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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Here's The Cloud Computing Company Dell Is Buying: Boomi — Dell has just announced it has agreed to acquire Software-as-a-Service integration company Boomi. Boomi offers an application integration platform that aims to reduce cost and complexity out of integrating applications …
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Between the Lines Blog, Business Wire, Digital Daily and Enterprise Storage Forum
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Kelvin Soh / Reuters:
Dell plans cloud computing acquisition and tablet PC push — (Reuters) - Dell Inc, the world's No.2 PC maker, will announce an acquisition related to cloud computing on Tuesday, its chief executive said, while ramping up its tablet PC line to compete with rivals such as Apple.
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eWeek, Engadget, SAI, FierceWireless, I4U News, SiliconANGLE, GottaBeMobile, Deal Journal, PhoneArena, Electronista and WMPoweruser.com
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Vendors to debut Chrome-featured smartbooks later in November — Global brand vendors are expected to launch their new generation smartbooks featuring the Google Chrome operating system (OS) later this month (November), while Google also plans to launch its own-brand Chrome notebook …
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VentureBeat, Fortune, Geek.com, Engadget, Fast Company, DailyTech, Erictric, The Tech Report, Liliputing, TechSpot, SAI, Gadgetell, Softpedia News, Shiny Objects, Pocket-lint, Electronista and Ubergizmo
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Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Component Makers Whisper That Chrome OS Will Ship In November
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Newlaunches.com and MobileWhack.com
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Skyfire iOS browser approved by Apple, converts Flash video to HTML5 — A new Apple-approved iPhone and iPad mobile browser from a startup company, set to launch this week, converts video from Adobe Flash to HTML5, though it won't work with Hulu. — The new Skyfire browser will be available …
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
SCVNGR Goes Global and Becomes the First Service to Use Google's Places API — SCVNGR is a location-based service with apps for the iPhone and Android that wants to add a “game layer on top of the world.” Starting today, the company is getting closer to this goal, as it is going international and expanding to about 80 new countries.
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Mashable!, TechCrunch, Search Engine Watch, Softpedia News, BoomTown, Android Phone Fans, Guardian and Reuters
Robin Wauters / TechCrunchIT:
Oracle Buys eCommerce Software Giant ATG For $1 Billion — ATG, provider of eCommerce software and related on-demand commerce optimization applications, this morning announced that it has agreed to be acquired by Oracle for $6 per share in cash, or approximately $1 billion.
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Forrester Blogs, ReadWriteWeb, eWeek, Computerworld, Bloomberg, TechEye, Digital Daily, CNET News, The Register, GMSV, V3.co.uk, SiliconANGLE and Reuters
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Oracle to Buy ATG. Follows Money to Mobiles.
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Business Wire, Mass High Tech, Between the Lines Blog and Mashable!
Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:
Apple Increases Tablet Share to 95 Percent as Android Slips — Apple Inc. increased its market share in tablet computers to 95 percent in the third quarter, while Google Inc.'s Android operating system slipped, according to researcher Strategy Analytics. — Global tablet sales rose 26 percent …
Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Apple Releases iOS 4.2 Gold Master To Developers [Update: See What's New!] — Good news folks, Apple just released the pre-final version of iOS 4.2 to members of the Apple developer program. iOS 4.2 Gold Master, or GM as it's called, should be the exact version that Apple will be shipping very soon (hopefully) to the public.
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Apple Brings AirPlay Back To Youtube App With 4.2 GM
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PC World, MacRumors, App Advice, Gearlog, Evolver.fm, DailyTech, Gadget Lab, Appletell, RazorianFly and iClarified
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Apple, Google Are Sniffing Around Mobile Payments Startup BOKU — Both Apple and Google are engaged in conversations with mobile payments startup BOKU about a potential acquisition or a wide-reaching partnership at the very least, we've heard from people familiar with the talks, which are ongoing.
Nielsen Wire:
Mobile Snapshot: Smartphones Now 28% of U.S. Cellphone Market — The Nielsen Company today reported that as of the third quarter of 2010, 28 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers now have smartphones, cellphones with operating systems resembling those of computers.
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TechCrunch, CNET News, Inquirer, Hillicon Valley, Computerworld, SlashGear, DSLreports and FierceDeveloper
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple's $52 Billion Piggybank Disappoints Investors — Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc.'s piggybank, stuffed with $51 billion in cash and investments, is earning a lower return than a typical U.S. savings account. Some investors say Steve Jobs should put that money to better use.
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Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple slashes Mac mini prices (in Europe, US follows?) — Apple has cut €100 off of the European price of the Mac mini — the price cut is trans-European, it is also available at the UK store. — The Mac mini — now equipped with an HDMI port among other delightful features …
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AppleInsider, The Toybox Blog, Engadget, MacRumors, Softpedia News, RazorianFly and Geek.com
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Tippr Launches White Label Group-Buying Platform — When it comes to group-buying, Groupon is clearly the market's Goliath, with 20 million subscribers, over $160-million in venture financing and a market value of more than $1 billion. So how do you compete with that kind of presence?
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Election Badges, Vote by Check-In and Twitter Bubbles — It may not be quite as big a deal as the presidential elections in 2008, when Barack Obama's campaign team used social media and social networks to mobilize supporters and win the White House, but the mid-term state elections happening tomorrow …
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Inside Facebook, Techland, IntoMobile, Digits, The Apple Core Blog, About Foursquare, AppScout and Foursquare Blog
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sony confirms PlayStation Phone, sort of — In a maddeningly vague pair of conference calls with analysts, Sony executives seemingly acknowledged last Friday that they were working on products that will address the “light gamer” segment of the mobile gaming market.
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PC Magazine, Gearlog and Black Web 2.0
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Times claims 105,000 online ‘sales’ — After weeks of speculation come some hard figures for online subscribers to the The Times and the Sunday Times. — News International announced this morning that it has secured 105,000 sales from people who have paid to access either the papers' websites and/or its iPad and Kindle apps.
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GigaOM, SAI, New York Times, paidContent:UK, BBC, paidContent, Telegraph and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Rebellious Coders Home In on Apple TV Hacks, App Store — Apple calls the Apple TV a “hobby” because it isn't a big seller. But for a bustling community of hackers, jailbreaking and tinkering with the set-top box is the real hobby. — The recent release of the second-generation Apple TV …
Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:
Exclusive Look: Where The Workers Who Made Your iPhone Sleep At Night — Foxconn's factory in Shenzhen, China, is home to about half of its 420,000 workers. They make many of our gadgets and computers, then walk to dormitories on the 2.1-kilometer-square campus. I got to look inside.
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9 to 5 Mac, RazorianFly and CrunchGear, Thanks:kvanhemert
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Bang! Publishers Say Giant Web Ads Have “Stopping Power” — Bigger really is better! — So say Web publishers who have been running supersized, don't-you-dare-look-away-from- me ads for the past year. — Even better, the ad sellers insist-they have scientific proof to back up their claim.
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MediaPost, Mediaweek and FM Blog, more at Mediagazer »
Blake Stimac / IntoMobile:
Meet 8pen, another Android keyboard with a steep learning curve — There are many keyboard replacements available for Android these days, most of which are much better than the stock Android keyboard. We now have a new entrant to add to the mix, and it's unlike anything we've ever seen before.
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Bits, Androinica, Droid Life, Gadget Lab, ThinkMobile, Softpedia News, MobileCrunch, Wired.co.uk and Android Phone Fans
Chris Kanaracus / Computerworld:
SAP willing to pay Oracle $120M for attorney's fees — IDG News Service - SAP would pay Oracle US$120 million for “past and future reasonable attorneys fees and costs” under the terms of a joint stipulation filed Monday in connection with the companies' ongoing intellectual-property lawsuit.
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Cade Metz / The Register:
First official HTML5 tests topped by...Microsoft — Memo to Redmond: CSS ain't HTML — The Worldwide Web Consortium has released the results of its first HTML5 conformance tests, and according to this initial rundown, the browser that most closely adheres to the latest set of web standards is...Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.
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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Instagram, The Photo App For The Cool Kids, Is Taking Off — Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are — today, at least — living the startup dream. — Their simple iPhone photo shooting-and-sharing app is growing about as fast as we've seen anything grow …
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RichardC / Symbian Blog:
Euromillions for the Symbian ecosystem: €22M committed to next generation technologies for Symbian — Under an initiative sponsored by the European Commission (EC), the Symbian platform was this week endorsed by the Artemis Joint Technology Initiative and specifically identified …
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GigaOM, The Register, IntoMobile, SlashGear and Phones Review
Ricky / Digitizor:
And So The Exodus Begins - 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org — We all knew that it would come to this and it has finally happened - 33 developers have left OpenOffice.org to join The Document Foundation, with more expected to leave in the next few days. — The History
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Ars Technica, Computerworld, dev, THINQ.co.uk, OStatic blogs, Computerworld UK's News, The H Open Source and Geek.com, Thanks:digitizor
