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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.
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VentureBeat, eWeek, The Seattle Times, LiveSide.net, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Engadget, Nokia Conversations, Seattle Times, The Nokia Blog, Business Insider, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, PhoneDog.com, Tech Europe, The Next Web, SlashGear, MobileSyrup.com, Neowin.net, WPCentral.com, Electronista and The Next Web
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Christopher Lawton / Wall Street Journal:
It's Crunch Time for Nokia
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ITworld.com, FierceWireless, Guardian, PhoneDog.com and The Next Web
Journalism.org:
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.
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Study: Tablet Users Love to Read the News, Still Reluctant to Pay for It
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GigaOM and PC World, 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 …
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SplatF, L.A. Times Tech Blog, AllThingsD, LAPTOP Magazine, Daring Fireball, Fortune, Business Insider, Mercury News, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, CNET News, RazorianFly, Electronista, GottaBeMobile, PE Hub Blog, Laughing Squid, Pulse2, I4U News, Mashable!, TUAW, Engadget, Softpedia News, Tech Europe, New York Times, CNET News and SlashGear
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Tony Fadell Demos His New Nest Learning Thermostat (TCTV)
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Digital Trends, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, Macworld, Ubergizmo, msnbc.com and GigaOM
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 …
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VoIP Watch, Gizmodo, TeleRead, PadGadget and App Advice
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 …
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Redmond Pie, dailywireless.org, Bits and Connected Planet Online, Thanks:danrayburn
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
JP Morgan: Kindle Fire expected to sell 5 million in Q4
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Examiner, PC World, Techland, VentureBeat, The Appside, CNET News, Between the Lines Blog and VentureBeat
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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Hardware 2.0 Blog, Ars Technica, Daring Fireball, Computerworld, DailyTech, Deadline.com, Edible Apple, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Mashable!, CNET News, GigaOM, iDownloadBlog.com, GeekWire, O'Grady's PowerPage, Pulse2, Electricpig.co.uk, Electronista, RazorianFly, Music Ally, Guardian, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, AppleInsider and Gizmodo UK, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:logicalmoron
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Steve Zeitchik / 24 Frames:
Will Aaron Sorkin take on Steve Jobs?
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AppleInsider, Inquirer, Mashable!, WebProNews, The Next Web and RazorianFly, more at Mediagazer »
Christina Bonnington / Gadget Lab:
Taiwanese Animators Distill Steve Jobs' Bio Into 93 Seconds of Funny — Steve Jobs' ghost punches his younger self in NMA's most recent video. Image: Next Media Animation — Those kooky Taiwanese animators from NMA.TV have reached a new high in campy 3D synthesis of real-world events …
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Wired Enterprise and Next Media Animation
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amazon Misses, Q3 Sales Up 44 Percent To $10.9B; Net Income Down 73 Percent To $63M — Amazon reported third quarter earnings today. Net income decreased 73% to $63 million in the third quarter, or $0.14 per diluted share, compared with net income of $231 million, or $0.51 per diluted share, in third quarter 2010.
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
IBM Has A New CEO: Meet Virginia Rometty — Speculation has been running fairly consistent for awhile now that there would bee a new CEO at IBM soon, as Sam Palmisano approached the company's typical retirement age. Today the company's board of directors named Virginia Rometty …
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New York Times, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Business Wire, @jonfortt and @bloombergtech
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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Ars Technica, BetaNews, The Windows Blog, GeekWire, BetaNews, TechRadar.com and WinRumors, Thanks:harrymccracken
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 …
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Screenwerk, Venture Capital Dispatch, MarketingVox News & Trends, Digits, CNET News, The Consumerist, TechEye and AdExchanger.com
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt-Backed Slice Brings Receipt Aggregator And Tracking Service To Gmail — We wrote about receipt tracking service Slice a few months ago when the startup announced its $9.4 million Series A funding round from DCM, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Michael Birch, FLOODGATE, Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors and Rick Thompson.
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The Next Web and VentureBeat
Mat Smith / Engadget:
Nokia Maps officially arrives on iOS and Android, touts offline storage — Nokia Maps is still getting development love, despite the Finnish manufacturer pinning its smartphone hopes and dreams on Windows Phone. The HTML5-powered maps are now willing to play ball with iOS and Android devices.
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WMPoweruser, SocialTimes.com and Redmond Pie
The Asahi Shimbun:
Cyber-attack stole Mitsubishi warplane, nuke plant data — Sensitive information concerning vital defense equipment, such as fighter jets, as well as nuclear power plant design and safety plans, apparently was stolen from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. computers during a cyber-attack in August, sources said.
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Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, The Register, New York Times, Help Net Security, Softpedia News, Naked Security and Inquirer
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 …
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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MediaFile, Examiner, Gawker, Business Insider, MarketWatch, TechCrunch, Screenwerk and Pulse2, more at Mediagazer »
John Borthwick / THINK / Musings:
findings — Today at betaworks we are launching findings, a platform for sharing and discovering what people are reading. You can see my bookshelf of what I'm reading here - this includes books as well as web pages from which I have clipped highlights that interest me.
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.
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Softpedia News, Electronista, Google Operating System, 9to5Google and Softpedia News
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 …
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Neowin.net, Windows 8 Beta, TechEye, Hardware 2.0 Blog, WinRumors and The Next Web
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
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.
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.
