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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
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Jay Greene / CNET News:
Google's Buzz kill completes shift to Google+
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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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Jon Orlin / TechCrunch:
Steve Wozniak On How The iPhone 4S Will Change His Life (TCTV) — Steve Wozniak likes to be the first person in line to buy the latest Apple products. This evening, the Apple co-founder and designer of the Apple I and II, was #1 on line outside the Apple store in Los Gatos, California to get the iPhone 4S.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Launch of the iPhone 4S Leads to Siri-ously Good Sales for Carriers — It's not a shocker, but the availability of the iPhone 4S gave Sprint its best sales day ever. — The company, which is investing heavily to at long last get the iPhone on its network, said it broke its record by 1 pm ET on Friday.
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AppleInsider:
iPhone 4S launch draws crowds at Apple stores around the world
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Miro / iFixit Blog:
iPhone 4S Camera Made by Sony
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Apple shares close at all time high on day of iPhone 4S launch
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Shiny Objects and CNET News
Brian Caulfield / Shiny Objects:
Analyst: Led By iPhone 4S, Apple Could Sell 24 Million iPhones In December Quarter
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Siri: Maps and Local Search for International Customers Coming in 2012
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Steve Jobs Memorial Service To Be Held Oct. 16 — Apple Inc. has invited some of Silicon Valley's biggest names to a memorial service for Steve Jobs Sunday, Oct. 16, according to a copy of the invitation and several invitees. — The event will be held at Stanford University's campus Sunday evening, according to the invitation.
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Jerry Brown / @jerrybrowngov:
This Sunday will be Steve Jobs Day in the State of California.
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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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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Skype for Windows updated to remove Google product bundling — Skype updated version 5.5 and 5.6 of its Windows product on Friday to remove Google products from the installer. — The removal of Google's toolbar from the Skype installer comes shortly after the finalization of Microsoft's Skype deal on Friday.
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Jeffrey Meisner / TechNet Blogs:
Tony Bates Weighs in on Microsoft's Acquisition of Skype
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Vincent Paquet / Google Voice Blog:
First steps Towards MMS support — MMS has been one of the constant feature requests since we launched Google Voice and we've been hard at work trying to make this happen. — Today, we're happy to announce that we've made the first step in our efforts to bring this feature to our users.
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
The Three Ventureers: Andreessen Horowitz Joining Conway and Milner in Y Combinator Start Fund — Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz said today that it was joining well-known investors Ron Conway and DST Global's Yuri Milner in the Y Combinator Start Fund, which gives $150,000 to each start-up in its semi-annual group.
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VentureBeat and TechCrunch
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.
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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The Register and The Next Web
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.
Jameson Berkow / Financial Post:
What the BlackBerry outage will cost RIM — The most severe BlackBerry service disruption in the history of Research In Motion Ltd. could cost the Canadian mobile device maker more than US$100-million in lost revenues. — As some argue the damage to RIM's future ability to brand its smartphones …
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TechCrunch, Reuters, SlashGear, BGR and Electronista
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, Electronista and Plagiarism Today
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Rolls Out New App Authentication Flow That Ups Privacy and Transparency — Facebook is granting all developers access to a new application authentication flow today that was announced at f8 last month. Developers can now add a description of their app that will be displayed in a redesigned publishing permissions dialog.
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Facebook Developers and WebProNews
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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