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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Facebook's Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday — Back in February we wrote about Facebook's secret Project Titan — a web-based email client that we hear is unofficially referred to internally as its “Gmail killer”. Now we've heard from sources that this is indeed what's coming …

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:

(Not so) Crazy Microsoft Rumors: Facebook's new e-mail to feature Office Web Apps integration — As part of my job as a full-time Microsoft watcher, I get a lot of tips about Microsoft from customers, competitors, partners and even Softies themselves. However, ever since I worked for PCWeek …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb, Adotas, SlashGear, Go Rumors and Electronista

Stephen Shankland / CNET News: Would e-mail transform Facebook, or vice versa?

Apple:

Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X — Oracle and Apple® today announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS® X. Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, including a 32-bit …

Dan Moren / Macworld: Apple contributing to open source Mac Java project

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

iOS 4.2 “Delayed” Due to iPad WiFi Issues, New GM Build Coming [Updated] — Two days ago we reported Mac OS X 10.6.5 and iTunes 10.1 were set to come out on Wednesday, with iOS 4.2 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch to follow on Friday Nov. 12th — tomorrow. Mac OS X 10.6.5 indeed came out …

Michael Grothaus / TUAW:
Rumor: iOS 4.2 delayed ‘at least a week’

Discussion: Gadget Lab, 9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, SlashGear, iPhone Buzz, Shoutpedia, GottaBeMobile and NewsGrange

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Google Offers Staff Engineer $3.5 Million To Turn Down Facebook Offer — In September I wrote about Google's “extraordinary” efforts to stop employees, particularly engineers, from resigning to join pre-IPO startups like LinkedIn, Twitter and especially Facebook.

Discussion: TechEye, HEXUS.channel, Virtualeconomics, Softpedia News, Gawker, Examiner and Seattle Times

Fred / A VC:

Storm Clouds — We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. In this sector of startupland, company creation is up, investment is up, there are plenty of success stories, and not all of them are based on quick flips and takeouts.

Discussion: StartupNorth, James Governor's Monkchips and Information Arbitrage

Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

Adobe Flash For Samsung's Google Tab Is An Embarrassing Disaster — Adobe's Flash plugin for Google Android is supposed to give Android-based tablets, like Samsung's new Galaxy Tab, a leg up on Apple's iPad, which does not support Flash. — The argument is that Flash support gives people fuller access …

Discussion: Computerworld, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Guardian, 9 to 5 Mac and Engadget

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
“Flash Is Great.” — Anonymous Flash Developer

Discussion: Digital Daily, 9 to 5 Mac and Computerworld

Nick Bilton / Bits:

For Sale: A $160,000 Apple Computer — True computer nerds, do I have a deal for you! — Christie's, the tony auctioneer, is hawking a snazzy computer that it hopes will sell for between $159,800 and $239,700. You're probably wondering what kind of computer is worth close to a quarter million dollars?

Discussion: CNN, AppleInsider, Daily Mail, Computerworld, SlashGear, Boing Boing, Softpedia News, Fortune, TG Daily, Newlaunches.com, Edible Apple, Pulse2, Pocket-lint, Appletell, Neatorama and CrunchGear

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:

Why Google can't build Instagram — Tonight I was talking with an exec at Google and I brought up the success of Instagr.am (they've gotten more than 500,000 downloads in just a few weeks) and asked him “why can't Google do that?” I knew some of the answers.

Chris Ziegler / Engadget:

Confirmed: Kin One and Two are returning to Verizon. Wait, what? — Unbelievably, against all odds and better judgment, we are able to independently confirm that Microsoft's short-lived Kin One and Kin Two are coming back for an encore performance on Verizon, possibly as soon as this quarter …

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

Nvidia CEO: Next-gen Android tablets will be ‘magical’ — Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang acknowledged that Google and his company are behind in the tablet race against Apple's iPad, but was wildly bullish about designs in the pipeline. — How bullish? We'll let Huang do the talking.

Discussion: Mashable!, CNET News, Digital Daily, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, HEXUS.channel, SlashGear, fiercecio.comwatch, IntoMobile and The Next Web

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Yahoos Freaking Out Over 20% Layoff Rumors (Update: Yahoo Denies) — Yahoo is preparing to lay off 20% of total staff, we've heard from two independent sources, and managers have been asked to begin to make the tough decisions on who stays and who goes. This news comes just days …

Discussion: Search Engine Land, DailyFinance, Dow Jones Newswires, Search Engine Roundtable, Softpedia News, TechEye, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Geek.com, ITworld.com and Computerworld

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Adding Insult to Injury: Yahoo Is Prepping Layoffs, But Limited …

Discussion: CNN, Digital Trends, SAI, Adotas, NBC Bay Area, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Fast Company, TechCrunch and Pulse2

Groklaw:

Google Files Sizzling Answer to Oracle's Amended Complaint and its Opposition to Motion to Dismiss — Action in the OraGoogle mess, as I like to call that litigation. Google has filed its answer to Oracle's amended complaint and its memorandum opposing Oracle's Motion to Dismiss.

Discussion: GigaOM, CNET News, The Register, Mashable!, Between the Lines Blog, TechEye, InfoQ and Computerworld

Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:

Google launches official Chrome extensions for Calendar, Docs, YouTube — Google today has launched official Chrome extensions for Google Calendar, Docs and YouTube. Though there are already over 8,000 extensions in the Chrome Extensions Gallery, a lot of the real value of Chrome comes …

Discussion: Google Chrome Blog, Softpedia News, Download Squad and Go Rumors

ifixit.com:

Samsung Galaxy Tab Teardown — Join us as we take a look into Samsung's 7-inch Android tablet! Step 1 — Samsung Galaxy Tab Teardown The Samsung Galaxy Tab has landed in the hands of iFixit. Long rumored to be the “iPad Killer,” join us as we assess this rumor and once and for all determine …

Discussion: eWeek, Network World, AndroidSPIN, displayblog, Android Phone Fans, The Android Phone, SlashGear, ThinkMobile, Liliputing and Engadget

Owen Fletcher / Wall Street Journal:

Lenovo: LePad Tablet to Launch in U.S. Next Year — BEIJING—Lenovo Group Ltd. plans to launch a tablet computer called the LePad in the U.S. next year, Chief Executive Yang Yuanqing said Friday, joining a growing set of companies looking to compete with Apple Inc.'s popular iPad in a young but growing tablet market.

Discussion: eWeek, CNET News, Android Phone Fans, FierceWireless, SlashGear, Tech Trader Daily, Electronista, THINQ.co.uk and TechEye

Derek Sivers / Sivers.org:

The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote — In May 2003, Apple invited me to their headquarters to discuss getting CD Baby's catalog into the iTunes Music Store. — iTunes had just launched two weeks before, with only some music from the major labels. Many of us in the music biz were not sure this idea was going to work.

Discussion: App Advice and TechCrunch

Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:

Google vs. Facebook: Who's Right & Who's Wrong? — A week ago, Google made changes to its Terms of Service that effectively blocked Facebook from importing a user's data from Google without offering reciprocity. Ever since, the two companies have duked it out in public, with public statements …

Discussion: Guardian, Economist, Mashable! and Elias Bizannes

Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:

Gingerbread to feature Wii-like motion processing — True 1:1 motion processing is coming to Gingerbread (Android 2.3) thanks to InvenSense, the company behind the MEMS gyroscope sensor found in the Nintendo Wii MotionPlus controller. — In Gingerbread, Google is planning to add several …

Discussion: AndroidSPIN

Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:

Twitter Takes the Newsroom — The media's in trouble. The microblogging sensation is on fire. Can Biz Stone's latest gambit help prop up a financially crippled industry? Howard Kurtz reports. — Biz Stone, the funny and engaging co-founder of Twitter, had an unusual message …

Stephen Lawson / PC World:

AT&T Texts Mobile Users About Class-action Settlement — AT&T Mobility notified its subscribers Thursday that they might be entitled to benefits from a proposed class-action settlement over alleged improper charging of Internet taxes. — Subscribers sued AT&T earlier this year …

Discussion: FierceWireless, DSLreports, BerryReview.com and App Advice

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