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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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Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Redmond Pie, App Advice, Electronista, MacNN, The Next Web, Apple Herald, iClarified and MacStories
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Early iPhone 4S orders begin shipping to customers, from Sprint at least
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BGR, MacRumors, Inquirer, eWeek, App Advice, Tech Trader Daily, The Tech Trade, TUAW, Engadget, Softpedia News, Fortune, MacGazette.net, Softpedia News and GottaBeMobile
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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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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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
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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@wikileaks, Inquirer and NBC Bay Area
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 …
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 is an analytics tool created by Andrey Petrov to track Facebook and Twitter metrics.
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TechCrunch, Thanks:dbin78
Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Motorola and Verizon press event scheduled for October 18th; Xoom 2, Droid HD, and Xoom Media Edition coming? — We had a feeling Motorola couldn't hold out much longer with all those leaked devices we brought you a couple of weeks ago, and indeed, Motorola and Verizon are teaming up to hold …
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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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Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunch, Softpedia News and @swiftstories
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Is Getting More Serious About Daily (Bing) Deals — Microsoft appears to be readying the formal launch of a Bing-branded daily deals website powered by white-label group buying platform service provider Tippr, a well-informed source tells me. You don't have to take my word for it …
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 and CNET News
