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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Siri voice command system ported from iPhone 4S to iPhone 4 (video) — Developer Steven Troughton-Smith has been working with 9to5Mac exclusively to port the iPhone 4S Siri voice command system to the iPhone 4. Troughton-Smith was able to get the beginning steps of a full port rolling …
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everythingiCafe, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie, VentureBeat, Engadget, GottaBeMobile, TUAW, Edible Apple, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Examiner, App Advice, iPro, Tech Shout!, MobileSyrup.com, MacPost, Jailbreak Story, TiPb, Business Insider, Fortune, PhoneArena, SlashGear, PalmAddicts, Ubergizmo, techeblog.com and MacNN, Thanks:mobileosfreedom
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Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
Siri Service on Apple's iPhone 4S Talks Back With Humor — New Devices Dish Out Sarcasm, Tell Jokes; ‘Two iPhones Walk Into a Bar’ — Now even your phone talks back. — Matt Legend Gemmell, a software designer from Edinburgh, got a new Apple Inc. iPhone on Friday and asked it: “Who's your daddy?”
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App Advice, MacRumors, Gizmodo, MacNN and Electronista
Gizmodo:
The Great iPhone 4S National Network Speed Test — You did it. You've got your brand new iPhone. Siri! The better camera! But how fast is it on your carrier's network? Push that download to the max. — Using our Official Gizmodo Download Speed Ultra Test 6500™, you can check how your mobile downloads stack up.
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MacRumors, Examiner, SlashGear, Gizmodo, TiPb and The Next Web, Thanks:joemfbrown
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Jerry Brown / @jerrybrowngov:
This Sunday will be Steve Jobs Day in the State of California.
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9to5Mac, PC Magazine, Mashable!, Bits, The Next Web, Apple Gazette, Business Insider, TUAW, Phones Review, BetaNews, VentureBeat and Wall Street Journal
Rusty Blazenhoff / Laughing Squid:
One Year-Old Baby Thinks Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work — Jean-Louis Constanza posted a video, titled A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work, featuring a one-year old baby trying to manipulate a traditional paper magazine like a touchscreen Apple iPad. … via Nerdcore
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Examiner, CNET News, TUAW, Mashable!, Evolver.fm, Guyism and @jlconstanza
Business Week:
The Shadowy World of iPhone Cases — Smartphone case makers rely on rumors and leaks to get their products on the market first — In the weeks leading up to Apple's Oct. 4 announcement about the new iPhone 4S, Tim Hickman lived and breathed rumors about the device.
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AppleInsider, TUAW, Network World, everythingiCafe, 9to5Mac and Business Insider
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Google's Honeycomb offensive musters just 3.4m tablets — Apple's iPad may still be sitting pretty at the top of the consumer tablet charts, but questions still remain over whether Android 3.x Honeycomb really has been a sales failure so far. Google and its manufacturer partners are yet …
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TechnoBuffalo, Ben Parr's Entrepreneurial …, 9to5Google, MobileWhack.com, @alsutton, Engadget, Eurodroid and Android Community
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
New Firefox interface to speed up Firefox on Android — Mozilla has decided that when it comes to Android devices, performance is more important than the wealth of add-ons that can be used to customize Firefox. — Yesterday, Mozilla's Director of Firefox Engineering Johnathan Nightingale announced …
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Softpedia News and Computerworld
Richard L. Brandt / Wall Street Journal:
Jeff Bezos of Amazon: Birth of a Salesman — Behind the rise of Jeff Bezos and Amazon: Richard L. Brandt on the founder's Texas roots, the site's chaotic early days, why negative reviews are allowed and his increasing use of personal data. — Jeffrey Preston Bezos was 4 years old …
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
SecondMarket Facebook Auction #43 Fails To Clear Any Shares — All this year TechCrunch and others were covering the weekly SecondMarket auctions for Facebook stock. 2.7 million shares, for example, cleared in aggregate the first five auction at prices ranging from $21.01 to $28.26 per share.
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Business Insider
David Meyer / BBC:
EU plan to spend billions on boosting broadband speeds — The European Commission hopes fast broadband will boost the economy just as high speed rail does. — The European Commission is set to propose investing almost €9.2bn (£8bn) in a massive rollout of super-fast broadband infrastructure …
Bradley Horowitz / Google+:
Buzzkill — As you may have read, today we announced our plans to retire Google Buzz along with some other products. Many people anticipated that we would retire Buzz, so this shouldn't come as a huge surprise. But as someone closely involved in the creation of Buzz, I wanted to share some personal thoughts.
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WebProNews, eWeek, GigaOM, parislemon, Engadget, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNET News and The Sociable
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Oliver Samwer walks out of an interview with TechCrunch — The three Samwer brothers (Oliver, Marc and Alexander) founders of the Rocket Internet incubator in Berlin, are a phenomenon. They are far and away the most successful Internet entrepreneurs in Germany.
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Unfiltered Opinion …, Thanks:mikebutcher
Zach Epstein / BGR:
U.S. emerges as global 4G LTE leader after less than a year — A country that was recently the butt of jokes due to its ongoing reliance on CDMA networks now finds itself a global leader in next-generation cellular technology. According to a new report from Pyramid Research …
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Pyramid Research and PhoneArena
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 …
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Ars Technica and The H Open Source, Thanks:stshank
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Joab Jackson / Computerworld:
Apache asserts OpenOffice stewardship
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ITProPortal, The Apache Software …, The Register, ITworld, Open Source Blog, 451 CAOS Theory, Ed Brill and Slashdot
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Andreessen Horowitz Joins The Start Fund To Seed YC Companies — At the beginning of the year, super investors Ron Conway and Yuri Milner created the controversial Start Fund to invest in every new Y Combinator startup. They offered each YC startup to graduate from Paul Graham's rigorous …
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semil's blog, VentureBeat and AllThingsD
