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Gartner:
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Grew 35 Percent in Third Quarter 2010; Smartphone Sales Increased 96 Percent — Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 417 million units in the third quarter of 2010, a 35 percent increase from the third quarter of 2009, according to Gartner …
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Bloomberg:
RIM to Sell Tablet for Less Than $500 to Take On IPad — Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Research In Motion Ltd., moving into the tablet-computer market for the first time, said it will begin selling its BlackBerry PlayBook for less than $500, suggesting RIM may try to undercut Apple Inc.'s iPad.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
RIM's Playbook: Pricing under $500 and a big bet on Flash
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, BGR and Gearlog
Henry Blodget / SAI:
Google Gives All Employees Surprise $1,000 Cash Bonus And 10% Raise — Google has given all of its employees $1,000 cash “holiday bonuses” and 2011 salary increases of at least 10%, a loyal reader tells us. — The 10% company-wide raise will take effect on January 1, 2011.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Responds To Bonus/Raise Story, Cites Importance Of “Competitive Compensation”
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SAI and NBC Bay Area
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Rumor: Apple Has Cancelled Support for AirPrint Through Mac and Windows — Update: Unlike many other blogs that linked to this post claim, the rumor isn't about AirPrint being cancelled. It's about AirPrint through shared printers on Macs and PCs. — When Apple released the first beta …
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Michael Grothaus / TUAW:
iOS 4.2 to launch Friday?
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Engadget, Redmond Pie, everythingiCafe, App Advice, Pocket-lint, O'Grady's PowerPage, Softpedia News and Neowin.net
Scott Moritz / The Street:
Microsoft Sells 40K Windows 7 Phones — NEW YORK (TheStreet) — As big-splash debuts go, Microsoft's(MSFT_) Windows Phone 7 launch at AT&T(T_) and T-Mobile didn't exactly make waves Monday. Even with a glitzy media intro last month hosted by champion inside-seller and company chief Steve Ballmer …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Samsung Galaxy Tab Review: A Pocketable Train Wreck — This is it. The Galaxy Tab is the first Android tablet meant for humans. But is it actually fit for humans? — Put simply, the Galaxy Tab is the first post-iPad tablet that matters, because it's the first tablet that's trying to be legitimate competition.
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Computerworld, OS X Daily, SlashGear, 9 to 5 Mac, Daring Fireball, displayblog and Electronista
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
FarmVille is Still the Most Popular Facebook App - But #2 is a Surprise — Over 16 million people watered their FarmVille crops yesterday. While AppData's Facebook app top 10 is mostly populated by games like Zynga's popular farming game, Texas HoldEm Poker, FrontierVille and Café World …
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The Windows Blog, LiveSide.net, The Atlantic Online and Inside Facebook
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Microsoft is in the driver's seat for Windows Phone updates — One of the biggest criticisms of Windows Mobile and Android devices is that device manufacturers get control over who gets updated versions of the OS. That leads to awkward situations where someone pays big bucks …
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CNET News, IntoMobile, Gadget Lab, Softpedia News, Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, Electronista, Thoughts from the Sidelines, HEXUS.channel and winextra
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Flashes A Nice Big Middle Finger At Android's Fragmentation
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IntoMobile
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
MacBook Air Rises to Top of Consumer Reports Ratings — More good press for the MacBook Air. Consumer Reports updated its computer ratings earlier this week to include the machine, and while it had some criticisms, it ranked the 11-inch Air and its 13-inch sibling at the top …
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GigaOM, Computerworld, Electronista, Consumer Reports …, PC World, Macsimum News, The Loop and The Next Web
Joab Jackson / ITworld:
Apache declares war on Oracle over Java — The Apache Software Foundation threatens to ditch Java if Oracle doesn't relent on use restrictions — I like it! — Charging that Oracle has willfully disregarded the licensing terms for its own Java technology, the Apache Software Foundation …
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eWeek, Ars Technica, InfoQ, ASF Blogs, Network World, Techie Buzz and The Register
New York Times:
Stage Set for Showdown on Online Privacy — WASHINGTON — After “do not call” lists became popular, more than 90 percent of people who signed up reported fewer annoying telemarketing calls. Now, privacy advocates are pushing for a similar “do not track” feature that would let Internet users tell Web sites …
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Switched, Company Town and Screenwerk, more at Mediagazer »
Inside AdSense:
Introducing the new AdSense interface, now available globally — Last November we announced that we were starting to test a new interface with a limited group of publishers. Since then, we've been focused on adding new features and incorporating feedback from our testers.
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Warns Facebook Users of “Trap” Before Data Export — If you hadn't yet heard, there's been a bit of a kerfuffle this past week over your data by two Internet giants - Facebook and Google. It started when Google began blocking other services from importing its data without reciprocity, a move aimed directly at Facebook.
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The Not-So Private Parts, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Digital Trends, The Register, Digitizor, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Search Engine Land, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Epicenter and Webomatica, Thanks:rwwmike
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Fanboy Fascination: Is Andreessen Horowitz Overhyped? — Social psychologist Amy Cuddy of Harvard Business School recently produced some interesting research suggesting that people are highly likely to see someone as competent if they've demonstrated expertise in just one area, even if they later display incompetence elsewhere.
James Verini / New York Times:
The Great Cyberheist — One night in July 2003, a little before midnight, a plainclothes N.Y.P.D. detective, investigating a series of car thefts in upper Manhattan, followed a suspicious-looking young man with long, stringy hair and a nose ring into the A.T.M. lobby of a bank.
Apple:
Apple & The Dentsu Group Bring iAds to Japan — Apple® and The Dentsu Group today announced a partnership to expand Apple's iAd℠ mobile advertising network to Japan in early 2011. Dentsu will be responsible for the selling and creative execution of iAds in Japan, and Apple will host …
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CNET News, Computerworld, Mobile Marketing Watch, MacRumors, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, Gearlog, AppleInsider, MacStories and TUAW
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Give Us Our Data, Facebook — I usually give Facebook the benefit of the doubt in its various wars with the press and users, particularly around privacy issues. Mostly because user expectations around privacy are changing in real time. Things that were reprehensible just a couple …
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Stay N' Alive and Softpedia News
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Hulu CEO: We'll make $240M in 2010 — Hulu chief executive Jason Kilar shared some numbers today to show where the online TV service stood at the end of October. — The service launched its beta test almost exactly three years ago, so while the service is relatively early, Kilar said …
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Fast Company, GigaOM, TechCrunch, SAI, paidContent, Zatz Not Funny!, Mashable!, Black Web 2.0 and Pulse2
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
SkyFire Pulls In Nearly $1 Million In Its First Weekend On The App Store — Just about every time I write about SkyFire, the cross-platform (and generally free) smartphone browser capable of churning through most Flash videos, someone always says: “Great! But uh, how are they going to make money?”
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App Advice and IntoMobile
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Yahoo's Informal Offer To Buy Groupon: $3 Billion To $4 Billion — Yahoo made it known to Groupon executives and backers that it was willing to pay as much as $3 billion to $4 billion to acquire the company, a source close to Groupon investors tells us. — That number may seem high, but our source is reliable.
