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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Verizon Beats AT&T in Voice Calls for iPhones — For millions of iPhone owners, or would-be iPhone owners, who dislike AT&T's wireless service or prefer Verizon Wireless service, liberation is at hand. Starting Feb. 10, Apple's iconic smart phone finally will be available in the U.S. on a second carrier …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Verizon iPhone review — The Verizon iPhone 4 is an interesting product for Engadget to review. Firstly, it's not exactly a new device (not in any outwardly noticeable way). From design, down to its CPU, RAM, and even cost, this iPhone is the same as the AT&T model …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Review: The Name's iPhone. Verizon iPhone.
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App Advice, Obama Pacman, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, TidBITS, ThinkMobile and iClarified
Reuters:
Unreleased Apple iPad spotted at News Corp event — (Reuters) - Spotted at Rupert Murdoch's splashy digital newspaper launch on Wednesday: a prototype of Apple's newest iPad. — A Reuters eyewitness saw what appeared to be a working model of the next iPad with a front-facing camera …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Reuters Knows A Guy Who Knows A Guy Who Totally Saw The iPad 2 Today
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
First Impressions Using Android Honeycomb, Google's iPad Rival — This morning Google held an event to showcase Android Honeycomb, the new version of the mobile OS that is focused on tablets. There wasn't much news around the OS — we've seen it previewed in a few demos …
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Android 3.0 ‘Honeycomb’ can encrypt all your data, needs a full hour's charge — Diving through the Motorola Xoom's sweet, sweet blend of Android 3.0, we found an interesting perk — there's an “Encrypt Tablet” option buried in the settings page, intended to secure all your personal data with a password or PIN.
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Vincent Nguyen / SlashGear:
Android 3.0 Honeycomb hands-on [Motorola XOOM]
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Engadget, eHomeUpgrade and Phones Review
Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing the Android Market website — Over the past two years, developers around the world have helped make Android Market the go-to place for more than 100,000 apps, games and widgets. Previously, you could only access Android Market directly from your device, but today …
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Android Market gets a web store with OTA installations, in-app purchases coming soon
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Eric Chu / Android Developers Blog:
New Merchandising and Billing Features on Android Market
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Guardian, Faster Forward and Android Phone Fans
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Digg This: Reddit Serves Up a Billion Pages a Month — Reddit, the community news sharing site, has now joined the billion-page-per-month club, having served up some 1,000,404,480 pages to almost 14 million unique visitors in January, as measured by Google Analytics.
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Mike Schiraldi / reddit:
Our monthly Google Analytics page has a new comma that we'd like …
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Softpedia News, Pulse2, Download Squad, The Next Web and VentureBeat
Arn / MacRumors:
Verizon iPhone Available for Pre-Order to Existing Customers — Verizon has opened its website for iPhone pre-orders about 10 minutes early. Existing Verizon customers can begin pre-ordering their iPhone 4. Apple's own website is now also accepting preorders.
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AppleInsider:
Citing “unprecedented demand” for iPhone, Verizon urges employees to wait to buy — In anticipation of “unprecedented demand” that could outstrip the initial supply of CDMA iPhone 4s, Verizon Wireless has sent a corporate memo strongly urging its employees to hold off on buying the handset …
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TiPb, TUAW, CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, MacNN, Mobilized and The Tech Herald …
Jason Kilar / Hulu Blog:
Stewart, Colbert, and Hulu's thoughts about the future of TV — We are extremely happy to announce a broad content agreement between Viacom and Hulu that brings The Daily Show and The Colbert Report back to Hulu and now also to Hulu Plus, beginning this morning.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
The Daily Show And Colbert Report Return To Hulu Via New Viacom Content Partnership
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SAI, PR Newswire and Media Maverick
Yusuf Mehdi / Bing:
Setting the record straight — I was unable to attend the Farsight conference yesterday but watched events unfold online and wanted to take a moment to share some thoughts and make sure everyone is clear about a few things. — It was interesting to watch the level of protest and feigned outrage from Google.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Latest WikiLeak Reveals Google And The State Department Talked To Unblock Egyptian Videos — In response to the escalating Mubarek protests, the latest release of WikiLeaks have been Egypt or MENA related. One cable from November 2008 is particularly interesting, revealing …
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Mike Elkin / Danger Room:
Cairo's Band of Geeks Survives Tahrir Square Assault
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VatorNews and P2P Foundation
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
News Corp. Has Given Up On MySpace; ‘Now Is Right Time’ For Sale — News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) is now definitely looking for a MySpace buyer. — “With a new structure in place, now is the right time to consider strategic options for this business,” COO Chase Carey told analysts.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Tried To Buy Path For $100+ Million. Path Said No. — Yesterday we reported on Path's new $8.5 million venture round, led by Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures. I was curious about the valuation and pulled on a couple of threads. What unraveled was a stunning story about a startup …
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IntoMobile, The Social, Pulse2, Gawker, Fortune, SAI, @peterrojas, @caro, WebProNews and The Huffington Post
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Anonymous Hackers Attack Yemeni Government — Anonymous took down Egyptian government websites today to protest the country's Internet censorship. Old news. Now they've moved on to Yemen, where an Egypt-style “day of rage” is scheduled for tomorrow. Hackers have already taken down the Ministry of Information.
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple Tightens Reins — Apple Inc. is moving to take greater control over delivering and billing for electronic content viewed on its iPhone and iPad devices, an outgrowth of the tech giant's expanding influence that faces a frosty reception from publishers.
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App Advice, MacNN, TUAW, SlashGear, Engadget, IntoMobile, Inside Mobile Apps, Voices on All Things Digital, MacStories and SAI, more at Mediagazer »
Piero Sierra / The Windows Blog:
Messenger now powering over 2.8 billion minutes of Facebook chat — We're excited to announce today that Facebook chat is now available to over 75 million more Messenger customers worldwide, wherever Facebook is available. — Nearly 18 million people now driving over 2.8 billion minutes of Facebook chat on Messenger
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WinRumors, Neowin.net and LiveSide.net
