Techmeme: Mandatory Verizon face-to face training Jan 25 to Feb 4... for iPhone? (Rene Ritchie/TiPb)

7:25 PM ET, January 7, 2011

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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

Verizon Event Set for Tuesday - iPhone Time — And there it is: Verizon will hold a special event at New York City's Lincoln Center (Frederick P. Rose Hall) on Jan. 11-next Tuesday. No details on its focus, but sources close to the company tell me this will indeed prove to be the long-rumored Verizon iPhone announcement.

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Wall Street Journal:

Verizon Finally Lands the iPhone — The iPhone is finally coming to Verizon Wireless. — The largest U.S. wireless carrier will make the long-awaited announcement at an event Tuesday in New York City, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. — The move will for the first time …

Discussion: TechFlash, CNNMoney.com, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, Tech Trader Daily, MacStories, NBC Bay Area, Erictric, msnbc.com, Switched, SlashGear, Computerworld, TUAW, RazorianFly, Geek.com, techblog.dallasnews.com, GeekSugar, PhoneNews.com, TiPb and Faster Forward

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

Apple CEO Likely to Appear at Verizon iPhone Event — Verizon Wireless's Tuesday iPhone announcement will be headlined by President and COO Lowell McAdam, but there will likely be a special guest as well. Apple CEO Steve Jobs. While the appearance isn't 100 percent assured …

Discussion: BGR, PhoneArena, SAI and Engadget

Rene Ritchie / TiPb:

Mandatory Verizon face-to face training Jan 25 to Feb 4... for iPhone? — Verizon is having another one of their mandatory face-to-face training sessions for an “iconic pre-order”, this one scheduled for January 25 to February 4, 2011, and it could just be for the Verizon iPhone.

Discussion: PhoneDog.com, Erictric, Electronista and MacDailyNews

Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:

Verizon iPhone launch looks set for February 3rd — BGR has confirmed with a source close to Apple that the company has blacked out employee vacation requests between February 3rd and February 6th — Thursday through Sunday. The four-day vacation freeze has been confirmed to be in effect in several regions in the United States.

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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 …

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Without Proper Code Validation, Mac App Store Downloads Are Easily Bootlegged

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

Apple Opposes Proposal on CEO Succession Planning — A few noteworthy nuggets from Apple's 2011 Proxy Statement, filed today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. — In 2010 CEO Steve Jobs retained his $1 annual salary and some 5.5 million shares of Apple stock as well.

Discussion: Thomson IR, CNET News, Between the Lines Blog, paidContent, AppleInsider, MacNN and SAI

Sarah Rabil / Bloomberg:
Apple COO Makes $59 Million After Filling in for Jobs

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Ben Worthen / Digits:

Facebook Versus Google Circa 2004 — Is Facebook worth $50 billion? As people ponder that question this week, we decided to look at Google, the Internet's previous wunderkind. — Google's market cap passed the $50 billion mark in October 2004. The company was exactly six years old …

Discussion: Venture Capital Dispatch

Peter Lattman / DealBook: The Facebook-Microsoft Parallels — A computer prodigy drops …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Quora Answers The Question: How Will You Avoid Becoming Yahoo Answers? — As we're all well aware by now, the Q&A service Quora is exploding with growth. And while that may seem like a good thing, there are two distinct downsides. First, Quora is a pretty complex site and so scaling to accomodate huge user growth is difficult.

Discussion: Search Engine Land, Quora, Smart Mobs and The Social Path

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Can Quora Survive Its Growing Popularity?

Discussion: Mashable!, Black Web 2.0, Sysomos Blog and broadstuff, Thanks:mathewi

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

How to Steal Any Movie You Want on the Web: Wall Street Gets a How-To Guide — It's easier than ever to download any movie or TV show you want on the Web, for free. Just ask Rich Greenfield. Or better yet, let the Wall Street analyst show you, via a helpful four-minute video embedded at the bottom of this post.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online

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.

Discussion: Technologizer, BGR, CNET News, Techland, Kotaku, Pulse2, PhoneDog.com, Phones Review, iThinkDifferent, pocketnow.com, TechEye, Techie Buzz, IGN Gear, Neowin.net, Examiner, Softpedia News, TheFeed, MobileCrunch, Geek.com, Eurodroid, Pocket-lint, Joystiq, VG247, PhoneArena and The Next Web

BBC:

Microsoft's Ballmer hints at PC support for Kinect — Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer has hinted to the BBC that he will formally support PC use of the Kinect motion controller in the near future, saying Microsoft “will support that in a formal way in the right time”.

Discussion: WinRumors, Erictric, iThinkDifferent, SlashGear, GameLife, The Next Web, VG247, Joystiq, MTV Multiplayer, Engadget and Pocket-lint

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Apple Goes After The Parody @CeoSteveJobs Twitter Account — Days after California passed a bill criminalizing certain online impersonations, the person behind the @ceoSteveJobs Twitter account tells us that someone from Apple has complained to Twitter about the @ceoSteveJobs Twitter account.

Discussion: PC World, AppleInsider, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, Gizmodo Australia, TUAW and Pulse2

Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:

Why Your Next Car Will Have an IP Address — One trend that has become very clear at this year's CES is that the Internet is slowly making its way into our cars. Of course, you can already browse the Net and play music from Pandora through your smartphone, but the next generation of cars …

Discussion: Faster Forward, The Next Web, msnbc.com and Scobleizer

Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Ford introduces MyFord Mobile app for smartphones

Discussion: PR Newswire, Computerworld, Pulse2, Digits, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Phones Review, Between the Lines Blog and Black Web 2.0

Jim Finkle / Reuters:

Amazon cloud can help hack WiFi networks: expert — (Reuters) - A security researcher says he has figured out a quick and inexpensive way to break a commonly used form of password protection for wireless networks using powerful computers that anybody can lease from Amazon.com Inc over the Web.

Discussion: The Next Web

Brooke Crothers / CNET News:

CES: Intel exec: Microsoft's tablet OS too long in coming — LAS VEGAS—Intel has urged Microsoft to tailor Windows for smaller devices, to no avail, an executive from the chipmaker said at the Consumer Electronics Show. — “Hey, we tried to get [Microsoft] to do a tablet OS (operating system) for a long time.

Discussion: The Microsoft Blog, Pulse2, MarketingVOX, Microsoft Watch and Inquirer

Kim Zetter / Threat Level:

Feds Subpoena Twitter Seeking Information on Ex-WikiLeaks Volunteer — The U.S. Justice Department has served Twitter with a subpoena seeking information on an Icelandic lawmaker who has worked with WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, the lawmaker told Threat Level on Friday.

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:

Do People Really Want Apps on 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?

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, Gadget Lab, Stowe Boyd, Datamation, internetnews.com, Leigh's Blitherings, FT tech hub, The Microsoft Blog and Mashable!

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

News agency seeks to cash in on celeb Twitter pics — Showbiz news agency WENN is to start charging publishers for using pictures posted by celebrities on social media website Twitter. — WENN has signed a deal with social media firm Plixi, formerly called TweetPhoto …

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