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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I've Seen It, Played With It. — It's called simply the “Amazon Kindle”. But it's not like any Kindle you've seen before. It displays content in full color. It has a 7-inch capacitive touch screen. And it runs Android.
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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Amazon Is Only Launching A 7″ Tablet? Genius. (Plus A Mockup!) — The Amazon Kindle tablet is real. Very much real. As in, MG has held it in his very own hands. I threw together the mockup above based on what he shared with me. — As MG explained, we now know that the Kindle tablet …
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AndroidOS.in, PhoneDog.com and @parislemon
John Paul Titlow / ReadWriteWeb:
Amazon to Launch a $250 7-inch Android-based Tablet in November
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TechCrunch and Softpedia News
Alexei Oreskovic / MediaFile:
Crunch theater: blogger's VC fund creates media spectacle — The tech blogosphere was on fire on Friday with a flood of constantly-updated news reports and a barrage of tweets dissecting every angle of the story. — A new iPhone? Details of the long-awaited Facebook IPO? — Not quite.
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The Atlantic Wire, @jeffbercovici, @jayrosen_nyu and The Business Insider
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The Business Insider:
AOL Left Arianna Huffington In The Dark About Arrington's Controversial VC Fund — Arianna Huffington, the boss of all media at AOL Huffington post—including TechCrunch—was not informed of TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington's plans to launch a venture capital fund with AOL's money until yesterday …
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Soshable, more at Mediagazer »
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
CrunchFund? Unethical Ventures? Pig Pile Partners? No Matter What You Call It, It's Business as Usual in Silicon Valley. — Of course I have something to say about the news yesterday that AOL would be a key investor in a new early-stage venture fund being started by TechCrunch's …
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AllThingsD, The Wrap, @howardlindzon, The Business Insider, Tweetage Wasteland and Scripting News, more at Mediagazer »
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
The CrunchFund: Actually, Tim, We Don't All Have “Different” Standards
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The Business Insider, @arrington, L.A. Times Tech Blog and MediaPost, more at Mediagazer »
Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider:
Arrington On Whether He Works For TechCrunch Or AOL: “I Have No Idea”
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The Snitch and @dannysullivan
Peter Jamison / The Snitch:
Lost iPhone 5 Update: Police ‘Assisted’ Apple Investigators in Search of SF Man's Home — The bizarre saga involving a lost prototype of the iPhone 5 has taken another interesting turn. Contradicting past statements that no records exist of police involvement in the search for the lost prototype …
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Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Apple's iCloud runs on Microsoft and Amazon services — Who says Azure isn't cool and trendy now? — Apple has selected Microsoft's Azure and Amazon's AWS to jointly host its iCloud service, The Reg has learned. — We understand that Apple has barred Microsoft and Amazon from discussing …
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VentureBeat, Electronista, Softpedia News and AppleInsider
Caterina Fake / Caterina.net:
Make things — Anil and I have had a few conversations lately about building cool stuff for the internet, the Golden Age of the independent web, and how it's increasingly hard to filter out industry noise. He posted a quote from Dave Winer and it reminded me of our “About” page for Ludicorp …
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@jason
Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:
The Problem with Collecting Logos at Startups — Collecting logos. It seems to be all the fad in the startup and VC world these days. VCs are paying up at enormous prices to say that they have GroupOn, Facebook and Twitter on their roster irrespective of whether they really venture funded them or bought in late stage.
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BRYCE DOT VC and ReadWriteWeb
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
Man gets 6 years for hacking victims' computers to extort photos — Luis Mijangos would hack his victims computers and then spy on them using their own webcams and microphones — IDG News Service - A 32-year-old paraplegic was sentenced to six years in prison for infecting more than 100 computers …
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Associated Press, The Not-So Private Parts, Inquirer, The Register, Naked Security and Neowin.net
Alan Eustace / The Official Google Blog:
A fall spring-clean — Technology improves, people's needs change, some bets pay off and others don't. So, as Larry previewed on our last earnings call, today we're having a fall spring-clean at Google. — Over the next few months we'll be shutting down a number of products and merging others into existing products as features.
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Desktop Will Be Discontinued
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Inside Google Desktop
Steven Millward / Penn-Olson:
Baidu Launches Android-Based Mobile OS — Screenshots of Baidu's new mobile OS/platform, ‘Baidu Yi’. — This morning, Baidu - at its annual Baidu World event in Beijing - launched its Android-based mobile OS, dubbed Yue (a reader app), Shen Bian (like Google Places), and Ting (its music app).
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CHINAdaily, Computer Business Review, @asymco, Geek.com, @asymco, Electronista, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb and The Register
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Next strike: Apple apparently forced Samsung to remove Galaxy Tab 7.7" from IFA (trade show) booth and German website — Yesterday (Friday, September 2, 2011) was the first day a trade show named IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) in the German capital of Berlin.
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Engadget, This is my next, SlashGear, Electronista, Techland, GottaBeMobile and @fosspatents
BBC:
Germany lifts Doom sales ban after 17 years — Doom's blocky graphics are now surpassed by those on modern mobiles — A German ban on selling Doom to teenagers has been lifted after 17 years. — The classic video game was put on an index of controlled titles in 1994 as it was deemed likely to harm youth.
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Engadget, Network World, Techdirt and ITProPortal
Alexander Howard / Google+:
A Google Suggested Users List is up. Here's their official “get started” page: — https://plus.google.com/getstarted/ follow — +1 to +Craig Kanalley for putting this together and adding his perspective. — I can't help but feel like we've been here before with Twitter.
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Robert Scoble, Bradley Horowitz, @digiphile, adafruit industries blog and Marshall Kirkpatrick …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google+ To Roll Out A Twitter-Like Suggested User List
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Softpedia News, Scripting News, @elatable, SlashGear, The Next Web, Bloggers Blog and WebProNews
Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Microsoft, Yahoo, TripAdvisor, Yelp and VEVO Now Among Largest Facebook Applications — The Facebook platform is best known for social games, but another class of applications has been on the rise in the past couple years: integrations of Facebook features by large media and tech companies into their own properties.
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LiveSide.net
Matt Hickey / The Daily:
A new locker system from Amazon sends your deliveries to 7-Eleven — You're at work and your cellphone rings. It's the delivery guy and he has your Amazon purchase ready to be dropped off. (Yes, the new shower curtain!) But you're chained to your desk and can't get home to sign for it.
