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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.
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EverythingiCafe, The iPhone Blog, Obsessable, Ars Technica, TUAW, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, Edible Apple, Gizmodo and Silicon Alley Insider
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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Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews: HTC admits customers have Nexus One 3G trouble, not yet blaming the phone
Phil Wong / The Rumpus.net:
Conversations About the Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee — Facebook employees know better than most the value of privacy. — This past summer Facebook relocated from University Avenue in Palo Alto, CA — where several buildings fan out along the downtown strip — to a new central office in Stanford Research Park.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
“Anonymous” Facebook Employee Interview: Fact vs Fiction — A supposed anonymous interview with a Facebook employee is generating some buzz around the web, after some apparently controversial information was spilled. While some blogs are saying that the interview provides new “revelations” …
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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The Next Web, SlashGear, Gearlog, 901am, I4U News, CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, Electronista, The Apple Core, 9 to 5 Mac, EverythingiCafe and Mashable!
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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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Engadget, Gizmodo, Phone Arena, SoftSailor, Digital Trends, iTWire, Fast Company, eWeek, Edible Apple, Gearlog, MacRumors, Ars Technica, PC World, The Tech Report, Electronista, SlashGear, The Toybox, Boy Genius Report, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, CrunchGear, Macsimum News, Gadget Lab, IntoMobile, Geek.com, I4U News, GottaBeMobile.com, MacDailyNews, TUAW, The Next Web, GMSV, The iPhone Blog, App Advice and Pocket-lint.com
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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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.
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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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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 …
Brad Burnham / Union Square Ventures:
We need an independent invention defense to minimize the damage of aggressive patent trolls — Almost a third of our portfolio is under attack by patent trolls. Is it possible that one third of the engineering teams in our portfolio unethically misappropriated technology from someone else …
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Layoffs Start Today, Pick Up Steam As Week Goes On (AOL) — Updates: — AOL Will Fire Fewer Than 500 From Dulles — Laid-Off AOLers: DON'T SIGN ANYTHING! — AOL Fires Everybody In Spain, Sweden — AOL Layoff Victims: Recruiters Want You
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 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Dave McClure To Launch Early Stage Venture Fund — Dave McClure has been investing in early stage startups for years. He is a direct angel investor in a half dozen or more startups, including Mint, Simply Hired, Mashery, TeachStreet and others. And he has invested in dozens more through fbFund …
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Netflix Queues Hightlight Social, Political, Racial Divides — The New York Times has a great interactive map up that matches the popularity of various top rentals at Netflix against different area codes in 12 major metropolitan areas. And while some of the information seems obvious …
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PC World, Fast Company, New York Times, NBC Bay Area, Mashable!, Neatorama, The Atlantic Wire, Switched, FlowingData, The Map Room, Data Mining and Gizmodo
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.
Reuters:
Google hires ex-McCain communications head-source — * Matt Furman taking job with East Coast multinational — Google Inc (GOOG.O) has tapped the former communications chief of John McCain's presidential campaign to head up the company's corporate communications efforts, a source familiar with the matter said.
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Humberto Saabedra / PhoneNews.com:
Android 2.1 SDK Released — Following up on its announcement last week during the launch of the Nexus One, the Android Developers blog has announced the release of the Android 2.1 SDK. — As expected, the SDK adds support for animated wallpaper development, changes to signal strength visual output …
Joop Dorresteijn / The Next Web:
Baidu, China's Largest Search Engine, Hacked by “Iranian Cyber Army” — Baidu is suddenly unavailable, with sources all over China confirming this. — It seems that China's most popular search engine, with a market share of over 77% has been hacked by Iranian hackers.
Andrew Hough / Telegraph:
Foxy ‘Roxxxy’: world's first ‘sex robot’ can talk about football — The world's first “sex robot”, a life-size rubber doll called Roxxxy who can have real conversations with her owner, including about football, has been unveiled. — The dark-haired, negligee-clad, life-size robotic …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Facebook is Wrong: Privacy Is Still Important — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told a live audience this weekend that the world has changed, that it's become more public and less private, and that the controversial new default and permanent settings reflect how the site would work if he were to create it today.
