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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Apple Plans Service That Lets IPhone Users Pay With Handsets — Apple Inc. plans to introduce services that would let customers use its iPhone and iPad computer to make purchases, said Richard Doherty, director of consulting firm Envisioneering Group. — The services are based on …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Aims To Take NFC Mainstream; Perhaps The Greatest Trick They've Ever Pulled? — Bloomberg has an interesting report tonight, but they have the headline all wrong. Apple Plans Service That Lets IPhone Users Pay With Handsets — is technically correct (assuming the report is true …
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Fortune and MacStories
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPhone 5 and iPad 2 to have NFC with new mobile payment service?
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Engadget and Online Social Media
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Exclusive: Barnes & Noble phasing out the Nook 3G — Barnes & Noble may be selling millions of Nook products, but it's sounding like the 3G variant hasn't really done its part to help those figures. We've received hard evidence from within B&N that the Nook is being discontinued …
Facebook Developer Blog:
The Next Step for Facebook Credits — Facebook Credits is a virtual currency that enables fast and easy transactions across games on Facebook. With Facebook Credits, people enter their payment information once and can buy, earn and spend safely across lots of different games.
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Fast Company, Softpedia News, Download Squad, EngageDigital, ITProPortal, Mashable, GigaOM, Inside Facebook, All Facebook, WebProNews, eMoney and Inside Social Games
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Make ‘Facebook Credits’ Mandatory For Game Developers (Confirmed)
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the Econsultancy blog, Mobile Entertainment, Inside Facebook, Pulse2, VentureBeat, GamePolitics News, Forbes, SAI and MarketingVOX
Google Public Policy Blog:
Keep your opt-outs — Today we're making available Keep My Opt-Outs, which enables you to opt out permanently from ad tracking cookies. It's available as an extension for download in Chrome. — Why have we developed this feature? — Recently, the Federal Trade Commission and others …
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Mozilla, Google take different approaches to ad tracking opt-out
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p2pnet and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Alex Fowler / First Person Cookie:
More Choice and Control Over Online Tracking
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Mashable, Fast Company, DSLreports, Macgasm, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, Computerworld and paidContent
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
How Microsoft plans to market against the iPad — Even though Microsoft's public stance, when asked about the impact of Apple's slate is “iPad? What iPad?”, the Redmondians are preparing the company's partners for battle in 2011. — Microsoft is making available to its reseller partners …
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Ali Imam / The LinkedIn Blog:
Visualize your LinkedIn network with InMaps — If you're a LinkedIn user, you already know the power of your professional network. — What if you could visualize what your network looks like? Would your connections form clusters or groups? Wouldn't it be great if you could see the way …
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ReadWriteWeb, SFGate, FlowingData, Download Squad, USA Today, Forbes, The Next Web and Associated Press
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt At DLD11: Google Will Add 1,000 New Employees In Europe — In the closing keynote of the DLD Conference in Germany, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage, notably less than a week after passing on the reins of the company to Google co-founder Larry Page.
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Irina Slutsky / AdAge:
Facebook Turns the ‘Like’ Into Its Newest Ad — Say Something About a Brand? It Could End Up as an Ad in Your Friends' Feeds — SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — The ubiquitous “like” is currency for brands, and Facebook is giving them a new way to collect: an ad unit that shows …
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Mashable, SAI, Inside Facebook and Electricpig.co.uk
Roger Ebert / Roger Ebert's Journal:
Why 3D doesn't work and never will. Case closed. — I received a letter that ends, as far as I am concerned, the discussion about 3D. It doesn't work with our brains and it never will. — The notion that we are asked to pay a premium to witness an inferior and inherently brain-confusing image is outrageous.
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BBC, Technologizer, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, SlashGear and VizWorld.com
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google To Acquire fflick For $10 Million — Back in August we wrote about a neat service called fflick that looked to harness Twitter to power a movie sentiment and recommendation engine, with an added dash of colorful style. Now the service is getting two big thumbs up from Google …
Jared Newman / PC World:
The State of Windows 8 — Beneath a thin surface layer of established fact about Microsoft's next OS lies a deep pool of rumor and speculation. We plunge in to test the water. — Only Microsoft knows how the next version of its Windows operating system will look and what it will be called …
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral:
Topaz Specs! Exclusive details on Touchstone v2 and much more! — We've received a massive document detailing HP's plans for the Topaz webOS slate from last year. While these details aren't final, what we know is that HP is planning to make the Topaz highly competitive with the iPad from both a hardware and a software perspective.
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Tyler Odean / Gmail Blog:
Print from your phone with Gmail for mobile and Google Cloud Print — Let's say you need to print an important email attachment on your way to work so that it's waiting for you when you walk in the door. With Gmail for mobile and Google Cloud Print — a service that allows printing …
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Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Kodak's Push for Royalties From Apple, RIM Is Derailed — Eastman Kodak Co., the 130-year-old camera company, lost a U.S. International Trade Commission ruling that may hamper its effort to collect patent royalties from Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd.
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Fatema Yasmine / The Next Web:
Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion. — I recently had the chance to sit down with Dropbox cofounder and CTO Arash Ferdowsi. The interview took place in their swanky new office in downtown San Francisco. We talked in-depth about the major changes coming to Dropbox and the success of the company to date.
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John Cook / TechFlash:
Report: Amazon plans to expand grocery delivery service — Amazon.com is looking to expand its home delivery service, with The Financial Times reporting (subscription required) that the online retailer has begun recruiting staffers for a national push. Amazon has operated …
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Mashable, Financial Times, Seattle Times, Epoch Times, Wall Street Journal, Switched and Electricpig.co.uk
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
25% of files downloaded from The Pirate Bay are fakes — For years, antipiracy companies like MediaDefender (read our 2007 profile) have scratched out a living by flooding peer-to-peer file-sharing networks with bad data. While the techniques differ, the goal is the same …
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Music Ally and GamePolitics News
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple loses buzz, Microsoft gains — The net loss in “media value” last quarter, according to a new report, was nearly $460 million — Click to enlarge. Source: General Sentiment — Here's an interesting exercise. Take the total number of news stories, social media mentions and tweets about Apple …
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WinRumors
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Verizon's fourth quarter earnings fall short, but wireless subscribers surge — Verizon delivered a mixed fourth quarter that fell slightly short of expectations as it preps to launch Apple's iPhone on its network. — The telecom giant reported fourth quarter net income of $4.65 billion …
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CNET News, PR Newswire and Engadget
Electronista:
Pegatron making 10m initial iPhone 5s, all-out for iPhone 4 — Pegatron has already earned enough trust from Apple to start manufacturing the iPhone 5, part makers said Monday night. The company is due to make at least 10 million to 12 million CDMA iPhone 4 units but has reportedly been picked …
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DigiTimes, SlashGear, Shoutpedia, Online Social Media and IntoMobile
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
ACS:Law Can't Take The Pressure, Quit Chasing File-Sharers — Check out TorrentFreak's new News Bits feed! . — Last week we reported in detail on the 17th January directions hearing ordered by Judge Birss QC at the Patents County Court. — In a hearing punctuated by mounting criticism …
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Telegraph, The Register, Inquirer, Guardian, BBC, V3.co.uk, Reddit and gHacks Technology News
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
HighNote Is Group Messaging With A Multimedia Twist — What sets group messaging app HighNote apart from the current wave of group texting apps like Kik, PingChat and Beluga is that it adds a multimedia focus to the act of messaging in multiple. — Aside from being a free Internet Protocol …
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