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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Flex it, baby! Nokia's new interface is seriously twisted — The Nokia kinetic device scrolls through photos and music playlists when its edges are twisted. — LONDON—Multitouch revolutionized user interfaces, and if Nokia researchers get their way, a mobile device that's sensitive …
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PC World, WinRumors, This is my next, TechSpot, Pulse2, Gadget Lab, I4U News, New York Times, Geek.com, IntoMobile and 1001 Noisy Cameras
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Thomas Ricker / This is my next:
Stephen Elop interview: US Lumia launch, Nokia tablet, and criticism of the Android experience — I had the chance to sit down with Nokia CEO Stephen Elop after the launch of its first series of Windows Phone products — the Lumia 800 and 710 — here at Nokia World 2011 in London.
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Engadget, WinRumors, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET News, GottaBeMobile and This is my next
Michael Degusta / the understatement:
Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support — The announcement that Nexus One users won't be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google's support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky.
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, BGR, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, Electronista, Pocket-lint, Liliputing, GottaBeMobile, Appolicious Advisor and PhoneArena, Thanks:ashishmohta
Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint:
Sony: We're phasing out feature phones — And buying webOS? — Sony has revealed that it is to phase out feature phones and concentrate on smartphones in the future. The Japanese giant has very recently announced its acquisition of the Ericsson part of Sony Ericsson, and with the buy out …
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Reuters and Techland, Thanks:stuartmiles
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Sony Will Buy Out Ericsson's Stake In Sony-Ericsson Mobile For $1.47 Billion
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Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:
What does Sony control of Sony Ericsson really mean?
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CNET News, Ars Technica, Agence France Presse and Digits
Nick Bilton / Bits:
What's Really Next for Apple in Television — “I've finally cracked it!” Steven P. Jobs, co-founder of Apple, told his biographer, Walter Isaacson. — Although Mr. Jobs was referring to Apple's plans to build a full-fledged television, he was not actually referring to the TV set …
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MacRumors and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
The future is amazing, and Microsoft has video to prove it — This might be as close as we're going to get to a time machine. Unless they're working on that, too. — Microsoft this morning is premiering a new video that shows how the company believes technology is poised to evolve …
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TechNet Blogs, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, WinRumors, Seattle Times, Pulse2, Electronista, Business Insider, I4U News, Softpedia News, The Tech Report, The Next Web, TiPb, PSFK and Mashable!
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
iPad 3's dense display a challenge for manufacturers — Apple Retina Display. — The 10-inch-class screen on Apple's upcoming iPad 3 will be one of its most remarkable features. But getting to the higher resolutions is a big step, according to a source who spoke to CNET.
David Heath / iTWire:
The truth about Steve Jobs' number plate — The stories about the complete lack of a number plate on Steve Job's car are many and varied. But we can finally reveal the truth. — iTWire had the good fortune this morning to spend an hour with Jon Callas, CTO of Entrust …
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Edible Apple, Gizmodo, Business Insider, AppleInsider, The Next Web, MacRumors, RazorianFly, CNET News and iPhone Savior
Bloomberg:
Chinese Military Suspected in Hacker Attacks on U.S. Satellites — Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) — Computer hackers, possibly from the Chinese military, interfered with two U.S. government satellites four times in 2007 and 2008 through a ground station in Norway, according to a congressional commission.
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Guardian, PC Magazine, Help Net Security, Threat Level, Techland and TG Daily
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Developers: Your Google Maps API Free Riding Days Are Over — Months after warning developers it would happen, the Google Developer team announced tonight that the era of unlimited Google Maps usage for free is officially over. Developers whose apps load more than 25,000 basic maps …
Guardian:
BlackBerry outage: RIM faces US class action — US and Canadian users seek damages for breach of contract and negligence after three-day service failure — Consumers in the US and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a three-day service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month.
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Ars Technica, eWeek, paidContent, Gizmodo, BBC, SiliconANGLE, CNET News, Between the Lines Blog, PhoneArena, The Next Web, textually.org and WebProNews
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Possible Signs Of Google Music Store Found In Android Market — To add a little more screencap credence to reports that Google will be launching its own Music Download Store within the next couple of weeks, people who attempt to access music.google.com from their Android phones are presented …
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Google Paid More Than $1.4B for 57 Acquisitions in 2011 — Google acquired a whopping 57 companies of various assets through September, according to an SEC filing. With three months left to go in the year, anyone want to guess what else is on the radar? — Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) …
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9to5Google, VatorNews, DealBook, The Register, Pocket-lint and Pulse2
Richard Orange / Telegraph:
Facebook to build server farm on edge of Arctic Circle — Facebook is to build a multi-million ‘mini town’ on the edge of the Arctic circle to house all its computer servers, which would us as much electricity as a town of 50,000 people. — Luleå is situated at the northern tip of the Baltic Sea …
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Andreessen Horowitz Raising Huge New $900 Million Fund III — You can't accuse Andreessen Horowitz of spending money too slowly. Their first fund, $300 million, was raised in 2009 and was promptly invested in companies like Skype and Fusion.io. In late 2010 they raised Fund II …
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TechCrunch
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube Close to Announcing Video ‘Channels’ — Google Inc.'s YouTube is expected to announce as early as next week that it has signed a slew of partnerships with media companies and well-known personalities to produce original content for the popular video website, said people familiar with the matter.
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Inquirer, CNET News, Ubergizmo, Electronista, Gizmodo, SlashGear and The Appside
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Google Beefs Up Its Groupon Killer by Adding More Than a Dozen Partners — Google is aggressively expanding into the daily deals space by partnering with 14 daily deals providers. And — no surprise here — Groupon isn't one of them. — Eric Rosenblum, Google's director of product management …
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The Official Google Blog, Computerworld, mocoNews, GigaOM, The Technology Chronicles and TechCrunch
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
SoundCloud Lands on the iPad, Waits for Other Music Services to Join It There — SoundCloud, the buzzy music-sharing service/utility, has arrived on the iPad, via a new free app. If you're one of the 3.7 million people who have downloaded one of the company's iOS, Android or Mac apps …
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Softpedia News, WebProNews, GigaOM, Audio Silver Lining and The Next Web
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple now has $81.5B in cash, 13.2M sq. ft. of facilities and 60K employees — Apple today filed its Form 10-K with the SEC that discloses information to stockholders and the commission. In an amongst the normal legal statements there were a few interesting facts.
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Cult of Mac, Thanks:speedmaster
Wall Street Journal:
Huawei, Chinese Tech Giant, Aids Iran — When Western companies pulled back from Iran after the government's bloody crackdown on its citizens two years ago, a Chinese telecom giant filled the vacuum. — Huawei Technologies Co. now dominates Iran's government-controlled mobile-phone industry.
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The Next Web
Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:
Corning's new Lotus Glass promises higher-resolution displays, more — Corning, the developers of Gorilla Glass, announced the launch of a new display material named Lotus Glass for use with LCD and OLED screens today in a press release. The company says Lotus Glass has more …
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GottaBeMobile, Electronista, PC & Tech Authority, Engadget, Softpedia News, The Register and Ubergizmo
Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Hands on with Adobe Carousel for iOS and Mac — Adobe's cross-platform photo management service Carousel, which the company demoed in September at Photoshop World, is now available on iOS devices and the Mac. New apps for both platforms released Thursday let you manage, sync …
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SiliconFilter, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Insanely Great Mac, MacNN, Softpedia News and The Next Web
Quentin Hardy / Bits:
Facebook-Led Consortium Plans to Remake Big Computing — A consortium of technology heavyweights led by Facebook wants to fill the world with enormous low-cost computing centers, using the same collaborative techniques that created an explosion of software development over the past decade.
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Friending Facebook Blog, VentureBeat and GigaOM
