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Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:
Microsoft's Bing uses Google search results—and denies it — By now, you may have read Danny Sullivan's recent post: “Google: Bing is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results” and heard Microsoft's response, “We do not copy Google's results.” However you define copying, the bottom line is, these Bing results came directly from Google.
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Daniel Eran Dilger / Roughly Drafted:
Why is Google so hysterically hypocritical about Bing using its public data? — Daniel Eran Dilger — The tech world seems to be briefly transfixed by the skirmish between Google and Microsoft, not over patents or profits but over accusations that Bing is using Google's search results to improve its own.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Wow, Microsoft And Google Are Punching Each Other In The Face Right In Front Of Us!
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Google vs. Microsoft over search results: Top takeaway is Bing matters
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All about Microsoft Blog and GMSV
Harry Shum / Bing:
Thoughts on search quality
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Search Engine Roundtable, TechNet Blogs, Bloomberg, @fxshaw, Techdirt, V3.co.uk, Bits, paidContent, Examiner, SAI, @fxshaw, WebProNews and SAI
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Exclusive: iPad 2 screen, fresh from China — With the help of the iFixYouri iPhone 4 repair shop, we have been able to acquire what we believe is an iPad 2 LCD, fresh out of China. At this point, we cannot tell if the resolution is higher (or “Retina") but it is definitely higher quality in terms of its build.
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PC World, CNET News, Yahoo! News, Redmond Pie, Gearlog, MacRumors, TUAW, Edible Apple, SlashGear, Gadget Lab, Engadget, PadGadget, The Apple Core Blog, CrunchGear, PhoneArena, SAI, ITProPortal, Faster Forward and Gizmodo, Thanks:sebastienpeek
Shereen El Gazzar / Wall Street Journal:
Egypt Restores Internet Service — The Egyptian government restored Internet service to the country Wednesday, ending an unprecedented week-long shutdown aimed at making it harder for protesters to organize. — In the end, the shutdown proved less an impediment than a source …
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James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Egypt Returns To The Internet — Egyptian Internet providers returned to the Internet at 09:29:31 UTC (11:29am Cairo time). Websites such as the Egyptian Stock Exchange, Commercial International Bank of Egypt, MCDR, and the US Embassy in Cairo, are once again reachable.
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NewEnterprise, CNET News, Softpedia News and Network World
Andree Toonk / BGPmon.net Blog:
Egypt Back Online — A few moments ago I noticed the first signs …
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Telegraph
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Ahead of Verizon iPhone, T-Mobile Announces Samsung Galaxy S 4G, Details G-Slate Honeycomb Tablet — With the Verizon iPhone getting ready to launch in the coming days, T-Mobile decided the time was right to talk about some of its upcoming devices, including a faster Android phone-the Galaxy S 4G.
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Inquirer, Gearlog, GigaOM, PC World, BlogsDNA, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Pulse2, The Toybox Blog, MobileCrunch and Fortune
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
LG G-Slate fully detailed by T-Mobile: 3D viewing and recording, available March (updated) — Though it was technically announced back at CES, T-Mobile just barely talked about the LG G-Slate there, spending more time chatting up Dell's Streak 7 and letting Motorola's Xoom get virtually all of the Honeycomb attention.
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TechSpot, Liliputing, Phones Review, wirelessgoodness.com, IntoMobile and MobileWhack.com
Adrianne Jeffries / New York Observer:
Flickr Accidentally Deletes a User's 4,000 Photos and Can't Get Them Back — Major, major stumble from Flickr today—a Zurich-based photoblogger says Flickr deleted his account by mistake and lost his 4,000 photos. — Mirco Wilhelm has the original files saved elsewhere …
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Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
“Confused” European Publishers Speak Up On Apple's In-App Payments Rules — Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) found itself in the eye of the digital publishers' storm yesterday, when it emerged that the Sony (NYSE: SNE) Reader app had been rejected from the App Store because the subscription function …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Oceania: We Have Always Required Books From the Eurasian E-Bookstore …
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TechCrunch, SAI, Alan Quatermain, L.A. Times Tech Blog and BlackBerry Cool
Joe LaPenna / Google Mobile Blog:
Check in with Google Latitude — We first introduced Google Latitude to help you stay in touch with your friends and family by making it easy to share where you are. For the 10 million people actively using Latitude each month, this “where” has been a location on a map.
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Mobile Entertainment, Mashable!, Pocket-lint, Pulse2, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Techie Buzz, ThinkMobile, Ars Technica and VentureBeat
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Adds 3 New Ways to Check In to Places, Including Automatically
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Internet2Go, Softpedia News and ITProPortal
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
The Empire Strikes Back: Microsoft Goes After Google on Web Video Formats — The war between Google and Microsoft is clearly heating up. — After being accused of copying Google's search results on Tuesday, Microsoft is now going after Google, accusing it of injecting inconsistency …
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Richard Hung / Google Mobile Blog:
Announcing Google Shopper for iPhone — (Cross-posted on the Google Merchant Blog) — As we announced last November, millions of people have downloaded Google Shopper for Android to help them shop on the go. Today, we're excited to let you know that Google Shopper …
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9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, Softpedia News, ReadWriteWeb, Gizmodo, Pulse2, Fonehome.co.uk, Download Squad, MacStories, The Next Web and Electronista
Lior Ron / The Official Google Blog:
Google Hotpot now on Google.com and around the world — Back in November, we introduced Hotpot, a new local recommendation engine powered by you and your friends. Using Hotpot is simple: you rate places on google.com/hotpot—restaurants, hotels, cafes—and add friends on Hotpot whose opinions you trust.
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Fast Company, Download Squad, Lifehacker, IT Professionals, SlashGear and Softpedia News
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: An Early Look At News.me, The New York Times' Answer To The Daily — Tomorrow, all eyes will be on the launch of News Corp's iPad newspaper The Daily, but huddled away in a downtown loft in New York City's meatpacking district a team from betaworks and the New York Times …
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Apple:
iPhone 4 on Verizon Wireless Available for Pre-Order Tomorrow — Apple® today announced an exclusive opportunity for Verizon Wireless' 94 million customers to pre-order iPhone® 4 online beginning on Thursday, February 3 through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com) and at www.verizonwireless.com/iphone.
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AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, Erictric, SlashGear, TUAW, Gizmodo, MacDailyNews, MacStories, Engadget and The Next Web
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
3 Things Google Might Unveil on Wednesday — On Wednesday morning, ReadWriteWeb will be heading down to Mountain View with everyone else to see the latest that Google has to offer. The company is holding an event to provide “an in-depth look at Honeycomb, Android ecosystem news and hands-on demos” …
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Engadget, The Toybox Blog, Android and Me, IntoMobile, Lifehacker, Crave and Download Squad
David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
Quora Raises Questions — My son is 13 and looking for a great East Coast summer camp. He was thinking maybe he'd investigate a camp where he could learn to program an iPhone app, but still enjoy the traditional, more active camp activities. — Unfortunately, that's too targeted a question …
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SAI, @pogue and @codinghorror
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
AOL fourth quarter better than expected, ad revenue still slides — AOL reported fourth quarter earnings that highlight a company in the middle of a restructuring, but showing some progress. Revenue, however, continues to slide. — The company reported fourth quarter net income of $66.2 million …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
U.S. Resume Controversial File-Sharing Domain Seizures (Updated) — Check out TorrentFreak's new News Bits feed! . — Rojadirecta is known as one of the world's major Internet sports broadcast indexes. The site links to broadcasts of many popular soccer matches plus other sporting events including NBA, MLB, NFL, NPB, IPL.
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Hillicon Valley, Softpedia News, CrunchGear, ReadWriteWeb, Techdirt and @hornokplease
Ben Fritz / Company Town:
Amazon poised to launch online movie service to rival Netflix [Updated] — Amazon.com is gearing up to be the first direct competitor to Netflix's popular online movie service. — The Web's biggest retailer has held talks with the Hollywood studios and several independent companies …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, ITProPortal, Bloomberg and PC World, more at Mediagazer »
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Google Android counts include rival Chinese variants — Hot on the heels of Samsung admitting that it had exaggerated sales of its Android tablet to consumers, it is becoming clear that Google's Android platform definition is being stretched to include Chinese rivals, including China Mobile's Ophone …
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Computerworld and Techie Buzz
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Waiting for the Big Fish? The Next Web IPOs Might Surprise You — No, not Facebook. — Not Zynga. — And probably not Groupon. — At least not yet, when it comes to the blockbuster Web IPOs that Wall Street and investors have been waiting for, and now expecting to roll out sooner …
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