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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Exclusive: Woz misquoted! ‘Almost every app that I have is better on the iPhone’ — Some comments attributed to Steve Wozniak caused quite a kerfuffle this morning — according to Dutch paper De Telegraaf, Woz said that “Android phones have more features,” which would help Google's OS become the dominant smartphone platform.
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Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Dell Inspiron Duo finally official, can be yours the first week of December for $549 — That's right, just as we had heard, Dell is finally putting an end to the Inspiron Duo's mysterious marketing videos and officially spinning its screen for the world to see!
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ZDNet, TechSpot, DailyTech, The Next Web, CNET News, The Tech Report, TeleRead and Liliputing
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Ben Rudolph / The Windows Blog:
Hands-on with the uniquely touchable, typable Dell Inspiron duo — Today is the grand opening of the Microsoft Store in Bellevue Square Mall, and it's also the first time you'll be able to walk into a store and get some play time with the Dell Inspiron duo, Dell's completely unique …
Derek Parham / Google Enterprise Blog:
Ten times more applications for Google Apps customers — As customers begin to recognize large productivity gains with Gmail, Google Docs and the rest of Google Apps, they frequently ask when they'll be able to use services like Google Voice, Reader, Blogger and AdWords with their Google Apps accounts.
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TechCrunch, Technologizer, At Your Servers, All about Microsoft Blog, SAI, Macworld, Google Watch, 901am and The Next Web
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hell Freezes Over As MySpace Fully Surrenders To Facebook — It was just a couple of years ago that MySpace wasn't all that concerned about the fast growing Facebook. Fast forward two years and a handful of CEO changes, and everything has changed. — Last summer MySpace found a way to get MySpace status updates into Facebook.
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All Facebook, The Business Insider, Computerworld and The Next Web
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Chris O'Brien / Mercury News:
A dark trend runs through this year's Web 2.0 tech summit — Normally a sunny celebration about the future of the Web, one of the largest annual gatherings of the Internet elite took on a darker and more pessimistic tone this week. — The fear that ran through the seventh annual Web 2. Summit …
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Google TV: No Need to Tune In Just Yet — The quest to bring the full range of Internet video to your TV in a simple way continues, but it isn't going well. The latest team to try—Google, Logitech and Sony—has made an admirably bold effort, but, like others before, it has missed the mark, at least in its first effort.
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Technologizer, Telegraph, I4U News, CrunchGear, New York Times, blogs.chron.com, DSLreports and Search Engine Watch
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Twitter “Screwed Up” With Developers, Founder Says — Like a teenager apologizing to his parents for having a party and breaking the furniture, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams admitted today that the company “screwed up” its relationship with third-party developers …
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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams: ‘We have a lot of money in the bank’
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GMSV, Bits, Digital Trends, Fast Company, Reuters and TechCrunch
Mark Piesanen / Google TV Ads:
This is big. This is FiOS + Google TV Ads — Reach, precision, utility and measurement. These are the qualities we strive to deliver to customers, and we're getting better at it everyday. Today we've strengthened the reach of the Google TV Ads platform even further by signing a partnership …
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Fortune, SAI, TechCrunch, paidContent, SiliconANGLE and Search Engine Land
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
Qualcomm Reveals Next-Gen Snapdragon MSM8960: 28nm, dual-core, 5x Performance Improvement — Earlier today Qualcomm briefed analysts on its Snapdragon SoC roadmap. The current Snapdragon is available in both 65nm and 45nm versions integrating a single Scorpion CPU core running at up to 1GHz …
Wall Street Journal:
Verizon Rethinks Data Pricing — Executives Say 4G Shift Creates Option to Charge More for Faster Wireless Transfers — Top executives at Verizon Communications Inc. are exploring ways to charge consumers based on the speed of their wireless data connection in addition to the amount of data they use.
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Verizon CEO: iPhone coming to Verizon when “Apple thinks it's time”
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IntoMobile and Android and Me
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Millennial: iOS And Android Tie For Smartphone Impression Share In October — Mobile ad network Millennial Media is releasing its monthly data on mobile devices and OS marketshare for October today. Millennial, whose ads reach 63 million of a total of 77 million mobile web users in the U.S. …
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ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Fortune, AppleInsider, asymco, Android Community, Millennial Media, Computerworld, SAI and MobileBurn.com
Ian / Nokia Conversations:
Ovi Store: 3 million downloads a day — ESPOO, Finland - The popularity of Ovi Store is ever-increasing, according to the latest update from the team. This week, it's reached a new milestone figure of a whopping three million downloads a day. That's great news for the developers distributing …
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CNET News, TechCrunch, asymco, My Nokia Blog, mocoNews and Electronista
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Kin ONEm and Kin TWOm back at Verizon — That's no typo, folks, Microsoft's own-brand pseudo-smartphones are back at Verizon, this time sporting an “m” appendage to their names and what looks like better pricing across the board. The Kin ONEm will set you back a cent under $20 with a two-year contract …
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Digits, The Register, Mashable!, eWeek, All about Microsoft Blog, SlashGear, Winrumors, BGR, FierceWireless, WMPoweruser.com, Electronista, Know Your Cell, Softpedia News, Go Rumors and Phones Review, Thanks:rawmeet
Doug Palmer / Reuters:
Senate panel passes bill against piracy websites — (Reuters) - U.S. agencies and officials would get new powers to go after foreign websites that sell counterfeit goods and pirated music, movies and books under a bill passed on Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Ars Technica, Datamation, TechEye, Hillicon Valley, CNET News, Tech Daily Dose and Techdirt
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Welcome To The Magic: Gowalla Lands Location Deal With Disney Parks — Location based social network Gowalla has struck a pretty significant partnership today—Disney. The startup is teaming up with Disney Parks to create a branded, Gowalla-powered destination for park-goers to explore Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resorts.
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Between the Lines Blog, Gowalla, Mashable!, PR Newswire, PC World, VatorNews, Bits, VentureBeat, SlashGear and About Foursquare
Apple:
Apple's iAd Coming to Europe in December — Revolutionary Mobile Advertising Network Will Launch in Europe with L'Oréal, Renault, Louis Vuitton, Nespresso, Perrier & Unilever — Apple® today announced it will expand its revolutionary iAd℠ mobile advertising network to the UK …
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SAI, PC World, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, Guardian, Computerworld, iPhone Buzz, SlashGear, TechCrunch, MacStories, The Next Web, Softpedia News, TUAW, MacRumors and TechCrunch Europe
Darren Dahl / New York Times:
A Business Creator Sees Big Returns From Social Media — Asked to name the world's wealthiest entrepreneurs, few people would think of Eric Lefkofsky, who is 40 and keeps a deliberately low profile in his hometown of Chicago. But Mr. Lefkofsky has an impressive entrepreneurial track record …
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Video: Orb Wants To Bring All of Hulu to the TV — Hot on the heels of the official Hulu Plus launch comes a new device from Orb Networks that promises to bring all of Hulu.com's content on your TV screen — for free, with no subscription required. Orb TV, a small streaming unit …
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Yahoo! News, MediaFile, Gizmodo, Crave, Gadget Lab, SlashGear, dailywireless.org, Softpedia News, TVover.net, Engadget, The Toybox Blog and Electronista
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Palm Pre 2 available unlocked from HP for $450, ships within 24 hours (update: $200 off for devs) — Get your SIMs ready, dear readers, for the unlocked GSM Pre 2 has made its promised debut on HP's online outlet. In spite of looking all too similar to its predecessors …
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BGR, Digital Trends, IntoMobile, PhoneDog.com, PreCentral.net, MobileCrunch, Gadgetell, Electronista and Gizmodo
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Twitter Partner Gnip Raises $2M for Social Media Monitoring Data — Gnip, which helps social media monitoring companies collect data, and yesterday became the first company authorized to resell Twitter data, has raised $2 million in funding. — In a bit of coincidental timing …
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Adotas, Download Squad and ReadWriteWeb
Hector Ouilhet / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Sky Map- now with time travel — Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way. — H.G. WELLS, The Time Machine - Google Books book link
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, AndroidGuys and The Next Web
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Apple Releases iOS 4.2.1 GM Build — Retweet! — A few minutes ago Apple posted a new GM seed in the iOS developer center. The build shows that it's a GM seed for iOS 4.2.1.
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App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac and Engadget, Thanks:viticci
Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
RIM's Rival to IPad Wins Fans as Companies Seek Secure Tablets — Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) — Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry PlayBook, the tablet designed to compete with the iPad from Steve Jobs's Apple Inc., is winning corporate customers months before its debut.
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TechEye, eWeek, Dow Jones Newswires, GottaBeMobile, blogs.chron.com and Geek.com
