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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 “One More Thing...” in August following the news that Steve Jobs was formally stepping down as CEO of Apple, I knew that sooner or later there would have to be a follow up. Unfortunately, it ended up being sooner.
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.
The New Yorker:
COVER STORY: STEVE JOBS AT THE PEARLY GATES — The cover of the October 17, 2011, issue of The New Yorker: Read Ken Auletta, John Cassidy, Jonah Lehrer, Meghan OÂ'Rourke, and other New Yorker contributors on Steve Jobs.
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Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core Blog:
Jobs to Noah Wyle: “You do look like me” (with Macworld Expo gag video) — FORTUNE's David Kaplan wrote a great piece about a 1999 conversation he had with Noah Wyle about playing Steve Jobs in TNT's “Pirates of Silicon Valley.” — Kaplan talked to Wyle on the day ER taped its series finale.
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Karen Gullo / Bloomberg:
Apple Talked to City's Police Days Before Steve Jobs's Death — Apple Inc. (AAPL) security officials met with police in Palo Alto, California, this week to notify them that Steve Jobs was close to death, a spokeswoman with the police department said. — Following the meeting …
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Wall Street Journal:
Steve Jobs Funeral Is Friday
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert Say Goodbye to Steve Jobs
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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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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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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
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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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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” …
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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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