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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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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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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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Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
From Heaven: iTV — Search for the word “cracked” in Walt Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs (or flip to page 555 if you have the bricks-and-mortar version). The second hit yields the following: … “It” is the mythical Apple iTV. Even though Walt's report of the July 2011 conversation …
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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 …
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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Facebook, Engadget, MobileSyrup.com, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Electronista, Know Your Mobile, IntoMobile, Pocket-lint, Mashable!, Neowin.net, GottaBeMobile, The Next Web and The Tech Herald …
Seth Colaner / HotHardware.com News:
Mozilla Developers Testing Mobile OS — Mozilla has been experimenting with an interesting idea called Boot 2 Gecko. Essentially, B2G (as it's called) is a mobile operating system based on the Web, as opposed to what the project's wiki calls “proprietary, single-vendor stacks”.
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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.”
Horace Dediu / asymco:
The US smartphone landscape — comScore published the latest data regarding US smartphone installed base. To summarize: — Penetration reached 37.4%, an increase of 2.9 million or 1.24 points of percentage. — Approximately 650k consumers switched from non-smart to smartphones every week during September
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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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Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Google's Schmidt in S. Korea eying search acquisition, Android development — Google looks set to make a “large and substantial” investment in South Korea's Internet space this week, according to a company source quoted by The Korea Times. — Rumours suggest that Google …
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Bloomberg, Softpedia News, The Korea Times and Asiaone
Quentin Hardy / New York Times:
Bit by Bit, Work Exchange Site Aims to Get Jobs Done — SAN FRANCISCO — Philip Rosedale tried to change the nature of play with Second Life, a virtual world of colorful online avatars that got a lot of attention a few years ago. — Now he wants to change the nature of work.
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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