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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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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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Arn / MacRumors:
Fingerworks.com Content Pulled Ahead of Apple Tablet Announcement — The content of Fingerworks.com has been removed this week after remaining online for nearly 5 years after the acquisition of the company by Apple. The removal seems to correspond with the impending announcement of an Apple tablet later this month.
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 …
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Tony Bradley / PC World:
Nexus One Complaints Mount, Honeymoon is Over — The Nexus One “superphone” revolution appears to be experiencing some backlash. Google's Nexus One has been available for less than a week, yet customers and developers are already amassing a growing list of issues and complaints.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Layoffs Start Today, Pick Up Steam As Week Goes On (AOL) — Updates: — Laid-Off AOLers: DON'T SIGN ANYTHING! — AOL Fires Everybody In Spain, Sweden — AOL Layoff Victims: Recruiters Want You — Earlier: AOL's long-promised Q1 layoffs began in small numbers today …
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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 …
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Computerworld, Microsoft SMB Community Blog, CNET News, Neowin.net, Maximum PC, Gizmodo and Gizmodo Australia
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft pulls Office from own online store — On injunction deadline, Microsoft yanks all but one edition; other online retailers have suite to sell — Computerworld - Microsoft Corp. has pulled almost every version of Office from its own online store to comply with a court order requiring …
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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 …
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Plans to Upgrade Old Billboards in Street View — According to a new patent that was just granted to Google, the company could soon extend the reach of its advertising program in Google Maps to Street View. This patent, which was originally filed on July 7, 2008 …
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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New iPhone App Can Be Programmed To Display Porn — It's a well known fact that Apple does not tolerate porn in the App Store ... “Apple will not distribute applications that contain inappropriate content, such as pornography,” said Apple spokesman Tom Neumayer in an official company statement last June.
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.
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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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.
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 …
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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Theo Valich / Bright Side Of News:
Windows Mobile 7 definitely delayed to 2011 — After speaking with multiple sources, we're now certain that we won't be seeing Windows Mobile 7 before World Mobile Congress in Barcelona in February 2011. — We spoke with representatives from Microsoft, Lenovo, Qualcomm, TI, Nokia, nVidia …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The best of the best and the worst of the worst of 2010 CES — I've been watching Twitter for the best of CES lists, and since I went last week I've got my own perspective on it too. First, the coolest display I found was the Intel infoscan touch monitor. That's the video that's above.
Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Fights Social Spam with “Mark You Don't Know” Response to Friend Requests — With more than 350 million monthly active users around the world, Facebook has a lot of users who want to make new friends. And now the company is testing out a feature to make friending a little more meaningful.
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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.
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.
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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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Foxy Tactics: Google News Pulls The AP's Content As Contract Comes Up For Renewal — Through much of last year, the Associated Press threw public barbs and veiled threats at Google, while in private it was renegotiating its licensing agreement with Google News.
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” …
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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