Techmeme: T-Mobile Preparing For Super November With Multiple Smartphone And Tablet Launches (David/TmoNews)

1:00 PM ET, October 4, 2011

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Greg Bensinger / Digits:

Apple's New iPhone Won't Run On Fastest Wireless Networks - Sources — The expected introduction Tuesday of Apple's newest iPhone smartphone is sure to bring long lines at the company's stores and breathless technological analysis of its new innovations. One thing it won't bring is the fastest possible downloads.

MG Siegler / parislemon:

On The Next Venture — I've been thinking about how I was going to write this post for a while now. Of course, I didn't anticipate that I would be writing at 2 AM local time in London, where I'm currently visiting to speak at FOWA in a couple of days (that talk also just potentially got more interesting).

Betabeat:

Can Erick Schonfeld Keep the TechCrunch Swagger Alive? — As the veteran editor steps into the top job, his departing colleague is torching the fields behind him. — For the last decade, Erick Schonfeld has been the lone wolf of tech media, working as the East Coast point man …

Michael Arrington / UNCRUNCHED:

Welcome To CrunchFund, MG Siegler — I want to welcome MG Siegler as our newest general partner at CrunchFund. MG, who I worked with for several years at TechCrunch, will join me and Patrick Gallagher in the next couple of weeks. More on this shortly. Update: MG's post with details on his decision is here.

Discussion: Fortune, Pulse2, @semilshah, @jasonkincaid and @jacob

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
MG Siegler Will Become Our Apple Columnist, And Join CrunchFund As A VC

Discussion: @gaberivera, @arrington and @erickschonfeld, more at Mediagazer »

Fred Destin:
CrunchFund ? — The Uncrunching of Techcrunch.

Discussion: @arrington

Loic / Loic Le Meur Blog:
A Journalist? A VC? Who cares. It's all about Influence.

Thanks:loic

Reuters:

Apple rejects Samsung offer to help end Australia dispute — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has rejected an offer from South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co to help settle their tablet-computer dispute in Australia, hoping for an important court victory there in its global campaign of patent litigation.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Computerworld, Tech Trader Daily, paidContent, 9to5Google, GigaOM, DailyTech, CNET News, Guardian, TUAW, Softpedia News, T3 News, TechEye, Inquirer, Neowin.net, MobileBurn.com, Engadget, The Next Web and Gizmodo

Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:

Samsung Says It May Scrap Australia Tablet Plans If Ban Persists — Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) — Samsung Electronics Co., locked in patent disputes with Apple Inc., may scrap the release of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia unless it wins approval to sell its newest tablet computer in the next two weeks, a lawyer said.

Discussion: eWeek, ZDNet, PC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, GMSV, Electronista, ITProPortal, The Next Web and Sammy Hub

Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:

iPhone 4S images appear on Apple's website — Need more proof that Apple's next iPhone allegedly dubbed the iPhone 4S will sport the same design as the current-generation iPhone 4? Well, a pair of images just appeared on Apple's website, representing the black and white iPhone 4S models.

Discussion: BGR, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup.com, everythingiCafe, Mashable! and App Advice

Tom Warren / WinRumors:

Microsoft confirms Zune HD death, “we will no longer be producing Zune players” — Microsoft has officially confirmed the death of its Zune player devices. — The software giant removed references to the Zune HD from its Zune site on Monday and later claimed that the removal was “a mistake.”

Sean Buckley / Engadget:

HTC confirms security hole, says patch is incoming — HTC held true to its promise to look into the security vulnerability that surfaced over the weekend, an apparent glitch that allows any app requesting internet access to take a peek at a user account information, GPS location, system logs, and other potentially private data.

Discussion: Ars Technica, SlashGear, BGR, ExtremeTech, Droid Life, Geek.com, Android Phone Fans, Mashable!, MobileSyrup.com, Dennis Fisher, Fast Company, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Neowin.net and Electronista

John Brownlee / Cult of Android:

Leaked Sales Numbers Suggest Amazon Kindle Fire On Track To Outsell iPad [Exclusive] — Six weeks before it officially goes on sale, Amazon's $199 Kindle Fire is shaping up to be the biggest tablet launch ever... and Cult of Android has the numbers to prove it.

Discussion: GigaOM, Geek.com, MarketingVox News & Trends, OStatic blogs, Pocketables, Inquirer, Electronista and GottaBeMobile

Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:

Evolving the Start menu … We'd like to share a series of blog posts on the how and why of reimagining Start. This first post talks about the history and evolution of the Start menu, and several of the problems and trends we've learned from you. We think it's always important to understand …

Discussion: All about Microsoft Blog, CNET News, Softpedia News, Windows 8 Beta, WinRumors, WinBeta and Neowin.net

Woody Leonhard / InfoWorld:
The rise and fall of the Windows Desktop Gadget

Discussion: eWeek, Softpedia News and Ed Bott

Tim Stevens / Engadget:

Apple's 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote liveblog! — 11:11AM Also, if you're in the Cupertino area for the next half-hour or so, swing by and say hello. We're the pair of dudes near the front with Android handsets. — 11:11AM Got a few general iPhone fans gathering out here as well to watch the festivities from the sidelines.

Discussion: Bits, GigaOM, Gadget Lab, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, gdgt live, ZDNet, Digits, CNET News, MacRumors, @dannysullivan, iHackintosh, The Loop, Macworld, MacDailyNews, blog.chron.com, Ars Technica and Telegraph

Yoni Heisler / Network World:

Steve Jobs gave Barack Obama an iPad 2 “a little bit early” — Being the “Commander in Chief” has its perks, like getting an iPad 2 directly from Steve Jobs a few weeks before launch — It's no secret that the Obama administration tends to be a bit Apple-centric.

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, AppleInsider, The Next Web and TUAW

Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:

iPhone Trade-Ins Seen Increasing Five-Fold With Launch Of Long Awaited iPhone 5 — Trade-ins of old iPhones are at unprecedented levels in anticipation of Apple's iPhone 5 announcement — How excited are people for the new iPhone that Apple is expected to announce later today?

Discussion: Robert Scoble and MacDailyNews

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Apple Expected To “Shatter” Single Day Sales Record With New iPhone 5

Discussion: Internet2Go, AllThingsD and Cult of Mac

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Patent Troll Says Anyone Using WiFi Infringes; Won't Sue Individuals ‘At This Stage’ — Just as some in the copyright trolling business are lowering their settlement fees, but making it up in volume, it appears there's a similar effort under way on the patent trolling side of the world.

Discussion: Gizmodo, DSLreports, Techland, Fudzilla, GottaBeMobile, The Register, SlashGear and The Pondering Primate

CNET News:

Apple may face suit over search for unreleased iPhone — Cava22, the San Francisco bar where another unreleased iPhone went missing. — Sergio Calderon, the 22-year-old San Francisco man who accused Apple employees of impersonating police officers while searching his house for an unreleased iPhone, has hired a lawyer.

Discussion: Gizmodo and RazorianFly

Megan Barnett / Fortune:

Marissa Mayer: I thought Google had a 2% chance of success — What makes a company innovative? Start with empowering your employees. — Google's Marissa Mayer, center, and Lululemon CEO Christine Day, right — FORTUNE — Several things drew Marissa Mayer to Google in 1999 …

Nik Cubrilovic:

Facebook Re-Enables Controversial Tracking Cookie — In May of this year the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook like buttons and other website widgets were setting cookies on visiting browsers. This cookie could then be read later and used to track the user across different web properties and back to the Facebook site.

Discussion: Search Engine Watch, Friending Facebook Blog, Gawker, thinq_, ExchangeWire.com and New Media Age

David / TmoNews:

T-Mobile Preparing For Super November With Multiple Smartphone And Tablet Launches — If you've been eagerly waiting to hear just what exactly T-Mobile has in store for their November 2nd super-mega-launch day since we first brought you word 48 hours ago then the above image should be exactly what the doctor ordered.

Discussion: Engadget, TmoNews, Electronista, PhoneArena, AndroidGuys, Liliputing, Android Phone Fans, WMPoweruser, Softpedia News, Know Your Cell and WPCentral.com

Wall Street Journal:

Sprint to ‘Bet the Company’ on iPhone — With the new iPhone coming out this week, Sprint Nextel Corp. is finally expected to gain access to a device it has long coveted—but at a staggering cost. — The No. 3 wireless company is making a multibillion dollar gamble that Apple Inc.'s gadget …

Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Sprint scores iPhone 5 exclusive thanks to $20 billion deal with Apple?

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