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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Google Chairman Eric tells US senators Apple's Siri could pose ‘competitive threat’ — Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman and former chief executive, admitted to the U.S. Senate antitrust subcommittee that Apple's new Siri personal assistant technology is a “significant development” …
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google lawyer: Why the patent system is broken — Google stands at the center of the escalating mobile patent wars, as the developer of the Android operating system that triggered scores of lawsuits and countersuits. — Depending on whom you ask, the company is either the high-minded adult …
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Ars Technica, The Verge and Louis Gray
Evelyn M. Rusli / New York Times:
Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn Has Become the Go-To Guy of Tech — THEY come for his money. They come for his advice. They come — duh — for his connections. — But mostly they come, with all the élan of Dorothy on her way to Oz, for a chance at some face time with Reid G. Hoffman, the start-up whisperer of Silicon Valley.
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GigaOM, @danprimack, @karaswisher, Business Insider, Pulse2 and @sacca
Ellis Hamburger / Business Insider:
Firefox 8 Launches In Two Days, But Here's How To Get It NOW — Firefox 8 won't hit the presses until November 8, but as always, Mozilla has uploaded the final version to the web a couple days early. — gHacks spotted the files on Mozilla's FTP servers. — Firefox 8, which comes …
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The Verge, gHacks Technology News, Lifehacker, Pulse2 and Techie Buzz
David Carr / New York Times:
Is the WikiLeaks Movement Fading? — IT appears all the more likely that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, will be extradited to Sweden to be questioned on allegations of sexual misconduct from two women. A British court's ruling last Wednesday that he could be extradited …
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Economist
Marc Bevand / Zorinaq:
1TB Hard Drive Prices up 180% in a Month — The Newegg price charts on Camelegg sum this up illustratively: — Thailand manufactures 25% of the world's hard drives, and the severe 2011 monsoon season floods affected some of its largest industrial parks, where many hard drive manufacturers …
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Techie Buzz, New York Times, Pulse2 and Techie Insider
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Instagram's Kevin Systrom On International Expansion, Instagram Video, Funding Rumors And More — With over 100K weekly downloads coming in just from China, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom had a lot to say during his TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing talk, tackling head-on the issue …
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The Next Web, Pulse2, Gizmodo, Business Insider, OmLinks, The Next Web and Instagramers.com
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Major Usenet Provider Shuts Down Following Court Order — Two years ago BREIN, representing the movie and music industries, took News-Service.com (NSE) to court. — Although the name NSE might not ring a bell with many people, it is the largest usenet provider in Europe and has many high-profile resellers such as Usenext.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Louis C.K. Uses Twitter, Louis C.K. Hates Twitter — If you've seen Louis C.K. do stand-up (and you should) or his FX show (and you should), the fact that he both employs and detests Twitter won't surprise you. His summary, via his interview on Conan O'Brien Thursday night: “I kinda hate it.
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The Huffington Post, Gizmodo, New York Times and The Next Web
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Best Buy UK stores to be shut down after a year of unprofitable operation — The Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph are reporting today that British phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is about to close down the 11 Best Buy stores it opened across the UK last year.
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London Calling Blog, Pocket-lint, Neowin.net, VG247 and Gizmodo UK
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Verizon API To Give Apps ‘Turbo’ Bandwidth Boost — Verizon will publish an API that could allow consumers to “turbocharge” the network bandwidth their smartphone apps use for a small fee, executives said Tuesday. — Verizon anticipates that a customer running an app on a smartphone …
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@qthrul, Examiner, All New Musings, Pulse2, The Consumerist, Rethink Wireless, TMCnet, Engadget, BGR, Droid Life, DSLreports, PhoneArena, The Verge, Electronista and Slashdot
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Exclusive: Motorola Corvair Android-based TV controller leaks out — Motorola Mobility has been talking about Android-based cable boxes for a while now, and it appears there's a little crossbreeding with the tablet and phone groups going on in the labs: we've just received these images …
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Android News, Rumours …, CNET News, Neowin.net, Android Police, GSMArena Blog, Liliputing, Electronista, SlashGear, 9to5Google and Engadget
