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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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James Hibberd / Inside TV:
Discovery orders Steve Jobs documentary with ‘Mythbusters’ hosts — EXCLUSIVE — Discovery has ordered a documentary on the life of the late Steve Jobs, with the Mythbusters duo on board to host. The network is teaming with NBC's Peacock Productions for iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World, a one-hour special.
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple plans celebration of Steve Jobs' life for October 19th, 10 a.m. PT
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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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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Facebook Totally Caved To Apple On Its New Mobile Platform — Facebook announced a huge extension of its mobile platform today, and as long rumored, the company is going to be spreading its payment platform, Facebook Credits, to the mobile versions of all Facebook apps.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Mobile Apps:
Facebook Makes Its Move: Brings Viral Channels to HTML5, iOS Apps
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
The iPhone 4S Appears to Have 512MB RAM — Last week, the Infinity Blade developer first suggested that the iPhone 4S still had 512MB of RAM, just like the iPhone 4: … The developer would be in a position to know as they had demoed their game on the new iPhone 4S during last week's keynote.
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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 …
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Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Adobe demos incredible unblur feature for Photoshop — Adobe is developing an upcoming feature for Photoshop that could end the problem of blurred photos forever. — The new feature was demoed at the company's MAX 2011 event, drawing gasps of amazement from a crowd that witnessed a blurred photo, retouched and perfected in seconds.
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Brad Molen / Engadget:
AT&T starts CTIA off right by introducing five new smartphones to its Android lineup — At CTIA last March, AT&T stole the show by announcing its intent to purchase T-Mobile US. This time around, the news is a bit more modest in comparison but the company's still hoping to give us a bit …
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Amir Efrati / Digits:
Twitter Will Get “Tweet” Trademark, Settles Lawsuit — Twitter is closer to having dominion over the word “tweet.” — On Monday, James Eliason, CEO of Twittad, said in an interview that Twitter would drop a lawsuit it filed against his company last month that sought to nix Twittad's registered trademark of the word “tweet.”
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Kevin Morris / Daily Dot:
Reddit's jailbait shutdown may not be what it seems — r/jailbait is officiallly closed, Reddit admin Max Goodman has confirmed in a statement on Reddit. — Our original story is below. — Reddit administrators appeared to shut down r/jailbait, a controversial section showcasing links to photos of teenage girls, Monday afternoon.
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
iPad now 97% of tablet traffic, eclipses iPhone, iOS remains mobile leader — A new market research report notes that mobile devices now amount to almost 7 percent of all US web traffic, with Apple's iOS representing a 58.5 percent slice of all mobile traffic and the iPad now accounting for more traffic than iPhones.
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Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
Spotify Loss Widens Despite Higher Revenue — Spotify, the streaming digital music service that was just given a big boost through a partnership with Facebook, saw its revenue more than quintuple last year, but the company still lost more than $40 million, it reported on Monday.
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
HP set to decide future of Palm, webOS this week — HP is rumored to have finished the initial bidding process for its webOS unit and will hold an all-hands meeting tomorrow that may reveal its future plans for selling or spinning off the group, according to people familiar with the company's plans.
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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Jerry Yang And Yahoo Cofounder David Filo “Are Not On The Same Page Right Now” — Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang wants to raise money and buy the company back. — But Yang's cofounder, David Filo, is “not on the same page right now” regarding the direction of the company, a source close to the pair tells us.
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Calif. Governor Veto Allows Warrantless Cellphone Searches — California Gov. Jerry Brown is vetoing legislation requiring police to obtain a court warrant to search the mobile phones of suspects at the time of any arrest. — The Sunday veto means that when police arrest anybody in the Golden State …
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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.
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Ubuntu will power HP's new cloud service — Ubuntu Linux will be the primary operating system powering HP's upcoming cloud service, Ubuntu maker Canonical said last week. HP recently opened a private beta program for an infrastructure-as-a-service cloud that will offer both compute and storage capacity …
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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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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 …
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
For mobile in-app sharing, Twitter tops Facebook 3-1 — Mobile developers are increasingly finding the power of social integration in their apps, which is one way to make them engaging and sticky and to help get the word out about their apps. But all social integrations are not equal.
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Lulzsec hacker: ‘we still have Sun emails, stored in China’ — Sabu, the erstwhile leader of the hacking crew, says he is effectively on the run as he gives interview to Reddit readers about LulzSec's achievements, Facebook, sentencing and more — The hacker who styles himself “Sabu” …
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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.
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Zynga to Detail Game Plans for Facebook Apps at “Unleashed” Event — Zynga is planning to unveil “brand-spankin' new play” at a press event tomorrow in San Francisco, where it is now expected to share its plans for leveraging Facebook's new HTML5 mobile platform.
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