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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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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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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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DigiTimes, GottaBeMobile, Edible Apple, Techie Buzz, IntoMobile and MacDailyNews
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, Business Insider and The Appside
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Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:
Web Start-Ups Hit Cash Crunch
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CNET News, GeekWire, Business Insider, VatorNews, @gaberivera, @davemcclure, Fortune, @danprimack, @naval, @joshmedia, the Econsultancy blog, GigaOM and Gawker
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, DealBook, BRYCE DOT VC, Mashable!, @naval, Digits, @davemcclure, @pkedrosky, @davemcclure and @fdestin
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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Gadget Lab, Business Insider, Neowin.net, Electricpig.co.uk, Geeky-Gadgets, TidBITS, WebProNews, Edible Apple, Pocket-lint, Newlaunches.com, Bits and TechCrunch
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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
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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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parislemon, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, SlashGear, Connected Planet Online, ITProPortal, 9to5Mac, CNET News, Company Town, Neowin.net, TiPb, FierceMobileContent, TechnoBuffalo, I4U News, GigaOM, Electronista, Ubergizmo, MacStories, PhoneArena, Engadget, Mashable!, Apple Herald, Gizmodo, iLounge and TUAW, more at Mediagazer »
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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MacNN, Daring Fireball, Gizmodo, iLounge, Business Insider, TUAW, SplatF and MacRumors
Mark Saldana / The Box Blog:
iPad and iPhone Users Get 50 GB FREE Starting Tonight #Box50GB — As evidenced by the overwhelming crowds during past iPhone and iPad launches, it's clear that our lives revolve around mobile. That's why we're happy to announce that we're giving away 50 GB of free storage to anyone who uses a Box Personal account on an iOS device.
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9to5Mac, App Advice and MobileBurn.com
Jay Greene / CNET News:
Microsoft inks Android, Chrome deal with Quanta — Microsoft has signed a patent deal with Quanta Computer, the latest in an ongoing effort to convince hardware makers that they need to license technology from the software giant if they intend to use Google's Android and Chrome operating systems for their devices.
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All about Microsoft Blog, TechCrunch, parislemon, BGR, eWeek, Technologizer, TechFlash, Engadget, Microsoft, GeekWire, @fosspatents, Electronista, WinRumors, Android Community and Techie Buzz
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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Gabriel Weinberg / Gabriel Weinberg's Blog:
DuckDuckGo is growing - welcome USV et al.!
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CNET News
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, Business Insider, Computerworld, Daring Fireball, Mashable!, SlashGear and WinRumors, Thanks:withinrafael
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 …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
RIM Says Service Back Globally After Outage — Research In Motion said on Thursday that its service is returning to normal levels following a days-long outage in Europe that spread globally. — “BlackBerry services are operating well globally,” the company said in a statement.
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LAPTOP Magazine, CNET News, PC World, GeekWire, Inquirer, The Register, VentureBeat, BetaNews, eWeek, Engadget, CNET News, dailywireless.org, New York Times, PC Magazine, CNNMoney.com, The Next Web, Electronista, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, Electronista, Between the Lines Blog and Network World, more at Mediagazer »
Alcatel-Lucent:
Dennis Ritchie 1941-2011: Message from Jeong Kim — Dennis Ritchie (right) receiving the Japan Prize in May 2011 — [Message from Jeong Kim, President, Bell Labs, to our employees] — It is with great sadness that I inform you that Dennis Ritchie has passed away at the age of 70.
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SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, CNET News and TG Daily
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Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011: Computer scientist, Unix co-creator, C programming language designer
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ReadWriteEnterprise, Ars Technica, ongoing, Mashable!, Pythonmeister, Sutter's Mill, Computerworld, All Things Tagxedo, BBC, Digital Trends, The Register, The Register, Rob Pike - Google+, GMSV, asymco, TechEye, Pulse2, TechCrunch, Engadget, rc3.org, Gizmodo UK, nixCraft, Inquirer 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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Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, IntoMobile, AllThingsD and Electronista
Bloomberg:
KKR, Blackstone Said to Weigh Yahoo Takeover — KKR & Co. and Blackstone Group LP (BX) are among the private-equity firms considering possible bids for Yahoo! Inc., according to people with knowledge of the matter. — The firms may become part of a consortium that would pool the financing needed …
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Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily and @ldignan
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Google Translate conversation mode expands to 14 languages — Google Translate for Android conversation mode, which allows two people to speak in different languages and have their words translated in near real time, is now expanding beyond English and Spanish and is available in 14 languages.
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9to5Google, Search Engine Land, This is my next, AllThingsD, Guardian, Gizmodo, Next Big Future and MobileBurn.com
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, SlashGear and The Appside
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, PE Hub Blog, CNET News, Gamasutra and ArcticStartup Posts
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Mobile data traffic doubled in past 12 months — Thanks to our obsession with our iPhones, Android devices and iPads, the demand for mobile data is exploding. Data from Ericsson, which makes a majority of its money by selling hardware to mobile phone companies, shows that from the second quarter …
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@mrinaldesai and Datamation.com
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Rebtel's new iPhone VoIP app can hop between data/voice networks, a first — VoIP company Rebtel announced version 2.0 of its iPhone app today, which sports a unique feature: the ability to easily move between WiFi/data networks and voice networks during VoIP calls.
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LAPTOP Magazine and TechCrunch
