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Sarah Ellison / Fortune:
Get ready for Verizon's ‘Dream Phone’ — The soon-to-be-unveiled Verizon iPhone is the answer to many consumers' prayers. But a deal with Apple will test the company that Ivan Seidenberg has spent his career building. — By Sarah Ellison, contributor — The most talked-about cellphone …
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Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
Samsung's ‘Nexus Two:’ More Details Come Out — Samsung is indeed working on an unlocked Google Android phone as reported by Gizmodo this morning, but it may not be called the “Nexus Two” and it isn't coming out on November 8. — Gizmodo riled the Internet today with photos and details of a slim …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Hands on the Nexus Two by Samsung
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft: Our strategy with Silverlight has shifted — At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this week, the future of Silverlight is one topic that has gotten short shrift. There have been no sessions about Silverlight 5 and only one mention of Silverlight in the kick-off keynote.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Here's AOL Now-Live New Homepage (and Welcome Back to the Adorkable Lindsay Campbell) — Today, BoomTown interviewed AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, along with NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, at the Online News Association conference in Washington, D.C. about the future of journalism on the Web.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
AOL's Homepage Revamp Aims For TV Network Model
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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
IDC: Apple passes RIM to become No. 4 global mobile phone vendor — A new IDC report shows strong iPhone sales have pushed Apple past Research in Motion, making the iPhone-maker the world's fourth-largest mobile phone seller in the third quarter of 2010. — According to IDC's Worldwide …
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Horace Dediu / asymco:
Trading Places: How Apple climbed into the Top Tier
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Foursquare Doomed? Facebook Places Has 7X More Users — About 30 million people have tried Facebook places, a single source who works with Facebook tells us. — Reached for a response to this number, Facebook rep Larry Yu told us, “[I] don't have any guidance to offer right now, I'm afraid.”
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Launching Places Powered Deals Service — Facebook is currently testing a new “Facebook Deals” service which enables businesses to provide deals whenever visitors check-in to a physical store. The new service is being tested with a limited number of partners …
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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The Mac App Store isn't for today's Mac developers — Apple's recently announced App Store for the Mac is a Really Big Deal™, for reasons I'll get to in a moment. But a lot of existing Mac developers have pointed out major issues or unknowns that need to be addressed:
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Royal Pingdom:
Is Goo.gl really the fastest URL shortener? (chart) — A few weeks ago, Google made its URL shortener, Goo.gl, open for everyone and gave it its own website, similar to Bit.ly's. Previously, Goo.gl could only be used by Google's own services. — When they announced this …
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Jon Brodkin / Network World:
89,000 Microsoft employees will get a Windows Phone 7 handset — Steve Ballmer gives phones to every PDC attendee, and every Microsoft employee — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer enthusiastically announced Thursday that all attendees of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference will receive a new Windows Phone 7 device.
Subel Bhandari / Agence France Presse:
Everest summit wired up with Internet — KATHMANDU — Climbers at the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, will now be able to make video calls and surf the Internet on their mobile phones, a Nepalese telecom group claims. — Ncell, a subsidiary of Swedish phone giant TeliaSonera …
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek details tablet PC plans — Asustek Computer plans to launch several tablet PCs featuring 7-, 10- or 12-inch panels and will start launching them in December 2010, according to company president Jerry Shen. — Asustek is aiming to mass produce the 12-inch model featuring …
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Google Ventures Invests in HomeAway — Google Ventures, the investment fund that Google started last year, is getting into vacation rentals. — Google has invested in HomeAway, the vacation rental site that has already raised nearly half a billion dollars in venture capital.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Leaked DVD Screener of The Social Network A BitTorrent Hit — The Social Network tells the dramatized story of the founders of Facebook, the number one social-networking site that was launched in 2004. The film premiered nearly three weeks ago, and since then many BitTorrent users …
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Michael Siliski / Google Mobile Blog:
New in Google Maps for Android: Updated reviews, search filters, and Latitude real-time updating — Lately, we've been working on giving you even better ways to find nearby places with Google Maps for Android, such as the Places icon and rich Place pages. Today, we are launching Google Maps 4.6 …
Georges Haddad / YouTube Blog:
1 billion subscriptions and counting — Early on (we're talking '06 here, people!), the yellow subscribe button made its debut so the latest videos from your favorite channels could make a beeline to your inbox/eager eyes. Today, the button that's been immortalized as a throw cushion hits …
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Facebook applies for ad-targeting patent — This is interesting: Earlier this month, Facebook filed for a patent to further hone its ad-targeting technology so that ads can be based on what a user's friends interests may be. The reason for this, it appears, is so that Facebook …
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Mike Labossiere / VentureBeat:
White hat or black hat? Firefox hacking tool Firesheep raises ethical concerns — Editor's Note: Was the release of the drop-dead easy hacking tool Firesheep, an extension for the Firefox browser that lets users hijack passwords from others on wireless networks, ethically sound?
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Gary LosHuertos / Technology Sufficiently Advanced:
Herding Firesheep in New York City
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sprint CEO: The iPad Has Been Good to Us — It might not be selling iPads in its stores like rivals AT&T and Verizon, but Sprint is benefitting from the brisk demand for Apple's hot new device, regardless. Dan Hesse, CEO of the third-largest carrier in the U.S., told me in an interview …
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Yoree Koh / Japan Real Time:
Facebook Looking for Japanese Friends … Sharing is caring, and by linking up with one of Japan's biggest social networking sites, Japanese users are likely to be finally drawn to Facebook. — In contrast to its success elsewhere, Facebook has so far failed to establish itself as Japan's most popular social-networking site.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Facebook Weeks Away From Launching New Games Portal — We are hearing reports that Facebook is weeks away from launching a new, redesigned dedicated gaming portal. Details are sparse at this point, but the portal will present a new, more feature rich way to both find games and play games within the social network.
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