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Matthew Izatt / Gmail Blog:
Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch — Waiting. Walking. Watching TV. Working out. Winding down. Waking up. We check email pretty much everywhere these days. And when we do, we want easy access to our important messages so we can respond quickly and get back to life …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
New Gmail App For iPhone Is Unusable, Shows Errors Upon Launch — Well, that was a big disappointment. Google just unveiled its first native application for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch this morning, and the app is a mess. It's unusable. It doesn't even launch properly, displaying an error message upon startup.
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Business Insider, @sparrowmailapp, CNET News, Gizmodo, Technologizer, Betabeat, iDownloadBlog.com, @stevecheney, The Next Web and Webmonkey
Josh Rosenthall / Edible Apple:
Samsung to depose Jony Ive and other Apple designers by December 1, 2011 — By Josh Rosenthall: — Apple and Samsung's US-based litigation on track for trial in July 2012. That being the case, depositions of some of Apple's key iPhone inventors will be taking place relatively soon.
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mocoNews, AllThingsD, The Next Web, AppleInsider, Geek.com, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Pulse2, Electronista, 9to5Mac and PhoneArena
Yodel Anecdotal:
Yahoo! Debuts a More Personal Web With Its Fall Collection of Mobile and Social Products — Prepare to discover, engage, and share digital experiences like never before. Today we are launching a handful of new mobile, tablet, and PC experiences that get us closer to our promise of delivering a “personal Web” for you.
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Social Markets, AllThingsD, Search Engine Land, Adweek, mocoNews, CNET News, Bloomberg, Electronista, IntoMobile, YDN Blog, @lggreenemeier, Mashable!, @dannysullivan, The New Persuaders, Gadget Lab and GigaOM
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Bloomberg:
RIM's Stock Falls Below Book Value — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)'s stock fell below its book value for the first time in nine years, a signal investors consider the BlackBerry maker to be worth less than the net value of its property, patents and other assets.
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ZDNet, AllThingsD, The Tech Trade, Epicenter and Daring Fireball
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Groupon Set to Price Its IPO Tomorrow, Go Public Friday — According to sources close to the situation, daily deals site Groupon is planning on pricing its IPO tomorrow and officially becoming a public company Friday, listing on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol GRPN.
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Reuters, paidContent, Business Insider, Epicenter, @emilychangtv, @hblodget and @danprimack
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
AOL Beats Estimates, Posts Another Sales Ad Increase — Here's a first look at AOL Q3 earnings: Revenue of $532 million an earnings loss of $0.02 per share; Wall Street estimates for the company tend to be all over the map but Yahoo Finance thinks the consensus was $524 million and a loss of $0.06 per share.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: AOL's Tim Armstrong Says He Doesn't Want a Yahoo Deal (Video)
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Business Insider and Mixed Media
CIO.com:
Video: The Steve Jobs '95 Interview, Unabridged — Computerworld — In 1995, Steve Jobs was on the cusp of middle age — 40 years old — when he sat down for an extensive and revealing one-on-one interview by the Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation as part of an oral history project.
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The Next Web, MacRumors, Fortune, iDownloadBlog.com and iPhone in Canada Blog, Thanks:oxenford
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
New Steve Jobs Documentary to Air Tonight on PBS and UK's Channel 4
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CNET News, The Register, Business Insider, Tech Sanity Check Blog and Mashable!
Philip Stone / Bookseller news:
Jobs biog sells 379,000 copies Stateside — Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sold 379,000 copies in the US in its first week on bookshop shelves, BookScan US data has revealed. — The $35 publication, published by Simon & Schuster in the US …
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AppleInsider, SplatF, MacRumors, PhoneArena, The Next Web, Electronista, MacStories, Guardian and GigaOM
Maria Pila / SiliconANGLE:
Angry Birds Flies Past 500M Downloads, Drives Gaming Innovation — Mobile gaming firm Rovio said on Wednesday that its hit game Angry Birds had reached a record 500 million downloads in less than two years since its launch. — Unlike most mobile-game crazes, Angry Birds …
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
With Card Case, Square launches hands free payments on iPhone — Square is making its Card Case digital wallet app hands-free, enabling users to walk into a store and pay without ever pulling out their smartphone. They just say their name and order. — With Card Case version 1.1 for iPhone …
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple loses iPad design lawsuit against small Spanish tablet computer maker NT-K — Talk about David defeating Goliath: a small Spanish tablet computer maker named Nuevas Tecnologías y Energías Catalá from the Valencia region has successfully defended its Android-based tablet computers …
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ZDNet, Engadget, The Register, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, mocoNews, AppleInsider, MacNN and Phones Review
Carolyn H. / Inside BlackBerry:
BBM Music is here for BlackBerry smartphones! — Inside BlackBerry® Blog readers! We've got a new post for you from Sonia, announcing yet another great app for #TeamBlackBerry...read on for more! - Ed. — The BBM™ Music app is finally here, and will be available …
Jay Greene / CNET News:
How Windows 8 KO'd the innovative Courier tablet — Microsoft's Michael Angiulo (left) and Steven Sinofsky show off Windows 8 at the company's Build conference in September. — Pitting product groups against one another is almost as much a part of Microsoft's culture as complaining …
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All about Microsoft Blog, eWeek, Gizmodo UK, ExtremeTech, Mashable! and GottaBeMobile
Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg:
Facebook Claimant Says Zuckerberg Deleted E-Mails After Suit — Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) — Paul Ceglia, the New York man claiming half of Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg's holdings, asked a judge to sanction Zuckerberg for allegedly destroying e-mail messages related to their dispute.
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PC Magazine and Pulse2
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Could Google TV get its Kindle Fire moment? — Google started to distribute version 2.0 of its Google TV software this past weekend. One feature of the new version hasn't gotten much press yet, even though it could be key for the future of both Google TV and the connected TV space in general …
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9to5Google
Kellex / Droid Life:
Verizon Roadmap: Galaxy Nexus Appears Headed for Release Just After Black Friday (Updated) — We just received word from multiple sources that Verizon is targeting the week of or just after Black Friday for the launch of the much anticipated Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
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LAPTOP Magazine, PC World, ITworld.com, GottaBeMobile, Techland, Pulse2, Softpedia News and WebProNews
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Comcast slows bleeding on video customer losses, misses Q3 targets — Summary: Comcast continues to lose video subscribers, but lost 165,000 net customers. That tally was better than Wall Street expected. — Comcast lost fewer video customers than Wall Street expected, but fell short of earnings targets for the third quarter.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Angie's List Sets Price Range For IPO At $11 To $13 Per Share; Valued At Over $600M — Angie's List, which offers consumers a way to review and rate doctors, contractors and service companies on the Web, has just set the terms for its IPO. In a new filing, the company revealed that it aims …
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The Tech Trade, AllThingsD and Bloomberg
Business Week:
Asana: Dustin and Justin's Quest for Flow — Two ex-Facebookers say their new software can make getting things done as addictive as wasting time on a certain social network — Left to right: Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein — Robyn Twomey for Bloomberg Businessweek
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VatorNews, SiliconANGLE, Bits, Mashable!, TechCrunch, L.A. Times Tech Blog and Lifehacker, Thanks:saravschulte
Robert Booth / Guardian:
Julian Assange loses extradition appeal — High court judges rule the WikiLeaks founder should face accusations of rape in Sweden — The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has lost his high court appeal against extradition to Sweden to face rape allegations.
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BBC, Threat Level, Reuters, London Calling Blog, Inquirer, @jpbarlow, World Now, Financial Times, Business Insider, Help Net Security, The Next Web, msnbc.com, CNN, @jpbarlow and Telegraph, more at Mediagazer »
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Microsoft goes HTML5 with new Bing for Mobile Hybrid Apps — Microsoft is pushing out new Bing for Mobile apps this week that are built on HTML5 and blend the best of native apps with a robust mobile web experience. Bing for Mobile Hybrid Apps will allow user to get a consistent experience across …
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Bing and dailywireless.org
