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Michael J. Miller / Forward Thinking:
Ballmer pushes HTML 5 and Windows Phone at PDC — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and others this morning pushed Windows Azure, HTML 5, and Windows Phone 7 as developer platform at the company's Professional Developers Conference. I expected Microsoft to push Windows Phone and Azure very hard …
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CNNMoney.com, Seattle Times, The Windows Blog, Associated Press, The Microsoft Blog, Microsoft and MSDN Blogs
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Leland / Twitter Blog:
Twitter for Windows Phone: Pivot Power — There is a new addition to our mobile family: Twitter for Windows Phone. This Twitter client is available now for all Windows Phone 7 devices. We want you to be able to get Tweets quickly and easily, no matter what device you're using …
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Pulse2, The Blog Herald, Mashable! and The Next Web, Thanks:bpedro
Amazon.com:
Amazon to Launch Kindle App for Windows Phone 7 — Free Kindle application extends Amazon's Buy Once, Read Everywhere approach, bringing over 725,000 Kindle Books to Windows Phone 7 — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that Kindle for Windows Phone 7 will be the first major …
Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:
IE9 Developer Preview 6 launched, and new Test Drive site now live — To celebrate the opening of the Professional Developer Conference 2010, the Internet Explorer team has just flipped the switch on a very sexy new version of the Internet Explorer Test Drive site.
Jon Brodkin / Network World:
Microsoft puts Windows Server instances in the cloud
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ReadWriteWeb, SAI, eWeek, PC Magazine, The Official Microsoft Blog and The Microsoft Blog
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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GigaOM, Computerworld, Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Land, Redmond Pie, Startup Meme, Droid Life, Gadget Lab, VentureBeat, I4U News, Electronista, Engadget, TG Daily, Technologizer, Pocket-lint, Android Phone Fans, Fonehome.co.uk, IntoMobile, Black Web 2.0, Geek.com, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Androinica, PhoneArena, GMSV and Electricpig.co.uk
Wayne Kao / Facebook Blog:
Telling the Story of Friendships — One of my favorite Facebook moments is browsing photos from friends in the News Feed after they've begun a new relationship, gotten engaged or gotten married. It gives me a fun and meaningful glimpse of the friendship between two people I know.
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CNET News, VentureBeat, VatorNews, ReadWriteWeb, All Facebook, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Erictric, Switched, SiliconANGLE, The Blog Herald and NBC Bay Area
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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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Search Engine Watch, PC World, 901am, MarketingVOX, msnbc.com, Tnooz, Search Engine Roundtable, Telegraph, Inquirer, hypebot, Softpedia News, Download Squad, Switched, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, Mashable!, StepForth Web Marketing Inc., Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews, GeekSugar, Local Media Watch, NBC Bay Area, TechCrunch and SiliconANGLE
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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Gizmodo, Yahoo! News, CNET News, App Advice, SlashGear, Shiny Objects, MacStories, AppleInsider, The Next Web and The Register
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.
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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Internet2Go, 901am, GigaOM, Daring Fireball, Erictric, Techie Buzz, App Advice, Softpedia News, Download Squad, mobiputing, The Next Web, MacStories, ThinkMobile and everythingiCafe
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
An Anthropomorphized White iPhone 4 Is Confronted Regarding Its Inability to Be Shipped — The latest version of the popular handset, the iPhone 4, was released in June, but the white model was delayed first to July, then to the end of the year and now to early next year.
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IntoMobile, TUAW and App Advice
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Removes Mention of White iPhone 4 From Online Store
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9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, Gumball Tech, Electricpig.co.uk and MacDailyNews
James Niccolai / Computerworld:
Oracle: Google ‘directly copied’ our Java code — IDG News Service - Oracle has updated its lawsuit against Google to allege that parts of its Android mobile phone software “directly copied” Oracle's Java code. — Oracle filed a surprise lawsuit against Google in August …
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Groklaw, PC World, VentureBeat, Techie Buzz, Between the Lines Blog, Inquirer, Adotas, CNET News, Electronista, The Register, FierceMobileContent and Neowin.net
James Galbraith / Macworld:
2010 MacBook Air: ultimate-edition lab tests — We test the top-end 1.6GHz 11-inch Air and 2.13GHz 13-inch Air — The 2010 MacBook Air models offer impressive improvements in both design and in performance when compared to previous MacBook Airs. But with just 2GB of RAM …
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The Apple Core Blog, Computerworld, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, AnandTech, Marco.org, MacRumors and CrunchGear
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Boxee Offers HD Streaming Movies with VUDU — When it comes to streaming media, it looks like Boxee has the best of both worlds. That is, its hardware solution - the Boxee Box - makes it easy to bring streams like YouTube, Netflix or Pandora to your disconnected television.
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PR Newswire, Market Wire, A VC, BetaNews, PC World, Stage Two, NewTeeVee, Technologizer, VentureBeat, Crave, paidContent, SlashGear, Macsimum News and Engadget
Stephen Lawson / Computerworld:
Sprint to offer mobile wallet system for cell phones — IDG News Service - Sprint Nextel subscribers will be able to link their credit cards and other traditional payment methods to a mobile purchasing system coming next month. — CEO Dan Hesse announced the Sprint Mobile Wallet during …
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PC World, ReadWriteWeb, MarketingVOX, SiliconANGLE and Dean Bubley's Disruptive …
David Kravets / Threat Level:
The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits — Call it ingenious, call it evil or call it a little of both: Copyright troll Righthaven is exploiting a loophole in intellectual property law, suing websites that might have avoided any trace of civil liability had they spent a mere $105.
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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CrunchGear, The Atlantic Online and Network World
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Dropbox CEO: Why search advertising failed us — Dropbox founder and chief executive Drew Houston offered some details this afternoon about how he grew the company to more than 4 million users. In its early days, the document synchronization startup did all the things that startups are …
Thanks:chirag_mehta
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Verizon Agrees to Pay Treasury $25 Million to Settle Mystery Fees — Penalty comes in addition to $52.8 million owed to customers — Verizon Wireless has agreed to refund $52.8 million to customers and pay a penalty of $25 million to the U.S. Treasury to settle a ten-month FCC investigation …
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CNET News, Post Tech, CNNMoney.com, Associated Press, BetaNews, Bloomberg, The Next Web and FierceWireless
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Fred Wilson on The Empire State of Startups — As Om shared earlier this month, New York's tech scene is getting a flood of venture capital for Internet deals, rivaling San Francisco. It's validation for a city that has built a formidable base of companies and is now becoming a hotbed of start-ups …
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Mint Data Offers Real-Time Look at Local Spending — I never know what to think when I see a rating next to a business on something like Yelp or Google that ranks a business as “$” or “$$” - how much is “$$” exactly and do I want to spend it? Well now, if you know you have exactly $12 …
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BetaNews, FlowingData, Business Wire, TechCrunch, Inc.com and SAI
Microsoft Corporation:
Earnings Release FY11 Q1 — Microsoft Reports Record First-Quarter Results — Growth across all business segments drives record first-quarter revenue and earnings per share. — Microsoft Corp. today announced record first-quarter revenue of $16.20 billion for the quarter ended Sept. 30 …
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paidContent, Digital Daily and IR Web Report
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Nearing Profitability, YouTube Hits 500 Million Promoted Video Views — YouTube has just announced that it has served its 500 millionth promoted video view. The video ad format, which the company launched a few years ago, essentially allows advertisers pay to promote videos in search results and on the YouTube home page.
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Box.net bumps free, paid storage capacities — Following Moore's Law, data storage continues to get speed and capacity boosts at quite a clip—all the while coming down in cost and physical size. One business benefiting from that trend is Web storage and collaboration service Box.net.
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Mashable!, Computerworld, TechCrunch, winrumors, Techie Buzz and SiliconANGLE
Christina Warren / Mashable!:
When Are Facebook Users Most Active? [STUDY] — We know that users are spending increasing amounts of time online on social networks like Facebook, but when exactly are users the most active? Social media management company Vitrue just released a study that identifies the days and hours users …
