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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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Tim Carmody / Gadget Lab:
One in Five Mobiles Sold Are Smartphones (One in Four Run Android)
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UberMobile Blog, Motorola Media Center, Android Phone Fans, BGR, Pulse2, Fast Company, Mashable!, Fortune, HEXUS.channel and Androinica
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.5 — Moments ago, Apple released its Mac OS X 10.6.5 update to its customer-base. Fixes in the point-upgrade include: — • improve reliability with Microsoft Exchange servers — • address performance of some image-processing operations in iPhoto and Aperture
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GigaOM, MacStories, Apple, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, TodaysiPhone.com, everythingiCafe, Gizmodo, Engadget, Neowin.net, The Next Web and Softpedia News
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AppleInsider:
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.5 with no mention of AirPrint — Apple on Wednesday released Mac OS X 10.6.5, the latest security and maintenance update for its Snow Leopard operating system, but documentation accompanying the release made no mention of AirPrint.
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The Register, Download Squad, Ars Technica, Business Wire and Appletell
Michael Grothaus / TUAW:
iOS 4.2 to launch Friday?
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Examiner, Download Squad, Engadget, Fortune and Redmond Pie
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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Between the Lines Blog, SAI, SlashGear, Computerworld and OS X Daily
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Ian Paul / PC World:
Windows Phone 7 Success Tied to a Million in Sales — Critics are already debating whether Windows Phone 7 is a flop, but the phone's true measure of success will be in how long it takes to sell one million units. It all started after reports that Microsoft's new handset platform sold …
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The Microsoft Blog, The Next Web and PhoneDog.com
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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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LiveSide.net, Neowin.net, The Windows Blog, Inside Facebook, The Blog Herald, SiliconANGLE and The Atlantic Online
Wall Street Journal:
FCC Investigating Google Data Collection — The Federal Communications Commission is investigating whether Google Inc. broke federal laws when its street-mapping service collected consumers' personal information, joining a lengthy list of regulators probing what Google says was inadvertent harvesting …
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Computerworld, Post Tech, CNET News, Electronista, The Hill, The Next Web and Reuters
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Sara Jerome / Hillicon Valley:
Watchdog wants probe of Google's ‘unusually close’ ties to Obama
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The Precursor Blog, Digital Daily and SiliconANGLE, Thanks:gnagesh
Tyler Cunningham / GTVHub.com:
Fox.com now blocking Google TV devices — Another one bites the dust. A couple of weeks ago, Fox.com was atop our list of Websites that could still be accessed on Google TV to stream full episodes of content. Well, you can go ahead and cross Fox off that list, as they are now blocking Google TV devices (see the photo above).
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GigaOM, Gizmodo, Android Phone Fans, The Next Web and Engadget
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google TV Product Lead: “We're Not Trying To Replace Cable”
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GigaOM
David Huynh / Google Open Source Blog:
Announcing Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglers — Our acquisition of Metaweb back in July also brought along Freebase Gridworks, an open source software project for cleaning and enhancing entire data sets. Today we're announcing that the project has been renamed to Google Refine and version 2.0 is now available.
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ReadWriteWeb
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Stat Shot: The Results of Silicon Valley's Talent War — We've covered the war for talent among startups and larger tech firms in Silicon Valley, but after Google issued employees a $1,000 bonus and 10 percent raise, Glassdoor took a look at how well people at Google were paid, and specifically …
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David Goldman / CNNMoney.com:
Google's fight to keep its top minds
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MediaMemo, The Register, Epicenter, Examiner, Insights on the tech industry, Gawker, Between the Lines Blog, Digital Trends and SAI
Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:
Mozilla launches the F1 share button, as in “one to rule them all” — Mozilla just announced that it is launching a new toolbar button called F1, and it could be huge. — Saying, “Have you noticed how more and more pages on the web have 3, 6, or sometimes 12 little icons on a page encouraging …
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ReadWriteWeb, Mozilla Labs and Mashable!
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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VentureBeat, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice and MacRumors iPhone Blog
Chris Dale / YouTube Blog:
Great Scott! Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute to YouTube — Remember in March when we shared with you that more than 24 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute? Well, you continue to amaze us: you've increased the amount of video uploaded to YouTube to 35 hours per minute.
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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Examiner, InformationWeek, CNET News, Daring Fireball, BGR, Between the Lines Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Engadget, internetnews.com, Pulse2, Edible Apple, Liliputing, PadGadget, V3.co.uk, Computerworld, Digital Trends, CrackBerry.com blogs, VentureBeat, Techland, The Tech Report, I4U News, msnbc.com, TechEye, HEXUS.channel, MacRumors, GottaBeMobile, Fonehome.co.uk, MobileWhack.com, Gadgetell, SAI, Gearlog, DailyFinance, Know Your Cell, Pocket-lint and Neowin.net
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple Did Not Actually Buy Wi-Gear, It Turns Out — Remember that story yesterday which said that Apple (AAPL) had acquired a Bluetooth wireless headphone maker called Wi-Gear? — Well, turns out it wasn't true. — “The rumor is false,” Wi-Gear CEO Mark Pundsack said via e-mail in response to an inquiry from Tech Trader Daily.
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.
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.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
A Web Video Truce: Free Hulu Goes Away From Boxee, Replaced by Hulu Plus — The Hulu-Boxee war is over! The terms of the truce: Boxee, which makes software that makes it easy to get Web video on TV, will remove links to Hulu's free service — but will give users the ability to use the Hulu Plus paid service.
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TechCrunch and Engadget
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.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Ellison to Self: Damn, Damn. I Knew I Should Have Said $4.5 Billion — Whatever damages Oracle is awarded in its suit against SAP, they'll be $500 million lighter, thanks to an order by the judge presiding over the case. Judge Phyllis Hamilton has prevented Oracle from including …
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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Electronista, GigaOM, Consumer Reports …, Macsimum News and TUAW
Vlad Bobleanta / Download Squad:
SugarSync ups free storage to 5 GB, now allows any number of connected devices — SugarSync has announced that users of its basic, free plan will now get 5 GB of storage ‘in the cloud’. Previously, that limit was 2 GB — a limit that its main competitor, Dropbox, still has.
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Macworld and Technologizer
Paul Krill / Computerworld:
WS-I declares ‘mission accomplished’ — Web services interoperability group formed by Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle says it is going out of business because it has concluded its charter to document best practices for Web services — The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) …
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eWeek
