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Steve Dowling / Apple:
Mark Papermaster Joins Apple as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering — Apple® today announced that Mark Papermaster is joining the Company as senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Papermaster, who comes to Apple from IBM …
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Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal:
Key Apple Executive to Depart — Apple Inc. is losing one of its key technology executives. — Tony Fadell, a senior executive who was instrumental in the development of the iPod, is leaving Apple for personal reasons, people familiar with the matter said.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Salesforce.com on Microsoft: “They hate everybody” — Salesforce.com's strategy can be boiled down to one word, according to chief executive Marc Benioff — love. Of course, Benioff was being a little tongue-in-cheek as he answered questions from analysts and reporters at today's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco.
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Sridhar / Zoho Blogs:
Mr. Benioff, Tear Down That Wall — Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, talks about how Salesforce is all for sweetness and love and openness and all the good things. As VentureBeat reports: … Now, where do I begin? As I have recounted elsewhere, our dalliance with Salesforce began …
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
How To Watch Election Day Live Online — Been refreshing Real Clear Politics and FiveThirtyEight.com six times a day for the last two years? Then you'll need to know how to feed your election news habit during office hours and later Tuesday. — Here's how to get the whole picture, live:
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
The Ultimate Guide to Live Election Coverage — The interminable U.S. presidential campaign season will come finally come to an end tomorrow night. If you're looking for a map with updating red and blue states (a tradition that dates back to NBC in the 1976 election, it turns out), we've got you covered.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
FCC Approves ‘Wi-Fi On Steroids’: Good News For Consumers, Bad News For Telcos — As anticipated, the FCC has voted to approve the use of wireless airwaves between TV channels — so-called “white spaces” — for Internet devices. — The ruling is a victory for companies like Google (GOOG) …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google on Election Day: People Are Voting for Free Chicken and Ice Cream — The official Google blog just posted some interesting data about hot search trends early in election day and while there are a lot of important questions being asked by millions of people - several of the hottest queries …
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Karen Wickre / The Official Google Blog:
Top searches on Election Day (part 1) — The long, long election campaign season culminates today as people make their choices on hundreds of statewide and local contests as well as the race for the next U.S. president. Throughout the day, we're keeping an eye on Google Hot Trends to decipher …
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Royal Pingdom:
Apple fumbles with me.com — People trying to access Apple's Mobile Me by going directly to the me.com domain yesterday were met by a 404 HTTP error response and a white screen with a single text message on it: “Not Found: Resource does not exist.” — Accessing me.com/mail worked …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Firefox Reaches 20% Market Share for First Time Ever — The good folks at Mozilla are trumpeting a new report by global analytics service Net Applications that documented a 20% global market share for two out of four weeks in October. It's a new high bar of popularity for the 2nd most popular browser in the world.
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Herman Miller Embody Review: The Best Chair We've Ever Sat On — As anyone who's worked in an office would know, Herman Miller's Aeron is the chair to have at your desk for both comfort and status. As a guy who's worked at his share of Silicon Valley startups the net boom and bust …
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Texas Startup Blog, GigaOM, Global Nerdy, Know It All, The Tech Report and techeblog.com
Ehsan Akhgari:
Don't leave a trace: Private Browsing in Firefox — Today, a major feature was added to the pre-release versions of Firefox 3.1, called Private Browsing. I've been working for quite some time on this, so I thought it may be a good time to write about what this feature is and how to use it.
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Fired? Don't delete your company's Exchange database — Former IT engineer Steven Barnes has been sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to computer intrusion charges. But wait till you hear how it happened. — Baseball bats and server passwords
Associated Press:
FCC approves Verizon Wireless' purchase of Alltel — WASHINGTON - Federal regulators are signing off on Verizon Wireless' planned $28 billion purchase of Alltel Corp. The deal will create the nation's largest wireless carrier. — With partial dissents by the two Democrats on the five-member panel …
Phil Carson / RCR Wireless News:
Nokia to cut 600 jobs in marketing, sales and R&D — HANDSET MAKER RELEASES NEW, LOW-COST PHONES — Nokia Corp. said today that it would cut as many as 615 jobs in an ongoing corporate reorganization. — The bulk, 450 jobs, will be eliminated in the global handset leader's markets unit to …
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Dan Zehr / Statesman Business Blog:
Dell asks employees to take unpaid time off to help cut costs — Michael Dell sent a memo to employees Monday, telling them the company needs to slash more costs and asking them to consider taking five days off without pay. — Dell said the company will consider a range of options to reduce its costs …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
BlackBerry Bold Goes On Sale, Fervor Lacking (RIMM) — Four months ago, thousands of people waited for hours in line to buy Apple's (AAPL) new iPhone 3G. Last month, far fewer people waited in line to buy Google's first phone, the T-Mobile G1. Today, is anyone waiting in line for RIM's (RIMM) new BlackBerry Bold?
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Apple's Secret Weapon — Apple has had a lot of things going its way lately. The iPhone is a hit. Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is stumbling. And Chief Executive Steve Jobs continues to carry the company's flag at public events, despite rumors of ill-health.
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Christopher Stern / Bloomberg:
Obama Counts on Text Messages to Drive Turnout of Youth, Blacks — Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) — Barack Obama's campaign is counting on a potent new weapon for Election Day: the humble cell-phone text message. — Texting — an obsession of the young and a necessity for lower-income voters …
Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
Election Hoax Sent Via D.C. Based E-Campaign Group — An e-mail hoax telling 35,000 George Mason University students, faculty and staff, that the election had been moved to Nov. 5, was sent through servers run by a D.C. based company that seeks to help political campaigns promote their messages online.
