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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Apple Confirms iOS 5 Bugs Causing Battery Issues for Some iPhones — Apple on Wednesday said it had found a few problems that are leading some iPhone customers to experience less-than-expected battery life with iPhones running its latest software. — “A small number of customers …
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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Seeds iOS 5.0.1 Beta: Multitasking Gestures for iPad 1, Battery Life Improvements — Apple just released iOS 5.0.1 beta to developers. The build number of 5.0.1 is 9A402. … The last note about files addresses an iOS 5.0 issue raised by Marco Arment.
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MacRumors, Guardian, Engadget, The Next Web, Mashable! and Daring Fireball, Thanks:benpike
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple fixes iPad 2 Smart Cover passcode security flaw with iOS 5.0.1
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The Loop, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, CNET News, iDownloadBlog.com and MacStories
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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BGR, @sparrowmailapp, CNET News, CNN, Business Insider, Webmonkey, iDownloadBlog.com, Appolicious Advisor, The Next Web, @stevecheney and Digital Trends
Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz / YDN Blog:
Yahoo! Announces Cocktails - Shaken, Not Stirred — Developers, time to geek out. Yahoo! has been working behind the scenes for the past several months on an exciting new technology that we think will deeply impact the web developer community. We call it “Cocktails” …
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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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Mashable!, AllThingsD, The New Persuaders, Y! Mobile Blog, TechCrunch, L.A. Times Tech Blog, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Android News, Rumours …, IntoMobile, GigaOM, YDN Blog, @lggreenemeier, IntoMobile, Adweek, Digital Media Wire, Electronista, Bloomberg, AndroidGuys, MacRumors, MacStories, paidContent and CNET News, more at Mediagazer »
Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
Yahoo reinvents TV-tagging app IntoNow, releases it on the iPad
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All Facebook, TUAW, Gadget Lab and Lost Remote
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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The Next Web, Epicenter, AppleInsider, The Verge, Redmond Pie, mocoNews, Geek.com, Techie Buzz, PhoneArena, Gizmodo UK and MacRumors
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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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Between the Lines Blog, Epicenter, The Tech Trade, Electronista, @allnick, AllThingsD and CNET News
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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GigaOM, Gawker, Betabeat, Mercury News, @hblodget, Epicenter, paidContent, @emilychangtv, @danprimack and Business Insider
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Flow iPhone App Brings Augmented Reality To Barcode Scanning And Product Search — Amazon subsidiary A9.com has just launched a new augmented reality iPhone app—Flow Powered by Amazon. Flow uses augmented reality to help users explore and discover tens of millions of products …
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The Next Web, Amazon.com, GeekWire, ReadWriteWeb, IntoMobile and MacStories
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 …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
The Truth About Amazon Publishing — Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) isn't exactly lacking for praise these days, and much of it is deserved. The company has revolutionized digital publishing: Its Kindle sparked the e-book boom, its e-bookstore has the widest selection of titles online …
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@mathewi
Ellis Hamburger / Business Insider:
Is Apple Preparing An All-Out Onslaught Against Dropbox? — If you place files inside a hidden Mobile Documents folder on your Mac, these files will sync immediately to all of your other Apple devices and Macs, MacWorld discovered. — This file-syncing solution is meant only for apps that utilize iCloud's …
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MacOSXHints.com, MacStories, AppleInsider and TUAW
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
What's driving Hotmail's massive mobile adoption? The iPhone — Well, you didn't see this coming, did you? Hotmail, which due to some feat of magic remains the world's most popular webmail client, has exploded on Apple's mobile products since the introduction of the latest firmware edition, iOS 5.
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The Seattle Times, The Windows Blog and WinRumors
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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Computerworld, Wall Street Journal, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo UK, AllThingsD, The Register, AfterDawn.com, Phones Review, CNET News, AppleInsider and mocoNews
Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:
Britain's $25 computer is coming by Christmas — Earlier this year British games pioneer David Braben surprised many people with the first appearance of the Raspberry Pi, a low-cost, open source computer aimed at children that he was helping to develop. — Now, six months on from that initial blitz …
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Geek.com, Raspberry Pi and Liliputing
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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Bloomberg, PE Hub Blog, The Tech Trade and VatorNews
Richi Jennings / Computerworld:
Has Carbonite had a privacy breach? I'm getting spam. — Oh ****, where's all this spam coming from? It looks like Carbonite, Inc. has been giving out customers' personal information. The company's admitted giving my email address to a third party, despite promising that it wouldn't.
Thanks:richi
Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
Twitter quietly debuts new ‘Top News’ and ‘Top People’ search features — Twitter's web interface got a couple of nice new additions Wednesday, seemingly aimed at making it easier to find relevant content when conducting a search within the site. — For some users, Twitter's website …
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Mashable!
Eric Weigle / Google News Blog:
Highlighting journalists on Google News — Great journalism takes more than facts and figures — it takes skilled reporters to knit together compelling stories. Knowing who wrote an article can help readers understand the article's context and quality, see more articles by that person, and even interact directly with them.
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Search Engine Land, @dannysullivan and @eldon
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
NetZero taps Clearwire to offer high-speed mobile broadband — NetZero, one of surviving brands of the dot-com bust, will use Clearwire's network to offer 4G mobile broadband service under the NetZero name starting next year under a five-year wholesale agreement announced by Clearwire …
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TechCrunch and Clearwire Newsroom
Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog:
Cisco Gen-Y study: Mobile devices valued more than higher salaries — Summary: New research reveals that Generation Y employees prefer device freedom over higher pay, and they would rather lose their wallets than their smartphones. — Last month, Cisco released the first chapter of its three-part Connected World Report.
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ZDNet, ITProPortal, ReadWriteWeb, BaltTech and Fast Company
Donna Goodison / Boston Herald:
Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg to return, pitch Facebook — Boston experts weren't surprised to hear that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is hoping to poach Hub engineers for his Silicon Valley social networking giant. — “If (Zuckerberg's) coming to Boston to recruit …
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CBS News and NBC Bay Area
