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Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:
Exclusive: HP's Meg Whitman on webOS 'it's not obvious exactly what to do here' — HP CEO Meg Whitman just told a room full of Palm and HP employees that the company doesn't yet know what to do with webOS. “It's really important to me to make the right decision, not the fast decision,” …
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
HP Has Meeting to Say It Still Doesn't Know What to Do With webOS
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@inafried and webOSroundup
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple seeds iOS 5.0.1 early to end users for battery life testing, releases internal memo about battery issue — Following the release of iOS 5.0.1 to developers to test the new software against applications in addition to test for battery life and Siri improvements, Apple is now seeding iOS 5.0.1 to certain end users for testing.
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PC Magazine, Pulse2, Redmond Pie, iPhone Alley, Gadget Lab, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, GigaOM, PadGadget, Cult of Mac, App Advice, TUAW, MacRumors, PhoneArena, LAUNCH and iClarified
Amazon.com:
All-New Kindle Family - Kindle, Kindle Touch, Kindle Touch 3G and Kindle Fire - Coming to Over 16,000 Retail Locations Across the U.S. — In addition to Amazon.com, customers will be able to find, discover and purchase the $79 Kindle, $99 Kindle Touch, $149 Kindle Touch 3G, and $199 Kindle Fire at Best Buy, Target, Walmart and more
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Pulse2, 9to5Google, GottaBeMobile, Liliputing, GeekWire and ReadWriteWeb
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Michael Gorman / Engadget:
Kindle family goes retail, coming to a store near you on November 15th
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The Verge and Electronista
The Mozilla Blog:
Mozilla Firefox Adds Twitter Search and New Features that Make Web Browsing Easier — Today, we're releasing an update to Firefox for Windows, Mac, Linux and Firefox for Android. This update includes new features that make Web browsing easier and give users and developers more control over how they customize their Web experience.
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Mashable!, MacStories, Mozilla Hacks, Hardware 2.0 Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Search Engine Land, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, AllThingsD, WebProNews, INFOdocket, Softpedia News, Redmond Pie, Gizmodo UK, The Register, Webmonkey, CNET News, MobileWhack.com, GeekWire, ReadWriteWeb, SiliconFilter, Engadget, The Next Web, TechCrunch, @csoghoian and Lifehacker
Michael Steeber:
Apple: We Have No Plans To Bring Siri To Older Devices — Apple has allegedly given the official word that Siri will not be coming to older iOS devices, at least not any time soon. I received word yesterday from someone who contacted Apple with a bug report, suggesting an optional build …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Apple newZ • …, The Next Web, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com and MacGazette.net, Thanks:michaelsteeber
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Google+ Is Dead — The search behemoth might not realize it yet, but its chance to compete with Facebook has come and gone. — Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt didn't post his first Google+ message until three months after it went live — AFP/Getty Images.
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@dannysullivan, Newsome.Org and Adotas
Horace Dediu / asymco:
How many iPhones are being discarded in the US? — In the recently posted US Smartphone Landscape I used comScore's data to paint a picture of the growth of smartphones in general and the shape of the mobile platforms in the US. The source was survey data measuring the installed base.
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TUAW and iClarified
Maciej Ceglowski / Pinboard:
The Social Graph is Neither — I first came across the phrase social graph in 2007, in an essay by Brad Fitzpatrick, though I'd be curious to know if it goes back further. — The idea of representing relationships between people as networks is old, but this was the first time I had thought …
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Daring Fireball, @pinboard and @chrisvanpatten
Google Apps update alerts:
Deprecation of Gmail App for BlackBerry — Beginning November 22, 2011, we will end support for the Gmail App for Blackberry (installed native app). Over this past year, we've focused efforts on building a great Gmail experience in the mobile browser and will continue investing in this area.
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Mobile Industry Review
Matt Haber / Fast Company:
Facebook For The Famous — Backed by heavyweights in three disparate industries—Amazon, CAA, and Greylock Partners—WhoSay.com lets celebrities do something Twitter and Facebook don't: own their online content. Tom Hanks, Anderson Cooper, Lindsay Lohan, Paul Feig, and nearly 900 other stars have already signed up for the service.
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Barnes & Noble Urges U.S. Regulators to Probe Microsoft on Mobile Patents — Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) asked U.S. regulators to investigate whether Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) seeks to monopolize the mobile-device market by demanding patent royalties on electronics running on Google Inc.'s Android operating system.
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Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Ars Technica, CNET News, Neowin.net, Network World, Electronista, GeekWire and MobileBurn.com
Don Reisinger / CNET News:
Google's Schmidt: Android ‘started before the iPhone effort’ — Steve Jobs wasn't too fond of Android. — Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has taken issue with Steve Jobs' claims that Android copied the iPhone. — “Our lawsuit is saying, 'Google you f***ing ripped off the iPhone …
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AllThingsD, TechCrunch, GottaBeMobile, 9to5Google, TechFlash, All New Musings, Mashable!, The Next Web, SlashGear, paidContent and T3 News
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Kobo Acquired By Japanese E-Commerce Firm Rakuten For $315 Million — E-bookseller and e-reader company Kobo is being acquired by Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten for $315 million. The company says it will continue to expand in the U.S., while growing its international market share through Rakuten.
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Canada NewsWire Group, Publishing Perspectives, BGR, CNET News, GeekWire, VentureBeat, The Verge, SlashGear, VatorNews, PC Magazine, Liliputing, INFOdocket, Tech in Asia, Mobile Industry Review, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Between the Lines Blog, Electronista, MediaPost and Engadget, more at Mediagazer »
Idannyocean / 9to5Mac:
Apple Retail to construct “Express Lanes” during overnight tonight — We have just learned that Apple retail stores are having an “overnight” tonight to setup new Express Lanes. Apple has used these express lanes in the past to provide holiday shoppers a fast track to purchase Apple products and accessories.
Casey Maloney Rosales Muller / Facebook Developer Blog:
Early Results: The Open Graph and Music — Over the past few years, developers have started to demonstrate that when music is discovered through friends, people listen to more music and a wider variety of artists. At f8, we introduced an evolution of Facebook Platform and launched …
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Media Decoder, All Facebook, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, The Technology Chronicles, Evolver.fm, LAUNCH and TUAW
Randall Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Yelp Moves Toward IPO, Picks Bankers — Yelp Inc., the online review website, has picked Goldman Sachs Group inc. and Citigroup Inc. to lead an initial public offering, according to a person familiar with the IPO plans. Yelp, based in San Francisco, has been considering an IPO and in July hired …
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CNET News, DealBook, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Business Insider and The Technology Chronicles
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Scoop: The Boxee Box is getting a live TV tuner (video) — Boxee Box owners will soon be able to watch live television through the device, with the help of a special USB dongle that functions as a tuner for free over-the-air HD TV signals. The live TV feature is part of a major update …
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The Verge, Electronista and BetaNews, Thanks:ryanlawler
Bloomberg:
Alibaba, Softbank Said to Seek Partners for Yahoo — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Softbank Corp. (9984) are talking with private-equity funds about making a bid for all of Yahoo! Inc. without the company's blessing, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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The Tech Trade and Tech Trader Daily
Darren McCarra / The Sociable:
Google bans promotions and competitions on Google+ Pages for brands — As the dust settles on Google's launch of Google+ Pages for brands and businesses yesterday, we've dug a little deeper into the terms of service that each brand must adhere to on the network and found something very interesting.
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Pulse2, ReelSEO Online Video …, Mashable!, WebProNews, 9to5Google, The Next Web, E-Commerce Times, Search Engine Land and TechCrunch
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Adobe ‘Restructures,’ Eliminates 750 Jobs In North America And Europe — We've been hearing rumors of Adobe layoffs all day, and the company just released a statement announcing that it is ‘restructuring’ its business, which will result in the elimination of 750 jobs in North America and Europe.
Alexia Tsotsis / Techcrunch:
Head Of Communications Sean Garrett Leaves Twitter — Twitter Head of Communications Sean Garrett (@SG) has just announced that he's leaving Twitter in a series of tweets. When asked to confirm his departure, Twitter Communications Representative Carolyn Penner said, “I think his tweets speak for themselves...”
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ReadWriteWeb, @sg, AllThingsD, Business Insider, @dannysullivan, @ed, @sg and @rsarver
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Killing the 500-shareholder rule — The 500-shareholder rule is heading for the scrapyard. — Senators Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.) today introduced legislation that would effectively eliminate a rule that many have cited as the reason Facebook may go public next year.
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Gawker, Business Insider and Betabeat
Wall Street Journal:
Judges Challenge Phone Location Tracking — State and federal authorities follow the movements of thousands of Americans each year by secretly monitoring the location of their cellphones, often with little judicial oversight, in a practice facing legal challenges.
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New York Times
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Will there be a Silverlight 6 (and does it matter)? — Summary: Microsoft is poised to release to manufacturing Silverlight 5. There's word from some of my contacts that this might be the last major release of Silverlight, but Microsoft isn't confirming or denying.
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The Next Web and Neowin.net
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Twitter Rolling Out Activity Streams That Make The Home Page A Dashboard — Twitter has begun the rollout, or at least a significant spot test, of the Activity and @USERNAME streams it announced in mid-August. The @USERNAME stream replaces the @Mentions and Retweets streams …
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AllTwitter and The Verge
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Walmart Goes Mobile With New Apps For iPhone & iPad — Today, Walmart is launching an updated iPhone application and a new iPad app, in an effort to better connect customers' offline and online shopping experiences. The iPhone app in particular brings a number of new features …
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Forbes, AllThingsD and GigaOM
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
AT&T launches VoIP app for international calls — AT&T is launching a new mobile app that allows its smartphone customers to make international calls via VoIP. The new AT&T Call International will allow customers to make calls overseas at cheap rates like 4 cents per minute to China …
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PC Magazine, Seeking Alpha, The Verge, TUAW, iLounge, Connected Planet Online, Electronista, 9to5Mac, MobileBurn.com, MacRumors and Engadget
Kin Lane / API Evangelist:
Google Launches Oauth 2.0 Playground — Last March Google started support OAuth 2.0 for all of their APIs, and has been pushing all developers to switch to using OAuth 2.0 in all applications. — Today they announced the OAuth 2. Playground which allows developers to experiment with APIs using …
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Google Code Blog, Thanks:kinlane
