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A Web Pioneer Profiles Users by Name — In the weeks before the New Hampshire primary last month, Linda Twombly of Nashua says she was peppered with online ads for Republican Senate hopeful Jim Bender. — It was no accident. An online tracking company called RapLeaf Inc. had correctly identified …

Discussion: Screenwerk, UMBC ebiquity and FM Blog

Auren Hoffman / Rapleaf:
Rapleaf, Personalization, and Privacy

Discussion: Digits

Om Malik / GigaOM:
What Rapleaf Knows About You: WSJ Reports

Discussion: GMSV and The Huffington Post

Julia Angwin / Digits:
Privacy Advocate Withdraws from RapLeaf Advisory Board

Discussion: SiliconANGLE

Ray Ozzie:

Dawn of a New Day — To: Executive Staff and direct reports — Five years ago, having only recently arrived at the company, I wrote The Internet Services Disruption in order to kick off a major change management process across the company. In the opening section of that memo …

Discussion: TechCrunch, CNET News, Between the Lines Blog, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, ZDNet, paidContent and winrumors

Sean Hollister / Engadget:

Adobe announces Air 2.5 for TVs, tablets and phones, launches Adobe InMarket to package apps — Adobe's making a serious play for the app space today, and it's not limiting itself to phones — its new Air cross-platform runtime environment is designed to toss apps on your smart televisions and tablets as well.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Shunned By Apple, Adobe Embraces Android With AIR 2.5 — Apple keeps giving Adobe the brush-off—what with the new MacBook Airs shipping without Flash and Apple's prohibition (recently rescinded) on porting Flash apps to the iPhone. Without Apple, industry observers are asking “Where does Adobe go from here?”

Discussion: Inquirer, Black Web 2.0, ReadWriteWeb, Appolicious Advisor, TechSpot, Network World, Android Community, VentureBeat, THINQ.co.uk and Android Phone Fans

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Skype Demands Mobile App Nimbuzz Remove Support, Effective October 31st — Exclusive: Nimbuzz, a popular mobile communication service provider, has been asked by Skype to remove support for all Skype services as from October 31st. — The startup will be announcing the news to its 30 million or so registered users later today.

Discussion: GigaOM, The Register, MacStories, IntoMobile, BlogsDNA, VoIP Watch, Inquirer, VentureBeat and Softpedia News

Tobias Kemper / Nimbuzz Main Blog:
What the Skype/Nimbuzz Breakup Means To You

Discussion: Mobile Entertainment and App Advice

Jenn K. Lee / Pocketables:

Samsung Galaxy Tab headed to Best Buy: $499 and up, Sprint, Verizon, silver/black, WiFi-only, WiFi + 3G — The Samsung Galaxy Tab will be released in the US next month, as you know, but who knew that Best Buy wanted in on the action? The store is already advertising the 7-inch Android 2.2 tablet …

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

Schmidt: Don't Like Google Street View Photographing Your House? Then Move. … Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the company's “policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.” And while that may be true of Google, it's clearly not true of Schmidt who lately …

Discussion: Download Squad, DailyTech, OUT-LAW News, PC Pro, New Media Age, Gizmodo, Financial Times, Security Watch and Switched

Andy McSmith / The Independent:
Google faces landmark fine for ‘gross invasion of privacy’

Discussion: Search Engine Land, Post Tech, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Download Squad, Inquirer, p2pnet, The Register, Softpedia News, BBC, The Next Web, Gawker, Pocket-lint and Guardian

Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:

Jobs: There won't be a ‘mute-switch becomes an orientation lock’ option for iPad — Back in January 2010 Apple announced that the hardware switch on the side of the iPad would be a mute switch, just like on the iPhone. Then, closer to the product's launch in March of this year …

Discussion: iLounge, everythingiCafe, Mashable!, SlashGear, Neowin.net, Electricpig.co.uk, TUAW, MacRumors, TiPb and BlogsDNA, Thanks:markgurman

David Carnoy / Crave: The gadget blog:

Is this the new Nook Color? — A few days ago, we posted a story about Barnes & Noble's next-generation Nook e-reader, which an anonymous tipster claimed would be a $249 touch-screen, Android-based color e-reader called the Nook Color. Now a second tipster has alerted us to an image …

Discussion: eWeek, TechCrunch, Computerworld, Wall Street Journal, Gadget Lab, Engadget, TeleRead, Newlaunches.com, SlashGear, Android Community, Geek.com, Electronista, CrunchGear and Gizmodo

Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:

Microsoft vs. Apple: Who's winning? The numbers don't lie — Microsoft has been at the top of the heap for almost as long as people have used PCs. They've managed to sustain an overwhelming competitive advantage, even after a decade's worth of antitrust action and the astonishing transformation …

Discussion: blogs.chron.com

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Wi-Fi Direct certification begins today, device-to-device transmission starting soon — So, Bluetooth — last fall didn't end up being as frightful as you had probably imagined, but this fall is bound to be different. Or so the Wi-Fi Alliance says. If you'll recall, Wi-Fi Direct promised …

Discussion: Wi-Fi Alliance, Computerworld, BetaNews, GigaOM, Mashable!, PC World, DailyTech, Softpedia News, I4U News, Electronista, BlogsDNA, Crave and Gizmodo

John Herrman / SmartPlanet:

The mysterious processor behind China's first homegrown supercomputer — The majority of today's supercomputers follow a tested and reliable template. Hundreds, thousands, and occasionally tens of thousands of processors are clustered together to work in congress.

Thanks:editorialiste

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Just Because Google Exists Doesn't Mean You Should Stop Asking People Things — If you spend any amount of time online you're probably very familiar with the above website, “Let Me Google That For You.” LMGTFY is a super smug and hilarious site built for those sick of …

Thanks:andyjeanius

Zijing Wu / Bloomberg:

Russian Facebook Investor Mail.ru Seeks $876 Million in IPO — Mail.ru Group Ltd., a Russian internet company with stakes in Facebook Inc. and Zynga Game Network Inc., is seeking as much as $5.7 billion in an initial public offering in London. — Mail.ru, partly owned by billionaire Alisher Usmanov …

Discussion: TechCrunch, SAI, paidContent, Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch

Jenna Wortham / New York Times:

App Makers Take Interest in Android — There was cold beer, hot pizza and shop talk at a recent informal gathering of Android programmers in downtown Manhattan. Inevitably the chatter turned to money. — One software developer, James Englert, 26, had just released his first application for Android …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Computerworld

Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:

VLC now available for iPhone — We had a look at the VLC player for iPhone last week but now it is available for general consumption. While there are some issues, you can now play a much wider array of movie formats on the iPhone. Download here free. — What's New in Version 1.1.0:

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Download Squad, iThinkDifferent, Shoutpedia, Mashable!, Softpedia News, GottaBeMobile, Pocket-lint, Engadget and Gizmodo

Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch:

UberCab Ordered to Cease And Desist — Did Ubercab just crash and burn? Taxi and limo industry insiders in California today informed TechCrunch that the San Francisco Metro Transit Authority & the Public Utilities Commission of California have ordered the startup to cease and desist.

Discussion: Techdirt and The Digital Letter

MG Siegler / TechCrunch: UberCab Cease & Desist Means One Thing: They're Onto Something

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