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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
France Télécom / Orange Exec Confirms Apple Tablet Is On The Way — Apple is doing a fine job keeping shush about the tablet computer it has been working on for several years and which is due to be announced later this month in California. — But just in case anyone was still …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Security Flaw Makes It Easy To Bypass Verizon Droid Screen Lock — Bad news, Droid owners. Android OS version 2.0.1, which all up-to-date Droids are running, has a bug that makes it fairly easy to bypass the phone's screen-lock security mechanism. The security feature, when working …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
This Will Be The Year Adobe's 2 Million Flash Developers Come To The iPhone — It's no secret that Apple doesn't like Flash. It won't allow Flash apps to run on the iPhone or iPod Touch despite all of Adobe's cajoling and pleading, and despite the fact that it's long been working in the labs.
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Can the Skiff save the magazine industry? — There has been quite a bit of talk about Hearst's Skiff ereader and we got a hands-on last night before the show closed. The device is about as big as a Kindle DX (11.5-inch display and a very thin bezel) but quite thin (.25-inches).
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
CES 2010: What did we learn this week? — Without a doubt, Android has emerged from CES 2010 as the software platform story of the year. In a strange way, the sudden surge of activity for the platform prior to CES, and even prior to Google's Nexus One announcement the day before CES …
Ki Mae Heussner / ABCNEWS:
High-Tech Sex? Porn Flirts With the Cutting Edge — Adult Entertainment Expo Kicks Off as Consumer Electronics Show Continues — The porn industry peddles a product as old as Adam and Eve, and it's always found the most cutting edge ways to do it. — It's no accident that each year …
Tim Arango / New York Times:
How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong — A decade ago, America Online merged with Time Warner in a deal valued at a stunning $350 billion. It was then, and is now, the largest merger in American business history. — The Internet, it was believed, was soon to vaporize mainstream media business models on the spot.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s — My 2-year-old daughter surprised me recently with two words: “Daddy's book.” She was holding my Kindle electronic reader. — Here is a child only beginning to talk, revealing that the seeds of the next generation gap have already been planted.
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
USB 3.0 SuperSpeed gone wild at CES 2010, trumps even your new SSD — Just in case you didn't notice the arrow, that's a USB 3.0 cable up there, plugged into a USB 3.0 port, running in a Fujitsu laptop that is the first to pack integrated support for USB 3.0. How fast was it?
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
No, Your First Impression Isn't Wrong: Android ISN'T As Nice As The iPhone — Tried Android and feel it doesn't measure up to the iPhone? TechCrunch would have you think it's just because you didn't try it long enough. It's not the phone, you see. It's you. And that's bull.
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Jaron Lanier / Wall Street Journal:
World Wide Mush — In his new book, “You Are Not A Gadget,” online pioneer Jaron Lanier explains how the Internet has gone off course; a chorus of voices makes everything flat—and scary — All too many of today's Internet buzzwords— including “Web 2.0,” “Open Culture,” “Free Software” …
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Study Finds That Papers Lead in Providing New Information — There are more places to go for local news but less news to find there, and the great majority of actual reporting still comes from newspapers, according to a study of the Baltimore area that is scheduled to be released on Monday.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Demand Media Is Mad as Hell and, Well, Pens a Manifesto (and Here It Is!) — Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt said he has had it with some mainstream media depiction of his social media content company, especially one report that called it a “content mill.” — So, what did he do?
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Ewan / Mobile Industry Review:
Palm Pre has apparently sold just 220 units in Ireland — You know things aren't going too well for Palm when a heavyweight industry source gives you a call to say 'you'll never believe this'. — I always have to steady myself just in case it's something shocking.
Alexia Tsotsis / All Shook Down:
Video: The Richter Scales Take on Crunchpad Debacle, Google Voice Gate, and Murdoch/Google Wars — In further proof that Techcrunch founder Mike Arrington has a sense of humor, we present The Richter Scales' “In the Valley” a ballad to the tune of “At the Copacabana” making light of the perpetual …
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Social science meets computer science at Yahoo — Shortly after Carol Bartz took over as chief executive of Yahoo Inc. early last year, she met with Prabhakar Raghavan for an overview of the Sunnyvale Web giant's research division. As the head of Yahoo Labs ran through the catalog …
