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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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SAI, Between the Lines Blog, VatorNews, mocoNews, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Mobile Entertainment, The Social, Download Squad, Technologizer, Fone Arena, All Facebook, Erictric, PhoneArena, New Media Age, Mashable, ITProPortal, IntoMobile, Inside Mobile Apps, Engadget Mobile, VentureBeat, ThinkMobile, Epicenter, Forbes and textually.org
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Stephen Lawson / Computerworld:
Facebook brings mobile app to non-smartphones
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Softpedia News
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Is About To Take Off: Number Porting Coming Soon For $20 — We've been huge fans of Google Voice for quite a while now — it makes screening calls and managing multiple phones a breeze — but there's always been a huge thorn in its side: it didn't allow people to port their existing phone numbers over.
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Ross Miller / Engadget:
Google Voice now lets you port your own phone number (update: option disappears)
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Computerworld, Download Squad, TechCrunch, GottaBeMobile, The Next Web, Android Phone Fans, SAI, Gizmodo, GeekSugar and Crave
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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MacStories, GottaBeMobile, Mashable, SAI, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, NBC Bay Area, Apple Headlines, MacRumors and Electronista
Zokem:
In the US Market, iPhone Outperforms Other Mobile Platforms in User Loyalty by a Wide Margin, Android is Second, Blackberry Fourth — Zokem's industry leading Mobile Life panel in the US from the year 2010 reveals that iPhone scores 84% higher in loyalty ratings than the nearest competitor, Google Android.
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eWeek, Fortune, GigaOM, SlashGear, Androinica, Digital Trends, Electronista, WebProNews, GeekSugar and iPhone Buzz
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John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
Study: iPhone Most Satisfying To Use Smartphone, But Android Users Most Loyal
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IntoMobile
Arn / MacRumors:
FaceTime, Camera and PhotoBooth Icons Confirm Camera in iPad 2 — Apple's developer release of iOS 4.3 Beta 2 has provided more visual evidence confirming that the next iPad will carry a front facing camera as well as the Apple Camera App and Photo Booth App.
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AppleInsider, Gadget Lab, 9 to 5 Mac, TG Daily, PhoneReport v2.0, SlashGear, iPodNN, The Next Web, MacStories and Engadget
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
iOS 4.3 beta 2 released, iPad multitasking gestures just a developer preview
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9 to 5 Mac, Gadget Lab, MacRumors, PadGadget, Go Rumors, Macworld, App Advice and iPodNN
Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
HTC to launch Flyer tablet PC in March — HTC plans to launch three tablet PCs in the first half of 2011 with the first model, the Flyer, to begin shipping in the US market in March, according to sources at handset component suppliers. The Flyer, which looks like an enlarged version …
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IntoMobile, Geek.com, PhoneArena, CrunchGear, The Next Web, Engadget, Electricpig.co.uk, Life On My Mobile, Gizmodo and Phones Review
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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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
LivingSocial CEO: “No Widescale Problem” …
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Technologizer, Deep Green Crystals, ITProPortal and Gearlog
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 …
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Inquirer, The Register, Softpedia News, Network World, THINQ.co.uk, Ars Technica, ZDNet Australia, WinRumors, CNET News, PC World, ITProPortal, Go Rumors, SlashGear, Download Squad, Engadget, IntoMobile, pocketnow.com, The Next Web, Windows Phone Secrets, PC Pro, Electronista, ThinkMobile, Pulse2 and WPCentral.com
Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Coming soon: A new way to hack into smartphones — By breaking into the phone's radio firmware, hackers can take control of iPhone or Android devices — More than three years after the iPhone was first hacked, computer security experts think they've found a whole new way to break into mobile phones …
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Switched, Network World, The Huffington Post and ReadWriteWeb
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Apple testing multitouch gestures for iPhone 4 internally? — One of our Apple sources has just sent us over a couple screenshots from what we're told is an internal testing iPhone 4. They are interesting because it looks like Apple is testing multitouch gestures on the iPhone in addition to the iPad.
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TheiLoop, GSMArena Blog, PhoneArena, Engadget, Apple Headlines, TiPb and GeekSmack
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Kongregate Exile Raises Questions About the Android Market — UPDATED: Flash-based game site Kongregrate found itself excluded from the Android Market today, but it's still trying to figure out whether its exile is going to be permanent and if so, why it's being singled out.
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VentureBeat, EngageDigital and GetJar
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Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
Kongregate CEO Jim Greer on getting pulled from the Android Market
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Engadget, IntoMobile, Destructoid, ReadWriteWeb and Droid Life
Oliver Chiang / Forbes:
Twitter Hits Nearly 200M Accounts, 110M Tweets Per Day, Focuses On Global Expansion — Twitter has reached nearly 200 million users registered accounts who post 110 million tweets per day as of the January 1, 2011, Twitter spokesperson Carolyn Penner tells me.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Seoul Space
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.
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Inquirer, TechEye, Digital Daily, GottaBeMobile, AppleInsider, SlashGear, L.A. Times Tech Blog, VentureBeat, SlashPhone, Guardian, PC World, GigaOM, PhoneArena, mocoNews, Electronista, Phone Scoop, CNET News, Between the Lines Blog, ITProPortal, Engadget, MacDailyNews and Shelly Palmer Digital Living
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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SAI, Gadgetell, IntoMobile, DSLreports, Erictric, Geek.com, MacRumors, Techland, TUAW, PhoneArena, Electronista, Gizmodo, Gizmodo Australia and Pulse2
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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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Digital Daily, Mashable, Engadget, TUAW, Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBlog and Boing Boing
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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple's ‘Underdog’ Analysts Outperform Wall Street From Helsinki, Caracas
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Fortune, Deagol's AAPL Model and asymco
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Amazon to acquire LoveFilm, the ‘European Netflix’ — LoveFilm has announced this morning that Amazon is to acquire the remaining shares in the movie rental and streaming service, which is similar to Netflix. — Amazon already has a significant minority shareholding in LoveFilm and deal has been rumoured for some time.
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paidContent, BBC, Inquirer, TechCrunch, Guardian, The Register, TechCrunch Europe, Engadget, SAI, Download Squad, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Go Rumors, Bloomberg, Reuters, Electronista, THINQ.co.uk and Electricpig.co.uk, Thanks:m4tt
Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central:
Motorola employee confirms locked bootloaders — and bad attitude — It's the question many of us are asking — will Motorola's upcoming phones have locked bootloaders? Based on Motorola's previous stance on the issue we all expected the answer to be yes, but there's no harm in asking again, right?
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IntoMobile, Android Phone Fans, Lifehacker, Droid Life, pocketnow.com and Techie Buzz
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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Electricpig.co.uk, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web and hypebot
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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Ben Edelman and Beyond Search
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Study: Google “Favors” Itself Only 19% Of The Time
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John Battelle's Searchblog
