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Brad Stone / Bits:
AT&T Gives Green Light to Sling TV Over 3G — Remember the Great Sling Spat? — A year ago, Sling Media, a subsidiary of EchoStar, introduced a nifty application for the Apple iPhone that allowed users with a Slingbox at home to watch and control their home television signal from their handsets.
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Dick Brass / New York Times:
Microsoft's Creative Destruction — AS they marvel at Apple's new iPad tablet computer, the technorati seem to be focusing on where this leaves Amazon's popular e-book business. But the much more important question is why Microsoft, America's most famous and prosperous technology company …
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Sun's Chief Executive Tweets His Resignation — Jonathan Schwartz, the last chief executive of Sun Microsystems, has become the first Fortune 200 boss to tweet his resignation. — Late Wednesday night, Mr. Schwartz used Twitter to publish a haiku about his exit from Oracle, which just completed its purchase of Sun last week.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Apple Now Lets You Preview iPhone Apps In Your Browser — In November 2009, Apple launched a feature dubbed iTunes Preview, which essentially enabled people to see what music is available on iTunes from their Web browser without the need to fire up - or install - the desktop software program.
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Macworld, The Download Blog, Download Squad, AppleInsider, The Apple Core, Gizmodo, MacRumors, App Advice, Mashable!, EverythingiCafe, GottaBeMobile.com and Lifehacker, Thanks:atul
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks — The world's largest Internet search company and the world's most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity. — Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency …
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Martyn Williams / Computerworld:
Sony interested in challenging Apple's iPad — IDG News Service - Sony hinted on Thursday that it's preparing a challenger to Apple's upcoming iPad. — “That is a market we are also very interested in. We are confident we have the skills to create a product,” said Nobuyuki Oneda …
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Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
Symbian Operating System, Now Open Source and Free — The source code for the ten-year old Symbian platform will be completely open source and available for free starting Thursday. The transition from proprietary code to open source is the largest in software history, claims the Symbian Foundation.
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LinuxWorld.com, Mashable!, Download Squad, Associated Press, Open Source, BBC, CNET News, dailywireless.org, GigaOM, The Register, Latest VoIP, Voice 2.0 …, SlipperyBrick.com, Geeky-Gadgets, eWeek, SlashGear, Neowin.net, PC Pro, Symbian, ChannelWeb, IntoMobile, Phone Arena, Network World and Hardware 2.0
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Commenting on Engadget: a human's guide — As you may have noticed, the other day we shut down comments on the site. Things had gotten a little out of hand and the complaint emails we were getting from readers were stacking up, so we decided to take some Engadget time to do a little cleaning …
Markcuban / blog maverick:
Why Have So Many Internet People Lost Touch With Reality ? — Sometimes its hard to tell if people are trying to be funny, mean, interesting, provocative or are just plain stupid or completely out of touch with reality. I know I get accused of being all of the above all the time.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Maps To Add “Google Store Views” — I received a tip from a New York retailer named Oh Nuts, that Google came to their store to take pictures for a new Google Maps product named “Google Store Views.” I was told that they took pictures of the inside of the store, every 6 feet, in all directions.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
AppFund Launches To Seed iPad Apps — On the heels of the launch of the much-hyped iPad, investors and developers alike are beginning to cater to the iPad ecosystem. CNET and E! Online co-founder Kevin Wendle has teamed with MusicNation co-founder Daniel Klaus to form AppFund …
Google Enterprise Blog:
Google Apps adds enterprise admin policies for iPhone, Nokia, and Windows Mobile devices — In a world focused on improving business productivity, companies look to solutions like Google Apps to provide employees with seamless access to information regardless of location or device.
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ITworld.com, PC World, Macworld, eWeek, Google Mobile Blog, Silicon Alley Insider, ReadWriteWeb and Gadgetell, Thanks:atul
Jennadawn / Twitter Blog:
Flying Around With Hovercards — Because many of you use twitter.com to read and write tweets, we've been spending some time focusing on ways to improve your experience on the site. Today, we're introducing a feature called Hovercards that will be a handy way to interact with the folks behind each tweet.
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Facebook Largest News Reader? — Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read Write Web had an interesting piece suggesting that Facebook could become the world's leading news reader. A recent Facebook company blog entry encouraged members to set up a news feed on Facebook.
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BoomTown, VentureBeat, The Equity Kicker, Daily Patricia, GigaOM and All Facebook, Thanks:atul
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Google Patent Filings Shed Light On Future Of Internet And Online Advertising — Google updated a series of patent filings in January that could suggest the search giant plans to dig deeper into behavioral targeting, video content, and might also roll out dynamic advertising in its mapping applications …
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Kunal / Samsung Hub:
Samsung drops Android 2.1 powered SHW-M100S in South Korea — Samsung has announced their first Android phone for their home market, which is also the first Samsung device to run Android OS 2.1. The phone's known as SHW-M100S and will arrive in March on SK Telecom.
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Unwired View, Google Android Blog, SlashGear, Android Central, AndroidGuys, MobileTechWorld, PhoneReport v2.0, Electricpig and The Next Web
Laura Scott / Google LatLong:
WWII historical imagery in Google Earth — Many of us have heard stories, read books and watched films which show the many impacts of WWII across the world. Today we're giving you another way to understand this period in time - by exploring a new set of historical aerial images …
Sydney Morning Herald:
iiNet slays Hollywood in landmark piracy case — Little sign of peace as both sides react to iiNet's landmark file download court victory. — The giants of the film industry have lost their case against ISP iiNet in a landmark judgment handed down in the Federal Court today.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Slacker Radio for WebOS, It's Out Now — There are two major camps for internet radio: Pandora and Slacker. Team Pandora's been setup on webOS for a while, but now Slacker fans can get theirs on every webOS phone. … [Slacker]
Todd Haselton / MobileBurn.com:
Verizon Wireless tops J.D. Power Customer Care Survey, T-Mobile a hair behind — News by Todd Haselton on Thursday February 04, 2010. — Today J.D. Power and Associates released its 2009 Wireless Customer Care Performance Study that ranked Verizon Wireless ahead of the other carriers in the United States.
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Paul Krill / ITworld.com:
Oracle shutting off Sun project-hosting site — I like it! — In the wake of its merger with Sun Microsystems, Oracle is discontinuing access to Project Kenai, which was developed by Sun as an open source project-hosting site. — Kenai, Oracle said in an updated FAQ statement for developers on Tuesday …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
LensVector raises $30M for improved autofocus in camera phones — We've all gotten used to taking lousy, out-of-focus pictures with our camera phones. But LensVector hopes to change that with its chip-based autofocus technology. — Today, the company is announcing it has raised a round of $30 million …
MediaShift:
Google News to Publishers: Let's Make Love Not War — In the view of some traditional media execs, Google is a digital vampire or a parasite or tech tapeworm using someone else's content to profit. As that rhetoric heated up in the past year, Google has responded not with equal amounts …
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Seanmccullough / Blogger Buzz:
Create Pages in Blogger — Another top user-requested feature has just graduated from Blogger In Draft! Blogger now makes it easy to create Pages linked from your blog. — This feature lets you easily publish static information on stand-alone pages. For example, you can create …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
IBM launches Lotus Symphony 3 beta; Office alternatives pile up — IBM on Thursday rolled out the beta of Lotus Symphony 3.0, its free office productivity suite built on the OpenOffice.org code base. — The company launched Lotus Symphony as a free alternative in 2007.
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eWeek
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Is Amazon Building a Superkindle? — If you were Amazon, and Apple released the iPad, what would you do? Scurry away into the corner, or buy a small company in New York and use its technology to build a Superkindle, with a multitouch color screen and built-in applications? If you guessed the latter, you're right.
