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Alex Rice / Facebook Blog:
A Continued Commitment to Security — This Friday is Data Privacy Day, an international effort by governments, businesses and advocacy groups to raise awareness about the importance of staying in control of personal information. A key part of controlling information has always been protecting …
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Inside Facebook, ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, ZDNet, CNN, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Digits, NetworkEffect, The Register, internetnews.com, techPresident, SC Magazine US, Digital Society, Faster Forward, Fast Company, Zero Day Blog, Post Tech, Bright Side Of News*, msnbc.com, The Next Web, Lifehacker, Profectio, Digital Inspiration …, All Facebook, Techie Buzz, madisonian.net, Neowin.net, CNNMoney.com, gHacks Technology News, Softpedia News, Erictric, The Blog Herald and Security Watch
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
“Let The Hacking Begin” Declares Person Who Hacked Zuckerberg's Facebook Fan Page — Earlier today, a strange message appeared on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's fan page. It read as follows: … Who wrote such an odd and seemingly drunken message? Well, if you believe the page, Zuckerberg himself did.
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Examiner, Computerworld, Telegraph, Mashable!, TechEye, PC World, CNET News, SlashGear, Zero Day Blog, Naked Security, Guardian, The Register, GMSV, @emmabarnett, Techie Buzz, The Not-So Private Parts, Digital Trends, Gearlog, Telegraph, SAI, V3.co.uk and Faster Forward, Thanks:gigjets
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Facebook Beefs Up Security With Social Captchas and All HTTPS, All The Time
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Computerworld and ReadWriteWeb
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Exclusive: BlackBerry PlayBook and smartphones to run Android apps? — As crazy as that sounds, we have been told by multiple trusted sources that RIM is seriously considering a feature that will allow BlackBerry devices to run Android apps. Here is what we know... Research In Motion …
Richard Lai / Engadget:
Exclusive: Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (PlayStation Phone) preview — Oh yes. After all the unbearable teasing since we unveiled the first ever photos of the PlayStation Phone, we've finally managed to get hold of the real deal for an in-depth preview. Honestly, we couldn't wait any longer …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Verizon iPhone Listings Go Live on Apple's Site [Update: Removed] — With the Apple online store's downtime last night, the company appears to have rolled out full details of the options available for Verizon iPhone customers. With both 16 GB ($199) and 32 GB ($299) models available …
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Appolicious Advisor, Examiner, 9 to 5 Mac, everythingiCafe, PhoneNews.com, GigaOM and Mobilized
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
AT&T Offering Unlimited Data to Keep iPhone Customers From Defecting to Verizon? — Associated Press reports that AT&T is quietly offering some of its iPhone customers the ability to switch to unlimited data plans as a means to keep them from defecting to Verizon, which is rolling …
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Associated Press, IntoMobile, MacGazette.net, MacStories and Macgasm
Steven Musil / CNET News:
Verizon's iPhone hot spot to cost $20 a month
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MobileCrunch, Computerworld, PC World, dailywireless.org, TUAW, Sidecut Reports, Fortune, Techland and blogs.chron.com
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Android In-App Payments Coming Soon — Were Delayed Because Developers Were Busy — Today at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco, Inside Network's Kim-Mai Cutler sat down with Eric Chu, a group manager at Google for the Android platform. The two discussed the platform mainly from a developer perspective.
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NetworkEffect, Local Media Watch, Mike Rowehl, msnbc.com, GottaBeMobile, Android Phone Fans and Softpedia News
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Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
Unhappy With Slow Growth Of Android App Purchases, Google Talks 2011 Roadmap — Google's Android platform manager Eric Chu knows that though the number of Android smartphone users may be rising quickly, the number of purchases of paid apps in the Android Market is not doing nearly as well.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Shipped 2 Million Units of Windows Phone 7 Software Last Quarter — Microsoft Corp. said it shipped more than 2 million copies of the Windows Phone 7 operating system last quarter, as the company tried to reverse sliding smartphone market share. — Customer satisfaction …
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Digits, VentureBeat, ZDNet, LiveSide.net, Mobilized, Engadget, Gearlog, GottaBeMobile, @asymco, ConceivablyTech and Windows Phone Secrets
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple revamps its public website using HTML5 — Apple has relaunched its entire website with a new design using HTML5, adding a darker, glossy navigation bar and speedy new animated page layouts for Mac and iPod pages. — The redesign officially upgrades the site from “HTML 4.01 Transitional” …
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The Next Web, MacRumors, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and MacGazette.net
Android Developers Blog:
Android 3.0 Platform Preview and Updated SDK Tools — Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) is a new version of the Android platform that is designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets. It introduces a new “holographic” UI theme and an interaction model that builds …
Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
7 digital trends at Davos 2011 [World Economic Forum talk] — It's my 9th Davos in a row and I am lucky to be invited to speak twice this year, I'm giving a talk on future trends “digital convergence” in David Kirkpatrick's session and I moderate my own dinner on “social networking addiction” …
Thanks:loic
The Official Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft is Imagining a NUI future — You don't have to look very far to realize that technology is becoming more natural and intuitive. In a typical day, many people use touch or speech to interact with technology—on their phones, at the ATM, at the grocery store and in their cars.
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Fast Company, WinRumors, Softpedia News and The Next Web, Thanks:linderholm
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Apple's ‘PC’ shipments grow by 241 percent in iPad-inclusive Canalys stats — Canalys is a pretty well respected global stat-keeper and now it seems to be relying on that reputation to push through a pretty controversial message: tablets, such as Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy Tab, are PCs.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Facebook Brings Back (Part of) Beacon, and No One Blinks — In 2007, Facebook unveiled a plan to let brands turn Facebook users' online activities into ads. Cue uproar, and an eventual apology from Mark Zuckerberg. — Yesterday Facebook unveiled a plan to let brands turn Facebook users' online activities into ads.
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Exclusive: Elevation's Bodnick is headed to Quora — Marc Bodnick is stepping down as a co-founding partner of private equity firm Elevation Partners, in order to join social question-and-answer site Quora, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
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VentureBeat, SAI and TechCrunch
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Experimenting With Voice Calling — Last September, news broke that Facebook and VoIP service Skype were about to announce a “deep integration partnership” that would bring integration of SMS and voice chat. A couple weeks later, we got Skype 5., which included an integrated Facebook phonebook …
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Disruptive Telephony
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Facebook phone from HTC rumored to debut next month — Here we go again: Rumors of a potential Facebook phone have emerged once more, this time from the London business site City A.M. — According to the site, which makes no mention of its sources, Taiwanese manufacturer HTC will unveil …
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Netflix Adds 7.7 Million Subscribers in 2010 to Pass 20 Million — Netflix is announcing its Q4 2010 earnings (pdf) today and one of the big stories, as you might expect, is the company's explosive growth. According to the letter the company issued to its shareholders …
Michael Rose / TUAW:
Good Technology Q4 2010 mobile device report shows huge iPad growth in the enterprise — Back in October the enterprise mobile integration company Good Technology released its first quarterly metrics report covering device activations and overall trends; the report showed extremely strong growth …
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AppleInsider, Thanks:miketrose
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Kevin Rose: Yahoo Contacted Digg To See If We Wanted To Take Over Delicious — It looks like Yahoo has been looking for a home for Delicious for some time now. On his Diggnation web show this week, Digg founder Kevin Rose said that Yahoo contacted Digg to see if the company would be interested …
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Chitika Insights, Thanks:jkernsjr
Brian McClendon / Google LatLong:
Retiring real estate on Google Maps — At Google one of our key philosophies is to take risks and to experiment. To that end, in July 2009 we announced the ability to find property for sale or rent directly on Google Maps. This is one of the “search options” next to the search box on Google Maps …
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NewsGrange, Search Engine Land, paidContent, CNET News and Property Pal
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Verizon Starts Bundling Broadband Services With Google Apps To Small Business Customers — This is interesting. Verizon has just announced that it is bundling broadband with Google Apps for its small business customers. — Called Google Apps for Verizon, the package combines Google's …
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PR Newswire, SAI and Fortune
Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
Kongregate Arcade back in Android Marketplace, with some minor changes — Exactly one week after Kongregate's promising mobile app, Kongregate Arcade, made its tumultuous debut on the Android Marketplace (from which it was pulled from the very same day!) the browser-based gaming platform …
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Technologizer, IntoMobile, Android Community, Eurodroid and VG247
Bill Rigby / Reuters:
A year later, Microsoft picture looks very different — (Reuters) - A year ago, Microsoft Corp blew away Wall Street's earnings forecasts with blistering sales of its new Windows 7 operating system and trumpeted optimism about the recovery in tech spending.
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AppleInsider, TechEye and CNET News
