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Ross Miller / Engadget:
Motorola Shadow is Nexus Two with sliding QWERTY keyboard? — Fan-made render? Very possible, but we're intrigued by the notion. The gang at Mobile01 have laid out two more photos of what is being called the Motorola Shadow (not to be confused with the T-Mobile Shadow) …
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Ross Miller / Engadget:
Early Windows Mobile 7 build gets handled, incompatible with previous WinMo apps? — In case you weren't aware, Mobile-review's Eldar Murtazin is somewhat of a living legend around these parts. The Russian-borne phone guru manages to get his hands on an ample number of then-unreleased devices …
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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Next Android version will be called Froyo, says Erick Tseng — Proving once again that those who don't watch The Engadget Show are always going to be one step behind those who do, our latest star guest Erick Tseng has dropped a dollop of exclusive wisdom on us: Android's next big iteration will be known as Froyo.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
FoursquareX: Foursquare Addicts Need To Get This Desktop Fix Immediately — Use of the location-based service Foursquare is on the up and up. But it's use is mainly limited to mobile phones currently. That makes sense since the service is all about sending your location when on the go.
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Why is Apple blocking VoIP over 3G? — We wondered yesterday why Skype hadn't enabled Push Notifications in their latest iPhone update, and more importantly, why we couldn't use Skype, or any voice over IP service, over 3G? Peter Parkes (not Spiderman), a Skype blogger, wrote in to clarify a few things for us.
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Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
A Rebel in Cyberspace, Fighting Collectivism — In 2006, the artist and computer scientist Jaron Lanier published an incisive, groundbreaking and highly controversial essay about “digital Maoism” — about the downside of online collectivism, and the enshrinement by Web 2.0 enthusiasts of the “wisdom of the crowd.”
Katie Drummond / Danger Room:
Darpa: U.S. Geek Shortage Is National Security Risk — Sure, we're all plugged in and online 24/7. But fewer American kids are growing up to be bona fide computer geeks. And that poses a serious security risk for the country, according to the Defense Department.
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Resistive screens are dead: HTC now selling a stylus for capacitive screens — When it comes to touchscreens, you just can't beat the feeling of a nice, high-quality capacitive screen. If you've been using an iPhone, Motorola Droid, or any one of many capacitive smartphones made in the past few years …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yahoo: “The Open Web is not a rose garden.” — Apparently, Yahoo didn't like the bad press it was getting following its decision to shutter its own Shopping API and instead strike a deal with PriceGrabber to use their data. Neal Sample, Yahoo's Vice President of Open Strategy …
Jordan Robertson / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Alarming network glitch makes the Internet lose track of who is who on Facebook — AP Exclusive: Network flaw causes scary Web error — A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place …
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Apple Files Trade Complaint Against Nokia in Smartphone Technology Battle — Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. filed a new patent- infringement complaint against Nokia Oyj, seeking to block U.S. imports of mobile phones and increasing the legal battle between the two over smartphone technology.
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
China at Odds With Future in Internet Fight — BEIJING — At the elite Tsinghua University here, some students were joking Friday that they had better download all the Internet information they wanted now in case Google left the country. — But to many of the young, well-educated Chinese …
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Yahoo's Big Plan for the Social Web in 2010: Aggregate It — When Yahoo announced in early December that it would integrate with Facebook Connect, many considered it an admission of the long-reigning portal's defeat in the battle to be the hub for people's online identities.
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