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Joseph Tsai / DigiTimes:
Apple prepares three versions of iPad 2 for 2011, says sources — Apple is expected to release three versions of iPad 2, supporting either or a combination of Wi-Fi, UMTS and CDMA, for 2011 with mass production to start as early as the later half of January.
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Gadget Lab, VatorNews, The Toybox Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Apple Core Blog, MediaPost, The Digital Home, Computerworld, eWeek, Fast Company, MacRumors, VentureBeat, TiPb, PadGadget, Tech Trader Daily, Techland, CrunchGear, Mobile Knots, SlashGear, Erictric, GottaBeMobile, MacStories, The Next Web, ITworld.com, Softpedia News, SAI, GeekSugar, everythingiCafe, The Huffington Post, iClarified, Tech Report and The Loop
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Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPad 2.0 rumors claim CDMA, UMTS, Wi-Fi flavors
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Electronista, Gearlog, O'Grady's PowerPage and BGR
Peter Lattman / DealBook:
Stock Trading in Private Companies Draws S.E.C. Scrutiny — A red-hot trading market has developed in the shares of the world's leading social networking companies: Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and LinkedIn. What is unusual is that none of the companies are listed on a public stock exchange.
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All Facebook, TechCrunch, alarm:clock, SAI, NetworkEffect, NBC Bay Area, Wall Street Journal, CNET News, SiliconANGLE and Tech Trader Daily
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
SecondMarket: The SEC has not asked us for anything
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DealBook and The Huffington Post
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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The Apple Core Blog, ZDNet, MacRumors, Gearlog, everythingiCafe and SlashGear
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
iPod Nano Hacked, Will Soon Support Movies and iCalendars?
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9 to 5 Mac, iThinkDifferent, TiPb, AfterDawn.com, BlogsDNA and Engadget, Thanks:racco
Ionut Arghire / Softpedia News:
New Android Market Stats Out, Over 200k Apps Available — Google's Android operating system already attracted a lot of developers on its side, which came up with applications in excess of 200,000, the latest stats on the Android Market show. — Apple's App Store for the iPhone …
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The Next Web, Techie Buzz, Engadget and Know Your Cell, Thanks:keithdsouza
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Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Will Video Previews Help Android App Sales?
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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, AppsFire.com blog, ThinkMobile, The Next Web and Android Tapp
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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Mobilized, Digital Trends, CNET News, Engadget, IntoMobile, CrunchGear, Softpedia News, AT&T, iPhone Buzz, SlashGear, Techland, DSLreports, dailywireless.org, ThinkMobile and NYConvergence.com, Thanks:richdemuro
McAfee, Inc.:
McAfee Labs Predicts Geolocation, Mobile Devices and Apple Will Top the List of Targets for Emerging Threats in 2011 — McAfee Researchers Also Foresee Attackers Targeting Shortened URL Services and Internet TV Platforms; Increase in Politically Motivated Hacktivisim
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Digital Trends, VatorNews, Business Wire, MarketingVOX, ReadWriteWeb, CNET News and TechCrunch
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Apple Doesn't Want Coders Messing With iPhone Buttons — Sometimes — Apple can't stick to its own rules with the gigantic iOS App Store. — The company recently approved an iPhone camera app that carries a special feature: the ability to snap a photo by pressing the physical Volume button rather than tapping the touchscreen.
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App Advice, The Apple Core Blog, MacRumors, BlogsDNA, MacNN and PC World
Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:
Apple Sued Over Applications Giving Information to Advertisers — Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc., making of the iPhone and iPad, was accused in a lawsuit of allowing applications for those devices to transmit users' personal information to advertising networks without customers' consent.
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TUAW, The Register, VentureBeat, MacRumors, MediaPost, Reuters, CNET News, Hillicon Valley, Epicenter, SAI, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, SocialTimes.com, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, IntoMobile, Appolicious Advisor, paidContent, iLounge, Bloomberg, SlashGear, Neowin.net, NBC Bay Area, TechEye, Adotas, Phones Review, RCR Wireless News, The Next Web, The Loop, Tech Musings, everythingiCafe, Tech Report, 9 to 5 Mac and textually.org, more at Mediagazer »
Zach Epstein / BGR:
BlackBerry PlayBook battery issues could delay launch, says analyst — According to Kaufman Brothers analyst Shaw Wu, RIM may be forced to delay the release of its first tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook. Wu claims he is hearing that the PlayBook “needs to improve its relatively poor battery life …
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Digital Daily, SAI, ITworld.com, PhoneDog.com, MobileWhack.com, Tech Musings and MobileBurn.com
Andrew Dowell / Wall Street Journal:
Year in Review: 10 Trends in Mobile Technology — In 2010, the computer truly went mobile. — Sure, users of Apple Inc.'s iPhone have had the Web in their hands since 2007. But this past year, smartphones plunged into the mainstream, giving millions of people the ability to browse the Internet …
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SAI, Digits and Appolicious Advisor
Chester Wisniewski / Naked Security:
Mozilla accidentally publishes user IDs and passwords hashes — On Monday, Mozilla, the developer of popular open source applications like Firefox and Thunderbird, announced that a database containing usernames and password hashes belonging to users of addons.mozilla.org had been posted publicly by accident.
Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:
Google Pushes Education Software Through App Store — Google is talking with makers of educational software to help build a marketplace for online learning programs, an industry whose value may approach $5 billion — (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. is talking with educational-software companies …
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Digital Trends and Softpedia News
Charles Hamilton / GigaOM:
Sleipnir Mobile and 360: Two New Web Browsers for iOS — Sleipnir Mobile and the 360 Browser have joined a growing group of alternatives to Mobile Safari, the web browser that comes with the iPhone and iPod touch. Tabs, data sync with Firefox, download management, and access …
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App Advice and MacStories
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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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PhoneDog.com, Neowin.net, SlashGear, TiPb, MacStories, Examiner, IntoMobile and AppleInsider
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
ASUS teases Eee Pad and Eee Slate ahead of CES launch — Seems like all these CES vendors have wised up to the fact that announcing their new products amidst a maelstrom of new product announcements tends to be slightly counterproductive. So, naturally, they're spending their December carefully teasing out little pre-release details.
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The Toybox Blog, Techinstyle.tv, SlashGear, CrunchGear, BGR, DailyTech, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, Mashable!, Softpedia News, Liliputing and Gadgetell
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Analyst: IPad Rules Holidays; Rivals Are “Not Ready for Prime Time” Players — Hardly surprising. This holiday season the iPad was pretty much the go-to device for consumers looking to gift a tablet. In a note to clients this week, Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair said recent retail checks point …
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BGR, Electronista and SAI
