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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 …
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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 …
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Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb, SlashGear, Go Rumors, Electronista and CNET News
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 …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Oracle, Apple make up over Java, unveil OpenJDK project for Mac — Oracle and Apple on Friday announced the OpenJDK project in a move that will give Java a stable port on the Mac OS X. — There are a lot of ways to read between the lines on this Oracle-Apple agreement.
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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 …
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Michael Grothaus / TUAW:
Rumor: iOS 4.2 delayed ‘at least a week’
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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.
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TechEye, HEXUS.channel, Virtualeconomics, Softpedia News, Gawker, Examiner and Seattle Times
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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.
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StartupNorth and James Governor's Monkchips
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 …
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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 …
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Computerworld, 9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear, Guardian and Engadget
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
“Flash Is Great.” — Anonymous Flash Developer
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Digital Daily, 9 to 5 Mac, Computerworld, Daring Fireball and Digital Trends
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?
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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.
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CNET News, Mashable!, Digital Daily, 9 to 5 Mac, fiercecio.comwatch, SlashGear, Electronista, HEXUS.channel, IntoMobile, The Next Web and The Toybox Blog
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 …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Adding Insult to Injury: Yahoo Is Prepping Layoffs, But Limited …
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SAI, Fast Company, NBC Bay Area, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechCrunch, Pulse2, paidContent and AdAge
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 …
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Download Squad, Softpedia News, Google Chrome Blog and Go Rumors
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.
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App Advice and TechCrunch
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.
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CNET News, The Register, Mashable!, Between the Lines Blog, TechEye, InfoQ and Computerworld
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 …
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Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:
Apple fixes broken IPv6 by breaking it some more — In Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, Apple introduced IPv6 support. Like other IPv6-capable operating systems, Mac OS will prefer IPv6 over IPv4 if it has a choice. That is, until yesterday's 10.6.5 Snow Leopard update.
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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 …
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Guardian, Mashable!, Economist and Elias Bizannes
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Apple's iAd Helping Rivals — Mobile Advertising Companies Say Initial Worries Overblown as Businesses Gain — Apple Inc.'s iAd interactive mobile ad service is having an unintended impact on rivals: It's largely helping their businesses by generating broader advertiser interest in mobile phones and gadgets.
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SAI, Google Watch, AppleInsider and MacNN
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
JACK IS BACK: Twitter Inventor Jack Dorsey Is Working For Twitter Again — Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey is back working at the company on a once-a-week-or-so basis, three industry sources tell us. — Dorsey was Twitter CEO until the company's chairman and top investor, Ev Williams …
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