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Arn / MacRumors:
iPad 2 Likely to Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution — There's been a lot of talk about a “Retina” display for the next generation iPad due from Apple in the coming months, but it hasn't been completely clear what resolution the iPad's “Retina” display would be.
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AppleInsider, pocketnow.com and Electronista
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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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I4U News, Neowin.net, Redmond Pie, Geek.com, Covering Web, Macgasm, Daring Fireball, Softpedia News, Go Rumors, PalmAddicts, TiPb, Phones Review, iClarified, 9 to 5 Mac, Crave, AppleInsider, everythingiCafe, MacStories, Mashable!, Examiner, SAI, Electronista, MacRumors, Erictric, Apple Headlines and Electronista
New York Times:
Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay — The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel's never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal. — Over the past two years …
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Security Watch
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 …
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Mike Jazayeri / Chromium Blog:
More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change
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yelvington.com, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, V3.co.uk, Softpedia News, Daring Fireball, Mashable!, Neowin.net, [H]ardOCP News/Article Feed, The Register, paidContent and TechCrunch, Thanks:arpitnext
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Project HiJack uses iPhone audio jack to make cheap sensors — Making accessories that tie into an iOS device's Dock connector is an expensive proposition: it requires getting certain components from Apple and applying for a costly “Made for iPhone” (or iPod or iPad) license.
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[H]ardOCP News/Article Feed, Gizmodo, adafruit industries blog, CrunchGear, p2pnet and Techie Buzz
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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Techie Buzz, Marshall Kirkpatrick …, ReadWriteWeb, textually.org, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Mother Jones, The Next Web and New York Times
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Was What Happened in Tunisia a Twitter Revolution?
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techPresident, Foreign Policy, Net Effect, The Huffington Post, Jillian C. York, Boing Boing, Smart Mobs, NPR, The Atlantic Online and Guardian
Evgeny Morozov / Net Effect:
First thoughts on Tunisia and the role of the Internet
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The Daily Dish, Boing Boing 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, WL Central and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
Union Square Ventures' New Fund Announced: Here's What You Need To Know — In a blog post by Fred Wilson, top New York venture firm Union Square Ventures has officially announced its new $165 million fund, called The Opportunity Fund. — The fund came to light late last year …
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A VC and The Business Insider, Thanks:pegobry
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Fred Wilson / Union Square Ventures:
The Opportunity Fund — We founded Union Square Ventures …
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TechCrunch and GigaOM
Vivek Wadhwa / TechCrunch:
Let's Compete on Innovation Rather Than Patents — The next generations of telecom technologies are called “LTE” or “4G”. China's Huawei believes that by 2015, it will hold 15-20% of the worldwide patents in these technologies, and that these will earn it at least 1.5% of the sales price of every device …
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The Huffington Post
Anton D. Nagy / pocketnow.com:
Windows Phone 7 Screenshots Not A Microsoft Priority — Whether you're into journalism, app development, support or anything related, a platform's capability to take screenshots is an important tool and you definitely know this the hard way by now, if you're coming to Windows Phone 7 …
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CNET News, WMPoweruser.com and WPCentral.com
Kellex / Droid Life:
Verizon's Initial 2011 4G LTE Market Cities — During all of Verizon's 4G LTE device madness, they walked through their plans for rolling out their new network to the rest of the country. By the end of 2011, they are expecting to be in at least 140 markets and covering 2/3 of the U.S. once 2013 finishes up.
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BGR, Gadgetell, PhoneArena, Android Community and Android and Me
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel CEO: How we will compete with ARM — Intel CEO Paul Otellini today spelled out how his company will compete with the burgeoning ARM chip ecosystem, which has taken the lead in tablet designs, during the chipmaker's fourth-quarter earnings conference call.
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International Business Times, TG Daily, Crave and Legit Reviews Hardware News
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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Mashable!, eWeek, Softpedia News, InformationWeek, BetaNews, PC World, Techie Buzz, The Mozilla Blog, CNET News, NewsGrange and Download Squad, Thanks:arpitnext
Brad Sams / Neowin.net:
Microsoft FaceTime competitor was supposed to be launched with WP7 — It was not long ago that Neowin broke the news about Microsoft's FaceTime competitor, but since we broke the news, a bit more information has come across our inbox and shines a bit more light into the details of the application.
Thanks:bdsams
