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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google news — First, the news: Google told me today that they would consider giving more transparency about revenue splits in Adsense. — At a private meeting with a dozen and a half media people at Davos with CEO Eric Schmidt, President of sales Nikesh Arora, search boss Marissa Mayer …
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement — As Venture Beat and other blogs have noticed Friday evening, books from Macmillan, one of the largest publishers in the United States, have vanished from Amazon.com. — The question is why. — I've talked to a person …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
The Apple-Amazon Ebook War Begins: Amazon Deletes Macmillan Books — Books published by Macmillan mysteriously poofed from Amazon yesterday. The reason, according to the NYT, is that Amazon is punishing the publisher for arguing that the price of Kindle books should go up to $15. This won't end well.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Confirmed: iPhone OS 3.2 has support for video calling, file downloads, and SMS (update: handwriting keyboard?) — The iPad may not have a camera in its current incarnation, but Apple's at least laying the foundation for one: we just confirmed with extremely trusted sources …
Fraser Speirs:
Future Shock — I'll have more to say on the iPad later but one can't help being struck by the volume and vehemence of apparently technologically sophisticated people inveighing against the iPad. — Some are trying to dismiss these ravings by comparing them to certain comments made after the launch of the iPod in 2001: “No wireless.
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Adobe Plays the Porn Card in Flash Campaign Against iPad — Apple has clearly hurt Adobe's feelings. When Steve Jobs demonstrated an iPad at Wednesday's tablet event, its Safari browser clearly did not support Flash. Adobe has published a blog post calling Flash the Apple iPad's “broken link.”
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
BoomTown's Apple iPad Day, Starring Walt Mossberg (Plus a Steve Jobs Cameo!) — Here is one of two videos I made at the launch of the iPad by Apple in San Francisco yesterday, stalking my All Things Digital partner, Walt Mossberg, to get his take on the event.
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Unexpectedly low Apple iPad price forces notebook vendors to re-evaluate their tablet PC strategies — Notebook vendors include Asustek Computer and Micro-Star International (MSI) have re-evaluated their strategies for the tablet PC market following Apple's launch of the iPad at a consumer-friendly price, according to industry sources.
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Alex Payne / al3x:
On the iPad — For years, me and thousands of other techies have been wondering what comes after the Personal Computer as we've known it. Yesterday, in Apple's iPad, we caught a glimpse. If I had to pick one predominant emotion in reaction, it would be “disturbed”.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Eric Schmidt: ‘Tell Me The Difference Between A Large Phone And A Tablet’ (GOOG, AAPL) — Lore has it than when Google's (GOOG) top Android developer first showed off the mobile operating system in 2007, CEO Eric Schmidt's first question was, “So what do I do when Steve Jobs kicks me off Apple's board?”
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Nexus One for AT&T's 3G bands likely in the works — By all appearances, Google's trying to break Android free of the surly bonds of the manufacturers and carriers that support it, opening its own online store and selling unlocked Nexus Ones to anyone willing to pony up the $529.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Steve Jobs' Entourage Forbids Pictures of His ‘Labored Old Man Shuffle’ — By all accounts, Steve Jobs personally drove the rapid creation and wildly successful hyping of the just-unveiled iPad. So you'd think his handlers would be confident in his healthy image, no matter how slowly he walks in public.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Hulu's Plans for the iPad, the Mobile Internet — From the moment Apple announced its new iPad mobile device, people have been wondering when (and if) Hulu was going to make a specialized application for it. But Hulu has so far tended towards public generalities and general inaction …
Erica Jostedt / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox for Mobile Now Available on Nokia's Maemo Platform! — We're pleased to announce that Firefox is now available for Nokia's Maemo platform. Starting today, Nokia N900 owners can enjoy many of the same Firefox features they know and love on the desktop on their mobile device.
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Wikipedia Is Finally Gearing Up For Video — This week, it almost happened. The servers hosting all of Wikipedia's media were ready to burst, filled up to the max with almost six million files totaling close to eight terabytes of data. Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia …
