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Apple:
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.
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Darrell Etherington / TheAppleBlog:
iPad Coming to AT&T, Verizon Stores Oct. 28 — An official press release from Apple reveals that a new partnership between it and Verizon Wireless will see the iPad make its way to the wireless provider's store shelves on Oct. 28. In a separate press release, Apple also said the iPad will be available at AT&T stores on the same day.
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Reuters and blogs.chron.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.
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InformationWeek, PC World, Bits, BaltTech, Ars Technica and Crave
AT&T:
Apple's iPad Coming to AT&T Stores on October 28
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Bloomberg, Computerworld, Fortune, The Apple Core Blog, Boy Genius Report, Macworld, Between the Lines Blog, Gizmodo, Tech Trader Daily, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, Silicon Alley Insider, BetaNews, DSLreports, VoIP Watch, techblog.dallasnews.com, DailyTech, Appletell, IntoMobile, Electronista, SlashGear, TiPb, Gearlog, Mashable!, Techland, Engadget, iLounge, CrunchGear, PhoneNews.com, The Tech Herald … and Edible Apple
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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VatorNews, The Atlantic Online, Search Engine Land, Silicon Alley Insider, DealBook, PC World, Inquirer, GMSV, Epicenter, Tech Trader Daily, Adotas, ITworld.com, Fast Company, Gawker, NBC Bay Area, TechCrunch, Black Web 2.0, The Register, WebProNews, TechEye, Macworld, AdExchanger.com, TechFlash, I4U News, Digits, DailyFinance, Hillicon Valley, VentureBeat, Go Rumors, Pluggd.in, Tim Oren's Due Diligence, V3.co.uk, Search Engine Roundtable, The Next Web and Between the Lines Blog, more at Mediagazer »
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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.
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Venture Capital Dispatch and Tech Trader Daily
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.
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 …
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Guardian, All Facebook, The Toybox Blog, Mashable!, Inquirer, Engadget, paidContent, MacStories, Skype Journal, Boy Genius Report, SlashGear, WebProNews, Facebook Blog and Geeky-Gadgets
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Rick Osterloh / The Big Blog:
Skype with Facebook integration and group video calling
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VentureBeat, About Skype, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, Telegraph, Softpedia News, Erictric, Techie Buzz and Covering Web
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 …
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ReadWriteWeb, Download Squad, Computerworld, PC World, Mobile Marketing Watch, The Next Web, CNET News, TechCrunch, jkOnTheRun, Inquirer, BlogsDNA, I4U News, pocketnow.com, Web Browsers, My Opera, Androinica, IntoMobile, The Register, SlashGear, Eurodroid, Android Phone Fans, Neowin.net, Android Community, TrustedReviews, FierceMobileContent, Recombu, iThinkDifferent, Electricpig.co.uk, Go Rumors, Ubergizmo and Gadgetell
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Espen André Øverdahl / My Opera:
Opera 11 will have Extensions
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eWeek, Sean Michael Kerner, TechCrunch, Download Squad, Digital Trends, gHacks Technology News, Opera Press Room and Web Browsers
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
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PC World, Electronista, IntoMobile, InformationWeek, DSLreports and jkOnTheRun
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
For Eventbrite, Each Facebook Share Is Worth $2.52 — How much is a shared link on Facebook worth? For online ticketing service Eventbrite, each time someone shares a link to a paid event with their Facebook friends it results in $2.52 worth of ticket sales.
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SelectStart, All Facebook, VentureBeat and Mashable!, Thanks:erickschonfeld
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.
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MacStories and AppleInsider
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.
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Android Phone Fans, AndroidGuys, PhoneDog.com, Erictric and Android Community
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Intuit's New Version Of Quicken Gets Mintified With Financial Data Insights And More — One of the reasons Aaron Patzer founded personal finance site Mint.com was because of his frustrations with Intuit's financial management software Quicken. Quicken, says Patzer wasn't user-friendly …
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BetaNews
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 …
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Shoutpedia, Covering Web and MacNN, Thanks:branden3112
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.
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CNET News, ZDNet, Graham Cluley's blog, DailyTech, Security Watch, Softpedia News and Neowin.net
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.
Greg Peters / PlayStation Blog:
Netflix on PS3: Disc-free Next Week — If you instantly watch movies and TV shows from Netflix on your PS3, here is the news you've been waiting for: starting Monday, October 18 you'll be able to instantly watch movies and TV shows without inserting an instant streaming disc into your console.
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CNET News, VentureBeat, Technologizer, The Toybox Blog, CrunchGear, SlashGear, DailyTech, I4U News, Gizmodo, Erictric, VG247, Gamertell, Geeky-Gadgets, Electronista and MacNN
Brad Sams / Neowin.net:
Steve Jobs sends Chilean miners iPods — The story of the Chilean miners is nothing short of extraordinary. After surviving the collapse of the mine and then surviving for 69 days underground, 33 men have quickly captured the hearts of all who followed this incredible rescue operation.
Softpedia News:
Nokia N900 Gets MeeGo - Maemo Dual Boot — Nokia N900, the high-end Maemo-based device Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia unveiled officially last year, has just got a little better, as the MeeGo platform was announced as being capable of running on it. — One of the most interesting aspects …
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GigaOM, Digits, Engadget, Business Wire, IntoMobile, Fonehome.co.uk, I4U News, SlashGear, Mashable!, MeeGo Blogs, Inquirer, Geeky-Gadgets, Recombu, The Nokia Blog, T3.com News and Ubergizmo
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Microsoft's Facebook stake: Maybe not so crazy — Three years ago, when Microsoft invested $240 million for 1.6 percent of Facebook, it looked to be just a bit nutty. — Back then, Facebook was an unprofitable three-year-old company with a business model that the ad industry still wasn't fully believing …
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CNET News, Shelly Palmer Digital Living, MSDN Blogs and Silicon Alley Insider
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Bing, Now With Extra Facebook: See What Your Friends Like & People Search Results
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Guardian, Inquirer, OUT-LAW News, Computerworld, Telegraph, Search Engine Roundtable, WebProNews, MediaPost, The Register, ReadWriteWeb, Tech Trader Daily and BoomTown, Thanks:rawmeet
