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7:35 AM ET, November 2, 2010

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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
iPhone 5 Will Enable Ambitious Remote Computing Program - Source [Exclusive]  —  We've received a tip about an unexpected application for the NFC chip Apple is expected to build into the iPhone 5.  —  Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless connection technology that would turn …
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Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:   Rumor: iPhone 5 To Turn Any Mac Into Your Own Using NFC
Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Apple Releases iOS 4.2 Gold Master To Developers [Update: See What's New!]  —  Good news folks, Apple just released the pre-final version of iOS 4.2 to members of the Apple developer program. iOS 4.2 Gold Master, or GM as it's called, should be the exact version that Apple will be shipping very soon (hopefully) to the public.
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Vendors to debut Chrome-featured smartbooks later in November  —  Global brand vendors are expected to launch their new generation smartbooks featuring the Google Chrome operating system (OS) later this month (November), while Google also plans to launch its own-brand Chrome notebook …
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Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Component Makers Whisper That Chrome OS Will Ship In November
Discussion: MobileWhack.com and SlashGear
Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:
Apple Increases Tablet Share to 95 Percent as Android Slips  —  Apple Inc. increased its market share in tablet computers to 95 percent in the third quarter, while Google Inc.'s Android operating system slipped, according to researcher Strategy Analytics.  —  Global tablet sales rose 26 percent …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Apple, Google Are Sniffing Around Mobile Payments Startup BOKU  —  Both Apple and Google are engaged in conversations with mobile payments startup BOKU about a potential acquisition or a wide-reaching partnership at the very least, we've heard from people familiar with the talks, which are ongoing.
Henry Blodget / SAI:
Sorry, Blekko Is Doomed  —  A new search-engine called Blekko just launched.  It's the latest in a long line of companies to try to leapfrog Google by providing “better” search results.  —  Specifically, in Blekko's case, the company is using human input into algorithmic results to screen …
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Skrentablog:   Anatomy of blekko's press launch
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy Tab review  —  The story of the Galaxy Tab has been quite a saga, to say the least.  In fact, it was actually back in May that we first heard rumblings of Samsung's plans to unleash a 7-inch Android tablet much like its Galaxy S phones, but it was only after months of painful teasing …
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Andrew Rassweiler / iSuppli:
Samsung Galaxy Tab Carries $205 Bill of Materials, iSuppli Teardown Reveals
Matt Graves / Twitter Blog:
Promoted Tweets: Testing in the Timeline  —  When we launched Promoted Tweets in April, we outlined our plan for gradually rolling them out in all of the places people experience Twitter: first in search on Twitter.com, later in search through our partners, and eventually in the user timeline.
Cade Metz / The Register:
First official HTML5 tests topped by...Microsoft  —  Memo to Redmond: CSS ain't HTML  —  The Worldwide Web Consortium has released the results of its first HTML5 conformance tests, and according to this initial rundown, the browser that most closely adheres to the latest set of web standards is...Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.
Bob Muglia / The Silverlight Blog:
PDC and Silverlight  —  [This blog post is from Bob Muglia, President of the Server and Tools Division at Microsoft]  —  Last week, we held our PDC conference on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. We also streamed it online using Silverlight (with both live and on-demand sessions).
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Election Badges, Vote by Check-In and Twitter Bubbles  —  It may not be quite as big a deal as the presidential elections in 2008, when Barack Obama's campaign team used social media and social networks to mobilize supporters and win the White House, but the mid-term state elections happening tomorrow …
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Ricky / Digitizor:
And So The Exodus Begins - 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org  —  We all knew that it would come to this and it has finally happened - 33 developers have left OpenOffice.org to join The Document Foundation, with more expected to leave in the next few days.  —  The History
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
You Can Now Follow The World Series #SFRiot On Twitter, Ustream And Foursquare  —  The San Francisco Giants won the World Series earlier this evening and of course the celebration in San Francisco has at this point devolved into multiple riots, which you can now follow on Twitter through the hashtags #SFRiot and #SFScanner.
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Instagram, The Photo App For The Cool Kids, Is Taking Off  —  Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are — today, at least — living the startup dream.  —  Their simple iPhone photo shooting-and-sharing app is growing about as fast as we've seen anything grow …
Discussion: TechCrunch
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
As Buzz Sounds More Like Crickets, Does Google Need To Be More Patient?  —  As we first reported late last week, Lars Rasmussen, the father of both Google Maps and Google Wave, has left Google is heading to Facebook.  As we suspected, part of the reason is that Google pulled the plug on Wave barely a year into its existence.
Lydia Dishman / Fast Company:
Instapaper Founder Marco Arment's Journey From Bagel Jockey to Publishing Pioneer  —  Marco Arment started Instapaper, because he wanted to be able to read the Web pages he'd saved during the day on his train ride home.  “A lot of people think that if you're in a big city, you have [mobile connectivity] all the time,” he laughs.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
SCVNGR Goes Global and Becomes the First Service to Use Google's Places API  —  SCVNGR is a location-based service with apps for the iPhone and Android that wants to add a “game layer on top of the world.”  Starting today, the company is getting closer to this goal, as it is going international and expanding to about 80 new countries.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Google Sues The US Government For Only Considering Microsoft Solutions  —  Eric Goldman alerts us to the interesting bit of news that Google has sued the US government — specifically the Department of the Interior, for not seriously considering Google Apps when it put out a Request for Quotation (RFQ) to handle its messaging needs.
Blake Stimac / IntoMobile:
Meet 8pen, another Android keyboard with a steep learning curve  —  There are many keyboard replacements available for Android these days, most of which are much better than the stock Android keyboard.  We now have a new entrant to add to the mix, and it's unlike anything we've ever seen before.
James Temple / SFGate:
Salesforce.com planning huge Mission Bay headquarters  —  Salesforce.com, one of San Francisco's largest and fastest growing technology companies, plans to announce today that it will build an enormous new headquarters at Mission Bay.  —  The online sales software company …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Bang!  Publishers Say Giant Web Ads Have “Stopping Power”  —  Bigger really is better!  —  So say Web publishers who have been running super-sized, don't-you-dare-look-away-from- me ads for the past year.  —  Even better, the ad-sellers insist — they have scientific proof to back up their claim.
Discussion: MediaPost, Mediaweek and FM Blog
Google Code Blog:
Introducing the Google APIs Console and our latest API updates  —  After a busy year of creating, curating, and re-organizing our APIs, we're pleased to share that: We're announcing the Google APIs console, a new tool to help you use our APIs in your applications and on your websites.
 
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Tippr Launches White Label Group-Buying Platform
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Rene Ritchie / TiPb:
Will the Mac App Store run iPad apps?
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Andrew McGlinchey / Google LatLong:
Google Places now more widely available in Asia
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Walmart integrates Vudu movie streaming with DVD purchases
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Rebellious Coders Home In on Apple TV Hacks, App Store
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Street View Debuts In Germany, Blurry Houses Included
Discussion: Softpedia News, CNET News and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:mattmcgee
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Updated Xbox and WinPhone7 Get Updated Netflix, ESPN, and More
Reuters:
Skype IPO to Take Stage In 2011: Sources
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 Earlier Items: 
Larry Dignan / SmartPlanet:
GM's Volt: 10 million lines of code
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Green Tech, Thanks:editorialiste
Drew / Fark Blog:
Jon Stewart to Reddit: you don't matter
Katherine Noyes / PC World:
88 High-Risk Defects Found in Android Kernel
Discussion: internetnews.com
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Target to Carry iPhone Beginning November 7th
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Inside the Google Books Algorithm
Discussion: The Next Web and Switched