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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Nuance To Acquire Swype For $100+ Million — Nuance has acquired Seattle-based startup Swype for something more than $100 million, says a source with knowledge of the deal. — I'm a big fan of Swype, and this is a brilliant acquisition by Nuance. Swype first launched at a TechCrunch conference in 2008.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Nuance's Swype Bill: $102.5 Million
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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 — Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Google's upcoming flagship device, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has leaked out in video form courtesy of Gadget.co, and it's almost a minute and half of pure Google. Ice Cream Sandwich looks like an evolution of Honeycomb …
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Charles Duhigg / New York Times:
With Time Running Short, Jobs Managed His Farewells — Over the last few months, a steady stream of visitors to Palo Alto, Calif., called an old friend's home number and asked if he was well enough to entertain visitors, perhaps for the last time. — In February, Steven P. Jobs had learned that …
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
To Steven Jobs on His Thirtieth Birthday — On February 24th 1985, Steve Jobs turned thirty. His Apple coworkers helped him celebrate by creating a short film for him. They set it to the wonderful song “My Back Pages” by one of Steve's idols, Bob Dylan, and filled it with images from Jobs' first three decades.
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
iPhone 4S: Even Unlocked, You Won't Be Network Swapping This Phone — The iPhone 4S decisions looms. But can I buy an unlocked iPhone and swap it as I like? Nope. In fact, buy an iPhone 4S on Verizon or Sprint, and you can't easily use that later with AT&T, it seems.
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple's iPhone 4S now available for pre-order ahead of Oct. 14 launch — As promised, Apple has begun pre-orders for the anticipated iPhone 4S. Pre-ordering is now available in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom through Apple's website.
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Unlocked iPhone 4S coming in November, won't work with CDMA carriers
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D.B. Grady / The Atlantic Online:
In Praise of Bad Steve — Steve Jobs didn't change the world by playing nice — When filmmaker Stanley Kubrick died, the steely perfectionist who ground actors into submission died with him. Kubrick was a good man — Matthew Modine once described him as “probably the most heartfelt person I ever met” …
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Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs
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Ed Christman / Billboard.Biz:
Steve Jobs Remembered by Edgar Bronfman Jr., Martin Bandier and Other Executives
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Shantanu Narayen / Adobe Blogs:
With Our Deepest Sympathy — Steve was a unique visionary …
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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 …
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Chris Dale / YouTube Blog:
YouTube now has movies in the UK — Back in May we brought new release movies and more for rent to YouTube in the US. Last month, we took it to Canada. Now, over a thousand full-length feature films from major Hollywood and British studios are available for rent in the UK at youtube.com/movies.
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
RIM Buys NewBay — Another acquisition for Research In Motion. The BlackBerry maker is buying NewBay Software, a provider of white-label cloud-based content services. RIM confirmed to AllThingsD that it has signed an agreement to acquire the company, but declined to provide any further details.
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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.
Jason Mick / DailyTech:
HP Claims Someone Snuck Android Onto Its TouchPads, Opens Investigation — Android on TouchPad team dealt a setback in their efforts — With the TouchPad's fire sale, which saw units selling for as little as $88 USD, the short-lived Hewlett-Packard Comp. (HPQ) webOS tablet is chic again.
Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
Chamath Palihapitiya, the Unconventional Venture Capitalist — Four years ago, Chamath Palihapitiya, seemed poised for a long career on Sand Hill Road, the famed strip in Menlo Park, Calif., lined with Silicon Valley's most powerful venture capital firms. As a principal for the Mayfield Fund …
Amy Schatz / Digits:
Net Neutrality Case Heads to D.C. Circuit Court — Efforts by public interest groups to get a legal challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's new “net neutrality” rules heard somewhere other than the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit belly-flopped Thursday when the D.C. Court won the case in a random lottery.
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Todd Haselton / BGR:
FCC files motion to toss Verizon's net neutrality appeal suit
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Aaron Lee / DigiTimes:
Acer plans 15-inch ultrabooks using fiber glass cases — Acer plans to launch a 15-inch ultrabook model in early 2012 built using fiber glass cases supplied by Mitac Precision Technology. Asustek Computer is expected to follow suit, also adopting fiber glass cases from MPT, according to industry sources.
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Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
F.C.C. Plans to Direct More Support to Broadband — WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday outlined a plan to transform the Universal Service Fund, an $8 billion fund that is paid for by the nation's telephone customers and used to subsidize basic telephone service …
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Tim Lohman / Computerworld:
OpenWorld 2011: Big Red apps coming to iPad and Android — In a clear sign of the influence consumer mobile devices are having in the enterprise Oracle has flagged that it plans to make available iPad- and Android-compatible versions of its traditional ERP and CRM suites as well as its latest Fusion apps.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Windows Azure beats Amazon EC2, Google App Engine in cloud speed test — Microsoft's Windows Azure has beaten all competitors in a year's worth of cloud speed tests, coming out ahead of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and a dozen others. — The independent tests were conducted …
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