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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Exclusive: The future of the iPad 2, iPhone 5, and Apple TV, and why Apple is shifting its mobile line to Qualcomm chipsets — We've been hearing a ton of rumors about what direction Apple's next set of products will take and when they'll be available — but now we've got some concrete information …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNET News, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, Mashable!, MacStories, TiPb, Apple Headlines, Erictric and Electronista
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Mike Jazayeri / Chromium Blog:
More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change — There has been a lot of discussion regarding this week's announcement of upcoming changes to HTML video codec support in Chrome. The future of web video is an important topic, we welcome the debate, and want to address some of the questions raised.
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Technologizer, NewsGrange, Electronista, Relevant Results, OSNews, thechromesource, USA Today, Daring Fireball and TechFlash, Thanks:arpitnext
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
So Much For Standards, Google Says WebM Plugins Coming Soon For Safari And IE9 — We've already done a full breakdown of Google's clarification of their H.264 pullout today. But buried in their post is another interesting nugget worth highlighting by itself: WebM plugins are coming shortly for Safari and IE9.
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Apple Outsider
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Clarifies Their H.264 Stance, Hands Keys Of Web Video's Future Back To Flash
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jd/adobe, VentureBeat and USA Today
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Too Late — Dan Lyons, writing for The Daily Beast's Newsweek subsidiary, says “The Verizon iPhone Is Too Late”: Most important, Android still has one huge advantage over the iPhone — diversity. Android phones are sold by dozens of hardware makers, the biggest being Samsung, Motorola, and HTC.
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Examiner, LIVEdigitally and Stowe Boyd
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Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
The Verizon iPhone Is Too Late
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Technologizer, MediaPost, MediaShift and Examiner
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Exclusive: BlackBerry Storm 3 shows up, tells all — You thought we were done revealing RIM's 2011 BlackBerry lineup? Not quite yet. In addition to the new BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Curve, and BlackBerry Torch 2, we have received photos and information about the BlackBerry Storm 3.
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LAPTOP Magazine, PC Magazine, The Toybox Blog, IntoMobile, BetaNews, I4U News, Techie Buzz, Electronista, PhoneArena, BerryReview.com, Thoughts from the Sidelines, CrackBerry.com blogs, Pulse2, Gizmodo, Engadget, SlashGear, Techland, MobileCrunch, Geek.com, internetnews.com, Pocket-lint, Know Your Cell, N4BB and The Huffington Post
Bryan / GizmoFusion:
Exclusive: Google Music Store Coming To Gingerbread? — For you folks that would like an easy way to buy and sync/download music from your PC to your Android phone, you may be in luck very soon. From the image we see above that was just sent to us you can see the words “Sync Music”.
The Mozilla Blog:
The Next Major Version of Firefox is Ready to Test — The latest Firefox 4 Beta is available to test the cool features and improvements in the next version of Firefox. As we continue to refine features and performance in Firefox 4 Beta, this release includes faster start-up time, bookmarking and makes complex animations smoother.
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CNET News, Computerworld, Mozilla Hacks, NewsGrange, ReadWriteWeb, Gearlog, Download Squad, Techie Buzz and PC World
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day Blog:
We need help with the strange disappearance of Dancho Danchev — Zero Day blogger and malware researcher Dancho Danchev (right) has gone missing since August last year and we have some troubling information that suggests he may have been harmed in his native Bulgaria.
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Threat Level, Techdirt, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, Gawker, Gearlog and GFI Labs blog
John C. Dvorak / PC Magazine:
Why I Don't Use Facebook — Facebook is basically AOL with a different layout and all the same retro problems. — People are always baffled by the fact that I don't use Facebook. I don't care much about Facebook any more than I cared about MySpace and LiveJournal before it.
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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ReadWriteWeb, Newsome.Org, Cult of Mac, MediaFile, Mashable!, MediaPost, BGR, SAI, Gearlog, Erictric, TUAW, NewsGrange, SlashGear, Electronista, Geek.com and hypebot, more at Mediagazer »
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.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Shares Hit $28.26 Per Share, That's a $70+ Billion Valuation — The SecondMarket Facebook shares auctions are back on after a holiday break, and the valuation is up big time. The last auction prior to this one closed December 15 at $22.75/share. Today it hit $28.26 per share.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple tells newspapers: no free iPad edition for print subscribers — A number of European newspapers have reportedly been told by Apple that they can no longer offer paid print subscribers free access to an iPad edition through the App Store, as the subscription strategy leaves Apple out of its 30 percent cut.
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Macworld, Examiner, MacNN, Thoughts from the Sidelines, CNET News, MarketingVOX, VentureBeat, Mashable! and PhoneArena, more at Mediagazer »
Charbax / ARMdevices:
ARM Powered Google TV confirmed — I have it on very high authority from someone at Google (to remain anonymous) that an ARM Powered Google TV platform is coming soon. — The specifics of how Google TV on ARM allows for differentiation (also called fragmentation), if there is support …
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SlashGear, ARMdevices.net, Softpedia News, Geek.com, Engadget, bit-tech.net, Electronista and THINQ.co.uk
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
LG: Windows Phone 7 launch could have been better — EXCLUSIVE: But still supporting platform as too much Android in portfolio — LG has gone on record saying that Windows Phone 7 hasn't performed as well as it thought it would, following the launch of the mobile OS in October.
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AppleInsider, WinRumors, Tech Musings, Engadget, PC World, The Microsoft Blog, Windows Phone Secrets, Newsome.Org, BGR, Seattle Times, Network World, ZDNet, Ars Technica, Electronista, L.A. Times Tech Blog, pocketnow.com, IntoMobile, Thoughts from the Sidelines, MacDailyNews, MobileTechWorld, Digital Trends, Computerworld, FierceWireless, TG Daily, GigaOM, PhoneArena, CNET News, LiveSide.net, WMPoweruser.com, ITworld.com, SAI, SlashGear, WPCentral.com, Guardian, Hardware 2.0 Blog and Black Web 2.0
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Meet Andreessen Horowitz's Newest Partner: Mark Cranney — Venture Capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has named Mark Cranney, a veteran tech executive with more than 20 years experience in senior positions at Hewlett-Packard, Opsware and Parametric Technology as its newest partner today.
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Digits and TechCrunch
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Android Hasn't Been Hurting The iPhone — It's Been Hurting RIM — Google's Android platform is most often compared to Apple's iPhone, because they're the two most advanced smartphone platforms, belong to the two giants of Silicon Valley, and because they compete over consumer mindshare, developer mindshare, and bragging rights.
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MediaPost and MacDailyNews
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google, Bing Up While AOL Hits All-Time Low: comScore December Search Data — Ahead of their official release, financial analysts released comScore's December search data. Total search query volume, minus “contextual search” (slideshows), was reportedly up 24 percent vs. a year ago for a total of 18.2 billion monthly queries.
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The Microsoft Blog, Softpedia News, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and WebProNews
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Posterous Cofounder Garry Tan Steps Down, Heads To Y Combinator — Garry Tan, one of the cofounders of easy-to-use blogging service Posterous, is moving on from the company. Tan will be leaving to take a position at Y Combinator, where he will serve as a designer in residence.
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ReadWriteWeb, garry's posterous and Mashable!
Greg T. Spielberg / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Gizmodo taps illustrators to give stories more punch, pop, pow! — When Gizmodo editorial director Brian Lam was planning for this week's coverage of the Verizon iPhone, he didn't think in words. He visualized it entirely in images, daydreaming about how much more emotive pictures and sounds …
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Snarkmarket, more at Mediagazer »
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo Says It's “Absolutely Committed” to Flickr — We wrote a post yesterday calling into question the financial viability of Flickr, given another blogger's rough estimates of its annual revenue, Yahoo's struggles and the recent news that Delicious is going to be shuttered or sold.
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Search Engine Land
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iOS 4.3 Beta Hints at OpenCL-Capable SGX543 GPU in Future Devices — When it comes to the graphics performance on Apple's iOS devices, the company has been sticking with the powerful POWERVR SGX535 GPU from Imagination Technologies for quite some time, introducing it on the iPhone 3GS …
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9 to 5 Mac, Electronista and iLounge
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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MacNN, everythingiCafe, Know Your Cell, Phones Review, Apple Headlines and Covering Web, Thanks:sentelmullins
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Judge Delays Ruling on PlayStation Hack — SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge here on Friday put off deciding whether PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz should surrender his computer gear as part of a lawsuit from console-maker Sony. — Sony sued Hotz on Tuesday, alleging Hotz' posting …
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Engadget, PC World, CrunchGear, CNET News, VG247, TG Daily and slight paranoia
