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Chris Burns / SlashGear:
Google Confirms no Flash for Ice Cream Sandwich, for the time being — If you lucky owners of the Galaxy Nexus in these first days of its release complete with the first iteration of Ice Cream Sandwich, you'll notice that you do not have Adobe Flash Player installed, nor do you have access …
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Pocket-lint, Engadget, paidContent, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Google Watch, The Verge, Android Police, Fudzilla and PhoneArena
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Ebay's Got A Hunch, For Around $80 Million — Breaking this morning: Ebay will announce the acquisition of New York based startup Hunch, say sources. The price tag will be somewhere around $80 million. — Hunch was founded by Chris Dixon, Caterina Fake (who left last summer to start …
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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Oh, You Don't Have A Galaxy Nexus Yet? Because Woz Does. — Woz Spotting. It's something of a tradition amongst tech circles — or, at least, amongst my particularly geeky tech circle. Any time someone spots Woz wozzin' his way around the Valley, it feels weird not to tell everyone you know.
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The Verge, Ars Technica, Kirill Grouchnikov, The Next Web, Android Phone Fans, 9to5Google and Business Insider
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
The trials and tribulations of HTML video in the post-Flash era — Adobe reversed course on its Flash strategy after a recent round of layoffs and restructuring, concluding that HTML5 is the future of rich Internet content on mobile devices. Adobe now says it doesn't intend to develop …
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eWeek, BGR and The Register
Amy Vernon / SourceForge Community Blog:
The OS Wars: We Have A Winner — It's clear who has won the OS wars: The user. — Just a few short years ago, Apple computers were little more than afterthoughts outside of artists' circles. They certainly were not the go-to computers for anyone serious about programming or software development.
Cade Metz / Wired Enterprise:
Man Survives Steve Ballmer's Flying Chair To Build ‘21st Century Linux’ — Mark Lucovsky was the other man in the room when Steve Ballmer threw his chair and called Eric Schmidt a “f**king pussy.” Yes, the story is true. At least according to Lucovsky. Microsoft calls it a “gross exaggeration …
Idannyocean / 9to5Mac:
Grand Central Apple Store, the biggest in the world, scheduled to be announced this Tuesday — We reported on the construction progress of the future Apple grand Central store earlier this month and have since received further information and pictures from our trip to the location and from the tech blog, Techfootnote.
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Betabeat, Fast Company, Electronista, techfootnote, The Next Web, RazorianFly, The Verge, Tech Cocktail, PalmAddicts, PhoneArena and Softpedia News
Thomas Ricker / The Verge:
8.9-inch Kindle Fire to launch in Q2 of 2012, says DigiTimes — DigiTimes cites supply chain sources in claiming that Amazon's followup to the 7-inch Kindle Fire will measure 8.9-inches and launch at the end of the second quarter of 2012. That's a bit more specific than its original report …
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CNET News, Business Insider, The Tech Trade, Gizmodo, DigiTimes, AppleInsider, RazorianFly, The Digital Reader, Softpedia News, Electronista, Phones Review and The Verge
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The Facebook Freaky Line — It seems everyone is getting freaked out by Facebook once again. Molly Wood at CNET says that Facebook's automatic sharing features are ruining sharing. That got everyone to pile on over on Techmeme. — First, what does this automatic sharing feature (otherwise known as “frictionless sharing") do?
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook and the Age of Curation Through Unsharing
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Feature: Can the iPhone 4S replace a “real” digital camera? Ars investigates — When Apple announced the iPhone 4S, the company certainly talked up the improvements made to the smartphone's integrated camera hardware. With 8 megapixels of resolution, a redesigned lens …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
McAfee: Nearly All New Mobile Malware In Q3 Targeted At Android Phones — Intel-owned McAfee has released its third quarter security report, which shows that malware targeted towards phones running on the Android operating system continues to be on the rise.
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CNET News, Help Net Security, The inneractive Blog, netbooknews.com, Between the Lines Blog, FT Tech Hub and WMPoweruser
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Disruptions: For Teenagers, a Car or a Smartphone? — The auto industry has a lot of problems. It has to worry about workers' pension and health care costs, too-frequent recalls and the rising cost of gas. I think there is something else that should concern the automakers. — It's the iPhone.
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E.B. Boyd / Fast Company:
LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman On Groupon's Big Advantage: Big Data — Fast Company is traveling with LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman (above, center) as part of “Silicon Valley Comes to the UK” (SVC2UK) this week. In part two of our interview with him (part one is here), Hoffman talks about how big data …
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