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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Planets Are Aligned: Facebook's Spartan And iPad Projects Set To Launch Early Next Week — Earlier tonight, Alexia found and posted some screenshots of something that sure looked a lot like the mythical “Project Spartan”. Shortly thereafter, Facebook took down the page in question.
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Friending Facebook Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, IntoMobile and PadGadget
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
This Is Facebook's Project Spartan [Screenshots]
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LAPTOP Magazine, Digital Trends, VisionMobile, everythingiCafe and PhoneArena
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Goldman: Microsoft Is Getting $444 Million Annually From Android Patent Licenses — Microsoft is will generate $444 million in revenue from Android patent deals for fiscal year 2012 (started in July 1, 2011, ends June 30, 2012), according to a note from Goldman Sachs's tech analyst team.
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Samsung: We can't rely on Google, so we addressed Android IP issues on our own
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The Korea Times, Softpedia News and SlashGear
John Jersin / Google Analytics Blog:
What's happening on your site right now? — The web is getting faster, and not just the speed of the pages, but also the speed of change. Before, it was fine to build a website and modify it only when new products were launched. All of us avid Analytics users know that's just not good enough.
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SiliconFilter, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, ReadWriteWeb, Google Analytics Blog, The Next Web, Search Engine Land, Business Insider, The Loop, the Econsultancy blog, TDW Geeks, Mashable! and Startup Meme, Thanks:rajupp
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Said to Add Comcast, Verizon Pay TV to Xbox Live — Microsoft Corp. plans to offer online pay television service from Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) through Xbox Live, in an bid to channel more entertainment to its video-game console, people with knowledge of the situation said.
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The Seattle Times, DSLreports, GigaOM, CNET News, Seattle Times, Between the Lines Blog, Engadget, Deadline.com, WinRumors, Geekosystem, GameLife, Computerworld, SlashGear, USA Today, Destructoid, WinBeta, MarketBeat, Electronista, Microsoft News, Neowin.net and TG Daily, more at Mediagazer »
Guardian:
Autonomy's reaction to Oracle's statement — A spokesperson for Autonomy said on Thursday: — “Last week in response to a question about unstructured information Oracle made some less-than-enlightened comments on the subject, which Autonomy has been pointing out in the press.
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Michael Arrington / UNCRUNCHED:
AOL + TechCrunch One Year Anniversary: A Look Back And A Look Forward — “So we begin another journey. I fully intend to stay with AOL for a very, very long time.” - Me, one year ago. — A year ago yesterday we announced the acquisition of TechCrunch by Aol.
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Business Insider, Helloform and @paulcarr
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iPhone 4S / 5 appears in Apple's inventory system, iPod touch may see price drops — Yesterday we reported that tweaked iPhone 4 models and white iPod touch models have appeared in Apple's internal inventory systems ahead of the October 4th Apple event. Today, though, comes the big news …
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CNET News, iClarified, MacPost, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile, Digits, Apple Bitch, The Next Web, Redmond Pie, PhoneArena, Appolicious Advisor and App Advice
Chester Wisniewski / Naked Security:
Amazon Kindle Fire's Silk browser sounds privacy alarm bells — Amazon announced the newest addition to their Kindle line today named Fire. The Fire is a tablet based on the Android software stack with a customized Amazon interface layered over the top. — The focus appears …
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CNN, mike.mainguy, The Register, Communications …, Digiday, Inquirer, Hardware 2.0 Blog, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Guardian and Forrester Blogs, Thanks:sophoslabs
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Analyst: Amazon is likely losing $50 per Kindle Fire
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Technologizer, BGR, LAPTOP Magazine, PC Magazine, eWeek, Shiny Objects, Fast Company, paidContent, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Mark Ramsey Media LLC and PhoneArena
Lukas Mathis / ignore the code:
A Machine for Reading Books — If you were to design a piece of hardware that was only used for one single task, to read books, how would you design it? — If you look at the iPad, it's clearly a device that is not meant for one specific task. It's just a frame; the application you run on it defines what the device does.
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Full Video: Watch Jeff Bezos unveil Amazon's new Kindles
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Asher Moses / Sydney Morning Herald:
Apple fears Samsung tablet will ‘seduce’ customers, court told — Asher Moses — Apple fears the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will launch on to the market “with the velocity of a fire hose” and “take away iPad 2 sales so quickly” that customers may be permanently “seduced” away from Apple's iOS platform …
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Dow Jones Newswires, Korea Real Time, 9to5Google, IDC, iTnews.com.au, mocoNews, GigaOM, Electronista, SlashGear, Delimiter and TechEye
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Last year, Steve Jobs tried (and failed) to defuse Samsung patent row
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TUAW, MacRumors, AppleInsider, iPhone, MacDailyNews and 9to5Mac
Benedict Carey / New York Times:
Happy and You Know It? So Are Millions on Twitter — However grumpy when they wake up, and whether they stumble to their feet in Mumbai, Mexico City or Minnetonka, Minn., people tend to brighten by breakfast time and feel their mood taper gradually to a low in the late afternoon …
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
U.S. Capitol Police Investigating Onion Twitter Joke — The Onion botched a joke about congressmen taking children hostage this morning on Twitter. Now, the U.S. Capitol police are investigating the joke. Everyone chill out! — Today, The Onion tweeted: “BREAKING …
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ABCNEWS, DCist, Media Decoder, Mashable! and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core Blog:
Apple tells education: no more boxed software (except Logic) — This should come as a surprise top no one. Boxed software's days have been numbered since Apple opened the Mac App Store in January 2011, but some people refuse to see the handwriting on the wall.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, MacNN, 9to5Mac, TUAW, The Next Web and MacStories
Brian Winter / Reuters:
Brazil's $12 billion iPad deal is in trouble: sources — (Reuters) - A much-hyped $12 billion plan for Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn to produce iPads in Brazil is “in doubt” due to stagnant negotiations over tax breaks and Brazil's own deep structural problems such as a lack of skilled labor, government sources tell Reuters.
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TechCrunch, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, I4U News, iClarified, The Next Web and MacStories
Kazunori Takada / Reuters:
Fake iPhone ring busted in China: report — (Reuters) - Chinese police in Shanghai have arrested five people for making and selling fake versions of Apple Inc's iPhone, a local newspaper reported on Thursday. — Police said those arrested were part of an organized gang that bought components …
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VentureBeat, TUAW, CNET News, ShanghaiDaily.com, AppleInsider, everythingiCafe, PhoneArena, Redmond Pie, TiPb, Inquirer and Neowin.net
Caleb Garling / Wired:
Ex-NASA Man Squeezes Cloud Onto USB Stick — Yes, you can fit a cloud on a USB stick. — Founded by several of the brains who conceived OpenStack - the open source software platform for building Amazon-like “infrastructure clouds” - San Francisco startup Piston Cloud Computing has squeezed …
Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
In Victory For Apple, Court Upholds Ban On Mac Clones — Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) won an appeal yesterday that confirmed it can stop others from selling clones of its popular computers. But the court also dealt a setback to Apple's obsession with secrecy when it rejected the company's attempts to seal documents related to the case.
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The Register, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, CNET News and Electronista
Peter Farago / Flurry Blog:
iOS & Android Apps: Prime-time All the Time — On broadcast television, brands seek to reach their target audiences as efficiently as possible. For example, a brand might run a TV campaign targeting 24 - 35 year old females through prime-time shows that reach that desired audience.
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ReadWriteWeb, AllThingsD, GigaOM, Gamasutra, Mobile Marketing Watch, VentureBeat and FierceMobileContent, more at Mediagazer »
Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
Hipmunk comes to Android with a surprisingly slick app — Hipmunk has finally brought its travel search application to the Android operating system, with a brand new mobile app that will hit the Android marketplace Thursday. — Hipmunk for Android, which for now only facilitates flight searches …
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Apps, VentureBeat, Mashable!, Lifehacker, TechCrunch and MobileBurn.com
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Q: When Will Quora Release An iPhone App? A: Now. — Quora can be an addiction. You visit the site just to see what's going on, 30 minutes later you're still there. Today, the addiction goes mobile. Finally. — The service has just released their first iOS native app.
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Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb, Betabeat, Tradigital, TUAW, AllThingsD and MacStories
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
BlackBerry PlayBook on sale at Best Buy for $299 — That was fast. Best Buy in the U.S. knocked the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet down to $299, apparently in response to the market-upending price of the Amazon's Kindle Fire. — Is RIM feeling the Amazon Kindle Fire heat?
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Mashable!, PhoneArena, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, PC World, Ars Technica, AllThingsD, EE Times, GottaBeMobile, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, I4U News, PhoneArena and PopHerald.com
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple is working a new Hybrid Drive System of their Own — On September 29, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals a next generation Hybrid Drive that includes both a hard drive and Flash. Intel will be pushing their Smart Response hybrid drive systems …
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