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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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AnandTech, TechCrunch, PC World, Ars Technica, Bits, Reuters, Shiny Objects, GigaOM, App Advice, GottaBeMobile, AppleInsider, Edible Apple, CNET News, The Next Web, SlashGear, MobileWhack.com, Electronista, TiPb, TUAW, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo UK, MacStories, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Sprintfeed, everythingiCafe and 9to5Mac
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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, VentureBeat, DailyTech, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, Techland, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, IntoMobile, I4U News, Business Insider, MacPost and TechHog.com
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Cleaning... This is going to be a problem: — (Screenshot by someone on Twitter two weeks ago. I can't find the tweet now — sorry.) — Every iOS app has its own “home” directory where it can store files. Every file and directory that an app puts there, except anything in a Caches or tmp directory …
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Daring Fireball and TiPb
Steve Wozniak / @stevewoz:
The long wait begins. I'm first in line. The guy ahead was on the wrong side and he's pissed. (@ Apple Store) http://t.co/16in6G0p
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Business Insider, @joehewitt, MacRumors, App Advice and @pdparticle
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple: We're Gonna Need a Bigger iPhone Order
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Gizmodo, Tech Trader Daily, DigiTimes, Edible Apple, Techie Buzz, GottaBeMobile and MacDailyNews
Google Investor Relations:
Google Announces Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2011. — “We had a great quarter,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google. “Revenue was up 33% year on year and our quarterly revenue was just short of $10 billion.
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GeekWire, VatorNews, Business Insider, Mashable!, AllThingsD, @mattcutts, New York Times, AllThingsD, The Tech Trade, The New Persuaders, Gizmodo, Search Engine Land, Android and Me, Tech Trader Daily, Neowin.net, Engadget, WinRumors, SlashGear, Gizmodo Australia, MobileSyrup.com, The Next Web and Android Community
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Q3: $9.72 Billion In Revenue, $2.73 Billion In Net Income — Welcome to Google's Quarter Three 2011 earnings results everyone! In Larry Page's third quarter as CEO, Google is boasting a in $9.72 billion revenue, an increase of 33% compared to third quarter of 2010.
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VentureBeat, MarketBeat, BGR, Search Engine Watch, 9to5Google, GMSV, MarketBeat and Electronista
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Google's third quarter results shine, Google+ hits 40 million users
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CNET News, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Business Insider, Neowin.net, @miguelrios, The Domains and Android Central
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Larry Page: Mobile Revenues At $2.5 Billion Run-Rate, 190 Million Android Devices
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Larry Page and 9to5Google
Dan Levine / Reuters:
U.S. judge says Samsung tablets do infringe Apple — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge said Samsung's Galaxy tablets do infringe Apple's iPad patents, but also said Apple might have a problem establishing the validity of its patents. — The comments from U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh came …
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GigaOM and The Next Web
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Christopher Zinsli / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Zynga Reveals Just How Much Power Mark Pincus Has — We already knew that Mark Pincus had considerable control over his online social-gaming company Zynga thanks to a multi-class stock structure. Now we know exactly how much that voting power represents.
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Between the Lines Blog, SiliconBeat and Social Markets
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Zynga (ZNGA) to play on Nasdaq
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VentureBeat, Inside Social Games and AllThingsD
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
MacBook Pros constrained, new models appear in Apple's inventory system — Apple's current line of MacBook Pros is heavily constrained with all models appearing to be nearly out of stock. Don't fear, though, if you want a MacBook Pro because new models are right around the corner.
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TechCrunch, Redmond Pie and Geek.com, Thanks:deancorp
Hulu Blog:
Hulu Equity Owners Announce Decision To Terminate The Hulu Sale Process — The following is a joint statement from Hulu owners News Corporation, Providence Equity Partners, The Walt Disney Company and the Hulu senior management team: — “Since Hulu holds a unique and compelling strategic value …
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GigaOM, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Business Insider, SplatF, Engadget, Reuters, AllThingsD, Electronista and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
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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David Galbraith's Blog, CNET News, TechCrunch and @daltonc
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Ben Popper / Betabeat:
New Data Shows Why the Wall Street Journal is Confused About the Startup Cash Crunch
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Digits, CB Insights and PE Hub Blog, Thanks:megan
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, PadGadget, Internet Evolution, Electronista, CNET News, Lost Remote and Between the Lines Blog, more at Mediagazer »
Ian Lamont / The Digital Media Machine:
The iCloud tax for Mac users — Last night, I updated my iPod touch to iOS 5. Lots of people had reported problems, but my update went smoothly, and soon I was going through the setup for some of the new features, such as iMessage, the iPod mapper, and iCloud.
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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ZDNet, Rob Pike - Google+, The Technology Chronicles, SiliconANGLE, TG Daily and CNET News
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Samsung and Google Reschedule Android Event for Oct. 19 in Hong Kong — Samsung and Google have rescheduled the Ice Cream Sandwich launch event that was to have taken place this past Tuesday. The companies postponed the event in the wake of Steve Jobs's death.
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, SlashGear and Mashable!, Thanks:withinrafael
Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
Bitly Rolls Out Reputation-Monitoring Tool and Social-Search Product — The Field of Companies Monitoring Social Media Gets a Little More Crowded — Bitly, the New York City startup best known for its URL shortening service, is today releasing a real-time, reputation-monitoring tool …
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bitly blog, @taylorbuley and The Next Web
Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Britons leave internet passwords in wills — A growing number of Britons are including their internet passwords in their wills so that their family and friends can access and save their personal data on sites such as Facebook after they die, says a new report.
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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Business Insider, The Toybox Blog, App Advice, 9to5Mac, ReadWriteWeb, Gizmodo, GottaBeMobile, IntoMobile and Electronista
Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:
Khosla Venture's $1.05 Billion Fund — Venture-Capital Firm Plans to Invest in Clean Tech, Mobile Companies — Khosla Ventures, the venture-capital firm run by longtime Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla, closed a $1.05 billion fund that ranks as one of the biggest new venture funds this year …
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TechCrunch, PE Hub Blog, Business Wire and VentureBeat
Michael Grothaus / TUAW:
Apple giving employees extra paid time off this Thanksgiving for a job well done — Apple is on a roll. Mac sales are higher than ever, the iPad owns the tablet market, and the company just sold one million iPhones in 24 hours. In honor of all that Apple has achieved this year …
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MacGeneration and iDownloadBlog.com
Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:
You Can Now Connect Your YouTube & Google Plus Accounts — Google is rolling out the ability to link YouTube accounts with Google Plus. The link will add videos shared with you on Google Plus to your YouTube homepage. In a public Plus post, Nirav Mehta says that the process takes some time to complete initially.
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Nirav Mehta and The Next Web, Thanks:jonmwords
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Preparing another Round of FaceTime Innovations — On Oct 13, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a powerful group of seven Apple patents concerning the next round of FaceTime videoconferencing innovations. Some of these innovations include new PIP controls …
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
The Windows 8 Task Manager … We are really excited to share some of the improvements we are making to the Task Manager in Windows 8. Task Manager is one of the most widely used apps, and it has a long history. It showed up in early versions of Windows as a simple utility to close …
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Gizmodo, WinRumors, Neowin.net, WinBeta and SlashGear
