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Robert Andrews / mocoNews:
‘Nokia Is Back’ And Ballsy; 'We're Not Sorry We're Not Apple' — Nokia's beaten-down top dogs opened their annual Nokia (NYSE: NOK) World show in London Tuesday morning with a blunt and rousing pep talk and a direct riposte to their competitors. — “We're not going to apologise for the fact …
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Michael Gartenberg / SlashGear:
A Week with the Nokia N8: Can Symbian Survive? — I'm in London this week at Nokia World and it's a defining moment for Nokia. Last week Nokia announced their CEO's departure, and new CEO (and Microsoft alum) Stephen Elop. Nokia phones once defined state of the art and the S60 platform defined the modern smartphone era in 2002.
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Nokia makes E7 QWERTY slider official: ‘beautiful and all business’ (update: specs) — Nokia's just unveiled its aluminum-clad E7 QWERTY slider handset. One of the new family of Symbian^3 devices, it has a 4-inch tilting touchscreen display on the front and an 8 megapixel imager capable of 720p video on the back.
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
HDCP ‘master key’ supposedly released, unlocks HDTV copy protection permanently — Just as the MPAA is preparing to offer movies to customers at home while they're still in theaters by limiting playback to DRM-protected digital outputs only, the HDCP protocol they rely on may have been cracked wide open.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Nielsen: Bing Passes Yahoo To Become #2 Search Engine — According to Nielsen data out this morning Microsoft's Bing has passed Yahoo to become the number two search engine in the US. Nielsen says that Google's August share is 65% (and growth is flat) but that Bing and Yahoo have now switched places:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ron Conway's Confidential Investment Guide: The Tech Megatrends — Angel investors SV Angel, led by Ron Conway invests so early in startups that he looks mostly at the team and current tech trends when making investment decisions. — Last year he was focusing on real time and location startups.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Evan Williams Coughed Up $7,500 For Twitter.com Back In The Day — Mid-2006, when Twitter was born, the domain name Twitter.com changed hands for $7,500, chief executive and co-founder Evan Williams tweeted yesterday night. — Roughly four years, 145 million users and 300,000 third-party applications later …
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Silicon Alley Insider, Domain Name Wire and Macworld
Ben Bowers / Engadget:
Google TV officially launching October 17th? — It's been no secret that Google TV is scheduled to arrive sometime this fall and we've already seen the Logitech Revue box hardware pass the FCC, but a tipster has just shared an internal Best Buy document with us disclosing …
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Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
V CAST App Store to compete with official Android Market? — Verizon Wireless loves apps. In fact, Verizon loves them sooo much that they decided to create their own official app store, named V CAST Apps. Many users with Android phones on Verizon might already notice a V CAST Apps tab under …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils New LifeCam With Stunning 1080p HD Sensor: Closest Thing to Being There in Person — LifeCam Studio is the perfect HD video calling companion for Windows Live Messenger 2011. — Microsoft Corp. today sets a new standard in webcams with LifeCam Studio, featuring sharp high-definition …
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Gadget Lab, SlashGear, Softpedia News, The Microsoft Blog, Electronista, LiveSide.net and Bink.nu
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
QOTD: The Ninja Throwing Stars? They're For My Friend Larry Ellison ... Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs said he'll never come back to Japan after officials at an airport barred him from taking Ninja throwing stars aboard his private plane, SPA! magazine reported in its latest issue.
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Esther Shein / InformationWeek:
Microsoft Launches Massive Wireless Hotspot — The “White-Fi” network on the company's Redmond, Wash. campus runs over white space spectrum left over from the conversion of TV signals from analog to digital. — Microsoft workers both in buildings and aboard a shuttle bus are testing …
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Techmeme Turns 5: Interview With Founder Gabe Rivera — This week, leading tech news aggregator Techmeme turned 5 years old. The service launched in September 2005, under the name tech.memeorandum, and ReadWriteWeb was one of the first media publications to review it. — In 2005, tech.memeorandum mostly tracked blogs.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Exclusive: Galaxy Tab, red / white BlackBerry Torch and Samsung Focus hitting AT&T in Q4 — Mmm, delicious. That's the feeling we're left with after being inundated with yet another round of AT&T leaks, this time giving us insight at a few flagship devices on tap for the carrier's holiday push.
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Wall Street Journal:
Nokia Chairman to Step Down in 2012 — Nokia Corp. Chairman Jorma Ollila, the executive credited with turning the Finnish company into the world's largest handset maker, plans to step down in 2012, a spokeswoman said. — Tuesday's surprise announcement, coming just days after Nokia …
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eWeek, Engadget, paidContent, Crave, dailywireless.org, Gizmodo, TechCrunch Europe, The Next Web and CNET News, Thanks:michaelkroker
Tom Abate / San Francisco Chronicle:
Instead of IPOs, startups look to be acquired — The market for initial public offerings remains badly broken in the aftermath of the financial panic of 2008, but its malaise began even earlier. — “The ecosystem that allowed young companies to go public has been destroyed,” …
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Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Intel's walled garden plan to put A/V vendors out of business — SAN FRANCISCO — In describing the motivation behind Intel's recent purchase of McAfee for a packed-out audience at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel's Paul Otellini framed it as an effort to move the way the company approaches security …
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Christopher Mims / Technology Review:
Why Isn't the Price of Broadband Obeying Moore's Law? — The quality and cost of broadband Internet access haven't budged in years. — The U.S. government doesn't keep an index of broadband internet prices by which to evaluate the success of its broadband promotion policies …
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Samsung's i8700 Windows Phone 7 handset goes through the video leak ritual — It's well known around these parts that if you aspire to be a highly desirable smartphone, you have to leak out in three clearly delineated stages: pictures, video, and specs. We've seen the i8700 a couple …
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MobileCrunch, MobileTechWorld and Phones Review
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
Inventor Claims Google Violating Patent With Android Location Based Services — A range of mapping tools has helped Google's mobile operating system, Android, gain a reputation for hosting smart, useful location based services. The Web giant may have to take a step back, however …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Quiksee Confirms That It Was Acquired By Google, Remains Vague On Details — Israeli newspaper Haaretz recently reported that a local startup called MentorWave Technologies was being acquired for its Quiksee product, which enables anyone to create and upload location-based, interactive 3D videos.
Jason Ankeny / FierceDeveloper:
Study: Absence of over-the-air updates slows iOS device upgrades — Almost twice as many Motorola Droid users have upgraded to Android 2.2 than iPhone 3GS users who've evolved to Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS 4.0, according to new data issued by mobile app analytics firm Localytics.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
How to get a job at Google, interview questions, hiring process — The Google hiring process is designed to hire the most talented, creative, and articulate people in the world who will be the best fit for Google. The Google culture is different. You notice it the moment you walk on campus.
Thanks:dondodge
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Most Clicked Mobile Ads Aren't On Android or iPhone — Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and the iPhone's iOS may be the lead operating systems battling it out for smartphone supremacy, but when it comes to getting users around the world to click on ads, good-old flip-phones and Nokia's Symbian OS-powered phones beat them hands down.
Thanks:rsingel
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Get Satisfaction Raises $6 Million For Customer Support Forums — Customer support startup Get Satisfaction has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Azure Capital Partners with O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and First Round Capital participating in the round.
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Lindsay Powers / Hollywood Reporter:
AOL: Jonas Bros. can ‘help redesign Internet’ — CEO calls them ‘most creative people on the planet’ — Looks like the Jonas Brothers could have a new gig. — In an interview with Front Row Daily, AOL CEO and Chairman Tim Armstrong says his company wants to change the way both AOL properties …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
DEMO's next wave of innovation: Here's the launch list — DEMO Fall 2010, the technology launchpad conference coproduced by VentureBeat and IDG, is kicking off tomorrow (actually, the parties started tonight), and we've got a lineup of big-name speakers from the tech world …
