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Matt Elliott / CNET News:
Storm tracker: Sites for following hurricanes — One of the many projections found at the National Hurricane Center Web site — People up and down the East Coast are bracing for Hurricane Irene's arrival this weekend. When will she make landfall, and what damage might she bring to your area?
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Vauhini Vara / Digits:
When @Irene Met Hurricane Irene — When Hurricane Irene started moving up the eastern seaboard, Irene Tien, a 28-year-old New Yorker, provided a punch line for her coworkers. — “I'm very, very calm and pretty relaxed and laid-back—pretty much the opposite of a hurricane,” says Ms. Tien.
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Monika Jansen / Tech Cocktail:
10 Weather and Hurricane Preparedness Apps for iPhone and Android
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Appolicious Advisor, PC Magazine, Android and Me and Techland
David Murphy / PC Magazine:
In Tribute to Steve Jobs, Tokyo Man Runs Giant Apple Logo — People reacted to this past Wednesday's departure of longtime Apple CEO Steve Jobs in various ways, ranging from emotional twitter updates, to tears over the all after-market trading that dropped Apple's stock more than six percent, to... running?
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David Carr / New York Times:
Steve Jobs Reigned in a Kingdom of Altered Landscapes — Earlier this year, I wrote a column about the publishing industry's resistance to the terms Apple was imposing for subscriptions on the iPad. Soon after, an e-mail was followed by a phone call and Steve Jobs was on the line to straighten me out.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
One More Thing... I sat down last night to write about Steve Jobs' resignation as Apple CEO and something funny happened: I had nothing to say. This is not normal for me. I don't get writer's block. I often write thousands of words about what many would consider the minutia of tech.
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Podcasting News, Guardian, New York Times, HipMojo.com, GottaBeMobile, Folio, broadstuff and Entrepreneur.com
Khidr Suleman / V3.co.uk:
Samsung launches Bada 2.0 SDK and plans more Wave smartphones — Samsung has released the Bada 2.0 SDK and set its sights on extending the reach of the operating system by launching high-end smartphones later this year. — Bada 2.0 will pack some major updates, including support for multi-tasking …
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@eghosao, MSN India News, Industry, ITProPortal, GSMArena Blog, Rethink Wireless and The Register
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Case of 8,000 Menacing Posts Tests Limits of Twitter Speech — Even the Buddha of compassion might have been distressed to be on the receiving end of the diatribes that William Lawrence Cassidy is accused of posting on Twitter. — They certainly rattled Alyce Zeoli, a Buddhist leader based in Maryland.
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Computerworld, TechFlash and Boing Boing
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
Google's Schmidt sees more partners for Google TV — (Reuters) - Google is “absolutely committed” to its fledgling television business and expects many more partners to join it soon, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said on Saturday. — Google TV, which allows viewers to mix Web …
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James B. Stewart / New York Times:
H.P.'s Transition Anything but Seamless — How much does a chief executive really matter at a multibillion-dollar technology company? Apple's employees, customers, shareholders, board and Steve Jobs's successor, Tim Cook, must hope the answer turns out to be a lot different …
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Ryan Naraine / Zero Day Blog:
Microsoft quietly finding, reporting security holes in Apple, Google products — Summary: Since July 2010, Microsoft's vulnerability research team has identified and responsibly disclosed 109 different software vulnerabilities affecting a total of 38 vendors.
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Neowin.net and WinBeta
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Apple kills TV rentals, subscription offer not coming — ABC and Fox were the only two networks that agreed to rent TV shows for 99 cents at iTunes and the amount of shows was limited. — Apple has done away with the 99-cent video rentals of TV shows it began offering last year via the Apple TV and iTunes.
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Apple Bitch, MacRumors, The Orange View, iPodNN and AppleInsider
Alice Lipowicz / Federal Computer Week:
FBI deploys fingerprint system for mobile devices — The FBI has begun deploying a mobile system nationwide that enables police officers to check the fingerprints of suspects at the scene to learn if they are wanted for other serious crimes or are on a national list of high-risk offenders, FBI officials announced today.
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