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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Siri voice command system ported from iPhone 4S to iPhone 4 (video) — Developer Steven Troughton-Smith has been working with 9to5Mac exclusively to port the iPhone 4S Siri voice command system to the iPhone 4. Troughton-Smith was able to get the beginning steps of a full port rolling …
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Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
Siri Service on Apple's iPhone 4S Talks Back With Humor — New Devices Dish Out Sarcasm, Tell Jokes; ‘Two iPhones Walk Into a Bar’ — Now even your phone talks back. — Matt Legend Gemmell, a software designer from Edinburgh, got a new Apple Inc. iPhone on Friday and asked it: “Who's your daddy?”
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App Advice, MacRumors, Gizmodo, MacNN and Electronista
Zach Honig / Engadget:
Google Voice pulled from App Store following iOS 5 crash — What once was there now is gone. Earlier today, Google Voice was just two clicks away in the iOS App Store. Now, all that remains is a page cache (at the source link below) and versions of the app that were already installed on iPhones and iPod touches.
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PhoneArena, @dannysullivan, Electronista, parislemon and everythingiCafe
Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters:
Samsung heir apparent invited to Jobs memorial: source — (Reuters) - The president and chief operating officer of Samsung Electronics, Lee Jae-yong, has been invited to Apple Inc's private memorial service for Steve on Sunday, a source with the knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Sunday.
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Jerry Brown / @jerrybrowngov:
This Sunday will be Steve Jobs Day in the State of California.
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple already selling unlocked, contract-free iPhone 4S in the United States — Although Apple says that they will begin selling unlocked, contract-free iPhone 4S units in the United States in November, we have learned otherwise. Select Apple Stores in the United States …
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MacRumors, IntoMobile, Jailbreak Story, MacPost, GottaBeMobile and Neowin.net
Rusty Blazenhoff / Laughing Squid:
One Year-Old Baby Thinks Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work — Jean-Louis Constanza posted a video, titled A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work, featuring a one-year old baby trying to manipulate a traditional paper magazine like a touchscreen Apple iPad. … via Nerdcore
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Gizmodo:
The Great iPhone 4S National Network Speed Test — You did it. You've got your brand new iPhone. Siri! The better camera! But how fast is it on your carrier's network? Push that download to the max. — Using our Official Gizmodo Download Speed Ultra Test 6500™, you can check how your mobile downloads stack up.
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MacRumors, Examiner, everythingiCafe, SlashGear, Gizmodo, TiPb and The Next Web, Thanks:joemfbrown
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Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Google's Honeycomb offensive musters just 3.4m tablets — Apple's iPad may still be sitting pretty at the top of the consumer tablet charts, but questions still remain over whether Android 3.x Honeycomb really has been a sales failure so far. Google and its manufacturer partners are yet …
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Business Week:
The Shadowy World of iPhone Cases — Smartphone case makers rely on rumors and leaks to get their products on the market first — In the weeks leading up to Apple's Oct. 4 announcement about the new iPhone 4S, Tim Hickman lived and breathed rumors about the device.
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AppleInsider, TUAW, Computerworld, everythingiCafe, 9to5Mac and Business Insider
Richard L. Brandt / Wall Street Journal:
Jeff Bezos of Amazon: Birth of a Salesman — Behind the rise of Jeff Bezos and Amazon: Richard L. Brandt on the founder's Texas roots, the site's chaotic early days, why negative reviews are allowed and his increasing use of personal data. — Jeffrey Preston Bezos was 4 years old …
Nicholas Kulish / New York Times:
Germans Condemn Police Use of Spyware — BERLIN — A group that calls itself the Chaos Computer Club prompted a public outcry here recently when it discovered that German state investigators were using spying software capable of turning a computer's webcam and microphone into a sophisticated surveillance device.
Dave McClure / Quora:
500 Startups: A Continuing Work in Progress. — ok, it's been over a year since http://500startups.com has been up & running (altho almost two years we've been working on deals, and about 9 months we've been running the incubator/accelerator). in any case, while we may still be rookie VCs …
