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Ephraim Gadsby / Gawker:
Bill Keller: Apple Tablet ‘Impending’ — Bill Keller may have casually mentioned that Apple's not-officially-happening-but-clearly- happening tablet computer is imminent and that the New York Times are working to bring content to it. — Earlier this year a stealth team from the newspaper was rumoured …
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
NYTimes' Executive Editor mentions ‘the impending Apple slate’ — Bill Keller, Executive Editor for the New York Times might have accidentally let a big one (monster!) slip. At 8:33 in the following clip (that wasn't supposed to be recorded) from his October 16th “all hands” …
Nancy Scola / Personal Democracy Forum:
WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal [Updated] — WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor …
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
MacBook Pros to receive new Quad-core processors in coming weeks? — An Applesana forum poster (via Applesfera) is reporting that the new Mac OS 10.6.2 OS build 10C531 contains the following references to new MacBook Pros: — Current MacBook Pros are Version 5_5.
Brad Stone / Bits:
Netflix Movies Stream to Sony's PlayStation 3 — Next month, the 9 million U.S. owners of Sony's PlayStation 3 game consoles will have another entertainment option available to them: streaming movies and TV shows from Netflix. — The long-awaited announcement gives Netflix another distribution channel …
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Steve Swasey / PlayStation.Blog:Netflix Coming Soon to PlayStation 3
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Twitter Serves Up Ideas From Its Followers — SAN FRANCISCO — Companies big and small monitor Twitter to find out what their customers like and what they want changed. Twitter does the same. — It started two years ago as a bare-bones service, offering little more than the ability to post 140-character messages.
Michael Rose / TUAW:
Found Footage: iPhone costumes are either genius or deeply misguided — You have to hand it to Reko and John for their stick-to-it-iveness; they were behind a similar set of iPhone costumes in 2007, but those didn't have the fully-functional power of these new outfits.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Salesforce And Adobe Partner To Offer Flash-Based Applications In The Cloud — With all of its SaaS offerings, Salesforce.com is consistently integrating with other forms of cutting edge technologies, such as Twitter, Box.net, and more to offer clients more diverse and appealing options.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Tilera debuts chip with 100 computing brains for vast data centers — Networking chip maker Tilera is debuting a chip today with 100 computing brains. It believes that this hydra beast will be able to improve the computing power of data centers while reducing their power consumption at the same time.
Brough / Communications:
Has AT&T Wireless data congestion been self-inflicted? — We've all heard or read stories about how iPhone usage has overloaded the AT&T Wireless network but it's likely at least some of their problems are the result of configuration errors specifically, congestion collapse induced by misconfigured buffers in their mobile core network.
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
HTC Launches Multi-Million Dollar Ad Campaign About ‘You’ To Become Household Name — HTC may be the most successful cellphone company you've never heard of. — At least that was the headline three years ago when the Taiwanese-based company was getting serious about establishing itself …
Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:
Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media — It was the final unanswered question about Windows 7. But now, thanks to numerous reader reports and my own hands-on experience, I'm can now report that Microsoft is still making it difficult to clean install Windows 7 with Upgrade media.
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
NSFW: Weezer, plane crashes and everything else that's worrying about the real-time web — A little before 9pm on Wednesday night and I'm standing on the ‘VIP’ balcony of San Francisco's Regency Ballroom, holding a can of something called ‘MySpace Buzz’ and waiting for Weezer to take to the stage.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Jeff Bezos, Spark Capital, Bet on Aviary, a Web-Based Would-Be Adobe — Last week, Jeff Bezos made $2 billion in one day, courtesy of a massive spike in Amazon (AMZN) shares. What will he do with the extra dough? — Perhaps plow it into more startups like Aviary, a Long Island-based design software company.
Don MacAskill / SmugBlog:
Windows 7 party with seven 7×7 In-N-Out burgers — SmugMug's Craig Meakin downs a 7×7 for Windows 7 by Chris MacAskill — First, let me preface this by saying this is a great way to kill yourself, and that I rarely eat meat or cheese, let alone 7 patties and 7 slices.
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