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Matthew Miller / Smartphones and Cell Phones Blog:
Nokia World 2010 opening keynote; Nokia is back? — I am here in London at my first Nokia World event and writing about it both here and on my Nokia enthusiast site, Nokia Experts. This particular Nokia World is quite pivotal IMHO with a new CEO coming in soon, the VP of Mobile Solutions resigning within …
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9 to 5 Mac, Digital Daily, Unwired View, Nokia Conversations, The Next Web, Inquirer, GigaOM, Nokia, The Nokia Blog, Digital Trends and TechCrunch Europe
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Robert Andrews / mocoNews:
‘Nokia Is Back’ And Ballsy; 'We're Not Sorry We're Not Apple' — Nokia's beaten-down top dogs opened their annual Nokia (NYSE: NOK) World show in London Tuesday morning with a blunt and rousing pep talk and a direct riposte to their competitors. — “We're not going to apologise for the fact …
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Inquirer, IntoMobile, Mobile Entertainment, Guardian, MobileCrunch, The Next Web and Engadget
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Nokia makes E7 QWERTY slider official: ‘beautiful and all business’ — Nokia's just unveiled its aluminum-clad E7 QWERTY slider handset. One of the new family of Symbian^3 devices, it has a 4-inch tilting touchscreen display on the front and an 8 megapixel imager on the back. Yummy.
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SlashGear, Reuters, Nokia Conversations, The Next Web, MobileCrunch, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo and TechRadar.com
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Michael Gartenberg / SlashGear:
A Week with the Nokia N8: Can Symbian Survive? — I'm in London this week at Nokia World and it's a defining moment for Nokia. Last week Nokia announced their CEO's departure, and new CEO (and Microsoft alum) Stephen Elop. Nokia phones once defined state of the art and the S60 platform defined the modern smartphone era in 2002.
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Wal-Mart introduces wireless plan under own brand — NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it is introducing the first cell phone plan that uses the chain's own branding, further demonstrating its clout in getting special deals from wireless carriers.
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Hillicon Valley, Boy Genius Report, FierceWireless, Engadget, GeekSmack, Gizmodo, Phone Arena, Black Web 2.0, Phones Review, MediaPost, DailyTech, Thoughts from the Sidelines, The Next Web, TmoNews, Switched, IntoMobile, Fast Company, MobileContentToday, Gearlog, Electronista, mocoNews, DSLreports, Geek.com, FM Blog, Lockergnome Blog Network and Crave
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Google Says Google Reader Is Doing Just Fine — We reported last week in the aftermath of IAC's decision to shut down Bloglines that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Reader was not doing that well either, citing the latest Hitwise figures which showed visits to the service down 27 percent year-over-year.
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Search Engine Land and ChasNote
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Saying “RSS Is Dead” Is Dead, Saying “RSS Is Not Dead” Is Not — Today.
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Softpedia News, Sample the Web, Official Google Reader Blog, WebProNews, PlagiarismToday and Scripting News
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
No, RSS Is Not Dead, and Neither Are RSS Readers
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Newsome.Org, Scobleizer, Stowe Boyd, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Blogads for opinion makers and GeekSugar, Thanks:mathewi
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Exclusive: Galaxy Tab, red / white BlackBerry Torch and Samsung Focus hitting AT&T in Q4 — Mmm, delicious. That's the feeling we're left with after being inundated with yet another round of AT&T leaks, this time giving us insight at a few flagship devices on tap for the carrier's holiday push.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Acquired Imsense Ltd for HDR Capabilities in iOS 4.1 [Updated] — One of the most highly-publicized features of iOS 4.1, released last week, is the ability to take High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos, a feature which allows the iPhone 4's camera to capture a wider range of light intensity …
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Softpedia News, Electricpig.co.uk, Geek.com, I4U News, Erictric, Mobile-Geeks, everythingiCafe, IntoMobile, Edible Apple, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, iClarified, Imaging Insider, TiPb, iLounge and 1001 Noisy Cameras
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
HDR photography with iPhone 4 and iOS 4.1: how good is it?
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Electronista and Imaging Insider
Ben Bowers / Engadget:
Google TV officially launching October 17th? — It's been no secret that Google TV is scheduled to arrive sometime this fall and we've already seen the Logitech Revue box hardware pass the FCC, but a tipster has just shared an internal Best Buy document with us disclosing …
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Go Rumors, Fast Company, Androidos.in and I4U News
Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
V CAST App Store to compete with official Android Market? — Verizon Wireless loves apps. In fact, Verizon loves them sooo much that they decided to create their own official app store, named V CAST Apps. Many users with Android phones on Verizon might already notice a V CAST Apps tab under …
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TechCrunch, IntoMobile, Mashable!, Phone Arena, The Next Web and Electronista
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ron Conway's Confidential Investment Guide: The Tech Megatrends — Angel investors SV Angel, led by Ron Conway invests so early in startups that he looks mostly at the team and current tech trends when making investment decisions. — Last year he was focusing on real time and location startups.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's Why Twitter Apps Are Such Lousy Investments — The thousands of third-party apps built on Twitter's back have made Twitter a much more useful service, and have helped make Twitter worth more money. — But Twitter apps themselves are generally lousy investments, as we are seeing once again.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
AOL Said To Be Dialing Up Brizzly-Maker Thing Labs For An Acquisition
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VatorNews, MediaPost, VentureBeat and Download Squad
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
“The Social Network” Is Just as Brutal as Mark Zuckerberg Feared — It's hard to feel sorry for a billionaire. But here I am, feeling bad for Mark Zuckerberg. If you see the “The Social Network” you're probably going to feel bad for him, too. — I saw a screening of the movie last week …
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DealBook, GigaOM, The Not-So Private Parts, VentureBeat, Gawker and BoomTown, more at Mediagazer »
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Intel's walled garden plan to put A/V vendors out of business — SAN FRANCISCO — In describing the motivation behind Intel's recent purchase of McAfee for a packed-out audience at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel's Paul Otellini framed it as an effort to move the way the company approaches security …
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Softpedia News, Velocity, CNET News, TechEye and Inquirer
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Juan Carlos Perez / Computerworld:
Google: Concerns over Instant unwarranted — IDG News Service - Google shook the search market last week with the launch of Instant, a new feature that lets the company's search engine refresh results on the fly as people type their queries. — Eager to speed up how people craft queries …
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Neowin.net and PC World
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The Five Words You Can Never Suggest On Google Instant
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Silicon Alley Insider, internetnews.com, malcolm coles, AdAge, Inquirer, Gizmodo and MediaMemo, Thanks:rawmeet
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Video: New Amazon Kindle Ad Shows How Impossible It Is To Read The iPad In Direct Sunlight — Real Madrid v. Barcelona, Ali v. Frazier, and now Kindle v. iPad. This here commercial illustrates, in humorous fashion, the fact that the iPad isn't nearly as easily visible in direct sunlight as the Kindle.
New York Times:
After Negotiations, Israel Emerges on Twitter — MADRID — Israel has acquired the user name @israel on Twitter, the microblogging Internet service, from the Spanish owner of a pornographic Web site, in an unusual transaction intended to help Israel exercise more influence over its image.
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Fast Company and Gawker
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
DEMO's next wave of innovation: Here's the launch list — DEMO Fall 2010, the technology launchpad conference coproduced by VentureBeat and IDG, is kicking off tomorrow (actually, the parties started tonight), and we've got a lineup of big-name speakers from the tech world …
David / Signal vs. Noise:
Acquisition condolences — Every time a young, promising start-up is bought out by a stodgy, old incumbent, the world is flush with congratulations. Congratulations to the team, island mojitos now await them. Congratulations to the venture capitalist, their past nine flops can fade in the background for a week.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Said to Plan Debt Sale to Pay for Dividends, Buybacks — Microsoft Corp. is planning to sell debt this year to pay for dividends and share repurchases because too much of its cash is held overseas, according to a person familiar with the matter. — The company would try to raise …
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Silicon Alley Insider, The Microsoft Blog, DailyFinance, TechFlash and Voices on All Things Digital
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
HDCP ‘master key’ supposedly released, unlocks HDTV copy protection permanently — Just as the MPAA is preparing to offer movies to customers at home while they're still in theaters by limiting playback to DRM-protected digital outputs only, the HDCP protocol they rely on may have been cracked wide open.
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Boxee Box ditches NVIDIA's Tegra 2 for Intel CE4100, pre-orders start today at $199 — The wait for the Boxee Box is nearly over — pre-orders begin today — but before you drop a stack of change on D-Link's half-sunk cube, know that there's no longer an NVIDIA Tegra 2 under that tiny hood.
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Inquirer, AnandTech, WebProNews, Ars Technica, eHomeUpgrade, SlashGear, Geek.com, NewTeeVee, Liliputing, VizWorld.com and dailywireless.org, more at Mediagazer »
Adrianne Jeffries / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Research Carves Space-Time to Optimize Video for Any Size Screen — Videos come in different sizes, resolutions and aspect ratios; the problem is, so do screens. Try to watch a video shot in a boxy 4:3 width to heighth ratio on your 16:9 HDTV, and things are going to look a little stretched out.
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Google Research Blog and Softpedia News
