Techmeme: Looks like Congress has declared war on the internet (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

11:40 PM ET, October 27, 2011

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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.

Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Whitman: HP will be in the tablet business with Windows 8, long term decision about webOS coming

Discussion: Gizmodo, Seattle Times, Between the Lines Blog, mocoNews, GeekWire, Mashable!, LAPTOP Magazine, GottaBeMobile and Liliputing

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Interview: HP CEO Meg Whitman on Keeping the PC Business

Discussion: Deal Journal and Wall Street Journal

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 …

Discussion: Tech Broiler Blog, Computerworld, TUAW, SplatF, Pocket-lint, Daring Fireball, I4U News, BGR, GigaOM, Redmond Pie, Mashable!, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, Forbes, Electronista, MacStories, App Advice, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, RazorianFly, TiPb, iClarified and OS X Daily, more at Mediagazer »

Ryan Lawler / GigaOM: A voice-controlled future is finally upon us

Slash Lane / AppleInsider: NYT: Apple expected to release Siri-powered television by 2013

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.

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).

Discussion: PC World, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, Googling Google Blog, FlowingData, Business Insider, The Next Web, SlashGear, PetaPixel, SiliconFilter, Pocket-lint, iClarified, Guardian, 9to5Google, Electronista and GeekWire

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Google+ Resurrects Playback Feature From Wave, Renames It “Ripples”

Discussion: Marketing Pilgrim

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: Google+ adds a boatload of new toys for the visually oriented

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 …

Discussion: eWeek, WinRumors, Redmond Pie, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com, DailyTech, Neowin.net, WinBeta, mocoNews, TechCrunch and GottaBeMobile

Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Windows Phone Mango now available to 100% of all eligible devices

Discussion: Gizmodo, Windows Phone Blog and Gizmodo Australia

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.

Todd Haselton / BGR:
Android fragmentation gets visualized [infographic]

Discussion: BetaNews, CNET News and Inquirer

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

Yikes! Motorola Shipped Just 100,000 Xoom Tablets Last Quarter — Motorola Mobility just announced its Q3 earnings, where it gave shipment numbers for its mobile devices. — Most notably, it only shipped 100,000 Xoom tablets during the quarter. (That's shipped not sold.)

Discussion: Examiner, AllThingsD, SlashGear, @asymco and Gizmodo

Rachel King / ZD Net:
Motorola's third quarter: 4.8 million smartphones shipped

Discussion: PR Newswire, Neowin.net, AppleInsider, Shiny Objects, PC World, Engadget, BGR, GottaBeMobile, 9to5Google and AllThingsD

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.

Discussion: Guardian, Computerworld, Digital Trends, Naked Security, PC Magazine, Techland and SlashGear

Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:

What Netflix effect? Redbox will raise rates instead — Redbox was expected to be one of the big beneficiaries of Netflix's most recent price change. But the effect of that change wasn't entirely apparent in Redbox's numbers, as parent Coinstar reported revenues Thursday just slightly above Wall Street consensus.

Discussion: Examiner, Tech Trader Daily, The Tech Trade, Engadget and Mashable!

Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo: Center of a Global Chess Game — Internet Company Explores a Tax-Free Way to Shed Foreign Investments — As Yahoo Inc. maps out its future, a new plan has emerged for the fate of its overseas investments, which are the critical part of any deal to sell the company.

Reuters: Yahoo, bidders at impasse over nondisclosure

Tim Stevens / Engadget:

Logitech Revue on sale promising ‘new & improved’ Google TV with Android 3.1, Market (Update: Logitech responds) — Well, well, what do we have here? These Logitech Revue boxes just hit the sales floor of a major electronics retailer, prominently sporting “New & Improved: Google TV with Android 3.1 and Android Market” stickers.

Discussion: SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, 9to5Google, Droid Life, IntoMobile, Android Community, Business Insider, Electronista and AndroidGuys

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Hell freezes over: Forrester urges IT to support the Mac — The voice of Windows in the enterprise discovers that Mac users are more productive — Click to enlarge. — That 41% of enterprises won't let Apple (AAPL) PCs anywhere near their computing services — not even e-mail or the Internet …

Discussion: Wired Enterprise, Forrester Research, AppleInsider, TUAW, MacNN, CNET News, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews and Daring Fireball, Thanks:philiped

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Looks like Congress has declared war on the internet — Many internet users in the United States have watched with horror as countries like France and Britain have proposed or instituted so-called “three strikes” laws, which cut off internet access to those accused of repeated acts of copyright infringement.

Discussion: Boing Boing, Electronic Frontier Foundation and CNET News, Thanks:mathewi

Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

“Batch” May Be The Perfect Mobile Photo Sharing App (No, Seriously) — A few months ago Daily Booth CEO Brian Pokorny told me that most of his team was working on a second product. “What is it?” I asked, “A mobile photo sharing app?” — I was joking, because everyone and their mother seemed …

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 …

Discussion: Edible Apple, The Next Web, Pulse2, AppleInsider, Gizmodo Australia, Business Insider and Gizmodo

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:

Bill Gates On “The Miracle Of Availability” And Applying Computer Science To The World — Bill Gates just gave a talk at the University of Washington's School of Computer Science and Engineering. As is typical of his talks, this one was broadly focused on new and helpful implementations of technology.

Discussion: GeekWire, TechFlash, The Seattle Times, The Seattle Times and Epicenter

CBC News:

Kobo to become a publisher — Canadian-based e-book seller Kobo is following in Amazon's footsteps and creating a publishing arm that will deal directly with authors, CBC News has learned. — Kobo, whose major shareholder is Indigo Books, will roll out its program sometime next year, according to CEO Michael Serbinis.

Discussion: TeleRead and Electronista, 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 …

Discussion: Gizmodo, TechCrunch, RazorianFly, TechNet Blogs, WinRumors, I4U News, Gadget Lab, CNET News, WebProNews, Electronista, Business Insider, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Mashable!, TiPb, PSFK, The Tech Report and Pulse2

Jenna Wortham / Bits:

Codecademy Lands $2.5 Million From Investors — Codecademy, a Web site that teaches people how to program for free, just got a boost to its lesson plan: $2.5 million in venture financing. — On Thursday, the start-up announced that it raised a Series A round of cash from a bevy …

Discussion: VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Betabeat

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