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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Microsoft jettisons Flash with ‘plug-in free’ Windows 8 Metro IE10 — The tablet-optimized Metro version of Internet Explorer 10 in Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 will be a “plug-in free experience,” as the company follows Apple's lead in abandoning Adobe Flash in favor of HTML5 on tablets.
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Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Metro style browsing and plug-in free HTML5 … For the web to move forward and for consumers to get the most out of touch-first browsing, the Metro style browser in Windows 8 is as HTML5-only as possible, and plug-in free. The experience that plug-ins provide today is not a good match …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Metro — I don't think there's any hyperbole in Microsoft's claim …
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This is my next, Macworld, V3.co.uk and MacStories
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Ballmer: 500,000 Downloads of Windows 8 Since Last Night
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Digital Trends, The Register, SlashGear, istartedsomething, eWeek, The Microsoft Blog, BetaNews, CNET News and This is my next
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt Is...Shaker — Three days and 31 startup pitches later, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2011 has been determined. Out of the 29 startups and two audience choice winners, we whittled the list down to seven finalists, which included Bitcasa …
Michael Arrington / @arrington:
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Barry Diller Skewers AOL For Firing Michael Arrington From TechCrunch — Earlier today at The Paley Center for Media's International Council, IAC Chairman and Senior Executive Barry Diller took the stage for a keynote conversation with Jason Hirschhorn, CEO of reDEF Group.
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Patricia Hurtado / Bloomberg:
Apple IPad Data Was Given to Fleishman, Samsung Witness Says — Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — An ex-Samsung Electronics Co. manager, testifying at the insider-trader trial of Primary Global Research LLC executive James Fleishman, told jurors he disclosed confidential shipping data for Apple Inc. iPad components.
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GigaOM, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Electronista, SlashGear, The Next Web, PhoneArena and AppleInsider
New York Times:
Groupon Back on Track for Its I.P.O. — Groupon is planning to put its initial public offering back on track even as markets remain rocky. — After postponing presentations to potential investors early this month, the online coupon giant is now aiming to go public in late October or early November …
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David Flynn / Australian Business Traveller:
Boeing chooses Android for 787 Dreamliner's entertainment system — SMALLER LARGER - WATCH THIS NEWS ITEM ADD TO FAVOURITES — While Apple continues to score wins in the use of its iPad for inflight entertainment, Boeing has chosen its nemesis - Google's Android operating system …
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SlashGear and 9to5Google
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Netflix Cuts Its Guidance by One Million Subscribers — Netflix, which instituted a price hike earlier this fall, says the higher costs are turning off more customers than it expected. The video rental company has cut its third-quarter U.S. subscriber projections from 25 million subscribers to 24 million, a four percent cut.
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BetaNews, GigaOM, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, The Tech Trade, Between the Lines Blog, Engadget, CNET News, CNET News, Business Insider and Mashable!
Bloomberg:
Google Buys 1K IBM Patents for Android Defense — Google Inc. (GOOG) bought 1,023 patents from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) as the Internet search and advertising company bolsters its strategy of defending against smartphone lawsuits. — Transfers recorded by the U.S. Patent …
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Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
Sony Designs Tablet That's Not an iPad Wannabe — One reason Apple's iPad continues to dominate the tablet market after 17 months may be that all the main competitors look like imitations but don't deliver as good an experience. They are typically flat slabs, like the iPad …
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple is Building iMessage into OS X Lion's iChat — Back in June, Apple unveiled iMessage, one of the major new features of the upcoming iOS 5 update. iMessage is a unified messaging service for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch that allows users to send text and multimedia messages over Wi-Fi …
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iPhone, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, The Register, The Apple Core Blog, Examiner, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, Redmond Pie, ReadWriteWeb and BGR
April Dembosky / Financial Times:
Facebook puts off IPO until late 2012 — Facebook is preparing to launch its blockbuster initial public offering in the US towards the end of next year, a later public debut by the social networking site than had been widely anticipated, say people familiar with the company.
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Pavel Vodenski / Google Mobile Blog:
Your smartphone camera is now smarter with Goggles 1.6 — Today, we launched a new version of Google Goggles that enhances the camera on your Android-powered phone. With this new opt-in feature in Goggles, you can simply photograph an image using your phone's camera, and Goggles will work in the background to analyze your image.
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9to5Google, Engadget, ITProPortal, SocialTimes.com, Google Watch, Softpedia News, SlashGear, IntoMobile and Lockergnome Posts
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Brings Automatic, Background Visual Search to Android Phones
Agam Shah / PC World:
Intel's Thunderbolt With Fiber Optics Years Away — Intel's Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect technology, which shuffles data between PCs and devices like displays and external storage, could be years away from getting optical technology, an Intel executive said this week.
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Agam Shah / PC World:
Acer, Asus to Bring Intel's Thunderbolt Speed Technology to Windows PCs
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Ars Technica, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, insideHPC, VentureBeat and AppleInsider
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Free Music For Everyone! Rdio Joins MOG, Spotify in the Big Digital Music Giveaway — Free, legal music on the web looked like a defunct business model just a few months ago. Now it seems to be going through a revival phase. — Over the summer, Spotify finally opened for business …
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PC World, Digital Trends, GigaOM, PR Newswire, SFGate, ITworld.com, paidContent:UK, Music Ally, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Mashable!, VentureBeat, Technologizer, ReadWriteWeb and Electronista
Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:
What Startup Winter? Union Square Ventures Is Raising a $150 to $200 Million Fund — Equity moves everything around me. — Early last month, based on the volatility and vagaries of the public market, Union Square Ventures' partner Albert Wenger urged startups to go out and get that VC paper “ASAP” while they still could.
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VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider
Todd Haselton / BGR:
iOS games ‘absolutely not under consideration’ says Nintendo boss — Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata recently reiterated that Nintendo will not develop games for Apple's iPad, iPod and iPhone, despite recent pressure from investors to jump on the iOS bandwagon.
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Business Insider, Cult of Mac, TUAW, IntoMobile, The Loop and Mobile Entertainment
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple wins right to “thinnest smartphone” and expands Samsung patent fight to UK — Apple won a minor marketing battle against Samsung in the UK as it expanded its larger, global patent war with Samsung into the UK courts as well. — Apple's marketing of its 9.3mm iPhone 4 as the …
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Between the Lines Blog, Macworld, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Geek.com, GottaBeMobile, Pocket-lint, How To Arena, TUAW, PC World, MacStories, Redmond Pie, Neowin.net, Guardian, iDownloadBlog.com and App Advice
Marco.org:
Instapaper's (anti-)social network — Ben Brooks noticed and blogged about how Instapaper's social features, introduced earlier this year, are minimal: … That was exactly the idea, and I'm very happy to see it perceived that way. — Social features are tricky.
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The Brooks Review
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Amazon Kindle tablet sales projections cut in half, still likely to be No. 1 Android tablet — Even with sales estimates that creep closer to reality, Amazon's Kindle tablet is poised to become the best-selling Android tablet to date when following its launch later this fall.
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Softpedia News, NBC Bay Area and Good E-Reader
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
InMobi raises massive $200M to overtake Google in mobile ads (video) — InMobi, the four-year-old company that is second place globally in mobile advertising, has raised an astonishingly large $200 million round of funding from Softbank Corp. — The company's goal is overtake Google as the world leader in the category.
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