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October 30, 2012, 12:15 AM

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Apple:
Apple Announces Changes to Increase Collaboration Across Hardware, Software & Services  —  Jony Ive, Bob Mansfield, Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi Add Responsibilities to Their Roles  —  Apple® today announced executive management changes that will encourage even more collaboration between …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Forstall Out; Ive Up  —  Blockbuster executive leadership change at Apple; Scott Forstall has been shown the door.  Here's the key paragraph: … Forstall has long been a polarizing executive within Apple.  Remember this piece by Austin Carr for Fast Company six weeks ago …
Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
Inside Apple's major shakeup  —  What is really behind the biggest management shakeup at Apple since the Steve Jobs putsch that eliminated Gil Amelio in 1997?  —  FORTUNE — Tim Cook's honeymoon at Apple is over.  —  Apple's (AAPL) CEO announced the departure of mobile software chief Scott Forstall on Monday.
Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Software Chief Refused to Sign Maps Apology  —  Apple Inc. executive Scott Forstall was asked to leave the company after he refused to sign his name to a letter apologizing for shortcomings in Apple's new mapping service, according to people familiar with the matter.
Ryan Block / gdgt:
Senior VP of iOS Scott Forstall is out at Apple: why, and what it means.  —  Most people don't know Scott Forstall, but to those who do he's something of a demigod.  If the future of mobile is software, and Apple is the company in pole position, then Forstall, Senior VP of iOS, is the guy driving and defining that future.
Andy Rubin / The Official Google Blog:
Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes  —  People increasingly have more than one device, and they switch between them many times a day.  Nexus—Google's hardware line for Android devices—gets rid of the hassle.  Just sign in with your Google Account and everything is there ready to go …
Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:
The Nexus 4: Google's flagship phone lands November 13th for $299  —  An in-depth, hands-on preview of LG's new device for Google  —  Google's has officially announced the Nexus 4, the latest phone in its Nexus line of flagship Android devices.  Built by LG, the phone features …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 8  —  Latest smartphones from Nokia, Samsung and HTC go on sale in November.  —  Microsoft Corp. today debuted Windows Phone 8, the latest version of the company's smartphone operating system.  Windows Phone 8 offers a truly personal phone experience …
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Instagram users are posting 10 Hurricane Sandy pictures every second  —  Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom tells us via a spokeswoman: “There are now 10 pictures per second being posted with the hashtag #sandy — most are images of people prepping for the storm and images of scenes outdoors.”
Gabriel Stricker / Twitter Blog:
iFixit:
Microsoft Surface Teardown  —  We got our hands on Microsoft's new Surface, and to its credit, it lasted a good twenty minutes before we decided to tear it open.  EditStep 1 — Microsoft Surface Teardown Is that the display assembly from a PC laptop?  Nope, it's the new Microsoft Surface …
Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
H-P's New Printers: A Big Launch for the Battered Company  —  Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to unveil a new line of printers for businesses Tuesday, one of the first fruits of Chief Exeucutive Meg Whitman's efforts to invest more in research and development as she tries to turn around the struggling technology company.
Danah Boyd / Wired:
Truth, Lies, and ‘Doxxing’: The Real Moral of the Gawker/Reddit Story  —  Sitting U.S. President Ford was visiting San Francisco in 1975 when a woman attempted to shoot him.  A former marine named Oliver Sipple grabbed the gun, preventing the assassination attempt.
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Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek  —  You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry?  Come on in!  —  Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project.  It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API  —  The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR  —  Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review.  Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
 

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