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9:30 AM ET, November 3, 2011

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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.
Wall Street Journal:
Amazon, Now a Book Lender  —  Kindle Owners Who Subscribe to Prime Service Will Be Able to Borrow E-Titles  —  As the e-reader and tablet wars heat up, Amazon.com Inc. is launching a digital-book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle and Kindle Fire devices …
Chris Rawson / TUAW:
Apple to require sandboxing in Mac App Store apps as of March 2012  —  Apple sent an email to registered developers today that's bound to ruffle some feathers — again.  As of March 2012, Apple will require all apps submitted to the Mac App Store to implement sandboxing.
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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Darrin / Darrin's Blog:
Introducing Plex for Google TV  —  It turns out that work on a fully functional myPlex client was not the only thing the Plex for Android team has been up to these days.  We're happy to say that we were one of the 50 companies that Google invited to prepare an app in time for the initial release of Google TV.
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The End of the Credit Card?  —  A new app called Card Case foretells a world without cash and plastic.  —  Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter and CEO of Square  —  Getty Images.  —  Paying for stuff with your phone sounds awesome until you stop to think about it.
Joanna Stern / The Verge:
Motorola Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition official, hitting the UK in mid-November  —  Well, here we go!  After months of leaked specs and images, Motorola has finally decided to officially announce its Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition, though just in the UK for now.
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
The curious case of Microsoft's stock  —  The following post is a meditation on a number of market dynamics.  It should not be treated as investment advice, as it isn't.  —  Microsoft's stock is trading at roughly the same level as it did in 1998.  Chew on that for a minute.
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” …
Discussion: AppShopper.com and SocialTimes.com
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Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
Yahoo reinvents TV-tagging app IntoNow, releases it on the iPad
Yodel Anecdotal:
Yahoo! Debuts a More Personal Web With Its Fall Collection of Mobile and Social Products
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Rumor: Suppliers say Apple will overhaul all product lines in 2012  —  Apple is rumored to be planning a complete overhaul for each of its product lineups, including the iPad, iMac, iPhone and MacBook Air, next year, according to sources within the company's supply chain.
Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
Dialing Up 20 Years of Gadget Reviews  —  I began writing these Personal Technology columns 20 years ago, in October 1991, with the aim of reviewing computers and other digital products for average, mainstream users.  The first line of my first column was: “Personal computers are just too hard to use, and it's not your fault.”
Discussion: The Orange View
Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Jawbone Up detailed: tracks activity, food intake and sleep cycles, available November 6 for $100 (video)  —  Back in July, Jawbone did something puzzling.  The company, best known for its Bluetooth headsets, teased a photo of a colorful wristband called the Up — a deceptively simple thing …
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Updating live tiles without draining your battery … We all know that performance and battery life are critically important for a successful release of Windows, and your comments continue to emphasize these attributes.  @KISSmakesmeSMILE summed it up well by writing:
Joanna Stern / The Verge:
Slate 2: HP tries tablets again with Windows, Swype, and a stylus for $699  —  If you had asked us six months ago which tablet HP would still be making come November — the TouchPad or the Slate — the obvious answer would have been the TouchPad.  But just as HP's exiting the webOS hardware business …
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / Business Insider:
The Way Companies Are Getting Financed Is Completely Changing  —  This note is from BI Research, a new tech-industry intelligence service.  The service is currently in beta and free.  To learn more and sign up, please click here.  —  There are lots of trends people have been talking …
Discussion: Business Wire and TechCrunch
Kevin Fox / fox @ fury:
My offer to Google Reader  —  Like many others, I was curious when Google announced that it would be revamping the Google Reader UI and refactor its social components into Google Plus.  To that end, I wrote a brief blog post about what I felt would be a better alternative to stripping out Google Reader's social functionality.
Discussion: 9to5Google and PalmAddicts
Tekla S. Perry / IEEE Spectrum:
The Reengineering of Facebook Messages  —  How do you completely redesign the software used by 750 million people—without hitting the pause button?  —  Upgrading any kind of software usually requires that its users stop using it, at least briefly, to enable the new software to replace …
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 …
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Yahoo's Last Great Comeback Killed The Company  —  As Yahoo's board flails about trying to figure out a way to please angry shareholders, we decided to reach out to a former executive from Yahoo's last great era - back when Terry Semel was still hailed as a comeback CEO and Yahoo had a stock price above $40.
Jennifer Valentino-Devries / Wall Street Journal:
Feds Shift Defense of Cellphone Tracking  —  Prosecutors in Arizona Case Drop Position That ‘Stingray’ Use Didn't Require Warrant  —  The U.S. Department of Justice now says its use of a cellphone-tracking device in a controversial Arizona case could be considered a “search” …
Scott M. Fulton, III / ReadWriteWeb:
IBM Open-Sources Potential “Internet of Things” Protocol  —  The openly stated goal from IBM is to produce a completely new World-Wide Web, one comprised of the messages that digitally empowered devices would send to one another.  It is the same Internet, but not the same Web.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Leads $7M Round In Scanning And Product Search App ShopSavvy  —  Barcode scanning and product search app ShopSavvy has raised $7 million in new funding led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin with Brad Martin (Former CEO of retailer Saks Fifth Avenue), James Bailey, and participating.
Elizabeth Armstrong Moore / CNET News:
New study links video gaming to creativity  —  For those who like to play video games, or who let their kids play, a new study linking gaming to creativity in 12-year-olds may be very validating.  —  It reminds me of the little flutter in my chest that occurs every time I read about the health benefits of dark chocolate.
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
With an App, Your Next Date Could Be Just Around the Corner  —  Christina Wang has her date-night routine down pat.  She combs her hair, fixes her makeup and then checks her phone, hoping to find Mr. Right, who might just happen to be nearby, right now.  —  Ms. Wang, a 20-year-old psychology student …
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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Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
Facebook May Track Users Who Leave Service, Data Agency Says
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Striking It Rich In The App Store: For Developers, It's More Casino Than Gold Mine
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 Earlier Items: 
Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:
Britain's $25 computer is coming by Christmas
Discussion: Geek.com and Raspberry Pi
Richi Jennings / Computerworld:
Has Carbonite had a privacy breach? I'm getting spam.
Thanks:richi
Lenka Ponikelska / Bloomberg:
Telefonica Czech Won't Sell Apple's iPhones, Hospodarske Says
Discussion: iPhone Savior, Thanks:aharpaz
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Analyzing Comcast's spinoff of cable networks, purposefully structured with low debt: the move might be a signal to the industry that it's time to consolidate

Manuela Vega / Toronto Star:
Rogers Sports & Media lays off more than two dozen employees in its radio and podcasting divisions, citing declining revenue and challenges in advertising

Harrison Smith / Washington Post:
Reg Murphy, an editor and publisher in Atlanta, San Francisco, and Baltimore, died Nov. 9 at 90; he was kidnapped in 1974 by a man angry at “liberal news media”
 
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