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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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Examiner, MacRumors, AppleInsider, TiPb, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, everythingiCafe, iClarified, Erictric, MacStories, Electronista, Apple Headlines, Mashable! and Crave
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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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paidContent, Mashable!, Relevant Results, OSNews, thechromesource, Electronista, Daring Fireball, USA Today, NewsGrange, Technologizer 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
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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, USA Today and Daring Fireball
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.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Tweeting tyrants out of Tunisia: the global Internet at its best — Even yesterday, it would have been too much to say that blogger, tweeters, Facebook users, Anonymous, and Wikileaks had “brought down” the Tunisian government, but with today's news that the country's president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali …
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Gawker, The Next Web, Electronic Frontier Foundation, TechCrunch, L.A. Times Tech Blog and The Lede, more at Mediagazer »
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Evgeny Morozov / Net Effect:
First thoughts on Tunisia and the role of the Internet
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The Daily Dish, The Huffington Post, GigaOM, The Atlantic Online, NPR, Boing Boing, Boing Boing and Jillian C. York
Chris Herbert / MacStories:
Twitter for Mac: ‘Tweet’ from Anywhere in OS X — Just a few days ago everyone (including us) was talking about a simple bookmarklet for Safari that sends the site title and link to Twitter for Mac (Tweetie 2). Last night, I even found a Safari extension that did the same thing but also adds …
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TechCrunch, OS X Daily, parislemon, The Next Web and TUAW
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”.
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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InformationWeek, Crave, BetaNews, PhoneArena, Pulse2, LAPTOP Magazine, I4U News, Thoughts from the Sidelines, IntoMobile, The Toybox Blog, PC Magazine, Techie Buzz, Geek.com, BerryReview.com, Electronista, Engadget, CrackBerry.com blogs, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Techland, MobileCrunch, internetnews.com, The Huffington Post, Pocket-lint, Know Your Cell and N4BB
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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InformationWeek, Mozilla Hacks, Mashable!, CNET News, Computerworld, Gearlog, Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb, NewsGrange, Techie Buzz and PC World
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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LIVEdigitally, Examiner and Stowe Boyd
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Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
The Verizon iPhone Is Too Late
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MediaShift, Technologizer, MediaPost and Examiner
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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AppleInsider, pocketnow.com, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista and iLounge
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.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Cubeduel Goes Viral Too Quickly, Stumbles Over LinkedIn API Limits — Yesterday we ran a post about Cubeduel, a service that mixes the best (or worst) of Hot or Not with LinkedIn. Fire up the site and it will show you photos of two coworkers — pick the one you'd prefer to work with …
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TechFlash, SAI, msnbc.com, Electricpig.co.uk and Switched
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 of experience in senior positions at Hewlett-Packard, Opsware and Parametric Technology-as its newest partner today.
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Digits and TechCrunch
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, Gawker, Gizmodo, Techdirt, PC Magazine, Gearlog and GFI Labs blog
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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PC World, GamePolitics News, VG247, Engadget, CrunchGear, TG Daily, CNET News and slight paranoia
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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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Softpedia News, The Microsoft Blog, WebProNews and Web Analytics World
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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Washington Post, Thoughts from the Sidelines, CNET News, MacNN, MarketingVOX, Examiner, Mashable!, VentureBeat and PhoneArena, more at Mediagazer »
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
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, Cult of Mac, Mashable!, MediaFile, Erictric, Newsome.Org, NewsGrange, BGR, TUAW, MediaPost, Gearlog, SAI, SlashGear, Electronista, Geek.com and hypebot, 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, Electronista, bit-tech.net and THINQ.co.uk
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!
