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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 22 — Late last night, word began to spread around the tech community that one of Diaspora's four co-founders, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, had passed away. With much sadness, we've now confirmed this terrible news with the Diaspora team.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Following Founder's Passing, Diaspora Opens Redesigned Alpha To Invitees — Diaspora sent out a new round of invites to a redesigned alpha version of its open source social network today. The invites came just before the saddening news broke that 22 year old founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy had recently passed away.
Steven Levy / Wired:
Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think — Photo: Nigel Parry; styling by Alvin Stillwell/Celestine Agency; Grooming by Erin Skipley/Ajentse — “What I'm about to show you,” Jeff Bezos says, “is the culmination of the many things we've been doing for 15 years.”
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FM Blog and @stevenjayl
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Kindle Fire could be hotter than iPad this holiday season, study finds
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Between the Lines Blog, Mashable!, Fortune, Pulse2, Internet2Go, eWeek, GigaOM, ITProPortal, Examiner, CNET News and Retrevo, more at Mediagazer »
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Amazon Kindle Fire review — It seems like ages since Amazon introduced us to the $199 Fire at a hectic New York City event, but in truth that was only about six weeks ago. Maybe our perception of time is warped because we've been hearing talk about this 7-inch Android tablet for months now.
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Chicago Sun Times, New York Times, Wired, The Verge, LAPTOP Mag, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, msnbc.com, Fortune and Consumer Reports News
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Paul Miller / The Verge:
Kindle Touch review — AMAZON REINVENTS THE KINDLE WITH THE ALL-NEW KINDLE TOUCH. BUT HAVE WE REALLY COME SO FAR? — With so many new Kindles to choose from, it's important to make the right decision for you and your family. Do you go all-in with a Kindle Fire? Skate by with the bargain basement Kindle?
New York Times:
At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In a top-secret lab in an undisclosed Bay Area location where robots run free, the future is being imagined. — It's a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the Internet, so it could order groceries when they ran low.
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Bits, 9to5Google and Fortune
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Disruptions: The 3-D Printing Free-for-All — Downloading — quite often stealing, in the eyes of the law — music, movies, books and photos is easier than bobbing for apples in a bucket without water. It has kept legions of lawyers employed fighting copyright violations without a whole lot …
Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog:
Apple's ‘Batterygate’ end-game: Do nothing? — Summary: ‘Batterygate’ continues, even after the battery fix update of iOS 5.0.1 last week. But Apple cannot stand idly by as its users struggle with draining battery life. Or can it? — Apple is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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T3 News and Gizmodo, Thanks:zackwhittaker
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Microsoft's Search Efforts Look Increasingly Futile As Google Gains Share For Second Month In A Row — The latest ComScore search numbers just came out, and Google continues to claw back market share. — Here's where the big search engines stood at the end of October, compared with September:
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eWeek and Softpedia News
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
WhatsApp bucks convention, quietly builds a messaging titan — The group messaging app market has gone through all kinds of changes in the last year with the acquisitions of Beluga and GroupMe, the introduction of Facebook Messenger, Apple's iMessage and Google's Huddle and the travails of Kik and its struggles with RIM .
Thanks:jtemple
Todd Haselton / BGR:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 earns record-breaking $400 million in 24 hours — Soldiers, let's agree to a quick armistice. Activision Publishing announced on Friday that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which exploded onto store shelves this past Wednesday, has set an all-time sales record …
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Apple releases iTunes 10.5.1 Beta 3 to developers, actual iTunes Match release date still cloudy — After Apple once again cleared out developers' music from iCloud, there was some hope that we might see the actual release of iTunes Match soon. Instead, Apple is playing it safe …
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InformationWeek, MacRumors, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, TUAW and PalmAddicts
