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Ben Rudolph / The Windows Blog:
First Look: AT&T's new HTC TITAN, Samsung Focus S and Samsung Focus Flash — Just a few minutes ago at the All Things D Asia conference, Windows Phone President Andy Lees gave the world its first look at AT&T's new lineup of new Windows Phones. We talked speeds and feeds on the blog a few weeks ago …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Microsoft's Andy Lees: Nokia will announce ‘its Windows Phones’ at Nokia World — No surprise here, but you can officially mark Nokia World 2011 down as must-watch TV. Andy Lees just confirmed here on stage at AsiaD that the London-based event, which kicks off on October 26th, will be the launchpad for Nokia's Windows Phones.
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Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
Microsoft to Help Halve Phone Costs Next Year in ‘Volume’ Drive — Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. expects production costs of handsets using Windows Phone 7 software next year to drop by more than half from when the platform was introduced. — Cooperation with parts makers including Qualcomm Inc …
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AT&T:
AT&T Activates One Million iPhone 4S' — Activations Surpass All Previous Launches; Customers Prefer AT&T Speed Advantage — AT&T today announced it activated more than 1 million iPhone 4S' as of Tuesday, making it the most successful iPhone launch in the company's history.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
AT&T third quarter on target: iPhone, Android split improves — Summary: AT&T's diversification from its reliance on the iPhone appears to be improving. — AT&T's third quarter earnings were in line with estimates as the company activated 4.8 million smartphones almost evenly split between …
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Android Chief Says Your Phone Should Not Be Your Assistant — Andy Rubin thinks there is a lot of potential for phones to be more useful companions, but says he is not interested in turning Android devices into personal assistants. — “I don't believe that your phone should be an assistant …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Let's Take This One With a Grain of Salt — Ina Fried, covering some conference in Asia on some website: … What do you expect him to say about Siri, though? “Well, Apple really pulled ahead of us there.” ? Not going to happen. The truth is, Google has been working on voice-driven stuff for mobile devices for years.
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Yahoo's Jerry Yang: There Are Plenty of Options Beyond Sale — Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang said on Thursday that the company's board continues its strategic review process, but that there are a number of options beyond just selling the company. — “The intent going in is not to put ourselves for sale,” Yang said, speaking at AsiaD.
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Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
Yahoo “cross talk” ban jolts bidders
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Andrew Rassweiler / iSuppli®:
iPhone 4S Carries BOM of $188, IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Reveals — On the outside, the iPhone 4S may have disappointed some with its perceived lack of new features. But on the inside, the latest member of the iPhone line includes a wealth of innovation, including a new wireless module …
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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Apple's iPhone 4S Cracked Open, Money Spills Out
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Google+ Guru Bradley Horowitz On Products, Platforms and that Pesky Memo — While Google has struggled mightily in its early efforts to “get the social thing,” it has managed to get more than a few people to try out its latest effort, Google+. — But the question of just how compelling …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Brin: “I'm Not A Social Person” But “Google+, I Instantly Found Compelling”
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Not Just Google: Siri Searches Bing And Yahoo Too — Earlier tonight Danny Sullivan discovered that Siri will also search Bing and Yahoo, though it searches Google by default. If you say, “Search the web for . . .” or you ask Siri a question it can't answer it will search Google (the iPhone's default search engine).
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Yun-Hee Kim / Wall Street Journal:
Samsung Beats Apple in Smartphone Shipments — HONG KONG—Samsung Electronics Co. shipped more than 20 million smartphones in the quarter ended Sept. 30, a person familiar with the situation said Thursday, beating market leader Apple Inc. as well as Nokia Corp., the world's biggest cellphone maker by volume.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
ASUS' Jonney Shih unveils Transformer Prime Android tablet: 10-inch, 8.3mm, quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 — Whoa, Nelly! ASUS head honcho Jonney Shih just revealed the “next-generation Transformer tablet” here at AsiaD! It's the same one that we saw teased just yesterday …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Visual.ly Raises $2 Million To Make Even More Infographics — Visual.ly, the team built from the infographics team behind Mint's spectacular infographics, has raised $2 million in seed funding, led by Crosslink Capital, SoftTech and 500 Startups as well as angels Kapor Capital, Giza Ventures …
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Coupon Craze Continues With CouponCabin Raising $54 Million — Investors are seeing a smart shopping opportunity in the age-old practice of saving and redeeming coupons. — CouponCabin.com of Whiting, Ind., is the latest online coupon company to raise capital. The company has raised $54 million in its first round of funding.
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
The Multitasking Jack Dorsey on the Inspiration of Steve Jobs — Jack Dorsey says he takes a lot of inspiration for what he does from late Apple founder Steve Jobs. — When he designs products, whether at Twitter or Square, Dorsey said he aims to create products that disappear so you are just using them.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: Exclusive bio excerpt in Fortune Monday — They were the best of frenemies for nearly 30 years. Walter Isaacson has the inside story. — Click to enlarge. Image: Time Inc. — The first excerpt from the year's most eagerly awaited — and carefully guarded …
Loretta Chao / Digits:
Twitter Founder: Can't Compete in China … Say what you want about whether Twitter can compete in China. Jack Dorsey, creator of the microblogging service, suggests that you can't make a call on a contender unless you give it a fighting chance. — “The unfortunate fact is …
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Laura Kusisto / Wall Street Journal:
Google Hits Space Bars — Ever since Google Inc. bought its New York City headquarters for $1.9 billion in 2010, the tech giant has been dealing with a new role: landlord. — Google has shown it's making a big economic bet on Manhattan by gobbling up more space within the building at 111 Eighth Ave. …
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Mark Kleinman / Kleinman:
Exclusive: Kingdom Eyes Twitter Stake — The ultra-wealthy Saudi investor who owns stakes in Citigroup and News Corporation is examining a swoop on the internet industry that would involve acquiring hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of shares in Twitter, I have learned.
comScore, Inc.:
Social Networking On-The-Go: U.S. Mobile Social Media Audience Grows 37 Percent in the Past Year — Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn Post Mobile Growth of at Least 50 Percent — Majority of Mobile Social Networkers Read Posts from Brands While on Their Device
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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Randi Zuckerberg, on Her Own Now — “WHO wants a tequila shot?” Randi Zuckerberg shouted over the thump of “Baby One More Time,” Britney Spears's breakup anthem. — It was nearly midnight on a rainy Wednesday in September, and more than a dozen friends gathered by Ms. Zuckerberg …
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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Venture Capitalists, Secondary Markets And How Everyone Is A Facebook “Investor” — Venture firms have been buying stock on secondary markets in quasi-public companies for some time. This means they're buying stock from other stockholders, not investing money into the company.
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Working on a Thinner MacBook Pro Design — While Intel is obsessed with pushing their Ultrabooks into the market to attack Apple's MacBook Air, Apple is working on producing a thinner MacBook Pro for road warriors who need the convenience of an optical drive.
