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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Logitech CEO: Google TV ‘cost us dearly,’ no Revue replacement coming — Yesterday, Logitech hosted an Analyst and Investor Day and during his remarks, CEO Guerrino De Luca pulled absolutely no punches in describing the “mistakes” the company made with its Logitech Revue Google TV set top box.
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Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Revue this: Logitech is done with Google TV after $100M loss
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Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Nears Settlement on Charges It Misled Users on Privacy — Facebook Inc. is finalizing a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that it engaged in deceptive behavior when changing its privacy settings, according to people familiar with the situation.
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Jake Smith / 9to5Mac:
Users still seeing their battery life drain quickly after this morning's 5.0.1 update — Looking at the Apple support forums this afternoon, Apple's iOS 5.0.1 update that was released today isn't offering promised fixes of battery life (seen in the release notes) to everyone.
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Gizmodo, Computerworld, The Startup Foundry, Network World, Hardware 2.0 Blog, discussions.apple.com, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, Mashable!, Phones Review, TechEye, ZDNet, Technologizer, App Advice, The Tech Herald …, MobileSyrup.com, Bits and AllThingsD
Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog:
PARC scientist recalls Jobs' famous Xerox visits (video) — Summary: Hear about Steve Jobs' trips to Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, including the one where Jobs eyed the company's graphical user interface prototype — which ended up on Mac OS. — At a Churchill Club event in San Jose …
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9to5Mac
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Sprint to Lock iPhone 4S SIMs Starting November 11th — Sprintfeed reports that Sprint will be SIM locking their iPhone 4S SIMs starting on November 11th. … The status of the Sprint iPhone 4S SIM slot has been the subject of some confusion. One early report claimed that the Sprint iPhone 4S SIM slot would be ship unlocked.
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AppleInsider, Digital Trends, DSLreports, Gizmodo, Sprintfeed, The Next Web, O'Grady's PowerPage, Electronista, TUAW, PhoneArena and Phones Review
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Zynga's stock ‘scandal’ — What did I do? — There is no joy in Cityville — the mighty Pincus was called a lout. — Zynga this morning woke up to a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal, accusing the social gaming company and its CEO Mark Pincus of strong-arming employees into giving up previously-granted stock options.
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Rondam Ramblings, ITworld.com, TechCrunch, @rk, Betabeat, Washington Post, Kotaku, I4U News, Broken Toys and Wall Street Journal
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Exclusive: Mark Pincus memo to Zynga employees
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Betabeat, V3.co.uk, Pulse2, Business Insider, VG247 and The Technology Chronicles
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Morgan Stanley: Apple's share of world's largest PC market — China — set to grow from 5% to 21% — Chinese consumers rate Macs as most desirable, although only 7% can afford one — Click to enlarge. — In August, according to IDC, China overtook the U.S. as the world's largest consumer of personal computers.
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Between the Lines Blog, AllThingsD, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac and GigaOM, Thanks:fortunemagazine
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Apple's US online store begins selling unlocked, contract-free iPhone 4S: $649 and up — You can't expect to see one for “one to two weeks,” but those hellbent on holding out for an unlocked iPhone 4S here in the US of A can finally snag one without jetting off to Australia (among other places).
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Gilt Gets A Makeover — Flash-sale site Gilt is rolling out a slightly new look over the next few days. It features bigger pictures, better navigation to sister sites such as Gilt City, Gilt Taste, and Jetsetter, and new semi-permanent “Shops” where high-end brands can park their sales for longer than the typical 36-hour window.
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Social Commerce Today and Mashable!
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Buy it now, for real: eBay to refer sales to nearby stores — A new feature in the RedLaser mobile app allows customers to buy items from local retailers before even going to the store. — SAN JOSE, Calif.—EBay knows that half of all Christmas shoppers miss its December 16 shipping deadline …
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Todd Haselton / BGR:
Sony CEO: We're building ‘a different kind of TV set,’ just like Apple — All eyes have been on Apple to reinvent the television set, but Sony CEO Howard Stringer recently confirmed that Sony, too, is working on re-imagining the TV. “There's a tremendous amount of R&D going into a different kind of TV set …
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PC Magazine, Dow Jones Newswires, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, Ubergizmo, Shiny Objects, TechCrunch, Electronista, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, iClarified, Engadget, Pocket-lint and Gizmodo
Chris Chang / M.I.C. Gadget:
Thousands Line Up for Hong Kong iPhone 4S Launch (video) — Over three thousand people gathered outside the Hong Kong Apple store for the launch of the iPhone 4S in Hong Kong, but Apple will only allow 1,250 people to line up. A scuffle nearly broke out, and police were called to keep everything under control.
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MacRumors, The Tech Trade, AppleInsider, Fortune, PenguinSix, The Next Web, iPhone Savior, TUAW, CNET News, Business Insider, Phones Review, MacNN and The Register
Dan Frommer / SplatF:
How does Sony make money? Life insurance! — Sony's consumer electronics business — led by TVs, videogames, and computers — still generates about half of the company's sales. — But Sony's profits these days come from what may seem like an unexpected source: Its financial services business …
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Reveals New Powerful Gestures in the Works for iOS Devices — On November 10, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals a series of new gestures that will provide users with a number of advantages. It will allow users to view clusters …
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everythingiCafe, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, SlashGear, CNET News and iDownloadBlog.com
Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Can A Twitter Account Be A Company Trade Secret? — There has been an ongoing tug-of-war between journalists and publishers over who gets to keep digital possessions after a break-up. The debate took a new twist this week after a court issued a ruling in the case of a tech reporter who walked …
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Ars Technica, Technology & …, textually.org and The Register, Thanks:spark_pr
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires Katango, The Automatic Friend Sorter — Back in September we broke the news that Google was in talks to acquire Katango, a small Kleiner Perkins-backed startup that launched this past summer. Today, they've made it official: Katango just announced that it's been acquired by Google …
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VatorNews, The Register, The Tech Trade, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Pulse2, Search Engine Land, AllThingsD, ReadWriteWeb, MediaFile and SiliconFilter
Business Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Amazingly, Ringtones Are Still A $2 Billion Business — Here's a breakdown of online music sales from Gartner, by way of Peter Kafka at All Things D. The most insane thing about this chart? How important ringtones are. — Kafka says it better than we can:
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AllThingsD and Gizmodo
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
What's next for the iPod Shuffle/Nano? A Speaker Clip of Course — On November 11, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next chapters for Apple's mini media players such as the iPod shuffle and iPod nano.
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CNN, SlashGear, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Geek.com, iPodNN, MacDailyNews and Gizmodo
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Any.DO Launches A Social To Do List App With $1 Million In Funding — It's not often that an iPhone user gets jealous of an Android application, but that's definitely the case here with Any.DO, the gorgeous new social To Do list app for Android launching today.
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Appolicious Advisor, Apps blog, SocialTimes.com, VatorNews, AllThingsD, MobileBurn.com and VentureBeat
Bloomberg:
Groupon Stock Among Most-Expensive for Shorts to Bet Against — Groupon Inc., which just completed the biggest initial public offering by a U.S. Internet company since Google Inc. (GOOG) sold shares in 2004, is among the most difficult stocks for short sellers to borrow and bet against.
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New York Times, Silicon Valley Watch and Business Insider
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
1% Of Nothing Launches To Get Startups Donating Equity — Shervin Pishevar and Matt Galligan have just formally announced the beta launch of their new organization 1% of Nothing. It's aimed at inspiring early-stage companies to donate 1% of their equity to a cause of their choice.
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1% of Nothing, Thanks:joshconstine
