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Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:
Jobs's final plan: an ‘integrated’ Apple TV — View Photo Gallery — Steve Jobs, who co-founded Apple and revolutionized personal computing, died Oct. 5. He suffered from a rare form of pancreatic cancer. — The new biography on Steve Jobs has a major product reveal: Apple may drop a full-fledged television.
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Janet Maslin / New York Times:
Books of The Times: ‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson - Review — After Steve Jobs anointed Walter Isaacson as his authorized biographer in 2009, he took Mr. Isaacson to see the Mountain View, Calif., house in which he had lived as a boy. He pointed out its “clean design” and “awesome little features.”
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Business Insider, Bloomberg, Mercury News, App Advice, Fast Company, Gadget Lab and Fortune
Bits:
Steve Jobs Biography: A Scorecard of Put-Downs — Every authorized biography includes some score-settling by its subject. Steven P. Jobs, the late Apple co-founder and subject of Walter Isaacson's new book, “Steve Jobs,” proves no different. — A motley assortment of luminaries …
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GeekWire, CNET News, WinRumors, Softpedia News, Seattle Times, MacDailyNews and Business Insider
Bloomberg:
Jobs Told Google's Page to Cut Bloat to Avoid Becoming Microsoft — Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs urged Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Page to sharpen the company's focus and cut products that put it at risk of becoming like Microsoft Corp., according to a biography of Jobs.
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The Next Web and Mercury News
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Steve Jobs wanted to revolutionize textbooks next — After revolutionizing the digital music business, smartphones and tablets, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was planning to take on an unlikely project: textbooks. — Jobs apparently wanted to hire textbook writers to create interactive digital versions …
CNET News:
To Jobs, Microsoft and Google 'just don't get it' (video) — Listen to Steve Jobs as he talks about what these two tech giants were lacking in this excerpt from “60 Minutes Overtime” (starting around 0:46 in the video): — Walter Isaacson taped many of his interview sessions …
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Network World, The Next Web and Computerworld
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Steve Jobs Was Willing To ‘Rip Off’ Everyone Else... But Was Pissed About Android Copying iPhone? — There's plenty of talk making the rounds about Steve Jobs' comments about Android in the authorized biography that's coming out next week. In it, Jobs apparently makes it clear …
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iDownloadBlog.com, CNET News and TechSpot
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Brian Ford / me & her:
Great artists steal the future — Steve Jobs once appropriated an old quote: — “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” — It's becoming more and more clear that Steve felt personally betrayed by Google's decision to enter the smartphone market with Android — an OS that is in almost every important way a copy of Apple's iOS.
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InfoWorld, BGR, Shiny Objects and FierceWireless
Vinicius Vacanti / Yipit Blog:
The Chart That Will Scare Away Many Groupon Investors — Today, Groupon filed a prospectus to raise funds via a public offering. Over the next week, they will be pitching investors to participate in this offering. — One question these potential investors should make sure to ask …
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Business Insider and TechCrunch, Thanks:yipitdata
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Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Here's what actually matters about Groupon (and what doesn't)
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Business Insider, DealBook and Associated Press
Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:
Anonymous releases private police information in name of Occupy Wall Street — Anonymous, a hacker collective that has aligned itself with the Occupy Wall Street protests, leaked information it stole from four police and government websites today. — More than 600 MB of data …
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Pastebin, Threat Level, SecurityWeek and Gawker
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Google Voice app returns to iTunes, iOS 5 crash bug fixed — Less than a week after it disappeared from iTunes, the Apple-friendly Google Voice app is back and declared iOS 5 friendly, per its official Twitter account. Also improved is operation when you don't have a data connection …
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9to5Mac, @googlevoice, RazorianFly, TiPb, Electronista, MobileBurn.com and GottaBeMobile
Brandon Griggs / CNN:
Why computer voices are mostly female — (CNN) — To most owners of the new iPhone, the voice-activated feature called Siri is more than a virtual “assistant” who can help schedule appointments, find a good nearby pizza or tell you if it's going to rain. — She's also a she.
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Business Insider and Guardian
DigiTimes:
Commentary: Apple being dragged into US-China trade war — Since January 2011, three events have occurred in China which have led some upstream component suppliers to believe there is a conspiracy by the China government to try to suppress Apple's supply chain.
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GigaOM
George Avalos / Mercury News:
Google pays $100 million for offices in Mountain View, extending a property-buying surge — Google (GOOG) bought a big office complex in Mountain View, in its largest property purchase of 2011 in Silicon Valley, a deal that broadens the tech titan's remarkable expansion plans in the region.
Stephen Grocer / Deal Journal:
Microsoft Firming Up Plan to Bankroll Possible Yahoo Deal … Microsoft Corp. may help to bankroll a potential joint bid for Yahoo by extending loans to its deal partners and buying preferred stock in Yahoo, according to people familiar with the matter, reflecting Microsoft's desire to limit its risk.
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Neowin.net, @jeffjarvis, LiveSide.net and Seattle Times
John Cook / GeekWire:
Engineer who ripped Jeff Bezos returns with mea culpa, and a story about the Amazon founder — Last week, Google engineer Steve Yegge accidentally posted a fascinating 4,771 word rant in which he attacked his employer and ripped his former boss, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, as a tight-fisted micromanager.
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Business Insider, The Atlantic Wire and Lifehacker
Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
Galaxy Nexus coming to Verizon ‘this year’ — Verizon has just confirmed that it's getting the LTE-enabled version of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus — the first Ice Cream Sandwich device, announced to considerable fanfare earlier this week — though it's not saying exactly when.
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Verizon Wireless, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo and BGR
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Testing “Facebook Credits for Websites” That Helps Third-Party Sites Sell Virtual Goods — Facebook has just announced a closed, limited test in which for the first time it will allow websites to process payments for virtual goods using Facebook Credits.
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GameHouse and Facebook Developer Blog
Tom Heneghan / Reuters:
Shock image threshold falls under internet pressure — (Reuters) - The threshold for publishing gruesome images like those of Muammar Gaddafi's death is falling as the internet and social media make many of the editorial decisions that used to be left to a small group of professional journalists.
Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
T-Mobile wants the iPhone, but only if it's AWS-compatible — In an official statement released on Thursday, T-Mobile SVP of Marketing Andrew Sherrard addressed T-Mobile's absence from the lineup of U.S. carriers offering the iPhone — a list that now even includes regional carrier C Spire.
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T-Mobile Newsroom, Business Insider, Electronista, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, PC Magazine, AndroidGuys, Digital Trends and TiPb
