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Wall Street Journal:
Steve Jobs Funeral Is Friday — The funeral for Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.'s co-founder, is taking place Friday, according to a person familiar with the matter. — The funeral is characterized as a small private gathering, this person said. — The event comes two days after Mr. Jobs passed away after battling an undisclosed illness.
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Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Sony Pictures Acquiring New Steve Jobs Biography For Major Feature Film — EXCLUSIVE: I've just learned that Sony Pictures is making a hefty deal to acquire feature rights to Steve Jobs, the upcoming authorized biography by former CNN chairman and Time Magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert Say Goodbye to Steve Jobs — Two cool tributes: Some subdued words from Stewart, followed by an excerpt of Jobs' famous Stanford speech; and a very funny montage from Colbert. Note that just like “real” media figures, both men have anecdotes about the Apple co-founder reaching …
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs — In the days after Steve Jobs' death, friends and colleagues have, in customary fashion, been sharing their fondest memories of the Apple co-founder. He's been hailed as “a genius” and “the greatest CEO of his generation” by pundits and tech journalists.
Charles Duhigg / New York Times:
With Time Running Short, Jobs Managed His Farewells
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Karen Gullo / Bloomberg:
Apple Talked to City's Police Days Before Steve Jobs's Death
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Ed Christman / Billboard.Biz:
Steve Jobs Remembered by Edgar Bronfman Jr., Martin Bandier and Other Executives
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Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
AT&T ‘working with Apple’ to show 4G indicator in iPhone 4S status bar (update: confirmed) — AT&T and T-Mobile have led the charge over the past year to brand their upgraded HSPA+ networks as “4G,” even though such networks historically don't fall into the “4G” definition …
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Dcurtis / Dustin Curtis:
3.5 Inches — I've been wondering why Apple chose to make the iPhone 4′s screen 3.5-inches when other comparable phones with Android and Windows Phone 7 have larger, more inviting screens. When you first see a phone with a 4-inch or larger screen, it seems like a much better experience.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Thoughts and Observations Regarding This Week's iPhone 4S Event, Written Almost Entirely Before Wednesday's Sad News, But Which the Time Has Come to Publish Because Life Goes On — What More Could You Have Wanted in a hypothetical ‘iPhone 5’ Today? — A 4-inch screen?
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
AT&T: 200,000 iPhone 4S preorders in 12 hours — AT&T says that this morning's preorder for Apple's iPhone 4S was its most successful iPhone launch yet, with the company grabbing more than 200,000 preorders in the first 12 hours the device was on sale. — “AT&T has seen extraordinary demand …
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Unlocked iPhone 4S coming in November, won't work with CDMA carriers
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
iPhone 4S: Even Unlocked, You Won't Be Network Swapping This Phone
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Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet — A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America's Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots' every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. — The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago …
Kathleen Ko / Google+:
#googleplusupdate — Now you can decide who can notify you on Google+! — Circles give you control over who you share with on Google+ and who you see content from. — Many of you have asked for similar controls over who can send you notifications, so today we're rolling out a new option in Google+ settings: “Who can notify you.”
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Reuters:
Sprint faces cash burn, investors flee — (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp signaled that it could spend more money than it brings in over the next few years, even without accounting for the high costs of selling the Apple Inc iPhone, sending its shares down 13 percent.
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Vlad Savov / This is my next:
Samsung and Google postpone Galaxy Nexus launch — Samsung has just announced, rather sensationally, that the product launch it had planned in conjunction with Google for next week's CTIA will not in fact be happening. Here's the statement in full:
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Samsung Galaxy Nexus caught on video
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Bloomberg:
Groupon Plans to ‘Significantly’ Reduce Marketing Spending Amid Criticism — Groupon Inc., the online-coupon site that has filed for an initial public offering, said it plans to “significantly” reduce online marketing spending over time as such investments yield insufficient returns.
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
En Fuego: Kindle Fire Orders Keep Climbing — After racking up an estimated 95,000 pre-orders within the first 24 hours of availability, Amazon's forthcoming Kindle Fire tablet continues to sell well. Demand for the device shows no signs of slowing. In fact, sources close to Amazon claim …
Daniel Rubino / WPCentral.com:
No new Dell Windows Phone 7.5 devices as they take a hiatus — A few days ago, we ran an odd post about the Dell Wrigley, a reportedly updated Venue Pro which we first saw on a leaked Dell roadmap back in February. But later in May, Dell was noticeably absent from the list of hardware partners.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft's Skype purchase gets the EC green light. Now what? — Summary: The European antitrust authorities have given the nod to Microsoft's acquisition of Skype. — The European Commission's antitrust authorities have given Microsoft's $8.5 billion Skype acquisition regulatory clearance.
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