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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple announces iPhone 5 event for Oct. 4 — Apple on Tuesday officially announced its iPhone 5 launch event. According to the invitation received by The Loop, the event will be held on October 4 at Apple's Cupertino, Calif. campus. The event will begin at 10:00 am PT.
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple Announces October 4 Event: Let's Talk iPhone — Apple this morning announced an invitation-only special event to be held at company headquarters in Cupertino on Oct. 4, a Tuesday. “Let's Talk iPhone,” the invitation reads. — While the next-generation iPhone's design has been heavily debated …
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple's iPhone 5 very likely to be released on October 14th, iOS 5 on the 12th — Apple today announced that it will be holding its next iPhone event on Tuesday, October 4th. This is where we will see Apple's next device announced, but when will we see it arrive for sale?
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Let's talk: 1 new iPhone, not 2? — Apple watchers are reading a lot into the invitation to next week's special event — If one assumes — as many were on Tuesday — that Apple (AAPL) puts as much thought into the iconography of its invitations as it does into the icons on its computer screens …
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AVOS:
A New Flavor...Still Delicious — Hey there, we have some great news - the new Delicious site is now live! Today's a big day for us, and there's lots to share. We'll try to keep it brief so you can start using the new service and giving us feedback! — Back to Beta — “What if they say I'm no good?
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Matt Lingard / mattlingard tumblr:
Delicious fail — While i understand the need for Beta - if you're this far from being ready, don't launch. From Delicious FAQs Below is a list of features that are still being worked on: Edit Network: We have ability to add/remove users, but do not currently support nicknames Edit Network Bundles …
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Delicious Relaunches: Exclusive Q&A With CEO Chad Hurley
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Roger Cheng / CNET News:
Sprint to launch own 4G LTE network in early 2012 (scoop) — Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse speaking at an emerging technology conference last year. — Sprint Nextel will launch its own 4G LTE network early next year. — The company is already installing LTE equipment …
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Jessica Dolcourt / CNET:
Sprint confirms it will stick with unlimited data plans
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Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
Windows Phone 7.5 ‘Mango’ release details and updated review — As promised, Windows Phone 7.5 will start rolling out to existing handsets starting this week, capping off a journey that began back in February when Microsoft first teased milestone features like multitasking and IE9 integration …
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Jeffrey Meisner / The Official Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft Neutralizes Kelihos Botnet, Names Defendant in Case — Building on the recent successes of the Rustock and Waledac botnet takedowns, I'm pleased to announce that Microsoft has taken down the Kelihos botnet in an operation codenamed “Operation b79” using similar legal and technical measures …
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Electronista:
Firefox 7 goes live with leaner, faster design — Mozilla posts Firefox 7 final to FTP — Mozilla on Tuesday posted the finished versions of Firefox 7 (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows). The new release is still part of Mozilla's fast track schedule and focuses most on running faster and more efficiently than before.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0 Blog:
Mozilla adds ‘telemetry’ feature to Firefox 7
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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Mobile Chief: Within 1-2 Years, We're Going To Be A Mobile Company — Facebook has their sights locked on mobile. We know that. This afternoon at GigaOm's Mobilize conference, Facebook Mobile Chief Erick Tseng touched on just how crucial mobile is to them — and more importantly, how crucial it will be.
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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
SYNERGISTIC! Actor Ashton Kutcher Name Drops Startup Investments During Two & A Half Men — Actor and VC Ashton Kutcher used a laptop splattered with startup logos during Two & A Half Men last night. — Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley noticed. — A couple of the startups - including Foursquare - are Kutcher investments.
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Why Facebook Works for All, Twitter for Some — It finally makes sense to me. — On Friday evening I was in Los Angeles, Calif., visiting my sister. We were at a restaurant, chatting away about life, when my sister ebulliently announced that she wanted to “Tweet about our meal.”
Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Skype's new iOS apps brings Bluetooth support, advertising — Skype has updated its iPhone and iPad apps as of Tuesday, introducing some new features. Bluetooth headsets are now supported on select devices, and video has been improved with image stabilization, but these enhancements will cost you …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Hackers leak data of Goldman Sachs CEO — Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, is the latest target of hackers leaking personal information. — Hackers today released personal information for Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein.
Antin Harasymiv / The Official Google Blog:
Dynamic Views: seven new ways to share your blog with the world — As we said a few weeks ago when we launched a completely rebuilt, streamlined authoring and editing experience, we're in the process of bringing you a much improved and modernized Blogger. The next phase of these updates starts today …
Nick Wood / Total Telecom:
Regulation hinders Google's FTTH progress — Internet giant's head of access sees regulation as biggest hurdle facing its FTTH project; urges world's service providers to make broadband more affordable. — Google on Tuesday shared some of the lessons it has learnt so far during the deployment of its FTTH …
Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
SlideShare ditches Flash, rebuilds entire site in HTML5 — SlideShare, the website for sharing PowerPoint presentations and other documents, has had a major makeover. The company has ditched Adobe Flash technology entirely, and rebuilt its website using the HTML5 markup language …
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John Cook / GeekWire:
T-Mobile to customers: The iPhone is great, but Apple won't let us sell it to you — T-Mobile won't be getting the iPhone 5 this year — It sure sounds like T-Mobile Chief Marketing Officer Cole Brodman wants the iPhone, but don't look for the wireless operator to start carrying the gadget anytime soon.
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Getting Facebook to Give You All Your Data is Easy (in Europe) — As Facebook moves to gather more and more data from its users, some people are getting rather anxious to know what Facebook really knows about them. Turns out, you can actually get Facebook to send you a CD with a PDF …
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Grant Gross / Computerworld:
Lawmakers want investigation of supercookies — Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate the use of so-called supercookies on many websites, with the two suggesting that use of the hard-to-remove tracking tools may be an unfair business practice.
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft employees allegedly left “in droves” during Ballmer's company meeting speech — Microsoft employees allegedly left “in droves” during Steve Ballmer's recent speech at the recent annual Microsoft Company Meeting. — The claims were made in comments at mini-Microsoft …
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Freeman Klopott / Bloomberg:
IBM, Intel Start $4.4 Billion Chip Venture in New York State — Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) — International Business Machines Corp. and Intel Corp. will invest $4.4 billion over five years to create a research and development hub for nanotechnology in Albany, New York, the state's Governor Andrew Cuomo said.
Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Toshiba Thrive 7-inch coming in early December for less than $400 (hands-on) — Release a 10.1-inch Android Honeycomb tablet. Shrink it. Shave a few dollars off the price and release it. That seems to be the checklist on the desk of every major Android tablet manufacturer …
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Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
Sony to Stop Paying for 3D Glasses in May 2012 (Exclusive) … Sony Pictures Entertainment has notified theater owners in a letter that it will no longer pay for 3D glasses, beginning in May 2012, marking a major policy shift that many other studios are likely considering.
