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Apple:
Mac App Store Downloads Top One Million in First Day — Apple® today announced that over one million apps have been downloaded from the Mac® App Store℠ in the first day. With more than 1,000 free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store experience to the Mac …
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GigaOM, Macworld, App Advice, TUAW, MacStories, The Next Web, Apple, PC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, NewsGrange, Appletell, Apple Gazette, Gadgetell and ThinkMobile
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Without Proper Code Validation, Mac App Store Downloads Are Easily Bootlegged — Copy the App Store receipt from any legit Mac App Store download — including from any free app — and paste it into a bootleg download of Angry Birds, and it'll run. — This isn't true for all paid Mac App Store apps.
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Examiner, CNET News, The Register, Naked Security, Forbes, Hardware 2.0 Blog, The Next Web, Softpedia News, SlashGear, MacStories, RazorianFly, Neowin.net, LiewCF.com and AppleInsider
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Mac App Store Cracked Open for Piracy — The Mac App Store's security has been cracked. This means that, by installing a software called Kickback, you will be able to pirate any applications in the store. However, the crack will not be available until February 2011, according to Dissident:
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9 to 5 Mac, Macworld, Fast Company, AppleInsider, App Insect, Craftymind, p2pnet, TUAW, BlogsDNA, Redmond Pie, Geek.com, RCR Unplugged, Fortune, THINQ.co.uk, GamePolitics News, Bill Snyder's blog, everythingiCafe, Edge Online, Panic Blog, Help Net Security, MacNN, Techie Buzz, BBC, Geekword, VG247, HotTips!, TG Daily, Pocket-lint, Lifehacker, Computerworld and Daring Fireball, Thanks:gizmodo
Whitson Gordon / Lifehacker:
Why the Mac App Store Sucks — Apple launched the Mac App Store today, allowing you to browse, search, read reviews, and buy Mac software of all kinds in one streamlined location. And it's terrible. Here's why. Sure, the Mac App Store is a good idea in theory.
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Cult of Mac, Computerworld, Techie Buzz, TechCrunch, App Advice and RazorianFly
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Apple's Mac App Store fundamentally changes PC software usage rights — Earlier today, Apple officially launched its application store for Macintosh, with about 1,000 free and paid applications available. Snow Leopard users download the Mac OS X 10.6.6 update, and the store is included.
Richard Lai / Engadget:
Sony's PlayStation Phone gets in-depth preview in China, PlayStation Pocket app in tow — Well, that was quick. It was just two days ago when the elusive PlayStation Phone popped up on a Hong Kong forum, and now it's back again in full exposure thanks to Chinese website IT168.
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BGR, Kotaku, Phones Review, Techie Buzz, Neowin.net, Softpedia News, pocketnow.com, Eurodroid, VG247, Joystiq, The Next Web and Pocket-lint
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Uniformity vs. Individuality in Mac UI Design — The new Twitter for Mac is somewhat polarizing, what with its almost entirely custom UI. I used to have a fervor for uniform consistency in Mac UI design. A perusal through the early DF archives will show that. But the HIG is dead. It died long ago.
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RiSC future, NewsGrange, GigaOM, Bits and WebProNews
Reuters:
Goldman customers get Facebook financials — (Reuters) - Facebook earned $355 million in net income in the first nine months of 2010 on revenue of $1.2 billion, according to documents that Goldman Sachs is providing to clients. — Goldman began hand-delivering copies of the 101-page private …
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SAI, New York Magazine, The Register, Pulse2, The Domains and DealBook
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Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Will Go Public or Disclose Financials by April 2012
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Deal Journal, DealBook, eWeek, PC World, L.A. Times Tech Blog, VentureBeat, Post Tech, ITworld.com, Computerworld, CNNMoney.com, Forbes, NetworkEffect, All Facebook, Epicenter, CNBC, Salon and paidContent
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Facebook, Goldman Sachs & How Money Seeks Regulatory Free Zones
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EngageDigital and Venture Capital Dispatch
Mike Schackwitz / The Windows Blog:
What happened in the recent Hotmail outage — On December 31, 2010, a number of our users reported their email messages and folders were missing from their Hotmail accounts. I want to take a little time to explain what happened, and what steps we've taken to fix this problem and prevent it from happening in the future.
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The Register, Download Squad, Softpedia News, LiveSide.net, CNET News, Neowin.net and All about Microsoft Blog
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
Dell Streak 7: The First 4G Tablet Is a Pocket Pit Bull — The 7-inch version of Dell's Streak tablet has been rumored and teased for months, but today it's officially official! And what it lacks in size it makes up for in sweet, speedy 4G goodness. — The Streak 7 weighs less than a pound …
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BGR, IntoMobile, CNET News, Engadget, Forbes, Computerworld and Mobilized
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
Do People Really Want Apps on Their TVs? — TVs stuffed with apps that bring popular Web services to larger screens are crowding the floors of the Consumer Electronics Show this week. — But do people really want their TVs to act like already app-ified computers or mobile phones?
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Microsoft Blog and Venture Capital Dispatch
Rob Wong / Hulu Blog:
Hulu Plus Coming Soon to Android Mobile Phones, Live on Vizio HDTVs — Since we launched Hulu Plus, it's been our goal to continue to add more platforms and devices to the subscription service to offer you as many ways as possible to stream the shows you want, whenever you want.
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GigaOM, paidContent, FierceMobileContent, The Next Web, IntoMobile, Erictric, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Android Community and ThinkMobile, more at Mediagazer »
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Can Quora Survive Its Growing Popularity? — If you're a web service, especially a young startup, you want to get as many users as possible, right? But there are worse things than having a small number of users — particularly when the service you are offering depends on the quality of the content provided by those users.
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Mashable!, broadstuff and Sysomos Blog, Thanks:mathewi
Jenna Dawn / Twitter Blog:
Celebrating a New Year with a New Tweet Record — Well, that didn't take long. Just four seconds after midnight in Japan on January 1st, Twitterers set an all-time record in the number of Tweets sent per second (TPS). At that moment, the world sent a staggering 6,939 TPS wishing friends …
Wall Street Journal:
Gadget Makers Follow Facebook's Lead — Compatibility of Cameras, Games, E-Books Grows Along With Social Network's Role in Consumers' Lives — LAS VEGAS—Investors are hardly the only ones friending Facebook Inc. these days. — Gadget makers increasingly are adding Facebook to their products …
Tony Bates / The Big Blog:
Skype to acquire Qik — I'm happy to announce that we've entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Qik, a provider of mobile video software and services that let people capture, instantly share and preserve great moments on video from anywhere. Qik has 60 employees …
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About Skype, Smartphones …, blogs.skype.com, NewsGrange, ReadWriteWeb, Qik Blog, San Francisco Chronicle, VentureBeat, WebProNews, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, CNET News, SlashGear, Digits, RCR Unplugged, Electronista, Internet Evolution, Tech Musings, PC World, IntoMobile, LaptopMemo, dailywireless.org, pocketnow.com, Mashable!, Disruptive Telephony, TechCrunch, Download Squad and Lost Remote
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
HTC Thunderbolt and LG Revolution official on Verizon (update) — Would you look at that. Verizon's ongoing press conference has been accompanied by the appearance of two 4.3-inch LTE handsets coming to the network. Both HTC's Thunderbolt and LG's Revolution were pretty well known in advance …
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Electronista, GottaBeMobile, BGR, IntoMobile, PC World, Softpedia News, MobileCrunch, AndroidSPIN and The Tech Herald …
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Verizon launching 10 LTE devices, promises 175 markets by 2012
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DSLreports, Verizon, Techland, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Digits, Examiner, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, Neowin.net, Gadget Lab, Mobilized, Between the Lines Blog, AndroidSPIN, The Big Blog, BGR and ThinkMobile
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
MOG Lands Deal With Verizon, Will Come Preinstalled On All 4G Android Phones
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Music Ally, ReadWriteWeb, hypebot and SAI
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
More on Microsoft ‘Jupiter’ and what it means for Windows 8 — After a first tip this week on Microsoft's Jupiter — a new “application model” for Windows 8 — I started nosing around to learn more about this mysterious new Microsoft codename. — Here's a brain dump of what I learned …
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Neowin.net and The Next Web
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Drawings of next-generation iPhone from Foxconn? — Apple.Pro posts some images claiming to be drawings of the next-generation iPhone. The drawings are said to originate at a Foxconn iPhone manufacturing plant and it is unknown whether these represent a Verizon iPhone 4 or the fifth-generation iPhone.
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App Advice and iThinkDifferent
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Ford introduces MyFord Mobile app for smartphones — Sadly Ford isn't confirming the Focus Electric that it saw fit to tease earlier this week, but we can now tell you all about the new smartphone app that will let you monitor the charging of... certain Ford vehicles.
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PR Newswire, Phones Review, PhoneArena, IntoMobile and Electronista
Nicholas Kolakowski / eWeek:
Microsoft CEO Ballmer: Xbox Passes Apple Among Young Consumers — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested during a CNBC interview that the Xbox was the most popular young consumer brand in tech. — LAS VEGAS—Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his Jan. 5 keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show …
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