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Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
Sales and Profit Surge for Apple, but Its Margins Slip — SAN FRANCISCO — Strong sales of iPads, iPhones and even Mac computers produced record revenue and profit for Apple in its fourth quarter. — It was not enough, however, to sustain Wall Street's exuberance for the consumer electronics company …
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AppleInsider:
Steve Jobs squashes rumors of smaller, 7-inch iPad from Apple — Apple chief executive Steve Jobs on Monday took pause during his company's fourth quarter conference call to extinguish rumors that the company is working on a smaller iPad based around a 7-inch screen.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Steve Jobs's Epic 5-Minute Anti-Google Rant — In a surprise, Steve Jobs joined Apple's Q3 earnings call today. — He used his time to rip into Google. — A sample: — “Many Android OEMs install proprietary user-interfaces to differentiate themselves from the commodity Android experience.
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Apple:
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results — Record Mac, iPhone and iPad Sales Highest Revenue and Earnings Ever — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 fourth quarter ended September 25, 2010. The Company posted record revenue of $20.34 billion and net quarterly profit …
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Jason Snell / Macworld:
Jobs speaks! The complete transcript — [Editor's note: Steve Jobs had a lot to say Monday during his conference call with analysts following Apple's announcement of record earnings and sales. Here's the Apple CEO in his own words.] — Hi, everybody.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Has $51 Billion and a Shopping List. Is Facebook On It? — Steve Jobs made a rare appearance during today's Apple's earnings call and spent most of his time beating up his rivals, past and present. Summary: The iPhone has left Research in Motion's Blackberry in the dust.
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Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Apple's Steve Jobs Rants About His Competitors: 'Open Doesn't Always Win'
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Ray Ozzie leaving post as Microsoft's chief software architect — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today announced that Ray Ozzie, who was up until now the company's chief software architect, will be leaving the post. … In the meantime, here's the full text from Ballmer's e-mail to all Microsoft employees:
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Microsoft:
Steve Ballmer E-mail to Employees on Ray Ozzie Transition — Text of an internal Microsoft e-mail sent by Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer to employees announcing the transition of Ray Ozzie. — From: Steveb — To: Microsoft - All Employees
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Boy Genius Report:
Next Apple iPhone (Verizon model) hits “AP” field test stage, iPhone 5 hits “EVT” stage? — One of our solid Apple sources has just let us know some pretty interesting (and exciting) information surrounding Apple's upcoming iPhone devices. For starters, we have been told that iPhone model 3,2 …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fear And Loathing At The Wall Street Journal — Ahhhhhhhhhahhhaha! — The inmates are now running the asylum. — All anyone is talking about today is the series of articles that the Wall Street Journal has written about a “Privacy Breach” at Facebook.
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Quentyn Kennemer / Android Phone Fans:
[Exclusive] First Android Gingerbread Details — We've heard countless reports that it's out there. We know it's still in development and we know some Googlers have it loaded onto their Nexus Ones. I'm talking about the Android Gingerbread update, of course, and we can finally bring …
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Mack Lu / Google Public Policy Blog:
More transparency and control over location — (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) — We've always focused on offering people the most relevant results. Location is one important factor we've used for many years to customize the information that you find.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Verizon's tiered data plans hitting October 28, smartphones still getting unlimited option? — We'd told you back in July that Verizon would migrate away from unlimited data and toward a tiered model very quickly; turns out it wasn't quite as quickly as we'd thought, but as Ivan Seidenberg said last month, it's still going down.
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Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook Marketing Platform Buddy Media Raises $23 Million — Buddy Media CEO Mike Lazerow just announced that the company has raised a $23 million round led by Institutional Venture Partners. — It's no secret that the Facebook marketing company has been growing rapidly this year …
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Chitika, Inc.:
Top Two iPhone Search Engines: Both Google — Top Two iPhone Search Engines Both Google — Google dominates search in the iPhone market, carrying as much as 97% of all iPhone search traffic, according to the latest data from online ad network Chitika. That level of dominance begs the question, where does it come from?
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
New MacBook Air Has a Bigger Battery, Sharper Case [Independent Confirmation] — Apple's new MacBook Air will be thinner, lighter and boxier than the current model. Mockup exclusively for CultofMac.com by Dan Draper. — On Wednesday, Steve Jobs will likely introduce a redesigned 13.3-inch MacBook Air …
Rajat Mukherjee / Google Enterprise Blog:
The new Google Search Appliance - a bridge to the cloud — In the last year, businesses have started using cloud-based applications from Google and other technology providers at an accelerated rate. While many organizations still have information that resides in on-premise systems …
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John D. Sutter / CNN:
Smartphones: Our national obsession — Editor's Note: This is the first story in a five-day series about smartphones and their impact on our lives and culture. — (CNN) — Doug Wilson takes his smartphone everywhere. — When the 28-year-old wakes up, he snatches the phone from the nightstand …
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CARL Book Beacon:
Twitter can do WHAT with your photos? — If you're a big user of the microblogging service Twitter like we are here, you know that Twitter has been making some changes. There is more streamlining, information's available all in one view, it's easier to send updates or replies …
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Another Windows 7 tablet review shows it's just not the right combination — First the HP Slate and now a tablet from Tegatech called the Tega v2. Initial reviews are coming to the same conclusion as many of us in tech journalism: Windows 7 just ain't cut out for tablets.
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Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Amazon leaks Oct 20 iLife ship date, lower $49.99 price point? — Pssst: Looking forward to iLife? Head over to Amazon Germany and you'll find a little pop-up telling you — helpfully — it will be available from 20 October 2010. Surprise? Probably not.
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MacStories, TUAW, SlashGear, Startup Meme and MacRumors
Camille Hearst / YouTube Blog:
YouTube Leanback officially launches — on Google TV — Back in July, we announced the launch of YouTube Leanback in beta. If you didn't get a chance to check it out, Leanback is a new way to experience YouTube on a big screen. We named it “Leanback” so you could do just that: kick back and …
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Erica Naone / Technology Review:
Censorship Circumvention Tools Aren't Widely Used — Users in authoritarian regimes either don't know about them or aren't interested. — Tech humanitarians have put a lot of effort into producing tools like Tor and Freegate that can be used to access the Internet freely from anywhere …
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