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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.
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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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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:Apple loses Fadell, its iPod chief, possible Jobs successor
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Apple's top iPod gun to depart; Papermaster in; Jobs succession gets murkier
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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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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.
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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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple: Soon to Be a Mobile Gaming Force — Watch out, Sony and Nintendo; overnight, the maker of the iPhone is making a mark on the handheld gaming industry — I didn't expect much from games on the iPhone. I had visions of casual games, perhaps a fancy take on solitaire or a version …
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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 …
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Report: ES&S Voting Machines Can Be Maliciously Calibrated to Favor Specific Candidates — Touchscreen voting machines at the center of recent vote-flipping reports can be easily and maliciously recalibrated in the field to favor one candidate in a race, according to a report prepared by computer scientists for the state of Ohio.
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Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Fujitsu Lifebook N7010 Equipped With Integrated, App Launching Mini-Touchscreen — The picture pretty much says it all, but the coolest part about the Lifebook N7010 is the 4-inch, 480x272 pixel touchscreen integrated into the keyboard area. Its most notable function is that it works as an app launcher …
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Google, Yahoo and the DOJ at the Concession Stand — By now, surely many of you have seen the Wall Street Journal report, or parallel coverage, that Google and Yahoo are hedging their bets on their proposed search deal to make it more palatable (and less lawsuit-friendly) for the U.S. Justice Department.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:Yahoo, Google Recast Ad Alliance
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Why You Will Not See Opera on Your iPhone — A paragraph of my post last week about the Opera Software, which makes browsers for cellphones and PCs, got a lot of notice on tech blogs. But, as often happens, the retelling of the story has created an odd snowball of misunderstanding.
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Ray Ozzie ticks off Tablet PC fans — “I won't go so far as to say it's the next mouse, meaning it will be on everything and you have to use it. But it's not going to be like the Tablet PC, where it was truly niche.” — Ray Ozzie, discussing Windows 7's touch features during our interview with him last week in Los Angeles.
Nokia:
Nokia continues its change and renews some of its activities — Espoo, Finland - Nokia has today announced plans for changes in some parts of its organization. The planned organizational changes include the following: — As a follow-up to Nokia's reorganization in the beginning of 2008 …
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
RIM's internal plans for pre-paid BlackBerry service, BlackBerry in a Box — RIM's already gone and launched its pre-paid BlackBerry server in Indonesia, but there's a whole lot of countries that are probably foaming at the mouth. We've been saying this all along — pre-paid will take RIM to the next level.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Personal note: A job change for yours truly — As many people who have been reading this blog for awhile probably know, I work for the Globe and Mail, a daily newspaper based in Toronto, where I've been working since 1994 or so. I've written about the stock market, the rise of the Internet …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Enterprise 2.0: Progress is mixed, but experimentation is cheap — The state of enterprise 2.0 reveals spotty progress and a separation between key technologies. For instance, wikis are in, podcasts are out and blogs are somewhere in between within the corporation.
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Erik Gruenwedel / Home Media Magazine:
Report: Wal-Mart Replacing Music with Blu-ray — Wal-Mart Stores is rapidly downsizing shelf space for music CDs while increasing availability of Blu-ray and consumer electronics in select locations, according to a new report. — The Bentonville, Ark.-based retail behemoth …
PC World:
Nintendo Sells Just Over 170,000 DSi Units at Launch — Sales of Nintendo's DSi, the latest revision of its popular handhand gaming device, totaled 170,779 units during its first two days on sale, according to an estimate from Japan's Enterbrain. — The device, the first refresh to the DS line …
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Thomas W. Hazlett / Ars Technica:
Transition to yesterday: subsidizing the killer app of 1952 — Wasted airwaves … When analog television screens go blank in the US, an event scheduled for February 17, 2009, political insiders wager on political hysteria. They see Aunt Minnie in Dogpatch freaking when her rabbit-ears cut off …
Chippy / UMPCPortal:
Ultra-Mobile Computing Buyers Guide 2008. Part 1 — Welcome to part 1 of the 4-part Ultra Mobile Computing Buyers Guide - What is an Ultra Mobile Computing? — Part One: ‘What is Ultra Mobile Computing?’ We give you a history of Ultra Mobile computing, show you how the devices break …
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