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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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David Pogue / New York Times:
It's a Tablet. It's Gorgeous. It's Costly. — Every time there's some new hot, heavily hyped gadget from Apple, it takes only a few months for the copycats to crop up. IPod? Zune! IPhone? Android! — The iPad? Well, it came out in March, and the iPad alternatives are just landing in stores now.
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Samsung's Galaxy Tab Is iPad's First Real Rival — After seven months of unchallenged prominence, Apple's hot-selling iPad now has its first credible competitor in the nascent market for multitouch consumer tablet computers: the Samsung Galaxy Tab. — [ See post to watch video ]
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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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MacStories, Apple, MacRumors, Product Reviews Net, GigaOM, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, everythingiCafe, Gizmodo, TodaysiPhone.com, The Next Web, Neowin.net, Softpedia News and TUAW
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AppleInsider:
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.5 with no mention of AirPrint
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The Register, Download Squad, TidBITS, TUAW, Business Wire, Ars Technica and MacDailyNews
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Adobe Flash contributes largest number of security patches …
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The Next Web
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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eWeek, Techdirt, Search Engine Land, CNET News, Post Tech, The Next Web, Electronista, DailyFinance, The Hill, Reuters, MacDailyNews and Bloomberg
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
ICO sent ‘non-technical’ staff to investigate Google data breach
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New York Times, Computerworld, Inquirer, TechEye and V3.co.uk
Sara Jerome / Hillicon Valley:
Watchdog wants probe of Google's ‘unusually close’ ties to Obama
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The Precursor Blog, SiliconANGLE, Digital Daily and TG Daily, Thanks:gnagesh
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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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Boxee Box Demo (TCTV)
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Boxee Blog, Electronista and PSFK
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Amazon Defends Sale Of Pedophile How-To Guide — Earlier today we reported that Amazon is selling a book titled The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure. The book itself is a disgrace - a how-to guide for pedophiles. It includes, among other things, tips on how to get away …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Gawker, GigaOM, Yahoo! News, TomsTechBlog.com, SAI, Boing Boing, TechCrunch Europe and NBC Bay Area
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Why Did Amazon Just Pull A Top-Selling Book? …
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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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AndroidSPIN, L.A. Times Tech Blog, PC World, PhoneDog.com, TUAW, Dow Jones Newswires, VentureBeat, BetaNews, pocketnow.com, IntoMobile, I4U News, CIOInsight, DailyFinance, Bits, PhoneArena, eWeek, SFGate, The Microsoft Blog, Electronista, Inquirer, GigaOM, TechSpot, asymco, Digital Media Wire, AndroidGuys, Softpedia News, Engadget, Tech Trader Daily, TechEye, ITworld.com, MacRumors, internetnews.com, The Next Web, Between the Lines Blog, Fortune, CNET News, The Android Phone, TechCrunch, The Register, mocoNews, Telecompetitor, TechFlash, SlashGear, Voices on All Things Digital, 24/7 Wall St., Know Your Cell, ZDNet, displayblog and All About Symbian
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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 — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Google is known to hire the best and the brightest Silicon Valley has to offer, but hanging onto that talent can be a struggle. Google's bold move to boost morale — a 10% across-the-board pay raise — has already cost it one worker: The employee who leaked the news.
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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Fortune, AppleInsider, CNET News, paidContent, Search Engine Watch, BGR, The Next Web, AndroidSPIN, Engadget, GigaOM, Gizmodo, Electronista, Android Phone Fans and WebProNews
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google TV Product Lead: “We're Not Trying To Replace Cable”
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GigaOM, Electronista, Shoutpedia, Gizmodo and Download Squad
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.
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Podcasting News and Erictric
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 …
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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Inside Facebook, Neowin.net, LiveSide.net, The Atlantic Online, The Windows Blog, SiliconANGLE and The Blog Herald
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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Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:
Social browsing with Mozilla Labs F1 — how RockMelt should've been
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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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Insights on the tech industry, VentureBeat, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, MacRumors iPhone Blog and Web Browsers
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Motorola Strikes Back, Sues Microsoft For Infringement Of 16 Patents — The Motorola-Microsoft battle has escalated even further. Many of you may have heard about the lawsuit Microsoft filed against Motorola over royalties regarding the use of Motorola's technology in the Xbox gaming system.
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PR Newswire, Electronista, Engadget and L.A. Times Tech Blog
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 and Mashable!
Alyson Shontell / SAI:
Airbnb Raises $7.2MM Series A Round and Releases iPhone App — Airbnb, the marketplace for overnight bookings of unique spaces around the world, has just announced Series A funding from Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners for $7.2 million. — Sequoia was the company's seed investor with $600,000.
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VentureBeat, SFGate, Mashable!, Bits, The Next Web and CNET News
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Foursquare's Crowley Can Feel Foursquare Fatigue, Has Plans To Fix It — Feeling Foursquare fatigue and perhaps wondering what's the point of checking in at times? Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley sometimes feels it too — but he's got plans to keep you interested.
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The Next Web, Geek News Central and Seattle 2.0
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.
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