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Mark Heynen / Facebook Blog:
A Better Mobile Experience for More People — We want people to have a great mobile experience no matter what type of phone they carry. Smartphones have offered better features for sharing with friends but aren't used by most people around the world. — Today, we're launching a new mobile app …
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mocoNews, VentureBeat, Forbes, All Facebook, Download Squad, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, NetworkEffect, CNET News, Engadget Mobile, Inside Mobile Apps, PhoneArena, Epicenter, Mashable, Erictric and IntoMobile
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Andru Edwards / Gear Live:
Leaked: New ATT text messaging plans in preparation for Verizon iPhone — AT&T customers, get ready for new text messaging rates to go into effect starting next week. As the Verizon iPhone approaches, the company is looking to make their plans look a bit more attractive, and not so different from what Verizon will be offering.
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Examiner, SAI, DSLreports, MacRumors, IntoMobile, TUAW, PhoneArena, Gadgetell, Techland, Geek.com, Gizmodo, Electronista, Pulse2, Erictric, CrunchGear, Gizmodo Australia, iLounge and iClarified
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Evan Selleck / SlashGear:
Leaked Image Shows AT&T is Changing Messaging Plans on January 23rd
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Gear Live and Gizmodo Australia
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Google Voice now lets you port your own phone number — We'd be lying if we said we hadn't been waiting on this feature since the service's debut. As one reader just notified us (and verified by a number of staffers), Google Voice now lets you port your own phone number into its system …
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TechCrunch, Crave, Android Phone Fans, Gizmodo and The Next Web
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
LivingSocial Hits A Million Amazon Gift Cards Sold, $20 Million In Card Value — LivingSocial has been offering $10 off any $20 Amazon purchase since 5 am this morning and it's been a boon huge for the daily deals company, which Amazon has astutely invested $175 million in.
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BetaNews
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
LivingSocial Deal Shows the Power of Amazon Partnership
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VatorNews, CenterNetworks, ReadWriteWeb, Examiner, Lightspeed Venture …, Pulse2 and Black Web 2.0
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple to fight Facebook with iOS 5 and Media Stream? — Ping was Apple's first attempt at the social networking but it pales in comparison to what they have coming. Hidden deep in the iOS 4.3 file system is a new folder titled “Media Stream.” Within that folder is some information about “Photo Streaming.”
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SAI, MacStories, MacRumors, TechCrunch, NBC Bay Area, Gizmodo, Apple Headlines, Mashable!, Electronista and Gizmodo Australia
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft nails down Windows Phone 7 data-uploading issue — A third-party application is mostly responsible for a Windows Phone 7 issue that has caused, for some users, megabytes of mysterious data uploading over 3G, Microsoft said today. — Last week, Microsoft said it was investigating claims …
Wall Street Journal:
Nokia Cancels U.S. Launch of X7 Phone — In another setback for Nokia Corp., the Finnish mobile-phone giant has canceled the U.S. release of a smartphone that was slated to launch exclusively this year with AT&T Inc., people familiar with the situation said.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple's blow-out quarter: The bloggers called it, the Street blew it — In the quarterly battle between outsiders and the insiders, it's the amateurs by a mile. Amateurs in blue, pros in peach. This one wasn't even close. In our ranking of the best and worst Apple (AAPL) analysts for Q1 2011 …
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TUAW, Computerworld, Boing Boing, Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBlog and parislemon
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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple's ‘Underdog’ Analysts Outperform Wall Street From Helsinki, Caracas
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Deagol's AAPL Model, Fortune, asymco and AppleInsider
Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:
Startup Collecta Shuts Down Its Product, Starts Working on a New One — Collecta, a real-time search engine that launched in June 2009, has quietly shuttered its main product; the team is returning “back into the woodshed,” in the words of CEO Gerry Campbell, to work on new ideas and new directions.
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NetworkEffect, Search Engine Land and ReadWriteWeb
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
HP / Palm tablet to feature Touchstone dock, cloud storage, Beats audio and Tap-to-Share smartphone integration — Now that the kitty's out of the gemstone bag, we're slowly starting to connect the dots that obscure the details of Palm's soon to be announced “Topaz” and “Opal” tablets.
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Evan Blass / Pocketnow:
What Is the “HP Touchpad”? — Hewlett Packard has just filed …
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Engadget, MobileWhack.com, SlashGear, PhoneArena, PalmAddicts, Liliputing, PreCentral.net, Electronista, GottaBeMobile, pocketnow.com and DigiTimes
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Google gins search formula to favor its own services — Gmail, Maps get free ride — A noted Google-watcher has assembled a convincing argument that the site's search results highly favor Google-owned services, despite repeated company claims that they are algorithmically generated and never manipulated.
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Beyond Search and Ben Edelman
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Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
Kongregate CEO Jim Greer on getting pulled from the Android Market — Kongregate CEO Jim Greer called Google's swift removal of his company's Kongregate Arcade app from the Android Marketplace “surprising.” Released on the morning of January 19, the app was pulled by that evening.
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GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, Destructoid and Engadget
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
One Down: Spotify Signs Sony to U.S. Deal — This doesn't get them into the States, but it gets them a lot closer: Music service Spotify has finally signed with Sony for a U.S. distribution deal. Multiple sources tell me the deal, which has been very close since last fall, is now closed.
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ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web and Mashable
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Work E-Mail Not Protected by Attorney-Client Privilege, Court Says — E-mails between a client and attorney are no longer considered privileged and confidential if the client writes the messages from a work e-mail account, a California court of appeals has ruled.
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Techdirt, msnbc.com, ReadWriteWeb and Switched
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Ventures Leads $600K Investment In LawPivot, A Quora For Startup Legal Advice — There's no doubt that the success of startups like Quora have propelled the Q&A space into the spotlight. And there seems to be room for other niche Quora-like sites, such as enterprise-focsued Opzi …
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SAI, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal and Edelman Digital
Tricia Duryee / All Things Digital:
Nintendo's 3DS on Sale March 27 for $250, Boasting iPhone-Like Features — Nintendo announced the pricing and release date today for the 3DS, which it hopes will rejuvenate sales as its other hardware platforms start aging. — The 3DS will be available in the U.S. on March 27 for a competitively priced $249.99.
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Examiner, Engadget, BGR, BetaNews, Ars Technica, Pulse2, Guardian, Show Me The Money, Forbes, Digits, TechCrunch, PC World, TechEye, Fast Company, GoNintendo, L.A. Times Tech Blog and Mashable
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
In The Race To 10 Billion Downloads, Apple Uncovers The Top All-Time Apps — If you had to guess what the top downloaded iOS app of all time was, what would you say? You'll probably get it. It's an obvious one. It's Facebook. Number two is fairly easy too: Pandora.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
iOS 4.3 beta 2 released, iPad multitasking gestures just a developer preview — Apple just dropped iOS 4.3 beta 2 on world, and with it a big sad bomb: those nifty iPad multitasking gestures we discovered in beta 1 won't be enabled when 4.3 ships to customers.
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9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, PadGadget, App Advice and iPodNN
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Vudu HD streaming video lands on Boxee Box, Netflix coming soon — Boxee Box owners (all two of you) rejoice! As promised, Boxee is bringing Vudu's extensive library of streaming high-definition movies to its set-top box in an update today. — Additionally, the company says Netflix support …
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Boxee Blog, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, Electronista, Mashable and Gizmodo Australia
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Internet Explorer 9 RC to include ActiveX filtering — Microsoft's forthcoming Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate build will introduce an important new filtering feature, WinRumors has learned. — According to sources familiar with Microsoft's plans, the software giant is currently building copies …
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CNET News, Download Squad and The Next Web
Brian Prince / eWeek:
Facebook Spars with Sophos over Security — Sophos and Facebook argue about the extent of the malware threat on the social network. — Facebook is sparring with security firm Sophos over a threat report touching on malware on social networks. — In a report looking back (PDF) on 2010 …
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