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Daniel Eran Dilger / Roughly Drafted:
Why is Google so hysterically hypocritical about Bing using its public data? — 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.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Google vs. Microsoft over search results: Top takeaway is Bing matters — Anyone watching Google and Microsoft spar over search results has to be torn between being shocked and amused. Google accuses Microsoft of stealing its search results for Bing. Microsoft says it doesn't steal Google results.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Wow, Microsoft And Google Are Punching Each Other In The Face Right In Front Of Us!
Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:
Microsoft's Bing uses Google search results—and denies it
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Digital Trends, Inquirer, Post Tech, Mashable!, DailyTech, Black Web 2.0, puremango.co.uk, @scepticgeek, THINQ.co.uk, BBC, Tech Shout!, Devils Workshop, Gizmodo and Softpedia News
Harry Shum / Bing:
Thoughts on search quality
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Search Engine Roundtable, SAI, TechNet Blogs and Bloomberg
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
All The Daily Details Leaked — Just minutes before the presentation, here are all the details of Murdoch's The Daily iPad newspaper, sent by Rupert himself. $40 will get you a subscription to 365 days of these contents: — • Over 100 pages of original news, life, entertainment, opinion and sports-every single day of the year
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Between the Lines Blog, GigaOM, Digital Daily, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, iLounge, Notebooks.com, everythingiCafe, Mixed Media, The Next Web and Lost Remote, Thanks:gizmodo
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Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Apple and News Corps. “The Daily” Newspaper Hits The iPad, For $0.99 a Week or $40 a Year — The media world has been impatiently waiting for Apple's iPad daily newspaper, built as a collaboration between Steve Jobs' company and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for months.
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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, PC World, Engadget, Epicenter, TUAW and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Graham Spencer / MacStories:
The Daily is Now Available in the App Store
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TiPb and Switched, Thanks:stevenchannels
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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Ars Technica, Techie Buzz, Electronista and Gearlog
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MSDN Blogs:
HTML5 and Web Video: Questions for the Industry from the Community — A Web without video would be a dull Web and consumers, developers and businesses want video on the Web to just work. As an industry we know this and have, until recently, been on a path to make this a reality with HTML5 …
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GigaOM, Computerworld, CNET News, MSDN Blogs, TechCrunch, Webmonkey, Softpedia News and SlashGear
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Microsoft adds H.264 support to Google Chrome — No, you're not reading that headline wrong. — Last month, Google announced that it was removing support for H.264 video playback via the HTML5 <video> tag in its Chrome browser. — The odd part about that decision is that it ignores the capabilities of its installed base.
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Download Squad, Thanks:edbott
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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Arbor Networks Security, BBC, Netcraft, TechEye, @google, ReadWriteWeb, Agence France Presse, Fortune, Post Tech, @mishahali, DSLreports, Fast Company, ZDNet, dailywireless.org, @dannysullivan, Network World, Engadget, Erictric, Gearlog, @bencnn, Geek.com, FT tech hub, Computerworld, Inquirer, Disruptors, The Register, @ap, @bbcworld, Gizmodo, Mashable!, @breakingnews, SlashGear, THINQ.co.uk, @anonymousirc and Electronista
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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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CNN, Ars Technica, NewEnterprise, The Huffington Post, Threat Level, CNET News, Telegraph and Softpedia News
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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Ars Technica, Computerworld, Yahoo! News, Macgasm, Phones Review, TiPb, Redmond Pie, The Huffington Post, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, Crave, Gearlog, TUAW, Edible Apple, SlashGear, Gadget Lab and Engadget, Thanks:sebastienpeek
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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Macworld, Engadget, GigaOM, AppleInsider, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, Softpedia News, iPhone Download Blog, Macgasm, Gearlog, CrunchGear, Erictric, TiPb, SlashGear, TUAW, The Huffington Post, MacDailyNews, The Next Web, Gizmodo and MacStories
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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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
LG G-Slate fully detailed by T-Mobile: 3D viewing and recording …
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Agence France Presse, Android and Me, Phones Review, wirelessgoodness.com, Liliputing, TechSpot and IntoMobile
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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Google Operating System, Search Engine Land, TiPb, 9 to 5 Mac, Pulse2, Fonehome.co.uk and Download Squad
Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
European Publishers “Confused” By Apple's In-App Payment Rules — Publishers in Europe are up in arms over Apple's decision to reject Sony's Reader app. They say Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has left them “confused” with their charging policies, and are now gearing up to meet in London later this month to plan what to do next.
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Digits, Alan Quatermain and Softpedia News
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Oceania: We Have Always Required Books From the Eurasian E-Bookstore …
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TechCrunch, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, SAI, The Loop and Alan Quatermain
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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Screenwerk, Fast Company, Lifehacker, Download Squad, IT Professionals and SlashGear
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
IAC's Match.com Acquires Online Dating Site OkCupid For $50M In Cash — IAC's Match.com is continuing its acquisition strategy today with the purchase of online dating site OkCupid for $50 million in cash. The deal also includes future earnouts contingent upon performance.
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SAI, paidContent, The Atlantic Online, PR Newswire, eMoney, AppScout, Mashable! and Online Dating Insider
The Mozilla Blog:
New Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo is Faster than Ever — We are excited to release the latest Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo. You can get Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta from the Android Market to test on your Google Android device or go here to get Firefox 4 Beta on your Nokia Maemo device.
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ReadWriteWeb, IntoMobile, Android and Me, Widgets Lab, Erictric, FierceMobileContent, Phones Review, Lifehacker, The Nokia Blog and Softpedia News
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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eWeek, Rob Hof's Blog, THINQ.co.uk, Fonehome.co.uk, Engadget, The Toybox Blog and IntoMobile
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 …
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 …
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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@pogue, SAI 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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