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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Celebrating Windows 7 at 1 Year - More than 240 Million Licenses Sold — Today's an exciting day! We are announcing that more than 240 million licenses of Windows 7 have been sold. Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history. As of September, Windows 7 was running …
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KPCB:
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Launches $250 Million sFund Initiative for Social Web Entrepreneurs — Amazon.com, Facebook, Zynga, Comcast and Liberty Media to Invest and Help Accelerate a New Wave of Social Web Innovations — Palo Alto, Calif. - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Stealth Social Startup Cafebots Scores The First Money From Kleiner Perkins' New sFund — You've likely heard of CRM, customer relationship management. But have you heard of FRM — friend relationship management? Probably not. But Cafebots hopes to change that shortly.
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James Kelly / The Official Google Blog:
Bringing ultra high-speed broadband to Stanford homes — Earlier this year we announced our plans to build and test ultra-high speed broadband networks in a small number of American communities. Since then, a team of Google engineers has been hard at work experimenting with new fiber optic technologies.
MACNOTES.NET:
FaceTime for Mac - a serious threat for your Apple ID — While many users are happy about having FaceTime on their Mac, we are a little anxious about some security glitches present in the current beta of the software. With a few clicks others can make use of the user's Apple ID and reset the password with ease.
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Dave Caolo / TUAW:
FaceTime for Mac security hole easily remedied
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David Carnoy / CNET News:
Source: New Nook is Android-based, full-color — This is just a crude mock-up—and not the real deal—but our source says Nook Color is coming. — Is the upcoming Nook a color e-reader? Barnes & Noble doesn't comment on rumors, but CNET has been in communication with a source …
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Dhanya Skariachan / Reuters:
Barnes & Noble takes Nook eReader to Walmart
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yep, Apple Killed The CD Today — Stop. Take a deep breath. Before my headline gets you all worked up, consider what I'm saying here. The CD and other optical discs, like DVDs and Blu-rays, are obviously going to live on for a while as a way to transport media.
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Mozilla man accuses Jobs of ‘bypass the web’ scheme — Apple.com busts Firefox 4 — On Wednesday, as Steve Jobs went “Back to the Mac,” the fanbois of the world enjoyed their usual collective orgasm. But for Mozilla director of Firefox development Mike Beltzner, the reaction was decidedly different.
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Nicole Kobie / PC Pro:
Apple looking to ditch Java?
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Microsoft's New Windows Phone 7: Novel But Lacking — Nearly four years after Apple unveiled the iPhone, and more than two years after Google introduced its first Android smartphone, Microsoft is launching its effort to catch up. On Nov. 8, AT&T and T-Mobile will begin selling …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
A Windows Phone 7 ‘review’ from a non-reviewer
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Business Wire:
Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Sales up 39% to $7.56 Billion — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2010. — Operating cash flow increased 16% to $2.62 billion for the trailing twelve months …
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Jesse Drucker / Business Week:
The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions — Google uses a complicated structure to send most of its overseas profits to tax havens, keeping its corporate rate at a super-low 2.4 percent — The heart of Google's (GOOG) international operations is a silvery glass office building in central Dublin …
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Mike Vernal / Facebook Developer Blog:
Encrypting Facebook UIDs — Over the past few days, we have been investigating a technical solution to the issue of sharing Facebook User IDs (UIDs). While initial press reports greatly exaggerated the implications of sharing a UID, we take this issue seriously.
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Andreas Türk / European Public Policy Blog:
How many German households have opted-out of Street View? — Cross posted from Der Google Produkt-Kompass — Since April 2009, people in Germany have been able to ask for their house to be blurred on Street View ahead of the product being launched. At first they could ‘opt-out’ by writing us …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Life With Google TV: My First Day Review & Impressions — Google TV has finally arrived, not just for pre-order but as an actual device you can get in a retail store. And so I did, hitting Best Buy yesterday and walking out with a Sony Blu-ray player that is Google TV-capable.
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Winamp Blog:
Winamp for Android: Now in Beta — Winamp for AndroidTM is now in Beta! — Winamp, the Ultimate Media Player, is now available in beta on AndroidTM (Android 2.1 OS and above). It offers a complete media management solution by seamlessly syncing with the Winamp desktop library.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Amazon Introduces New ‘Free Usage Tier’ For AWS — Today Kleiner Perkins is holding a special event at Facebook headquarters to announce the launch of a new $250 million social-centric sFund, which will foster a new generation of companies tapping into the social graph.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
AT&T Profits Triple, But New iPhone Subs Fall To All-Time Low — AT&T's Q3 profits rose on a favorable tax settlement and the sale of its Sterling Commerce business-software unit to IBM, but cracks are starting to show in its exclusive hold on Apple's iPhone.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
AT&T third quarter on target: 5.2 million iPhone activations
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
One in three iPad owners has never downloaded a single app — The rest are young, 65% male, well-connected early adopters, according to Nielsen — Click to enlarge. Source: Nielsen Co. — Reading between the lines of “The Connected Devices Playbook,” a survey of 5,000 owners of iPads …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Unsubscribe.com Raises $2.1 Million To Help People Get To InBox Zero — How many mailing lists are you on that fill your email inbox every day? Figuring out how to unsubscribe from all of them can be a pain. From that frustration was born Unsubscribe.com, an LA-based startup that just closed a $2.1 million Series A financing.
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