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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:UK:
Read It And Weep: Nokia Reports Loss Of Nearly €500 Million, Huge Declines — Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop once said that his chief competitor is not Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), but if you compare today's quarterly figures from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) with those of the Cupertino mobile upstart, the contrast couldn't be greater.
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The Atlantic Online:
Larry Page's First 100 Days as Google CEO: Focus, Focus, Focus — Larry Page has demonstrated he wants to create a more streamlined, more potent Google, and he's doubling down on search — When a new President is sworn into the Oval Office, we like to take stock of what directions …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google's ‘20 Percent Time’ Will Survive The Death of Google Labs
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Search Engine Roundtable, thinq_, Softpedia News and Widgets Lab
Alyson Shontell / The Business Insider:
Google+ Makes Its First Aquisition And Buys Social Group Startup Fridge — This past weekend we wrote that social group startup Fridge was shutting down the product. We assumed that meant it was being acquired. — We assumed right. Austin Chang, Fridge's founder …
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Nick Marshall / Electricpig:
2011 MacBook Air benchmarks are amazing, outperforms all 2010 MacBook Pros — The subtle change in clock speed from 1.4 to 1.6 GHz in the 2011 11-inch MacBook Air might sound small on paper, but in terms of benchmarks, it's nothing short of monumental. Using Geekbench as a baseline …
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9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Electricpig.co.uk, Geek.com and MacRumors
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Jack Dorsey Cleaning House At Twitter: 4 Key Product Guys Are Out — Breaking news out of Twitter this afternoon, four key product managers have just been let go, we've learned. The move was led by Jack Dorsey and will see key product guys Kevin Cheng, Josh Elman, and two others we've yet to confirm, leave the company.
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AllTwitter, @hunterwalk, @joshelman, @bryce, Robert Scoble and The Business Insider
George Avalos / Mercury News:
Apple leases Cupertino office space that can hold up to 1,300 workers — Apple (AAPL) has struck a deal to lease a big office campus in Cupertino just west of De Anza College, in a move that would enable the tech titan to occupy the complex with more than 1,000 workers.
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TUAW, MacRumors, The Next Web, AppleInsider, MacStories, 9to5Mac, MacNN and Associated Press
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Lion disables Flash Player hardware acceleration (and other Adobe goodies) — In addition to the goodies Lion brings to your everyday computing, some unwanted side-effects surface with Adobe writing in a knowledge base article yesterday (via TUAW) that the operating system disables hardware acceleration …
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BetaNews, Adobe, Gizmodo, SlashGear, TUAW, Apple, Photography Bay, AppleInsider, The Loop and MacStories
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John Siracusa / Ars Technica:
Feature: Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review
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Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
The Decline and Fall of Facebook — Roger McNamee is a smart guy and a very successful investor as a co-founder of Elevation Partners. He made a breakfast presentation last month at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles that is well worth watching. I could probably get half a dozen columns …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
AT&T's Q2: 3.6 million iPhone activations; Android 40 percent of smartphone sales — AT&T's smartphone diversification effort appears to be paying off as the company added 331,000 net postpaid subscribers, activated 3.6 million iPhones and doubled Android device sales from a year ago.
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9to5Mac, AllThingsD, Computerworld, Engadget, BGR, AllThingsD, DSLreports, paidContent, CNET News, AT&T, TUAW, everythingiCafe, iPhone, Electronista and MacStories
Fortune:
Larry Summers calls Winklevoss twins ‘A**holes’ — NEW YORK (Fortune) — What did Larry Summers really think of the Winklevoss twins? — “Rarely, have I encountered such swagger, and I tried to respond in kind,” the former president of Harvard said in an interview at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference.
Richard Dunn / Gmail Blog:
Make multiple calls in Gmail — Over the years, we've expanded Gmail's communication abilities by allowing you to make voice and video calls to other computers and more recently call phones. Until now, though, you were limited to making one call at a time.
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VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Mashable!, ITProPortal, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Softpedia News, 9to5Google and Lifehacker
Andy Chalk / The Escapist:
Hackers Hit Anonymous Social Network — Just two days after it was revealed to the world, the Anonymous Social Network has been hacked. — Disclaimer: this whole situation could very easily be one big, silly joke. It's certainly ridiculous enough to merit at least a little bit of disbelief.
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Gizmodo, Neowin.net, Fast Company, msnbc.com, Digital Trends and THN : The Hacker News
Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
Nato investigates Anonymous hacking claims — Nato is investigating claims that its computer network has been infiltrated and confidential documents published online by the hacking collective Anonymous. — Anonymous' emblem is a Guy Fawkes mask — The claims were made this afternoon via AnonymousIRC …
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Fox News, Pastebin, Gizmodo, Inquirer, Washington Post, ZDNet, CNET News, Softpedia News, The Next Web, thinq_, SlashGear, SecurityWeek, The Next Web, Betabeat and ZeroPaid.com
Zach Honig / Engadget:
Acer buys iGware, makes a $320 million bet on the cloud — There's no question that cloud computing has hit the mainstream — even the US federal government, which isn't typically a front-runner when it comes to tech adoption, has taken the plunge. Now, Taiwanese hardware maker Acer …
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Computerworld, TechEye, Reuters, ChinaTechNews.com and SlashGear
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Circles Fatigue: The Dark Side Of Google+ — One of Google Plus's most unique features, Circles, initially attracted users to the service and set it apart from competitors. But it may also be one of the network's biggest turnoffs—only a few weeks in, and Circles fatigue is taking hold.
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Tradigital and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Tomio Geron / Social Markets:
EBay's PayPal Payments Going Offline With Point Of Sale Product — eBay's PayPal unit has been a big driver of the company's growth as the company has retooled its marketplaces unit. Now PayPal is not just going after online and mobile payments, it's also targeting offline “point of sale” transactions with merchants.
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Betabeat, Ubergizmo, The Business Insider, Reuters and Gizmodo
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Apple's iPad remains dominant as Windows tablets outsell the PlayBook — A new report from research firm Strategy Analytics indicates that from over 15 million tablet shipments in the second quarter of 2011, Apple still dominates the market with a 61% share but has seen Android tablets eat into its market share over the past year.
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BGR, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, Benzinga, Reuters and Pocket-lint
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Bing gets Metro treatment, includes HTML5 live tiles — Microsoft is testing live tiles across its Bing search engine homepage. — The software giant first announced its HTML5 version of Bing at the original beta launch of Internet Explorer 9 in September.
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Within Windows, WPCentral.com, The Next Web, LiveSide.net and Neowin.net
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Apple playlist patent suit winner hits replay for repay — Personal Audio, the company that was awarded $8 million in damages from Apple in patent infringement ruling earlier this month, has come back with a new lawsuit taking aim at additional Apple products it says infringe on the same intellectual property.
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FOSS Patents, iLounge, MacNN, MacRumors and Techdirt
Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:
Top general says Defense Department IT in ‘Stone Age’ — Cartwright sees fault with proprietary systems — Computerworld - WASHINGTON — U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was sharply critical Tuesday of the Defense Department's IT systems and sees much room for improvement.
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The Cloud Blog and Slashdot
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Google blinks in Oracle patent case, indicates willingness to pay — Oracle and Google just filed their joint reply to the judge's request for input on “the extent to which” that lawsuit should be stayed. — As I expected, the common and agreed-upon part of their response is confined …
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Android Phone Fans, Google Watch, Between the Lines Blog, PC World, Electronista and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Thanks:brianshall
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Twitter Poised to Close a Two-Stage $800M Funding, With Half Used to Cash Out Investors and Employees — In a move reminiscent of one done by Facebook in 2009, Twitter is close to completing an $800 million funding deal that will include a second part in which around $400 million of the total …
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Guardian, FierceMobileContent, digiday:DAILY, Disruptors, The Business Insider, BostInnovation.com, Pulse2, broadstuff and GigaOM
Bloomberg:
Apple, Google Are Said to Be Among Companies Sizing Up InterDigital Offers — Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG), aiming to bolster their patent portfolios, are among companies weighing possible bids for InterDigital Inc., a mobile-phone technology designer, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Zynga Is Hit With Countersuit Over Game Designs — Vostu, a Brazilian company whose social games are popular in South America, filed suit against the online gaming giant Zynga on Wednesday, responding to a suit from Zynga claiming that Vostu copied its game designs.
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TechCrunch and Digits
