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Boy Genius Report:
Apple iPhone OS 4.0 features detailed! Also, Apple calling tablet the iTablet? — That's right, y'all. We're back at it, and this time we've received some exclusive iPhone OS 4.0 details from one of our trusty Apple connects. — Here are some iPhone OS 4.0 features, according to our guy:
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Will Next Week's Apple Event Finally Bring Background Apps To The iPhone? — This morning, after many months of rampant speculation over the enigmatic Tablet, Apple officially invited scores of press to a special media event to be held January 27. The debut of the Tablet seems …
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Faster Forward, TUAW, Gadget Lab, Apple Gazette, lalawag, Fast Company, Switched, eSarcasm and EverythingiCafe
Arn / MacRumors:
Will Apple's Tablet Actually Be Called the iPad? New Trademarks Filed This Week — A lot has been said about the rumored Apple tablet, and after evidence was discovered that Apple was interested in the name “iSlate”, many have adopted that as the most likely name for Apple's new device.
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Technologizer, Silicon Alley Insider, 9 to 5 Mac, Daring Fireball, I4U News, iPhone Savior, Gizmodo and EverythingiCafe, Thanks:arnoldkim
TechCrunch:
Apple's Secret Cloud Strategy And Why Lala Is Critical — This is a guest post from Michael Robertson, a 12-year veteran of the digital music business. He is the founder and former CEO of digital music pioneer MP3.com. He is currently the CEO of music locker company MP3tunes.
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Digital Trends, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, Xconomy, AppleInsider, EverythingiCafe, Electronista, The Media Wonk, The iPhone Blog, Technologizer, Edible Apple, AppScout and Gizmodo
Joe McDonald / Associated Press:
Google scraps China cell phone launch amid dispute — Buzz up! — BEIJING - Google on Tuesday postponed the launch of two mobile phones in China, adding to the potential commercial fallout of its dispute with Beijing over Internet censorship and e-mail hacking.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Microsoft to Launch Zune Phone in Two Months? — Microsoft has long claimed that its mobile strategy is to provide a software solution, not devices. As Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees of a McGraw-Hill (MHP) media conference last spring: … That being the case …
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John Biggs / MobileCrunch:Everything you need to know about Windows Mobile 7
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securitylabs.websense.com:
New Internet Explorer 0-day Vulnerability and Targeted Attacks — News of targeted attacks on Google, Adobe and other large companies were made public last week. The initial assumption was that the attacks were done with malicious PDF files but on Thursday Microsoft released information …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yelp Taking Big Investment From Elevation Partners — Yelp, fresh off of leaving Google at the altar, is closing a hefty fifth round of financing from Elevation Partners, say multiple sources. The deal isn't closed yet, says one source, but the guys at Elevation Partners have been telling friends that it's a done deal.
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Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
Microsoft to Cut Time Internet Search Addresses Are Held to Meet EU Rules — Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, said it will delete Internet Protocol addresses associated with search queries after six months to comply with demands from European Union privacy regulators.
Agence France Presse:
US IT brands may be gone in 20 years: Acer founder — TAIPEI — US computer brands may be gone in 20 years' time due to an inability to produce the low-priced PCs the market demands, the Taiwanese founder of computer maker Acer was quoted as saying Tuesday.
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Softpedia News, DailyTech, Digital Trends, The Toybox, Engadget, The Tech Report, TechSpot, MacDailyNews and Maximum PC
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
One Third of U.S. Internet Users Now Post Status Updates Once per Week — A third of all Internet users in the U.S. now post status updates on social networking services like Twitter and Facebook at least once per week. According to new data from Forrester Research, more than half of what the report calls …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
State Of The #Twittersphere: User Growth Slows Down To 3.5% Per Month — Marketing software startup HubSpot has put together its third ‘State of the Twittersphere’ report, which is based on an analysis of more than 5 million Twitter accounts and 6 million tweets, collected by the company's free Twitter Grader tool.
Telegraph:
Tablet computers will sell in their millions this year claims Deloitte — Tens of millions of tablet computers could be sold this year, kick-starting a £600 million industry, business advisory firm Deloitte has predicted. — Deloitte's annual Technology, Media and Telecommunications …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Who's Joining Steve Jobs for the Tablet Launch Next Week? — Now that Apple's tablet debut date is officially, officially confirmed (old news for All Things Digital readers), we can move on to the next round of speculation. For instance: Which media partners will Steve Jobs be working with when this thing launches?
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eWeek, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, App Advice, O'Grady's PowerPage, Electronista, Gizmodo and Fox News
Peter Parkes / Skype Blogs:
Skype's share of international calling minutes jumps 50% — New data released by TeleGeography shows that Skype's share of international calling minutes has jumped to 12%, a 50% increase on last year's figure of 8%. ‘The volume of traffic routed via Skype is growing at an astonishing pace’ …
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DSLreports, TeleGeography Research, TechCrunch, Skype Journal, The FASTForward Blog and Telecompetitor
Stuart OBrien / Mobile Entertainment:
comScore slams Gartner mobile app stats — ‘Hard to believe’ that Apple's App Store accounts for 99.4 per cent of app revenue — ComScore has questioned this morning's Gartner research report, which claimed that Apple's App Store accounted for 99.4 per cent of all mobile app downloads in 2009.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Report: 44% Of Google News Visitors Scan Headlines, Don't Click Through — Research firm Outsell has published its third annual News Users' report, which is based on a survey about the online and offline news preferences of 2,787 US news consumers. — The Outsell report unsurprisingly predicts ongoing …
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / PEG on Tech:
Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous's ass — Tumblr and Posterous are the two most prominent “tumblogging” sites, i.e. sites that make blogging more straightforward by making it easier to post media. Both were launched within six months. — But now Tumblr has been an Alexa Top 100 site for a while and is still growing strong.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Mobile Payments Startup Boku Lands $25 Million In Funding; Rebrands Service As Paymo — Mobile payments for micro-transactions on the web are steadily gaining traction. This morning, the space received more validation as several prominent venture capital firms made a significant a investment …
