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11:05 AM ET, October 14, 2010

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Business Wire:
Verizon Wireless Offers iPad at Stores Nationwide on October 28  —  BASKING RIDGE, N.J. & CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Verizon Wireless and Apple® today announced that iPad™ will be available at over 2,000 Verizon Wireless Stores nationwide beginning Thursday, October 28.
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Apple:
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 pre-paid data plans for iPad …
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.
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 …
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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.
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
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
When All Else Fails, Put Up The AOL-Yahoo Trial Balloon
Aleksander Aas / My Opera:
Opera Mobile for Android coming soon  —  We are happy to announce that Opera will release Opera Mobile for Android phones within a month.  News of this was announced at Up North Web today.  Available for all Android versions, Opera Mobile also includes two new features.
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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 …
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.
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Bing / Search Blog:
Bing Gets More Social with Facebook
Satya Nadella / Bing Community:
New Signals in Search: The Bing Social Layer
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Microsoft's Facebook stake: Maybe not so crazy
Matt Rosoff / Silicon Alley Insider:
Suddenly, Bing Has What Google Doesn't: Data From 500 Million Facebook Users
Discussion: Marc's Voice and Tech Report
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.
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Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
T-Mobile Plans Prepaid Data Plans
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.
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
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.
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.
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 …
 
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Roku Hits Retail, Thanks to Netgear
Discussion: SlashGear, Engadget and Electronista
Tom Simonite / Technology Review:
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Mobile Barcode Scanning up 700% This Year
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Microsoft posts video of customers criticizing OpenOffice
Pete Hartwell / Mashable!:
How a Physically Aware Internet Will Change the World
Discussion: Data Central
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Kills “Clear Chat History” Feature, Users Go Crazy
Discussion: Geek.com, TechCrunch, TechSpot and msnbc.com
 

 
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