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Kunal / Samsung Hub:
Samsung confirms Galaxy Player, will showcase at CES 2011 — UPDATE: Front facing camera is VGA. Will come in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB storage capacities. — Samsung has announced a new Android-based Galaxy Player that will be showcased next week at the CES 2011.
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Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Samsung Player: First True Android iPod Touch Competitor?
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Amazon:
Third-Generation Kindle Now the Bestselling Product of All Time on Amazon Worldwide — In just five months, new Kindle replaces ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ as best-selling product in Amazon's history — (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon.com today announced that the third-generation Kindle …
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Electronista:
RIM thought iPhone was impossible in 2007 — RIM had a complete internal panic when Apple unveiled the iPhone in 2007, a former employee revealed this weekend. The BlackBerry maker is now known to have held multiple all-hands meetings on January 10 that year, a day after the iPhone was on stage …
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DigiTimes:
Apple hikes 1Q11 iPhone shipment target to 20-21 million units, say sources — Apple has raised the global shipment goal for its iPhones for first-quarter 2011 from 19 million units originally to 20-21 million units, according to sources with Taiwan-based component suppliers.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Emotional Rescue — There was an interesting thread of iOS-vs.-Android news and punditry over the weekend, starting with this report by Seth Weintraub for Fortune: … In other words, $100 Android phones within the next year. — I'm not sure how this qualifies as news, though.
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
LOGI: Google Has Not Requested ‘Revue’ Halt — Shares of peripheral maker Logitech (LOGI) are down 63 cents, or 3.3%, at $18.69 following a report by Monica Chen and Steven Shen in DigiTimes that the company has asked contract manufacturer Gigabyte Technology to suspend manufacturing …
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Ashish Arora / BLogitech:
All's Well with Logitech Revue
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Android Phone Fans, SlashGear and Erictric
Karen Costa / Compete Pulse:
I'm the mayor! So what? — Are you on Foursquare, Gowalla or any other check-in services? I use Foursquare and like many of my friends, I'm beginning to wonder “What's the point?” So far, they're great in theory, but not in practice. Gowalla boasts that you'll “find inspiration …
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Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
Marissa Mayer — Who says you have to be a guy to be a geek? This Google senior executive is teaching a new generation that femininity and technology are a winning formula. — Google senior executive Marissa Mayer in Mountain View, Calif., in July 2008. — Why are so few women working in the technology industry?
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Glyn Moody / open:
Putin Orders Russian Move to GNU/Linux — This looks huge: … [Via Google Translate: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a plan for transition of power structures and the federal budget [to] free software. According to the document, the introduction of Linux in government should begin in II quarter 2012.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
It's Official: 1 Million Apple TVs Sold — Last Tuesday Apple said it expected sales of its next generation Apple TV to top one million units before Christmas. Today the company confirmed to me that they did just that. Seems the addition of AirPlay support for wireless streaming …
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VentureBeat, MacStories, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Ultrasn0w, MacRumors, Electronista and Engadget
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook's iPhone App Adds Another 1.6 Million Users In The Last 3 Days — Facebook's iPhone app, one of the most-downloaded of all time, and one of the first that many people download, is an interesting proxy for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch sales. And as expected, there was a big Christmas bump again this year.
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Daring Fireball, VatorNews, App Advice, MacStories, 9 to 5 Mac and MacRumors
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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
iPhone App Download Traffic Is 2X What It Was Last Christmas …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Google's next Android Music app leaks out, gives hints of a 3.0 UI overhaul — Remember at Google I/O this year when Google showed off “something beyond Froyo” in the music realm? The demo included an all-new music player (boy, wouldn't that be nice!), along with magical features …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
How Much Did It Cost AOL To Send Us Those CDs In The 90s? “A Lot!,” Says Steve Case — Like most little kids, I used to love getting things in the mail. And in the 1990s, I was lucky enough to get something new every single day. Sadly, 99.9 percent of those were install discs from AOL.
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Gizmodo
Steven Levy / Wired:
The A.I. Revolution Is On — Today's AI bears little resemblance to its initial conception. The field's trailblazers believed success lay in mimicking the logic-based reasoning that human brains were thought to use. — Diapers.com warehouses are a bit of a jumble.
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Dell's Looking Glass tablet passes through FCC, shows off SD and SIM card slots — Dell's still calling this a Mobile Internet Device, but you can call it by any of its codenames: Looking Glass, M02M, iPad eviscerator, they're all in here. Yes, the FCC has spent a month of quality …
