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SquareTrade:
iPhone 4 glass breaking 82% more than iPhone 3gs - four months in — SquareTrade analyzed iPhone accidents for over 20,000 iPhone 4s covered by SquareTrade Care Plans and found a 82% increase in reported broken screens compared to the iPhone 3gs. Highlights of the study include …
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Ars Technica, Geek.com, PC World, AppleInsider, Hardware 2.0 Blog, VatorNews, Reuters, Silicon Alley Insider, MacRumors, PhoneDog.com, Obsessable, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, Cult of Mac, IntoMobile, everythingiCafe and [H]ardOCP News/Article Feed, Thanks:dwire
Amazon.com:
Kindle Singles, Which Can Be Twice the Length of a New Yorker Feature or as Much as a Few Chapters of a Typical Book, Coming Soon to the Kindle Store — Less than 10,000 words or more than 50,000: that is the choice writers have generally faced for more than a century—works either …
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PC World, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Between the Lines Blog, Fast Company, ReadWriteWeb, Ars Technica, Memex 1.1, paidContent, Internet Evolution, jkOnTheRun, Digital Trends, Nieman Journalism Lab, The Next Web, SlashGear, Techland, Gadget Lab, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, TechSpot, TechFlash, Pocket-lint, Electronista, msnbc.com, Digits, Crave, Geek.com and Gizmodo, more at Mediagazer »
Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:
This Is Sony's $1400 Google TV-Powered Internet TV — e're live at Sony's Google TV press conference, where we'll see what the “world's first internet TV” (and its gnarly remote) looks like. Get ready. — The Keypad — Sony is touting their button-encrusted, rather large remote as a definitive …
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PR Newswire, Crave, Company Town and Engadget
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Live from Sony's Google TV event — 5:22PM Sony's really going with the swanky lounge vibe here — dim lighting, candles, lush downtempo electronica, cocktail waitresses. We're also cuddling up on white leather couches instead of sitting in chairs, which is... interesting.
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The Seattle Times, Electronista, Gadget Lab, Boy Genius Report and Obsessable
Quentyn Kennemer / Android Phone Fans:
Sony Opens Up Google TV Developer Registration Ahead of Today's Unveiling
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AndroidGuys, Erictric, Android Community and Engadget
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 …
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Google Watch, GigaOM, Between the Lines Blog, Ars Technica, eWeek, TechCrunch, Androinica, Softpedia News, App Advice, GottaBeMobile, PC World, SiliconANGLE, Stowe Boyd, AppScout, Boy Genius Report, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Obsessable, blogs.chron.com, PC Magazine, Computerworld, Datamation, AT&T, Technologizer, MSDN Blogs, Newlaunches.com, Gizmodo, T-Mobile News …, CrunchGear, Fast Company, 901am, Engadget and TechNet Blogs
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Todd Brix / The Windows Blog:
Introducing App Hub for Windows Phone 7 & Indie Game Developers
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Gadgetell, WMPoweruser.com, Silicon Alley Insider, Electronista, FierceDeveloper, MSDN Blogs, Inquirer, The Microsoft Blog, DailyTech, TechFlash, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, VatorNews, Go Rumors, GigaOM, Engadget, everythingWM and Channel 9, Thanks:rawmeet
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Seven new things to know about Windows Phone 7
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ZDNet, PC World, Hardware 2.0 Blog and WinBeta
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Google Executive Marissa Mayer Takes New Role in Location, Local Services — Marissa Mayer, Google Inc.'s vice president of search products, is taking a new role overseeing location and local services. — Mayer, who joined in 1999 as the company's first female engineer …
Jake Brill / Facebook Blog:
More Ways to Stay Secure — Facebook provides a number of ways to help you protect yourself and your account, and today we are announcing new features to help make your experience on Facebook more secure. — First, we're launching one-time passwords to make it safer to use public computers in places like hotels, cafes or airports.
Adam Huda / The Official Posterous Posterous:
Introducing Posterous for the iPhone: The Only Sharing App You Need — Effortless sharing from your iPhone has arrived with the new Posterous iPhone app. If you are looking for a fun and simple way to update friends and family while you're on-the-go, the Posterous iPhone app is for you.
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The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, Cult of Mac, The Blog Herald and SiliconANGLE
Toby Padilla / TweetDeck's posterous:
Android Ecosystem Infoporn Overload — As we bring our initial Android TweetDeck beta period to a close, we wanted to quickly reflect on the Android ecosystem and what might be considered extreme fragmentation. To date we've had 36,427 active beta testers and below you can see the massive variety …
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Matt Williams / Digg Blog:
Greetings from the new CEO — I'd like to use this opportunity to introduce myself. I'm Matt Williams, Digg's new CEO. It's certainly been an eventful first month on the job. As many of you know, the launch of Digg v4 didn't go smoothly, and we're deeply sorry that we disappointed our Digg community in the process.
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GigaOM, Fast Company, VentureBeat, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Erictric and Mashable!
Josh Fruhlinger / InfoWorld:
Oracle-IBM pact cuts Android off at the knees — Larry Ellison's latest move could seriously undermine Android, no matter how Oracle's courtroom battles with Google turn out. — If you have only a passing interest in Java development, you probably didn't think of much of yesterday's announcement …
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The Register, Mashable!, Bits, IntoMobile, Android Community, internetnews.com, Oracle, Computerworld, Steven J. Vaughan … and Bob Sutor
Intel:
Intel Reports First $11 Billion Revenue Quarter — Intel Corporation today reported that third-quarter revenue exceeded $11 billion for the first time, up 18 percent year-over-year to $11.1 billion. The company reported operating income of $4.1 billion, net income of $3.0 billion and EPS of 52 cents.
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CNET News, Datamation, Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, The Register, internetnews.com and Engadget
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Making sense of Google's seemingly kooky concepts — SAN FRANCISCO — In its self-proclaimed drive to make the world a better place, Google has immersed itself in far more than Internet search and online ads. But driverless cars and a wind energy farm in the Atlantic Ocean?
AppleInsider:
Bloomberg to profile Steve Jobs in one-hour TV special this Thursday — Apple chief executive Steve Jobs will be the subject of a TV special that will air on Bloomberg television this week, tracing the Silicon Valley superstar from his days as a college dropout through his leadership role …
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9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors Page 2, TiPb and TUAW
Wolfgang Gruener / ConceivablyTech:
Microsoft Patents GPU-Accelerated Video Encoding — Microsoft has been granted a key patent that defines one of the primary uses of graphics processors in the future: Video encoding. — Since the dawn of GPU-accelerated computing in the consumer space, it has been video encoding …
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Ubergizmo, Crave, VizWorld.com and WinBeta
Wall Street Journal:
Indian Firms in Talks to Sell iPhone — MUMBAI—Two Indian telecom operators are in talks with Apple Inc. to launch an iPhone in India based on the code division multiple access technology in a bid to tap the growing smartphone market in one of the world's fastest-growing mobile markets, people familiar with the matter said.
Andru Edwards / Gear Live:
Amazon iPhone app now supports barcode scanning for price comparison — Amazon just updated their Amazon Mobile app for iPhone to now include barcode scanning. Basically, while you are out and about shopping, you can use your iPhone to scan the barcode of whatever you are thinking of buying …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Radical change coming to Net addresses (FAQ) — Come 2012, confused camera customers might be able to point their browsers to a Web address that looks very different from what's available today: support.canon. — That's because the organization in charge of such names …
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Twitter Events Now a Priority; Is the Hashtag Dead? — Twitter Events, an event-specific grouping of tweets, is going to be a priority now that Evan Williams has chosen to focus on product strategy, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said on the sidelines of an event Monday night in San Francisco.
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ReadWriteWeb and Epicenter
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Apple Removes AirPlay From Youtube App In Latest iOS Beta — It seems like something's going on around the “AirPlay button working everywhere” so many people were excited about: specifically, we just noticed Apple removed AirPlay support in the native Youtube app on iOS 4.2 Beta 3.
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App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors and TheAppleBlog
Owen Thomas / VentureBeat:
Ex-Googler Douglas Merrill takes on payday lenders with ZestCash — At Google, Douglas Merrill helped launch Google into the online-payments business with Google Checkout. Now he's looking to help people afford to shop online — or anywhere, for that matter — with a new short-term lending …
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TechCrunch and GigaOM
Matthew Zuras / Switched:
Dump the Satellite: Man Uses Kite to Take Aerial Pics for Google Maps — We already know that kites outfitted with cameras can provide a DIY alternative to satellite imagery, as was evidenced in Grassroots Mapping's overhead shots of the oil-strangled Gulf Coast.
Glenn Lammi / The Legal Pulse:
Patent Troll Forces Online Music Sellers, Buyers to Pay a Toll — Did you know that built into the .99 ¢ or $1.29 you pay for a song online is a toll extracted by a patent troll? The troll responsible for this toll, unlike the cranky but harmless Dora the Explorer© character depicted to the left …
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
The Web Parenthesis: Is the “open Web” closing? — Heard of the “Gutenberg parenthesis”? This is the intriguing proposition that the era of mass consumption of text ushered in by the printing press four centuries ago was a mere interlude between the previous era of predominantly oral culture …
