Boot up: Apple's Steve Jobs tribute, Google chief on Siri, and more

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A woman uses her iPhone to do a Steve Jobs memorial. Photograph: Yuriko Nakao/Reuters

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Android chief says your phone should not be your assistant >> AllThingsD
Rubin unleashed (on Siri): "I don't believe that your phone should be an assistant. Your phone is a tool for communicating. You shouldn't be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone."

Remembering Steve Jobs >> Apple
A live page of tributes to the Apple co-founder.

Groupon seeks offering near $12 billion valuation >> NYTimes.com

"Groupon, the daily deal site, is considering an offering valued at close to $12 billion as it prepares for an investor road show next week, according to two people with knowledge of the situation." But if enough people come in then you can get it cheaper?

MediaFuturist: The future of media: re-boot and enjoy.

"Soon, most of the world's Internet traffic will be generated by a huge variety of mobile devices instead of computers, and 'the other 3 billion' users aka consumers in the BRIC countries are coming online at a very fast pace. Remember: 10% more broadband and / or wireless equates to 1% growth in GDP - but also a 1000% percent increase in disruption:) "Give it another 3-5 years and it's very likely that almost 5 billion people will be connected with fast and very cheap (if not free) mobile devices - and they will not 'consume' media and so-called content in the same way that we did when renting a movie still meant getting a piece of plastic that embodied it, or becoming a faithful and constant visitor to the quite beautiful but nevertheless super-walled iTunes garden." People will want access rather than files, he argues.

Currys slashes PlayBook prices to £250 >> PC Pro

"Another tablet's price has been slashed, with Research in Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook now £150 cheaper at one major retailer. Currys and PC World have announced £150 off all models of the PlayBook, with the low end 16GB version dropping from £399.99 to £249.99. "'It looks like they need to get units moving, and it will be interesting to see if this is only PC World and Currys or comes from RIM,' said Geoff Blaber, director of devices and software platforms at analyst firm CSS insight." It comes from RIM. It also comes straight off RIM's bottom line. Its financials are going to be woeful next quarter. (Our local Currys had one on display. Then it didn't. And none replaced it.)

Where Did Cached Pages Go On Google?

"Since Google launched the new instant previews just about a month ago, the question we have seen come up from searchers time and time again is 'where did the cached page go?' "Yes, Google has moved the 'cached' and 'similar' links from near the display URL in the search results and to the instant preview section." Phew.

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Boot up: Apple's projector plans, angry birds maker ' seeks $ 1.2bn valuation ' and more

A quick burst 6 links you to chew over, as picked by the technology team

Nilay Patel: "there is a fundamental problem with patents in the United States.

"It is us.

"I think all of us: the companies and people who directly interact with the patent system, the media reports about interactions, analysts and experts who inform the media, and finally the big, active and vocal readership that we try and service with our reporting. As a group, we have accepted and let be the lazy conventional wisdom that the patent system is broken beyond repair, a relic from an earlier time, which has been replaced by the rapid pace of technical innovation, especially in the software, and that it should perhaps be scrapped entirely. "

Apple has "plans to integrate mini-or pico-projectors in similar future iOS devices at the same time introducing a likely Projector Accessories for led"

"Rovio entertainment Oy, Finnish creator of" Angry birds "mobile phone game, is in negotiations to receive funding, which would value the company at about $ 1.2 billion, two people with knowledge of the discussion said".

Zuckerberg calls a Chill feature "lame". Here is the response: "Chills so what will we do? We have already removed this feature. " Lame.

How Google + hope to beat Facebook: undercutting it. "launch of its Google + social gaming platform, Google has found a way to differentiate itself from Facebook. In the case of transactions in the game will Google only charging a 5 percent Commission for game developers instead of 30 percent to Facebook charges. "

"Today we are adding games to Google +. With Google + project, we want to bring nuance and richness of genuine sharing on the Internet. But sharing is about more than just conversations. The experience we have together is just as important for our relations. We want to play games online as fun, and just as meaningful as a player in real life. "

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British developer and buy nab Apple's 10 billionth app download

Paper glider: the ten billionth app downloaded from Apple's App Store

A small UK app developer and a woman from Orpington were today's winners as Apple announced 10 billionth app from its iTunes App Store.

Gail Davis of Orpington in Kent downloaded app, paper glider from Cirencester-based iPhone app developer Neon play. As the winner of Apple's App Store countdown to 10 billion Apps, Davis will receive a $ 10,000 iTunes gift card.

"We have eagerly discussed 10 billion app countdown in our games studio, so when I got a call from Apple Cupertino says, they had some good news, I trøde that they might tell us, the featuring one of our apps on the App Store," said Oli Christie, CEO of Neon play.

"So when they said that Neon play paper gliders was the 10 billionth app, I was completely so. It is a big piece of news for the whole team playing Neon. Paper glider is currently number one app in the UK, so this is a double piece of great news for our studio.

Apple opened its App Store in July 2008, have earlier suggested for developers, that it would not be necessary, because they could develop applications to run on the World Wide web instead-but then agreed.

Have an "app store" now seen as crucial for any platform, smartphone success: Nokia, Google Android phones, BlackBerry maker RIM, Microsoft's Windows phone 7 and other rivals, have all competing stores compete to attract developers and buyers are using their phones. Androids are closest to it in the apps, even if a greater number of its apps is advertising-supported rather than paid for-although overall the majority of apps offered free of charge.

Apple said earlier this week, to more than 160 m iOS devices that can download and run apps have been sold, although the number of active units is between 120 m and 130 m, when they were introduced, the first is the iPhone in June 2007.

Said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product Marketing "with more than 10 billion apps downloaded in just two and a half years – an amazing seven billion apps alone — the App Store has surpassed our wildest dreams, last year". "The App Store has revolutionized how software is created, distributed, discovered and sold. While the other attempt to copy the App Store, it will continue to offer developers and customers the most innovative experience on the planet. "

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