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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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Dell CEO Talks Google Android, Windows Smartphones, Tablets
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Electronista, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Android Phone Fans, FierceWireless, I4U News, GottaBeMobile, Deal Journal, WMPoweruser.com and PhoneArena

Dell's Boomi Buy: Here's What It Means
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SAI and The Diversity Blog

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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The modern tech CEO: Barefoot and 21 — Cambridge, Massachusetts (CNN) — Walk into Seth Priebatsch's corner office and you have to step over a racecar mat — the kind little kids use to race toy cars and crash them together. — The obstacle is no accident.
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Mashable!, Electricpig.co.uk, Guardian and Reuters
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SCVNGR Goes Global and Becomes the First Service to Use Google's Places API
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TechCrunch, Pulse2, Android Phone Fans and Search Engine Watch


Will Social Voting Increase Real-World Participation? Foursquare Founder Says Yes — This morning, the new Foursquare Elections page went live. And when the polls open, Foursquare users who check in at polling places around the country will receive an official badge.
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Computerworld, techPresident, A VC, Fast Company and VatorNews
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Why Did Google Get My Polling Place Wrong? [Update]
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ResourceShelf, IntoMobile and Search Engine Land

Microsoft shifts Bing Maps Silverlight features to AJAX, looks to HTML5 — Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it will discontinue investment in the Bing Maps 3D control plug-in. — The Bing Maps 3D control plug-in allows users to see Microsoft's “Bird's eye” view which includes smooth zooming/panning …
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The Next Web, Thanks:lylesback2

Bing's new social search features arrive today — Today we are completing our deployment of our new social features that we built in partnership with Facebook. We're really excited to get these features in the hands of all our US users. — As with all the work we do at Bing …
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Seattle Blogs, Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Journal, Techie Buzz, winrumors and Neowin.net


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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Oracle to Buy ATG. Follows Money to Mobiles.
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Business Wire, VentureBeat, Between the Lines Blog and Mashable!


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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Boing Boing, 9 to 5 Mac, Gadget Lab, RazorianFly, Electronista and CrunchGear, Thanks:kvanhemert


Some MacBook Airs exhibiting screen issues — Some of Apple's newly released MacBook Air models may have display problems, according to both Internet reports and first-hand accounts. — First reported by Cult of Mac over the weekend, some users have reported odd kernel panics …
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MacRumors, The Next Web, Erictric, DailyTech, MacStories and RazorianFly

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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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.


The Worst Android Fragmentation is Yet to Come — At the Android developers website, Google has some ostensibly encouraging statistics: More than three quarters of Android users are now running version 2.1 or higher. — The stats are based on how many people have accessed the Android Market …
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Gizmodo, Gearlog, Download Squad, IntoMobile and Erictric, Thanks:rawmeet


Mark Zuckerberg Really, Really Wanted to Work With Sam Lessin — Facebook's acquisition of online storage start-up Drop.io last week looks like the standard-issue “acqhire”: Big company buys a small company because it wants its employees, but doesn't really care about the business they've built.
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ProgrammableWeb


Google Settles Over Buzz, Will Establish $8.5 Million Fund To Promote Privacy Education — Google settled a class action lawsuit brought against the company in response to privacy violations surrounding Buzz, its latest attempt at a social product, the company just announced.
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Business Wire, paidContent, ITworld.com and The Next Web, Thanks:rawmeet


Coming Soon in Google Docs: Third Party Apps, Cloud Printing and Sync — Google Docs' source code includes a message that reveals some important upcoming features: “Coming soon: Third party applications, cloud printers, and sync devices”. — Cloud printing is a project that will enable applications on any device to print documents.
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ReadWriteWeb, Docs Blog, Fortune, The Next Web and Softpedia News


The 58-inch Multitouch Table For iPhone Is Real [Video] — We covered the Table Connect for iPhone (a 58-inch surface that mirrors your iPhone screen) a few days ago, and now the developers posted a video of the “device” in action: as you can see in the video above, the table requires …
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9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Gumball Tech and RazorianFly


iPad satisfaction hits 95% in October ChangeWave survey, up 4 pts. from May — Apple's “magical” device the first choice of 80% of respondents who plan to buy a tablet — The iPad, which scored a 91% satisfaction rating in ChangeWave's May survey, inched up another four points in results released Tuesday.
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Computerworld, Internet2Go, InvestorPlace, TUAW, iLounge, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews and Appletell
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Shortages Could Hurt Windows Phone 7 Launch In U.S. — European mobile phone operator Orange is facing shortages of Windows Phone 7 handsets, and is offering vouchers to disappointed customers. The shortages could bode problems for the phone's U.S. launch later this month.
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CNET News, Electronista, Softpedia News, SlashGear and WPCentral.com


AdWords And Google Voice Hook Up To Form “AdWords Call Metrics” — What if AdWords and Google Voice had a love child? That child would probably be named “AdWords Call Metrics,” which is what Google is introducing today. Google is combining the functionality behind Google Voice with AdWords.
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ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Inside AdWords, Screenwerk, SiliconANGLE, IntoMobile, Local Media Watch and Neowin.net

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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CNET News, paidContent, Computerworld, IntoMobile, The Register, TG Daily, GigaOM, All About Symbian, Electronista, SlashGear and Engadget


Following Zynga's Footsteps, EA Signs Five Year Deal With Facebook To Use Credits — Following in the footsteps of Zynga, Electronic Arts has just announced that it has entered into a five-year strategic relationship with Facebook. Similar to the Zynga deal, Facebook Credits will become …
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Inside Facebook, paidContent, All Facebook, SelectStart and Business Wire

SAP willing to pay Oracle $120M for attorney's fees — IDG News Service - SAP would pay Oracle $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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The Register, Digital Daily and eWeek