Techmeme: Netflix plummets on weak outlook, downgrades (Reuters)

1:15 PM ET, October 25, 2011

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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple TV Effort Said to Be Led By ITunes Creator — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is turning to the software engineer who built iTunes to help lead its development of a television set, according to three people with knowledge of the project. — Jeff Robbin, who helped create the iPod in addition …

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Steve Zeitchik / 24 Frames:
Will Aaron Sorkin take on Steve Jobs?

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Steven Levy / Wired.com:

Brave New Thermostat: How the iPod's Creator Is Making Home Heating Sexy — “You're going to built a what?” — That's what Tony Fadell's wife, Dani, said to him in 2009 when he told her his idea for a new company. Fadell is one of the most sought-after talents in the world of gadgetry …

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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Tony Fadell Demos His New Nest Learning Thermostat (TCTV)

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Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:

Amazon's Kindle Fire Will Become To The Video Industry What The iPod Was To The Music Industry — Over the past five years, very few companies have single handily help jump-start the streaming media industry and propelled the market forward as a whole. Looking back, companies like YouTube …

Discussion: Bits, Thanks:danrayburn

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
JP Morgan: Kindle Fire expected to sell 5 million in Q4

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Joe Sharkey / New York Times:

IPads Change Economics, and Speed, of Hotel Wi-Fi — IF, like me, you have been complaining about unusually poor Internet service in hotel rooms lately, the hotels have a good explanation. — Largely because of the broad use of iPads and other mobile tablets, which are heavy users of video streaming …

Discussion: Gizmodo, VoIP Watch, App Advice, PC World and Slashdot

Reuters:

Netflix plummets on weak outlook, downgrades — (Reuters) - Netflix Inc's shares plunged almost 40 percent on Tuesday and were set to open at their lowest level since March last year, a day after the movie rental company warned of higher subscriber attrition and mounting costs.

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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:

The Life and Times of Windows XP — If you'd been alive in 1924 and had enjoyed the comedy stylings of a young Vaudevillian named George Burns, you never would have believed he'd still be packing them in seventy years later. In 1963, you might have dug the music that Mick Jagger …

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Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:

Using Credit Cards to Target Web Ads — The two largest credit-card networks, Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., are pushing into a new business: using what they know about people's credit-card purchases for targeting them with ads online. — Their plans, if implemented …

Discussion: Screenwerk, CNET News, TechEye, The Consumerist, Digits, AdExchanger.com, Digits and Digits

Zach Epstein / BGR:

ABI: Tablet shipments exploded in Q2 to surpass netbooks for the first time — Global tablet sales into channels exploded in the second quarter of 2011 to surpass netbooks for the first time in the emerging category's young history. Market research and intelligence firm ABI Research determined …

Discussion: Gizmodo, Crave, Neowin.net, Electricpig.co.uk and Engadget

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Android Blows Past Apple To Take The Lead In Market Share For App Downloads

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Peter Burrows / Bloomberg:

Jobs Warned Cook Not to Try to Copy Him — Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) — When Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook took the microphone at a memorial tribute to Steve Jobs at the company's campus last week, he shared a piece of advice Jobs gave him before his death on Oct. 5.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Business Insider and Fortune

Aaron Lee / DigiTimes:

New Windows verification process creates controversy between ODM and brand vendors — Microsoft's new verification system for Windows 8 - OA 3. - which will add complications toward the upstream ODM's production lines and relatively generate significant extra cost, is raising controversy between notebook ODMs …

Discussion: Hardware 2.0 Blog, Windows 8 Beta, WinRumors, TechEye, The Next Web and Electronista

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Google Gives Chrome Web Store A Welcome New Lick Of Paint — Looks like Google this morning rolled out a brand new design for its Chrome Web Store, and it's a major improvement. — The updated Web app marketplace, first released in December 2010, is all about the software, now boasting large squares with attractive app visuals.

Discussion: 9to5Google, Google Operating System and Softpedia News

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Sprint and Apple are working on a ‘nationwide issue’ with iPhone 4S data speeds [Updated] — To say that the iPhone 4S has been well received on Sprint and AT&T is a bit of an understatement, as it set opening day sales and activation records for both carriers.

Discussion: Computerworld, LAPTOP Magazine, PC Magazine, DSLreports, Examiner, MacGazette.net, iDownloadBlog.com, Loic Le Meur Blog, Appolicious Advisor, TiPb, App Advice, Digital Trends, iPhone Alley, 9to5Mac, Between the Lines Blog, Electronista and iClarified, Thanks:binaryghost

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Bluetooth 4.0 Becomes ‘Bluetooth Smart’ as iPhone 4S Creates New Opportunities — Following the debut of the iPhone 4S as the first phone to support the Bluetooth 4.0 standard, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has begun promoting the technology under the new “Bluetooth Smart” marketing term.

Discussion: PC World, Inquirer, TechCrunch, Engadget, TUAW, Fast Company, IntoMobile, 9to5Mac, The Official Bluetooth® … and Electronista

Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:

Meg Whitman joins Zaarly's board, company gets $14M from Kleiner Perkins — Mobile marketplace Zaarly announced today that Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman is joining its board of directors, and that it's getting a $14 million investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.

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Donald Melanson / Engadget:

ViewSonic rolls out $200 ViewPad 7e Android tablet — We've already seen it available for pre-order at Amazon and spent a bit of time with it ourselves last month, but ViewSonic's only just now officially getting its ViewPad 7e Android tablet out the door. It'll be available by the end …

Discussion: Electronista, BGR, TechSpot, IntoMobile and Techie Buzz

Reuters:

Intel seeks industry effort to lower ultrabook prices — (Reuters) - Intel Corp is comfortable with its chip pricing now and is working with suppliers and manufacturers to lower the cost of its new ultrabook slim PCs, a product it sees as key to reviving the traditional computer in the face of the tablet challenge.

Discussion: Electronista

Ryan Singel / Wired:

U.S. Requests for Google User Data Spike 29 Percent in Six Months — The number of U.S. government requests for data on Google users for use in criminal investigations rose 29 percent in the last six months, according to data released by the search giant Monday.

Discussion: SiliconFilter, Guardian, The Official Google Blog, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, WebProNews, @rmack and @digiphile

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