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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.
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SAI, WMPoweruser.com, Erictric, MobileTechWorld, pocketnow.com, LiveSide.net, The Next Web, ThinkMobile, MobileCrunch, Gizmodo, Neowin.net, Geekword and WPCentral.com
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Windows Phone 7 ‘NoDo’ update hitting phones in early February, ‘Mango’ coming later with IE9? — Word on the street from Microsoft savant Paul Thurrott is that Windows Phone 7's first update might go gold as early as this week — in time for Ballmer's CES keynote, in fact …
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PhoneDog.com and WinBeta
Reuters:
Goldman's “friends” get week to mull Facebook bet — (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs is not giving its multimillionaire clients a lot of time or information to think about investing in a $1.5 billion Facebook private offering. — According to a customer who received a letter from Goldman …
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Felix Salmon:
Why Facebook won't go public — Miguel Helft explains …
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San Francisco Chronicle, TechCrunch, SAI, Adotas and DailyFinance
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
What Everyone Seems to Miss In Facebook's Private or Public Debate...
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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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GottaBeMobile and Gizmodo
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Steve Ballmer to tease Windows 8 at CES keynote — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is set to take to the stage tomorrow for the opening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. — Ballmer will detail a number of new announcements related to Windows Phone, Xbox and Windows.
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TechFlash, All about Microsoft Blog, Erictric, Gizmodo, The Next Web and WinBeta, Thanks:bweaton
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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CenterNetworks, TomsTechBlog.com and Gizmodo
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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Douglas Soltys / Inside BlackBerry:
BlackBerry PlayBook Web Fidelity Video (Multimedia, Games and Social Networking) — Check out our latest BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet video, just in time for CES 2011! When we posted the BlackBerry PlayBook vs. iPad comparison video, many Inside BlackBerry readers posted comments suggesting …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Analyst: Flash Could Be Hogging PlayBook Battery Life
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BlackBerry Cool, BerryReview.com, Guardian and PhoneArena
Andrew Mason / The Daily Groupon:
Why Groupon Isn't in Australia — Since Groupon started in 2008, we've grown from one to thirty-seven countries. Australia, however, remains conspicuously absent from our lineup. Australian customers and press have been asking why we still haven't formally launched …
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metarand, Pulse2, Delimiter, WebProNews, TechCrunch and eMoney
David Kaplan / paidContent:
VC Money Keeps Pouring In For Ad Targeters: Turn Raises $20 Million — Turn is the latest ad tech firm to greet the new year with a whopping sum of venture capital. The Silicon Valley-based company has raised $20 million in a fourth round funding, bringing its total raised to $58.5 million in the past five years.
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Sarah Rotman Epps / Forrester Blogs:
US Tablet Sales Will More Than Double This Year — Today Forrester published its revised US consumer tablet forecast, updating its previous forecast from June 2010. When Apple's iPad first debuted, we saw the device as a game-changer but were too conservative with our forecast.
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InformationWeek, Forrester Research, Pulse2, AppleInsider, WebProNews, ReadWriteWeb, Mercury News, PadGadget, Bits, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, BetaNews, BGR, All about Microsoft Blog, Tech Musings, SAI, Between the Lines Blog, NewsGrange, SlashGear, Adotas, GigaOM and Crave
David Kaplan / paidContent:
USA Today Buys Tech Products Site Network Reviewed.com — Gannett (NYSE: GCI) USA Today has acquired Reviewed.com, a group of 12 product-review websites. The site provides in-depth, long takes on digital cameras, camcorders and high def televisions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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TechCrunch, PR Newswire, 1001 Noisy Cameras and Pulse2, more at Mediagazer »
Royal Pingdom:
Apache web server hit a home run in 2010 — The World Wide Web would be nothing without web servers, and Apache has been king of that hill for a long time now. Although its market share has been slipping a bit in recent years, Apache came back with a vengeance in 2010.
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Toyota Entune-Bing and more in your car — Toyota today introduced Entune from CES in Las Vegas, its new built-in hardware / mobile phone application pair that brings Bing, Pandora, Open Table and more to your car's dashboard. — Basically, you'll be able to (after buying a new …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
#LessAmbitiousMovies Aims To Sort Of Take Over Part Of Your Twitter Stream — Hey you know what's happening right now? #LessAmbitiousMovies, the craziest Twitter hashtag meme I've ever seen, pacing at around 200 tweets per minute. The basic premise is to tweet out the titles of popular films …
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DealBook:
Qualcomm Is Said to Be Set to Buy Atheros for $3.5 Billion — Updated — Qualcomm, the pioneering wireless technology company, is near an agreement to buy the chip maker Atheros Communications for about $3.5 billion, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks …
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Wall Street Journal, NewEnterprise, GigaOM, FierceWireless, PC World, Xconomy, Deal Journal and Pulse2
Jeffrey Ressner / American Way Magazine:
Online Experimenting — We take a peek inside Google Labs, the online giant's incubator for the next great idea. — Hardly anyone outside the company even knows it, but every December, an informal, almost comical award ceremony is held at Google's headquarters in Mountain View …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Math: If Accounts Were Ranked By Followers, This Would Be The Equation — exp(21 - 1.1*log(#followers)) — If you ever wanted to know where you rank among Twitter users in terms of the followers you have, that's the equation. Well, for most of you anyway.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Sony's PlayStation Phone finally gets Xperia, PlayStation logos — We've heard of the mysterious, still-totally-unofficial PlayStation Phone running Android 2.2 in the past, but we'd also heard it could run 3.0 — thing is, that was back before we knew Gingerbread would be 2.3 …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Warrantless cell phone search gets a green light in California — The contents of your cell phone can reveal a lot more about you than the naked eye can: who your friends are, what you've been saying and when, which websites you've visited, and more. There has long been debate over user privacy …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Kindle for Windows Phone 7 goes live — We knew it was coming... and you know what happens to things you know are coming? They eventually come. Case in point: Amazon's Kindle app for Windows Phone 7, first teased in October and now available to anyone with a WP7 device and a desire to read stuff.
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MobileBurn.com, Kindle Review, GottaBeMobile, MobileCrunch, Smartphones … and WPCentral.com
Markus Nigrin / The Pocket Cyclone:
Mac App Store - Sneak Peak — In two days, the Mac App Store will open its gates. — While there is the usual amount of speculation out there on technicalities and its potential overall success, it seems widely unclear what will happen on Opening Day. — So last week I sent …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, TUAW and The Next Web
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
CEA: 80 Tablets to Be Shown at CES — How many tablets will be shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show this week? How about 80? — That figure is the official estimate by the Consumer Electronics Association, according to a CEA spokeswoman. Although the number includes previously-announced products …
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Mobilized, CNN and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Jane L. Levere / New York Times:
American Airlines in Fee Battle With Web Agencies — A traveler searching two of the four largest online travel agencies, Orbitz and Expedia, is not going to find any listings for American Airlines flights — at least for the moment. — That is because American is in a standoff over the fees …
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Scott Austin / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Google Lost Groupon, But Still Tops Most-Active Acquirer List — Google Inc. missed out on prized daily discounter Groupon Inc. in 2010, but it still acquired far more start-ups owned by venture capital firms than any other company last year. — In fact, it's the first time that Google …
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