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Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Metro style browsing and plug-in free HTML5 … For the web to move forward and for consumers to get the most out of touch-first browsing, the Metro style browser in Windows 8 is as HTML5-only as possible, and plug-in free. The experience that plug-ins provide today is not a good match …
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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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Electronista:
Ballmer: Windows Phone hasn't sold what I ‘would have liked’
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Metro — I don't think there's any hyperbole in Microsoft's claim …
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Ballmer: 500,000 Downloads of Windows 8 Since Last Night
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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 …
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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
More TechCrunch drama as Arrington-backed startup wins blog's contest — Despite claiming transparency, TechCrunch readers are not convinced that a ‘Habbo Hotel for Facebook’ was a deserving winner of a coveted award — If you were wondering what that rumbling, thunderous sound is …
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Krishna Panicker / The Big Blog:
New Facebook Integration with Skype 5.4 for Mac OS X Beta — You may have noticed that we now release updates for Skype for Mac quicker than ever before. We've released a number of updates in 2011 which included, amongst other features, a brand new interface, video call control bar and HD-quality video calling.
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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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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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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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David Flynn / Australian Business Traveller:
Boeing chooses Android for 787 Dreamliner's entertainment system — While Apple continues to score wins in the use of its iPad for inflight entertainment, Boeing has chosen its nemesis - Google's Android operating system - to provide music, video and even airline-specific apps for the next-gen 787 Dreamliner.
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Gizmodo, SlashGear, 9to5Google and The Loop
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.
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 …
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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 …
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
IPhone 5 Rush Orders Seen to Benefit Broadcom — Broadcom Corp. (BRCM) stands out as one of the biggest beneficiaries from orders from Apple Inc. (AAPL), whose need for parts that go into iPhones and iPads represents a bright spot for a semiconductor industry plagued by weak demand.
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Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Megan McCarthy Named Observer News Editor — Megan McCarthy has been named news editor of The New York Observer, editor Elizabeth Spiers announced today. — “Megan has a great eye for a story and I look forward to seeing her talents contribute to making an Observer that's faster and more agile,” Ms. Spiers said.
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Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:
AT&T to launch LTE Sunday, Sept. 18 — AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) will launch its first five LTE markets this Sunday Sept. 18, AT&T CFO John Stephens said during an appearance at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Entertainment & Communications conference.
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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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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
iPhone 5 Screen Protectors Show Elongated Home Button Area — Ukwire.hk offers the first look at a screen protector that has been designed for the iPhone 5. The screen protector shows off the elongated home button seen in the leaked design document: — A second shot shows how much bigger …
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Rich Snippets for Apps — Now that both the Apple App Store and the Android Market have Web interfaces, Google decided to show better snippets for the results from these sites. The next time you search for [Angry Birds], [Cut the Rope], [Shazam] or [ASTRO File Manager] …
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Search Engine Land, Softpedia News and Inside Search
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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Cult of Mac, Business Insider, TUAW, IntoMobile and The Loop
Chris Gayomali / Techland:
Amazon's Ad-Supported Kindles to Get Local Deals When Idle — Amazon just announced that their Groupon-like local deals service—Amazon Local—will soon be coming to their ad-supported Kindles when the devices are idle. Smart, especially when you consider that the devices are already synced …
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Agam Shah / PC World:
Intel's Thunderbolt With Fiber Optics Years Away — Intel's Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect technology, which shuffles data between PCs and devices like displays and external storage, could be years away from getting optical technology, an Intel executive said this week.
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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