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Zal Bilimoria / The Official Netflix Blog:
New Experience Now Available for All Android Tablets (iPad Coming Soon) — The new design is much more immersive and provides greater focus on the growing number of titles in the Netflix catalog. In fact, the new interface displays twice as many movies and TV shows as before, enabling you to discover even more titles you'll love.
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Brian Solomon / Mobile:
Netflix Redesigns App for iPad, Nook Tablet, and Kindle Fire
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Peter Fleischer / The Official Google Blog:
Greater choice for wireless access point owners — From tagging a post with your location, to checking in to a restaurant, to simply finding out where you are, location-based services have become some of the most popular features of today's Internet. One of the key ways technology companies …
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BGR, CNNMoney.com, Digital Trends, The Next Web, Computerworld, DSLreports, eWeek, 9to5Google, Webomatica, Gizmodo, parislemon, ReadWriteWeb, dailywireless.org, Pulse2, CNET News, Neowin.net, Macworld, The Verge, PC Magazine, SlashGear, Dennis Fisher, Fast Company and Electronista
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Violet Blue / ZDNet:
Facebook Porn and Gore Exploit Spiraling Out Of Control — Summary: For the past few days an exploit has been hijacking Facebook users accounts and posting explicit gore and pornography to users' timelines. — Facebook users' outrage is mounting toward the social network for an exploit …
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BGR, Digits, Washington Post, BBC, Ars Technica, Techdirt, Geekosystem, Consumer Reports News, Naked Security, CNN, Network World, Business Insider, global.christianpost.com, Examiner, Gawker, Softpedia News, FT Tech Hub, Inquirer and Neowin.net, Thanks:violetblue
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Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:
Facebook confirms images of porn and violence, is investigating
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NBC Bay Area and WebProNews
Corin Anderson / Inside Search:
Search using your terms, verbatim — Behind the simplicity of Google search is a complex set of algorithms that expands and improves the query you've typed to find the best results. Automatic spelling correction ([vynal] to “vinyl") and substituting synonyms (matching [pictures] to “photos” …
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Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, SiliconFilter, LAUNCH, Tip Desk and The Next Web
Foursquare Blog:
The magic of foursquare discovery, now on your big-screen devices. #new4SQ — NOTE (Tuesday, 1:30pm EST): Now live for all! Enjoy! — As foursquare has evolved, the focus has turned from simply ‘checking in’ to sharing our experiences and expertise, unlocking rewards and deals, and exploring the world around us.
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Mashable!, Between the Lines Blog, 9to5Mac, About Foursquare, The Next Web, Tip Desk, @chadcat, @zackzachariah and @rsarver
Bloomberg:
Google Said to Be Near Universal Music Deal for Song Downloads — Google Inc. (GOOG) is near an agreement to secure songs from Vivendi SA (VIV)'s Universal Music Group for its new music service, said a person with knowledge of the situation. — An accord with Universal …
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Engadget, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, NBC Bay Area, Light Reading, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, Billboard.Biz, mocoNews, WebProNews, Digits, Deadline.com, The Verge, SlashGear and Ubergizmo
Sid Viswanathan / The LinkedIn Blog:
LinkedIn's New CardMunch iPhone App: Reinventing Business Cards — Today, we've taken a giant leap forward to reinventing business cards with a complete relaunch of the LinkedIn's CardMunch iPhone app with a brand new mobile experience for professionals on LinkedIn. — Get the Cardmunch iPhone app now!
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Business Insider, CNET News, InformationWeek, VatorNews, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, San Francisco Chronicle, ReadWriteWeb and GigaOM
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
DOJ: Lying on Match.com needs to be a crime — The U.S. Department of Justice is defending computer hacking laws that make it a crime to use a fake name on Facebook or lie about your weight in an online dating profile. — In a statement obtained by CNET that's scheduled to be delivered tomorrow …
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Gizmodo, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Betabeat and GMSV
Gartner:
Gartner Says Sales of Mobile Devices Grew 5.6 Percent in Third Quarter of 2011; Smartphone Sales Increased 42 Percent — Android OS Rose to Account for More Than 50 Percent of Smartphone Sales — Worldwide sales of mobile devices totaled 440.5 million units in the third quarter of 2011 …
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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Gartner: Android Now Over 50 Percent Of Smartphone Sales, The Rest Decline
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Bloomberg, Mobilized, Reuters, Neowin.net, WinRumors, TUAW, 9to5Mac, BGR, Guardian, PC World, BBC, Electronista and Business Insider
Jay Greene / CNET News:
Ballmer sees no value in splitting Microsoft up — Microsoft's Steve Ballmer at the company's 2011 annual meeting. — BELLEVUE, Wash.—Microsoft's chief executive told the company's shareholders at its annual meeting this morning that there is no benefit in breaking the company up.
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Business Insider, LiveSide.net, The Register, TechFlash, GeekWire, Business Insider, Reuters, WinRumors, PhoneArena, Neowin.net, @tomwarren and WinRumors
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
New Study Shows Majority Of Americans Against SOPA; Believe Extreme Copyright Enforcement Is Unreasonable — One of the talking points we've been hearing about SOPA from the lobbyists pushing to get it approved is that the majority of Americans are in favor of the bill, because they want to “protect” intellectual property or jobs.
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Media Piracy …
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Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Facebook, Google join to fight Internet piracy legislation
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Techdirt, the agile panda, Continuations, Betabeat, Anthony Falzone's blog, CNET News, A VC, San Francisco Chronicle and @mattcutts
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Rushdie Wins Facebook Fight Over Identity — SAN FRANCISCO — The writer Salman Rushdie hit Twitter on Monday morning with a flurry of exasperated posts. Facebook, he wrote, had deactivated his account, demanded proof of identity and then turned him into Ahmed Rushdie, which is how he is identified on his passport.
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PC Magazine, The Atlantic Online, msnbc.com, Washington Post, Mashable!, Bits and NBC Bay Area
Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
Recent Changes At Amazon & Best Buy Seem To Suggest A New Apple TV Is Coming Soon — The Apple TV is starting to look a bit stale. The current model was announced on September 1st, 2010, but being Apple's hobby, it always takes a back seat in the refresh van.
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MacRumors, Gizmodo, CNET News, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, everythingiCafe, Apple Bitch, iClarified and TUAW
Pew Research:
Why Americans Use Social Media — Two-thirds of online adults (66%) use social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or LinkedIn. These internet users say that connections with family members and friends (both new and old) are a primary consideration in their adoption of social media tools.
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PC World, Between the Lines Blog and Pew Internet
Myles Jordan / Google LatLong:
See your rated places and discover new ones directly on the map — (Cross-posted on the Google Places Blog) — Since the My Places tab was released earlier this summer, you've been able to view all the places you've rated in one manageable list. This list is now being used to personalize …
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SiliconFilter, ReadWriteWeb, Marketing Pilgrim and Softpedia News
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Benchmark, Marissa Mayer Put $5.5M In Stationery Design And Retail Site Minted — Minted, design community and e-commerce site for stationery and cards, has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding led Benchmark Capital, with IDG Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Marissa Mayer and Jeremy Stoppelman participating.
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Market Wire, VentureBeat, GigaOM, AllThingsD and Business Insider
Nancy Gohring / Computerworld:
Jobs wanted own network with unlicensed spectrum — Apple's Steve Jobs wanted his own network that would use unlicensed spectrum rather than rely on mobile operators, says John Stanton — Steve Jobs initially hoped to create his own network with the unlicensed spectrum that Wi-Fi uses rather …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
The making of the Xbox: Microsoft's journey to the next generation (part 2) — Editor's note: This story is the second of two pieces on the 10th anniversary of the launch of Microsoft's Xbox video game console, which debuted Nov. 15, 2001. The narrative is based on recent interviews …
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Ars Technica, Engadget, TechNet Blogs and Seattle Times, Thanks:devindra
Sara McKinley / Inside AdWords:
Third Party Tools To Help Manage Your Google+ Page — Labels: google+, Google+ Pages, pages for businesses — Last week, we announced Google+ Pages, which provide a new way for businesses, brands, products, organizations and other entities to build a public identity on Google+.
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AllThingsD and Mashable!
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Public Memorials for Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy to Be Held This Weekend — Diapora co-founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy passed away on Saturday night, the team behind the distributed, open source social network acknowledged today. — Public memorial services for Zhitomirskiy are planned …
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Venture Capital Dispatch
Christina Warren / Mashable!:
Yes, You Can Install the Nook App on a Kindle Fire [EXCLUSIVE] — Although Amazon goes out of its way to hide all traces of vanilla Android from its new Kindle Fire tablet, it turns out tech-savvy users can still install select third-party Android applications outside the auspices of the Amazon Appstore.
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GottaBeMobile and Gizmodo, Thanks:benparr
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Amazon Web Services lands on supercomputer list, bolsters HPC offering — Summary: The new HPC instance includes 2 Intel Xeon processors with 8 cores each. The Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large also has 2 GB of RAM and 3.46 TB of instance storage. — Amazon Web Services is adding …
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SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica and GeekWire
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
MacBook Air now 28% of Apple's notebook shipments — Apple's MacBook Air models now make up 28 percent of the company's notebook shipments, up from just 8 percent in the first half of the year. — Research by Morgan Stanley involving NPD figures reported by analyst Katy Huberty indicate Apple's thin …
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CNET News, Ars Technica, Inquirer, VentureBeat, DigiTimes, PalmAddicts and BGR
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Minimizing restarts after automatic updating in Windows Update … When it comes to Windows Update, one of the most discussed topics is the disruptiveness of restarts in the course of automatic updating. And for good reason—restarts can interrupt you right in the middle of something important.
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PC Magazine, Inquirer, CNET News, Engadget, OSNews, AnandTech, PC World, Electronista, The Verge, gHacks Technology News and Softpedia News
