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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, Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, 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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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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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, Internet Evolution and Gearlog
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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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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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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
How Personal Hotspot Works On The Verizon iPhone (Pictures) — There's actually only one key difference between the Verizon iPhone 4 and the AT&T iPhone 4 (well, besides the network, obviously). But it's a big one: Personal Hotspots. Yes, the Verizon iPhone will come with this killer feature …
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VentureBeat, TUAW and Apple Headlines
Chuong Nguyen / GottaBeMobile:
Will Verizon's iPhone Have an Off-Cycle Refresh Every Year?
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BGR and VentureBeat
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Verizon And Apple Began Working Together To Make The CDMA iPhone In 2008
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VatorNews, 901am, Between the Lines Blog and GMSV
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, Bloomberg, techPresident, Pluggd.in and InformationWeek
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Wikileaks volunteer hires lawyers in Twitter fight
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GMSV and Computerworld
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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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
MySpace CEO confirms heavy layoffs
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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, DailyTech, hypebot, TorrentFreak and Canada NewsWire Group
Jennifer Baker / PC World:
Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, EMC Consortium Plan Withdrawn — In a move that will be seen by many as a big win for open-source advocates, a plan to create a consortium led by Microsoft to buy Novell patents has been withdrawn. — Early in December Microsoft, Apple, EMC and Oracle notified …
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9 to 5 Mac, TechFlash, WinRumors and The Next Web
Greg Bensinger / Bloomberg:
Verizon to Sell Apple IPad That Connects Directly to Its Network — Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) — Verizon Wireless will sell a version of Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet computer that can connect directly to its network, posing another challenge to AT&T Inc. as the carrier's exclusive hold on the iPhone draws to a close.
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, All Facebook and CBS News
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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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, Switched, TechCrunch, Gearlog, Softpedia News, ReadWriteWeb and Erictric
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
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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Mobile Marketing Watch, FierceMobileContent and Mobilized
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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Fortune and All Facebook
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, Digits and Geek.com
