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Apple: iPhone 4S battery issues due to iOS 5 bugs, update coming | | ?

B&N launching Nook Tablet for $249 on November 16th, and we've got the dirty details -- Engadget | |

NYTimes: Google Changes Search Algorithm, Trying to Make Results More Timely #326

NYTimes: DealBook: Groupon Shares Spike 40%, to Open at $28 #326

NYTimes: Apple Doles Out Stock to Keep Top Executives #mbwideas #326

NYTimes: Siri Failure Leaves iPhones Mute #mbwideas #326

NYTimes: TPG Capital Enters the Fray for Yahoo #326

The real thermonuclear war will take place on the iOS platform itself, where I believe Apple will seek to replace the widespread use of Google services and apps with Apple ones.

Yahoo's Activist Shareholder Loeb Now Targeting Jerry Yang - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD | |

Official Google Blog: Google+ Pages: connect with all the things you care about | |

Facebook CEO Calls Amazon and Apple Friends; Not So Sure About Google - Liz Gannes - Social - AllThingsD | |

Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker | |

Google+ fires back a Zuckerberg: "we're happy to be underestimated" | |

Yahoo! has 1,100 US patents granted and 2,661 applications pending in the US; typically, companies have 3 – 4x the number of international patents compared to their US patents

Hidden Panorama Mode Uncovered in the iOS Camera | |

Steve’s Last Laugh: Adobe Killing Off Flash For Mobile Devices | TechCrunch | |

RT @LaughingSquid: Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5 via @ZDNet

FCC's Connect to Compete initiative offers low-income homes $9.95 broadband | The Verge | |

Adobe Drops Flash for Phones, in Reversal - | |

Adobe Drops Flash for Phones, in Reversal - | |

Excellent discussion of the pros and cons of app sandboxing

To make the long story short, we thought we had invented [sliced] bread and we just made them. [We made a commitment to] just build a lot because we expected everybody to line up for Christmas and buy these boxes [at] $300 [...] that was a big mistake.

Facebook is near an agreement that will settle a case with the Federal Trade Commission by making all of its privacy settings opt-in instead of opt-out, reports Julia Angwin and Shayndi Raice at the WSJ. That means that you will not share anything with anyone by default, unless you specifically choose to do so. Updated.

PhoneDog claims that its former journalist, Noah Kravitz, failed to surrender the password to a Twitter account that was originally tied to the handle @phonedog_noah. Instead, says PhoneDog, he simply changed the name of the account to @noahkravitz and kept sending messages to the thousands of followers he had acquired while employed at the site.

Can A Twitter Account Be A Company Trade Secret? | paidContent | PhoneDog claims that its former journalist, Noah Kr...

Logitech confesses to 'gigantic' mistake with Google TV | Digital Media - CNET News | |

Hey Amazon, How About a Kindle Fire Phone? | |

Google Music 'These Go to Eleven' event announced for November 16th | The Verge | |

Google Acquires Katango 'Magicians' To Improve Google+ Circles | | ?