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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple Stores begin iCloud and iOS 5 training, may hint at imminent launch — As Apple's yet-to-be-made-official fall festivities approach, we've heard that Apple has begun iOS 5 and iCloud training with retail store employees. According to these sources, training is done through …
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TiPb, SlashGear, Neowin.net and FT Tech Hub
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Alex Wagner / PhoneDog.com:
Best Buy prepping for Sprint iPhone 5 in the first week of October?
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PhoneArena, BGR, Redmond Pie, MacPost, Mashable!, PalmAddicts, Edible Apple, Gizmodo, MacNN, 9to5Mac, MacRumors and AppleInsider
Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
iPhone 5 launch could be signaled by ‘Apple fixture installation’ at Best Buy on October 21st
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Techie Buzz, Softpedia News, MobileBurn.com, Neowin.net, PC Magazine, MobileWhack.com, Examiner, AppleInsider, Sprintfeed, CNET News, Shoutpedia, MobileSyrup.com, PhoneArena, MacPost, App Advice, everythingiCafe, TiPb, 9to5Mac and Gizmodo
Mike Anderson / NBC Bay Area:
Behind Google's Freddie Mercury Doodle — Go behind the scenes of one of the most involved Google doodles ever. — Google is celebrating what would have been Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday on Monday with its second longest doodle to date. — Google is celebrating what would have been …
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The Official Google Blog, USA Today, Search Engine Watch, Electricpig.co.uk, Mashable!, SlashGear, The Next Web, The Huffington Post and Gawker
Jean-Louis Gassee / Monday Note:
An Apple TV Set In Our Future? — Not another Apple TV black box but a real 50" flat-screen TV, “Designed by Apple in California” — and Made in China, like most Apple products. Or Made In Korea, if the company concludes a new pact with its best frenemy, Samsung, the new king of TV sets, the new Sony.
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TechPinions, The Ed Bott Report Blog and @stevecheney
Jacob Appelbaum / Tor Blog:
DigiNotar Damage Disclosure — About an hour ago I was contacted by the Dutch Government with more details about the DigiNotar Debacle. It seems that they're doing a great job keeping on top of things and doing the job that DigiNotar should've done in July.
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Securelist, @xentek, Naked Security and Mozilla Security Blog
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Andreas Udo de Haes / Computerworld:
CIA, Mossad, MI6 targeted by Iranian DigiNotar-hackers
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Computerworld, Between the Lines Blog and Hacking for Christ
Stewart Mitchell / PC Pro:
Confusion prompts customers to desert HP — The ongoing confusion over HP's future plans is causing customers to abandon ship, according to reports. — The company has been sending out mixed messages since its shock announcement to quit the PC business, as well as stop production of its webOS TouchPad tablet.
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Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Hulu bidding heats up as DirecTV drops out — Satellite TV operator DirecTV has dropped out of the bidding process for Hulu after submitting too low of a bid, according the Financial Times. — Hulu has been on sale since June, with bids fluxuating between $1.5 and $2 billion.
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Softpedia News, SlashGear, Neowin.net and Business Insider
Robert Scoble / Google+:
I am asking Google to remove me from the Google+ suggested user list. Here is my thinking. — 1. I don't need to be on the list. My bosses don't care. It isn't needed for my role in the industry or my business model. By being off the list on Twitter I have found my natural audience.
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Guardian, PC Magazine, SFGate, AllThingsD, PC World, @steverubel, 9to5Google, LAUNCH and Digital Trends
Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
DNS hack hits popular websites: Daily Telegraph, The Register, UPS, etc — Popular websites including The Register, The Daily Telegraph, UPS, and others have fallen victim to a DNS hack that has resulted in visitors being redirected to third-party webpages.
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The Register, Guardian, Zone-H.org, @regvulture, THN : The Hacker News, Guardian, ZDNet, WinRumors, @alex_norcliffe, IT Igloo, @cronus42, Sucuri, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, @youranonnews, Neowin.net, isc Home, The Next Web and @taf, Thanks:gcluley
Joi Ito's Web:
Designing systems for transparency robustness — I've had some interesting conversations about the role of transparency and privacy and I have an opinion about this. I think that we have a world where those in power have secrecy and citizen are forced to be transparent.
Peter Delevett / Mercury News:
Mountain View emerging as major center of Silicon Valley innovation — “Mountain View,” Paul Graham intoned, “is sort of the center of Silicon Valley.” — The co-founder of Y Combinator was speaking of the city's place on the map while showing a recent visitor around his startup hothouse.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Grading the Digital School: Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value — CHANDLER, Ariz. — Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They're studying Shakespeare's “As You Like It” — but not in any traditional way.
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The Story's Story, PC World, The Huffington Post and Bits
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Andy Carvin: the man who tweets revolutions — NPR's media strategist has become a leading player in the breaking news business — Andy Carvin insists that the introduction on his Google Plus profile - “I tweet revolutions” - is a joke, but nevertheless that's what he's famous for.
