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Paul Miller / This is my next:
Android 4.0 ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ official: release in November, SDK available today (updated with screenshots) — Alongside a new flagship handset (check out our hands-on with the Galaxy Nexus!), Google is announcing an all-new version of its Android OS. Codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich …
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Google confirms Nexus S will get Ice Cream Sandwich — for real this time (Gingerbread devices, too) — Okay, so we've already seen Ice Cream Sandwich running on the Nexus S, but that was decidedly... unofficial. We've just heard straight from Google's Gabe Cohen that the Nexus S will definitely be getting ICS.
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Joshua Topolsky / This is my next:
Exclusive: Matias Duarte on the philosophy of Android, and an in-depth look at Ice Cream Sandwich — I'm sitting in an anonymous, fluorescently-lit office on the Google campus where the Android team is situated, a surprisingly bare setting that seems to clash with the rest of the company's, multi-colored, neo-hippie aesthetic.
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WPCentral.com, Engadget, 9to5Google, Electronista, AndroidGuys, GottaBeMobile and Pulse2
Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
A Quick Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Feature Rundown — While hardware junkies like myself may have spent the past few weeks drooling over the Galaxy Nexus, the onstage demo of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich proves that the software powering the device is just as impressive (if not a little moreso).
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Google announces NFC-based Android Beam for sharing between phones (video)
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Dieter Bohn / This is my next:
Android Ice Cream Sandwich to feature ‘Face Unlock’
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Apple:
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results — CUPERTINO, California—October 18, 2011—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2011. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $28.27 billion and quarterly net profit of $6.62 billion, or $7.05 per diluted share.
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Mark Gongloff / MarketBeat:
Apple Misses on Earnings, Revenue, iPhone Sales, Stock Tanks … The mixed-bag earnings season continues. — Apple reported third-quarter earnings of $7.05 a share, on revenue of $28.3 billion. — Analysts, on average, expected Apple to earn $7.22 a share on revenue of $29.5 billion.
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Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Apple's just-okay quarter in charts — Apple just reported September quarter results, and they're below Wall Street's expectations for the first time in a long time. — Weaker-than-predicted iPhone sales ahead of the iPhone 4S launch seemed to do Apple in. As a result, revenue and profits both missed the Street's mark.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
After A Rare Miss, Apple Predicts Record iPhone, iPad Sales And Hints At A $40 Billion Quarter
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple's cash hoard grows to $81B with two-thirds of it offshore
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple's CFO: iPhone rumors had a definite negative fiscal impact on Apple's business
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The Next Web, The Loop and GigaOM, Thanks:findingnewo
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Records Q4 2011 Earnings of $6.6B on $28.3B in Revenue, Tops $100 Billion in Sales for Fiscal 2011
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Vlad Savov / This is my next:
Galaxy Nexus with Ice Cream Sandwich: pictures, video, and hands-on — Samsung may have been the one to launch and produce it, but the Galaxy Nexus is all about Google and its latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich. This 4.65-inch smartphone is loaded with a fundamentally new operating system …
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Mike Rundle / Flyosity:
Android's Touch Responsiveness Is Terrible — On mobile devices, there is absolutely no room for error. No room for blurry pixels, no room for confusing icons, no room for user experience mistakes, no room for sluggishness. The entire device is one big constraint: a flat piece of glass …
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Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
Galaxy Nexus versus the competition: by the numbers
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David Coursey / Forbes:
How Dropbox Will Die — Dropbox, the online file system, may be “tech's hottest startup” but that does not mean the company will survive. — There is always a “ hottest startup” in tech and in most cases the level of heat is almost inversely proportional to likelihood of lasting success.
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Victoria Barret / Forbes:
Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
(TCTV Exclusive) DropBox CEO Drew Houston Says The $250 Million “Is All Going Into The Company”
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Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Facebook power users ‘have gone to Google+ and Twitter’ — Facebook's biggest threat is that its ‘power users’ have gone to Twitter or Google+, one of its founding investors and former president has said. — Sean Parker, managing partner of Founders Fund, speaks at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco
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Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
Yahoo investors have questions, but execs don't have answers — Yahoo on Tuesday held a conference call with analysts and investors to discuss its latest quarterly earnings results. With all the buzz around the company recently, it seemed like the latest earnings report would certainly be an event to watch.
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The Official Google Blog:
Designing an infinite digital bookcase — (Cross-posted on the Google Code blog) — As digital designers, we often think about how to translate traditional media into a virtual space. Recently, we thought about the bookcase. What would it look like if it was designed to hold digital books?
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TechCrunch, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Google Operating System and Engadget, Thanks:timcohn
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Ben Horowitz: “Facebook Is The Best-Run Company In Technology” — Today, at the Web 2.0 Summit, Ben Horowitz, the former co-founder and CEO of Opsware and founding partner of well-known venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, took to the stage today to speak to John Heilemann of New York Magazine.
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Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Ballmer On Not Buying Yahoo: “Sometimes You're Lucky” — Speaking today at Web 2.0, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was boisterous as usual. In a rousing talk with John Batelle, Ballmer talked about how, since last being on stage at Web 2.0 three years ago, Bing has doubled its market share …
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Telegraph, WinRumors, My Nokia Blog, The Register, mocoNews, eWeek, Mashable!, Business Insider, The Tech Trade, Pocket-lint, paidContent, VentureBeat, GigaOM and The Next Web, Thanks:erickschonfeld
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Caught Between Two Conferences — Two technology conferences, two blocks away from each other in San Francisco, were two worlds apart. — On Tuesday, the Web 2.0 Summit and Research In Motion's developer conference explored the future of the Internet and mobile technologies.
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Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
After 400 Million Downloads, Angry Birds Introduces New Bird; Movie Confirmed — Well, Rovio doesn't need much of an introduction: It's the company behind the now ubiquitous game that features everybody's favorite affronted and chafed birds. Back in September, a whopping month and a half ago …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Mary Meeker's 2011 Presentation On Internet Trends [Slides] — Kleiner Perkins partner and former Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker is about to take the stage here at Web 2.0 Summit to present on Internet trends, as she does every year. — I'll be writing this up live, so keep refreshing.
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CNET News, @swiftstories, @digiphile, Mashable!, Digits and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:alexia
