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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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Covering Web, AppleInsider, Go Rumors, TiPb, Examiner, everythingiCafe, MacRumors, Mashable!, MacStories, Apple Headlines, SAI, Erictric, Electronista, iClarified, PalmAddicts, Phones Review, 9 to 5 Mac, Crave and Electronista
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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ReadWriteWeb, L.A. Times Tech Blog, textually.org, The Next Web, Mother Jones and New York Times
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Was What Happened in Tunisia a Twitter Revolution? — As it did during the recent shootings in Arizona, the Twitter network provided a ringside seat for another major news event on Friday — the overthrow of a corrupt government in the African nation of Tunisia, after weeks of protests over repression and economic upheaval.
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Foreign Policy, Jillian C. York, The Huffington Post, Boing Boing, NPR and The Atlantic Online
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
The #Tunisian Revolution Wasn't Televized, But You Could Follow It On Twitter
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Gawker, Foreign Policy, Danger Room, The Lede and Electronic Frontier Foundation, more at Mediagazer »
Evgeny Morozov / Net Effect:
First thoughts on Tunisia and the role of the Internet
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The Daily Dish, The Atlantic Online and Boing Boing
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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Mashable!, eWeek, AppleInsider, V3.co.uk, The Register, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, paidContent, OSNews, Relevant Results, Electronista, Daring Fireball, Technologizer and NewsGrange, Thanks:arpitnext
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Matt Drance / Apple Outsider:
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish — Not satisfied with its polarizing about-face on net neutrality, this week Google threw away previous investments in H.264 and fully endorsed its own WebM format for native HTML5 video in Chrome. — There's no question that this is a shot at competing platforms …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
So Much For Standards, Google Says WebM Plugins Coming Soon For Safari And IE9
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
Christopher Blizzard / Mozilla Hacks:
Firefox 4 Beta 9 - a huge pile of awesome — Hello, and welcome to the post for Firefox 4 beta 9. If you're reading this then you're interested in what we've got coming down the pipe for the latest beta for the wonderful browser known as Firefox 4. We're starting to reach the end …
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eWeek, InformationWeek, Softpedia News and Techie Buzz, Thanks:arpitnext
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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.
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p2pnet, Startup Meme and The Domains
Fred / A VC:
The Second Coming Of The Internet IPO — Most of what I've been saying recently about valuations here at AVC has been negative. I think we are in a “focus on the upside” phase in the web investing sector and I've been pretty liberal with my thoughts on that.
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The Business Insider, TNL.net, MediaPost and Venture Capital Dispatch
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Notion Ink Adam clears FCC, begins shipping ‘around Wednesday’ — We don't see it in the FCC database yet but Notion Ink's charming Rohan Shravan just penned a post on the company's blog with news that Adam has official clearance from the US government. That's right, after several delays …
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Notion Ink, TeleRead and Go Rumors
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
Peter Cohen / The Loop:
The Beatles on iTunes - 5 million songs, 1 million albums sold so far — Many music fans finally got what they were asking for in November, 2010 when Apple announced that the music of the Beatles was now available for purchase from the iTunes Store. It's a tribute to the band's enduring popularity …
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MacRumors Page 2, Erictric, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, MacStories, AppleInsider and TUAW
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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GamePolitics News, PC World, Engadget, CrunchGear, TG Daily, VG247, slight paranoia and The Digital Home
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.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Android getting Google Music sync in Gingerbread? — Google's been teasing cloud-based music features in Android since its I/O conference last year, and the recent leak of a revamped first-party Music app suggests that the plans haven't evaporated into thin air.
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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ProgrammableWeb, TechFlash, SAI, msnbc.com, Electricpig.co.uk, Switched, ReadWriteWeb and The Seattle Times
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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pocketnow.com, AppleInsider, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac and iLounge
Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:
GAO, DOJ seek H-1B visa reforms — Feds want employers to post to Web plans to hire H-1B workers; DOJ seeks labor market test prior to H-1B hires — Computerworld - WASHINGTON — The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a major report Friday on the H-1B program that assesses the visa program's use and recommends reforms.
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Hillicon Valley and TechFlash
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google's John Hanke Speaks About New Mobile Incubator — Last week I wrote briefly about Google's John Hanke's move into a new role, based on a Forbes interview with him. Yesterday I got to speak directly with Hanke about his “new gig,” as they say. — Credit: O'Reilly
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ReadWriteWeb and Screenwerk
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
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 and Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
