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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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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 …
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CNET News, MacRumors, MacNN, 9to5Mac and The Next Web
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, Guardian, Friending Facebook Blog, Naked Security, AllThingsD, Washington Post, Techdirt, Gawker, Geekosystem, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Network World, Consumer Reports News, Examiner, global.christianpost.com, BBC, Softpedia News, FT Tech Hub and CNN, Thanks:violetblue
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Tom Loftus / Digits:
Facebook Blames ‘Coordinated Spam Attack’ for Surge in Porn Imagery (Update)
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The Verge, PC Magazine, PC World, Mashable!, Friending Facebook Blog and NBC Bay Area
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple Names Levinson Chairman of the Board; Disney's Iger Tapped as Director — Apple has tapped long-time board member Art Levinson as non-executive chairman of its board, replacing co-founder Steve Jobs, who passed away last month after a long battle with cancer.
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Apple, paidContent, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, BGR and The Next Web
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Emily Chang / @emilychangtv:
Apple names Arthur Levinson Chairman of the board, Disney's Bob Iger will also join the board
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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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PC World, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Gizmodo, Gawker, Geekosystem and GMSV
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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MediaFile, BGR, The Register, Engadget, LiveSide.net, Business Insider, TechFlash, GeekWire, Business Insider, WinRumors, PhoneArena, Neowin.net and @tomwarren
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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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Wall Street Journal, Engadget, NBC Bay Area, Billboard.Biz, Light Reading, 9to5Google, Digits, The Verge, SlashGear, paidContent and Ubergizmo
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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TechCrunch, Mashable!, Between the Lines Blog, 9to5Mac, About Foursquare, The Next Web, Tip Desk, @chadcat and @zackzachariah
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
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 …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Facebook, Twitter, eBay & Other Big Internet Companies Come Out Against SOPA — While Google has been pretty vocal about its complaints concerning PROTECT IP and SOPA, and Yahoo, LinkedIn and Zynga have expressed concerns elsewhere, the silence of large companies like Facebook, Twitter, eBay, Mozilla and AOL had been unfortunate.
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the agile panda, Bloomberg, Reuters, Continuations, Hillicon Valley, Anthony Falzone's blog, Betabeat, A VC, San Francisco Chronicle and @mattcutts
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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, TechCrunch, InformationWeek, San Francisco Chronicle, 9to5Mac, ReadWriteWeb and GigaOM
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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ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, HootSuite blog, AllThingsD, Adotas, The Next Web and Mashable!
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 and iClarified
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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All Facebook, Computerworld, Pew Internet, PC World, Between the Lines Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable! and Screenwerk
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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GeekWire, SplatF, L.A. Times Tech Blog, DSLreports, Between the Lines Blog, Computerworld, Smartphones …, Fortune, paidContent, CNET News, Appolicious Advisor, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Engadget, BGR, AndroidGuys, BBC, Network World, GMSV, WinRumors, ReadWriteWeb, IntoMobile, MacRumors, PC Magazine, Techie Buzz, GigaOM, PhoneArena, Business Insider, 9to5Google, Tim Anderson's ITWriting and MobileSyrup.com
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 and Marketing Pilgrim
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, Mashable!, Washington Post, msnbc.com and NBC Bay Area
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
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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Computerworld, PC Magazine, Inquirer, CNET News, ITProPortal, OSNews, AnandTech, Engadget, The Verge and gHacks Technology News
Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
Intel Capital's new $100M AppUp fund will finance application and content development — Intel Capital, the veteran investment arm of Intel, has announced the AppUp fund to invest $100 million in companies creating applications and digital content for multiple devices.
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AllThingsD, News Stories, VatorNews and Social Markets
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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Business Insider and Gizmodo, Thanks:benparr
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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The Verge, Engadget, Ars Technica, TechNet Blogs and Seattle Times, Thanks:devindra
