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Apple:
Verizon Wireless & Apple Team Up to Deliver iPhone 4 on Verizon — BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey and CUPERTINO, California—January 11, 2011—Verizon Wireless and Apple® today announced that the iPhone® 4 will be available on the Verizon Wireless network beginning on Thursday, February 10.
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Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Verizon Gets the iPhone, Arriving February 10th From $199 — It's Verizon's big day: The day it reveals its own version of Apple's game-changing iPhone, ready to steal millions of unsatisfied customers from AT&T and launch Apple's share price into the stratosphere.
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Engadget, Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Online, SAI and Bloomberg
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
AT&T iPhone 4 vs. Verizon iPhone 4: what's changed? — Is an iPhone 4, an iPhone 4? Not quite, now that Verizon has launched a CDMA version of the device — in fact, there are a number of notable differences that you're going to want to consider before buying either model (or making the jump from AT&T to Big Red).
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BGR, Macworld, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, App Advice, IntoMobile, AOL News, TUAW, The Iphone Spot, GottaBeMobile and Soup
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Verizon's iPhone 4 has a CDMA-specific antenna, no other changes made — Would you look at that, Verizon's iPhone 4 has four notches punctuating its external antenna array — one more than you may find on AT&T's version, with the top notch migrating to the side.
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NewsGrange, BGR, App Advice, SAI, AppleInsider, Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac, Daring Fireball, SlashGear, internetnews.com, IntoMobile, MacStories, The Iphone Spot, TodaysiPhone.com, Softpedia News, TUAW, Macgasm, Scripting News, VG247 and PaulColligan.com
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
AT&T: Verizon iPhone? Whatever. — AT&T was quick to react to Verizon's iPhone announcement, though it wasted very few words on it. — “For iPhone users who want the fastest speeds, the ability to talk and use apps at the same time, and unsurpassed global coverage, the only choice is AT&T …
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AppleInsider, Mobilized, Tech Trader Daily, MediaMemo, everythingiCafe and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Why No LTE iPhone For Now? “Design Compromises” Apple Would Not Make. — Today during Verizon and Apple's press conference in New York City announcing the iPhone 4, Apple COO fielded a question that has been on a lot of people's minds: why won't the iPhone on Verizon be a next-generation LTE version?
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Between the Lines Blog and Gearlog
Steve Kovach / The Business Insider:
HUGE: Verizon iPhone Will Act As A Mobile Hotspot — Huge news out of Verizon's iPhone 4 announcement today. — The iPhone 4 will double as a mobile hotspot for up to five devices using Verizon's 3G network. — That's another huge win for Verizon. AT&T doesn't allow iPhone owners to use their phone as a mobile hotspot.
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Mobilized, SAI, GigaOM, Smartphones …, Engadget, TechCrunch, 9 to 5 Mac, MobileWhack.com and Phones Review
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Why I'm not switching to the Verizon iPhone: Need for speed — The image above says it all. It shows a screen capture of an actual speed test performed on an Apple iPhone 4 while connected to AT&T's 3G network in northern New Jersey. It is not an anomaly.
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Engadget, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, MacRumors, App Advice, New York Times, mocoNews, PC World, TechCrunch, Fortune, DSLreports, SAI, BetaNews, The Apple Core Blog, IntoMobile, PC Magazine, HotTips!, TUAW, ReadWriteWeb, GottaBeMobile, Electronista, everythingiCafe, MacStories, bub.blicio.us and I4U News
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
How Personal Hotspot Works On The Verizon iPhone (Pictures)
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TUAW
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Verizon And Apple Began Working Together To Make The CDMA iPhone In 2008
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VatorNews, 901am, GMSV and Between the Lines Blog
E. B. Boyd / Fast Company:
Why Twitter Was the Only Company to Challenge the Secret WikiLeaks Subpoena — The government has almost certainly made secret requests for WikiLeaks-related material from other companies. But only Twitter (successfully at least) fought to have to have those orders brought into the open. Here's why.
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Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Twitter's Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard
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The Atlantic Online, techPresident, Bloomberg and Pluggd.in
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Wikileaks volunteer hires lawyers in Twitter fight
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Computerworld and GMSV
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:UK:
MySpace Cuts 47 Percent Of Its Workforce — As has been rumored for weeks, MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) is laying off nearly 500 employees, or nearly half of its workforce. MySpace says it's making the cuts “to provide the company with a clear path for sustained growth and profitability” …
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TechCrunch, Guardian, Mixed Media, BBC, Mashable! and Hollywood Reporter
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
MySpace CEO confirms heavy layoffs
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Music Ally, Reuters and The Next Web
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
Why I'm Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud — I've always been a big advocate of storing things in the cloud. Not just emails and files, but my entire life. As I've written before, I live permanently in hotels, and my whole life fits into carry-on luggage.
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broadstuff
Michael Geist Blog:
Canadian Recording Industry To Pay $45 Million To Settle Class Action Over Copyright Infringement — The four major record labels that comprise the Canadian Recording Industry Association - EMI Music Canada Inc., Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc., Universal Music Canada Inc. and Warner Music Canada Co. …
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Techdirt, hypebot, DailyTech, TorrentFreak and Canada NewsWire Group
The Official Google Blog:
Google Science Fair seeks budding Einsteins and Curies — Are you a student who loves science? Do you have a good idea for an experiment that you'd like to share with the world? In 1996, two young computer science students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, had a hypothesis that there was a better way to find information on the web.
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Computerworld, TechCrunch, Switched, Softpedia News, Gearlog and ReadWriteWeb
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Paid Farm Bureau $8.5 Million To Acquire Fb.com — On November 15th, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook had acquired Fb.com from The American Farm Bureau Federation to use as the domain for internal email addresses now that the Facebook Messages were parked on Facebook.com.
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MediaFile
Nielsen Wire:
Cellphones and Global Youth: Mobile Internet and Messaging Trends — Young people around the world love their mobile phones, but they use them in vastly different ways. — In China, the mobile internet reigns supreme. Seventy-three percent of Chinese mobile youth ages 15-24 reported using …
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FierceMobileContent and Mobilized
Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Winklevoss twins gamble $65m for Facebook fortune — The twins rose to prominence after the release of The Social Network film — Three Harvard graduates are to gamble a $65m settlement they made with Facebook over who came up with the idea for the site, in an effort to get more money.
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NetworkEffect and Digits
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Silicon Valley R&D legend Xerox PARC gets new CEO — Few places in Silicon Valley are as legendary as the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where fundamental computing inventions from the mouse to the personal computer were first conceived. — That's why it marks a new era whenever PARC gets a new chief.
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eWeek and Between the Lines Blog
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Google Ice Cream landing in time for the summer — EXCLUSIVE: Sources date the next Android update — Google will release the next version of its mobile phone operating system, Android 2.4, in the summer, Pocket-lint has learnt. — According to multiple sources familiar with the matter …
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PC World, Mashable!, SlashGear, BGR, GottaBeMobile, Erictric, Techland, Newlaunches.com, Fonehome.co.uk, Download Squad, Gadgetell, Geek.com, pocketnow.com, Neowin.net and Phones Review, Thanks:stuartmiles
David Kirkpatrick / The Daily Beast:
Marissa Mayer and Google's Local Search Strategy — Marissa Mayer, the executive behind Google's search engine, now aims to help the company conquer social media and personalize your Web experience on mobile phones. She talks to David Kirkpatrick about her war with Facebook.
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Google Watch
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
The Rise Of Facebook's Valuation From 2004-2011 [Graphic] — Click image to enlarge. — The panic at absurd rumors of Facebook's demise over the weekend, coupled with the Goldman Sachs Facebook investment frenzy at the beginning of this year got us thinking; Did initial Facebook investor Peter Thiel …
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All Facebook and Fortune
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Bump Raises $16 Million Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz — If you've got an iPhone or Android device, there's a decent chance you're familiar with Bump, the nifty service that lets you swap contact information (and other data) by simply tapping two phones together.
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alarm:clock, Bits, Digital Trends, Bump Blog, GMSV, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, mocoNews, VatorNews, Pulse2, The Progress Bar, VentureBeat, FierceMobileContent and Xconomy
