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David Murphy / PC Magazine:
In Tribute to Steve Jobs, Tokyo Man Runs Giant Apple Logo — People reacted to this past Wednesday's departure of longtime Apple CEO Steve Jobs in various ways, ranging from emotional twitter updates, to tears over the all after-market trading that dropped Apple's stock more than six percent, to... running?
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David Carr / New York Times:
Steve Jobs Reigned in a Kingdom of Altered Landscapes — Earlier this year, I wrote a column about the publishing industry's resistance to the terms Apple was imposing for subscriptions on the iPad. Soon after, an e-mail was followed by a phone call and Steve Jobs was on the line to straighten me out.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
One More Thing... I sat down last night to write about Steve …
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Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat:
Apple is working on a television for 2012, sources say — Apple is almost certainly working on a digital television based on its iOS operating system, according to multiple sources in Silicon Valley. — An Apple-based television makes sense in light of Apple's continued expansion …
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Jeremy Toeman / LIVEdigitally:
Musing on Apple Building a Television — I don't think I've ever waffled on a topic as much as this one. Back in '07 I wrote two articles on Apple “owning” the living room and building TVs. Ever since, I've gone full tilt in both directions. Until about a week ago …
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Erik Schwartz, Robert Scoble, VentureBeat and Cult of Mac
Vauhini Vara / Digits:
When @Irene Met Hurricane Irene — When Hurricane Irene started moving up the eastern seaboard, Irene Tien, a 28-year-old New Yorker, provided a punch line for her coworkers. — “I'm very, very calm and pretty relaxed and laid-back—pretty much the opposite of a hurricane,” says Ms. Tien.
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Matt Elliott / CNET News:
Storm tracker: Sites for following hurricanes
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Monika Jansen / Tech Cocktail:
10 Weather and Hurricane Preparedness Apps for iPhone and Android
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Top 10 Largest File-Sharing Sites — The Internet is the largest copying machine ever invented, and if we take a look at the massive amounts of traffic file-sharing sites get, millions of people are using it to its full extent. — 4shared, the largest English language file-sharing site …
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
Google's Schmidt sees more partners for Google TV — (Reuters) - Google is “absolutely committed” to its fledgling television business and expects many more partners to join it soon, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said on Saturday. — Google TV, which allows viewers to mix Web …
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AfterDawn.com:
PROTECT IP threatens the future of DNS security — PROTECT IP is the name of a bill which is working its way through the US Senate with a version also expected to be introduced in the House of Representatives next month. It would require the Attorney General's office to compile of list …
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Khidr Suleman / V3.co.uk:
Samsung launches Bada 2.0 SDK and plans more Wave smartphones — Samsung has released the Bada 2.0 SDK and set its sights on extending the reach of the operating system by launching high-end smartphones later this year. — Bada 2.0 will pack some major updates, including support for multi-tasking …
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@eghosao, MSN India News, Industry, ITProPortal, GSMArena Blog, Rethink Wireless and The Register
Murray Buchanan / @murraybuchanan:
@EricSchmidt at #MGEITF Q&A on why Google+ won't allow pseudonyms: it's “an identity service”. http://t.co/nF8doDS #SM #TFest
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Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Case of 8,000 Menacing Posts Tests Limits of Twitter Speech — Even the Buddha of compassion might have been distressed to be on the receiving end of the diatribes that William Lawrence Cassidy is accused of posting on Twitter. — They certainly rattled Alyce Zeoli, a Buddhist leader based in Maryland.
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Computerworld, TechFlash and Boing Boing
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Hell Hath No Fury Like A SuperPoke Pets Player Scorned — This past Thursday, Google decided they had had enough of their Slide experiment. Even though it had only been a year since they spent $200 million+ on the social apps startup, they brought the hammer down, killing all but one Slide product (Prizes.org).
