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New York Times:
With Apple Tablet, Print Media Hope for a Payday — Correction Appended — SAN FRANCISCO — With the widely anticipated introduction of a tablet computer at an event here on Wednesday morning, Apple may be giving the media industry a kind of time machine — a chance to undo mistakes of the past.
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Charles Golvin / paidContent:
Three Things Apple Needs To Do To Make Its Tablet A Breakthrough Device — The din of rumor and the clamor of speculation inspired by Apple's expected announcement is about to peak. We're all convinced this tomorrow's “one other thing” will be some kind of magical tablet device.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Apple Tablet May Come With A Barnes & Noble Bookstore — Of all the rumors swirling around the Apple Tablet expected to be announced on Wednesday, the one most everyone can agree on is that it will be used as a full color electronic reader which will put Amazon's Kindle to shame.
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Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Google releases new Google Voice for iPhone — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc unveiled a new version of its Internet phone service on Tuesday in its latest effort to bypass Apple Inc's gatekeepers and make Google Voice a popular service on the iPhone.
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Hands-on with Google Voice for the iPhone — Google Voice just got a little better on the iPhone, thanks a new Web site for iPhone users, google.com/voice/m. As iPhone users will painfully recall, Apple last year rejected Google's iPhone-native Google Voice app, leaving those who wanted …
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Walmart greeters will soon welcome you to a Nexus One with Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T 3G? — Today's Nexus One may be the hottest keyboard-free Android smartphone on the market today, but it doesn't exactly have the hottest network support. That looks like it'll be changing soon thanks …
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Updated Zune software drivers hints at Zune “Phone” — Coinciding with the scheduled Zune.net maintenance today, a new Zune software update was also released (version 4.2.202.0 for those playing along at home). What might appear as just a regular software update is actually hiding a very big secret.
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Andy Brett / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Hacked — As some people noticed, at approximately 10:30 pm PST on Monday evening the main site in the TechCrunch Network - techcrunch.com - was hacked and redirected. The site was back up briefly at 11:30 pm but shortly went down again. As of 2:00 am, the site is back up and appears to be stable.
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Graham Cluley / Graham Cluley's blog:TechCrunch hit by hack attack, says 'we'll be back soon'
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Report: Attackers sent Google workers IMs from ‘friends’ — People behind the China-based online attacks of Google and other companies looked up key employees on social networks and contacted them pretending to be their friends to get the workers to click on links leading to malware, according to a published report on Monday.
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Mark Clayton / Christian Science Monitor:US oil industry hit by cyberattacks: Was China involved?
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Ben Edelman:
Google Toolbar Tracks Browsing Even After Users Choose “Disable” — Disclosure: I serve as co-counsel in unrelated litigation against Google, Vulcan Golf et al. v. Google et al. I also serve as a consultant to various companies that compete with Google. But I write on my own …
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Facebook Investors: No 2010 IPO for Facebook — The two major investors in Facebook, speaking today at DLD in Munich, put a line in the sand: read their lips, no IPO for the company in 2010. Both Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, and Yuri Milner of DST said on stage that they are in no hurry …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
FCC Probes Google, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, And Verizon On Early Termination Fees — The FCC has just sent letters inquiring about Early Termination Fees to each of the major wireless carriers in the United States — AT&T, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless — and one outlier: Google.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Google: Nexus One 3G issues result of poor coverage, bugs; patch possibly within a week — Looks like Google's investigation into the crappy 3G claims on the Nexus One are winding down, and it's a one-two combo of good news and bad news. First, the bad: preliminary findings suggest …
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Justin.tv makes it easier to start streaming — It's not spring yet, but Justin.tv is cleaning house. On Tuesday the video host is rolling out a new version of its broadcasting tool that makes it easier to get a live video stream going. — According to the company …
John Crawley / Reuters:
U.S. bans “texting” by truckers, bus drivers — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Tuesday banned hand-held “texting” by drivers of large commercial trucks and buses to avoid the danger of distracted driving. — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement the prohibition takes effect immediately.
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Ina Steiner / AuctionBytes.com:
eBay Announces Fee Changes, Will Eliminate Store Format — As anticipated, eBay will eliminate its Store Inventory format and has introduced a new pricing structure effective March 30, 2010. There will be one Fixed Price format on eBay - listings in the current Stores Inventory Format …
The LinkedIn Blog:
A better way to browse your LinkedIn connections — As a company that's based on the mantra “Relationships Matter”; we want to make it easier than ever for you to find, organize and stay in touch with your business connections. Over the next few weeks, you will start seeing improvements …
Roberto Fisher / MySpace:
MySpace Music Launches My Music 2.0 in Beta — Attention music fans! — Today MySpace Music is excited to announce the Beta launch of My Music 2.0, a new hub where users can build and manage social playlists using the world's most comprehensive online music catalog. — Sleek New UI and Features
Jeremy Toeman / LIVEdigitally:
Debunking: Those are NOT photos of the Apple Tablet — Saw on Mashable that some designer posted “actual” photos of the “tablet”. I'm no photography expert, but they looked wrong from the beginning. I can't say I've 100% proven it, but I'm pretty sure they are not correct. Here's the photo (source):
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Chris Nuttall / blogs.ft.com:
Daily Me idea is back with iCurrent — The Daily Me newspaper concept has been around a long time and has been forgotten to a large extent as RSS readers and then social media streams have come to dominate. — It may seem no longer relevant and we've no indications that Apple …
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Apple: 70% of Fortune 100 Companies Trying iPhones — Apple, as it is wont to do, blew the roof off with its first-quarter earnings results today. Some of the most interesting comments from the company's results call concerned Apple's emerging market of enterprise mobility.
Gillian Reagan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Pushing TV Networks To Slash Prices On iTunes — On the eve of the Apple tablet release, Steve Jobs is asking TV networks to get cheap. — In meetings with television executives, Apple has also been urging a TV networks to slash their pricetags on shows sold through iTunes to $0.99 — half of the standard $1.99 price.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Google beefing up new ‘Social Web Team’ — Is Google plotting to encroach upon Facebook's comfy territory? Well, it seems it's launched a sort of social-networking task force: Open-standards guru Will Norris announced on his blog Tuesday that he'll be starting a new job at Google on February 1 …
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Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:
Collecta Brings Real-Time Content to Any Site With New Widget — Our friends at Collecta, a fantastic real-time search application, have just launched a new feature for all site owners: free, customizable, embeddable widgets. — Widgets can be created around any search terms imaginable and customized in a number of ways.
