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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Microsoft jettisons Flash with ‘plug-in free’ Windows 8 Metro IE10 — The tablet-optimized Metro version of Internet Explorer 10 in Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 will be a “plug-in free experience,” as the company follows Apple's lead in abandoning Adobe Flash in favor of HTML5 on tablets.
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Ballmer: 500,000 Downloads of Windows 8 Since Last Night — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance at Microsoft's developer conference on Tuesday, touting the importance of the company's forthcoming Windows 8 operating system. — Ballmer noted the early enthusiasm for the product …
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The Register, SlashGear, eWeek, istartedsomething, BetaNews, The Microsoft Blog, This is my next, CNET News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, DailyTech and Front Side Bus
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Metro — I don't think there's any hyperbole in Microsoft's claim …
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This is my next, V3.co.uk and MacStories
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt Is...Shaker — Three days and 31 startup pitches later, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2011 has been determined. Out of the 29 startups and two audience choice winners, we whittled the list down to seven finalists, which included Bitcasa …
Michael Arrington / @arrington:
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Barry Diller Skewers AOL For Firing Michael Arrington From TechCrunch — Earlier today at The Paley Center for Media's International Council, IAC Chairman and Senior Executive Barry Diller took the stage for a keynote conversation with Jason Hirschhorn, CEO of reDEF Group.
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parislemon, @blam and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple is Building iMessage into OS X Lion's iChat — Back in June, Apple unveiled iMessage, one of the major new features of the upcoming iOS 5 update. iMessage is a unified messaging service for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch that allows users to send text and multimedia messages over Wi-Fi …
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Code strings indicate iMessage might eventually integrate with iChat
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Softpedia News, BGR and GigaOM
New York Times:
Groupon Back on Track for Its I.P.O. — Groupon is planning to put its initial public offering back on track even as markets remain rocky. — After postponing presentations to potential investors early this month, the online coupon giant is now aiming to go public in late October or early November …
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Patricia Hurtado / Bloomberg:
Apple IPad Data Was Given to Fleishman, Samsung Witness Says — Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — An ex-Samsung Electronics Co. manager, testifying at the insider-trader trial of Primary Global Research LLC executive James Fleishman, told jurors he disclosed confidential shipping data for Apple Inc. iPad components.
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GigaOM, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, The Next Web, PhoneArena and AppleInsider
April Dembosky / Financial Times:
Facebook puts off IPO until late 2012 — Facebook is preparing to launch its blockbuster initial public offering in the US towards the end of next year, a later public debut by the social networking site than had been widely anticipated, say people familiar with the company.
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Bloomberg:
Google Buys 1K IBM Patents for Android Defense — Google Inc. (GOOG) bought 1,023 patents from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) as the Internet search and advertising company bolsters its strategy of defending against smartphone lawsuits. — Transfers recorded by the U.S. Patent …
Pavel Vodenski / Google Mobile Blog:
Your smartphone camera is now smarter with Goggles 1.6 — Today, we launched a new version of Google Goggles that enhances the camera on your Android-powered phone. With this new opt-in feature in Goggles, you can simply photograph an image using your phone's camera, and Goggles will work in the background to analyze your image.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Brings Automatic, Background Visual Search to Android Phones
Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
Sony Designs Tablet That's Not an iPad Wannabe — One reason Apple's iPad continues to dominate the tablet market after 17 months may be that all the main competitors look like imitations but don't deliver as good an experience. They are typically flat slabs, like the iPad …
Marco.org:
Instapaper's (anti-)social network — Ben Brooks noticed and blogged about how Instapaper's social features, introduced earlier this year, are minimal: … That was exactly the idea, and I'm very happy to see it perceived that way. — Social features are tricky.
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Todd Haselton / BGR:
iOS games ‘absolutely not under consideration’ says Nintendo boss — Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata recently reiterated that Nintendo will not develop games for Apple's iPad, iPod and iPhone, despite recent pressure from investors to jump on the iOS bandwagon.
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IntoMobile, Mobile Entertainment and Business Insider
Zach Rait / Facebook Blog:
Introducing the Subscribe Button — Until now, it hasn't been easy to choose exactly what you see in your News Feed. Maybe you don't want to see every time your brother plays a game on Facebook, for example. Or maybe you'd like to see more stories from your best friends, and fewer from your coworkers.
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AllTwitter, Dice Blog Network, Search Engine Journal, GigaOM, The Next Web, Poynter, the Econsultancy blog, The Huffington Post, Mashable!, Robert Scoble, memeburn, T3.com News, Techi.com, Electricpig, Inside Facebook, Lost Remote, Front Side Bus, Digital Trends, GeekWire, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Gawker, TechCrunch, MediaFile, HubSpot's Inbound …, TechCrunch, Poynter, Pulse2, Techland, Lifehacker and Jeff Jarvis, more at Mediagazer »
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple wins right to “thinnest smartphone” and expands Samsung patent fight to UK — Apple won a minor marketing battle against Samsung in the UK as it expanded its larger, global patent war with Samsung into the UK courts as well. — Apple's marketing of its 9.3mm iPhone 4 as the …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Free Music For Everyone! Rdio Joins MOG, Spotify in the Big Digital Music Giveaway — Free, legal music on the web looked like a defunct business model just a few months ago. Now it seems to be going through a revival phase. — Over the summer, Spotify finally opened for business …
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Digital Trends, GigaOM, PR Newswire, ITworld.com, SFGate, Music Ally, paidContent:UK, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Mashable!, Technologizer, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb and Electronista
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo for Sale: Possible Bidders Circling — Including Marc Andreessen — as Board Pressure Mounts — A range of major players interested in acquiring all or a large piece of Yahoo have been prepping possible bids and have been in touch with the Internet giant's board over the last several days.
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The Register, AllThingsD, Softpedia News, Reuters, CNET News and eWeek
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Netflix Cuts Its Guidance by One Million Subscribers — Netflix, which instituted a price hike earlier this fall, says the higher costs are turning off more customers than it expected. The video rental company has cut its third quarter U.S. subscriber projections from 25 million subscribers to 24 million, a four percent cut.
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TechCrunch, The Tech Trade, Engadget, Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, CNET News, Business Insider and Mashable!
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
A First Look at PayPal's Strategy for Challenging Visa and MasterCard at the Register — For the first time today, PayPal demonstrated how it intends to provide payments to physical retailers as the race heats up to make wallets and clunky metal registers obsolete.
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The PayPal Blog, Business Insider, NFC World, TechCrunch, Daily Patricia and FT Tech Hub
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Amazon Kindle tablet sales projections cut in half, still likely to be No. 1 Android tablet — Even with sales estimates that creep closer to reality, Amazon's Kindle tablet is poised to become the best-selling Android tablet to date when following its launch later this fall.
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Softpedia News, NBC Bay Area and Good E-Reader
Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
Now anyone can make a Wall-E style narrated encyclopedia with Qwiki — Qwiki, an online Wikipedia-esque service that displays information and computer-generated voices, images and video, launched an online presentation creation tool for publishers today, at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco.
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