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7:10 PM ET, October 10, 2011

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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 …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Here's who will cash in on iPhone 4S bonanza  —  Did you hear that iPhone 4S, the device that was dismissed as “meh” by many of our media brethren saw pre-bookings of a million devices on day one?  That's good news not only for Apple, but also for its partners: AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, which is betting it all on the iPhone.
Nick Bilton / New York Times:
At Long Last, Facebook Releases an iPad App  —  It has been the equivalent of waiting for Bigfoot.  Bloggers had seen it.  Developers said they had worked on it.  Facebook denied its existence.  Everyone else just wanted to know if it was real.  —  It's the Facebook application for the iPad …
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Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Mobile Apps:
Facebook Makes Its Move: Brings Viral Channels to HTML5, iOS Apps  —  Facebook finally unveiled its long-awaited effort to help mobile developers market their native and HTML5-based apps through its platform today. iOS developers will get to take advantage of bookmarks, requests and the news feed …
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Facebook Totally Caved To Apple On Its New Mobile Platform
Discussion: AppleInsider and AppleInsider
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 …
Karen Gullo / Bloomberg:
Steve Jobs Died at Home of Respiratory Arrest  —  Steve Jobs died at home of respiratory arrest and a pancreatic tumor at about 3 p.m. on Oct. 5, according to his death certificate.  His occupation was listed as “entrepreneur.”  —  The Santa Clara County Public Health Department in San Jose, California, released the document today.
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple plans celebration of Steve Jobs' life for October 19th, 10 a.m. PT  —  Tim Cook has sent out an internal email to Apple employees informing them of a celebration of Steve Jobs' life planned for October 19th in the outdoor amphitheater of Apple's Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino.
James Hibberd / Inside TV:   Discovery orders Steve Jobs documentary with ‘Mythbusters’ hosts — EXCLUSIVE
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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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google debuts Dart, a JavaScript alternative
Discussion: GigaOM and @al3x
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
Twitter Developers:
The t.co URL Wrapper  —  Tens of millions of links are tweeted on Twitter each day.  Wrapping these shared links helps Twitter protect users from malicious content while offering useful insights on engagement.  All links submitted within tweets and direct messages, regardless of length, will eventually be wrapped with t.co.
Discussion: CloudAve
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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.
Meghan Keneally / Daily Mail:
Traffic plunges for Google+ as 60% of users log off  —  Google has tried a number of different approaches, but none seem to get enough people to ‘like’ their social networking program, Google+.  —  By keeping it's new social networking invite-only, Google was hoping to amp up anticipation of Google+.
John Cook / GeekWire:
Venture capital fundraising waning, falls to 2003 levels  —  It's not a great time to be raising a venture capital fund.  A new report out this morning from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association shows that 52 venture capital firms raised $1.72 billion during the third quarter …
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.
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 …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Motorola's Bet on an Android-Dominated Enterprise Takes Shape  —  After spending the last few months trying out its software with a few dozen users, 3LM, a business that focuses on bringing Android to the enterprise, is now ready for paying customers.  —  The company, which was bought …
Michael Gorman / Engadget:
Hands-on with Myriad's Alien Dalvik 2.0 on an iPad (video)  —  Last week, Myriad outed its plans to unveil Alien Dalvik 2.0 — which works on iOS — at CTIA, which starts today.  But, knowing our readers would be chomping at the bit to see it in action a little early, we got an exclusive sneak preview of the software for you right now.
Discussion: TUAW
Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Kindle Fire Hit With Patent Suit  —  Amazon's new tablet won't be available until November 15, but it's never too early to file a patent suit.  Smartphone Technologies LLC, which has already gone after Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) and others, claims the Kindle Fire also infringes on four of its patents.
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 …
 
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Dan Friedman / Inside AdWords:
+1 button to start appearing on display ads today
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Former Google SVP Of Engineering Bill Coughran Joins Sequoia Capital As Partner
John Cook / GeekWire:
Travel photo service Trover arrives on Android
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Square Makes It Easier for Big Businesses to Sign Up for Mobile Payments
Discussion: GigaOM, paidContent and TechCrunch
Ted Roduner / Bing:
Windows Phone 7.5: Bing(o) on Mango
 Earlier Items: 
Dain Binder / Dain Binder's Technology Blog:
SocialGrapple Joins Google
Discussion: VentureBeat and TechCrunch, Thanks:dbin78
Roger Cheng / CNET News:
AT&T to usher in split-personality mobile devices
Discussion: Electronista
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
Dear Meg Whitman... Some unsolicited advice on HP's PC future
 

 
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