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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
The Times to Charge for Frequent Access to Its Web Site — The New York Times announced Wednesday that it intended to charge frequent readers for access to its Web site, a step being debated across the industry that nearly every major newspaper has so far feared to take.
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The New York Times Announces Plans for a Metered Model for NYTimes.com in 2011 — The New York Times announced today that it will be introducing a paid model for NYTimes.com at the beginning of 2011. — The new approach, referred to as the metered model, will offer users free access …
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Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Exclusive: Apple Tablet Headed to Verizon — SAN DIEGO (TheStreet) — Qualcomm (QCOM Quote) comes up big again with another win with Apple (AAPL Quote). — The hotly anticipated Apple Tablet — or the Apple Newton II — will feature a wireless chip made by Qualcomm.
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Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Some New Perspective on Microsoft/Apple — Got an intriguing email from a knowledgeable source very familiar with search dynamics involving Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo [YHOO Loading... () ] for that matter. — First point: When Microsoft released its Bing app for iPhone …
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Bill Gates launches new site, offering peek inside his mind — Turns out Bill Gates' attention-getting debut on Twitter was just the prelude. The Microsoft chairman and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair today is launching a new site, dubbed The Gates Notes, where he'll be writing …
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AT&T prepping network to handle “unannounced” devices? — We've been told by one of our connects that AT&T has apparently been meeting individually with regional executives to inform them of some changes to the AT&T network. What have we heard? Well, for starters, they seem to be focused …
David Carnoy / CNET News:
Verizon ends service of alleged illegal downloaders — Months after Verizon Communications began issuing warnings to accused file sharers, the company has acknowledged that multiple offenses could result in a service interruption. — “We've cut some people off,” Verizon Online spokeswoman Bobbi Henson told CNET.
Avner Ronen / Boxee Blog:
Coming soon: Boxee Payments — Users want to see more content on Boxee. Content owners want to be paid for what they produce (whether that's TV Shows, movies, music, or applications). We don't believe these are conflicting interests. — This is why we plan to release a Payment Platform …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Verizon To Get iPhone 4G In June, Canaccord Says — It's become a tradition at Apple (AAPL) product launch events for CEO Steve Jobs to save some extra juicy bit for very end, which he typically provides after reviewing all of the other day's news, using the phase, “one more thing.”
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Arjun Banker / Facebook Developers:
Communicating Directly with Your Users via Email — Facebook Platform has evolved since its launch in 2007, providing developers with a number of different communication channels to interact with their users. In October 2009 we announced a roadmap for developers that outlined a number …
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Dave Cole / The White House Blog:
WhiteHouse.gov: Anywhere — Today, we're excited to announce the new White House App available for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. The White House App delivers dynamic content from WhiteHouse.gov to the palm of your hand. — One feature that stands out is live video streaming.
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Katrina Kurnit / Inside AdWords:
New targeting options for mobile ads — If you've chosen to show ads on iPhones and other mobile devices with full internet browsers, you can now target specific mobile devices or carriers. — This feature makes it easier for you to reach the right users if you have a carrier- or device-specific message.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now — In December, Facebook made a series of bold and controversial changes regarding the nature of its users' privacy on the social networking site. The company once known for protecting privacy to the point of exclusivity …
John Herrman / Gizmodo:
Ultimate Genesis: Sega's Official Console Emulator for iPhone — Apple's finicky about emulators in the App Store, but most of the candidates have been unofficial, and dubiously legal. Sega's Ultimate Genesis, though, is official, and looks like a full virtual console for your iPhone.
Gmail Blog:
Serving better ads in Gmail — Ever since we launched Gmail, we've tried to show relevant and unobtrusive ads. We're always trying to improve our algorithms to show better, more useful ads. — When you open a message in Gmail, you often see ads related to that email.
YouTube Blog:
Introducing YouTube HTML5 Supported Videos — A while ago, YouTube launched a simple demo of an HTML5-based video player. Recently, we published a blog post on our pre-spring cleaning effort and your number one request was that YouTube do more with HTML5.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Nexus One Will Make Money for Google — Google, it seems, is having some teething problems with its foray into the topsy-turvy world of mobile handsets. From unhappy partners to unhappy customers, the search giant has been having a rough time with its Nexus One, currently the best Android phone on the market.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
eBay earnings beat for Q4, 2009; credits PayPal's “exceptional performance” — eBay beat Wall Street's expectations, reporting a net income of $585 million, or 44 cents per share, for the fourth quarter, a 9 percent jump over the same quarter a year ago. Revenue for the quarter was $2.4 billion …
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Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
If Your Kids Are Awake, They're Probably Online — The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device, according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Sarah Perez / Channel 10:
Microsoft Research Works on “Mental Tagging” of Images — One of the most tedious things to do when uploading a collection of photos to the web is tag them. Although doing so ensures they can be easily found later either by yourself or the online community at large, the process is often time-consuming and cumbersome.
Dave Rosenberg / CNET News:
Cloud and open source meet to test Web apps — The world has largely moved from a client/server application development model to a Web-based app development model. Web app developers have to keep up with frequent new browser releases from Microsoft (IE), Apple (Safari), Mozilla (Firefox) …
Brad Stone / Bits:
CrowdFlower Raises $5 Million to Boost Crowdsourcing — Jobs today are notoriously hard to come by. But that's only if you want to build cars. Or write for newspapers. Or sell mortgages. — But what if you don't mind sitting at your computer for a few hours or even just a few minutes …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
iSites Will Let Publishers Simultaneously Build Apps For iPhone And Android — It's becoming increasingly common for the web's many publishers to offer their own native smartphone applications in addition to mobile-optimized web versions. But few web publishers have the resources …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
New Clues Draw Stronger Chinese Ties to ‘Aurora’ Attacks — A leading security researcher today published perhaps the best evidence yet showing a link between Chinese hackers and the sophisticated cyber intrusions at Google, Adobe and a slew of other top U.S. corporations late last year.
Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
YouTube to charge $5 for some videos — YouTube this week begins a test to see if folks will pay to watch movies on its site. — The Web's most popular video sharing site Friday will offer five films from the 2009 and 2010 Sundance Film Festival for a fee around $5 .
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Alexander Haislip / PE Hub Blog:
Vancouver Venture Firm Is In The Game with EA — Game maker Electronic Arts is poised to invest in a newly-formed, $200 million Canadian venture capital fund made up of former EA employees, peHUB has learned. The firm, called VanEdge Capital, expects to hold its first close on $100 million …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Guess What? E-reader Owners Buy More Books — Does owning a Kindle or a Nook make you more likely to buy and read books? According to a new survey released today, it sure does. The study by L.E.K. Consulting shows that while e-reader owners are still a relatively small proportion of the population …
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Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:
Venture Capitalists' Increased Investments Will Have Some Industries Feeling Left Out — Many venture capitalists say they plan to invest more cash into Silicon Valley companies this year than in 2009. But certain categories of technology start-ups won't be the recipients.
