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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
CBS News Ends Relationship With Source of Bogus Steve Jobs Death Tweet (Exclusive) … CBSNews.com has severed its relationship with the host of a web show who sent out an erroneous Tweet yesterday saying that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had died. — The offending Tweet was sent …
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Fortune, Soshable, The Loop and Gizmodo, more at Mediagazer »
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Two Key Features Of Facebook Music: Scrobbling And Track Unification — Yesterday, we outlined a bit of what we've heard about Facebook's upcoming f8 conference. One big launch will be their official foray into music. Today, we've heard more about that launch.
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@joshconstine, Electronista and Gizmodo
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Noah Davis / Business Insider:
Here's A Great Story About The Astonishing Lengths Apple Went Through To Keep The iPad Secret — We talked to the developer of a very successful iPad app yesterday, and he told us a tale about the absurd steps he and his team went through to get an iPad before the product's launch.
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iDownloadBlog.com, TiPb, CydiaHelp, @arrington, Techie Buzz, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, MacRumors, CNET News, App Advice and Cult of Mac
Mary Ann Azevedo / bizjournals:
Sand Hill Road, University Avenue: Silicon Valley's most expensive streets … Want to lease office space on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park or University Avenue in Palo Alto? Be warned — the prestige of calling the two Silicon Valley streets home comes at a price.
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The Huffington Post, @georgezachary and bizjournals
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Windows 8 tablet from Samsung has Intel inside — A Samsung tablet expected to be shown at a Microsoft conference next week will be powered by an Intel chip, according to a source familiar with the device. — The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 currently on the market runs the Android operating system and uses an Nvidia processor.
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Electronista, Windows 8 News, Rumors & Tips and nexus404
Eric Smalley / CNET News:
DIY flying robo hacker threatens wireless networks — Modify a remote-control toy helicopter (above) to carry a wireless-network-hunting computer (below), and you've got a menacing hacker drone. — (Credit: Top: Parrot SA. Bottom: Stevens Institute of Technology) — With a name like SkyNET, it's got to be scary.
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Engadget, Softpedia News and Technology Review
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
In Battle Over The ‘Tweet’ Trademark, Twitter Sues Twittad — You may remember that back in July 2009, Twitter made a big stink about developers using the term ‘tweet’ in their Twitter apps. Oddly enough, while Twitter has long been trying to register the ‘tweet’ trademark in the United States …
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VentureBeat and The Trademark Blog
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
How to surf T-Mobile without a data plan — The mother of all ingenious hacks has emerged: if you have an Android smartphone and a T-Mobile (US) unlimited messaging plan, you can now use an app called Smozzy to surf the web... for free. — Smozzy is basically just a wrapper around …
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CNET News, IntoMobile, Engadget, AndroidSPIN, TechCrunch, Apps, PC World, Lifehacker, Geekosystem, DSLreports, Geek.com and Slashdot
Economist:
Great digital expectations — Digitisation may have came late to book publishing, but it is transforming the business in short order — TO SEE how profoundly the book business is changing, watch the shelves. Next month IKEA will introduce a new, deeper version of its ubiquitous “BILLY” bookcase.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, TechCrunch, TeleRead, Gizmodo and SplatF, more at Mediagazer »
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
AOL and Yahoo Are Not Talking About a Merger (Any More Than I Am a Yahoo CEO Candidate) — If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve. — I think that about takes care of it on the possibility of me becoming CEO of Yahoo.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The New Apple Advantage — Peter Bright wrote a good piece earlier this week at Ars Technica, documenting his attempt to buy a MacBook Air-like Windows laptop (he doesn't want an Air running Windows using Boot Camp because he doesn't like Apple's U.K. keyboard) and finds the experience confusing …
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All New Musings and parislemon
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
294 Patent Lawsuits Were Filed In August 2011; Mobile Handset Complaints Up 25 Percent Yearly — There's no question that the cost of patents is rising. Google is paying $12.5 billion for Motorola mainly for its huge mobile patent portfolio. In July, an anti-Google consortium raised $4.5 billion …
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