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Apple:
Apple's Mac App Store Opens for Business — Apple® today announced that the Mac® App Store℠ is now open for business with more than 1,000 free and paid apps. The Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store experience to the Mac, so you can find great new apps …
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Apple Releases OS X 10.6.6 and Mac App Store — A few minutes ago Apple released OS X 10.6.6 with access to the Mac App Store in Software Update. It is available now as a free 114 MB download for Snow Leopard users. As noted by Macworld, the Mac App Store already includes some apps …
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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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AppleInsider:
Apple restricting employee vacations as first 2011 products loom — Apple is quietly prohibiting vacation days for some retail employees for three weeks beginning later this month, a move that could foreshadow a significant product introduction in the coming weeks, AppleInsider has learned.
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Windows at CES 2011 — It's been an exciting day for Windows with lots of news shared. I did however want to take a few minutes to share with you a bit more about the rest of the Windows story and the things we will be talking about this week at CES. — At last year's CES …
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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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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
CES: What Microsoft's Ballmer didn't say
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
CES: New Microsoft Surface to be priced at $7,600 — Microsoft officials showed off “Surface 2.0″ — the new version of the company's multitouch tabletop — at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) yesterday. — There were lots of tweets and relatively few details, but on January 6 …
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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Microsoft gives LCDs the power to see with Surface 2.0 — Microsoft's Surface touchscreen technology for large displays has lost a lot of bulk in its newest iteration, and in the process it has also given LCDs the power to see with its new PixelSense technology.
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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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Ross Miller / Engadget:
Netflix and Hulu Plus with Kinect coming this spring to Xbox 360
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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Microsoft sold 8 million Kinects in 60 days
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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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Wall Street Journal:
Goldman Flooded With Facebook Orders — 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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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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Jacob Schulman / Engadget:
Motorola Xoom first hands-on! (update: video!)
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BBC:
Thousands of stolen iTunes accounts for sale in China — Apple's iTunes service has been targeted several times by criminals in recent years — Tens of thousands of fraudulent iTunes accounts are for sale on a major Chinese website, it has been revealed.
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Marco.org:
Google's decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search — Jeff Atwood, in Trouble In the House of Google: … (via Anil Dash's nice roundup on the issue) — I've been frustrated as well by Google's apparent defeat by spam. It's not a sudden issue — it's been gradually worsening for a few years.
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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Quora Signups Exploded In Late December — Then Doubled From That This Week — So this service Quora, it's getting pretty hot. But up until now, we've only be able to guestimate how hot it actually is. But today they've finally shared some actual information — on Quora, naturally.
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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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AppleInsider:
New Apple patent for network booting could lead to cloud-based Mac OS X — Apple has recently been granted a patent for administering and maintaining a network-booted operating system, possibly laying further groundwork for a cloud-based version of Mac OS X.
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
BlackBerry PlayBook Review — A Hands-On Pre-Release Review of the BlackBerry PlayBook — I've FINALLY gone hands-on with the BlackBerry PlayBook and thus it's time for me to report back with my initial review and impressions of Research In Motion's first tablet device featuring the all-new QNX-based BlackBerry Tablet OS.
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Marin Perez / IntoMobile:
BlackBerry PlayBook will have Sprint 4G
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Jonathan Christensen / The Big Blog:
Skype coming soon to Sony BRAVIA and VIZIO VIA TVs — Last year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), we ushered in a new era of face-to-face communications with the introduction of Skype-enabled TVs. This year at CES, we're making further strides in the living room by making it even easier to get Skype on your TV.
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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John Ribeiro / PC World:
S. Korean Police Say Google Collected Private Data Illegally — South Korea has concluded that Google illegally collected personal data while collecting information for its Street View map service, an official at the country's National Police Agency (NPA) said on Thursday.
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Skype To Acquire Qik For ~$100 Million — Source — Internet phone giant Skype has acquired Qik, the service that lets you stream video from your smartphone, for around $100 million, a source tells us. — Skype will probably announce the news this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, this source says.
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