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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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Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Facebook:
Will Facebook Employees Get a Shorter Email Domain, or Will Users? — Multiple sources have been saying for weeks that a new Facebook email service, dubbed “Project Titan” internally, is coming soon. And with the company's invite to an event in San Francisco on Monday featuring an “Inbox” …
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Download Squad, Adotas and BGR, Thanks:eldon
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Would Facebook + Email = Gmail + Google Me?
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Computerworld, Winrumors, All Facebook, GigaOM, Gizmodo, Erictric and SAI
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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Paul Graham / Y Combinator Posterous:
Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar — We're delighted to announce that Y Combinator is getting two new partners, the first we've added since we started YC in 2005. — In case anyone doesn't already know who he is, Paul Buchheit was responsible for three …
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Inside Facebook, L.A. Times Tech Blog, ReadWriteWeb, NetworkEffect, TechCrunch and Pulse2
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Gmail creator Paul Buchheit leaves Facebook for Y Combinator — Y Combinator, the increasingly famous Silicon Valley incubator, announced two new general partners today — Gmail creator and FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit as well as Harj Taggar, who was already working at YC as a startup advisor.
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All Facebook and SiliconANGLE
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
New Claim of iOS 4.2 Launch on November 24th as Revised iPad Build Surfaces — Rumored release dates for iOS 4.2 continue to fly fast and furious, with The Telegraph now reporting that the update is set to launch on November 24th, the day before Thanksgiving in the United States.
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9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, Telegraph, TiPb, everythingiCafe, MobileCrunch, I4U News, TUAW, iLounge, fierceonlinevideo.com … and Know Your Cell
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
iTunes 10.1 is out, brings video AirPlay and iOS 4.2 compatibility — We've already got the Mac OS X update, and here's iTunes 10.1. Next stop? iOS 4.2. If your copy of iTunes isn't pushing the update, you can head to Apple's page where it'll be there, waiting for you.
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Ars Technica, App Advice, Kirkville, Macworld, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, BGR, Mashable!, everythingiCafe, The Next Web, TUAW, GeekSugar and mobiputing
Royal Pingdom:
The REAL connection speeds for Internet users across the world (charts) — How fast are Internet connections across the world? How fast are they in your country? — This article examines the real-world connection speeds for people in the top 50 countries on the Internet, i.e. the countries with the most Internet users.
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CircleID and Trends in the Living Networks
SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Tumblr Lands “Very Big And Competitive” Round From Sequoia — Tumblr has raised a “very big and competitive” round of financing from top Silicon Valley VC firm Sequoia Capital, we've learned. — We're trying to track down more details, such as the size of the round, and other participants.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
As Funding Talk Swirls, Tumblr Lands A Director Of Product
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
How To Mass Export All Of Your Facebook Friends' Private Email Addresses — A few days ago I requested that Facebook finally allow us to download email addresses for all of our friends. Facebook says this isn't allowed because you only own the data you add to Facebook, not data that your friends add.
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.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
One small step for native code; one big leap for Windows Phone 7 jailbreak — Just weeks after the launch of Windows Phone 7 around the world, the inevitable attempts to jailbreak the operating system is yielding some interesting results. Today, Australian developer Chris Walshie …
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Chris Walsh, Redmond Pie, MobileTechWorld, PC World, IntoMobile, TG Daily, Winrumors, pocketnow.com, Electronista, The Next Web, Engadget, WPCentral.com, Download Squad, mobiputing, WMPoweruser.com, 901am and Know Your Cell
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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Mashable!, AppleInsider, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, Technologizer, Digital Daily, CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac, HEXUS.channel, SlashGear, fiercecio.comwatch and Electronista
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Now You Can Bump iOS Devices to Share Music — Bump, the application maker known for its mobile device contact and photo exchange technology, has just released an update to its iOS applications — iPhone, iPod touch, iPad — that supports user-to-user music sharing.
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Pulse2 and IntoMobile
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 …
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, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Techie Buzz, GigaOM, Electronista, Mashable!, TechEye and Between the Lines Blog
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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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Twitter's Biz Stone Talks About Growth and Local Ads — Biz Stone, a co-founder of Twitter, and Sean Garrett, the company's director of communications, visited The Times this week to talk about the current state of Twitter and plans for the company over the next few years.
Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:
New Eye-Popping Netflix Growth Stats — If you aren't impressed enough yet by Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), the good folks at research firm Screen Digest shared some subscriber-only analytics on the streaming service at the Future of Film Summit earlier this week that were both compelling and confusing.
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SiliconANGLE, Thanks:rawmeet
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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Between the Lines Blog, Gearlog, Computerworld, Pulse2, SlashGear, Electronista, TechCrunch, GottaBeMobile, 9 to 5 Mac, PhoneArena and BGR
Kevin Ryan / AdAge:
The Long, Sad Story of Ask.com — Delusions of Relevance And Why Focusing On Its Original ‘Ask Jeeves’ Premise Won't Work, Either — The problem with most crazy people is they don't know they are crazy. The problem with crazy people in business? They think history doesn't apply to them.
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?
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.
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GigaOM, Digital Daily, SlashGear, CNET News, PhoneDog.com, Pulse2, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, eWeek, FierceWireless, Android Community, THINQ.co.uk, TechEye and Tech Trader Daily
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, James Governor's Monkchips, MediaMemo, Pulse2, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechCrunch and Softpedia News
Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:
Watchdog Planned for Online Privacy — The Obama administration is preparing a stepped-up approach to policing Internet privacy that calls for new laws and the creation of a new position to oversee the effort, according to people familiar with the situation.
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Computerworld, Internetnews Blog, Ars Technica, Yahoo! News, DSLreports, Engadget, The Register, ITworld.com, Hillicon Valley, ClickZ, MarketingVOX, CNET News and Fast Company
