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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, PalmAddicts, Erictric, TiPb, Apple Headlines, MacStories, SAI, everythingiCafe, Electronista, Examiner, MacRumors, Mashable!, 9 to 5 Mac, iClarified 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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eWeek, AppleInsider, Mashable!, The Register, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, paidContent, OSNews, Electronista, Relevant Results, Daring Fireball, Technologizer, NewsGrange and USA Today, 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 …
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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
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, The Next Web, textually.org, 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, The Huffington Post, Jillian C. York, 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, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Foreign Policy, Danger Room and The Lede, 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
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, Softpedia News, InformationWeek 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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Startup Meme
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.
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, Engadget, CrunchGear, GamePolitics News, TG Daily, VG247, slight paranoia and The Digital Home
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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TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, Erictric, The Next Web, MacStories and AppleInsider
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
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
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.
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
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, Switched and The Seattle Times
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 and Mashable!
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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BoomTown, Softpedia News, The Microsoft Blog, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews and Web Analytics World
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, Venture Capital Dispatch and John Battelle's Searchblog
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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Digital Trends, Softpedia News, InformationWeek, Pulse2, LAPTOP Magazine, BetaNews, PhoneArena, I4U News, IntoMobile, The Toybox Blog, Techie Buzz, Crave, Geek.com, PC Magazine, internetnews.com, BerryReview.com, Electronista, Engadget, CrackBerry.com blogs, Gizmodo, SlashGear, The Huffington Post, Techland, MobileCrunch, Pocket-lint and Know Your Cell
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
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
