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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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Examiner, MacStories, IntoMobile and AppleInsider
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Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Back in 2007, RIM Thought Apple Was Lying About the Whole iPhone Thing — Marc Andreessen has argued to me that iPhone 1.0 was a wormhole product, one of those rare new things that felt like it fell from the future into the present. By way of corroboration, read this fascinating piece …
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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IntoMobile, Android Police, Mashable!, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, SAI, BlogsDNA, TechCrunch and Electronista
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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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Foursquare's Dennis Crowley: Location Will Connect Us
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MediaFile, Thanks:sidharthdassani
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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Examiner, Gizmodo, Kotaku and AfterDawn.com
Cari Tuna / Digits:
Bezos Discounts Kindle-Tablet Competition — Some industry watchers like to argue about whether one kind of gadget will kill another. Others insist that-just like TV did not kill radio-most new product categories are simply additive, creating more consumer choices. Jeff Bezos seems firmly in the latter camp.
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TechEye, eWeek, Gearlog, PC World, SAI, WebProNews and The Tech Herald …
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Amazon:
Third-Generation Kindle Now the Bestselling Product of All Time on Amazon Worldwide
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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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Worker Bees Blog and SAI
Revenge / NanoHack.me:
Hello Nano. — So I won pink 8gb iPod Nano at some awards I was at recently and hacked it on the flight home. I've successfully done a basic springboard hack, figured out how to bypass the cache comparison and uncovered some interesting stuff as whats to come on the iPod Nano.
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MacStories, 9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear and Engadget
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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L.A. Times Tech Blog, eWeek, Electronista, BGR, WebProNews, Engadget, Digits, The Register, AfterDawn.com, LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat, TechSpot, MacDailyNews and Softpedia News
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Ashish Arora / BLogitech:
All's Well with Logitech Revue
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eHomeUpgrade, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, Erictric and Android News, Rumours …
Electronista:
Netbook pricing may be getting desperate to combat iPad — Netbook prices are dropping to the point where cost is increasingly the only factor in trying to stave off tablets like the iPad, industry observers said Monday night. Using prices in the netbook field's Taiwanese home turf as an example …
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ThinkMobile and DigiTimes, Thanks:djthistle
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
AT&T expands Wi-Fi zones in public spaces — NEW YORK - AT&T Inc. is expanding Wi-Fi access for its subscribers in New York and introducing it in San Francisco, adding data capacity in two cities with heavy wireless network use from the iPhone and other devices.
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ThinkMobile, Thanks:richdemuro
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
HP lists future laptops with Intel next-gen chip — Hewlett-Packard has posted detailed specifications of two upcoming Pavilion dv7 laptops furnished with Intel's next-gen Sandy Bridge processor. — Though some details have been leaked already based on an Engadget report …
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Softpedia News, Electronista and Engadget
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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TECHi, VatorNews and Electronista
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Zeitgeist: What People Searched For in 2010 — There are plenty of ways to discover new content on BitTorrent, but searching is still the preferred method for most people. What they are searching for should therefore give a good picture of what the latest trends are.
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CNET News, Softpedia News, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Erictric, Mashable!, The Next Web and GigaOM
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Firefox On The iPhone? No (Though It Is Being Worked On). Another Mozilla Browser? Maybe. — Continuing today's theme of scouring Quora for interesting nuggets of information, a Q&A about Mozilla's Firefox Mobile browser is of some interest. In response to the question …
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iClarified
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, WebProNews, App Advice, MacStories, MacRumors and 9 to 5 Mac
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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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MacNN, TechCrunch, Startup Meme, MacStories, App Advice, TUAW and TiPb
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Samsung Player: First True Android iPod Touch Competitor? — Samsung has decided to use Android and its success with the Galaxy franchise to take on Apple's iPod touch with a music playing app device that, like Apple's product, offers the mobile web, apps, navigation and media playback, but no cellular voice.
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Kunal / Samsung Hub:
Samsung confirms Galaxy Player, will showcase at CES 2011
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