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iFixit:
iPhone 4S Teardown — iFixit: “Siri, may we disassemble you for all to see?” iPhone 4S (Siri): “42” iFixit: “I didn't ask for the meaning of life, Siri...” iPhone 4S (Siri): “42 is the number of seconds you have left until I initiate the self-destruct sequence...” iFixit: “Message received.”
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9to5Mac, AnandTech, Engadget, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, SlashGear and everythingiCafe
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Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:
Apple's New IPhone Sells Out at U.S. Carriers — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s latest iPhone has sold out for pre-order at AT&T Inc. (T), Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) according to the carriers' websites, signaling customer demand even before it goes on sale in stores tomorrow.
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BGR, TechCrunch, BGR, Business Insider, GottaBeMobile, IntoMobile, App Advice and everythingiCafe
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple: We're Gonna Need a Bigger iPhone Order — With demand for its new iPhone 4S still running strong following an initial surge of preorders, Apple is reportedly ratcheting up production volume on the device. — Supply chain sources tell the Commercial Times that Pegatron Technology …
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GottaBeMobile, Edible Apple, Techie Buzz, MacDailyNews, DigiTimes, IntoMobile, Business Insider and 9to5Mac
Fred / A VC:
What We Are Seeing — The Wall Street Journal has a story out today that says “Web Startups Hit Cash Crunch.” There has been a fair bit of reaction in the tech blogs and I thought I'd toss into the discussion some things we are seeing: — 1) There are so many startups out there raising money.
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Venture Capital Dispatch, The Appside, Business Insider and Darren Herman
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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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Business Insider, VatorNews, GigaOM, Gawker, Fortune, @gaberivera, @sacca, @naval, @joshmedia, @davemcclure, @danprimack, Learn to Duck, the Econsultancy blog, GeekWire, @cdixon, @cdixon, @msuster, @msuster, @msuster and @jeffreymcmanus
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Web “Start-Ups” Hit Cash Crunch. Or Don't, Depending On Whom You Ask
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David Galbraith's Blog, Digits, @naval, @davemcclure, @pkedrosky, VentureBeat, @davemcclure, @fdestin, @parislemon, @cdixon, @naval, @jacob and @msuster
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
New Data Shows Why the Wall Street Journal is Confused About the Startup Cash Crunch
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CB Insights, PE Hub Blog and CNET News, Thanks:megan
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 …
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Business Insider, Gadget Lab, TidBITS, WebProNews, Edible Apple, Bits, Electricpig.co.uk, Geeky-Gadgets, Newlaunches.com, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, App Advice and GottaBeMobile
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
Outlook 2010 PC? It's iCloud Or Google Calendar Sync, Not Both - And Outlook 2011 Mac Gets No Love — I live a complicated Calendar life. I keep my schedule in Outlook 2010 on my PC, which syncs to the cloud through Google Calendar but can't talk to Outlook 2011 on my Mac, which I use for travel.
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@stshank
Ben Fritz / Los Angeles Times:
Apple prepping movie cloud service — Apple Inc. is preparing to put movies in the cloud, entering a market in which it may be both competitor and ally to a similar offering backed by most Hollywood studios. — Representatives of the iPhone and iPad maker have been meeting with studios …
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Computerworld, Digital Trends, CNET News, Wall Street Journal, GigaOM, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, Neowin.net, Company Town, Mashable!, TechnoBuffalo, FierceMobileContent, iLounge, TiPb, MobileBurn.com, I4U News, Gizmodo, Electronista, Ubergizmo, MacStories, PhoneArena, Engadget, Apple Herald, TUAW, MacRumors, App Advice, @cnbc, Phones Review and iClarified, more at Mediagazer »
Brad Burnham / Union Square Ventures:
Duck Duck Go — When I first got into the venture capital business in the early 90s, it seemed to me that half of the deals I brought to the partnership were dismissed with the line “sure it's cool but what the heck do they do if Microsoft decides to enter this business.”
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Business Insider, TechCrunch, @dannysullivan and WebProNews
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Business Week:
Scott Forstall, the Sorcerer's Apprentice at Apple — The iOS chief is a lot like his mentor Steve Jobs: brilliant, presents well, a tenacious infighter—arguably just the taskmaster Apple needs to stay on top — The deteriorating health of Steve Jobs loomed over Apple's Oct. 4 press event …
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Gizmodo, Daring Fireball, iLounge, Business Insider, TUAW, SplatF, MacRumors and 9to5Mac
Amar Toor / Engadget:
Mike Lazaridis apologizes for BlackBerry outage: 'We've let many of you down' (video) (Update: full services restored) — Now that BlackBerry services are returning to full functionality, RIM founder Mike Lazaridis has decided to issue a public apology for this week's mysterious global outage.
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
RIM Says Service Back Globally, Vows to Win Back Lost Trust
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VentureBeat, Electronista, Computerworld, SlashGear, Tech Trader Daily and Technologizer
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Steve Jobs patent enables Apple to shut down any new Android product in Australia — In a posthumous triumph for the late Steve Jobs, one of his more than 300 patents — a patent on touchscreen heuristics — just helped Apple score a major legal win in Australia that lends momentum …
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Computerworld, AllThingsD, BGR, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, GigaOM, Sydney Morning Herald, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, paidContent, Techie Buzz, AppleInsider, Reuters, I4U News and Network World
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011: Computer scientist, Unix co-creator, C programming language designer — 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.
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Mashable!, BBC, Digital Trends, ongoing, The Register, CNET News, Pythonmeister, Rob Pike - Google+, Inquirer, All Things Tagxedo, Engadget, Sutter's Mill, GMSV, The Register, rc3.org, asymco, TechEye, Pulse2, TechCrunch, Gizmodo UK, nixCraft, Electronista, Daring Fireball, @douglaswan, reddit.com, memeburn and Geekosystem
Horace Dediu / asymco:
Windows Phone, a year on — Windows Phone is in limbo. The company acknowledged that it has performed below expectations. During the last quarter for which we have data (ending June) I have an estimate that Windows Phone sold only 1.4 million units (Gartner's sell-through analysis suggests 1.7 million).
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eWeek, DailyTech, The Appside, SlashGear, Telegraph, TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine, Daring Fireball, MobileSyrup.com, Edible Apple and ITProPortal
Khidr Suleman / V3.co.uk:
Dell World: Dell gearing up to launch Windows 8 devices as Android disappoints — AUSTIN: Dell is throwing its weight firmly behind the Windows 8 tablet platform in a bid to challenge the dominance of the Apple iPad 2. — Michael Dell, founder and chief executive of Dell …
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Electronista, InfoWorld, SlashGear, Mashable! and WinRumors, Thanks:withinrafael
Bloomberg:
‘Angry Birds’ Maker May Hold IPO in 2012, Mighty Eagle Says — By Jon Erlichman and Diana ben-Aaron - October 13, 2011 — Rovio Entertainment Oy, the Finnish creator of “Angry Birds” mobile-phone games, may sell shares to the public as early as next year and is probably worth more than $1 billion, its chief marketing officer said.
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VentureBeat, CNET News and ArcticStartup Posts
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
“We Are Absolutely in a Feature Race,” Says Bradley Horowitz of Google+ — As Facebook changes to become more about personal expression and oversharing, and Twitter maintains it will stay simple rather than get caught up in a feature race, how will Google+ respond?
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Gizmodo, Rip Rowan, Vic Gundotra, Google Watch, Marketing Pilgrim, FT Tech Hub, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, Seattle Times, line of site, Digits and 9to5Google
JR Raphael / Computerworld:
Privacy alert: Verizon is now monitoring your mobile Web habits — Verizon Wireless users, listen up: — Verizon is making a significant change to its privacy policy for mobile users this week. By default, the company will now use a bunch of your info for “certain business and marketing reports” …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Ubergizmo, Droid Life, FierceWireless, Gizmodo, Android and Me, Techland and PhoneArena
Jesse Drucker / Bloomberg:
IRS Auditing How Google Shifted Profits Offshore to Avoid Taxes — Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is auditing how Google Inc. avoided federal income taxes by shifting profit into offshore subsidiaries, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
Roger Cheng / CNET News:
LightSquared: GPS fix to cost industry $400M — SAN DIEGO—Start-up wireless provider LightSquared said today it will cost the commercial GPS industry as much as $400 million for gear that will eliminate the interference potentially caused by its planned next-generation network.
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DSLreports and Electronista
Nielsen Wire:
40% of Tablet and Smartphone Owners Use Them While Watching TV — American consumers are increasingly connected and our recent survey shows they are increasingly multitasking when it comes to multimedia. — Roughly 40 percent of tablet and smartphone owners in the U.S. used their devices daily …
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IntoMobile, AllThingsD and Electronista
