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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Airplay is Apple's ‘Go to Market’ Internet TV strategy — Steve Jobs told the AllThingsD audience a few months ago that the reason no one including Google and Apple have been successful in the TV space is that they lacked a successful ‘Go to market TV strategy’. Apple has that strategy.
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Daring Fireball, MacRumors and Technologizer
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Brian J. Dunn / Best Buy:
Statement: Reports of notebook, netbook sales declines grossly exaggerated — RICHFIELD, Minn., September 17, 2010 -In a statement today, Brian J. Dunn, CEO, Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY), likened recent rumors of a pending decline in notebook and netbook sales to a legendary Mark Twain-ism:
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Digital Daily and Wall Street Journal, Thanks:billcox
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Notebook sales growth goes negative. Can we blame the iPad yet? — Thursday night, just as a tornado — or something like it — was knocking down the trees that grow in our Brooklyn neighborhood, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty issued a report to clients with a chart (copied above) …
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Austin Haugen / Facebook Blog:
A New Movie Experience, Starring You and Your Friends — “Have you seen any good movies recently?” is something I usually ask my friends as I start to make weekend plans. My friends are the most important movie critics to me, and we're constantly exchanging opinions about movies, whether in person or online.
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All Facebook, ReadWriteWeb, Inside Facebook, PC Magazine, GigaOM, Mashable!, msnbc.com, SiliconANGLE and Reuters
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The Unwelcome Return of “Best Viewed With Internet Explorer” — Remember the bad old days of the Internet, when it wasn't a given that one primary objective of any Web site should be to work equally well in any modern browser? Some sites slapped “Best Viewed With Internet Explorer” or …
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
HDCP antipiracy leak opens doors for black boxes — An antipiracy code used in set-top boxes, Blu-ray and DVD players has been cracked and published on the Internet, and as a result, we may soon see devices on the market that allow people to make unauthorized copies of movies.
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Sorry, But McDonald's Did Not See a 33% Increase in Foot Traffic Because of Foursquare — According to a current headline on TechMeme, McDonalds saw a 33% increase in foot traffic to its stores when it ran a promotion during Foursquare Day earlier this year.
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Future Tense and The Huffington Post
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Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog:
Case Study: McDonald's ups foot traffic 33% on Foursquare Day
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Adotas, Mashable!, VatorNews, Digital Trends, Silicon Alley Insider and Mobile Entertainment
Amit Singhal / Wall Street Journal:
Is Google a Monopolist? A Debate — Amit Singhal of Google argues the competition is one click away. Charles Rule, an attorney whose firm represents corporations suing Google, counters that the company commands a share of search advertising in excess of 70%—the threshold for monopoly under the Sherman Act.
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Search Engine Watch
Brian Hendricks / Bing Maps Blog:
Bing Maps Gets Transit Directions — Commuters rejoice! Today Bing Maps added transit routing to its directions options. So, for those of you who like to take the bus, subway, or local rail you now can turn to Bing Maps. This is a very important feature for us as public transit grows in popularity and coverage.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google To Distribute Mobile Devices To Businesses For Checkins, Ratings And More — In an effort to compete with services like Facebook, Yelp and Foursquare, Google is preparing to distribute millions of custom mobile devices to small businesses around the U.S., says a source with knowledge of the program.
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Silicon Alley Insider and Search Engine Journal
Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Lets You Mark Friend Requests with “Not Now,” then Decide on Them Later — Facebook is adding a new option to how people friend each other, trying to limit unwanted social behavior. — Now, when someone adds you as a friend, you can mark “Not Now,” thereby relegating their request …
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All Facebook, Mashable! and The Next Web
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
LG CEO Resigns Over Poor Smartphone Performance — The CEO of South Korean consumer electronics giant LG resigned today because of the company's poor performance in the smartphone space. Yong Nam will be replaced by Bon Joon Koo, currently the head of LG International.
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PC World, Reuters, Electronista, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Boy Genius Report, CNET News and The Next Web
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
YouTube vs. Fair Use — In YouTube: The Big Copyright Lie, I described my love-hate relationship with YouTube, at least as it existed in way back in the dark ages of 2007. … Today's lesson, then, is be careful what you ask for. — At the time, I just assumed that YouTube would never …
Colin Gibbs / GigaOM:
T-Mobile Won't Tax Twitter Texts But Will Hike Prices — T-Mobile USA finally divulged a little information on its impending pricing change for text messaging, saying the move affects only the messaging aggregators that serve as a kind of middleman between businesses and carriers.
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Mobile Marketing Watch and Black Web 2.0
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Suppliers preparing for 2nd-gen iPad launch in Q1 2011 - report — Apple's overseas touch panel and reinforced glass suppliers are said to be preparing for the launch of Apple's second-generation iPad in the first quarter of 2011. — According to Taiwanese industry publication DigiTimes …
Fred / A VC:
Social Layers and Social Intention — I read Mike Arrington's post on Google's social efforts just now. I have not seen any of Google's work. I have not been briefed. I really have no clue what they are building. But this quote got my attention: … Q. Why did Twitter succeed and FriendFeed fail?
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PC World, TomsTechBlog.com and All Facebook
Jagdish Rebello / iSuppli:
Global Wireless Subscriptions Reach 5 Billion — Marking a major milestone in the history of technology, the number of worldwide subscriptions for wireless services is expected to reach 5 billion this month, equaling 73.4 percent of the earth's population, according to the market research firm iSuppli Corp.
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VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, GigaOM, Inquirer and Voices on All Things Digital
sami ben gharbia:
The Internet Freedom Fallacy and the Arab Digital activism — Introduction — This article focuses on grassroots digital activism in the Arab world and the risks of what seems to be an inevitable collusion with U.S foreign policy and interests. It sums up the most important elements …
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The Firewall, Net Effect and Slate
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace's Last Stand: Project Futura Coming October 15 — It's no secret that embattled MySpace is working on a complete redesign of its site in hopes of reversing the staggering loss of users and traffic over the last couple of years. In December 2008 MySpace had 125 million unique visitors and 43 billion page views.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Schmidt: Listing Google's 200 Ranking Factors Would Reveal Business Secrets — Google's been under fire in various quarters, including the New York Times, that it should open up about how its ranking algorithm works. I think offering the exact formula would be difficult plus potentially give away trade secrets.
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Bits, SiliconANGLE and Hillicon Valley
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
New Apple TV's iOS can be jailbroken and made to run apps? — Remember the mysterious reference to iProd 2,1 that appeared in the iPad's code? We thought it might be a new CDMA or camera-equipped iPad, but it just might have been the new iOS-based Apple TV instead.
John Graham-Cumming:
A tale of two cultures — In recent days there's been much discussion of Digg and reddit that has concentrated on the technical and community aspects of the two sites. This commentary has overlooked a vital component to the difference between these two social news sites: company culture.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Transcript: Twitter's Ev Williams Answers An Hour's Worth Of Questions, On Twitter — Talk about eating your own dogfood! Today, Twitter CEO Evan Williams took questions for an hour on Twitter, about Twitter, replying from his own account. What was he asked?
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Stealthmode Blog, Thanks:rawmeet
Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar:
2010 is the year of participatory platforms — In an exclusive interview last week at Gov 2.0 Summit, US CTO Aneesh Chopra answered questions about the challenges of implementing open government, reaching an increasingly mobile citizenry, addressing the digital divide and stimulating innovation.
