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Canalys:
Google's Android becomes the world's leading smart phone platform — Canalys reveals smart phone market exceeded 100 million units in Q4 2010 Palo Alto, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Monday, 31 January 2011 Canalys today published its final Q4 2010 global country-level smart phone market data …
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Canalys: Android overtakes Symbian as world's best-selling smartphone platform in Q4 2010 — One day somebody will write a book called “The rise and rise of Android” and this moment will be highlighted in bold. Canalys' latest smartphone sales figures show that Android phone makers managed …
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Fortune, DailyTech, WMPoweruser.com and Androinica
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google Searches for Mobile-App Experts — Engineers, Product Managers Are Needed as More Development Is Brought in House to Counter Apple — Google Inc. plans to hire dozens of software developers to create applications for smartphones and other mobile devices, people familiar with the matter said …
Sydney Morning Herald:
Closed Apple headed for trouble as Jobs's ego bites: Netgear CEO — Asher Moses — The global chairman and CEO of home networking giant Netgear has launched into a scathing attack on Apple and its founder Steve Jobs, criticising Jobs's “ego” and Apple's closed up products.
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AppleInsider, SlashGear, MacGazette.net, DailyTech, MacStories, TiPb, THINQ.co.uk, Electronista, Neowin.net, Engadget and Phones Review
Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg:
Android Tablets Gain on IPad in Fourth Quarter, Researcher Says — Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.'s Android boosted its share of tablet computers almost tenfold in the fourth quarter, narrowing the lead of Apple Inc.'s iPad, market researcher Strategy Analytics said.
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Computerworld, ZDNet, Mashable!, Dow Jones Newswires, Phones Review and mocoNews, Thanks:michaelkroker
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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple's share of tablet market slides to 77%, Android rises to 22%
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Inquirer and Fonehome.co.uk
Markus / Plenty of fish blog:
Plentyoffish Hacked. — This is not a statement from Plentyoffish, i'll post something in the morning. This is a personal post about what it feels like to be hacked /extorted and the intense pressure and stress you are put under. Not to mention how annoying it is to have someone constantly harassing …
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The Next Web, TechCrunch and SAI
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Grumo Media:
Plenty Of Fish Hacked - Chris Russo explains what happened — I just got in contact with Chris Russo who managed to hack into the largest dating site on the world PlentyOfFish.com. — Marcus Frind, Founder of POF wrote an article accussing Chris of hacking /extorting POF and harassing his wife.
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Why One Egyptian ISP is Still Online — For all intents and purposes, Egypt is currently cut off from the Internet. Even today, though, the Noor Group's DSL service in Egypt remains available (though it experienced some downtime earlier today). Why is Noor, which has about an 8% market share in Egypt …
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Between the Lines Blog, BBC, Gearlog, @jamodio, ITProPortal, Fast Company, GigaOM, L.A. Times Tech Blog and The Next Web
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Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:
Microsoft shifts some work out of Egypt
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Softpedia News, WinRumors, Shelly Palmer Digital Living and PC World
Andrew McLaughlin / The Huffington Post:
An Open Letter to Dr. Tarek Kamel, Minister of Communications …
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Post Tech and TechCrunch, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:jarredt
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia's Contributor List — In 10 short years, Wikipedia has accomplished some remarkable goals. More than 3.5 million articles in English? Done. More than 250 languages? Sure. — But another number has proved to be an intractable obstacle …
Dan Kaplan / The Quora Review:
Sorry, Scoble, Quora is not your playground — “This used to be my playground. This used to be my childhood dream. This used be the place I ran to...whenever I was in need.” -Madonna — So Robert Scoble, it seems you don't like the heat. In the bygone days of what feels like ten minutes ago …
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, @mathewi, @semilshah, Thomas Hawk Digital Connection, Greg Hard and Quora, Thanks:dankaplan
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The mistakes I made in Quora — So, I woke up early in Davos …
Thanks:thibetian
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Quora Backlash Slams Head First Into Quora Backlash Backlash
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TechCrunch, TeleRead, Victus Spiritus and Scobleizer, more at Mediagazer »
Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
At Flickr, Fending Off Rumors and Facebook — SAN FRANCISCO — Speculation in technology circles that Yahoo might close or sell Flickr, its photo-sharing service, prompted an emphatic denial this month. — “Is Yahoo committed to Flickr?” Blake Irving, Yahoo's product chief, wrote in a message on Twitter.
Edward Moyer / CNET News:
WikiLeaks founder Assange talks to ‘60 Minutes’ — Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, part 1 — In an exclusive interview with “60 Minutes” tonight, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange discussed, among other things, his relationship with sources (a crucial legal issue, as the U.S. considers taking court action …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
“TWO *REAL* GUNS POINTED AT ME”: how the FBI raided Anonymous — The FBI yesterday executed 40 search warrants around the US to gather evidence on the Anonymous distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in defense of WikiLeaks last year—attacks which targeted Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and Amazon.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
First look: Honeycomb APIs power tablet-friendly Android apps — Android 3.0, codenamed Honeycomb, introduces a completely new user interface suitable for tablet devices. Google has also extended the platform's APIs so that third-party developers can make their applications work better on large form factors.
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PC World, ITworld.com and Shelly Palmer Digital Living
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Facebook Launches Places Deals in UK and Europe — Facebook has just announced the launch of Places Deals in the UK and Europe from a company event in London, a service that will allow its users to check-in to shops, businesses and locations using their smartphone in order to get special offers …
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TechEye, Guardian, FT tech hub, mocoNews, Telegraph, The Register, TechCrunch Europe, MacGazette.net, Mobile Entertainment and Telegraph, Thanks:martinsfp
Eli Rosenberg / The Atlantic Online:
What Does Google's Subtle Censorship Say About Us? — The latest news from Google is that searches related to online piracy through torrent downloads are being dropped from the much touted ‘autocomplete’ and ‘instant search’ functions. As we have noted in the past, the notion of Google shaping …
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPub and XML on the Web — I've now been working and blogging about web technology long enough to see technologies that we once thought were the best thing since sliced bread turn out to be rather poor solutions to the problem or even worse …
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Beyond Search, OakLeaf Systems and Quora
