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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Myspace Mulls Significant Layoffs, With Potential Sale Looming — Myspace-the long-troubled social networking site turned social entertainment hub-is in the midst of planning that could soon result in significant layoffs of its staff, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
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The Next Web, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Land, Mashable!, Erictric, The Register, SAI and alarm:clock
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0 Blog:
Android SMS bug sends your messages to random contacts — Remember the kerfuffle over the iPhone 4 ‘Antennagete’ and how you could disrupt the antenna by holding the handset the wrong way? Well, there's an SMS bug in Google's Android OS that makes ‘Antennagate’ seem like nothing.
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Android News, Rumours … and Electronista
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Android bug that sends SMS messages to random recipients is being ignored by Google
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Engadget, Android Community, PhoneDog.com, Android Phone Fans, SlashPhone and Phone Scoop
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Twins' Facebook Fight Rages On — SAN DIEGO — Some people go to court hoping to win millions of dollars. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have already won tens of millions. But six years into a legal feud with Facebook, they want to give it back — for a chance to get more.
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VentureBeat, SAI, Felix Salmon, Bits, Mediaite and New York Magazine
Democracy UK / Facebook:
A Snapshot of Facebook in 2010 — Happy New Year Democracy UK! — As 2010 draws to a close we can take a look at some data that provides a window into the lives of the millions of people around the world who use Facebook everyday to share their lives, feelings and interests with friends.
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All Facebook, The Atlantic Online, Mashable! and High Scalability
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
What 20 Minutes On Facebook Looks Like: 1M Shared Links, 2.7M Photos Uploaded, 10.2M Comments — Democracy UK, a UK-focused political campaigning initiative by Facebook, has just released a number of mind-blowing stats on the massive usage of the network by its 500-plus million members in 2010.
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The Register
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Is Clearwire's Only Option: Sell to Sprint? — The negative news surrounding Clearwire, the much-vaunted next generation wireless innovator has taken a drumbeat-like quality, enough for even the most optimistic among us to worry about its fate. It has now become known that company's chairman …
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MarketWatch, SiliconANGLE and Black Web 2.0
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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Clearwire Chair Craig McCaw to Quit Today — Cash-strapped Clearwire says no disagreement prompted McCaw's resignation. The company's survival is now in question as it struggles to build a nationwide high-speed wireless 4G network — (Bloomberg) — Clearwire Corp. …
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Between the Lines Blog, eWeek, Wall Street Journal, FierceWireless, dailywireless.org, Post Tech, SlashGear, Electronista, mocoNews, Mobilized and Sidecut Reports
Electronista:
Borders stalls book payments, doubts survival in e-book era — Borders has been delaying payments to book publishers in signs that it may be one of the first major victims of e-books. Early reports from Publishers Marketplace on Friday said it was putting off the payments to help refinance …
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Wall Street Journal and SAI, more at Mediagazer »
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Microsoft Should Buy Nokia And Not RIM — If Microsoft decides to boost its smartphone position with a major acquisition, it should buy Nokia, not Research in Motion. — Some would argue that Nokia isn't really a smartphone maker and Symbian isn't really a smartphone OS …
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ITworld.com and James Fee GIS Blog
Laura Sydell / NPR:
Undesigned: The Symbiotic Relationship Of Steve Jobs And Jonathan Ive … If you have an iPod or an iPhone or an iPad or even an iMac, you might love it — or hate it — but you probably don't know much about the man who designed it. — I'm not talking about Steve Jobs. — Behind the scene, Jobs has a partner.
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
The 50 biggest tech stories of 2010 — If the year is winding down, and real tech news is slowing to a trickle, you know it's time to reflect on the past 12 months in tech. Again this year we crunched Techmeme's historical data, cancelling out the influences of our editors …
Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Live From New York: The Times Square New Year's App Implies Strange Ideas About How to Party — Building on the success of last year's live web stream of the event, this year New York's Times Square New Year's celebration is getting an official iPhone and Android app.
