Techmeme: No, CNET Is NOT In Talks To Buy gdgt (Matt Rosoff/Business Insider)

2:20 PM ET, October 25, 2011

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How People Use Tablets And What It Means For The Future Of News — Eighteen months after the introduction of the iPad, 11% of U.S. adults now own a tablet computer of some kind. About half (53%) get news on their tablet every day, and they read long articles as well as get headlines.

Discussion: Computerworld, BGR, mocoNews, CNET News, PewResearch.org, eWeek, ReadWriteWeb, Internet2Go, TeleRead, Search Engine Land, msnbc.com, blog.chron.com, Poynter, memeburn, Marketing Pilgrim and Adweek, more at Mediagazer »

Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Study: Tablet Users Love to Read the News, Still Reluctant to Pay for It

Discussion: GigaOM and PC World

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 …

Dan Frommer / SplatF: Here's how Apple could finally put the “TV” in Apple TV

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

Discussion: AppleInsider, Inquirer, WebProNews, RazorianFly, The Next Web, MacGazette.net, iClarified, @sarahcuda, mocoNews, Business Insider, Hardware 2.0 Blog and Reuters, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

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

Discussion: Digital Trends, Macworld, DailyTech, Laughing Squid, GigaOM, Ubergizmo, Technologizer and Los Angeles Times

Tom Warren / WinRumors:

Exclusive: Nokia to launch Lumia 800 and 710 Windows Phones [pics] — Nokia CEO Stephen Elop will introduce at least two Nokia Windows Phones tomorrow morning. — WinRumors has learned that the company is planning to make the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 devices available in November following an announcement at Nokia World on Wednesday.

Discussion: Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Business Insider, Nokia Conversations, Electronista, The Next Web, WMPoweruser and AdAge

Christopher Lawton / Wall Street Journal:
It's Crunch Time for Nokia

Discussion: The Nokia Blog, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com, Guardian and FierceWireless

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

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 and Connected Planet Online, Thanks:danrayburn

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

Discussion: PC World, Techland, VentureBeat, CNET News, Between the Lines Blog, The Appside, VentureBeat, iClarified, PhoneArena, AllThingsD, Android and Me and Betabeat

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 …

Discussion: BetaNews, Ars Technica, GeekWire, BetaNews, The Windows Blog, TechRadar.com, WinRumors and ConceivablyTech, Thanks:harrymccracken

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: Google Operating System, 9to5Google and Softpedia News

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Google's latest Chrome release brings redesigned ‘New Tab’ homepage

Discussion: SiliconFilter, ReadWriteWeb and Google Chrome Blog

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

Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:

No, CNET Is NOT In Talks To Buy gdgt — Several sources close to CBS Interactive tell us that CNET is not in talks to buy gadget news site gdgt, shooting down a report that a buy is imminent. — One source said that CNET hadn't even approached gdgt for a round of talks.

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
CNET In Talks To Acquire gdgt As Early As This Week

Discussion: Pulse2, @peterrojas, @ryan and TechCrunch

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.

Discussion: Examiner, TechCrunch, Screenwerk, Business Insider, Pulse2, MarketWatch, Felix Salmon, AllThingsD and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »

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: Crave, Gizmodo, 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

Discussion: GigaOM, BGR, Business Wire, GigaOM, CNET News, IntoMobile, AppleInsider, FT Tech Hub and Electronista

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Introduces us to a Next Generation Microstrip Styled Cellular Antenna for Future MacBooks, iWatch and Beyond — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 13 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. This morning's first granted patent report covers …

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.

Discussion: Screenwerk, Mashable!, Betabeat, Pulse2, AllThingsD, Social Markets, Business Insider, Silicon Prairie News, WebProNews, GeekWire, GigaOM and Bits

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

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

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

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