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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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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Orange: 'No, We Didn't Just Confirm Apple's Tablet' — Has mobile operator Orange spilled the beans on the supposed Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) tablet? — Bloggers got themselves tongue-tied Monday, when they leaped on comments - given by owner France Telecom's deputy CEO during a French radio interview …
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:France Telecom exec implies Apple tablet to have 3G, Web cam
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David / TmoNews:
T-Mobile Acknowledges Nexus One 3G Problem — If there was a problem yo I'll solve it...While the internet was quick to jump on a problem existing between the Nexus One and 3G, neither Google nor T-Mobile acknowledged the problem. Granted we're only five days in from the initial sale date …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft makes it legal to rent Windows, Office worldwide — For the past few years, Microsoft has been conducting experiments in various countries as to how and whether “renting” software could become a viable business model. The answer seemingly must have been yes …
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.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
AOL Begins New Round Of Layoffs; 1,100 Accepted Buyouts Offered In November — AOL (NYSE: AOL) is announcing a “limited number” layoffs today, as not enough staffers applied for the voluntary buyouts the company said it needed last November. At the time, AOL called for up to 2,500 volunteers …
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:AOL Layoffs Start Today, Pick Up Steam As Week Goes On (AOL)
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
From Print to Phone to Web. And a Sale? — Print may be a flat medium, but that has not stopped magazine publishers from trying to add dimension to their pages. For at least a decade, they have been experimenting with bar codes and icons that could take readers to Web sites …
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John Leyden / The Register:
Rogue phishing app smuggled onto Android Marketplace — Ghost in the machine — A phisher hoping to harvest bank login details managed to smuggle his app onto the Android app store. — Malicious apps posted by Droid09 were quickly identified, prompting a warning to legitimate users and a ban for the VXer.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Will Announce Zimbra Sale to VMware Tomorrow, As It Considers Bids for Small Biz Unit — Yahoo is set to announce the sale of its Zimbra open-source email unit to VMware tomorrow, said sources, for a figure that is north of $100 million, but below the $350 million it paid for the unit in late 2007.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Logs don't lie: Which tech execs have the White House's ear? — Who has the ear of the White House when it comes to tech issues? Judging from the White House visitor logs, President Obama and his team have a soft spot for FCC Chair Julius Genachowski, who visited 48 times between June and September.
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Melissa Shapiro / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate Available for Download — Editor's note: On Friday PT, Mozilla released the release candidate for 3.6. Check out the Mozilla Developer News announcement reposted below. — The Mozilla community is proud to announce the availability of a release candidate of Firefox 3.6.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunchIT:
CA Continues Buying Spree, Acquires Oblicore — CA today announced that it has acquired privately-held Oblicore, a provider of Service Level Management (SLM) software for enterprises and service providers. — Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although Israeli business news outlet Globes …
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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Universal Music Group (UMG) Partners With Free All Music to Offer Free Legal Downloads — Catalog to debut during FreeAllMusic.com's private beta launch — Universal Music Group, the world's leading music company, has partnered with ad-sponsored digital music download service FreeAllMusic.com …
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Is Mozilla preparing to ditch Firefox add-ons as we know them? — One of the features that attract geeks and power users to Firefox is add-ons. these simple browser extensions allow you to customize pretty much everything about the browser, from the page being displayed to the browser itself.
Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Dragon iPhone app tweaked, search tool released — Nuance, which makes Dragon voice-to-text software, is forging ahead in the iPhone app market. — Over the weekend, the company updated its Dragon voice dictation app for the Apple iPhone and unveiled a new Dragon Search app to let you find info via voice.
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Yahoo! Developer Network Blog:
Yahoo! Shopping API Announcement — After careful consideration, we have decided to enter into a strategic partnership with PriceGrabber to power the Product Submit functionality of Yahoo! Shopping as of March 11, 2010. As a result of these changes, Yahoo! will no longer provide …
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Tim Difford / The Next Web:
SpotifiTunes Lets You Stream Your iTunes Library Using Spotify — Tired of waiting for Apple to introduce a streaming music service? Frustrated at being unable to access your iTunes library when you're away from home? A newly launched service enables you to access most of your tunes via Spotify.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Judge: RealNetworks caused its own legal problems — RealNetworks has suffered yet another a legal blow in its battle to bring its DVD ripping software to market, and according to the judge, it's the company's own fault. — On Friday, Judge Marilyn Patel dismissed Real's antitrust claims …
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 …
Ari Allyn-Feuer / Ars Technica:
12 hour battery life in a high-end laptop? Asus says yes — An ASUS laptop quietly on display at CES packed two GPUs, a high-end NVIDIA GeForce 310, and a humble Intel GMA... and intelligently switched, second-by-second, between them. The UL80JT can also re-clock its Intel Core i7 CPU on a second-by-second basis.
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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” …
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Glitch strands Microsoft business customers — Microsoft's efforts to revamp a Web site that handles software licensing for businesses have resulted in hours of frustration for some of the company's most loyal customers. — Problems arose early last month when Microsoft aimed …
