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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Android Chief Andy Rubin Sends His First Tweet — And It's Aimed At Steve Jobs — Well would you look at that. Earlier today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs went on a bit of a tirade against Google and Android in particular. And you know that couldn't have made Android chief Andy Rubin too happy.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Steve Jobs's Epic 5-Minute Anti-Google Rant — In a surprise, Steve Jobs joined Apple's Q3 earnings call today. — He used his time to rip into Google. — A sample: — “Many Android OEMs install proprietary user-interfaces to differentiate themselves from the commodity Android experience.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple And Google: The Activation Pissing Match Continues
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Jason Snell / Macworld:
Jobs speaks! The complete transcript
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AppleInsider:
Steve Jobs squashes rumors of smaller, 7-inch iPad from Apple — Apple chief executive Steve Jobs on Monday took pause during his company's fourth quarter conference call to extinguish rumors that the company is working on a smaller iPad based around a 7-inch screen.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Has $51 Billion and a Shopping List. Is Facebook On It? — Steve Jobs made a rare appearance during today's Apple's earnings call and spent most of his time beating up his rivals, past and present. Summary: The iPhone has left Research in Motion's Blackberry in the dust.
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Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
Sales and Profit Surge for Apple, but Its Margins Slip — SAN FRANCISCO — Strong sales of iPads, iPhones and even Mac computers produced record revenue and profit for Apple in its fourth quarter. — It was not enough, however, to sustain Wall Street's exuberance for the consumer electronics company …
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Horace Dediu / asymco:
60 percent of Apple's sales are from products that did not exist three years ago — This chart speaks for itself. Note the bottom two bands and the proportion of the total that they make up. — Also note the seasonality with the holiday spikes. This last quarter is not a holiday quarter.
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Fortune, MacStories, TechCrunch and Tech Trader Daily
Microsoft:
Steve Ballmer E-mail to Employees on Ray Ozzie Transition — Text of an internal Microsoft e-mail sent by Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer to employees announcing the transition of Ray Ozzie. — From: Steveb — To: Microsoft - All Employees
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Ray Ozzie leaving post as Microsoft's chief software architect — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today announced that Ray Ozzie, who was up until now the company's chief software architect, will be leaving the post. … In the meantime, here's the full text from Ballmer's e-mail to all Microsoft employees:
Boy Genius Report:
Next Apple iPhone (Verizon model) hits “AP” field test stage, iPhone 5 hits “EVT” stage? — One of our solid Apple sources has just let us know some pretty interesting (and exciting) information surrounding Apple's upcoming iPhone devices. For starters, we have been told that iPhone model 3,2 …
Quentyn Kennemer / Android Phone Fans:
[Exclusive] First Android Gingerbread Details — We've heard countless reports that it's out there. We know it's still in development and we know some Googlers have it loaded onto their Nexus Ones. I'm talking about the Android Gingerbread update, of course, and we can finally bring …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fear And Loathing At The Wall Street Journal — Ahhhhhhhhhahhhaha! — The inmates are now running the asylum. — All anyone is talking about today is the series of articles that the Wall Street Journal has written about a “Privacy Breach” at Facebook.
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Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
Congressmen Send Letter to Facebook About Privacy Breach
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Verizon's tiered data plans hitting October 28, smartphones still getting unlimited option? — We'd told you back in July that Verizon would migrate away from unlimited data and toward a tiered model very quickly; turns out it wasn't quite as quickly as we'd thought, but as Ivan Seidenberg said last month, it's still going down.
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Engineer samples of Android 3.0-loaded tablet PCs to be ready in December — Google has recently notified its partners that the Android 3.0 operating system (OS) will soon be completed with the related tablet PC engineer samples set to show up in December, according to sources from notebook players.
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Tom Krazit / Relevant Results:
How Google tested Google Instant — Google's John Boyd (standing) and LaDawn Jentzch, user experience researchers at Google, explain to CNET's Tom Krazit how Google's usability lab works, as seen from the observation room. — (Credit: James Martin/CNET) — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. …
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Another Windows 7 tablet review shows it's just not the right combination — First the HP Slate and now a tablet from Tegatech called the Tega v2. Initial reviews are coming to the same conclusion as many of us in tech journalism: Windows 7 just ain't cut out for tablets.
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Softpedia News, GottaBeMobile, ThinkMobile and Liliputing
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook's ‘Download Your Information’ Feature Has A Memory Lapse — Earlier this month, Facebook announced the launch of a new feature called “Download Your Information”. The feature is fairly self-explanatory: hit a button, and Facebook will compile an archive of all the data you've ever uploaded …
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Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook Marketing Platform Buddy Media Raises $23 Million — Buddy Media CEO Mike Lazerow just announced that the company has raised a $23 million round led by Institutional Venture Partners. — It's no secret that the Facebook marketing company has been growing rapidly this year …
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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Android revenue exceeds iPhone for mobile ad network Millennial Media — In its September “Mobile Mix” report, mobile ad company Millennial Media notes that for the first time ever, Android revenue has exceeded iPhone-only revenue on its ad network. — Android's revenue overtaking was bound to happen …
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Mack Lu / Google Public Policy Blog:
More transparency and control over location — (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) — We've always focused on offering people the most relevant results. Location is one important factor we've used for many years to customize the information that you find.
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Chitika, Inc.:
Top Two iPhone Search Engines: Both Google — Top Two iPhone Search Engines Both Google — Google dominates search in the iPhone market, carrying as much as 97% of all iPhone search traffic, according to the latest data from online ad network Chitika. That level of dominance begs the question, where does it come from?
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eWeek, App Advice, IntoMobile, GigaOM, Search Engine Land and ReadWriteWeb
Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Sees a Ripe Corporate Market — Apple Inc. will unveil Wednesday a new version of its computer operating software, a development that comes as the consumer-electronics giant makes a more aggressive move to expand in a market that has historically eluded it: corporate customers.
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Evan Williams, Master of the Privacy Game — I'm not talking about the privacy of Twitter's millions of users- who they follow, what they retweet and the inner-sanctum of their DMs. I'm talking about the privacy of Evan Williams- one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the Web 2.0 era …
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John D. Sutter / CNN:
Smartphones: Our national obsession — Editor's Note: This is the first story in a five-day series about smartphones and their impact on our lives and culture. — (CNN) — Doug Wilson takes his smartphone everywhere. — When the 28-year-old wakes up, he snatches the phone from the nightstand …
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