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Alan Green / Official Google Reader Blog:
Upcoming changes to Reader: a new look, new Google+ features, and some clean-up — In the next week, we'll be making some highly requested changes to Google Reader. First, we're going to introduce a brand new design (like many of Google's other products) that we hope you love.
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CBS News:
Biographer: Jobs refused early and potentially life-saving surgery — Apple CEO Steve Jobs refused to allow surgeons to perform what could have been life-saving surgery on his pancreatic cancer, says his biographer Walter Isaacson. In one of his deepest discussions with him …
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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 …
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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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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Slowing iPhone Demand Hits Profit at AT&T
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
AT&T third quarter on target: iPhone, Android split improves
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
A New Look for Gmail — A video from Google's YouTube channel (update: the video is now private, but there's a mirror here) introduces a new Gmail interface. It's based on the Preview theme that's already available in Gmail, but there are many other changes: an action bar that uses icons instead …
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Feross Aboukhadijeh / Feross.org:
HOW TO: Spy on the Webcams of Your Website Visitors — Update (10/19): CNET says that Adobe is working on a fix and it could be ready by end of week. — Update (10/19): Adobe emailed me and said “our product team is wrapping up their investigation and is now working on a fix, which should not require a Flash Player update”.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Adobe to plug Flash-related Webcam spying hole — A video demonstrates how the attack could be accomplished. In this screenshot, a series of blue buttons are clicked on as part of a game and the webcam is turned on. — Adobe Systems is working on a fix for a Flash-related vulnerability …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Revenue Up 7% To $17.37B, Earnings At $0.68 Per Share — Microsoft just reported its first quarter 2012 earnings today with revenues of $17.37 billion, an 7% increase from the same period of the prior year. Microsoft's operating income was $7.20 billion, its net income was $5.74 billion …
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Mark Gongloff / MarketBeat:
Microsoft Earnings Meet Forecasts, Stock Falls — Microsoft reported third-quarter earnings of 68 cents per share, on $17.4 billion in revenue. — That meets Wall Street analysts' forecasts on the EPS side and beats on the revenue side, but investors may have expected a little more.
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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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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Microsoft's Andy Lees: Nokia will announce ‘its Windows Phones’ at Nokia World
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Ben Rudolph / The Windows Blog:
First Look: AT&T's new HTC TITAN, Samsung Focus S and Samsung Focus Flash
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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
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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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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 close competitor Apple Inc., which sold 17.1 million units in its fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 24.
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 …
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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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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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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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.
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
This Is The Google Music “Twist”: You Can Share Songs After Buying Them — Yesterday, Google mobile head Andy Rubin said that the company's long-awaited music store will have some kind of twist. — Now we know what it is. — A person in the recording industry who has been briefed …
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple taking iOS 5 on a world tour for developers November through January — In past years, Apple has held “Tech Talk World Tours” for developers, covering their latest version of iOS. Now that iOS 5 has been released into the wild, Apple has announced that the iOS 5 Tech Talk World Tour …
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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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