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Microsoft:
Mac Meets PC With New Office Release — Microsoft launches Office 2011 for Mac today, bringing Mac users the latest versions of the company's productivity software. The release is the latest effort from the Office for Mac team, which has been delivering Microsoft software to the Mac for 13 years.
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Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
White iPhone 4 shows up in Apple's ‘Store’ app, reserve yours now — Last night, Apple released an update to their Apple Store iPhone app. While there wasn't anything new in the way of features, it did contain something notable... the ability to reserve a white iPhone 4.
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Macworld, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, Redmond Pie, TiPb, PhoneDog.com, Erictric, everythingiCafe, BlogsDNA, Softpedia News, Covering Web, MobileCrunch, MacDailyNews, Engadget and Gizmodo
Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
Zynga Value Surpasses Electronic Arts' — Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) — Zynga Game Network Inc.'s estimated worth surpassed Electronic Arts Inc.'s stock-market value, a sign of the ascendance of social-networking entertainment at the expense of traditional video games.
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CNET News, Venture Capital Dispatch, TechSpot, VG247, Mobile Entertainment, DailyFinance, Edge Magazine and GMSV
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Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
Travel Sites Ally to Block Google Deal — WASHINGTON—Several popular online travel companies are joining forces to oppose Google Inc.'s proposed $700 million purchase of ITA Software Inc., the leading provider of flight data, saying the deal would give it too much sway over the travel sector.
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CNET News, Hillicon Valley, TechFlash, Search Engine Journal, Reuters and Fair Search
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Andrew Silverman / Google Public Policy Blog:
Giving users the best answer, and competing fair and square in travel search
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The Next Web
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
T-Mobile to debut tethering plan on November 3rd, $14.99 — Listen up T-Mobile tetherers, we've just been sent in some intel that indicates America's fourth largest carrier will begin to offer/charge for tethering on November 3rd. The Tethering and Wi-Fi Sharing Add-On …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Amazon wins fight to keep customer records private — In a victory for the free speech and privacy rights of Amazon.com customers, a federal judge ruled today that the company would not have to turn over detailed records on nearly 50 million purchases to North Carolina tax collectors.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amazon Launches Brand New iPad Shopping App Called Windowshop — Amazon has just released a new free iPad app, called Amazon Windowshop that the company says is a complete “rewrite” of Amazon.com specifically for the iPad. Optimized for touch screen tablets, Amazon Windowshop makes it easy …
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VatorNews, ReadWriteWeb, Business Wire, Digital Trends, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Gizmodo, Mashable! and GottaBeMobile
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Tech World Welcomes Digg Refugees With Open Arms — This morning most of us woke up to the disappointing news that social news site Digg, once a promising destination for Silicon Valley talent, was losing 37% of its staff as well experiencing key executive departures.
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VentureBeat and SAI
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg To Layoff 37% Of Staff, Product Refocus Imminent
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Digg CEO: “We're in Startup Mode Again”
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TechCrunch, Fast Company and VentureBeat
Dr. Raymond M. Soneira / Gizmodo:
Why iPhone 4 and Android Brightness Controls Are Effectively Useless — Your phone display's brightness consumes up to half of its power. And chances are it's being horribly mismanaged, thanks to bad engineering and a backwards user interface. Here, Dr. Raymond Soneira …
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The Apple Core Blog and Technologizer
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple Stores to use new Concierge app for customer check-ins [u] — Apple retail stores will soon launch a new wireless check-in service that will allow employees to manage a queue of customers using a custom iOS app called Concierge, according to a new report.
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
iPhone Security Hole Lets You Make Calls When The Phone Is Locked — It seems like there's a huge bug in iOS 4.1 for iPhone: with a combination of sleep / power button and a fake emergency call, it is possible to access the iPhone's contact list and phone keypad even if the device is locked.
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Cari Tuna / Digits:
Cloudera Raises Hefty Funding Round — Cloudera, a key distributor of software that helps companies analyze big piles of data, has raised another $25 million. — The announcement marks the closely held company's third round of funding, which will be led by Meritech Capital Partners …
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alarm:clock, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Between the Lines Blog and silicontap.com
Dumplings from this Panda!:
Did Digg game its own system to benefit publisher partners? — Digg recently published a blog post titled “Digg's Algorithmic Mystery Tour” on October, 15th. While a Digg blog post is a normal thing, a post about the algorithm was very surprising to me. Why did Digg, which never bothers …
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Fast Company, TechCrunch, The Original Smarterotti, Digg Blog and digg.com, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:jboitnott
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Air's Spot in the Lineup — Apple goes to great effort to eliminate “which one should I buy?” ambiguity from its product lines. Look no further than iPods: — Nano: Audio player — Classic: Audio player with massive storage — Shuffle: Cheap audio player
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Macworld, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch and Gadgetell
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
The Leash Is Off: Comcast Digital Subs Can Access Xfinity TV From Any ISP — In a big step forward for the TV Everywhere concept, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is taking the beta tag off Xfinity TV and opening more than 150,000 hours of online content to all of its digital video subs—no matter which ISP they use.
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Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
Lazy Hackers Unite: Firesheep Boasts +104,000 Downloads In 24 Hours — Well, that was fast. — In roughly 24 hours, Firesheep has been downloaded more than 104,000 times, as would-be-hackers — or the merely curious— downloaded the Firefox extension to test the exploit.
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codebutler, Gawker, BetaNews and The Not-So Private Parts
Owen Fletcher / China Real Time Report:
People's Daily: iPad Cool, But Not Pirate-Friendly (UPDATED) … See clarification below. — The ruling Chinese Communist Party is not often linked with cutting-edge technology, or tech fashion, but a recent column in its official newspaper nonetheless gives loyal readers a primer on Apple's iPad - including an unlikely criticism.
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Reuters:
Autotrader.com to buy Kelley Blue Book-WSJ — Online automotive advertising company Autotrader.com may announce on Tuesday its acquisition of car pricing service Kelley Blue Book for more than $500 million, the Wall Street Journal said. — Autotrader.com expects to garner …
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Wall Street Journal and TradingMarkets
Jeffrey R. Young / Chronicle of Higher Education:
To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks — You've heard it before: Digital technologies blew up the music industry's moneymaking model, and the textbook business is next. — For years observers have predicted a coming wave of e-textbooks. But so far it just hasn't happened.
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TeleRead and eCampus News
Amir Efrati / Digits:
Google Instant May Provide Instant Revenue Increase — When Google rolled out a new feature called Google Instant for its search engine in September, thousands of its AdWords advertisers—who pay the company every time a user clicks on their text ads next to search results—took note.
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Inquirer, Search Engine Land, Droid Life, Softpedia News, WebProNews and Gizmodo
Alexei Oreskovic / MediaFile:
Attention WalMart and BestBuy Shoppers - Facebook Credits on aisle 5 — It's been about nine months since Facebook rolled out its virtual currency, Facebook Credits. — Now the Internet social networking giant will make its Credits widely available in the physical world …
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Rob Crossley / Develop:
Steve Jobs ‘raged at Microsoft’ over game studio sale — Apple boss made angry Ballmer call when Xbox bought Mac experts and Halo creators Bungie — Steve Jobs' capacity to accurately detect the blockbuster potential of consumer goods may go beyond the realm of MP3 players and smartphones and right into video games.
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9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, The Loop, winrumors, VG247 and Destructoid
