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MarketingWeek:
Google and Dell tipped to reveal iPhone rival plans — Speculation is mounting that Google is plotting the launch of a mobile phone in partnership with computer giant Dell. — Senior industry sources claim the two companies will reveal their plans at next month's 3GSM telecoms conference in Barcelona …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Garmin announces the nuvifone — That's right folks — Garmin has just announced its new iPhone-like smartphone, the nüvifone. The device features full browsing, PIM, phone and of course, GPS functions. It's an HSDPA, quad-band phone, also equipped with WiFi, Bluetooth …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft doesn't recommend creating Vista ‘Lite’ — Frustrated with Vista's sluggishness, some people have been turning to a utility called vLite, that strips out components of the operating system deemed unessential. — Although the move does offer frustrated Vista users an option …
Frederic / The Last Podcast:
Another Day, Another Twitter Outage — Just after the guys at Twitter posted a glowing review of their host on the Twitter blog, the Republican Debate took its toll on everybody's favorite [waste of time ]communication tool and took it offline once again - for the second time today.
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Julie Ruvolo / VentureBeat:
Fresh from New York: Trends in online advertising — Silicon Alley technologists and Madison Avenue advertising executives have been meeting yesterday and today at the AlwaysOn OnMedia NYC conference. Here are some of the trends people were talking about:
Yahoo! Developer Network blog:
Yahoo! OpenID Provider service now available as a public beta — Today, we are launching the public beta of the much-anticipated Yahoo! OpenID Provider service. This means that users with a Yahoo! account - all 248 million of them - will be able to sign in to any website that supports OpenID 2.0 …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Amazon Earnings Call Details: Web Services Use Up More Bandwidth Than Amazon.com; The Kindle is a Hit — Amazon earnings just came out. The company had a strong fourth quarter, with revenues up 42 percent to $5.7 billion, net income doubling to $207 million, and free cash flow doubling as well to $1.4 billion.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Universal Search: 2008 Edition — It's just over a half-year since Google launched Universal Search, its method of blending results from its own various topically-focused or “vertical” search engines. Since that time, the system has evolved. In particular, Google Universal Search …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Yahoo's Vision-Goes-Here Strategy — Listening to the droning, jargon-filled Yahoo conference call on Tuesday night, you could only think that Jerry Yang and Sue Decker were aiming their conversation only at analysts who needed to fill out their 2008 spreadsheets. — That strategy didn't work.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Hands-on with the Garmin nuvifone — Well, ask and ye shall receive. We wrangled some of the Garmin folks to get a better view of the nuvifone, and wouldn't you know it... we did! Check the gallery below for some close-up action with a non-working model, and comparison shots of the device with the iPhone.
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Lynn Fox / Apple:
MacBook Air Now Shipping — Apple TV Update Coming Soon — Apple® today announced that MacBook Air™, the world's thinnest notebook, is now shipping. MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76-inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks.
David A. Utter / WebProNews:
FCC Auction Bidding Tops $11.5 Billion — Minimum bid for 700MHz slice not met — The big prize, a slice of spectrum covering the US, has stalled at a bid of $4.29 billion, under the Federal Communication Commission's reserve price of $4.6 billion. — Who blinks first in a standoff over the prized slice of spectrum?
Camilla Hall / Bloomberg:
Mediterranean Cables Cut, Disrupting Communications — Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — Internet and telephone communications across the Middle East and India were disrupted after two submarine cable systems in the Mediterranean Sea were cut. — Six ships were diverted from Alexandria port …
comScore:
comScore Releases 2007 U.S. Internet Year in Review — Google and Facebook among Biggest Winners in 2007 — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a report highlighting the major trends in U.S. Internet activity in 2007 …
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Crazy Apple Rumors Site on hold indefinitely — Much like the career of Jennifer fricking Connelly, perhaps the best source of Apple-inspired humor on the Internet is going on hiatus. — John Moltz, the editor of Crazy Apple Rumors Site, announced Tuesday that come Friday …
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Instapaper, A Beautifully Simple Bookmarking Tool — Instapaper, a new site by Tumblr employee Marco Arment, simply put will easily be one of the websites I visit most this year. It may very well be the easiest and most beautifully minimal bookmarking site ever created.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Copy a CD, owe $1.5 million under “gluttonous” PRO-IP Act — Not content with the current (and already massive) statutory damages allowed under copyright law, the RIAA is pushing to expand the provision. The issue is compilations, which now are treated as a single work.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Persai, a personalized online news aggregator — Persai is a site that automatically discovers articles you might like from around the web. Imagine it being the opposite of social news sites like Digg or Reddit, where users submit and vote on their favorite stories.
