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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
A Delay for the Daily: Apple, News Corp. Push Back Launch Date — Turns out you'll have to wait a bit longer to see the Daily, Rupert Murdoch's long-awaited iPad news service. — Apple and News Corp. have made a joint decision to push back next week's planned launch, according to sources familiar with the companies' plans.
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Daniel Ruby / Chitika, Inc.:
Why The Verizon iPhone is the Ultimate Threat to Android — Verizon is Android's best friend in the US; in a sample of traffic from the Chitika network, 55% of all Android traffic came from Verizon's phones. So when Apple announced that the iPhone is coming to Verizon in February …
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Paul Carton / InvestorPlace:
New Survey Shows Verizon iPhone Will Have Major Impact on U.S. Wireless Service Providers — Can AT&T Forestall Large-Scale Defections? — The details of a Verizon iPhone have finally been released, but what impact will this long expected move actually have on U.S. wireless service providers and their subscribers?
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Sarah Radwanick / comScore Voices:
How the Verizon iPhone Announcement Could Influence the Mobile Market
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MediaPost, PC World and FierceWireless
DealBook:
Groupon I.P.O. Said to Value the Company at $15 Billion — Updated — Groupon, the social buying site that spurned a $6 billion offer from Google, is pushing ahead with plans for its initial public offering, a debut that could value the company at $15 billion or more.
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Is this the iPad 2′s camera.app? — We've been telling you all about this camera that's coming in the iPad 2 and thought you might like to see some screenshots. Our tipster Sonny D. sent us these screenshots that he assembled from files within the SDK of the iPad camera.app.
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everythingiCafe, Engadget, Neowin.net, Apple Headlines, Phones Review, WebProNews, Covering Web and Fonehome.co.uk, Thanks:sentelmullins
DigiTimes:
RIM to ship 1 million PlayBook tablets in 1Q11 — Quanta Computer has begun volume production of RIM's PlayBook tablets with shipments in the first quarter of 2011 expected to top one million units competing head-to-head with the 700,000-800,000 Xoom tablets to be rolled out by Motorola, according to industry sources.
Phil Nickinson / Android Central:
Is the Motorola Atrix 4G coming to AT&T on March 1? — The Motorola Atrix 4G (check out our hands-on) on AT&T easily is one of the hottest phones to come out of CES, with its dual-core processor, the very cool laptop dock and the even cooler HD dock, which basically turns your smartphone …
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Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
The Verizon iPhone Is Too Late — Apple's phone would have snuffed out the Android a year ago, but now Google's device has become an unstoppable juggernaut. — Verizon President and COO Lowell McAdam speaks during the iPhone announcement January 11. — Now that Apple will be selling …
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Charlie Rose / Business Week:
Charlie Rose Talks to Verizon CEO Seidenberg — Ivan Seidenberg discusses the complex courtship with Steve Jobs that led to Verizon's adoption of the iPhone — Do you expect to have the problems AT&T (T) had with the iPhone? The argument is that its network was overwhelmed. — We've prepared greatly.
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JR Raphael / JR Raphael's blog:
Android upgrades: Which manufacturers can you trust? — For most smartphone users, Google's Android upgrades are both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, each upgrade opens the door to exciting new features and functions for a phone. On the other hand, the updates don't arrive instantly …
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Siobhan Ambrose / WPMU.org:
Why You Should Never Search For Free WordPress Themes in Google or Anywhere Else — A few months ago I wrote about WordPress Security. Now, armed only with the words “free WordPress themes,” builtBackwards' Theme Authenticity Checker Plugin and Donncha O Caoimh's Exploit Scanner …
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Changing Way and ReadWriteWeb
Robin Sloan / Twitter Media:
The science of the hashtag — So last week I talked about the art of the hashtag: the power of mad libs, universal particulars, and feedback loops. The day after I posted it, the #LessAmbitiousMovies hashtag took off on Twitter—you might have seen it in your timeline.
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The Atlantic Online and The Huffington Post
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Spotify nears US Sony deal — Spotify, the popular European music service, is finally crossing the pond, The Post has learned. — After trying to crack the US market for more than a year, Spotify is close to a deal with one major music company in the US and has gained the support of at least one other …
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SAI, Electronista, BGR and Geek.com
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Exclusive: BlackBerry Torch 2 gets detailed — Research In Motion's “best BlackBerry ever” — the BlackBerry Torch — definitely wasn't the most competitive device to hit the smartphone market place. But it looks like RIM is trying to change all that with a new take on its QWERTY, horizontal-slider: the BlackBerry Torch 2.
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Steve Ballmer finally shows who's in charge of Microsoft — In his 11th year as chief executive and third outside the shadow of Chairman Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer is asserting surprising control over Microsoft. There were signs in 2010, but events over just the last week …
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Jeff St. John / GigaOM:
GE's $520M Acquisition Into Data Center Power — General Electric is grabbing a piece of the booming business of providing power for the ever-expanding data center industry. On Thursday, GE announced a $520 million offer for Lineage Power Holdings, a provider of gear for data center …
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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Only Now Are We About To See The Real Battle Between iPhone And Android — Apple's iPhone war against Google Android was the big story in tech last year, with Android growing like a weed to beat Apple in U.S. market share. — But in reality, we haven't actually seen a real competition between the iPhone and Android yet.
Florin / Unwired View:
Samsung S5830 Android 2.2 phone leaked, looks like a mini Galaxy S — Here's an Android handset from Samsung that you've probably never heard of until now: the Samsung S5830. — Te phone has appeared in some live photos over at Samfirmware, and it seems to be a smaller version …
BBC:
Facebook's potential ‘unlimited’ — Tens of millions of users are signed up to the social networking site, Facebook. Goldman Sachs invested $450m (£285m) in the company at the start of this year giving it an implied value of $50bn. That's just under $100 for each Facebook member.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Practical vs. Idealistic Scenarios for the Near-Term Future of Online Video — Or: How Google's decision to drop native H.264 playback from Chrome serves to prop up Flash Player — Stefan Richter, of FlashComGuru (a Flash developer site) tries answering my five simple questions.
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Haavard / My Opera:
Is the removal of H.264 from Chrome a step backward for openness?
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John Lister / Tech.Blorge:
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales: App stores a clear and present danger — The app store model is a more immediate threat to internet freedom than breaches of net neutrality. That's the opinion of Wikipedia chief Jimmy Wales. — According to Wales — who was quick to stress he was speaking …
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SlashGear, Computerworld, Engadget and Digital Trends
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Pop that cork! Intel quadruples employees' bonuses — Intel is giving four times the usual bonuses for its employees thanks to its record year with $43 billion in revenues. The company is also paying its workers the equivalent of 3 extra days of work on top of that.
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Noel Randewich / Reuters:
Intel outlook beats Street, tablet caution lingers
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News Stories, New York Times, Engadget, NewEnterprise and ITworld.com
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Apple Is About To Register Its 10 Billionth App Download — Apple has updated its website with an app counter which is about to surpass the 10 billionth application download via its mobile App Store. — Apple wants to reward its users so it will be offering a prize to the person who downloads …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Call Of Duty Invades The Mac App Store; How It Does Should Be Telling — It has now been a week since the launch of the Mac App Store. So far, the reviews have seemed fairly mixed. While nearly everyone praises the simplicity of the store, and Apple touted 1 million app downloads in the first 24 hours …
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Computerworld and Softpedia News
