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Black Friday 2011: Best Walmart, Amazon Deals for 'Black November'

Black Friday may not be until Nov. 25, but Amazon, Walmart and computer store Newegg promise a Black November with deals and pre-order discounts throughout the month. View our list of the best deals so far, and remember that most items (like those that change every 6-8 hours on Amazon.com) will sell out fast!
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Apple's Tim Cook No Steve Jobs

Apple CEO Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs. That fact is already evident in Cook's first couple of months on the job filling in for Jobs, who retired in August and died in October at the age of 56 after a long tenure as Apple's CEO.
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Is Apple Killing the Mac Pro?

Sources from within Apple say that sales executives are giving a long hard look at the Mac Pro, and may even discontinue it entirely.
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Mona Simpson Shares Steve Jobs' Final Words: 'Oh Wow, Oh Wow, Oh Wow'

Late Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs' biological sister Mona Simpson has shared the final words of her genius brother in the eulogy she delivered at his Oct. 16 memorial service at Stanford University. The surprising last words that Jobs uttered from his deathbed were, Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow.
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Apple Outsold by Samsung

Samsung shipped more smartphones than Apple did in the third quarter of 2011, but Samsung may not have sold them all yet.
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Biography sees Jobs as crossroad of humanities, science

A genius for mixing the humanities and sciences coupled with a Svengali-like ability to motivate people powered Steve Jobs's mission to change the world, biographer Walter Isaacson concludes in his exhaustive new study of the Apple co-founder.
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Apple's Touchscreen Slide-to-Unlock Gesture Patent May Kill Rivals

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple the popular slide-to-unlock feature, boasted by many smartphones nowadays, on a touchscreen device. Apple had already been granted a similar patent before. Another major patent win would obviously strengthen Apple's position. The patent (U.S. Patent No. 8,406,721) is entitled Unlocking a Device by Performing Gestures on an Unlock Image, and has an open language as follows:
iPhone 4S App Siri Has Technical Flaws

Motorola Droid Razr Versus Samsung Galaxy Nexus Versus iPhone 4S: What Will You Buy?

In October, three musketeers in the smartphone market rushed before the eyes of smartphone watchers - Motorola Droid Razr, Samsung Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4S. Apple's iPhone 4S, unveiled on Oct. 4, just a day before the company's co-founder Steve Jobs died, smashed its previous sales records by selling 400 million devices over the launch weekend. Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the latest Samsung and Google flagship smartphone, which was unveiled in Hong Kong on Oct. 19, is likely to be launched in...

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