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1:20 AM ET, October 15, 2011

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Bradley Horowitz / The Official Google Blog:
A fall sweep  —  We aspire to build great products that really change people's lives, products they use two or three times a day.  To succeed you need real focus and thought—thought about what you work on and, just as important, what you don't work on.  It's why we recently decided to shut …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Axes More Services: Jaiku, Buzz, Code Search & More
Discussion: @ded and silicontap.com
Jay Greene / CNET News:
Google's Buzz kill completes shift to Google+
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Steve Jobs Memorial Service To Be Held Oct. 16  —  Apple Inc. has invited some of Silicon Valley's biggest names to a memorial service for Steve Jobs Sunday, Oct. 16, according to a copy of the invitation and several invitees.  —  The event will be held at Stanford University's campus Sunday evening, according to the invitation.
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Jerry Brown / @jerrybrowngov:
Discussion: Bits, BetaNews, The Next Web and Mashable!
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Launch of the iPhone 4S Leads to Siri-ously Good Sales for Carriers  —  It's not a shocker, but the availability of the iPhone 4S gave Sprint its best sales day ever.  —  The company, which is investing heavily to at long last get the iPhone on its network, said it broke its record by 1 pm ET on Friday.
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Jeff Benjamin / iDownloadBlog.com:
iPhone 4S Showdown: AT&T vs. Verizon vs. Sprint Speed Test!  —  AT&T has not one, but two worthy competitors ready to battle it out for iPhone 4S supremacy, and this time the playing field is far more level than it's ever been.  —  No longer is Verizon relegated to playing catchup, and did you hear?
Jon Orlin / TechCrunch:
Steve Wozniak On How The iPhone 4S Will Change His Life (TCTV)  —  Steve Wozniak likes to be the first person in line to buy the latest Apple products.  This evening, the Apple co-founder and designer of the Apple I and II, was #1 on line outside the Apple store in Los Gatos, California to get the iPhone 4S.
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
AT&T Activations Servers Overloaded with iPhone 4S Launch  —  As has happened in the past, it seems AT&T's activation servers are having problems with the large influx of activations with the iPhone 4S launch.  A quick search of Twitter shows many having problems activating their AT&T iPhone 4Ss due to server issues.
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Apple already spent $750 million on the iCloud building alone?  —  CEO Tim Cook confirmed at the iPhone 4S unveiling shipments of 250 million iOS devices since the original iPhone went on sale in the summer of 2007.  The iPhone 4S, the latest and greatest new model, has marked a shift in focus …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Apple shares close at all time high on day of iPhone 4S launch
Discussion: Shiny Objects and CNET News
AppleInsider:
iPhone 4S launch draws crowds at Apple stores around the world
Brian Caulfield / Shiny Objects:
Analyst: Led By iPhone 4S, Apple Could Sell 24 Million iPhones In December Quarter
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
iPad 3 Headed Into Production  —  With the iPhone 4S arriving at market today, the never-sated Apple rumor mill is clamoring for more grist.  And, as always, there's plenty of it to be had, this time involving the iPad 3.  —  According to Susquehanna Financial analyst Jeff Fidacaro, the device is headed into production.
Vincent Paquet / Google Voice Blog:
First steps Towards MMS support  —  MMS has been one of the constant feature requests since we launched Google Voice and we've been hard at work trying to make this happen.  —  Today, we're happy to announce that we've made the first step in our efforts to bring this feature to our users.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Post-PC LibreOffice heads for Web, iOS, Android  —  LibreOffice programmers are working to bring the LibreOffice suite, whose presentation module is shown here, to iOS, Android, and browsers.  —  LibreOffice, the project forked from OpenOffice.org, is moving into the modern era …
Discussion: The H Open Source and Ars Technica, Thanks:stshank
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Congress, wary of Amazon's Silk browser, demands answers on privacy  —  Congress is trying to wrap its collective head around Amazon's new Silk Web browser.  —  At a privacy hearing yesterday, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) expressed outrage at the way Silk's “split” design can funnel all user browsing data through Amazon's backend servers.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
The Three Ventureers: Andreessen Horowitz Joining Conway and Milner in Y Combinator Start Fund  —  Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz said today that it was joining well-known investors Ron Conway and DST Global's Yuri Milner in the Y Combinator Start Fund, which gives $150,000 to each start-up in its semi-annual group.
Discussion: TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Jameson Berkow / Financial Post:
What the BlackBerry outage will cost RIM  —  The most severe BlackBerry service disruption in the history of Research In Motion Ltd. could cost the Canadian mobile device maker more than US$100-million in lost revenues.  —  As some argue the damage to RIM's future ability to brand its smartphones …
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Skype for Windows updated to remove Google product bundling  —  Skype updated version 5.5 and 5.6 of its Windows product on Friday to remove Google products from the installer.  —  The removal of Google's toolbar from the Skype installer comes shortly after the finalization of Microsoft's Skype deal on Friday.
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Rolls Out New App Authentication Flow That Ups Privacy and Transparency  —  Facebook is granting all developers access to a new application authentication flow today that was announced at f8 last month.  Developers can now add a description of their app that will be displayed in a redesigned publishing permissions dialog.
Discussion: WebProNews and Facebook Developers
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Jail Sentence for Pirate Bay Co-Founder Made Final  —  November last year, the Swedish Appeal Court found three people behind The Pirate Bay guilty of contributory copyright infringement offenses.  The trio were handed prison sentences and ordered to pay millions of dollars in damages.
Discussion: The Register and The Next Web
 
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Files for iPhone 4S, Siri & Assistive Touch Trademarks While Fulfilling another UI Patent
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
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