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Nancy Gohring / Macworld:
Venture capitalist: Jobs wanted own network with unlicensed spectrum — Steve Jobs initially hoped to create his own network with the unlicensed spectrum that Wi-Fi uses rather than work with the mobile operators, said wireless industry legend John Stanton.
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Thomas Houston / The Verge:
Microsoft Socl: inside the company's secret social network (exclusive) — Earlier this summer, a teaser page appeared at Socl.com revealing Tulalip, an oddly named service from Microsoft promising a new way to “Find what you need and Share what you know.” Facebook and Twitter sign-ins were offered …
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CNET News, ITProPortal, TechCrunch, Microsoft News, VentureBeat, WinRumors, SlashGear, PalmAddicts and Electronista
iFixit:
Amazon Kindle Fire Teardown — Amazon proposes to offer users a full media experience with their $199 tablet. It didn't take long until we decided to see what they crammed inside this value package. Did this teardown kindle a fiery passion for gadget disassembly in you?
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Bloomberg:
Google Music Store Chases Apple's ITunes 8 Years Too Late — Google Inc. (GOOG) is entering the online music market almost a decade too late to pose a threat to Apple Inc. (AAPL), the largest seller of songs on the Web. — The service, scheduled to be unveiled at a Google event in Los Angeles today …
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Fast Company, parislemon, 9to5Google and Ubergizmo
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Surur / WMPoweruser:
Nokia hints at higher-end Lumia handset, confirms Windows 8 tablets by June 2012 — The head of Nokia France it seems has loose lips. — Talking to French LesEchos newspaper he spoke of Nokia's plan to boost their market share of the French market from their current 16% back to 22% (close to the 25% they had 2 years ago).
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Inquirer, LiveSide.net, The Verge, Engadget, CNET News, IntoMobile, Mashable!, Good E-Reader, WinRumors, SoMobile, Reuters, T3 News, GottaBeMobile and Pocket-lint
Bill Gurley / abovethecrowd.com:
You Don't Have To Tweet To Twitter — Frequent comparisons to Facebook leave many confused about the true value of Twitter. “In a brand new direction A change of perception On a brand new trajection” [Disclosure: Benchmark Capital is a major investor in Twitter, and my partner Peter Fenton sits on the Twitter BOD.]
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TechCrunch
Ben Folk-Williams / Digg Blog:
Some Charts Are Wrong aka An Update on Digg Traffic — From time to time at Digg we see speculation on our traffic based on “estimated data,” and ominous prognostication of what it means. But the story is pretty different if you're looking at the actual data.
MG Siegler / parislemon:
“Greater Choice” — Late last night, I linked to a blog post Google put up and jotted down some initial thoughts. Given the response (thousands of views, 100+ notes, etc.), I thought it was only fair that I elaborate a bit. Google's post is entitled “Greater choice for wireless access point owners”.
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New York Times, @mattcutts, @fromedome, @parislemon, @ed, TechSpot, CNNMoney.com and DSLreports
Electronista:
HP gets into ultrabooks with nine-hour Folio 13 — HP Folio 13 claims ultrabook battery record — HP formally launched itself into the ultrabook space early Wednesday with the Folio 13. The 13.3-inch system is “less than” 0.7 inches thick and, while heavier than the MacBook Air at 3.3 pounds …
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Inquirer, Engadget, Technologizer, PC World, DigiTimes, VentureBeat, Electricpig.co.uk, Bloomberg, LAPTOP Magazine and The Verge
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Wow: Intel unveils 1 teraflop chip with 50-plus cores — I thought the prospect of quad-core tablet computers was exciting. — Then I saw Intel's latest — a 1 teraflop chip, with more than 50 cores, that Intel unveiled today, running it on a test machine at the SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle.
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SlashGear, The Register, eWeek, Tom's Hardware Guide and InfoWorld
BBC:
Scientists boost battery strength with small holes — Batteries built from the novel material mix could be fully charged from flat in 15 minutes — Batteries for phones and laptops could soon recharge ten times faster and hold a charge ten times larger than current technology allows.
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Ubergizmo and O'Grady's PowerPage
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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Liliputing, Softpedia News, The Register, Windows 8 News, Rumors & Tips, Geek.com, DailyTech, Computerworld, PC Magazine, OSNews, ITProPortal, Inquirer, CNET News and Datamation.com
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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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Miramax Is The Latest To Ink A Deal With Netflix For UK Launch — Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is picking up some more momentum for its UK and Ireland launch, scheduled for early next year. The streaming video company has now added film studio Miramax to its list of content partners …
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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Sony Considers Internet Rival to Cable TV — Sony Corp. is considering launching an Internet-based alternative to cable-TV service, say people familiar with the situation, the latest threat to cable and satellite operators that now dominate pay television. — The Japanese electronics …
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Tom Simonite / Technology Review:
E-Reader Display Shows Vibrant Color Video — Mirasol's reflective display is being tested by device manufacturers, and could appear on shelves next year. — Even as the processing power and download speeds of mobile devices surge, one component still lags behind: the screen.
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Android and Me, PhoneArena and The Tech Report
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Cox to exit wireless business: sales end Nov. 16th, leaves the air March 30th, 2012 — Cox Wireless has always been something of an also-ran, trying to play catch up with the big boys that already had a well-established infrastructure. It snatched up some precious 700MHz spectrum from the FCC …
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mocoNews, Electronista, The Verge, PhoneArena, DSLreports and PhoneDog.com
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Speak Out Against SOPA: Send Congress A Physical Letter In Just A Few Clicks — The web community is currently in an apprehensive uproar over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which threatens to create an Internet blacklist that operates at the DNS level in a misguided attempt to curb piracy.
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Techdirt, Reuters and Electronic Frontier Foundation
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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Brian Heater / Engadget:
Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet unboxing and hands-on (video) — Look what we got in our grubby hands — it's the new Nook Tablet, Barnes & Noble's attempt to elbow in on this holiday season's crowded tablet landscape. At $249, the slate is being positioned as a direct competitor to Amazon's budget Kindle Fire.
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Liliputing, TechCrunch, Fortune, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET News, AllThingsD, The Digital Reader, IntoMobile, ZDNet, eWeek, Mashable!, Pocketables and Forbes
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
Tor launches do-it-yourself privacy bridge in Amazon cloud — The Tor Project, the development team behind the Tor anonymizing network, has developed a version of its software packaged for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. Tor Cloud provides a way for users of the network to create a “bridge” …
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Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Picks Up Veterans of Second Life-Maker Linden Lab in Talent Acquisition of MailRank — Facebook picks up two veterans of Second Life-maker Linden Lab today in announcing a talent acquisition of MailRank today. Given the background of MailRank's co-founders, we would bet …
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Steven M. Davidoff / DealBook:
The Wisest Entrepreneurs Know How to Preserve Equity — So you want to be an Internet billionaire. It's not just about having a great idea and building a world-class business at light speed. — A review of recent initial public offering filings for Internet start-ups shows that the founders …
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Visa Names Its New PayPal-Like Digital Wallet Service “V.me” — The brand that consumers will see when Visa's digital wallet launches early next year won't be the Visa logo. — The payments company will be using the name V.me to differentiate it from its more well-known services found …
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SlashGear and Electronista
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Sean Parker: “Little Startups Are Ridiculously OverFunded” — Speaking at the Techonomy conference today, Sean Parker warns about the downside of the explosion of seed-stage startups. “Little startups are ridiculously overfunded,” he say. “The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors.
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CNET News, Six Kids and a Full Time Job, Betabeat, MediaFile and @stevecheney
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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Marketing Pilgrim, LAUNCH, Tip Desk, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch and SiliconFilter
Tom Loftus / Digits:
Facebook Blames ‘Coordinated Spam Attack’ for Surge in Porn Imagery (Update) — Facebook said today that a “coordinated spam attack” was to blame for the posting of pornographic and violent images on the news feeds of unsuspecting Facebook users. — The issue, which first started appearing …
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Gina Trapani / Smarterware:
ThinkUp Archives and Analyzes Your Social Media Life — The software I've been building for the past two years, ThinkUp, left beta today. Download ThinkUp 1.0 to install on your web server, or launch ThinkUp on Amazon EC2 in under 60 seconds. Here's a rundown of what ThinkUp is, what it does, and why it's important.
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Expert Labs, Anil Dash and ReadWriteWeb
