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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Ballmer At CES 2011: “Whatever Device You Use, Windows Will Be There” — Today in his Consumer Electronics Show keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer declared that Xbox is no longer a gaming device but an entertainment hub. And Windows will be everywhere, from your TV through Xbox …
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Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
Avatar Kinect: Now Your Avatar Smiles, Smirks and Talks When You Do — Your Xbox Live avatar leads a lonely existence. Or did, anyway, before Avatar Kinect came along. Now, Kinect recognizes your face: When you smile, when you raise your eyebrows, when you talk—and your Avatar uncannily does the same.
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LiveSide.net, BetaNews and Pocket-lint
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Ballmer on Windows Phone 7: 5,500 apps, updates coming, Verizon and Sprint in first half of 2011 — Speaking at his company's CES keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer let go several pertinent facts about the Windows Phone 7 operating system. For starters, the much anticipated WP7 software update …
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ReadWriteCloud and GottaBeMobile
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Netflix and Hulu Plus with Kinect coming this spring to Xbox 360 — Good news, Hulu Plus is finally coming to Xbox 360 this spring. Better news, both Hulu Plus and Netflix will be compatible with Kinect. We imagine it'll be just like Zune Video's interface. Developing...
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The Next Web and Joystiq
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Microsoft sold 8 million Kinects in 60 days
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VentureBeat, Mashable! and Neowin.net
Wall Street Journal:
Goldman, Citing Strong Response, to End Facebook Solicitation — Interest in shares of Facebook Inc. is so strong that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. plans to stop soliciting interest from potential investors on Thursday, after the securities firm received orders of several billion dollars, according to people familiar with the situation.
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The Atlantic Online, SFGate, SAI, TechCrunch, NetworkEffect, All Facebook, Deal Journal, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Fortune, PE Hub Blog and Epicenter
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Shira Ovide / Deal Journal:
Read Goldman Sachs' Secret Facebook Pitch Memo — Goldman Sachs has been overrun with demand for private shares of Facebook, forcing the investment bank to stop offering the stock to its wealthy clients, our Deal Journal colleagues are reporting this afternoon.
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SAI and All Facebook
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Deal Spurs Inquiry
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Search Engine Land, Gawker, Shades of Green, Hillicon Valley, Venture Capital Dispatch, paidContent and Paul Kedrosky's …
Dan Primack / Fortune:
New Facebook-Goldman info, including WHY Facebook is doing the deal
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SAI and VentureBeat
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Report: Facebook Revenue Was $777 Million In 2009, Net Income $200 Million
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SAI
Andy Rubin / Google Mobile Blog:
A Sneak Peek of Android 3.0, Honeycomb — The past few weeks have been exciting ones for the Android team: we recently released Nexus S and Android 2.3, Gingerbread, and we've even had some of our most popular team members take a trip to space. But we haven't stopped buzzing with excitement …
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Search Engine Land, Forbes, Computerworld, Mobilized, TechCrunch, PC World, Fortune, Techie Buzz and lalawag
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Jake Smith / Teens in Tech:
Google Posts Android 3.0 Promotional Video; Confirms Tablet Exclusivity
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BGR, Android Police, Engadget, Google Operating System, GigaOM, PhoneDog.com, eHomeUpgrade, AndroidGuys, GottaBeMobile, IntoMobile, Android Phone Fans, LaptopMemo, Androinica and TechCrunch, Thanks:jakeosmith
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Next Version of Windows to Run on System-on-a-Chip Architectures — Happy New Year everyone! At CES 2011 in Las Vegas, we hosted a press conference announcing that the next version of Windows will support System on a Chip architectures from Intel, AMD, and ARM.
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Microsoft, Engadget, The Official Microsoft Blog, SFGate, msnbc.com, Teching It Easy, Download Squad, Redmond Pie, All about Microsoft Blog and Pulse2
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
CES: Microsoft shows off Windows 8 on ARM
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The Windows Blog, Forbes, NVIDIA, Microsoft, internetnews.com, WinRumors, Mobilized, Faster Forward, Gizmodo Australia, The Next Web, BGR and Engadget
Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:
New Tile-Based Shell, App Model, And App Store Coming In Windows 8?
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LiveSide.net, All about Microsoft Blog, GottaBeMobile, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Neowin.net and TechSpot
Zach Epstein / BGR:
AT&T details 4G plans [updated] — 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 — as we reported earlier today — and de la Vega was joined by Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha, HTC CEO Peter Chou …
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eWeek, Computerworld, Engadget, Forbes, Digits, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Wall Street Journal, BetaNews, Electronista, IntoMobile, 9 to 5 Mac, Tech Trader Daily, Ars Technica, SAI, SFGate, Mobilized, Mass High Tech, Pulse2, AppleInsider, Gadget Lab, Erictric, Geek.com, Examiner, RazorianFly, TiPb, PhoneArena, Gearlog, LiveSide.net, GottaBeMobile, PhoneDog.com, MacRumors, iClarified and Reuters
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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
AT&T's 4G LTE network coming mid-2011 with 20 devices by year end
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PC World, BGR, AT&T, Computerworld, Engadget, GigaOM, Between the Lines Blog, GottaBeMobile, IntoMobile, Wi-Fi Networking News, Techie Buzz, WPCentral.com, dailywireless.org, blogs.chron.com and BetaNews
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Samsung Infuse 4G announced for AT&T; 1.2 GHz, Super AMOLED Plus
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Engadget, MobileCrunch, Gadget Lab, The Next Web, Switched, Pulse2, Smartphones …, Androinica, MobileTechWorld and IntoMobile
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zynga To Acquire Flock, The Social Browser That You Never Used — Zynga is acquiring Flock, a beleaguered startup founded in 2005 by Bart Decrem and Geoffrey Arone, we've confirmed. The deal should be announced shortly. — The company has raised nearly $30 million in venture capital, although the last round was closed in 2008.
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The Atlantic Online, Flock Browser, VentureBeat, paidContent, eMoney, Download Squad and Techie Buzz
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Samsung's Series 9 laptop is the Windows Macbook Air killer you've been waiting for — Second-generation Intel Core Family processors are here, and laptop manufacturers are wasting no time announcing new models. Samsung has the eye-popper of the Consumer Electronics Show (OK, so far) …
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Engadget, Daring Fireball, Thoughts from the Sidelines, PC World, Pulse2, TechSpot and Electronista
Arron / RazorianFly:
EXCLUSIVE: Tweetie 2.0 For Mac Will Launch With The Mac App Store, Tomorrow … Post comment as — This is awesome, I can't wait to see the App Store and Twitter for Mac! — Reply — View comment — If it's free, what is the business model ? Shouldn't it be paid, at least a buck ?
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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, BGR, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, SlashGear and The Next Web, Thanks:hornokplease
Ed Christman / Reuters:
Beatles being paid directly by iTunes in deal — NEW YORK (Billboard) - It seems that the EMI/Beatles deal that finally brought the Fab Four's catalog to iTunes may be more groundbreaking than originally thought. — According to industry sources, iTunes is paying the Beatles' royalties …
Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
LinkedIn plans to go public in 2011: sources — (Reuters) - LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, plans to go public in 2011 and has selected its financial underwriters, three sources familiar with the process told Reuters. — Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and JPMorgan …
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Motorola XOOM tablet announced — Motorola Mobility on Wednesday announced the tablet countless Android fans have been waiting for. The Motorola XOOM is a 10.1-inch full touchscreen device with specs that look like they'll line up pretty well with the rest of the Android slates we'll …
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Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Next generation iPhone casing, innards revealed on video; are you the Verizon iPhone? — A firm named GlobalDirectParts has put together a fairly extensive, five-plus minute video showcasing what they claim to be parts from Apple's next generation iPhone (referred to as the iPhone 5 in the video).
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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Bloomberg, L.A. Times Tech Blog, GMSV, Computerworld, SAI, Between the Lines Blog, NewEnterprise, Reuters and LiveSide.net
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
CES: Microsoft shows off Surface 2.0 — Microsoft officials demonstrated an updated, thinner version of the Surface multi-touch tabletop computer at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on January 5. — Microsoft officials shared a few particulars on the next-generation Surface 2.0 device …
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BetaNews, Between the Lines Blog, WinRumors, TechFlash and The Next Web
Allen Kiehl / AndroidSPIN:
Exclusive: Hands on with the HTC Thunderbolt 4G — We managed to get our hands on one of the new HTC Thunderbolt 4G's today and took a few pictures for your viewing pleasure. As well we also managed to run a Quadrant Benchmark and show the results (which are at the bottom of this post).
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Gadgetell, Pulse2, Thoughts from the Sidelines, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Erictric and Electronista
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Cisco's Videoscape: Ready to Reinvent TV? — Cisco announced an ambitious strategy for making high-quality video — whether it be from online or traditional TV and cable providers — pervasive across a wide range of devices, from broadband-connected set-top boxes to tablets and other mobile devices at CES Wednesday.
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Cisco, Forbes, PC World, eWeek, Between the Lines Blog, TelevisionInfo.com, TheStreet.com, paidContent, Bloomberg and Cisco Blog
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Apple Is Granted Its First Liquidmetal Patent [Exclusive] — A prototype fuel cell mobile phone by Hitachi. Apple may be working on similar technology for the iPhone and iPad. Photo: Slashphone — Apple has been granted its first patent related to Liquidmetal, a space-age metal alloy.
