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Kelvin Soh / Reuters:
Apple tablet supply chain points to Q2 launch: sources — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Suppliers for Apple Inc's new tablet computer have begun shipping touchscreen panels and will start delivering aluminum casings for it next month, sources said, implying a second-quarter product launch.
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Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Lots of iPhone/AT&T woes at CES — UPDATED with AT&T comment: — At the world's largest high-tech show and tell, many are complaining about their iPhone service. — Throughout the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, there were many faces and expressions of frustration.
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Jacob Schulman / Engadget:
iType keyboard brings a physical keyboard to the iPhone, but there's a catch — Attention iPhone owners that have been praying for a physical keyboard forever: your prayers have been answers... kind of. Ion Audio has debuted its iType iPhone keyboard at CES, and we can confirm that it does indeed work as advertised.
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Tony Smith / The Register:Ion add-on to equip iPhone with full Qwerty keyboard
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Greg Badros / Facebook Blog:
Calling All Ph.D. Students — As Facebook engineers, we are surrounded by engaging technical problems to solve. We've recently tackled efficient photo storage, distributed computation and crowdsourced translations, to name a few. While we're working on inventive solutions on a daily basis, we can't do it alone.
Nancy Gohring / InfoWorld:
Google hit with Nexus One sales model complaints — Complaints that typically go to the carrier now go to Google, which lacks sufficient customer support resources to handle the complaint volume — Google support forums are awash with people looking for help for problems with their Nexus One phones — and unable to find it.
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Clint Boulton / eWeek:Analysts Wonder if People Will Buy the Google Nexus One Without Trying It
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Internet phone gadget unveiled at CES sparks controversy — Buzz up! — LAS VEGAS - The company behind the magicJack, the cheap Internet phone gadget that's been heavily promoted on TV, has made a new version of the device that allows free calls from cell phones in the home …
Will Oremus / Mercury News:
Apple plans new prototype store in downtown Palo Alto — Apple is quietly preparing to move its downtown Palo Alto store to a new, larger space just a block away on University Avenue, The Daily News has learned. — There it will build an Apple Store that project developers referred …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nokia CEO says one-size-fits-all phones don't fit the world — Nokia chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo says that, while the tech community is very focused on smartphones, the world's biggest cell phone maker has sold more than 750 million basic phones in the emerging markets over the last five years.
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Phone Arena:
Sprint 2010 line-up: leaked — Published on: Today by PhoneArena Team — A tipster has provided us with some useful intel on Sprint's upcoming phones in 2010 and it looks like a wide range of new devices will be making its way to end-users this year. Keep in mind though this information is in no way confirmed officially.
foursquare:
Foursquare. Everywhere. — Hey all - — So this has been a pretty big week for us. Since we launched last March, our #1 most requested feature has been “please add my city!” After a few months of work, we thrilled to announce that we finally ripped apart the “foursquare only works in cities” …
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Source: Apple shopping for LED camera flash components — Apple in recent months has moved to procure significant quantities of LED camera flash components that could help the iPhone maker's next-generation mobile handsets produce superior image and video captures in low-light situations, AppleInsider has learned.
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James McQuivey / paidContent:
Let's Get Real: Why The Reporting On 3D TV Is Mostly Hype — Sit through one too many CES keynotes, press conferences, or pitches, and you just might leave Las Vegas with the mistaken idea that 3DTV is going to be in all of our living rooms next year. ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Discovery …
Brad Stone / Bits:
Behind the Warner Bros. and Netflix Accord — Earlier this week, Netflix cut a deal with Warner Bros. that will delay the availability of new Warner movies to Netflix subscribers by almost a month, but expand the number of older Warner films available for digital streaming.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:Netflix Stabs Us In The Heart So Hollywood Can Drink Our Blood
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Gregory T. Huang / Xconomy:
MIT MBA Students: Amazon, Google, and T-Mobile Are Hiring, Expedia Isn't; Microsoft “Super Interesting,” Apple Is “Sterile” — Gregory T. Huang wrote: — [Updated 2:15pm 1/8/10 with clarification (see page 2)] If you want to know which companies are looking to hire top young business talent around town …
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft seeks another hearing in I4i case — Microsoft filed another appeal Friday in its patent dispute with I4i, but also said that it will comply with the injunction against Office that is set to go into effect on Monday. — The software maker asked for either a hearing …
Google News Blog:
Fast Flip now available on Google News homepage — Today you may notice a change to the Google News home page: Near the bottom, we're now displaying stories from Google Fast Flip, the article-reading service we launched in September. Fast Flip is still in Google Labs, so we'll continue to experiment with the format.
Steve Ballmer / The Huffington Post:
CES 2010: A Transforming Trend — The Natural User Interface — What's Your Reaction: … In my keynote Wednesday night at CES, the annual consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, I talked about a number of trends transforming the role that technology plays in our lives …
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GO Rumors:
Palm To Introduce Location Sharing Among Users — Location sharing is one of the buzzwords of late and companies are realizing the opportunity in this field. One of the leading developers of smartphones, Palm could soon be launching their own location sharing feature among users.
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Court to FCC: You Don't Have Power to Enforce Net Neutrality — A federal appeals court gave notice Friday it likely would reject the Federal Communications Commission's authority to sanction Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer applications. — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District …
Christopher Breen / Macworld:
iPod pavilion at CES reflects the iPhone/iPod market — iLounge, the Web site devoted to the iPod and iPhone has taken its show on the road—specifically the iLounge Pavilion at the International Consumer Electronics Show. Hosting more than 100 vendors, stretching three aisles …
Ritsuko Ando / Reuters:
Palm shares jump on CES, 2010 seen turnaround year — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Palm Inc shares jumped 10 percent on Friday after the company announced it will sell smartphones through top U.S. mobile carrier, Verizon Wireless, a deal that analysts said could mark the beginning of a turnaround for the handset maker.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google's Near Me Now is Live & Good Enough to Replace Yelp — One month ago Google unveiled five big new technologies in one day - and then launched real-time search that afternoon. One of those five was something called Near Me Now, and it just went live moments ago.
Alan Patrick / broadstuff:
The Limits to Growth of Location Based Services — LOcation Based Services - Game Theory defines attractiveness of service — Over the holidays, I had the opportunity to talk to “real” people - that is, the vast number of people who aren't social media junkies. I was curious about their takes on Location Based Services.
