Microsoft Closes $8.5 Billion Skype Deal
http://allthingsd.com/20111013/microsoft-closes-8-5-billion-skype-deal/
Its iOS5 and iPhone4s Week
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/10/week-in-apple-ios-5-released-icloud-transition-begins.ars
What is Sprint doing about it?
http://www.macworld.com/article/163003/2011/10/sprint_clarifies_iphone_4s_unlocking_policy.html
Hulu: Not valuable enough to be sold
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/13/why-hulus-owners-couldnt-find-a-buyer/
Google cutbacks
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/14/google-axes-more-services-jaiku-code-search-more/
Google Music Store:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20120072-261/google-music-wants-to-open-mp3-store-report/?
Congress doesn’t want to soften up to Sillk
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/congress-wary-of-amazons-silk-browser-demands-answers-on-privacy.ars
Senators need 4G too
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20119627-94/senators-aim-to-cut-through-4g-baloney/
Ice Cream Sandwich and Nexus Prime
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/13/samsung-confirms-ice-cream-sandwich-event-on-october-19/
Dennis Ritchie Dies at age 70
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html
6-Bit Byte:
Kudos to LibreOffice:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/10/libreoffice-gaining-momentum-heading-to-android-ios-and-the-web.ars
Siri Says some odd things:
http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/12/siri-weird-things-iphone-4s/
FBI vs. Germany a Trojan war
http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/10/impressed-by-fbi-trojan-germans-write-their-ownand-national-scandal-ensues.ars
Science News
Physical Storage limits: it just needs some salt
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/10/researchers-increase-hard-drive-density-sixfold-with-salt.ars
Your Pencil Lead could be in your next smartphone camera
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/10/atom-thick-graphene-sheets-could-make-great-camera-sensors/