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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Steve Jobs' last big project: The next iPhone — The iPhone 4S is not the last major project that Steve Jobs worked on, according to one analyst. That would be the next iPhone—let's call it the iPhone 5. — The next-generation iPhone “was the last project that Steve Jobs was intimately involved with from concept to final design.
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Peter Delevett / Mercury News:
Luminaries pay tribute to Steve Jobs at Stanford service — The technology industry's leading lights gathered Sunday evening to bid farewell to one who shone perhaps the brightest. — Steve Jobs — the former Apple CEO who revolutionized computing, telephones, animated films and the music industry …
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James B. Stewart / New York Times:
Steve Jobs, a Genius of Store Design, Too
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Reuters:
Apple's iPhone luring people to ditch rival phones — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's latest iPhone looks set to become its bestselling device ever, and one reason appears to be disenchantment with rival smartphones. — Nearly one in four people who thronged Apple stores from Tokyo …
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Jon Phillips / Gadget Lab:
iOS 5: Exploring 7 Hidden New Features — iPhone 4S owners are poised to become members of an elite class. Their new phones boast an improved camera, dual antennae and an unpaid personal intern named Siri — all relevant talking points in “Who's got the real iPhone?” one-upsmanship battles.
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Sprint iPhone Users Complaining of Slow 3G Data Speeds
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Jung-Ah Lee / Wall Street Journal:
Samsung Seeks iPhone 4S Sales Ban in Japan, Australia — SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. said it is seeking to stop the sale of Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 4S in Japan and Australia, further ramping up a legal clash with the U.S. company after a series of setbacks in courts around the world in recent days.
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal — SEATTLE — Amazon.com has taught readers that they do not need bookstores. Now it is encouraging writers to cast aside their publishers. — Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in an array of genres, in both physical and e-book form.
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon's new locker delivery system now live in New York — The Amazon Locker system first surfaced at a 7-Eleven in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. — Amazon.com has activated its new Amazon Locker package delivery system in New York City, expanding a test that first surfaced in its hometown of Seattle.
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Zee / The Next Web:
Sesame Street's YouTube Channel Gets Hacked. Badly. — Children hoping to watch Sesame Street on YouTube on Sunday were greeted with quite the opposite. The channel was hacked, all videos deleted, design modified and graphic porn uploaded. A blurred screenshot is posted below.
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CNN, Naked Security, HotTips!, Gizmodo UK, Gizmodo Australia and Techie Buzz
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Head To Head: Siri Vs. Google Voice Actions — When you first begin using Siri it's not entirely clear what you can do with it. (It's also not clear how to access it.) Yesterday Danny wrote up some initial thoughts/criticisms of the Siri local search experience.
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TechCrunch, Understanding Google … and Wall Street Journal
Jean-Baptiste Queru / Google+:
Dizzying but invisible depth — You just went to the Google home page. — Simple, isn't it? — What just actually happened? — Well, when you know a bit of about how browsers work, it's not quite that simple. You've just put into play HTTP, HTML, CSS, ECMAscript, and more.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
YouTube Now Allows Music Partners To Sell Merchandise, Digital Downloads And Event Tickets — We already know that YouTube is seeing 3 billion videos viewed per day day, but now the online video giant is now seeing a whopping 800 million people per month visiting the site, Google revealed in its third-quarter earnings report last week.
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Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
F.C.C. and Wireless Carriers Agree to Alerts to Fight ‘Bill Shock’ — WASHINGTON — Users of cellphones and other wireless devices who are nearing their monthly limit for voice, text or data services will receive alerts when they are in danger of being charged extra, under an agreement reached …
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