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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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Wall Street Journal:
Hulu Plots New Script — Just as the digital wave transforms the television industry, Hulu, a pioneer of Internet TV, is in internal discussions to dramatically transform itself. — The free online television service has become one of the most-watched online video properties in the U.S …
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Krishna Panicker / The Big Blog:
Introducing the new version of Skype for Mac — We've just released a new version of Skype for Mac, removing the beta label and introducing group video calling as part of our Premium package, as well as a number of user interface and other improvements. Download it now, or read on to find out more.
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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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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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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple, News Corp to hold event to launch The Daily — Apple and News Corp sent out invitations on Thursday to press for the launch of the Daily, a newspaper designed specifically for iPads. — According to the invitation received by The Loop on Thursday, News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch …
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
News Corp.'s iPad magazine launching Feb. 2
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TechCrunch and Ars Technica
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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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Sony PlayStation Suite brings PS gaming to Android
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More — It's taken a while, but Google has finally caved in to pressure from the entertainment industries including the MPAA and RIAA. The search engine now actively censors terms including BitTorrent, torrent, utorrent …
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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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9 to 5 Mac, The Atlantic Online, Search Engine Land and TiPb
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
HTC's newest Android flagship phone revealed — Why bother waiting for its official Mobile World Congress reveal in February when you can view the newest HTC flagship today? The touchscreen slate prototype (notice the serial number stamped along the bottom of the handset's face) …
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Fonehome.co.uk, PhoneArena, Eurodroid, SlashGear, Erictric, Geekword, Android Community, The Next Web and Pocket-lint
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 …
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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 …
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.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google, Amazon Vets Bank On Jumio To Revolutionize Mobile Payments — Much of what Jumio is building is still very unclear, but chances are this will become one of the hottest startups in 2011, and not just because they hire opera singers to tease their upcoming mobile payments product.
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Zuckerberg 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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The Atlantic Online, BBC and ITProPortal
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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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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The Next Web and Forbes
Quentin Hardy / Forbes:
Is Tasty Labs the Next Great Social Play? — Tasty Labs, a coy startup with all-star founders, is out to prove a new wrinkle in the social uses of the Internet - stating and satisfying most all our desires. — Based in one room in a Palo Alto garage - does the city subsidize garages so people can still say they started in one?
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