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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Now Growing by Over 600,000 Users a Day - And New Engagement Stats — It was just at the beginning of December when Facebook crossed the 130 million monthly active user mark. Today, that number is up to 140 million. — While Facebook has been growing at around 300,000 …
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple finally outed as mysterious PowerVR licensee — New evidence that Apple is the mysterious licensee of Imagination Technologies Group's PowerVR mobile graphics technology broke today, when the company publicly announced that Apple has subscribed to 8 million new shares of IMG, giving the iPhone maker a 3% stake in the firm.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Apple buys stake in mobile graphics chip designer — Future versions of Imagination Technologies' graphics cores could mean iPhone games far more sophisticated than ‘Super Monkey Ball.’ — Apple has taken a small stake in a British chip designer, revealing how the company plans to power …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
What Is Steve Jobs Worth to Apple? About $20 Billion — Jeff Segal of BreakingViews tries to calculate the value of Steve Jobs to Apple. — Apple Mac Line at twice the industry average multiple (1.3 times revenue) is worth about $19 billion. — iPod business at five times EBITDA is worth about $14 billion.
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SmoothSpan Blog, Changing Way, CNET News, Coop's Corner, MacBlogz, iPhone Savior and Tech Check with Jim Goldman
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PR Newswire:
Toshiba Launches Industry's First 512GB Solid State Drive and Next-Generation SSD Family Using 43nm MLC NAND — New SSD Family Achieves High Levels of Performance, Endurance, Capacity and Reliability to Meet Market Requirements for Notebook Computers, Gaming and Home Entertainment Systems
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Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Toshiba Offers “Industry's First” 512GB SSD Flash Drive — Each year I that attend CES, I can't help but swing by the huge HDTVs and see the new “world's biggest” set. It's a status symbol of course, but this year might be the first time I focus more on the “world's biggest” Solid State Disk capacity.
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Google Earth Blog:
New York City in Photo-Realistic 3D Now in Google Earth — Google has updated the 3D buildings in Google Earth for New York City! This is a HUGE update with at least hundreds (if not thousands) of new 3D buildings with photo textures applied. Basically, Google has completed nearly every building …
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ReadWriteWeb, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, CrunchGear, DVICE, Google Blogoscoped, Mashable!, InformationWeek, PalmAddicts and SEO and Tech Daily
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing Gadgets:
Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart (updated) — Who needs Psystar? — Apple says it's had “pretty interesting ideas” for a Mac netbook, but it's everyday users who've already taken action. Due to their similar technical underpinnings, most of the popular netbooks can run OS X …
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LAPTOP Magazine, MobileDevicesToday, Gadgetell, Gear Diary, Gadget Lab, Liliputing, Gearlog, Obsessable, Gizmodo and UMPCPortal
James Lewin / Podcasting News:
Free iPhone Audio Recorder — Rockifone's Easy Recorder (App Store link) is a free iPhone app that turns your iPhone into a dictaphone-style audio recorder. — Easy Recorder doesn't have a lot of features, but it lets you record audio at three quality levels and the price is hard to beat.
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Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Dell's Mystery ‘Adamo’ Could Be Thinner Than Air — When Apple released the MacBook Air, someone viewed the sleek notebook as an opportunity to make fun of clunky, old Dell on YouTube with a parody ad. But what if Dell is about to have the last laugh in the ultra-light laptop race?
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
2009 is the year of the Moto for Verizon; more upcoming handsets revealed — When our ninjas get going they don't stop until the job is done. Yesterday your pals here at BGR gave you an exclusive preview of four tasty upcoming Motorola handsets - codenamed FLASH, RUSH 2, CALGARY and INFERNO.
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Unwired View, SlashPhone, Electronista, Fast Company, PhoneReport v2.0, CrunchGear, Gizmodo and PhoneDog.com Cell …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Sirius Shareholders Approve Reverse Stock Split To Ease Debt — Sirius (NSDQ: SIRI) Satellite Radio shareholders have approved the issuance of up to 3.5 billion more shares for a reverse stock split, as the company tries to gain flexibility to pay down its crushing debt, according to a report that aired on CNBC (see the clip here).
MediaShift:
Your Guide to Alternative Business Models for Newspapers — From time to time, I'll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action.
BBC:
BBC iPlayer now available on Mac — The BBC has created a version of the iPlayer that works with both Mac and Linux computers. — The two systems, which have been able to stream BBC programmes via the iPlayer for a year, will now be able to handle downloads.
Jesse Johnson / The Bivings Report:
The Use of the Internet by America's Largest Newspapers (2008 Edition) — Every year, The Bivings Group conducts a study of the web features of America's largest newspapers as a way to gauge how papers are dealing with the threat and opportunity presented by the rise of the Internet as a news source.
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Don Reisinger / Webware.com:
Daily Tidbits: TomTom takes aim at Google Maps — GPS vendor TomTom announced Thursday that it has launched an online mapping solution to compete with MapQuest and Google Maps. Dubbed TomTom Route Planner, the free service provides door-to-door route planning options to any address in the U.S. or Canada.
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Number of landline-free households up 10% in US — It's that time of year again, when the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) publishes its biannual study of US consumers' new penchant for cutting landlines in favor of cell phone service. The latest news echoes the trend we've seen …
Cyrus Mistry / Google Enterprise Blog:
Cross-Language Enterprise Search launches on Google Enterprise Labs — We are excited that our 10th Enterprise Labs experiment in just over a year is also the 5th experiment (see others like our Google Apps Integration) that lets Google Search Appliance users reach securely into the cloud …
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Can a Deflated Adobe Remain Independent? — Shares of Adobe performed so well over the past ten years that the company's value soared to the point of putting off many potential suitors. But a recession, troubled financial markets and slowing economic growth have helped erase more than half …
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
The iPhone is Apple's Netbook: Almost Half of All Traffic from WiFi Networks — According to the latest report from AdMob, 42% of all requests from iPhones to Admob's partners worldwide are coming in over WiFi instead of through the networks of mobile operators.
AppleInsider:
Wal-Mart stores already advertising iPhone 3G availability — Adding a bit more confirmation to what is widely presumed, a few Wal-Malt stores have jumped the gun and are starting to advertise availability of Apple's iPhone 3G ahead of an official roll-out planned for later this month.
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Three Flavors of Net Neutrality — When the Wall Street Journal claimed on Monday that Google was secretly backtracking on its net neutrality position, commentators were properly skeptical. Tim Lee (among others) argued that the Journal misunderstood what net neutrality means …
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