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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
A Norwegian National Tragedy That Unfolded on the Web (Updated) — What's being described as the most violent day in Norway since the Second World War unfolded today for so many via social media. — Having seen early reports concerning an afternoon bombing attack outside government offices in Oslo …
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New York Times, @securityweek, Vacuum and BBC
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Nicholas Jackson / The Atlantic Online:
A Bomb in Oslo? What Google Lost by Ending Real-Time Search — I had a sense that something was wrong pretty quickly. In between checking my email and finishing up a story for the site you're reading right now, I was casually watching some tweets stream in through TweetDeck — as I almost always am.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
On Succeeding Steve Jobs — On Wednesday, less than 30 minutes before Apple announced another record-breaking quarter of financial results, the Wall Street Journal published a story by Yukari Iwatani Kane, Joann S. Lublin, and Nick Wingfield regarding the issue of Apple CEO succession.
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parislemon, Joel Housman, Raw Thought and Webomatica
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Hack That Kills Or Corrupts Batteries — A pile of dead Apple laptop batteries, victims of Charlie Miller's research. — Your laptop's battery is smarter than it looks. And if a hacker like security researcher Charlie Miller gets his digital hands on it, it could become more evil than it appears, too.
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Engadget, CNET News, MacRumors, Electronista, SlashGear, Digitizor, TUAW, Geek.com, TechSpot, MacPost, The Business Insider and Gizmodo, Thanks:forbestech
Alex Heath / Cult of Mac:
Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 4 With Over-the-Air Updates — Apple has proved once again that Fridays are still work days by dropping iOS 5 Beta 4. Developers can now download the latest iOS 5 beta in Apple's dev channel, and, for the first time, through the miracle of over-the-air updates.
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Examiner, AppleInsider, TechSpot, SlashGear, MacStories and BGR
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
iOS 5 Over-the-Air Update Video, Documents on iCloud, and Other Notes — InsanelyGreatMac posts the above video showing the new iOS 5 Beta 4 over the air (OTA) updating in action. As we noted the OTA update also saves bandwidth as it only sends changes rather than the entire OS image.
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TiPb, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac and Redmond Pie
Jay Greene / CNET News:
Scoop: Oracle scrubs site of embarrassing Java blog — The beginning of Sun's Jonathan Schwartz's 2007 blog post praising Google's use of Java in Android. — In the midst of its nasty legal battle with Google, Oracle seems to have resorted to a bit of Web site scrubbing.
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Computerworld, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Digitizor and FOSS Patents
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Judge orders overhaul of Oracle's damages report but maintains Halloween trial date
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CNET News, Ars Technica, FierceMobileContent, InfoWorld and FOSS Patents
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why Google's screwup on Google+ brand pages is a big deal — There's been a lot of sound and fury about the way Google has approached branded (i.e., non-personal) pages on its new Google+ social network. Much of it is a symptom of internecine warfare among the big tech blogs …
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Google+ Games Stream confirmed — Google's help pages for Google+ have officially confirmed the upcoming Games Stream, a place where results from what will presumably be social-style gaming on the new network will be pulled together. “If you're looking for updates shared from games …
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Inside Social Games, The Next Web, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Digital Trends, GamePolitics blogs, Social Markets, PC Magazine, Digital Media Wire, PC World, Techland, MediaPost, Webware.com, The Business Insider, BetaNews, IndustryGamers, Destructoid, 9to5Google, Pulse2, Eurogamer, Widgets Lab and AllThingsD
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
The next-generation iPod touch's white front revealed? — We've received photos of a purported white iPod touch front panel. Specifically, this panel is the digitizer component, according to the iFixYouri iPhone repair shop. We obviously cannot confirm the legitimacy of these photos …
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Recalls Some iMac Seagate 1TB Hard Drives — Apple has begun sending emails about a new hard drive recall, called the iMac 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Replacement Program: … Apple encourages owners with affected computers to go to an Apple Retail Store, an Apple Authorized Service Provider or contact 800-APL-CARE.
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CNET News, Apple, AppleInsider, Macworld, 9to5Mac, MacNN, iClarified and TUAW
Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider:
Here's The Presentation That Inspired Google+ — Why is Google+ designed the way it is? — Back when he worked at Google, Facebook product manger Paul Adams did a bunch of research that he says “formed a cornerstone of the Google social strategy.” — That research culminated …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires Facial Recognition Software Company PittPatt — Google has just acquired facial recognition software company PittPatt (Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition), according to an announcement on the startup's site. — PittPatt, a project spawned from Carnegie Mellon University …
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Computerworld, Digits and Pulse2
Zach Epstein / BGR:
T-Mobile says G-Slate is 200% faster than iPad 2, 300% faster than XOOM — A new page on T-Mobile USA's website makes some fairly bold claims about the carrier's premier Honeycomb tablet, the LG G-Slate. In comparing the sleek device to its steepest competition at AT&T and Verizon Wireless …
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google Bows to Web Rivals — Internet Giant Removes Outside Customer Reviews From Search Results — Google Inc. has made changes to the way its search engine displays information about local businesses, a move that follows the disclosure of a U.S. antitrust investigation of its business practices.
Bill Werde / Billboard.Biz:
Spotify Gained 70,000 U.S. Subscribers in First Week: Sources — In my travels last night and in emails this morning I had three distinct label/publisher execs confirm the same number: that @Spotify has right in the ballpark of 70,000 paid Stateside subscribers after only one week in business.
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Digital Trends, AllThingsD, Between the Lines Blog, SlashGear, Benzinga, Electronista and Fast Company
David Barboza / New York Times:
Former China Mobile Official Sentenced in Bribery Case — SHANGHAI — A former executive at China Mobile, one of this country's biggest state-owned telecommunications companies, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve Friday for accepting bribes, according to Xinhua, the state-run news agency.
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PC Magazine and ITworld.com
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Facebook wins dismissal of second Winklevoss case — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc won a dismissal of a second lawsuit by the Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who have sought to increase their $65 million settlement with the social media company and its founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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paidContent, @shibanijoshi, Digits, CNET News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, All Facebook and NBC Bay Area
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Confirmed: Bing Tests Ads Within Organic Search Results — The RKGBlog blog posted a screen shot of Bing testing search ads directly in the organic results. Honestly, I almost cannot believe it - but more on that later. Here is a cropped picture of the screen shot. — Why is this so shocking?
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Sue Megrund / App Advice:
T-Mobile Now Selling iPhone And iPad Compatible SIM Cards — Could T-Mobile USA be hinting at a future iPhone and iPad on their network? There are rumors surfacing that suggest the devices are being tested on Sprint and T-Mobile, and this may be further proof that T-Mobile users may be in luck.
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Examiner, iDownloadBlog, BGR, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, TiPb, MacGazette.net, PhoneArena, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNET News, The Next Web and Gizmodo
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Mozilla jumps to deal with Google Toolbar demise — Google has canceled its toolbar for the current and future versions of Firefox, and Mozilla is scrambling to help users who might be left in the lurch and postponing their browser upgrades. — The toolbar offers a variety of services …
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wiki.mozilla.org, InfoWorld, internetnews.com, ExtremeTech, Technologizer and Search Engine Roundtable
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Jammie Thomas judgment lowered from $1.5 million to $54,000 — A federal court has once again lowered the damages award for Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the Minnesota woman found liable for copyright infringement. — Rasset was ordered last year to pay $62,500 for each of the songs she was accused …
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Media Maverick, Electronista, Ars Technica, TorrentFreak, MediaPost, Evolver.fm, @bensheffner, Digital Media Wire and Plagiarism Today
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple expands the App Store to 33 new countries and territories — As Apple expands its businesses, with the iPhone and iPad reaching more nations, and their upcoming iCloud service, Apple has opened up the iOS App Store and Mac App Store in 33 new countries.
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