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Alistair Barr / Reuters:
Amazon's $199 Fire sparks supply, margin questions — (Reuters) - The rock-bottom price of the new Kindle Fire tablet computer is raising questions about Amazon.com Inc's ability to keep up with demand and the device's effect on the company's already razor-thin profit margins.
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Full Video: Watch Jeff Bezos unveil Amazon's new Kindles
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IBD Click, AllThingsD and Gear Live
Lukas Mathis / ignore the code:
A Machine for Reading Books
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eWeek, Daring Fireball, PalmAddicts and Naked Security
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Apotheker's Exit Is Cheaper Than Expected for HP (But Still Pricey, Considering) — Léo Apotheker is gone from Hewlett-Packard, but he left so suddenly that the board of directors didn't have time to finalize his severance package. That is until today.
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TechCrunch, PC World, The Register, CNET News, The Next Web and The Tech Trade
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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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DigiTimes:
Amazon likely to outsource 10.1-inch tablet PCs to Foxconn — Amazon is expected to outsource the production of 10.1-inch tablet PCs to Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), and shipments of the 10.1-inch tablets are likely to begin before year-end 2011 for holiday-season demand, according to industry sources.
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SlashGear, T3 News, The Next Web, PhoneArena, Electronista and AppleInsider
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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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple exploring accelerometer, gyro stabilization for iPhone video recording — Using the built-in accelerometer and gyroscope, future iPhones could compensate for shaky video recordings with new software-based stabilization. — Apple's interest in allowing users to record better video …
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Patently Apple, TiPb, Mobile Entertainment, MacNN, App Advice and iClarified
Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
Ellison Takes New Swings at H-P — Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp.'s iconoclastic chief executive, has passed up few chances to tweak rival Hewlett-Packard Co. But the verbal potshots this week concerning H-P's $10.3 billion acquisition of Autonomy Corp. reached a new level.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Chrome poised to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox — StatCounter's data points to a December 2011 take-over by Google's browser — Google's Chrome is on the brink of replacing Firefox as the second-most-popular browser, according to one Web statistics firm.
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TechEye, Gizmodo, Computerworld, thechromesource and Slashdot
Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:
Samsung Electronics Gives Apple Proposal to End Australia Patent Dispute — Samsung Electronics Co. made a proposal to Apple Inc. to resolve their patent dispute in Australia regarding touch-screen technology, a Sydney court was told today. — Samsung lawyer David Catterns didn't give details …
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Engadget, Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, TheAustralian and The Next Web
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
This Guy Built His Own iPhone 5 “Design Prototype” — Oh, you think you're a hardcore Apple fan? Sure, you might have plastered the back window of your hybrid with Apple stickers. Yeah, you've got something MG Jobs said painted on the wall above your bed.
Bloomberg:
IBM Tops Microsoft to Become Second-Most Valuable in Technology — Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) — International Business Machines Corp. passed Microsoft Corp. to become the world's second-most valuable technology company, a reflection of industry changes including the shift away from the personal computer.
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Amazon has Palm in its shopping cart — will it click Buy? (exclusive) — Who will save what's left of Palm from HP's bumbling? It could be Amazon, as the online retailing giant is in serious negotiations to snap up Palm from HP, VentureBeat has learned. — A well-placed source tells us …
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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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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Sean Parker Is Launching a Blog — The Sean Parkington Post? Seanster? Blogify? It's not clear what former Facebook president Sean Parker will call his forthcoming blog, but it's clear the famed tech hustler is serious about the endeavor: He's hired a firm to build buzz, and is already running ads and planning to hire writers.
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
With ‘frictionless sharing,’ Facebook and news orgs push boundaries of online privacy — Facebook again may have gone too far in its quest to make privacy obsolete, and this time some news organizations could get burned by going along with it. — Facebook spent years making it easier …
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Betabeat, The Atlantic Online, GigaOM, AllThingsD and Hillicon Valley, more at Mediagazer »
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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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Widespread MobileMe Outage Affecting Mail, Me.com, and Find My iPhone — A number of Apple's MobileMe services appear to have been down for several hours now, and Apple's system status page indicates that the company is experiencing issues with MobileMe Mail, me.com web apps, and Find My iPhone.
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AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, The Next Web and TiPb
Benedict Carey / New York Times:
Moods on Twitter Follow Biological Rhythms, Study Finds — 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 …
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PC World, Gawker and Digital Trends
Violet Blue / Pulp Tech Blog:
AVOS' Delicious Disaster: Lessons from a Complete Failure — The re-launch of social link sharing site Delicious, now under the stewardship of YouTube founders Steven Chen and Chad Hurley under their AVOS startup banner, is nothing short of a complete, mind-boggling disaster.
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PC World, SocialTimes.com and Geek News Central
Roger Cheng / CNET News:
GetJar: We've given away $1 million worth of premium apps — Independent app store GetJar said today that it had given away $1 million worth of pay applications through its Gold program. — GetJar is just one of many alternative app stores that have sprung up catering to Android and other smartphone platforms.
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TechCrunch
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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Tillmann Werner / threatpost:
The Inside Story of the Kelihos Botnet Takedown — Earlier this week, Microsoft released a n announcement about the disruption of a dangerous botnet that was responsible for spam messages, theft of sensitive financial information, pump-and-dump stock scams and distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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Computerworld, Slashdot and Geekosystem
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Cloud Storage Company Box.net Launches Cross-Platform Sync; Salesforce Chatter Integration And More — At the company's first customer conference today, cloud storage platform Box.net is revealing a number of new features and products. The company is debuting a cross-platform enterprise sync solution …
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Venture Capital Dispatch, Pulse2, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE and TomsTechBlog.com
Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:
Will Stanford Take the F Train to Silicon Island? Tensions Rise as Deadline for Tech Campus Approaches — Here on Silicon Island? — “One of the things that infuriates me personally is we always seem to get left out of the conversation,” said Queens Civic Congress president Patricia Dolan.
Associated Press:
Full Tilt Poker Site Loses License — LAS VEGAS (AP) — Gambling regulators on Thursday revoked the license of Full Tilt Poker, a popular Web site that once offered gambling to thousands of players around the world, saying the site had misled officials about its financial operations.
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