Techmeme: T-Mobile Reducing Data Cap, Will Throttle Speeds After 5GB Of Usage (TmoNews)

11:40 AM ET, October 14, 2010

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Verizon Wireless Offers iPad at Stores Nationwide on October 28 — BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey and CUPERTINO, California—October 14, 2010—Verizon Wireless and Apple® today announced that iPad™ will be available at over 2,000 Verizon Wireless Stores nationwide beginning Thursday, October 28.

Discussion: AppleInsider, paidContent, MediaMemo, App Advice, MacRumors, The Next Web, Android Phone Fans, Neowin.net, Obsessable, Know Your Cell, GottaBeMobile, Liliputing, SlashGear, MacDailyNews, Electronista, TUAW and MobileBurn.com

Electronista:

Verizon to sell Wi-Fi iPads with MiFi bundles, special plans — Verizon surprised the industry today by striking an official deal with Apple to carry the iPad in its stores. The deal will use the Wi-Fi models of each but bundle them with a Novatel MiFi 2200 to share a 3G connection with both the iPad and four other devices.

Discussion: InformationWeek, BaltTech, Ars Technica and Crave

AT&T:

Apple's iPad Coming to AT&T Stores on October 28 — AT&T* and Apple® today announced that all three iPad™ Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available at more than 2,200 AT&T stores starting Thursday, October 28. AT&T will offer customers 3G Apple iPad Data Plans, complete with Apple's easy, on-device activation and management.

Darrell Etherington / TheAppleBlog:
iPad Coming to AT&T, Verizon Stores Oct. 28

Discussion: blogs.chron.com

Wall Street Journal:

AOL, Private-Equity Firms Explore Bid for Yahoo — AOL Inc. and several private equity firms are exploring the possibility of buying Yahoo Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. — Silver Lake Partners and Blackstone Group LP are among the firms that have expressed interest …

Bloomberg:

Yahoo Said to Hire Goldman to Handle Takeover Approaches — Yahoo! Inc., which spurned an unsolicited offer from Microsoft Corp. in 2008, is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to help defend against possible takeover approaches, said three people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: Tech Trader Daily and DailyFinance

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Yahoo's Stock Acts Like It's In Play-Because It Kind-of Is, As Predators Circle — Make no mistake, there are no definitive offers on the table to do a variety of takeover deals of Yahoo by either private equity moneybags or from big media giants such as News Corp. and smaller Web firms such as AOL.

Discussion: Tech Trader Daily, Guardian, Silicon Alley Insider, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Agence France Presse, paidContent, CNET News and Search Engine Land

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
When All Else Fails, Put Up The AOL-Yahoo Trial Balloon

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and Tech Trader Daily

Vlad Savov / Engadget:

Opera Mobile coming to Android within a month, bearing hardware acceleration and pinch-to-zoom — Forget all that Mini stuff, Opera is bringing its full-flavored mobile browser to Android some time very soon indeed. To tempt people on board, the new software will support hardware acceleration …

Discussion: TechCrunch, CNET News, The Register, Web Browsers, iThinkDifferent and Electronista

Aleksander Aas / My Opera:
Opera Mobile for Android coming soon

Espen André Øverdahl / My Opera:
Opera 11 will have Extensions

Discussion: eWeek, Sean Michael Kerner, TechCrunch, Download Squad, gHacks Technology News, Opera Press Room and Web Browsers

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Skype 5.0 For Windows Debuts With Facebook Integration, Call Recovery And More — Skype is about to become much more social with the launch of Skype 5.0. Today, the company announced that the new version of Skype 5.0 for Windows will include a deep Facebook integration …

TmoNews:

T-Mobile Reducing Data Cap, Will Throttle Speeds After 5GB Of Usage — Bad news for those of you that use more than 5GB of data each month. Starting October 16th, T-Mobile will enforce a new policy that will reduce data speeds once the subscriber exceeds 5GB of data usage in a billing cycle.

Discussion: PC World, DSLreports, TheUnlockr, DailyTech, blogs.chron.com, Engadget, WPCentral.com, Android Community, The Next Web, MobileCrunch, Know Your Cell, pocketnow.com, PhoneDog.com, PhoneNews.com and ThinkMobile

Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
T-Mobile Plans Prepaid Data Plans

Discussion: PC World, Electronista, IntoMobile, InformationWeek, DSLreports and jkOnTheRun

Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:

Mac Users Are Getting New Outlook From Rival — A new, faster, better version of Microsoft Office is coming out Oct. 26. But it isn't for Microsoft's own Windows operating system. It is for the Macintosh computers made by the software giant's archrival, Apple.

Discussion: MacStories and AppleInsider

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Bing, Now With Extra Facebook: See What Your Friends Like & People Search Results — At long last, Facebook's social data is coming to search in a big way. Bing is now making use of it to show new “Liked By Your Friends” matches and Facebook-powered people search results.

Discussion: Guardian, Telegraph, Inquirer, Computerworld, Search Engine Roundtable, The Register, WebProNews, MediaPost, Tech Trader Daily, BoomTown, Silicon Alley Insider and All Facebook, Thanks:rawmeet

Bing / Search Blog:
Bing Gets More Social with Facebook

Discussion: eWeek, winandmac.com, MSDN Blogs, BlogsDNA, I4U News, Search Engine Land, Pluggd.in, ReadWriteWeb, Gadgetell, TechCrunch, Black Web 2.0, VentureBeat, Epicenter, Inside Facebook, Search Engine Journal, DailyFinance, Silicon Alley Insider and louisgray.com

Satya Nadella / Bing Community:
New Signals in Search: The Bing Social Layer

Discussion: Twist Image, eWeek, Techland, Mashable!, Interactive Marketing, FM Blog, Digital Trends, MSDN Blogs, Simply Zesty, LiveSide.net, All about Microsoft Blog, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, BetaNews, VentureBeat and Between the Lines Blog

Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Microsoft's Facebook stake: Maybe not so crazy

Discussion: Shelly Palmer Digital Living

Matt Rosoff / Silicon Alley Insider:
Suddenly, Bing Has What Google Doesn't: Data From 500 Million Facebook Users

Discussion: Marc's Voice

Technology Review:

Why CPUs Aren't Getting Any Faster — Making computers faster means relying on the central processing unit (CPU) less than ever before. — The Central Processing Unit (CPU)—the component that has defined the performance of your computer for many years—has hit a wall.

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

Adobe tops 1 million Flash downloads on Android — Adobe has more than 1 million downloads of Flash Player 10.1 on the Android market, but still has a few kinks to work out on the mobile front. — Since Flash Player 10.1 launched on Android the reception has been solid.

Discussion: Android Phone Fans, Erictric and Android Community

Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:

VLC for iPhone Hands-On — The popular media player, VLC, made its way to the iPad just a few weeks ago, and the company behind the application, Applidium, has just submitted a version for the iPhone. Here's our exclusive hands-on of VLC Media Player for iPhone: Oh, and as you see in the video …

Discussion: Shoutpedia, Covering Web and MacNN, Thanks:branden3112

Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:

Kiva President On The Next 5 Years And Why Zynga Is Their Biggest Rival (TCTV) — Who is Kiva's biggest competitor? — If you rattled off a list of non-profit-centric startups, the micro-lending site's President Premal Shah would tell you that you're dead wrong.

BBC:

Two million US PCs recruited to botnets — Hi-tech criminals use botnets to send out spam — The US leads the world in numbers of Windows PCs that are part of botnets, reveals a report. — More than 2.2 million US PCs were found to be part of botnets, networks of hijacked home computers, in the first six months of 2010, it said.

Discussion: ZDNet, Graham Cluley's blog, Security Watch, Softpedia News and Neowin.net

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Will OS X 10.7 “Lion” Be The King Of The Apple Jungle, The Last Of Its Kind, Or Both? — As you're well aware by now, this morning, Apple sent out invites to an event taking place in one week at their headquarters in Cupertino, CA. The invite reads, “Back to the Mac.” and asks those invited to …

Discussion: Inquirer, winandmac.com, The personal blog …, Electricpig.co.uk, eWeek, Technologizer, Obsessable, Gizmodo, Electronista, Yahoo! News, Bits and BetaNews

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