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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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Fast Company and Pocket-lint
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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 …
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, Geek.com, Macworld, V3.co.uk and MacStories
Electronista:
Ballmer: Windows Phone hasn't sold what I ‘would have liked’
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AllThingsD, Business Insider, Engadget, FierceWireless, PalmAddicts, Mashable!, Mashable!, PhoneArena, SlashGear, TG Daily and All about Microsoft Blog
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Ballmer: 500,000 Downloads of Windows 8 Since Last Night
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eWeek, Digital Trends, The Register, istartedsomething, SlashGear, The Microsoft Blog, BetaNews, CNET News, This is my next, DailyTech and Front Side Bus
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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Betabeat, Real Dan Lyons Web Site, VentureBeat, Business Insider, @johnmaloney, @paulcarr, @nikcub, @arrington and @andrewbrackin
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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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Business Insider, @blam and Poynter
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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Ars Technica, GigaOM, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, iLounge, Electronista, SlashGear, The Next Web, PhoneArena and AppleInsider
David Flynn / Australian Business Traveller:
Boeing chooses Android for 787 Dreamliner's entertainment system — SMALLER LARGER - WATCH THIS NEWS ITEM ADD TO FAVOURITES — 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 …
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Gizmodo, SlashGear and 9to5Google
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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Friending Facebook Blog, CNET News, The Register, Business Insider, Reuters, Mashable!, Venture Capital Dispatch, Guardian, Digital Trends and @evelynrusli, Thanks:m_delamerced
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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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MacRumors, GigaOM, 9to5Mac, MacStories, Cult of Mac, Electronista, The Next Web, SlashGear, Front Side Bus, Softpedia News and Lifehacker
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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ReadWriteWeb, BetaNews, GigaOM, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, The Tech Trade, CNET News, Engadget, Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, Business Insider and Mashable!
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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SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, The Register, BGR, AppleInsider, SlashGear, FierceMobileContent, Techland, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, Engadget, Cult of Mac, Android Phone Fans, Fudzilla, Business Insider, ITProPortal, MobileBurn.com, TechEye, Know Your Cell, Front Side Bus, The Next Web, WPCentral.com, Android and Me, Droid Life, SEO by the Sea, The Tech Trade and Gizmodo
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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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Electronista and iClarified
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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GottaBeMobile, ITProPortal, iPhone, PhoneArena, The Register, The Apple Core Blog, Softpedia News, Examiner, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, Redmond Pie, BGR, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb and iDownloadBlog.com
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.
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Agam Shah / PC World:
Acer, Asus to Bring Intel's Thunderbolt Speed Technology to Windows PCs
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Ars Technica, Softpedia News, Business Insider, Neowin.net, insideHPC, VentureBeat and AppleInsider
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.
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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9to5Google, Engadget, ITProPortal, SocialTimes.com, Google Watch, Softpedia News, SlashGear, IntoMobile, Lockergnome Posts, Droid Life, Android Phone Fans and Android and Me
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Brings Automatic, Background Visual Search to Android Phones
Parmy Olson / Forbes.com:
Infamous Anti-iPhone Game Goes To Android … A few months ago Michael Pineschi was struck with a rather subversive idea. He'd been reading news coverage about the spate of suicides by workers at two factories run by Foxconn in China where iPhones and iPads were assembled.
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PC Magazine and Associated Press
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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VentureBeat, PC World, Digital Trends, SFGate, PR Newswire, GigaOM, paidContent:UK, ITworld.com, Music Ally, Gizmodo, Mashable!, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Technologizer, ReadWriteWeb and Electronista
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, TUAW, Business Insider, IntoMobile, The Loop and Mobile Entertainment
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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Between the Lines Blog, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Macworld, Geek.com, GottaBeMobile, Pocket-lint, How To Arena, TUAW, PC World, MacStories, Redmond Pie, Neowin.net, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice and Guardian
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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The Brooks Review
James Kendrick / ZDNet:
Sharp Galapagos tablets join HP TouchPad in the canceled bin — Summary: Sharp is canceling most of its Galapagos tablet line due to low sales in its home country of Japan. — Another tablet line has fallen victim to the iPad effect, as Sharp is canceling all of its Galapagos tablet line with the exception of the 7-inch model.
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Agence France Presse, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Engadget and Android Phone Fans
