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Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Steve: Who's Going to Protect Us From Cheap and Mediocre Now? — Not so fast. — Until the last sinew, the last synapse gives up, Steve will continue to influence the company he co-founded and later recreated. Seeing he could no longer “meet [his] duties and expectations as Apple's CEO” …
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Peter Pachal / PC Magazine:
How Will Tim Cook Lead Apple? — Apple's new leader has been running the company is many ways for a long time. Just who is Tim Cook, and what does he bring to the role of CEO? — One of the first things Tim Cook did as Apple's new CEO was to reassure the company's employees that nothing …
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InformationWeek and PhoneArena
Chris O'Brien / Mercury News:
Who will be Silicon Valley's next Steve Jobs? — Who will be the next Steve Jobs? — It's a loaded question, to be sure, that inevitably elicits the same answer: No one. Part cultural icon, part tech visionary, and part innovative business leader, Steve Jobs would seem impossible to duplicate.
David Murphy / PC Magazine:
In Tribute to Steve Jobs, Tokyo Man Runs Giant Apple Logo
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CNET News, iDownloadBlog.com, GeekTech, Joseph Tame, @tamegoeswild and Examiner
David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: Steve Jobs Saw What Media Titans Missed - Media Equation
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New York Times
Al Lewis / Wall Street Journal:
H-P's One-Year Plan — Let's say you were given a year to kill Hewlett-Packard. Here's how you do it: — Fire well-performing CEO Mark Hurd over expense-report irregularities and a juicy sexual-harassment claim that you admit has no merit. Fire four board members, as publicly as possible.
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CNET News and Los Angeles Times
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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CNET News, The Business Insider, TiPb, Electronista, PC World, PC Magazine, @ryan, @loic, MacRumors, Examiner, PC Magazine, Computerworld and Neowin.net
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Jeremy Toeman / LIVEdigitally:
Musing on Apple Building a Television
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Robert Scoble, Erik Schwartz and VentureBeat
Fred Wilson / A VC:
Google+ Is An Identity Service — Andy Carvin blogged some interesting comments by Eric Schmidt at the Edinburgh TV Festival yesterday: … I blogged about identity the other day and outlined my view that every social service is hosting a part of your identity online.
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Google Watch, Mashable!, The Business Insider, Opinionated!, Trends in the Living Networks, Howard Lindzon and Boing Boing
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Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Galaxy S II LTE and Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE announced, set to debut at IFA — Well, if you thought Samsung was done tweaking the Galaxy S II, you were very mistaken. The Korean company is getting ready to unveil the Galaxy S II LTE at IFA in Berlin this week, alongside an LTE version …
Ellis Hamburger / Tools:
The Man Behind Sparrow Tells Us How He Made $350K, And Why Apple's Walled Garden Is Worth It — We recently spoke with Dominique Leca, co-founder of Sparrow—a mail app for Mac that everyone's buzzing about. — Sparrow not only looks like a million bucks, but integrates seamlessly with Gmail …
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iDownloadBlog.com and App Advice
Mark Hearn / Sprintfeed:
Sprint Advising Employees to Remain Mum on iPhone — If you ask the Wall Street Journal, the iPhone is coming to Sprint in October. This sounds great, but if you were to ask a Sprint employee, you just might get a different answer, or no answer at all. We've received an internal memo …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, PhoneDog.com, MacNN, Redmond Pie and TiPb
Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
Codecademy is web development education for the rest of us — Web development and basic coding skills shouldn't be the mysterious domain of a handful of overpaid engineers, and if the Codecademy founders have anything to say about it, the boundaries of that domain will soon be rapidly expanding.
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Twitter Becomes a Playground During Hurricane Irene — Hurricane Irene, which was traveling at a leisurely 13 miles per hour, took its sweet time arriving in New York. As boredom quickly set in for many, Twitter became a massive chatroom of New Yorkers with nothing to do but tweet, retweet and tweet some more, from their homes.
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Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:
Missouri teachers win fight to be Facebook friends with students — Summary: A Missouri teachers group has been granted a 180-day injunction in its fight against the state's new law that prohibits teachers from being Facebook friends with students. — The Missouri State Teachers Association …
