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Softbank to Buy 70 Percent Stake in Sprint: Source — Softbank and Sprint have reached a deal under which Softbank will pay $20 billion for a 70 percent stake in the wireless telecom operator, according to people close to the situation. — The deal is expected to be announced Monday morning …
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Computerworld, iMore, VentureBeat, Engadget, dailywireless.org, AndroidGuys, PhoneNews.com, MacRumors, AllThingsD, CNET, Quartz, The Verge, Bloomberg, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, Know Your Cell, 9to5Mac and 24/7 Wall St.. Tweets: @mattzeitlin
| Brad Sams / Neowin: |
Windows 8 campaign kicks off with first official television commercial — Microsoft has just released its first official Windows 8 commercial that highlights the upcoming release of Windows 8. The advert, which you can see above, first ran at about 12:50 PM EST.
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AllThingsD, Digits, The Verge, VentureBeat, CNET and GeekWire
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Thanks:@bdsams| Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong — Here's a pocket history of the web, according to many people. In the early days, the web was just pages of information linked to each other. Then along came web crawlers that helped you find what you wanted among all that information.
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Do-Not-Track Movement Is Drawing Advertisers' Fire — THE campaign to defang the “Do Not Track” movement began late last month. — Do Not Track mechanisms are features on browsers — like Mozilla's Firefox — that give consumers the option of sending out digital signals asking companies … | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
SNL's Sketch Pits iPhone 5 Factory Workers Problems Against The Tech Critics — Saturday Night Live's latest parody sketch gives life to that oft-quted phrase ‘first world problems’. (Here's an alternative link if the one above doesn't work). In a biting take-down of some of the legitimate …
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Examiner, Mediaite, SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, The Loop, TUAW, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, Gizmodo, The Verge, The Huffington Post, BetaNews, CNET and Mashable!. Tweets: @darrenmurph
| Michael Humphrey / Forbes: |
Red Bull Stratos On YouTube Live Topped 8 Million Concurrent Views — It's Sunday in October: That means football, presidential politics and Sunday brunch. But never mind any of that. — If you were watching the YouTube live coverage of the Red Bull Stratos, in which skydiver Felix Baumgartner dropped …
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Associated Press, CNET, Hollywood Reporter, PC Magazine, Pocket-lint and AllThingsD
| Fruzsina Eördögh / ReadWriteWeb: |
[Infographic] YouTube's Top 1,000 Channels Reveal An Industry Taking Shape — YouTube is still the pesky younger sibling of television, which is the wicked uncle of Hollywood. But the social video site is slowly becoming a formidable medium in its own right, creating new business models …
Tweets: @benwerd
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
AT&T Starts Six-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan Next Month, Will Block Websites — Last year the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States to launch the Center for Copyright Information (CCI). — The parties agreed on a system through which subscribers …
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TechCrunch, Joho the Blog, Engadget and SlashGear
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Apple, other thin laptop makers pass latest round of EPEAT tests after summer mini-drama — Apple gave eco-friendly computer fans a brief jolt this July after it backed out of EPEAT certification, only to restore most devices just days later. While we can't say we're completely shocked at the follow-up …
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EPEAT, Electronista, PC World, iClarified and AppleInsider
| Charles Duhigg / New York Times: |
Campaigns Mine Personal Lives to Get Out Vote — Strategists affiliated with the Obama and Romney campaigns say they have access to information about the personal lives of voters at a scale never before imagined. And they are using that data to try to influence voting habits — in effect …
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CNET, Chickaboomer, Hillicon Valley and Forbes
Tweets: @nytjim, @victorylab and @counternotions
| Joab Jackson / Computerworld: |
Apache Lucene/Solr expands across many servers — The Apache Software Foundation's widely used open source Lucene/Solr search engine package has been upgraded to accommodate its users' seemingly insatiable need to collect and use ever-larger amounts of data.
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TechCrunch and The H Open Source
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U.S. Suspects Iranians Were Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks — WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Iran was the origin of a serious wave of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached financial institutions in the United States …
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