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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Apple, Google, Others Settle Antitrust Probe Into Their Hiring Practices  —  Six major technology companies—Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Intel (NSDQ: INTC), Intuit, Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE), and Pixar—will no longer agree not to poach employees from each other …
Google Public Policy Blog:
On recruiting “cold calls”
Discussion: Ars Technica and CNNMoney.com
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Facebook Blames Outage On Database Failure  —  Programming chief says lengthy downtime was traced to an automated system designed to detect and fix error conditions.  —  Dell To Launch Second Tablet  —  Chief Executive Michael Dell showed off a prototype of the 7-inch tablet at Oracle OpenWorld, but did not offer details.
Discussion: Facebook Engineering
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
How Facebook fixed the site: they turned it off and on again
Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
Startup: Education  —  Education has always been important to me and my family.  Growing up, my parents emphasized the importance of learning and academic success.  They both worked to make sure my three sisters and I could all go to good colleges.  My grandmother was a teacher …
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Ki Mae Heussner / ABCNEWS:
Facebook's Zuckerberg Shows Softer Side to Oprah
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Eric Schmidt: Forget Apple, Facebook, Bing's Our Biggest Problem  —  Eric Schmidt says Microsoft, not Apple or Facebook, is the biggest rival Google has right now.  —  “Bing is a well run, highly competitive search engine,” Schmidt tells the WSJ's Alan Murray in a long interview.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels [Email]  —  As we just stated in our previous post, there was clearly an email sent by angel investor Ron Conway to a group of super angels who were likely involved in the Bin 38 “AngelGate” meeting that Mike stumbled into a couple days ago.
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Frederic / NewsGrange:
The Microsoft Tanker Has Turned and You Ignore it at Your Own Peril  —  Whenever I hear people discussing Microsoft, it usually doesn't take long before somebody mentions that the Redmond-based giant is like a huge oil tanker.  It takes a while to turn such a huge company around and get it back on track.
Discussion: Technologizer, Thanks:rawmeet
Tim Carmody / Gadget Lab:
Scrabble Is First Paid Game App for Kindle  —  Screenshot of My Kindle, Getting Beat By the Computer - Image: Tim Carmody  —  This might be the happiest chapter in Scrabble's short digital history: Electronic Arts has released an official version of Scrabble for Kindle.
AppleInsider:
Apple issuing refunds for Apple TV rush orders, citing delay  —  Some customers who paid Apple for expedited shipping on the soon-to-ship Apple TV are receiving emails from the company Thursday informing them that those shipping charges have been waived due to a possible ‘delay.’
Bloomberg:
Sony Ericsson Is Planning No New Symbian Products  —  Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ltd., the mobile-phone venture of Sony Corp. and Ericsson AB, is the latest vendor to abandon the Symbian operating system.  —  “We have no plans for the time being to develop …
Ben Blumenfeld / Facebook Blog:
Discover Facebook Pages  —  A couple of months ago I found myself online, browsing for movies to rent.  There are lots of tools to find new movies or rediscover old ones.  As I poked around, I thought, “People should really be able to do this with Pages on Facebook!”
Mike Schramm / TUAW:
Confirmed: No FaceTime in parts of the Middle East  —  We just got confirmation on our story earlier this week that FaceTime had gone missing in parts of the world, mostly around the Middle East. @dutweets is the official Twitter account for du, the telecom operator for the iPhone in the United Arab Emirates …
Nick Douglas / The Awl:
The Rise of Reddit: 4chan and Digg Get the Credit While Reddit Booms  —  Of the three main drivers of internet culture—blogs, social networking sites and forums—most people in the media and in the general Internet-using public only understand two.  Blogs work in a very obvious way: they're like magazines or newspapers, but light.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Verizon-Apple iPhone agreement ‘may not ever get resolved’  —  Struggles between Verizon and Apple are a sign that a deal to bring the iPhone to Verizon's network may never happen, even once the carrier's high-speed 4G network is established, one Wall Street analyst has said.
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Google's Extremely Bizarre Pizza Video  —  There's only one word we can come up with that describes this new and utterly bizarre promotional video from Google: pizza.  —  We ran across this little gem thanks to our friends at Reddit.  It's a promotional video from Google Mobile designed …
Discussion: Geek.com and Eater National
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Ping Updates: ‘Ping Sidebar’ Coming Soon?  Record Labels Miffed at Secrecy  —  Aside from the occasional discussion of the Apple-Facebook negotiations prior to the launch of Apple's social networking service for music earlier this month, things have been fairly quiet when it comes to Ping.
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Working on the Next Wave of Digital Camera Technologies  —  Apple finally introduced a camera system with their latest iPod touch which was released earlier this month and they're already preparing for their next wave of advanced camera technology releases.
Milo Yiannopoulos / Telegraph:
Loïc Le Meur, Microsoft and the sound of wedding bells  —  The French entrepreneur is lavishing praise on Microsoft  —  Loïc Le Meur is charming, and very intense.  It can be unnerving at first.  But when you start him off on a subject he's passionate about …
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
Windows Phone 7 will not be able to tether after all  —  In an interview on TWiT podcast Windows Weekly, Director of Windows Phone 7 Brandon Watson indicated that his company's new mobile operating system would have the ability to tether; it would just be up to carriers to allow it.
 
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John Boitnott / VentureBeat:
Digg traffic down, but not out  —  A month ago …
Discussion: Softpedia News and Inquirer
Zach Holman:
Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
More TV Executives Weigh In on 99-Cent TV Show Rentals: Viacom Out, CBS on the Fence
John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
Target Confirms They Will Start Selling The iPad In Store On October 3rd
Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics:
The Hole in Android and Google's Double Pony Problem
Discussion: Know Your Cell, Thanks:rawmeet
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Apple Leaves Another ‘Autocomplete’ Privacy Bug In Safari Unfixed
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
The State of YouTube Mobile: Viewing up 160%, Operator Partnerships Sought
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Hulu backer/Apple antagonist Zucker leaving NBC
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AppleInsider:
Apple readying production of smaller, lighter 11.6-inch MacBook Airs?
Jonathan Allen / Search Engine Watch:
Propeller.com Spinning to a Stop
Discussion: Search Engine Land and Mashable!
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
If Yahoo Goes Private And Bartz Is Fired, Quora Wins
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Electronista:
Netflix gets deal to stream previous season NBC TV shows
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
T-Mobile G2 pre-orders go live for current customers, available to all on October 6