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Gartner:
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Grew 35 Percent in Third Quarter 2010; Smartphone Sales Increased 96 Percent — Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 417 million units in the third quarter of 2010, a 35 percent increase from the third quarter of 2009, according to Gartner …
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Tim Carmody / Gadget Lab:
One in Five Mobiles Sold Are Smartphones (One in Four Run Android) — Year-over-year smartphone sales are up 98% worldwide. Over 80 million of the over 400 million handsets sold in the third quarter were smartphones. — The sheer growth of the global market and the meteoric rise …
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Motorola Media Center, Android Phone Fans, BGR, Pulse2, Fast Company, Mashable!, Fortune and HEXUS.channel
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Samsung Galaxy Tab Review: A Pocketable Train Wreck — This is it. The Galaxy Tab is the first Android tablet meant for humans. But is it actually fit for humans? — Put simply, the Galaxy Tab is the first post-iPad tablet that matters, because it's the first tablet that's trying to be legitimate competition.
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SAI, Computerworld, SlashGear and OS X Daily
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Ian Paul / PC World:
Windows Phone 7 Success Tied to a Million in Sales — Critics are already debating whether Windows Phone 7 is a flop, but the phone's true measure of success will be in how long it takes to sell one million units. It all started after reports that Microsoft's new handset platform sold …
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The Microsoft Blog and The Next Web
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Scott Moritz / The Street:
Microsoft Sells 40K Windows 7 Phones
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ZDNet, The Microsoft Blog, Microsoft Watch, CNET News, IntoMobile, eWeek, T3.com News, Go Rumors, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Inquirer, Switched, TechSpot, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com, DailyTech, Geek.com, WPCentral.com and PhoneArena
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
FarmVille is Still the Most Popular Facebook App - But #2 is a Surprise — Over 16 million people watered their FarmVille crops yesterday. While AppData's Facebook app top 10 is mostly populated by games like Zynga's popular farming game, Texas HoldEm Poker, FrontierVille and Café World …
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The Windows Blog, LiveSide.net, The Atlantic Online, Neowin.net, SiliconANGLE, The Blog Herald and Inside Facebook
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.5 — Moments ago, Apple released its Mac OS X 10.6.5 update to its customer-base. Fixes in the point-upgrade include: — • improve reliability with Microsoft Exchange servers — • address performance of some image-processing operations in iPhoto and Aperture
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Macworld, MacStories, Apple, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, everythingiCafe, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Neowin.net and Softpedia News
Wall Street Journal:
FCC Investigating Google Data Collection — The Federal Communications Commission is investigating whether Google Inc. broke federal laws when its street-mapping service collected consumers' personal information, joining a lengthy list of regulators probing what Google says was inadvertent harvesting …
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Post Tech, CNET News, The Hill, Electronista, The Next Web and Reuters
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Sara Jerome / Hillicon Valley:
Watchdog wants probe of Google's ‘unusually close’ ties to Obama
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The Precursor Blog, Digital Daily and SiliconANGLE, Thanks:gnagesh
Bloomberg:
RIM to Sell Tablet for Less Than $500 to Take On IPad — Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Research In Motion Ltd., moving into the tablet-computer market for the first time, said it will begin selling its BlackBerry PlayBook for less than $500, suggesting RIM may try to undercut Apple Inc.'s iPad.
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Rumor: Apple Has Cancelled Support for AirPrint Through Mac and Windows — Update: Unlike many other blogs that linked to this post claim, the rumor isn't about AirPrint being cancelled. It's about AirPrint through shared printers on Macs and PCs. — When Apple released the first beta …
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Examiner, Ars Technica, PC World, App Advice, MacRumors, Gadget Lab, The Next Web, 9 to 5 Mac, Fortune, TodaysiPhone.com, GigaOM, Computerworld, Erictric, I4U News, V3.co.uk, GottaBeMobile, MobileWhack.com, TUAW, BlogsDNA, SlashGear, Fonehome.co.uk, Softpedia News, everythingiCafe and Pocket-lint
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Michael Grothaus / TUAW:
iOS 4.2 to launch Friday?
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Engadget, PhoneDog.com, Redmond Pie, BlogsDNA and everythingiCafe
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Stat Shot: The Results of Silicon Valley's Talent War — We've covered the war for talent among startups and larger tech firms in Silicon Valley, but after Google issued employees a $1,000 bonus and 10 percent raise, Glassdoor took a look at how well people at Google were paid, and specifically …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Is The Silicon Valley Talent Shortage Getting Worse?
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Wall Street Journal
Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:
Mozilla launches the F1 share button, as in “one to rule them all” — Mozilla just announced that it is launching a new toolbar button called F1, and it could be huge. — Saying, “Have you noticed how more and more pages on the web have 3, 6, or sometimes 12 little icons on a page encouraging …
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ReadWriteWeb and Mozilla Labs
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
SkyFire Pulls In Nearly $1 Million In Its First Weekend On The App Store — Just about every time I write about SkyFire, the cross-platform (and generally free) smartphone browser capable of churning through most Flash videos, someone always says: “Great! But uh, how are they going to make money?”
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9 to 5 Mac, App Advice and MacRumors iPhone Blog
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple Did Not Actually Buy Wi-Gear, It Turns Out — Remember that story yesterday which said that Apple (AAPL) had acquired a Bluetooth wireless headphone maker called Wi-Gear? — Well, turns out it wasn't true. — “The rumor is false,” Wi-Gear CEO Mark Pundsack said via e-mail in response to an inquiry from Tech Trader Daily.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
MacBook Air Rises to Top of Consumer Reports Ratings — More good press for the MacBook Air. Consumer Reports updated its computer ratings earlier this week to include the machine, and while it had some criticisms, it ranked the 11-inch Air and its 13-inch sibling at the top …
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GigaOM, Electronista, Consumer Reports …, Macsimum News and TUAW
James Verini / New York Times:
The Great Cyberheist — One night in July 2003, a little before midnight, a plainclothes N.Y.P.D. detective, investigating a series of car thefts in upper Manhattan, followed a suspicious-looking young man with long, stringy hair and a nose ring into the A.T.M. lobby of a bank.
Inside AdSense:
Introducing the new AdSense interface, now available globally — Last November we announced that we were starting to test a new interface with a limited group of publishers. Since then, we've been focused on adding new features and incorporating feedback from our testers.
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SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, The Official Google Blog, Techie Buzz, Mashable!, WebProNews, Search Engine Roundtable and Adotas
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Fanboy Fascination: Is Andreessen Horowitz Overhyped? — Social psychologist Amy Cuddy of Harvard Business School recently produced some interesting research suggesting that people are highly likely to see someone as competent if they've demonstrated expertise in just one area, even if they later display incompetence elsewhere.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Ellison to Self: Damn, Damn. I Knew I Should Have Said $4.5 Billion — Whatever damages Oracle is awarded in its suit against SAP, they'll be $500 million lighter, thanks to an order by the judge presiding over the case. Judge Phyllis Hamilton has prevented Oracle from including …
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Warns Facebook Users of “Trap” Before Data Export — If you hadn't yet heard, there's been a bit of a kerfuffle this past week over your data by two Internet giants - Facebook and Google. It started when Google began blocking other services from importing its data without reciprocity, a move aimed directly at Facebook.
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VentureBeat, Relevant Results, Digitizor, The Not-So Private Parts, Yahoo! News, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, TechCrunch, TechSpot, The Register, Epicenter and GigaOM, Thanks:rwwmike
Joe White / App Advice:
iTunes Connect Will Close For The Holidays: December 23-28 — Apple has recently told iOS developers that iTunes Connect will close for the holidays. As MacStories reports, the service will close on December 23, and will reopen on December 28. Here's how Apple announced it:
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MacRumors iPhone Blog, Softpedia News, TUAW and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Vlad Bobleanta / Download Squad:
SugarSync ups free storage to 5 GB, now allows any number of connected devices — SugarSync has announced that users of its basic, free plan will now get 5 GB of storage ‘in the cloud’. Previously, that limit was 2 GB — a limit that its main competitor, Dropbox, still has.
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Computerworld and Technologizer
Don Reisinger / CNET News:
Dish selling Logitech Revue at discounted $179 — Starting today, Dish Network customers can buy the Logitech Revue set-top box for $179. — The discounted price is available to Dish customers who subscribe to the DVR integration service, which costs $4 per month.
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WebProNews and Engadget
Joab Jackson / ITworld:
Apache declares war on Oracle over Java — The Apache Software Foundation threatens to ditch Java if Oracle doesn't relent on use restrictions — I like it! — Charging that Oracle has willfully disregarded the licensing terms for its own Java technology, the Apache Software Foundation …
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Ars Technica, eWeek, InfoQ, ASF Blogs and Techie Buzz
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Hulu CEO: We'll make $240M in 2010 — Hulu chief executive Jason Kilar shared some numbers today to show where the online TV service stood at the end of October. — The service launched its beta test almost exactly three years ago, so while the service is relatively early, Kilar said …
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Mike Blumenthal / Understanding Google Maps …:
Google Places: Selective Reviews Now Being Removed — Google appears to be actively removing some reviews from Places listings. — Some of the recent problems of reviews being lost are clearly algo based and reports of lost reviews continue to pile up in the forums.
