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Guy Kawasaki / Google+:
What I Learned From Steve Jobs — Many people have explained what one can learn from Steve Jobs. But few, if any, of these people have been inside the tent and experienced first hand what it was like to work with him. I don't want any lessons to be lost or forgotten …
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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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Business Insider, @loic and Technologizer, Thanks:bonanos
Randall Stross / New York Times:
An Analogy of Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs
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CNET News, Bokardo and Fortune, more at Mediagazer »
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Here's To The Crazy One — When I wrote my piece entitled …
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Mashable!, Examiner, Fortune, PalmAddicts and GigaOM
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, Geekosystem, CydiaHelp, Phones Review, I4U News, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie, TiPb, MacRumors, MacStories, Electronista, Softpedia News and iClarified, Thanks:drbuk
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
News Outlets Preserve Privacy by Giving Users Ways to Mute Facebook's Frictionless Sharing — Several news outlets are testing different interfaces that let their readers opt out of sharing their reading activity to Facebook. Since gaining the ability at last month's f8 …
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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” …
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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Naked Security, Examiner, Chaos Computer Club Updates, F-Secure Antivirus … and Hardware 2.0 Blog, Thanks:edbott
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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Windows 8 News, Rumors & Tips, MSDN Blogs, AnandTech and Softpedia News
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, The Digital Reader, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, @markmilian, AndroidOS.in, @stevecheney, 9to5Google and @davezatz, Thanks:matteoca
New York Times:
Grading the Digital School: A Classroom Software Boom, but Mixed Results Despite the Hype — The Web site of Carnegie Learning, a company started by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University that sells classroom software, trumpets this promise: “Revolutionary Math Curricula. Revolutionary Results.”
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Avichal's Blog, Hack Education and Rough Type
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Google Must Be Feeling Burned For Investing In Intellectual Ventures — Yesterday, gigantic patent troll Intellectual Ventures sued Motorola for patent infringement over Android. — Google is in the process of buying Motorola in part to provide patent protection for Android.
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FOSS Patents and Betabeat
Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:
HP set to release NAND flash replacement in 18 months — Exec tells IEF audience that Memristor chip developed with Hynix remains on schedule — A Hewlett-Packard senior fellow this week told attendees at the International Electronics Forum 2011 in Seville that his company …
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Electronics Weekly, Next Big Future, EE Times, insideHPC, The Tech Report and Slashdot
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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Joystiq, VG247 and Games.com The Blog …, more at Mediagazer »
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!, Softpedia News, Fortune, VentureBeat, VG247, @cisco_mobile, Examiner, Appletell, App Advice, Redmond Pie, PR Newswire, Reuters, Gizmodo, MacRumors, greg hughes, Geek.com, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, TiPb, GottaBeMobile, Daring Fireball and CNET News
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Brian Caulfield / Shiny Objects:
Apple's Next Big Thing Already Here: Siri More Than Speech Recognition, Analyst Asserts
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Cult of Mac and LAPTOP Magazine
