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Reed Hastings / The Official Netflix Blog:
DVDs will be staying at netflix.com — It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs. — This means no change: one website, one account, one password... in other words, no Qwikster.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Netflix Abandons Plan to Rent DVDs on Qwikster — Abandoning a break-up plan it announced last month, Netflix said Monday morning that it had decided to keep its DVD-by-mail and online streaming services together under one name and one Web site. — The company admitted that it had moved …
Apple:
iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours — Apple® today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
First Hands On Video of iPhone 4S with Benchmarks, “Raise to Speak” Feature — It seems someone has gotten hold of an iPhone 4S ahead of launch. This video from AppVV.com shows off a new iPhone 4S with some early benchmarks (thanks BluC0la). It also shows the Siri settings interface …
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Early iPhone 4S orders begin shipping to customers, from Sprint at least — The iPhone 4S just went up for pre-sale on Friday the 7th, and shipping notifications are already coming through. Reader Alex has forwarded along his shipping notification from Sprint for his white 32GB iPhone 4S …
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Microsoft's Windows Phone Boss Says Dual-Core, LTE Models Coming — Sales of the first crop of Windows Phones may have been less than CEO Steve Ballmer was hoping for, but Windows Phone unit boss Andy Lees said the company met its more important goal — becoming credible again in the phone market.
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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Windows Phones Will Get More Marketing Dollars, Sales Incentives — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), trying to reverse disappointing sales for its Windows Phone, is counting on Samsung Electronics Co. and other manufacturing partners to step up retailer incentives and boost in-store promotions.
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Scott Knaster / Google Code Blog:
Dart: a language for structured web programming — Today we are introducing an early preview of Dart, a class-based optionally typed programming language for building web applications. Dart's design goals are: — Create a structured yet flexible language for web programming.
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Daily Mail:
Steve Jobs's secret legacy: Dying Apple boss left plans for four years of new products — Despite knowing he was dying, Steve Jobs worked for more than a year on the products that he believed would safeguard the company's future. — It was also revealed today that Jobs fought hard …
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Alexandra Berzon / Wall Street Journal:
For Jobs's Biological Father, the Reunion Never Came
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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
The Teacher — Steve Jobs taught us so many things …
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Guardian
John Lilly / John's Tumblr:
Steve Jobs — Like many of us, I've been thinking a lot …
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Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
BlackBerry services collapse — Millions of BlackBerry smartphone users have been cut off by a major fault at RIM, the Canadian company that makes the devices. — BlackBerry online services cut off — The glitch, which struck at around 11AM, was affecting online services for consumers all over Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Zach Honig / Engadget:
UK server failure sends BlackBerry devices offline in Europe, the Middle East and Africa
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Guardian, BGR, AllThingsD and Electronista
Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:
Court Order Seeks Email Data of WikiLeaks Volunteer Jacob Appelbaum — The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum …
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Julia Angwin / Digits:
The Little ISP That Stood Up to the Government
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Inquirer, @wikileaks and NBC Bay Area
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Secret US Court Order demands email data for WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum
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Digits, Agence France Presse and memeburn
Bloomberg:
Jobs's Death Increases Plea for Releasing $76 Billion Cash: Tech — Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — At a meeting with Apple Inc. finance chief Peter Oppenheimer this year, investor Kishore Rao asked the company to tap its billions in cash to pay a dividend. — Oppenheimer had heard the request …
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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Free Texting Apps Are Threat to Wireless Carriers — At a time when e-mail and many other forms of electronic communication are essentially free, wireless carriers are still charging as much as 20 cents to send a text message to a phone, and another 20 cents to receive it.
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Digital Trends, CNET News and TechCrunch
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Acquires Social Q&A Service Friend.ly — Team To Work On New Things, But Service Will Stay Open — The acquisitions continue for Facebook. Last week, the social network bought Friend.ly, the social question and answer service, both sides confirm today. — Friend.ly has more details in their blog post here.
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Dain Binder / Dain Binder's Technology Blog:
SocialGrapple Joins Google — SocialGrapple has joined Google. The below notification was just sent out; more details to come. … SocialGrapple was created by Andrey Petrov.
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TechCrunch, Thanks:dbin78
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Mozilla: Rising revenue, but rising challenges — Not bad for a nonprofit. — The Mozilla Foundation, the developer of the Firefox Web browser and an organization charged with defending openness on the Web, plans to report today that its revenue increased 18 percent from $104 million in 2009 to $123 million in 2010.
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Roger Cheng / CNET News:
AT&T to usher in split-personality mobile devices — Your mobile device could soon go the route of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. — The work side of the HTC Inspire. — AT&T today unveiled AT&T Toggle, a service that allows you to create two separate and distinct identities on your smartphone or tablet.
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