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11:45 PM ET, October 12, 2011

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Dylan Love / Business Insider:
Updating To iOS 5 Has Been A Massive Headache  —  Ever since iOS 5 was made available to the public around 1 PM ET or so, we've been attempting to update in vain.  —  The download goes through, but an error message keeps popping up when people try to install iOS 5.
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Joshua Topolsky / This is my next:
Siri says some weird things  —  Look, I'm not going to go into great detail about what I've been doing with Siri during my testing period, but I will tell you this — Siri says some crazy stuff.  —  Hit the gallery below for a look at a number of bizarre items the AI / voice recognition …
Dan Moren / Macworld:
iOS 5 Review: Ambitious update rings in the changes  —  It seems like every time a major software revision comes along, it's described as the “biggest ever.”  In the case of iOS 5, though, that might not be hyperbole—there's hardly a part of Apple's mobile operating system that isn't altered in some way by the latest update.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Releases OS X 10.7.2 with iCloud Support  —  As part of Apple's rollout of its iCloud service today, Apple has just released OS X 10.7.2.  The new update includes support for iCloud and will ensure that users have full access to their iCloud-hosted data across all of their devices.
AppleInsider:
Apple updates iWork, iPhoto, Aperture and more, adds Cards & iTunes trailers apps
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Google Engineer: “Google+ is a Prime Example of Our Complete Failure to Understand Platforms”  —  Last night, high-profile Google engineer Steve Yegge mistakenly posted a long rant about working at Amazon and Google's own issues with creating platforms on Google+.
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Steve Yegge / Google+:
Hi external-world folks,  —  I posted a long opinionated rant tonight about how I think Google could be doing a much better job of thinking from the ground up in terms of services rather than products.  Sadly, it was intended to be an internal post, visible to everybody at Google, but not externally.
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
BlackBerry Picked the Wrong Day to Die  —  There's no such thing as a good time for RIM to leave half its customers without messaging or internet.  But the problem's been getting worse, not better—on the day that Apple makes its strongest case for total dominance.
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
RIM: Right now we're letting you down, here's what's actually going on with BlackBerry service
Discussion: AllThingsD and Reuters, Thanks:alex_clough
Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:
Web Start-Ups Hit Cash Crunch  —  As New Companies Proliferate, Financing Is Drying Up; Some Founders Seek Bridge Loans,  —  SAN FRANCISCO—Amid a glut of Web start-ups, some strains are starting to show.  —  For most of this year, a start-up fever, fueled by Facebook Inc. and others, has gripped Silicon Valley.
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Chris Sacca / @sacca:
@gaberivera @cdixon @naval I definitely don't agree with the article. Valuations are still high and I haven't seen evidence of cash crunch.
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Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald:
Samsung ambushes Apple's iPhone 4S launch in Sydney
Foursquare Blog:
The real world, now in real-time!  Say hi to foursquare Radar!  —  [The new version should be available in the App Store soon!  Thanks for your patience]  —  The initial vision for foursquare centered around one question: can we build something to help make the world easier to use.
Ramzi Amri / Quora:
Why did Steve Jobs choose not to effectively treat his cancer?  —  Answer: I hesitated a long time before addressing this topic, but now that someone asked me to, I'll just do it.  To avoid any risks of bias, let me start by stating that all the details on Jobs specific case are based on secondary sources …
Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:
Sprint won't sell iPhone 4S with unlocked micro-SIM card slot  —  Sprint customers who buy the iPhone 4S will be able to roam internationally on GSM networks, but will not find themselves with unlocked microSIM slots, a Sprint representative tells Ars.  While some initial reports suggested …
Reuters:
AOL CEO pitches investors on Yahoo deal: sources  —  (Reuters) - AOL Inc CEO Tim Armstrong has been meeting with top shareholders in the past couple of weeks to push the idea of a sale to Yahoo Inc that could wring up to $1.5 billion of cost savings, according to sources with knowledge of the discussions.
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Sources All Over The Ad Tech Industry Think Google Is Going To Buy Akamai  —  What's the next big move for Google?  —  We're not sure, but multiple ad tech industry sources think Google is about to buy Akamai.  —  We've been chasing a rumor that Google is about to make a big ad tech acquisition.
Discussion: Electronista and The Tech Trade
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Brian Womack / Bloomberg:   Google Said Not to Plan Acquisition of Akamai
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011: Computer scientist, Unix co-creator, C programming language co-inventor  —  Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness.  No further details are available at the time of this blog post.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Exclusive: Hands-on with Amazon Locker, now working  —  We've had fun tracking the appearance of Amazon Lockers around the Seattle region over the past few weeks, and this week I stumbled across an intriguing option in my Amazon.com address book — allowing me to “search for a locker location” to add as a shipping destination.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Asiajin, Thanks:johnhcook
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt Finally Appears On Google+  —  For a company that is supposed to eat its own dog food, Google has been criticized for how few of its senior executives are visible on Google+.  Larry+ and Sergey+ are there, and now so too is executive chairman Eric Schmidt+.
Discussion: CNET News, 9to5Google and Mashable!
 
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Ben Fritz / Los Angeles Times:
Apple prepping movie cloud service
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and @cnbc
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
NPD: Already, More Than One In Five Smartphones Sold Is 4G-Ready
Discussion: Electronista
Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
AwayFind closes seed funding and comes to Google Apps
Discussion: @qthrul and TechCrunch
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Winklevoss Twins to Pay $13 Million to Lawyers for Facebook Settlement
 Earlier Items: 
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Universal Dumps $60 Home Video Rental Plan
Discussion: WebProNews and Electronista
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Intel Abandons Plans to Get Its Processors Into Televisions
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft to develop Hadoop distributions for Windows Server and Azure
Justin McElroy / Joystiq:
Microsoft buys indie developer Twisted Pixel
Discussion: TechnoBuffalo, TechFlash and VG247
Matt Mullenweg:
What's Next for Apple
Discussion: Daily Patricia