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12:55 PM ET, October 13, 2010

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Apple holding ‘Back to the Mac’ event on October 20 — This just in: Apple will be holding a media event titled “Back to the Mac” on October 20. The invitation seems to indicate that the focus of the meeting will be on/around Mac OS X 10.7 — maybe to be called “Lion”? — and the Mac.

AppleInsider:
Apple shares crack $300 en-route to new all-time high

Discussion: Digital Daily, Tech Trader Daily, MacRumors and www.pocketgamer.biz

John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:

Mayer to Location: Big. — Today I was in a meeting with a number of consultants to a very large technology company. Their job: market research, essentially. They called to ask me my thoughts on the media and technology world, in particular as it might play out in the next five or so years.

Discussion: Computerworld, Screenwerk, broadstuff and Mashable!

S.K. Neff / Politically Illustrated:

Google's Marissa Mayer Resigns Ahead of Bing Redesign — WASHINGTON (Politically Illustrated) - Google's Marissa Mayer, vice president of search product and user experience, might be cute, but she has failed to transform Google's search product into a streamline product like Bing.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and WebProNews

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 …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Apple Patents Anti-Sexting Device — Today the US Patent and Trademark Office approved a patent Apple filed in 2008, which, get this, prevents users from sending or receiving “objectionable” text messages. The patent's official title? “Text-based communication control for personal communication device” …

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:

Microsoft announces Windows Phone 7 sync software for Macs due this year — Even though we kind of saw this coming, it's still nice to hear. Microsoft has gone and done the (nearly) unthinkable, announcing this evening plans for a Mac compatible sync client for its soon-to-be-launched Windows Phone 7 devices.

Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:

Sony's GoogleTV lineup: $400-$1,400 — At a press event in New York today, Sony is showing off its lineup of GoogleTV products, including a Blu-ray player and Wi-Fi TVs with the Google software built in. — I'm not there but am watching the live coverage and company releases.

Discussion: GigaOM, Boy Genius Report, Tech Trader Daily, Macworld, CrunchGear, Softpedia News, Engadget, Geeky-Gadgets, Newlaunches.com, Inquirer, Neowin.net and VentureBeat

Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:
How It Feels to Use Sony's First Google TV

Discussion: Engadget, Bits, NBC Bay Area, Pocket-lint and Electronista

Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
Google TV products available this weekend

Discussion: eWeek, NewTeeVee, PR Newswire, Eurodroid, Gizmag Emerging …, Sony Insider, SONY make.believe, eHomeUpgrade, dailywireless.org and ProgrammableWeb, more at Mediagazer »

Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:

I Like to Dislike! Facebook Introduces Comment Voting, Threads — For those of you tirelessly campaigning for a dislike button, it looks like it's arrived, at least in some format. Facebook has upgraded its comments plugin and now allows users to up- and down-vote other comments …

Discussion: Mashable!, Fast Company, All Facebook, VatorNews, Softpedia News and The Register

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

People With Cell Phones, The FCC Has Your Back — The Federal Communications Commission may be struggling in its attempts to create real network neutrality rules, but it's having better luck with pushing consumer-friendly reforms in the wireless business. Tomorrow, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski plans …

Discussion: DSLreports, Post Tech, New York Times, Hillicon Valley, TechEye, Obsessable, DailyTech, USA Today, Electronista, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, VoIP Watch and MacNN

Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
AT&T, Verizon May Have to Warn Mobile-Phone Users Topping Limits

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider

Toby Padilla / TweetDeck's posterous:

Android TweetDeck 1.0: Ready for Market — It's been a crazy couple months here at TweetDeck. We announced our public beta of Android TweetDeck on August 12th and since then we've done 11 releases, crushed millions of bugs and listened to a tonne of feedback.

Discussion: Droid Life, AndroidGuys and Android Police, Thanks:iaindodsworth

Toby Padilla / TweetDeck's posterous:
Android Ecosystem Infoporn Overload

Discussion: Unwired View, Droid Life, The Next Web, IntoMobile and Eurodroid

Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:

Verizon's Android Success Augurs Well for Its iPhone — Verizon Wireless's embrace of Google Inc.'s Android operating system did more than provide the carrier with devices to compete with the iPhone. It also gave the company experience dealing with the data hogs who can hobble a wireless network.

Discussion: Geek.com, FierceWireless, IntoMobile, Phone Arena and Electronista

Om Malik / GigaOM:

By the Numbers: Seed Funding Is the New Black — If Angelgate didn't prove it, then the following data will; there's a tinge of mania when it come to early- and seed-stage funding. The latest data from CB Insights, a market research firm that tracks the venture capital industry …

Discussion: CB Insights, Silicon Alley Insider, Fortune, A VC, Mass High Tech, Xconomy, Software, Interrupted and Stowe Boyd

Reuters:

Hon Hai to raise prices for Apple, others-report — * Stock up 1.3 pct, beating TAIEX's gain — Hon Hai (2317.TW), the world's largest electronic parts maker, will raise prices from October for some clients, including Apple (AAPL.O), according to a Citibank analyst, a Taiwan newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Discussion: App Advice, The Register, Silicon Alley Insider, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, SlashGear, MacRumors and CrunchGear

Matthew Scott / DailyFinance:

FourSquare Co-Founder: Credit Card Links and More User Rewards Likely — Dennis Crowley, co-founder of social networking website FourSquare, says businesses may soon offer consumers the option to link their credit card to their favorite social networking website, or the opportunity to earn …

Discussion: Internet2Go

Michael Hirschorn / The Atlantic Online:

Truth Lies Here — How can Americans talk to one another—let alone engage in political debate—when the Web allows every side to invent its own facts? — THIS PAST AUGUST, the left-leaning San Francisco-based Web site AlterNet posted a remarkable scoop: members of a group calling itself …

eMarketer:

Email Still Tops Facebook for Keeping in Touch — Only 18- to 24-year-olds use the social networking site more than email for passing items on — Content-sharing has become a staple of internet usage for most online adults. Research from Chadwick Martin Bailey found that three-quarters …

Discussion: Skeptic Geek

Michael Kan / Computerworld:

Microsoft Bing partners with Alibaba's Taobao search engine — Microsoft has found a new partner to promote it's Bing search engine technology in China by working with the country's largest online retailer Taobao.com to power web results for its new Etaosite.

Discussion: CNET News, Search Engine Journal, The Next Web and Wall Street Journal

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:

CarWoo unveils a better way to buy a car — As the influence of the Internet creeps into more and more of our lives, the car-buying process is one of the few areas that remains untouched — at least, that's what Tommy McClung, cofounder and chief executive of CarWoo, argues.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, PE Hub Blog, Xconomy and silicontap.com

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.

Jun Yang / Bloomberg:

Apple Summoned by Korea Lawmakers Over IPhone Queries — Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. was summoned by South Korean lawmakers to answer questions about the company's iPhone- service policy amid complaints from local users, parliamentary officials said. — Farrel Farhoudi …

Discussion: Inquirer, Macsimum News, MacNN, SlashGear, iPhone Buzz, 9 to 5 Mac and Bloomberg

Erica Naone / Technology Review:

Microsoft's 3-D Strategy — Microsoft's Craig Mundie describes how the company's vision of 3-D gaming could extend to all computer interactions. — Microsoft has joined the wave of companies betting that 3-D is the next big thing for computing. At a recent talk at MIT …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Conduct Unbecoming A Public Company Board Of Directors — One thing you have to respect about Yahoo's board of directors - no matter how much the press criticizes them for making painfully awful strategic decisions, they keep their chin up and at least maintain some level of basic decorum.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, more at Mediagazer »

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