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The Official Google TV Blog:
An Update on Google TV — In the 1970s, there were just a few networks on TV. Cable changed things by adding hundreds of new channels like HBO, ESPN, and MTV. The Internet marks a new chapter for television. This chapter is not about replacing broadcast or cable TV; it's not about replicating what's on TV to the Web.
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Jon Phillips / Gadget Lab:
Google TV, Take 2: Android Apps Join the Smart TV Party — The new version of Google TV includes direct access to Android Market. A select group of 30 apps, directly optimized for Google TV, will appear in the Featured For TV section shown above. Hundreds more — Google TV-compatible …
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Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Google TV, take two, arrives next week with Honeycomb, Android Market
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Apple engineers contacting iPhone 4S owners to solve battery life puzzle — Short battery life may be affected by corrupted contact details or background services - but solutions vary widely, and Siri apparently not to blame — Apple engineers are contacting some iPhone 4S owners to try …
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
The bulls**t Samsung smartphone numbers — The Internet is buzzing this morning with news that Samsung has overtaken Apple as the worlds leading smartphone vendor. The problem is, there are no numbers to actually back up the claim. — Here's an example of how it's being reported. From GigaOM:
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Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
Samsung Overtakes Apple as World's Biggest Smartphone Seller — Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — Samsung Electronics Co. overtook Apple Inc. in the last quarter to become the world's largest smartphone vendor amid a widening technology and legal battle between the two companies.
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Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters:
Samsung surges past Apple in smartphones, upbeat on Q4
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
HP to hold on to PC division - but sources say it will finally kill webOS — Internal review decides not to spin off world's largest PC maker, but operating system developed for short-lived TouchPad to be closed along with 500 jobs — Hewlett-Packard is to keep its PC division rather than selling it off …
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Spooking Flipboard: Yahoo's Livestand and Google's Propeller Set to Launch Next Week — Memo to Flipboard, as well as Pulse, CNN's Zite and AOL's Editions: You might want to make some room in the already-crowded news and social reader space, because you're about to get some bigfoot company.
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Ben Popper / Betabeat:
After Big Layoffs, BuyWithMe Being Acquired By Gilt Groupe, Slashes More Staff — These sale prices are nuts! — Betabeat has learned that Gilt Groupe is in the final stages of acquiring the troubled daily deal site BuyWithMe, which laid off more than half its staff last week to sweeten the deal for potential buyers.
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Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
600,000+ compromised account logins every day on Facebook, official figures reveal — If you've an unauthorised party has logged into your Facebook account, then you're far from alone. — New official statistics revealed by the social networking giant reveal that .06% of the more than billion logins …
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Jay Alabaster / PC World:
Samsung to Sell Phones With Flexible Screens Next Year — Samsung Electronics said Friday that it is aiming to launch mobile phones with flexible displays next year, with tablets and other portable devices to have these displays soon after. — The company said it was aiming to follow …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apps Are the New Channels — I got an email yesterday from an up-and-coming young blogger named Jason Kottke, with a screenshot of two consecutive DF entries posted earlier in the day — “Condé Nast Subscriptions Up 268 Percent Since Newsstand Launch” and “Bloomberg TV+ for iPad”.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Hulu Signs Five-Year, In-Season Content Streaming Deal With The CW — After Netflix signed a deal with The CW Television Network, Hulu is the next online movie platform to announce an agreement with the network. Hulu has just announced a five-year licensing agreement with the CW Network …
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
RIM gets desperate to move BlackBerry Playbooks — Research In Motion has a bit of a problem on its hands. It's got a bunch of PlayBook tablets sitting on shelves and little reason for people to buy them, especially now that some needed software improvements won't come until next year.
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Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal:
GameStop Steps into Tablet PC Sales — Videogame retailer GameStop Corp. plans to begin selling tablet-style computers as part of an effort to expand its gaming device offerings. — The company plans to begin selling tablets based on Google Inc.'s Android mobile operating system during …
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Reuters:
Steve Martin turns tweets into book — (Reuters) - Veteran actor and comedian Steve Martin is writing a book based on his Twitter posts, with all profits going to charity, the book's publishers said on Friday. — Martin announced the book via Twitter in a tweet that said “Due to absolutely no demand …
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Bloomberg:
Groupon Said to Consider Raising IPO Price Range — Groupon Inc. may increase the price range in its initial public offering because of higher-than- expected demand for the shares from investors, three people with knowledge of the matter said. — An updated filing with a higher range …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Supplanted By Facebook Messenger, Beluga Will Stop Swimming On November 11 — Beluga, the slick group messaging app that Facebook acquired back in March, is shutting down. In a post on Beluga's blog, the company's original team of three writes that, beginning November 11 …
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
The next disruptive iPhone feature? High definition audio calls — Not every new feature of the iPhone is a major shift, many are just refinements of what have come before. But some few definitely are and I think that the iPhone is poised to gain another hugely disruptive feature: high definition audio.
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
Eye-Tracking Study Finds iPhone, iPad Draw More Attention Than Android Devices — There is plenty of financial evidence of the iPhone and iPad's popularity in Apple's earnings and those of its carrier partners. Now there is biometric proof of the Apple devices' allure, as well.
Kellex / Droid Life:
Exclusive: First Pictures of the DROID4 by Motorola — Keyboard lovers, get ready - the DROID4 by Motorola is coming and according to our sources, has the best slideout they have “ever seen on a smartphone.” In this set of glamour shots we received, you can get a taste for what's to come …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Dolphin HD browser snared in security breach — Tapping the designated corner in the Dolphin HD browser will let you control many browser functions with gestures. — The makers of a popular mobile browser called Dolphin HD confirmed that their software leaks the addresses of all Web sites a user visits …
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Dylan Love / Business Insider:
It Looks Like The Nook Color 2 Launches On November 7 — Three Barnes & Noble employees have all but confirmed that the company will release its new e-reader, the Nook Color 2, on November 7, reports The Digital Reader. — Its most direct competitor will be Amazon's upcoming Kindle Fire tablet, slated for release on November 15.
Bloomberg:
Yahoo Said to Lean Toward Dividend, Buyback Instead of Sale — Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc. is leaning toward selling its Asian assets and redistributing the proceeds to shareholders, rather than selling itself to a group of buyers, according to five people familiar with the situation.
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Jeremy Kirk / PC World:
Facebook Shrugs off Alleged Attachment Vulnerability — Facebook downplayed an alleged vulnerability in its social-networking site that could allow a hacker to send a potentially malicious file to anyone on Facebook. — The issue concerns a Facebook feature that allows a user to send another user …
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