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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Disruptive Android App Store Now Open To Developers — Full Details — Fragmentation. Curation. Recommendations. Take your pick: Android is getting all three, compliments of a new Amazon-run application marketplace due to launch later this year.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
iPad 2 case shows up at CES, packing a mockup iPad 2 — We've been seeing supposed iPad 2 cases for about a month now, all of them with the same telltale cutouts: a camera hole in the back, a camera hole in the front, and a big ol' speaker hole. Today's find beats them all, however …
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Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central:
Rolling Stone ad features Thunderbolt, and Inspire 4G headed to AT&T — An astute reader noticed an advertisement in the current edition of Rolling Stone, featuring HTC's 4G phones. Besides the Evo 4G and the T-Mobile G2, we see the latest additions to HTC's 4G stable — our friend the HTC Thunderbolt …
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Allen Kiehl / AndroidSPIN:
Exclusive: Hands on with the HTC Thunderbolt 4G
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Erictric, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Android Community, SlashGear, PhoneArena and Engadget
Kyle Baxter / TightWind:
Android Isn't About Building a Mobile Platform — Google isn't a web application company—they're an advertising company. That's what they do best, and that's what drives their company. Of Google's $23.6 billion of revenue in 2009, all but $760 million of it was derived from advertising …
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Matt Asay / The Register:
Beastly Android will batter Apple's iOS beauty
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Tech Sanity Check
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
What Everyone Seems to Miss In Facebook's Private or Public Debate... ...is the core reason it makes sense for Facebook to be public: Accountability to its customers. The rest of this debate is simply financial folks arguing amongst themselves. — Facebook is the greatest repository …
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MarketWatch, The Business Insider, Beyond Search and FM Blog
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
See If You Can Spot The Problem With Microsoft's Tablet Strategy — Earlier today, computer maker Asus kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show a day early by announcing four upcoming tablet computers. Three of them run Google's Android operating system. One runs Windows 7.
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VentureBeat, Macworld, Softpedia News, Windows 8 News, ThinkMobile, GottaBeMobile, TechFlash, All about Microsoft Blog, Gizmodo Australia, WinRumors and Gizmodo
Paul Thurrott / Windows Phone Secrets:
What's happening with Windows Phone updates in 2011 — I can finally reveal a number of details about the first Windows Phone 7 update, a future major update, and how Microsoft intends to roll out updates generally. It's not necessarily great news. But here's what's happening.
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
Gene Munster: Google Has Given Up On Social — Count Piper Jaffray tech analyst Gene Munster among the Facebook bulls. He just gave an interview to Bloomberg TV which must have made any Googlers listening cringe. — Here are the main points, paraphrased: — Google has given up on social.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Cable giant Comcast to Offer Live TV Streaming on Tablets — CEO Brian Roberts says the company wants to “reinvent how customers interact with their entertainment on TV, online and on mobile devices.” — NEW YORK - Cable giant Comcast plans to offer in-home streaming of live TV …
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SAI, MediaMemo, GottaBeMobile and BGR
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Vizio Phone hands-on preview — Along with Vizio's new tablet, we had a chance to look at the HDTV maker's new Android device, unsurprisingly dubbed the Vizio Phone. The phone is still in the early stages (both the hardware and software aren't production ready at all) …
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Technologizer, pocketnow.com, Android Community, Androinica and Phones Review
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Google Who? LG Launches App Platform for TVs — LAS VEGAS — LG Electronics on Wednesday introduced its new Smart TV platform bringing apps, games and web-streamed movies to its latest televisions. — The platform will enable LG televisions to expand their capabilities …
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Anil Dash:
If You Didn't Blog It, It Didn't Happen — Clive Thompson's newest Wired piece argues that the flow of short-form messages as we see on Twitter and Facebook is encouraging longer meditations in other media. I've been thinking about this phenomenon for a while in terms of the impact …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Sales Are At A Trickle On Google's Chrome Web Store — In December, after months of anticipation and discussions with third-party developers, Google finally unveiled the Chrome Web Store — an online portal that lets users purchase and ‘install’ web applications like TweetDeck, MOG, and hundreds of others.
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Search Engine Journal, Gadgetell, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Edge Online, TomsTechBlog.com, CenterNetworks and Tech Report
Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
LG Optimus Black: Meet the World's New Slimmest Phone (For Now) — At 9.2mm thick, the Optimus Black from LG is the new world's thinnest phone, and is pretty light too, at 109g. It's also got a 4-inch NOVA screen for viewing in direct sunlight, too, and a 2MP forward-facing camera.
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VentureBeat, SlashGear, The Toybox Blog, Android Phone Fans, Gearlog, Gadget Lab, PhoneDog.com, PhoneArena, Android Community, IntoMobile, The Next Web, BGR, Engadget and Technabob
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Microsoft's Move to Put Windows on ARM Chips a Long Time in the Making — When word first broke last month that Microsoft was planning to port Windows over to ARM-based chips, it seemed like it might be just a hasty reaction to the success of the iPad. — However, the move has been in the works …
Winnie Hu / New York Times:
Math That Moves: Schools Embrace the iPad — ROSLYN HEIGHTS, N.Y. — As students returned to class this week, some were carrying brand-new Apple iPads in their backpacks, given not by their parents but by their schools. — A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the iPad …
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Computerworld, 9 to 5 Mac, MacNN, p2pnet, Neowin.net, Bits and Shelly Palmer Digital Living
Zach Epstein / BGR:
AT&T details 4G plans; 4G LTE iPhone coming in 2012 — AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega gave a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The focus was undoubtedly 4G, and he was als0 joined by Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha, HTC CEO Peter Chou and Samsung CEO J. K. Shin.
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Mobilized, MacRumors, Engadget, PhoneArena, GottaBeMobile, Reuters and everythingiCafe
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Memo to Twitter: Popularity Is Becoming a Commodity — So there I was flying back to San Francisco after the Holidays, flipping through the United Hemispheres magazine to better understand my awesome Snack Box options, when I was stopped by an animated drawing of Twitter founder Evan Williams …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media Raises $27.5 Million; Tripled Revenue In 2010 — We've learned exclusively that mobile ad network Millennial Media has raised $27.5 million in new funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbia Capital, Charles River Ventures, and New Enterprise Associates.
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eMoney, alarm:clock, Internet2Go, BaltTech, mocoNews, SAI and Millennial Media
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Sure, RSS Is Dead — Just Like the Web Is Dead — A brush fire has been swirling through the blogosphere of late over whether RSS is dead, dying, or possibly severely injured and in need of assistance. It seems to have started with a post from UK-based web designer Kroc Camen that got picked up by Hacker News and re-tweeted a lot.
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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
‘Hurt Locker’ lawyers continue antipiracy fight — Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver, the law firm that has filed copyright complaints against thousands of accused illegal file sharers on behalf of independent filmmakers this year, is getting some important help. — DGW, which also operates under …
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DSLreports and TechEye
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google Wins One Against Microsoft — Google Inc. has won a key ruling in its lawsuit against the U.S. Interior Department, two months after the Web giant accused the agency of improperly favoring rival Microsoft Corp. in a contract bid to provide a new email system.
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Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Nielsen: U.S. consumers crave TVs, mobile devices — Here's what you need to know about media and tech consumers ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show. There are a whole lot of TVs and cell phones out there and more and more people are using those technologies to access the Internet.
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