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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
How Apple Almost Got Microsoft's Kinect Game Controller — In June 2008, on a flight home from Europe to San Francisco, I was given a fascinating demo of some jaw-dropping technology. — I was sitting next Inon Beracha, CEO of Israeli company PrimeSense, which had developed a low-cost chip and software to do 3D machine vision.
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Geek.com, Fast Company, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, Gizmodo and iClarified
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Nice Move, Google — What Took You So Long? — In a move that is being interpreted by many as a cannon shot across Facebook's bow, Google has changed the terms of service on its contacts API — the programming interface that allows developers to automatically pull your contacts from Gmail and other services.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google To Facebook: You Can't Import Our User Data Without Reciprocity
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
How to Watch Free, Live Broadcast TV on Your iPad, Right Now — The broadcast networks only put their stuff on the Web under very specific conditions. So this is exactly what they don't want: Free, live streams of their stuff delivered to your iPad, via the browser.
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PC World, Fast Company, LAPTOP Magazine, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, mobiputing and Techland, more at Mediagazer »
Kelly Hodgkins / IntoMobile:
Rumor: Gingerbread to finish cooking and come out of the Android oven November 11th — A trusted source has tipped us to the potential launch date for Gingerbread, the 2.3 version of Android. According to our source, the SDK for this upcoming revision will debut on November 11th.
Shayndi Raice / Wall Street Journal:
Dell to Ditch 25,000 BlackBerrys in Bid to Promote Own Service — In a direct shot at BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., Dell Inc. plans to move its 25,000 employees over to its own line of smartphones and then aggressively market a service to help other companies do the same.
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Dell to switch 25,000 employees from BlackBerrys to its own handsets
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IntoMobile and InformationWeek
Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
Bank of America, Citigroup Said to Test Apple IPhone — Steve Jobs may soon bag a pair of the biggest U.S. banks as iPhone supporters. — Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. are considering whether to let employees use the Apple Inc. phone as an alternative to Research …
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Caterina Fake Leaving Hunch — Hunch cofounder Caterina Fake has signed an agreement to leave the company before the end of the year, we've learned from sources. — Technically, Fake will remain involved with the company as an “advisor.” But that'll just be PR.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google “Nexus Two” Hardware Issue Delays Launch — Google is working with Samsung on a new Android phone that will have a “clean install” of Android, and the release was at least initially planned to coincide with the launch of Android 2.3 Gingerbread. — The fact that the device …
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Unwired View, I4U News, Android Life, IntoMobile, Electronista and Android Phone Fans
Fortune:
What really happened between HP ex-CEO Mark Hurd and Jodie Fisher? — To this day, only two people know the full truth. But one thing is certain: The deeper you dig, the weirder it gets. — Mark Hurd and Jodie Fisher — Mark Hurd was miffed. It was 2007, two years into his tenure …
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Peter Kirn / Create Digital Music:
On iPad, iPod touch, and iPhone, New MIDI Support, via Wires, Wireless — Over 25 years later, portions of MIDI introduced early on in the spec remain relevant. And if you want to connect your MIDI-equipped gear to Apple's iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad mobiles, you will soon have an array of choices.
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TUAW, mobiputing, THINQ.co.uk, Phones Review, PadGadget, Electronista, Engadget and displayblog
Electronista:
Apple to drop Xserve after January 31 — Apple today sent notice that it was phasing out the Xserve. The rackmount server will be discontinued as of January 31, 2011, and the currently available 160GB, 1TB and 2TB Apple Drive Modules will ship through the end of 2011 or until stock runs out.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Mac Pro Server quietly introduced as Xserve heads for the grave, starts at $3,000
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, Electronista and TUAW
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Lamebook Sues Facebook Over Trademark Infringement. Wait, What? — Here's a head scratcher, at first glance at least: Lamebook, a hilarious advertising-supported site that lets Facebook users submit funny status updates, pictures and “other gems” originating from the social network …
Facebook Data Team:
How voters turned out on Facebook — When Facebook users in the United States logged into Facebook on Election Day this year, they were greeted by a message alerting them of voting activity on Facebook. Users could click a button to announce to their friends that they had already voted …
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Between the Lines Blog, All Facebook and techPresident
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Why is T-Mobile selling an iPhone cable? — T-Mobile USA has been an oft-rumored darkhorse to help kill off AT&T's iPhone exclusivity in the country — and for the life of us, we can't think of a good reason that the carrier's corporate stores would be carrying iPhone charge / sync cables now other than in preparation for a launch.
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TmoNews, TUAW, AppleInsider, IntoMobile, 9 to 5 Mac, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, Electronista, MobileWhack.com, everythingiCafe, MacDailyNews and Wall Street Journal
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Does Away With “Sponsored Links” Label, Now Ads Are Labeled “Ads” — A month ago, Google began testing labeling the AdWords ads as “ads”. Prior, Google labeled those AdWords ads as “sponsored links,” which is how they have been named for as long as I can remember.
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The Register and The Next Web
David Goldman / CNNMoney:
Dell CFO: Going private still an option — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Once the top personal computer maker, Dell has fallen behind some of its chief rivals and gradually has lost much of the luster that it had a decade ago. — Now, Dell is attempting to re-brand its business as a solutions provider …
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SAI, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE and Tech Trader Daily
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Adobe intros cloud-based file sharing, PDF creation tools — Adobe has introduced two new services that it hopes will get the masses using its products again: one that converts and processes PDFs on the Web, and another that allows users to easily send large files to one another.
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VentureBeat and Acrobat Blog
Royal Pingdom:
Modern web browser adoption better than expected: 71% run latest version — Web developers fight a constant struggle: They want to use modern web browser features, but they also need to take browser adoption into consideration. If a large portion of their users run older versions of browsers …
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ReadWriteWeb and Web Browsers
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Cooks Source Editor Finally Responds... Makes Things Worse [Updated] — from the maybe-copy-a-recipe-for-humble- pie dept — Yesterday, we wrote about how Cooks Source magazine had been caught pulling a story off the internet and republishing it, without permission.
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Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Did the Post's Election Twitter Experiment Work? — On election night, the Washington Post bought one of Twitter's “promoted trends.” When users clicked the trend, #Election, Post content got top billing. It marked the first time that a media company had purchased a promoted trend …
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Twitter Media and SAI
Laurie Voss / Seldo.Com:
Why I really, really hate Instagram — I love data, so I really hate Instagram. — I suppose it would be more accurate to say I really hate the users of Instagram, for what they do to their photos; Instagram is merely the enabler. The behaviour I take issue with isn't even the default behaviour of the app.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It's Now Fixed — Yesterday, we posted about horrible latency issues many Gmail users have been experiencing over the past couple of weeks. When I reached out to Google about the issue a few days ago, they told me that they weren't aware of anything wrong, but would look into it.
