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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hulu Plus, Take Two: How's $4.95 a Month? — Hulu is considering cutting the price on Hulu Plus, the subscription service it began testing in June, sources tell me. I'm told the video site is talking about slashing its $9.95 per month fee in half, to $4.95.
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Technology News, SAI, Erictric, The Next Web and Electronista
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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Fortune, L.A. Times Tech Blog, New York Times, GigaOM, internetnews.com, Venture Capital Dispatch, VatorNews, SelectStart and paidContent
iFixit:
MacBook Air 11" Model A1370 Teardown — Join us as we take a peek inside the 11.6" version of the all-new MacBook Air!
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9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, displayblog, I4U News and Engadget
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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PC World, TechFlash, blogs.chron.com, Microsoft, internetnews.com, Digital Daily, The Microsoft Blog, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Reuters, Redmond Pie, Electronista, TechEye, Lifehacker, SAI, I4U News, Download Squad, Softpedia News, BetaNews, ZDNet, The Tech Report, TechCrunch, Engadget and Techie Buzz, Thanks:brandonleblanc
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.
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 …
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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PC World, Engadget, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, MacRumors, Download Squad, msnbc.com, Softpedia News, 9 to 5 Mac, Erictric, GottaBeMobile and Fortune
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Dave Caolo / TUAW:
FaceTime for Mac security hole easily remedied
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Ars Technica, SlashGear, Appolicious Advisor, eWeek and IntoMobile
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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TechCrunch, Techland and Rich DeMuro, more at Mediagazer »
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Wall Street Journal:
Networks in Rift With Google TV — ABC, CBS and NBC are blocking TV programming on their websites from being viewable on Google Inc.'s new Web-TV service, exposing the rift that remains between the technology giant and some of the media companies it wants to supply content for its new products.
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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CNET News, Between the Lines Blog and internetnews.com
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Amazon Q3 Tops Street Ests, But Margins Fall, And Shares Drop
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CNBC, Digital Daily, Between the Lines Blog and Reuters
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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The Register, CNET News, MacRumors, Jonny Evans's blog, Neowin.net and Apple
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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Relevant Results, CJR, Bloomberg and The Atlantic Online
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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All Facebook, Inside Facebook, Post Tech and Neowin.net
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.
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Business Wire and eWeek
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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Nielsen Wire, Gizmodo, TUAW, App Advice, FierceMobileContent and MacNN, more at Mediagazer »
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Books and Video Win on the iPad, and Users Are Buying
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The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
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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PC World, TeleRead, Boy Genius Report, Ben Metcalfe Blog, Engadget, AppScout, Digits, MacRumors, Gearlog, ReadWriteWeb, eWeek, Electronista, GottaBeMobile, TheAppleBlog, Royal Pingdom, TUAW, Crave, Gadget Lab and Inquirer
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.
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
President Obama Meeting With Steve Jobs This Afternoon — President Obama is flying to the Bay Area from Seattle this afternoon. — He's speaking at Google exec Marissa Mayer's house in Palo Alto this evening. — Before that, says a source familiar with the details, he will have a one-on-one meeting with Steve Jobs.
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9 to 5 Mac, TechFlash, Gearlog and MacNN
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Square Starts Shipping New iPhone 4-Compatible Credit Card Reader — There was a lot of hoopla yesterday about the fact that the old version of Square's little plastic credit card reader doesn't work with Apple's newest iPhone, the iPhone 4. That's because the metal fitting …
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App Advice and iPodNN
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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VatorNews, SiliconANGLE and alarm:clock
Paul Taylor / blogs.ft.com:
Ballmer dismisses Goldman's ‘nutty’ idea — Microsoft's Steve Ballmer was in fine (fighting) form on stage at the annual Gartner Symposium in Orlando today, punching his hands for emphasis and positively bristling at the suggestion that Microsoft should split its consumer and corporate businesses.
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, SAI and All about Microsoft Blog
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Is Facebook Outing Gay Users to Advertisers? — Facebook allows users to list which gender of partner they're “interested in.” But do you want Facebook's advertisers to know if you're gay? A Microsoft researcher has found a loophole which could secretly reveal a gay user's sexuality to advertisers.
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All Facebook, CNN, Ars Technica and msnbc.com
