Top Items:
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam — Matt Cutts is the head of Google's anti-webspam team and tonight he came across what looks like a huge trove of scammy, spammy spam - on Facebook. And it involves Microsoft. Advertising publication AdAge reported tonight …
Discussion:
SAI, Andrew Lark and NBC Bay Area
RELATED:
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Facebook Books $1.86B in Advertising; Muscles In on Google Turf — New Estimate From eMarketer Shows Majority of Social Network's Ad Revenue Comes From Small Businesses — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It turns out Facebook is a lot like Google after all. — As the social network steams past …
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Exclusive: Chinese supplier floating iPad 2 case with possible SD card and Mini DisplayPort — A Chinese accessory supplier is floating a new “iPad 2nd generation” case differing from previous designs shown at CES, with port openings that appear to be designed to accommodate a new SD Card slot …
Discussion:
Engadget, SAI, Gearlog, SAI, SAI, MacStories, TiPb, Softpedia News, 9 to 5 Mac, Geek.com, Phones Review, TeleRead, Electronista, MacRumors, parislemon, Go Rumors, Fonehome.co.uk, everythingiCafe, GottaBeMobile, Redmond Pie, NBC Bay Area, Reuters and Legit Reviews Hardware News
RELATED:
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Why high resolution screens matter for Apple's iPad 2 — Substantiated rumors of the next generation iPad using a vastly higher resolution 2048x1536 display are drawing some to question why the iPad would even need such a dense pixel count, which is much higher than even Apple's 17 inch MacBook Pro.
Discussion:
Apple Gazette, GSMArena Blog and Computerworld
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
iPad 2 Rumor Roundup — The next version of the iPad is, if timing and supply line rumors are to be believed, just around the corner. Although unexpected delays may follow in the wake of Jobs' medical leave, the design must be finalized, and the factories in China are at this moment preparing …
Discussion:
Laptops and Desktops Blog, Edible Apple, PhoneReport v2.0, MobileWhack.com and Engadget
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Suspends Phone & Address Sharing Feature — Just before the weekend, Facebook announced that it would begin allowing third-party applications and websites to request that users share both their mobile phone number and address. Now, the company has said that it will be putting …
Discussion:
VentureBeat, Digital Trends, GigaOM, Computerworld, ZDNet, The Atlantic Online, Inside Facebook, Naked Security, CNNMoney.com, The Register, The Next Web, Inquirer, Guardian, Mashable!, Switched, TechEye, Telegraph, THINQ.co.uk, TechCrunch, The Huffington Post, Electricpig.co.uk, msnbc.com, SlashGear, Softpedia News, everwas, NBC Bay Area and Tech Broiler Blog, Thanks:rwwmike
George Stahl / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Shares Fall 5% as Jobs Takes Medical Leave — NEW YORK—Apple Inc. shares fell 5% in early trading Tuesday, erasing $19 billion in market value, after it disclosed that Chief Executive Steve Jobs would take another unexpected medical leave. — The decline, however …
Discussion:
Fortune, MacRumors, BGR, Post Tech, blogs.chron.com, Fortune, TheStreet.com and Mashable!
RELATED:
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Leave — Whatever we expected, we all hoped we'd seen …
Discussion:
Between the Lines Blog, BaltTech, AppleInsider, SAI, CNNMoney.com, The Apple Core Blog, New York Times, The Huffington Post, New York Times, TechCrunch, SAI, BGR, Digits, SAI, New York Times and Digits
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
What Hollywood Execs Privately Say About Netflix … Disgusted that a video rental store raked him over the coals for returning a movie late, Reed Hastings created Netflix. Seventeen million subscribers later, some people probably wish a clerk would have just refunded the man his 40 bucks.
Discussion:
CNET News and Hacking NetFlix
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Two charged over iPad hacking on AT&T network — (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges against two people accused of stealing the email addresses and other personal data of about 120,000 users of Apple Inc's iPad tablet computer. — Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer …
Discussion:
TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, MacRumors, The Register, MobileBurn.com, The Next Web, Legit Reviews Hardware News and MacDailyNews
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
W3C's new logo promotes HTML5—and more — The W3C's new HTML5 logo stands for more than just the HTML5 standard. — Underscoring the confluence of technology, politics, and marketing, the World Wide Web Consortium today unveiled a new logo for HTML5. — With the logo, the W3C wants to promote the new Web technology—and itself.
Discussion:
Adactio, Inquirer, All about Microsoft Blog, TechCrunch, MSDN Blogs, W3C Blog, Mashable!, The Windows Blog, Download Squad and Softpedia News
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
I Can Has Funding: Cheezburger Raises $30M For LOLcats, FAIL Blog And Other Memes — Cheezburger, the internet publisher responsible for LOLcats, FAIL Blog, and other memes, has raised a whopping $30 million in new funding led by the Foundry Group with Madrona Venture Group, Avalon Ventures …
Jamie / The Official Netflix Blog:
Removing “Add to DVD Queue” from Streaming Devices — Hi there, it's Jamie Odell, director of product management at Netflix, with an update for members who add DVDs to their Queue from the device they use to watch instantly. We're removing the “Add to DVD Queue” option from streaming devices.
RELATED:
Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:
Netflix Enrages Subscribers By Limiting DVD Queue
Discussion:
ReadWriteWeb and homemediamagazine.com, more at Mediagazer »
Ralph Jennings / Computerworld:
Acer to launch 7-inch, 10-inch tablets by mid-year — IDG News Service - Acer will begin selling two or three new tablet PCs in the first half of the year, including one with a seven-inch screen, a company sales manager said on Monday. — The tablet launches will begin a gradual replacement …
Discussion:
ZDNet, TechEye, Engadget, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile, Android Phone Fans, Android Community, Liliputing, Pocket-lint and Softpedia News
Joe Weisenthal / SAI:
The Facebook Fiasco Is A PR Disaster For Goldman Sachs, And Now It May Lose Out On An IPO — It's still not clear exactly what led up to Goldman Sachs blocking its US customers from investing in Facebook, but it's obviously a huge embarrassment for the bank.
Discussion:
Wired In Blog| BNET and Techdirt
RELATED:
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
How A Startup Named Hipster Got 10K Signups In Two Days, Without Revealing What It Does — By now you might be familiar with the startup with the funny name, as its very existence made news outlets as diverse as the Washington Post, Portfolio.com and Hipster Runoff.
Discussion:
TechCrunch Europe and ReadWriteWeb
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
iPhone User? 90% Chance You're On The Latest OS. Android User? 0.4% Chance — As a member of the media, I was lucky enough to get my hands on a Nexus S running Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” a few weeks ago. It's great, easily the best version of Android yet. I hope one day soon you all get to try it out.
Discussion:
Computerworld, GigaOM, ReadWriteMobile, Mobile Entertainment, Fortune, App Advice, MacStories, parislemon, TiPb, 9 to 5 Mac and Softpedia News
Andrew Wallenstein / paidContent:
Exclusive: Roku Lands Its First Cable Channel — Roku is expected to announce Tuesday an unlikely addition to its programming lineup: WealthTV. This will mark the first time a cable channel has joined the streaming device, which begs an obvious question: How is this even possible?
Discussion:
DSLreports, Techland, The Next Web, BetaNews and ReadWriteWeb, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:johnrobertreed
Matt Warman / Telegraph:
10 per cent of users take 90 per cent of mobile data, say researchers — Video will take up to 60 per cent of all mobile data in 2011 thanks to a small minority, says new research — Just 10 per cent of all mobile phone users account for 90 per cent of all networks' data traffic, researchers have found.
Discussion:
BGR and The Next Web
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Report: Mobile App Market Will Be Worth $25 Billion By 2015 - Apple's Share: 20% — We all know mobile app stores are booming worldwide, and a new market research report by MarketsandMarkets acknowledges that trend. According to the research firm's 'World Mobile Applications Market (2010 …
Discussion:
Digital Trends and PR Newswire
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
2G, 3G, 4G, and everything in between: an Engadget wireless primer — It's hard to believe nowadays, but in a simpler time, cellphones really were called “cell phones,” not dumbphones, smartphones, feature phones, or superphones. They bulged in your pocket — if they fit in your pocket at all, that is — and they made calls.
