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Malcolm Gladwell / New Yorker:
THE TWEAKER — The real genius of Steve Jobs. — Not long after Steve Jobs got married, in 1991, he moved with his wife to a nineteen-thirties, Cotswolds-style house in old Palo Alto. Jobs always found it difficult to furnish the places where he lived. His previous house had only a mattress, a table, and chairs.
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James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google lawyer: Why the patent system is broken — Google stands at the center of the escalating mobile patent wars, as the developer of the Android operating system that triggered scores of lawsuits and countersuits. — Depending on whom you ask, the company is either the high-minded adult …
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Disney and YouTube Make a Video Deal — LOS ANGELES — Two powerful media companies, the Walt Disney Company and YouTube, are betting that a new partnership will help them surmount separate but equally worrisome hurdles as they each strive for greater Web dominance.
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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Google Chairman Eric tells US senators Apple's Siri could pose ‘competitive threat’ — Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman and former chief executive, admitted to the U.S. Senate antitrust subcommittee that Apple's new Siri personal assistant technology is a “significant development” …
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Why Anti-marketer Google Has Embraced Marketing — As Web Giant Migrates to More Services Beyond Search, Its Philosophy Has Changed — When Google placed its first TV ad, a last-minute multi-million buy during the Super Bowl nearly two years ago, then-CEO Eric Schmidt tweeted, “Hell has indeed frozen over.”
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
HTC confirms early 2012 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades for Sensation, Rezound, Vivid, and others — HTC was a little equivocal in the immediate wake of Google's Ice Cream Sandwich announcement, but today the company's returned with a concrete list of its smartphones that are set to receive the upgrade to Android 4.0.
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Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard Career According to The Crimson — On November 7, Facebook's founder will make his first official visit to his alma mater since he dropped out in 2004, and my-oh-my has he grown. Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences says in announcing the former student's visit …
Ellis Hamburger / Business Insider:
Firefox 8 Launches In Two Days, But Here's How To Get It NOW — Firefox 8 won't hit the presses until November 8, but as always, Mozilla has uploaded the final version to the web a couple days early. — gHacks spotted the files on Mozilla's FTP servers. — Firefox 8, which comes …
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David Carr / New York Times:
Is the WikiLeaks Movement Fading? — IT appears all the more likely that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, will be extradited to Sweden to be questioned on allegations of sexual misconduct from two women. A British court's ruling last Wednesday that he could be extradited …
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
David Gelernter Discusses Patent Claim Against Apple — WOODBRIDGE, Conn. — David Gelernter is known for many things. As a pioneering computer scientist, he first earned renown by connecting computers together into collaborative networks. Then in 1993, he gained the kind of fame no one wants …
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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Urban Airship Raises $15 Million From Verizon, Salesforce — Urban Airship, which helps companies add features like push notifications and in-app purchases to their mobile apps on multiple mobile platforms, has raised a $15 million Series C round with strategic investments from Verizon and Salesforce.
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon stokes Kindle Fire as Barnes & Noble preps response — Amazon.com this weekend released a new television ad promoting its upcoming Kindle Fire by tying the $199 tablet to its e-commerce heritage. — The move comes on the eve of an event where Barnes & Noble is expected to announce …
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