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Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
Nook Color: Barnes & Noble's Full-Color Tablet With Apps, Mags and Books for $250 — Barnes & Noble's touchscreen Nook Color—a reading-centric, 7-inch Android tablet with full color books, magazines, newspapers and apps is well, surprisingly good. It might be the best Android tablet yet, even.
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Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Nice Knowing You, Nook — The new Nook Color has been revealed, and it's a 7″ Android tablet with a color LCD touchscreen. Talk about bringing a knife to a knife fight when someone else already brought a gun. — It was the wrong move for Barnes & Noble to change horses mid-race.
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Barnes & Noble:
NOOKcolor: The Ultimate Reading Experience
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Between the Lines Blog, DailyTech and The Next Web
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Nook Color first hands-on! (updated: with video)
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DailyFinance, VentureBeat, SAI, TechCrunch, SlashGear and Android Community
James McQuivey / paidContent:
What The NOOKcolor Means For Amazon, Sony
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Engadget, Mashable!, Technologizer and Ars Technica
Reuters:
Apple delays white iPhone until next spring — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Tuesday that it would delay release of the white iPhone yet again, this time until next spring. — The company has had a difficult time making the white model of the iPhone 4. It released the black version of the smartphone in June.
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Digital Daily, Digits, Boy Genius Report, MacRumors, TechCrunch, PhoneDog.com, MacStories, IntoMobile, TUAW, Engadget, Neowin.net and iLounge
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Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
White iPhone 4 shows up in Apple's ‘Store’ app, reserve yours now
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Bits, 9 to 5 Mac, PC Magazine, Tech Trader Daily, ReadWriteWeb, Redmond Pie, Erictric, PhoneDog.com, Engadget, Electronista, Pulse2, Gizmodo, TiPb, App Advice, Macworld and MacRumors
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
How Spotify Almost Sold To Google For $1 Billion, Plus New Apple Rumors — “Apple, Inc. (AAPL) in negotiations to acquire Spotify,” read the tip that came in yesterday via email from an anonymous source. Most tips are just outright false, but we dug into this one a little bit.
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9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, SAI, TUAW, MediaFile, Electronista, Erictric, MacStories and TiPb
James Galbraith / Macworld:
Lab report: MacBook Air benchmark results — There's a lot to like in Apple's latest version of the MacBook Air, such as the smaller size, longer battery life and faster flash storage. Still, I was disappointed that the new MacBook Air uses the aging Core 2 Duo processor.
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Engadget, AppleInsider, TUAW, PC World, LAPTOP Mag, I4U News and Gizmodo
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Goodbye, MacBook Pro. The New MacBook Air Is That Good. — Last Wednesday, I got my hands on one of the new MacBook Airs. I haven't touched my MacBook Pro since. It's six months old. RIP. — I know that sounds outrageous. Or like hyperbole. But it's not.
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Macworld and Shiny Objects
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
New Benchmarks Show 13-Inch MacBook Air Rivaling Its MacBook Pro Counterpart
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Electronista
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
The PlayStation Phone — It's hard to believe that what we're looking at is real — but we assure you, the picture above is in fact the PlayStation Phone you've long been waiting for. As we reported back in August, the device you see is headed into the market soon, likely boasting Android 3.0 …
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GeekSmack, Android Police, MobileCrunch, CrunchGear and Joystiq
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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Engadget, Office For Mac, Mashable!, BetaNews, greg hughes, Ars Technica, All about Microsoft Blog, MacRumors, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, SiliconANGLE, PC World, Computerworld, Redmond Pie, Covering Web, Black Web 2.0, Boy Genius Report, Seattle Times, The Next Web, Download Squad, PC Magazine, V3.co.uk, The Microsoft Blog and winrumors
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BBC:
Yahoo mail gets first major revamp in five years — Yahoo wants to catch up rivals such as Microsoft and Google — Yahoo Mail is getting its biggest redesign since 2005 to make it a message hub for its 279 million users. — At the centre of the revamp is a plan to make the communications system …
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blogs.ft.com, eWeek, Associated Press, MediaFile and The Next Web
Steve Dinneen / City A.M.:
Google and Carphone in mobile deal — THE SECOND Google-branded mobile phone will hit the UK in time for Christmas through an exclusive deal with Carphone Warehouse, City A.M. has learned. — Its predecessor, the Nexus One, is the flagship device for the search giant …
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Kevin Krause / phandroid:
Nexus Two Launching Alongside Gingerbread in Time for the Holidays?
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IntoMobile and Android Phone Fans
Andrew Silverman / Google Public Policy Blog:
Giving users the best answer, and competing fair and square in travel search — Since we announced our plans to acquire ITA Software in July, we've spent a lot of time talking with players in the online travel industry — airlines, travel agents, and search sites — about our plans …
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eWeek, Between the Lines Blog, Fortune, PC Magazine, Softpedia News, Tnooz, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, Digits, L.A. Times Tech Blog and WebProNews
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Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
Travel Sites Ally to Block Google Deal
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VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Xconomy, The Digital Home, Pulse2, Hillicon Valley, ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Journal and TechFlash
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
LimeWire Gives Up the Ghost, Shuts Down P2P Filesharing Client — Last spring, music filesharing service LimeWire suffered a crushing blow in federal court. This is the net result: The company is shutting down its core software - though it insists it's not doing that exactly.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, NewTeeVee, Computerworld, New York Times, The Register, SAI, Download Squad, Boy Genius Report, p2pnet, Neowin.net, Threat Level, Slyck, TechCrunch and Electronista
Eli Hodapp / Touch Arcade:
‘iDOS’ - A Full Featured Universal DOS Emulator That Somehow Got Approved [UPDATE: Windows Installed on iPad; Pulled but Available on Cydia] — Ever since Apple eased up their App Store approval guidelines, all kinds of crazy things have been getting released like the fabled GV Mobile+ …
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Engadget, ZDNet, Gizmodo, MobileCrunch, Technologizer, TUAW, Mashable!, PadGadget, MacRumors, mobiputing and AppShopper.com
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 …
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
eBay Invests In Appcelerator As Part Of A $9 Million Round — Mountain View, Calif.-based Appcelerator has raised $9 million in funding to help build out its mobile commerce offering as part of its platform that makes developing applications easier. — The second round was led by Sierra Ventures …
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paidContent, The Register, Tech Check, VentureBeat, Appcelerator and CNNMoney.com
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Philip Constantinou / Evernote Blogcast:
Evernote 4 for Windows is here! — Evernote for Windows is our most popular version, used by hundreds of thousands of people everyday. Today, we're excited to announce a major evolution in our Windows client: Evernote 4. Here's why we think this is the best version of Evernote yet.
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Download Squad, Techie Buzz, GottaBeMobile, Lifehacker and CNET News, Thanks:maguay
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day Blog:
Firefox zero-day under attack at Nobel Prize site — Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Mozilla's Firefox browser to launch drive-by download attacks against visitors the Nobel Prize website. — According to researchers at Norman ASA, Firefox users who surfed …
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Norman, Computerworld, The Register, Mozilla Security Blog, Security Watch and Softpedia News
Richard Huff / NY Daily News:
Taped call by Fox employee to Cablevision nets suggestions for Fox viewing on illegal websites — A Cablevision representative told a customer complaining about missing Fox to catch his favorite games on websites - even though the broadcasts are illegal, the Daily News has learned.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
PayPal Unveils Micropayments For Digital Goods, Facebook Signs Up — At the company's annual developer conference today, PayPal debuted its much awaited micropayments product. According to a release issued by the company, the new product is an “in-context, frictionless payment solution …
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