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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Google's Big Video Push Is Here: YouTube Getting More Than 100 New Channels — Google is launching more than 100 new YouTube channels with exclusive video content commissioned from media companies and celebrities. — Providers with their own channels will include Thomson Reuters …
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YouTube Blog, Pulse2, paidContent, GigaOM, Wall Street Journal, SocialTimes.com, Neowin.net, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, Techland, Gizmodo and Computerworld, more at Mediagazer »
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube and Hollywood Finally Link Up: Here Come the Channels — YouTube and Hollywood, which have been circling each other for years, are finally getting together. — But instead of moving movies and TV shows to the world's biggest Web site, they're trying something different …
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Wall Street Journal, CNET News, TechCrunch, New York Times, Engadget and paidContent, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Oh S**t, I'm A Racist — “I don't think Mike Arrington is a racist” - Angela Benton — It's never a good day when people you don't know are having a raging Internet debate about whether or not you're a racist. But that's exactly what's happening, thanks to CNN.
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Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
Arrington, Race, and Silicon Valley — I spent this summer in Silicon Valley as part of the NewMe Accelerator. NewMe is the first Accelerator program focused on African-Americans. I had an absolute blast in California connecting to incredible mentors like Mitch Kapor, Ben Horowitz …
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Black Web 2.0
Laurie Segall / CNNMoney.com:
War of words breaks out over Silicon Valley diversity debate
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@nealcarter and @jonfortt
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Nobody Gives A Damn About Your Klout Score — Remember that time that astrologers decided that they had gotten all the zodiac signs off by one, and everyone was so bewildered because all of a sudden you were NO LONGER AN ARIES BUT A PISCES and it seemed like everything you had believed for so long was untrue.
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CenterNetworks, VatorNews, VentureBeat, Internet Evolution and Business Week
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Marshall Kirkpatrick's Blog:
Why Klout is Really and Truly Valuable — Social media scoring system Klout did a big refresh tonight and it is clearly broken because it said I am less influential than it said I was before. But is it worthless? Is this a meaningless arbitrary number that deserves nothing but mockery? No.
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ReadWriteWeb, @james_mayes and @the_spinmd
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Should you care how high your Klout score is?
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The Official Klout Blog, USA Today, Yahoo! Advertising Blog, @imjustmike and @scobleizer
AppleInsider:
Adobe Photoshop CS6 to adopt Aperture-like theme, new 3D functionality — Early betas of Photoshop CS6, an update to Adobe's flagship digital imaging software due next year as part of Creative Suite 6.0 (CS6), show off a darker interface theme, new 3D capabilities, autosave …
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WinBeta, O'Grady's PowerPage, iClarified and Electronista, Thanks:beijingdou
Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
Steve Ballmer Torched This Ex-Microsoft Employee's Chance To Work On iCloud For Apple — In April news broke that Apple had poached Microsoft employee Kevin Timmons to help build out its cloud-computing services. — Then in October, it turned out Timmons wasn't at Apple.
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AppleInsider, Electronista, The Next Web and iClarified
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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Softpedia News, discussions.apple.com, MacGazette.net, Techie Buzz, The Next Web, MobileSyrup.com, Redmond Pie, NBC Bay Area, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneDog.com, PhoneArena, Examiner, Technologizer, GottaBeMobile, VentureBeat, TiPb, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, CNET News, Business Insider, SlashGear, MacRumors, MacNN, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, iClarified and everythingiCafe
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Dear Apple, Please Make My iPhone 4S Battery Life Suck Less
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TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com and OS X Daily
John Markoff / New York Times:
In Surprise, China Unveils Supercomputer Based on Its Own Chips — China has made its first supercomputer based on Chinese microprocessor chips, an advance that surprised high-performance computing specialists in the United States. — The announcement was made this week at a technical meeting held …
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Between the Lines Blog, Wall Street Journal and HPC Wire
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPhone 4S Launches in 22 New Countries with 1-2 Week Estimates for Online Orders — Apple today officially launched the iPhone 4S in 22 new countries, marking the second round of launches for the device. The company began taking pre-orders last week ahead of the launch scheduled …
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Fortune, Macworld, BGR, TFTS, AppleInsider, MacNN and MacDailyNews
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
All prospects for an internal HP webOS largely destroyed — HP announced yesterday that it would retain its PC business while deflecting questions about the future of webOS for at least another month, but insiders note that HP has already destroyed the viability of the project moving forward internally …
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mocoNews and VentureBeat
Ian Sample / Guardian:
Kindle makes for heavy reading — It has been revealed that the Amazon e-book reader weighs more when it is fully loaded. How come? — One of the original selling points of Amazon's Kindle was that the device weighed no more than the average paperback.
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Geek.com, Business Insider, reddit.com and Softpedia News
Geoff Duncan / Digital Trends:
Report: RIM operating surveillance facility in India — Remember when India was threatening to shut down BlackBerry service unless it could tap user's communications? Reports have RIM operating a wiretapping facility in Mumbai to help with that. — Back in 2010, the Indian government …
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CNET News, Wall Street Journal, The Register, SlashGear, MobileBurn.com, BlackBerry India and Inquirer
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Firm Acknowledges Syria Uses Its Gear to Block Web — A U.S. company that makes Internet-blocking gear acknowledges that Syria has been using at least 13 of its devices to censor Web activity there—an admission that comes as the Syrian government cracks down on its citizens and silences their online activities.
Dane Schiller / Houston Chronicle:
Online hackers threaten to expose cartel secrets — An international group of online hackers is warning a Mexican drug cartel to release one of its members, kidnapped from a street protest, or it will publish the identities and addresses of the syndicate's associates, from corrupt police to taxi drivers …
Thanks:dsilverman
Brad Linder / Liliputing:
$150 HP TouchPads coming to Best Buy... with purchase of a PC — Best Buy will begin selling dirt cheap HP TouchPad tablets again on Tuesday, November 1st. You'll be able to pick up a 32GB model for $149.99. — That's the good news. — The bad news is that in order to get that price you'll need …
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Reuters, PreCentral.net, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Android Community, Android Phone Fans and Gizmodo
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Bye, bye $99 TouchPad: HP says tablet officially out of stock
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Engadget, SlashGear, PC Magazine, BGR, Everything webOS and Examiner
