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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Confirmed: Windows Phone 7 launches October 11th in New York City, and T-Mobile's on board — If there was any scrap of doubt in your mind, we'll obliterate it for you right now — October 11th is the day Windows Phone 7 will be unveiled in the US, not just at a fancy London event …
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TechEye, TechCrunch, Inquirer, Download Squad, blogs.chron.com, Digital Daily, Telegraph, Softpedia News, GottaBeMobile, Newlaunches.com, CNET News, PC World, Fone Arena, Pocket-lint, Electronista, WMExperts, TmoNews, BlogsDNA, GeekSmack, WMPoweruser.com, The Next Web, My Microsoft Life, AppleInsider, ThinkMobile, I4U News and Gizmodo
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Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Ballmer Talks Windows Phone 7 — Microsoft Corp. has struggled for the past two years in the mobile-phone market. But CEO Steve Ballmer says his company finally has a compelling story. — On Oct. 11, Microsoft and its partners plan to announce the initial wave of handsets that will use Windows Phone 7 …
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Silicon Alley Insider, Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Fortune, Thanks:rawmeet
Rebecca Davis O'Brien / The Daily Beast:
The Social Network's Female Props — Missing from what critics are calling the defining story of our age are female characters who aren't doting groupies, sexed-up Asians, vengeful sluts, or dumpy, feminist killjoys, says Rebecca Davis O'Brien. By the time Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher's …
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Jose Antonio Vargas / The Huffington Post:
The Social Disconnect — How Hollywood Misread Facebook
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Computerworld, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Telegraph and New York Times
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Opening Weekend: The Social Network Tops Box Office With $23 Million In Ticket Sales
David Carr / New York Times:
Film Version of Zuckerberg Divides Generations
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Fast Company
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Goldman Suggests Microsoft Start Bending Spoons With Its Mind — In a note tonight, Goldman Sachs analysts paddle Microsoft's ass for not living up to its expectations. They downgrade the firm to neutral, then say Microsoft needs to do the following to get back into Goldman's good graces:
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Silicon Alley Insider, Computerworld, Bloomberg, asymco and TechFlash
MG Siegler / parislemon:
I, Cringe — For the most part, I've really enjoyed reading all the various takes on TechCrunch's acquisition by AOL this week. Some are good, some are bad, some are just sad. But two have stuck out to me as being decidedly full of s**t. Interesting, both are by Robert Cringely.
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I, Cringely
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google's speed need: ‘instantaneous Internet’ — In late 2007, Google engineers set out to test a hunch. — For about a million oblivious users, the company throttled back the delivery of search results by 100 to 400 milliseconds for several weeks. Less than half a second is barely perceptible, but the results were unmistakable.
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
HTC HD7 leaks out once more with Dolby Sound, stars in a brief video — HTC may have stemmed the flood of HD7 activity, but details about the 4.3-inch Windows Phone 7 device keep leaking out. Today, an O2 Germany tipster blew off most of the remaining doors.
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GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Electronista, Tracy and Matt's Blog, Electricpig.co.uk, Pocket-lint, Geek.com, WMExperts, Recombu, WMPoweruser.com and Ubergizmo
Paul Bradshaw / Guardian:
How to be a data journalist — Data journalism trainer and writer Paul Bradshaw explains how to get started in data journalism, from getting to the data to visualising it — • Guardian data editor Simon Rogers explains how our data journalism operation works — Data journalism is huge.
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Verizon agrees to refund customers $90 million for wrongful data charges — Did you have a Verizon phone sans data plan, but get billed for data anyhow? Verizon Wireless is dropping $90 million to make things right next month. The New York Times reports that the company …
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Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, Verizon, Techdirt, Gizmodo, New York Times, Computerworld, Gearlog, Geek.com, CNET News, VatorNews, Boy Genius Report, mocoNews, Fortune, PhoneNews.com, IntoMobile, FierceWireless, MobileCrunch, Phone Arena, Erictric, Mashable!, GottaBeMobile, FierceBroadbandWireless, GMSV, Neowin.net, Reuters, Electronista, Fox News, Ubergizmo, Telecom Ramblings, The Tech Herald … and GeekSugar
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Boy Genius Report:
T-Mobile myTouch gets reintroduced, 1GHz Snapdragon, 3.8″ display, 4G speeds — Well, this one came out of nowhere... T-Mobile has just introduced the new myTouch, and it's a beauty. Packed with a 1GHz Snapdragon MSM8255 CPU, 5 megapixel camera, 3.8″ display, and front facing camera …
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Remote Linux desktop for your iPad — iLIVEx is a fast, secure and fault-tolerant X11 client that turns the Apple iPad into an X terminal for Linux and Unix. It allows iPad users to connect to Unix and Linux desktops and applications hosted on remote Unix and Linux servers.
Tim Weber / BBC:
Can companies ignore social media like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube? — Once upon a time companies could afford to be rude. Unhappy customers would grumble to a few friends, withdraw their custom, but there was little else they could do. Today, they still tell their friends …
