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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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InfoWorld, eWeek, Facebook Developer Blog, Macworld, PC World, Faster Forward, Inside Facebook, Neowin.net, CSOONLINE.com, ZDNet, ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, CNNMoney.com, Between the Lines Blog, Naked Security, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Gawker, Threat Level, Post Tech, techPresident, Digits, All Facebook, Bright Side Of News*, madisonian.net, CNN, Digital Society, The Register, Zero Day Blog, Erictric, CNET News, The Blog Herald, msnbc.com and Fast Company
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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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Telegraph, NEWS.com.au, Computerworld, Mashable!, Examiner, PC World, CNET News, LAPTOP Magazine, Techie Buzz, The Not-So Private Parts, SlashGear and Digital Trends, Thanks:gigjets
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Facebook Beefs Up Security With Social Captchas and All HTTPS, All The Time
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ReadWriteWeb, Neowin.net and techPresident
Gmail Blog:
Desktop notifications for emails and chat messages — Many of us are guilty of constantly switching back to Gmail to check for new messages. And if you're like me, you've probably missed an important chat message because you weren't looking at your Gmail window when it came in.
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The Next Web, TechCrunch and MacStories
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 …
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 …
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Examiner, PC World, Tech Broiler Blog, Life On My Mobile, Between the Lines Blog, eWeek, IntoMobile, Bright Side Of News*, Electronista, Techland, OSNews, Tech Sanity Check Blog, Android Community, Engadget, The Next Web, Liliputing, Erictric, PocketBerry, Gearlog, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear, CrackBerry.com blogs, AndroidOS.in and PhoneArena
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More — Check out TorrentFreak's new News Bits feed! . — The entertainment industries' quest to root out piracy on the Internet has yet again resulted in commercial censorship. A few weeks ago Google announced that it would start filtering …
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Search Engine Land, paidContent, The Next Web and TechSpot
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 …
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Inside Mobile Apps, Open Source Blog, Electronista, SAI, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Register, Phones Review, ThinkMobile, mobiputing, Mashable!, AndroidGuys, Erictric, Eurodroid, MobileTechWorld, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, Android Community, Android and Me, Download Squad, IntoMobile, Gizmodo and Gearlog
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
MacBook Pro Supplies Tightening Ahead of Potential Refresh — MacRumors has heard from several sources that supplies of Apple's existing MacBook Pro models, particularly the 15" and 17" sizes, are beginning to run low in Apple stores and at third-party retailers, suggesting that the company …
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9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, MacGazette.net and MacStories
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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Ars Technica, Digits, CNET News, Mobilized, Engadget, Redmond Pie, TG Daily, X-bit labs, LiveSide.net, TomsTechBlog.com, VentureBeat, ConceivablyTech, GottaBeMobile, Gearlog, @asymco and MobileTechWorld
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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PC World, Appolicious Advisor, PhoneNews.com, GigaOM and Bright Side Of News*
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
AT&T Offering Unlimited Data to Keep iPhone Customers From Defecting to Verizon?
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Associated Press, Examiner, DSLreports, Crave, WMPoweruser.com, SlashGear, Engadget, IntoMobile and MacStories
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 …
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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Netflix: ISPs Overcharging Subs With Tiered Data Plans
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SAI and fierceonlinevideo.com …
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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Property Pal, paidContent, Bronte Media, Search Engine Land, NewsGrange and Relevant Results
Cory Ondrejka / Facebook:
HTML5 Games 0.1: Speedy Sprites — Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. — Aldous Huxley, 1949 — Bruce Rogers and I graduated from Facebook's Engineering Bootcamp in January and began researching how HTML5 could apply to games across the Web.
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Daring Fireball, MSDN Blogs and @coryondrejka
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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 and MacGazette.net
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” …
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Data Central, Thanks:loic
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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Inside Facebook, The Daily What and Disruptive Telephony
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Buys Business Card Converter CardMunch, Will Offer Its Services For Free — In perhaps one of the most like-minded and forward-thinking acquisitions I've ever seen, career-driven social network LinkedIn has bought CardMunch, a Shoeboxed-like startup that scans your business cards …
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SAI, VentureBeat, CardMunch, ReadWriteWeb and K9 Ventures
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Launches ‘Connections,’ Its Own Version Of Facebook's ‘Mutual Friends’ — Twitter has collapsed its “Followed By” and “You Both Follow” features into one area called “Connections” which allows you to see what users you have in common with other Twitter users.
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The Next Web and SlashGear
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, TechCrunch and SAI
Steve Clayton / 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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WinRumors, Fast Company and The Next Web, Thanks:linderholm
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.
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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Forbes, NBC Bay Area and Chitika Insights, Thanks:jkernsjr
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 …
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Crave, Gizmodo, Mashable!, The Next Web, Computerworld, All Facebook, GeekSugar, SAI, City A.M., AndroidOS.in, Digital Trends, Know Your Cell, Mobilized, Erictric, msnbc.com, LAPTOP Magazine, TG Daily, pocketnow.com, Geek.com, @hornokplease, Startup Meme, IntoMobile and Eurodroid
Stephen Wolfram Blog:
Jeopardy, IBM, and Wolfram|Alpha — About a month before Wolfram|Alpha launched, I was on the phone with a group from IBM, talking about our vision for computable knowledge in Wolfram|Alpha. A few weeks later, the group announced that they were going to use what they had done …
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Search Engine Land and TechCrunch
