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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Facebook iPad App Still Snagged in Negotiations — It was almost ready to make its long-awaited debut. — In June, I reported that the Facebook iPad application had been in the works for almost a year and was essentially complete. According to people briefed on Facebook's plans at the time …
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Tech Cocktail, IntoMobile, AllThingsD and Friending Facebook Blog
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Facebook to Launch iPad App at Apple's iPhone 5 Event [EXCLUSIVE] — Facebook will launch its long-awaited iPad app at Apple's iPhone 5 launch event on Oct. 4, Mashable has learned. In addition to the iPad app, Facebook is also expected to release a revamped version of its iPhone app …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook's iPad App Was Feature Complete In May, But They Won't Release It, So The Developer Quit — You may recall that two months ago, we found and leaked Facebook's iPad app. What was especially awesome is that the entire app was buried in the code for Facebook's iPhone app, you just had to do a few tricks to enable it.
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SlashGear, T3 News, Inside Mobile Apps, Inside Facebook, mocoNews, Electronista, TiPb, everythingiCafe, TUAW and GigaOM
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
On Wednesday, Amazon Will Unveil The “Kindle Fire” — Last Friday, Amazon sent out invites to a press conference being held this coming Wednesday. They didn't give away any details in the invite, but given our scoop earlier this month, everyone assumed it was to unveil the new Kindle tablet.
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Between the Lines Blog, Fortune, Epeus' epigone, T3 News, PhoneDog.com, DailyTech, @mc_hankins, Droid Life, TiPb, CNET News, eWeek, Android Phone Fans, THE WORLD IS NOT READY, Mashable!, @anildash, GottaBeMobile, PC Magazine, Business Insider, SlashGear, I4U News, @danprimack, Good E-Reader, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Seattle Times, MediaPost, PC World India, Know Your Cell, Appolicious Advisor, Electronista, msnbc.com, Kindle Review and TechPinions, more at Mediagazer »
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Ryan Block / gdgt:
The Amazon tablet will look like a PlayBook — because it basically is. — As you might have heard from my man MG over at TechCrunch, Amazon's definitely got a Kindle tablet in the works, and supposedly looks a lot like RIM's failing (failed?) PlayBook: techcrunch.com/2011/ 09 …
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SlashGear, Pocket-lint, AndroidOS.in, Fudzilla, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, MobileWhack.com, Gizmodo, O'Reilly Radar, CNET News, msnbc.com, ZDNet, PC Magazine and BGR India
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Amazon Kindle, tablet lineup will test the water for bigger form factors in 2012
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Kindle Review, Thanks:beijingdou
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Delicious Relaunches Tonight: Exclusive Q&A with CEO Chad Hurley — Tonight is the relaunch of Delicious, the little bookmarking site that helped inspire a wave of social companies in the eight years since it was founded. New owners Chad Hurley and Steve Chen (aka the creators of YouTube) …
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TechCrunch, The Next Web, @kevglobal, @tonysphere and @chad_hurley
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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Denied Trademark for Multi-Touch — In a decision handed down by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Apple has been denied an application for a trademark on Multi-Touch. Apple originally applied for the trademark on January 9, 2007, the day the iPhone was introduced.
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TechEye, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, MacNN, Android Phone Fans, AppleInsider, CNET News, DailyTech, Gizmodo, TUAW and WPCentral.com
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
The new iPhone... It's time to show our cards. — If you crack open the casing of the new iPhone, you will find significant upgrades from the iPhone 4. The new iPhone features Apple's dual-core A5 processor like the iPad 2 for even faster performance, better gaming, and drastically improved graphics.
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Tech Shout!, Fudzilla, Electronista, Computerworld, iDownloadBlog.com, Techie Buzz, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, dailywireless.org, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, Business Insider, PalmAddicts, iPhone, PhoneDog.com, iPhone Buzz, SlashPhone, I4U News, Shiny Objects and GottaBeMobile, Thanks:the_matt_jones
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft employees allegedly left “in droves” during Ballmer's company meeting speech — Microsoft employees allegedly left “in droves” during Steve Ballmer's recent speech at the recent annual Microsoft Company Meeting. — The claims were made in comments at mini-Microsoft …
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TechEye, Gizmodo, Electronista, The Microsoft Blog and MacDailyNews
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Signing in to Windows 8 with a Windows Live ID … Each Windows user wants to have the ability to set up and use a PC in a way that is unique to them. Doing so, however, can be challenging in today's multiple user and multiple PC environment. We know that shared PC usage is common …
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Inquirer, LiveSide.net, Gizmag Emerging …, GeekWire, WinBeta, All about Microsoft Blog, Electronista, Neowin.net, WinRumors, The Tech Report, AnandTech and The Next Web
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Firefox Creator Says the Web is Dead Meat; Android Creator Disagrees — Joe Hewitt, one of the most important software developers in recent history, published a provocative and sad post on his personal blog today, predicting that unless the open and free Web gets someone to own …
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Facebook Defends Getting Data From Logged-Out Users — Facebook on Monday defended its practice of gathering data from “Like” buttons even after users have logged out, saying that the collection is part of a system to prevent improper logins and that the information is quickly deleted.
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Inquirer, New Media Age, The Next Web, CNET News, Lifehacker, VatorNews and Search Engine Watch
Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Plus Traffic Went Up 1269% Last Week — New data from Experian Hitwise show a dramatic increase in traffic over the week since the service opened to everyone. Visits to Google Plus increased by 1269% last week. The site received 15 million U.S. visits, up from 1.1 million the week before.
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Mashable!, Heather Dougherty, Paul Allen, VentureBeat, memeburn, Gizmodo, BetaNews, The Wall Blog, ITworld.com, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, Business Insider and @mathewi
Pete Davison / GamePro:
Zynga's Profits Down by 95% — Zynga's last financial quarter showed that its year on year profits had showed a sharp decline of approximately 95%. — Has the bubble finally burst for the social gaming giant? Gamasutra reports that ahead of the company's initial public offering …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Taps Kleiner-Backed Inrix To Provide Real Time Traffic Data For Maps And Navigation Apps — Google recently removed its realtime traffic data from its Maps product, informing users that they are “currently working to come up with a better, more accurate solution.”
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Tumblr Is A Pageview Machine, Now Bigger Than Wikipedia — If you are wondering why Tumblr just raised $85 million, all you have to do is look at its pageviews. The super-easy blogging platform saw its pageviews jump from about 2 billion a month to 13 billion since the beginning of the year.
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Guardian, Softpedia News and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
Business Insider:
Guess Who Made The Highest Bid For Hulu — Remember how a group of bidders was circling around Hulu a couple weeks ago? Whatever happened with that? — Two sources tell us that satellite TV provider Dish was the highest bidder, coming in around $1.9 billion. It beat out both Amazon and Yahoo.
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Square COO: There's no value in NFC — The COO of mobile payment startup Square, Keith Rabois, thinks that the mobile payment technology Near Field Communications (NFC) has no value proposition for consumers and merchants, he said at GigaOM's Mobilize conference on Monday.
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paidContent, Between the Lines Blog, Electronista and DeWitt Clinton
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Spotify responds to criticism of forced Facebook logins with new statement — Spotify has been taking a great deal of flak today about a change made to the service that forces newly registered users to log in using their Facebook IDs. The streaming music service has just released …
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Computerworld, Techdirt, Daring Fireball, Engadget, Digital Trends, AllThingsD, Dice Blog Network and VentureBeat, Thanks:stuartdredge
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
MySQL.com Sold for $3k, Serves Malware — A security firm revealed today that mysql.com, the central repository for widely-used Web database software, was hacked and booby-trapped to serve visitors with malicious software. The disclosure caught my eye because just a few days ago I saw evidence …
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Help Net Security, Armorize Malware Blog, The Register, Ars Technica, CNET News, Naked Security, eWeek, Network World, BetaNews and Zero Day Blog
Marc Randolph / Kibble:
Did Netflix screw up? I don't think so. — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced last week that the company would be splitting off their DVD rental service into a new business to be called Qwikster. Last time I checked their blog post on the subject, there were 27,183 comments.
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Bloomberg, GigaOM, Digital Trends, @mbrandolph and Hacking NetFlix
Agam Shah / Macworld:
Intel: Mac Thunderbolt ports will support optical cables — Thunderbolt ports on Apple's current Macintosh computers will be compatible with upcoming fiber optic cables, which should be ready by next year.
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MacNN, AppleInsider and TUAW
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Nokia Windows Phone is ‘absolutely stunning’ — INTERVIEW: Nokia UK MD talks to Pocket-lint — “Absolutely stunning.” That's how everyone that's been shown Nokia's new Windows Phone 7?smartphone describes the device. This is according to Nokia's Conor Pierce, general manager for UK and Ireland …
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WinRumors, @ldignan and WMPoweruser
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
With Funding From Floodgate And More, WellnessFX Launches A Next-Gen WebMD — Launching this week at Health 2.0 is a startup called, WellnessFX, which offers a simple value proposition: It wants to help average people take charge of their health. As the medical industry expands daily …
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