2.0, Switched, Phones Review, Gizmodo and istartedsomething

Microsoft:
Windows Phone 7: A Fresh Start for the Smartphone

Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Microsoft launches Windows Phone 7, hitting the US on Nov. 8

Electronista:

Walmart confirms iPad reaching its stores on Friday — Walmart this evening confirmed that the iPad would reach its stores this week. The tablet arrives in its stores on Friday, October 15, and will include all models at the same prices that Apple charges.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Cult of Mac, Software Testing Blog and Tech Trader Daily

Wall Street Journal:

‘Scrapers’ Dig Deep for Data on Web — At 1 a.m. on May 7, the website PatientsLikeMe.com noticed suspicious activity on its “Mood” discussion board. There, people exchange highly personal stories about their emotional disorders, ranging from bipolar disease to a desire to cut themselves.

Discussion: Digits and AdExchanger.com

Steve Cheney / TechCrunch:

Apple Will Take A Pass On 4G Networks For The iPhone In 2011— Sorry Verizon and AT&T — Back in August I broke the news that Apple was lining up a component purchase of several million chipsets from Qualcomm for a CDMA-powered Verizon iPhone due in January.

Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Verizon iPhone may be among first CDMA handsets to offer concurrent data and voice

Discussion: Geeky-Gadgets, PC World, VentureBeat and everythingiCafe

Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:

SFR outs the Palm Pre 2: 1GHz processor and 512MB RAM — Considering how tight of a lid Palm and HP have been keeping on details about the next Palm device, we were surprised to see it pop up on the website of French carrier SFR (who recently disappeared the Pre Plus). It's official: the Palm Pre 2 is coming.

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Twitter Crushing Facebook's Click-Through Rate: Report — What is the most effective way for marketers to spread their message online? Facebook? Twitter? Company blogs? Email? — According to a new report by marketing firm SocialTwist, Internet sharing trends have shifted heavily …

Discussion: New Media Age and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, more at Mediagazer »

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Updated Yahoo Messenger app now live in App Store, 3G video calling bonanza awaits you — Not stoked on Skype or FaceTime? Looks like you've got another option, bub. That overhauled Yahoo Messenger app we told you about 48 hours ago is now live in the App Store, offering multitasking …

Discussion: The Register, TUAW, Softpedia News, Maboot.com, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, MobileCrunch, MWD Tech News, Redmond Pie, TiPb, Boy Genius Report, MacStories, ThinkMobile, Electronista and SlashPhone

Robin Harding / Financial Times:

Google to map inflation using web data — Google is using its vast database of web shopping data to construct the ‘Google Price Index’ - a daily measure of inflation that could one day provide an alternative to official statistics. — The work by Google's chief economist, Hal Varian …

Discussion: Guardian and Bloomberg

Liz Gannes / GigaOM:

Twitter Founders: Gladwell Got It Wrong — “Laughable,” “absurd,” “ludicrous” and “pointless” were words Twitter founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone used Monday night to describe a recent Malcolm Gladwell story in the New Yorker about the futility of social media to create real social change.

Discussion: Silicon Valley Watcher, VentureBeat and PE Hub Blog

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Trent Reznor: Zuckerberg Should Not Be Mentioned In The Same Breath As Steve Jobs — As you may be aware, musician Trent Reznor wrote and recorded (along with Atticus Ross) the score for David Fincher's new film, The Social Network — you know, the Facebook movie.

Discussion: Drowned In Sound

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Google Launches Two New Android Apps To Help The Blind Navigate Around Town — They rarely get much press attention, but some of the greatest features to come out of the new era of smartphones are related to accessibility. A few months back, blind iPhone user Austin Seraphin wrote about how the device had changed his life.

Discussion: Eyes-Free Android, Gizmodo and ThinkMobile

Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:

WordPress Adds SMS Notifications, Controls — If you're either a power WordPress user, a security-conscious blogger or simply a control freak, then the new SMS features offered by WordPress are going to be right up your alley. — From alerting you to changes on your blog to allowing …

Discussion: WordPress.com News, Mashable!, Pluggd.in, Softpedia News and textually.org

Bob Sutor:

IBM joins the OpenJDK community, will help unify open source Java efforts — When people talk about open source, the notion of “forking” often comes up. The idea is that some folks are not happy with the direction in which a project is going, so they take a copy of the source code, come up with a new name, and set up shop elsewhere.

Discussion: Computerworld, Market Wire, The Register, Googling Google Blog, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, eWeek, Steven J. Vaughan … and V3.co.uk

Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:

Google The ‘Early Winner’ In Ads After Bing-Yahoo Integration — In the aftermath of Bing and Yahoo integrating their search ad platforms, the “early winner” seems to be Google, whose share of paid search spending rose more than two percent between the second and third quarters of this year.

Discussion: MediaPost and paidContent

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

“Done Deal” - DeNA To Announce Ngmoco Acquisition Very Soon (Confirmed) — An update to our post last week on Japan's DeNA mulling over an acquisition of San Francisco based social gaming startup ngmoco. The deal is supposedly done and will be announced shortly, possibly on Tuesday.

Discussion: Reuters, New York Times, ngmoco, 9 to 5 Mac and Touch Arcade

Diane Peters / Creative Commons:

Improving Access to the Public Domain: the Public Domain Mark — Today, Creative Commons announces the release of its Public Domain Mark, a tool that enables works free of known copyright restrictions to be labeled in a way that allows them to be easily discovered over the Internet.

Discussion: Softpedia News and ReadWriteWeb

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

iPhone apps now more popular than major TV shows and sports broadcasts — Is iPhone the next American Idol? — The daily audience for apps that run on Apple's iOS operating system (for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad) has now surpassed 19 million users, who spend an average of 22 minutes per …

Discussion: Shelly Palmer Digital Living, blog.flurry.com, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, App Advice, ReadWriteWeb, Mobile Marketing Watch, VatorNews, CNET News, AppScout, Electronista, dailywireless.org, Screenwerk and Macsimum News

Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:

Facebook, Zynga Impose Fees on Private Sales of Shares — Facebook Inc. and Zynga Game Network Inc. are charging fees of at least $2,500 for each sale of company shares, a move legal experts say discourages employees from putting equity in the hands of large numbers of outside owners before an initial public offering.

Discussion: Media Money …, Inside Facebook, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, All Facebook and WebProNews

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:

“Deleted” Facebook photos still not deleted: a followup — Facebook may be making strides in some areas of privacy, but the company is still struggling when it comes to deleting user photos—or not deleting them, as the case may be. — We wrote a piece more than a year ago examining whether photos …

Discussion: Gawker

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