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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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Inquirer, InformationWeek, Between the Lines Blog, InfoWorld, Geek.com, Engadget, Crave, Tablets Planet, Open Source Blog, Mobile Entertainment, Mashable!, ITProPortal, Softpedia News, SAI, pocketnow.com, Techie Buzz, LAPTOP Magazine, Pocket-lint, Inside Mobile Apps, TechCrunch, mobiputing, Download Squad, SlashGear, Phones Review, Android Community, Erictric, Neowin.net, Android Phone Fans, Gearlog, Android and Me, IntoMobile, Eurodroid, Droid Life and Liliputing
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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Check Out Big Pictures Of Android 3.0, Google's Tablet Operating System — Google just released the Android 3.0 SDK preview for developers. — This gives them an opportunity to start testing out apps for Google's new operating system called Honeycomb. — In addition to the SDK …
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TheAppNews, The Next Web, Softpedia News, ThinkMobile, Android Phone Fans and mobiputing
Electronista:
Android 3.0 SDK live with DRM, Apple's HTTP Live Streaming — Google gave developers their first direct sample of Honeycomb by posting the Android 3.0 preview SDK with hints it was tackling major Android issues. The tablet-optimized OS now has an extendable DRM framework that addresses complaints of fragmented Android DRM.
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Fonehome.co.uk, THINQ.co.uk and Shoutpedia
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 …
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Nokia smartphone market share shrinks to 31 percent, operating profit takes a beating too — Stephen Elop's first quarterly results as Nokia CEO have just come out, and while the company's still growing, others seem to be speeding ahead of it. Nokia's reporting its converged mobile devices …
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9 to 5 Mac, New York Times, Mobilized, mocoNews, CNET News, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal and All About Symbian
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Sony's next PSP, codenamed NGP — Betcha didn't think this day would come, but it finally has. Sony has just come clean with its next-generation PlayStation Portable. It's actually codenamed NGP and will revolve around five key concepts: Revolutionary User Interface, Social Connectivity …
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Gizmodo, TechEye, IntoMobile, Guardian, PlayStation Blog, PlayStation.Blog.Europe, AppleInsider, Kotaku, Telegraph, TiPb, Reuters, Gearlog, techeblog.com, Phones Review, www.pocketgamer.biz, BetaNews, www.pocketgamer.biz, New York Times, Agence France Presse, VG247, Geek.com, Mashable!, Neowin.net, Eurogamer, VentureBeat, VG247, Eurogamer, Electronista and CNET News
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Sony PlayStation Suite brings PS gaming to Android
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Fast Company, Engadget, SAI, PlayStation Blog, Engadget, The Next Web, Japan Real Time, MobileCrunch, mobiputing, CrunchGear, TechSpot, GottaBeMobile, Phones Review, IntoMobile, Joystiq, GottaBeMobile, Download Squad and Kotaku, Thanks:stuartmiles
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter Hires Bing's Principal Scientist Away From Microsoft — Alek Kocz, Principal Scientist at Microsoft's search engine Bing, appears to have left the company and joined Twitter this week. Kocz's Twitter messages are protected and he hasn't changed any of his profiles online …
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Fast Company, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, GeekSmack and WinRumors
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Mark Zuckerberg Facebook fan page hack: who was behind it? — There are some clues left by the person who hacked Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook fan page on Wikipedia - but what do they add up to? — I decided to follow up some of the trail left in the Mark Zuckerberg Facebook fan page hacking incident.
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BBC:
Facebook blames bug for Zuckerberg ‘hacking’
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Forbes, Help Net Security, VatorNews, Network World, Gawker, InfoWorld, ITProPortal and Mashable!
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Netflix Gets Social: “Extensive” Facebook Integration is Coming — Netflix revealed it is in the process of implementing “an extensive Facebook integration” on Wednesday, marking a significant change from its previous absence from the social Web. — Netflix's dramatic growth in user base …
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Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Netflix Adds 7.7 Million Subscribers in 2010 to Pass 20 Million
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TechCrunch, CNET News, CNET News, SAI, Digital Society, Macgasm, Forbes, Mashable!, Gearlog, Engadget, MediaMemo and Between the Lines Blog, more at Mediagazer »
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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SlashGear, Softpedia News, Electronista, MacGazette.net, MacStories and 9 to 5 Mac
Brad Stone / Business Week:
Larry Page's Google 3.0 — The company co-founder and his star deputies are trying to root out bureaucracy and rediscover the nimble moves of youth — Every Monday afternoon at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., more than a dozen of Google's (GOOG) top executives gather in the company's boardroom.
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Search Engine Land
Arn / MacRumors:
Verizon iPhone Pre-Orders to Start at 3am ET on February 3rd, Offering AT&T iPhone Trade Ins — Verizon has begun sending out information to corporate customers with more details about their iPhone launch. Verizon is offering existing customers a chance to buy the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd, a week before the general public.
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TiPb, MacStories, Geekword, Mashable!, 9 to 5 Mac, Apple Gazette and TUAW
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteMobile:
10 Mobile Trends for 2011 — In its annual mobile technology report, Forrester Research has outlined the trends it expects to see in the coming year. Technologies like 4G and LTE, Near Field Communication (NFC), barcodes and augmented reality will see increasing amounts of hype in 2011 …
Electronista:
Hulu may use live TV, lose free ABC and Fox to iTunes — Hulu is considering a major shakeup of its business model that could move away from its free format and towards a paid service with live TV, insiders claimed early Thursday. While it wouldn't drop the current model …
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SAI, Home Theater Blog, Wall Street Journal, Engadget and SlashGear, more at Mediagazer »
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Here Comes Another Web IPO: LinkedIn S-1 Filing Imminent — LinkedIn, the online business networking site, is likely to file regulatory documents for an initial public offering as early as today, according to sources close to the situation. — Sources said LinkedIn is ready to submit …
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SAI and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Are Location-Based Services Ready to Turn the Corner? — Despite reports that location-based services are far from mainstream, new research by Microsoft suggests the technology is gaining adoption and may be poised to follow in the footsteps of the ATM, which took some time to dispel safety concerns …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
AT&T Earnings: 442,000 Tablet And 4.1 Million iPhone Activations In Q4 2010 — Telecommunications company AT&T has announced its quarterly results, reporting consolidated revenues of $31.4 billion, up 2.1 percent or $653 million from the fourth quarter of 2009. — Here are some of the things that caught my eye:
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MediaMemo, mocoNews, SAI, Business Wire, Between the Lines Blog, MacStories, Engadget and Electronista
Walter S. Mossberg / All Things Digital:
What's on the Table for Tablets This Year [Personal Technology] — Lots of consumers are planning to buy tablet computers this year, and lots of companies are hoping to sell them. Apple managed to sell around 15 million of its ground-breaking iPads last year in only nine months, and …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Motorola feels pressure from Verizon iPhone — Motorola is bracing itself for a slowdown in smartphone sales in the first quarter as the Apple iPhone goes to Verizon Wireless. — During the fourth quarter conference call with analysts and investors on Wednesday, Sanjay Jha the CEO …
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TechEye, Digital Daily, Inquirer, Electronista, eWeek, AppleInsider, Between the Lines Blog, The Digital Home, Apple Gazette, SlashGear and TUAW
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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Inquirer, X-bit labs, Mobilized, CNET News, Engadget, Digits, Ars Technica, Redmond Pie, TG Daily, TomsTechBlog.com, VentureBeat, GottaBeMobile, @asymco and Gearlog
Felix Gillette / Business Week:
Demand Media's Planet of the Algorithms — Fresh off its IPO, Demand Media is blanketing the Web with answers to millions of questions you didn't know you had. Is that a business? — “We are thinking through the implications of, ‘How do you editorially program the planet?’ ” says Byron Reese.
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, Vikas's Posterous, Computerworld and SlashGear
Jeremy Kirk / Computerworld:
UK police arrest five Anonymous WikiLeaks defenders — UK police arrested three teenagers and two other people on Thursday for allegedly taking part in a series of denial-of-service attacks against major websites earlier this year as part of the loosely affiliated group “Anonymous.”
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The Register and The Next Web
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
Facebook denies to launch branded phones with HTC — (Reuters) - Facebook has no plans to launch Facebook-branded phones with Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC, it said on Thursday, following reports that it planned to launch an official tie-up next month. — “This is really just another example …
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft sues former GM over departure to Salesforce.com — In a case that promises to reignite the debate over the enforceability of non-compete agreements, Microsoft today filed suit and won a temporary restraining order against one of its former general managers over his recent hiring by Salesforce.com.
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Computerworld, Digits and The Microsoft Blog
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 …
