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Bradley Horowitz / The Official Google Blog:
A fall sweep — We aspire to build great products that really change people's lives, products they use two or three times a day. To succeed you need real focus and thought—thought about what you work on and, just as important, what you don't work on. It's why we recently decided to shut …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Axes More Services: Jaiku, Buzz, Code Search & More — According to a new post by Google VP of Product Bradley Horowitz, on the official company blog, Google is delivering the death blow to several more products and services, including its code search engine, Buzz, Jaiku …
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Jay Greene / CNET News:
Google's Buzz kill completes shift to Google+
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Bradley Horowitz, Computerworld and Tech Daily Dose
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
AT&T Activations Servers Overloaded with iPhone 4S Launch — As has happened in the past, it seems AT&T's activation servers are having problems with the large influx of activations with the iPhone 4S launch. A quick search of Twitter shows many having problems activating their AT&T iPhone 4Ss due to server issues.
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Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Apple already spent $750 million on the iCloud building alone? — CEO Tim Cook confirmed at the iPhone 4S unveiling shipments of 250 million iOS devices since the original iPhone went on sale in the summer of 2007. The iPhone 4S, the latest and greatest new model, has marked a shift in focus …
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asymco, MacDailyNews, Electronista and Data Center Knowledge
Miro / iFixit Blog:
iPhone 4S Camera Made by Sony — Chipworks definitely has some fancy equipment inside their labs. They took apart one of their iPhone 4S units this morning (using our teardown for guidance, of course) and tossed the 8MP camera directly under an infrared microscope to find out the manufacturer.
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, 9to5Mac, Tech Trader Daily, Computerworld, MacNN, Recent Teardowns, MacStories, App Advice and ITProPortal
Brian Caulfield / Shiny Objects:
Analyst: Led By iPhone 4S, Apple Could Sell 24 Million iPhones In December Quarter
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, Computerworld, 9to5Mac and Tech Trader Daily
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Siri: Maps and Local Search for International Customers Coming in 2012
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Apple, MacStories, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, TUAW, MacNN, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks and Electricpig.co.uk
AppleInsider:
iPhone 4S launch draws crowds at Apple stores around the world — The debut of Apple's latest smartphone on Friday has drawn huge crowds at Apple stores around the world, including a long, rain-soaked line at the company's flagship Fifth Avenue store. — Today the iPhone 4S launches in the U.S. …
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Retrevo:
Who Is Going to Buy an iPhone 4S? — The iPhone 4S is due to go on sale October 14th. At the announcement for the iPhone 4S you could sense a mild disappointment when everyone realized there wasn't going to be Jobs' trademarked, “one more thing.” Aside from the lack of a redesigned case …
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WebProNews, Internet2Go, GMSV, AppleInsider, eWeek, Guardian, Android Community, Softpedia News, Computerworld, ITProPortal, VentureBeat, BGR and Electronista
CNET News:
iPhone 4S goes on sale (semi-live blog) — Lines outside the Apple store on Fifth Ave. wrap around the block as people wait for the iPhone 4S. — After a longer than usual wait for Apple iPhone fans, the newest iPhone-the iPhone 4S-is finally hitting store shelves today all across the U.S. and in six other countries.
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Bloomberg:
IPhone 4S Sales to Set Weekend Record
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Bloomberg, SlashGear, Business Insider and Fudzilla
Microsoft:
Microsoft Officially Welcomes Skype — Microsoft and Skype will empower people and businesses to connect in new ways. — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT") has closed its acquisition of Skype Global S.à r.l. Negotiations of the definitive agreement under which Microsoft would acquire Skype …
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PC Magazine, CircleID, Skype Journal, IntoMobile, Disruptive Telephony, AllThingsD, Epicenter, Electronista, GMSV, Business Insider, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Digital Trends, Connected Planet Online, TechnoBuffalo, VentureBeat, gHacks Technology News, WPCentral.com, VoIP Watch, The Next Web, WinRumors, Telecompetitor, Pulse2, paidContent, GeekWire, PhoneArena, Techie Buzz, @skype, @microsoft, TechNet Blogs, My Microsoft Life and WebProNews, Thanks:withinrafael
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Jeffrey Meisner / TechNet Blogs:
Tony Bates Weighs in on Microsoft's Acquisition of Skype — I am delighted to announce the deal with Microsoft has formally closed, and Skype is now a division of Microsoft. This represents a huge leap forward in Skype's mission to be the communications choice for a billion people every day.
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Mobile Today, BetaNews, WMPoweruser, The Microsoft Blog, TechSpot, MSDN Blogs, PC Magazine, eWeek, Engadget, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, The Next Web, T3 News, ITProPortal, memeburn, CNET News, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, LiveSide.net and Datamation.com
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Skype for Windows updated to remove Google product bundling
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Computerworld, Skype Garage, The Next Web, Seattle Times, All about Microsoft Blog, Voice on the Web and Electronista
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
iPad 3 Headed Into Production — With the iPhone 4S arriving at market today, the never-sated Apple rumor mill is clamoring for more grist. And, as always, there's plenty of it to be had, this time involving the iPad 3. — According to Susquehanna Financial analyst Jeff Fidacaro, the device is headed into production.
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Reuters:
Samsung loses Dutch bid to ban Apple products — * Says two companies should negotiate licensing deal — * Ruling may help Apple in other European court cases (Adds response from Samsung and Apple) — A Dutch court on Friday turned down Samsung Electronics' request for an injunction …
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PC Magazine, 9to5Mac, FOSS Patents, Inquirer, GigaOM and Datamation.com
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Samsung Lawyer Cannot Tell Samsung Tablet From Apple iPad
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AppleInsider, Digital Trends, Reuters, Sydney Morning Herald, Geek.com, BetaNews, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, DailyTech, PadGadget and Pocket-lint
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Motorola DROID HD (RAZR/Spyder) specs revealed; said to be ‘faster than the iPhone 4S’ — We just confirmed some of the specifications for the upcoming Motorola DROID device (DROID HD / DROID RAZR / Spyder) that Verizon Wireless and Motorola are rumored to be announcing next week, and they are monster.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Paul Carr's ‘The New Gambit’ Wants To Be ‘The Economist,’ But Funny (And Tablet-Only!) — Here's the one in which we figure out what Paul Carr's startup will actually do; Okay so it is a publication! Okay it's a whole company focused on publishing only for tablets and e-readers!
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Congress, wary of Amazon's Silk browser, demands answers on privacy — Congress is trying to wrap its collective head around Amazon's new Silk Web browser. — At a privacy hearing yesterday, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) expressed outrage at the way Silk's “split” design can funnel all user browsing data through Amazon's backend servers.
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Bits, GeekWire, Between the Lines Blog and WebProNews
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Jail Sentence for Pirate Bay Co-Founder Made Final — November last year, the Swedish Appeal Court found three people behind The Pirate Bay guilty of contributory copyright infringement offenses. The trio were handed prison sentences and ordered to pay millions of dollars in damages.
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MG Siegler / parislemon:
Just Win, Baby — The biggest challenge I faced as a tech blogger was a simple one: motivation. By that, I don't mean that it was hard to write — it never was. But towards the end, it was getting hard to get excited to write on a daily basis. I needed to be driven. That's when I'm at my best.
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David Kravets / Threat Level:
U.S. Copyright Czar Cozied Up to Content Industry, E-Mails Show — Top-ranking Obama administration officials, including the U.S. copyright czar, played an active role in secret negotiations between Hollywood, the recording industry and ISPs to disrupt internet access for users suspected …
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Techdirt and Plagiarism Today
Candice Katz / Spotify:
Spotify and Boxee, together at last — Today we're excited to announce that Spotify is available on Boxee. — For those of you who don't know about Boxee yet, it's a great device that finds many of your favorite shows and movies on the Internet and puts them on your TV. Now you can add music to that list.
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Betabeat, Between the Lines Blog, Boxee Blog, VentureBeat, Engadget, VatorNews, GigaOM, TechCrunch, SlashGear, The Next Web and Lifehacker
Noah Davis / Business Insider:
BUSTED: Groupon And Living Social Caught Inflating Regular Prices To Make Deals Look Better — Groupon and LivingSocial succeed because consumers perceive them as great deals. But is that true? — Perhaps not. — Thumbtack.com called 10 vendors offering daily deals …
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PC World, Thumbtack.com, Screenwerk and WebProNews
