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Christopher Bonanos / New York Times:
The Man Who Inspired Jobs — IN the memorials to Steven P. Jobs this week, Apple's co-founder was compared with the world's great inventor-entrepreneurs: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell. Yet virtually none of the obituaries mentioned the man Jobs himself considered his hero …
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Randall Stross / New York Times:
An Analogy of Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs — IN August 1931, Thomas Alva Edison, age 84, became gravely ill with kidney problems. He recovered a little, then suffered a setback and was confined to bed at home, drifting in and out of consciousness. Newspapers issued multiple bulletins each day …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Here's To The Crazy One — When I wrote my piece entitled …
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Examiner, Mashable!, Fortune, PalmAddicts and GigaOM
Brian Caulfield / Shiny Objects:
Apple's Next Big Thing Already Here: Siri More Than Speech Recognition, Analyst Asserts — The iPhone 4S's virtual assistant, Siri — a feature that allows users to tap into many of the phone's capabilities with their voice — is a sleeper hit with ‘revolutionary’ potential that will soon appear …
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple sells out of iPhone 4S pre-orders, now shipping in 1-2 weeks — This happened internationally earlier in the day, but now Apple has sold out of its U.S. iPhone 4S pre-order allotment. Customers who are interested in ordering an iPhone 4S from the Apple Online Store can still order …
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MacRumors, Mashable!, Fortune, VentureBeat, PR Newswire, Reuters, Appletell, VG247, @cisco_mobile, Examiner, App Advice, Redmond Pie, Gizmodo, MacRumors, greg hughes, Geek.com, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, GottaBeMobile, Daring Fireball and CNET News
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple outs more powerful Apple TV (dual-core A5?) in iOS 5 file system — We've been hoping for a new Apple TV since Apple began transitioning its iOS device lineup to dual-core A5 processors, and we now have some compelling evidence for a next-generation Apple TV being in the works.
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New York Times, Phones Review, iDownloadBlog.com, I4U News, TiPb, MacRumors, Redmond Pie, MacStories, Electronista, Softpedia News and iClarified, Thanks:drbuk
J.B. / Fusible.com:
Amazon spins off Kindle Fire products into separate company called Seesaw — Amazon appears to be spinning off its Kindle Fire business under a separate new company called Seesaw. — According to recent trademark filings for the Kindle Fire and Amazon Silk with the United States Patent …
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Electronista, Gizmodo, @markmilian, AndroidOS.in, TechnoBuffalo, The Digital Reader, @stevecheney, 9to5Google and @davezatz, Thanks:matteoca
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Chrome extension enables remote computer control — The Chrome remote desktop extension lets a person remotely control another computer over the network, in this case using Chrome on a Mac to control a Windows machine also running Chrome. — Months of work on “chromoting” …
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft shares its plans to dramatically reduce Windows 8 memory usage — Microsoft detailed its plans to reduce the memory footprint of Windows 8 on Friday. — The software maker wants to ship Windows 8 with the same system requirements as Windows 7. One of the ways it plans to achieve …
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MSDN Blogs, AnandTech, Softpedia News and Windows 8 Beta
Andrew Goldfarb / IGN:
Scoop: Toy Story Scribes May Pen Farmville Film — The social franchise may be headed to the big screen. — In an interview about their work on upcoming game Skylanders Spyro's Adventures, Toy Story writers Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen have revealed that they're currently in talks to pen a film based on Farmville.
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Tom Simonite / Technology Review:
Google's Troubled Search for Valuable Patents — An analysis suggests that patents it recently bought from IBM won't help much against competitors such as Apple and Microsoft. — An analysis of more than 1,000 patents that Google bought from IBM offers a glimpse inside …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Homeland Security moves forward with ‘pre-crime’ detection — An internal U.S. Department of Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime is already being tested on some members of the public, CNET has learned.
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Engadget, The Not-So Private Parts, Threat Level and epic.org
Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog:
German government accused of spying on citizens with state-sponsored Trojan — Summary: A well-established group of German hackers has accused the German government of releasing a backdoor Trojan into the wild. Security firm F-Secure has confirmed that the program includes a keylogger …
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Chaos Computer Club Updates, Hardware 2.0 Blog, F-Secure Antivirus …, msnbc.com and Slashdot, Thanks:edbott
