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Shayndi Raice / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon iPhone to Be Available Around End of January — Apple Inc.'s iPhone will make its way to Verizon Wireless stores around the end of the month, a person familiar with the matter said. — The largest U.S. wireless carrier by subscribers will make the long-awaited announcement to carry …
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Edward Moyer / CNET News:
Shooting suspect left unsettling artifacts online — The suspected gunman in the shooting today of a U.S. Congresswoman posted disturbing artifacts on YouTube and MySpace, according to various reports, including a photo of a gun on top of a U.S. history book, and videos featuring strange, sometimes political ramblings.
Joe Brown / Gizmodo:
Some of Tomorrow's Best Gadgets — You know what? There's some pretty sweet gear at this year's CES: tablets galore, smart cameras, cool phones, audiophile pr0n. Woot! This little trade show might have a future! Check out some of our favorites. — Motorola's Atrix Android Phone Has Two Cores And Can Dock Into a Laptop
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Windows Phone 7 using lots of 3G data while idle, even on WiFi? — Complaints seem to be growing among some users that Windows Phone 7 is consuming an abnormally plump quantity of data when you're not doing anything. Granted, there's lots of stuff on the platform that might need data continuously …
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PC World, Electronista, Examiner and VentureBeat
Tristan Louis / TNL.net:
New York to displace Silicon Valley — There's been a lot of discussion in the past couple of years about the resurgence of New York City as a tech center (I actually called the comparison to Silicon Valley a silly one about a year ago). In the past couple of years, however …
Gautham Nagesh / Hillicon Valley:
Issa bill would provide green cards for up to 55,000 workers — Tech companies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have bemoaned the shortage of U.S. students earning advanced math degrees. — House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would pave …
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Karl Bode / DSLreports:
‘Internet Freedom Act’ Tries To Stop FCC Neutrality Rules — Part of larger Republican effort to scuttle new rules — Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) this week filed the ironically-entitled Internet Freedom Act (pdf), which is designed to prevent the FCC from enacting network neutrality rules intended to protect the open Internet.
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Examiner, paidContent and MediaPost
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
How Not To Be Influential? Quora Spam On Mechanical Turk — There's has been much discussion in the past couple of days about how Quora can handle its recent explosive growth, avoid becoming a Yahoo Answers (i.e. full of nonsense and spam) and scale with grace.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Windows on ARM is a big deal, but it's not enough to win at tablets — While “Windows runs on ARM now” is a really easy thing to say, it's an extremely complicated subject, fraught with industry drama, technical accomplishment, and a hint of Microsoft's vision for the future.
Evgeny Morozov / Wall Street Journal:
A Walled Wide Web for Nervous Autocrats — Beijing and Moscow see American information technology as a threat. They want systems of their own — At the end of 2010, the “open-source” software movement, whose activists tend to be fringe academics and ponytailed computer geeks, found an unusual ally: the Russian government.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Will A Q&A Ecosystem Bloom? Quora Launches An API In Alpha — Many successful startups have followed a simple pattern in recent years. They gain the users then demand for an ecosystem begins. We saw this with Facebook, with Twitter, with Foursquare, etc. Quora is currently in the process of gaining those users.
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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Twitter Courts Google's Sundar Pichai for Head of Product — Sundar Pichai, the man in charge of Chrome and Chrome OS at Google, is being aggressively courted by Twitter to be its next head of product, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. — However, added sources …
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Electronista, BoomTown and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
DoJ Subpoena Proves Twitter's Value — and Its Weakness — Not that long ago, there was much debate about whether Twitter was just a plaything for nerds or a powerful, real-time information network. Now the US Department of Justice has answered the question for us by serving the company …
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Peter Beaumont / Guardian:
WikiLeaks demands Google and Facebook unseal US subpoenas
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iGeneration Blog, WL Central and New York Times
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Open Source Blog:
No GPL Apps for Apple's App Store — Some people swore to me that just because the free-software General Public License (GPL) clashes with the Apple App Store's Terms of Service (ToS), didn't mean that Apple would actually pull down GPLed apps. Well, Apple just did.
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Chris Rawson / TUAW:
VLC app removed from App Store
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Download Squad, TorrentFreak, Obama Pacman, RazorianFly, Lifehacker, Geekword, Engadget, MacStories and 9 to 5 Mac
