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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Is Apple About to Cut Out the Carriers? — Sources inside European carriers have reported that Apple has been working with SIM-card manufacturer Gemalto to create a special SIM card that would allow consumers in Europe to buy a phone via the web or at the Apple Store and get the phones working using Apple's App Store.
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
The Real Reason White iPhone 4 Is Delayed (Hint: The Camera) — The white iPhone 4 has been delayed because it can't take good pictures, a source with connections at Apple tells me. — The white case leaks light back in — especially when the flash is used to take pictures.
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Boy Genius Report:
Apple cancels white iPhone 4? — Adding on to last night's Apple announcement that the company would further delay the release of the white iPhone 4, we have received new information that paints a different story. According to a previous source of ours, we have been told that Apple in fact …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
An Anthropomorphized White iPhone 4 Is Confronted Regarding …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Removes Mention of White iPhone 4 From Online Store
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Seymour M. Hersh / New Yorker:
Should we be worried about a cyber war? — On April 1, 2001, an American EP-3E Aries II reconnaissance plane on an eavesdropping mission collided with a Chinese interceptor jet over the South China Sea, triggering the first international crisis of George W. Bush's Administration.
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Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
Rumor: Samsung will announce the Nexus Two on November 8th — If you were thinking about buying an Android phone in the next two weeks, please stop what you are doing and read this post. Something big is coming and I think you will want to know the full details before you get tied up in another 2-year contract with your carrier.
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Android Phone Fans, Pocket-lint, Fonehome.co.uk, Androinica, PhoneArena and Electricpig.co.uk
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Chinese Supercomputer Likely to Prompt Unease in U.S. — A newly built supercomputer in China appears poised to take the world performance lead, another sign of the country's growing technological prowess that is likely to set off alarms about U.S. competitiveness and national security.
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Jackie Bavaro / The Official Google Blog:
Place Search: a faster, easier way to find local information — I love to discover new places, from sandwich shops in my neighborhood to great museums around the globe. When I start looking for something in a new area, like a barbecue restaurant in Austin, I usually do quite a few searches.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
New Place Search Shows Google's Commitment To Local
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Bill Rigby / Reuters:
Special Report: Sleepy in Seattle - Microsoft learns to mature — (Reuters) - Every July, Microsoft Corp invites a sizable Wall Street crowd to its leafy, low-rise campus outside Seattle. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer and his top managers take a half-day to explain where the world's biggest software company …
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft's reply to prediction of consumer demise: #notdeadyet
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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Hosting Secret iOS Developer Summit Next Week — Apple is hosting an event for iOS developers in California next week, we've heard from an industry source. The event begins next Tuesday, and runs for three days, we've heard. — We are short on details, and we have not seen …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple's 2010 Annual Report: Hiring Spree, Ad Budget Increase, Lower Gross Margins Ahead — Apple today filed its 2010 annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the document reveals a few interesting tidbits of information: — Apple noted that it had approximately 46,600 full …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Massively Ramped Up Ad Spending In 2010, But Sales Grew Even Faster
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Owen Thomas / VentureBeat:
Google exec: Android was “best deal ever” — Buying Android Inc., the wireless-software startup founded by Andy Rubin, was Google's “best deal ever,” said David Lawee, vice president of corporate development at the search giant. — Lawee made the remark at a panel at the 16th annual …
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James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google shifts troubled TV effort to YouTube — (10-27) 17:59 PDT San Francisco — Google Inc. is shifting its troubled Google TV initiative to its YouTube division, The Chronicle has learned. — Some industry sources speculated that the move was a response to the surprisingly negative reaction …
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Denise Leung / Flickr Blog:
Flickr is more fun with friends! — We think that Flickr is the best way to keep up with what's going on in your world and share your photos with the people you care about. With millions of members on Flickr, there are bound to be a few you have missed along the way.
Brett Lider / Google Mobile Blog:
Gmail in mobile Safari: now even more like a native app — Go to gmail.com from your iPhone and you'll notice two improvements we've rolled out over the past few weeks. First, scrolling is snappier: the speed of scrolling reflects the speed of your swipe gesture.
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
AT&T Tries to Jump-Start Mobile Carrier Billing — Fresh from PayPal's renewed push this week to win over Internet and mobile payments, AT&T is rolling out a trial of direct carrier billing with Zong, BilltoMobile and Boku. The trial represents the biggest push to date in the U.S …
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Financial Times:
Apple faces legal action over iPad name — By Kathrin Hille in Beijing and Joseph Menn in San Francisco — Proview, a struggling Taiwanese-owned company, has threatened to sue Apple for alleged trademark infringement, in a lingering dispute that illustrates the complexity of branding in far-flung markets.
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Android App Forwards Private Text Messages — If you own an Android phone and are cheating on a significant other by arranging secret trysts through text messages, you might want to think twice about your infidelities — or at least about arranging them via texts.
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Foursquare Facing FTC Hurdle on ‘Kickbacks’ Idea — Need another reason to be skeptical of those newish Federal Trade Commission guidelines governing paid endorsements on blogs and social media sites? Here's one: They may already be discouraging tech companies like Foursquare and Twitter …
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Pegatron expects to ship 10 million CDMA iPhones in 2011, say sources — Pegatron Technology internally expects its Apple CDMA iPhone shipments to reach 10 million units in 2011 and the company has recently started to gear up and is installing new equipment as well as hiring about 10,000 …
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Google Is Now Providing Servants to Its Employees — So much for the war on Googler entitlement. Amid heated competition for engineers, Google is trying a remarkable new perk: free use of “runners” to clean apartments, take out trash, cook dinner, run errands—whatever is needed.
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Kleiner Perkins goes big: VC firm raising more than $1 billion — Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers got all sorts of attention last week for its $250 million sFund — including from yours truly — but that just scratches the surface of the venture capital firm's fundraising ambitions.
