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Verizon Wireless Confident It's Got Muscle for iPhone — Verizon Wireless has been beefing up its network and believes it will have no problem handling iPhone-type loads, a claim that could be put to the test this year if the carrier signs up millions of subscribers using the Apple Inc. device.
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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T Already Attacking Verizon iPhone: “Not Sure iPhone Users Are Ready For Life In The Slow Lane” — AT&T is already attacking Verizon over the iPhone. — After we wrote about Verizon's plan to offer unlimited data plans, AT&T PR boss Larry Solomon reached out with a statement …
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Verizon iPhone to offer unlimited data in contrast to AT&T — Verizon will reportedly announce the iPhone on Tuesday paired with its existing service plans, including an all-you-can-eat data plan, and become available to subscribers later this month. — A report published by Reuters credited …
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Computerworld, SlashGear, The Apple Core Blog, Newlaunches.com, ThinkMobile, MacRumors, TechCrunch, TUAW, TodaysiPhone.com and Geek.com
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan — TOKYO — Mark Zuckerberg. Who? — Mr. Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old Facebook chief executive and co-founder, may be the man of the moment in the United States and much of the rest of the online world. But here in Japan …
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The Bivings Report, Asiajin, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, SAI and Tech Report
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Myspace Plans to Lay Off 550 to 600 Employees Tomorrow — Myspace, which has been struggling to revitalize itself, is expected to lay off 550 to 600 of its staff of just over 1,000 tomorrow, according to several sources. — NetworkEffect first reported news of the large-scale cuts at the end of December.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Exclusive interview: Google's Matias Duarte talks Honeycomb, tablets, and the future of Android — We're not going to lie — we're pretty excited to bring this to you guys. Here at CES 2011 we had a chance to sit down with Matias Duarte, the man behind webOS (as well as the Sidekick and Helio UIs) …
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
No more restocking fees at Apple Stores starting January 11 — Typically, when you return an opened product to an Apple Store you will be charged a 10% restocking fee. Well, come Tuesday, this will all be in the past as Apple is cutting restocking fees from their retail chain.
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Alexandra Topping / Guardian:
Twitter endorsements face OFT clampdown — Watchdog says online companies who did not disclose paid-for promotions by celebrities and bloggers were deceptive — How does a celebrity declare their affiliations to certain brands in fewer than 140 characters?
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple follows AT&T, drops official US iPhone 3GS price to $49 — Apple has quietly dropped the price of its entry-level 8GB iPhone 3GS to $49 with a new two-year contract with AT&T, matching the new low price that last week was offered exclusively by the carrier.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Jam-packed CES draws more than 140,000 visitors to Vegas — The 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show, known as CES, was a blow-out success with more than 140,000 attendees, according to preliminary figures released tonight. — The 140,000-figure is 10 percent above the 126,000 attendees for the January 2010 show.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple AirPlay devices set to explode in 2011 — Although DLNA may have had a significant head start, the streaming media standard available on more than 9,000 devices is about to be challenged in a very big way by Apple's upstart AirPlay technology. At least it will be if Jordan Watters …
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9 to 5 Mac, Lucas Gonze's blog and MacStories
Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune:
Intuit takes a swipe at Square — Intuit's GoPayment is going freemium to battle Jack Dorsey's Square, but is the mobile payment pie worth fighting over? — The Intuit GoPayment reader — Intuit, best known for its Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax accounting software …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Klout Lands $8.5 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Greycroft To Measure Social Influence — Klout, a startup that measures influence on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, has raised $8.5 million in new funding led by the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer recently launched sFund with participation from Greycroft Partners.
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VatorNews, Mashable!, GigaOM, BoomTown, paidContent and The Official Klout Blog
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple launching personal setup for Macs at Apple Stores — Apple has had a personal setup service for iPhone purchases made at Apple retail stores for some time now. Since Thanksgiving, Apple has offered the same personal setup service for iPad and iPod touch purchases.
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Softpedia News, TUAW, MacStories and iClarified
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Tablets at CES 2011: Honeycomb, Windows 7, and all the rest — It's been raining tablets here at CES 2011. No seriously, it as if the sky has opened up in Vegas and dropped touchscreen slabs with Android and Windows 7 operating systems on our heads. It's been nearly impossible to keep track …
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David Chartier / Macworld:
Developers weigh in on the Mac App Store — The Mac App Store is the biggest thing to happen to Mac software distribution since the Internet itself—some might say that the store is even bigger. Many users haven't bothered with boxes and CDs of software for some time …
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Phil Libin / Evernote Blogcast:
Mac App Store more than doubles new users
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GottaBeMobile, MacStories, Download Squad, Softpedia News, Shelly Palmer Digital Living and PC Magazine
