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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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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
NYT: Apple expected to release Siri-powered television by 2013 — Apple has reportedly been at work on a full-fledged high-definition television set for years, but the company's recent launch of Siri for the iPhone 4S is believed to be one of the final puzzle pieces necessary for Apple to launch its own TV.
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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Ronald Ho / Google Enterprise Blog:
Google+ is now available with Google Apps — Google Apps fans, today we're ready to add you to our circles. Google+ makes sharing on the web more like sharing in the real world, and now Google+ is available to people who use Google Apps at college, at work or at home.
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Google+ now available to Google Apps customers, migration coming soon
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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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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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Vic Gundotra / The Official Google Blog:
Google+: Popular posts, eye-catching analytics, photo fun and... We think Google+ should get better every time you use it. It's not enough to obsess over community feedback (which we do); we also need to surprise and delight you with constant improvements (which we also try and do).
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Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
Google+ adds a boatload of new toys for the visually oriented
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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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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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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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Sharif Sakr / Engadget:
Windows Phone Apollo coming ‘middle of next year,’ says Nokia VP — A top Nokia exec just confirmed the much-rumored schedule for the next Windows Phone update, codenamed Apollo. Michael Halbherr, Executive VP for Location and Commerce, told us that it'll launch in mid-2012 and be a …
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HP:
HP to Keep PC Division — Continued combination of HP and its Personal Systems Group expected to deliver greater customer and shareholder value — HP today announced that it has completed its evaluation of strategic alternatives for its Personal Systems Group (PSG) and has decided the unit will remain part of the company.
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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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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Sony Will Buy Out Ericsson's Stake In Sony-Ericsson Mobile For $1.47 Billion
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Moira Herbst / Reuters:
RIM hit with consumer lawsuits over BlackBerry outage — (Reuters) - Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a days-long service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month. — The system-wide failure of the service …
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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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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 …
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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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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
I Wouldn't Touch Groupon's Stock At The IPO Price With A 50-Foot Pole — Groupon management is out on its IPO roadshow, meeting privately with dozens of big institutional investors. — In a couple of weeks, at the end of the roadshow, Groupon's underwriters will take orders for the stock.
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.
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
The Seedy, Spammy Past of Airbnb's Co-Founder — The hot vacation rental service Airbnb has been insisting its recent scandals have all been innocent mistakes: The time it spammed Craigslist, its dearth of safety protections, the cover-up it attempted. For penance, the company built safety systems …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Redfin Raises Another $14.8 Million To Reinvent The Real Estate Market — Real estate is a market that's full of inefficiencies, headaches, and price gouging. Thankfully, there are a handful of startups looking to fix it, one of which is Seattle-based Redfin.
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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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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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