Techmeme: Introducing BlackBerry Radio (Select Beta) (Douglas Soltys/Inside BlackBerry)

5:15 PM ET, February 3, 2011

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Andrew Munchbach / BGR:

Verizon Wireless to begin throttling data speeds of heaviest users, optimizing content; starts today — According to a PDF memo available on Verizon Wireless' website (for now), the company will begin to throttle the data-throughput speeds of customers that consume an “extraordinary amount of data” …

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Verizon can now throttle top five percent of bandwidth hogs, downres multimedia transfers — Nice timing, Verizon. Just as thousands — possibly zillions — of smartphone users are pondering the switch to Big Red for Apple's iPhone 4, the carrier has slipped in two critical policy changes that are apparently effective immediately.

Discussion: Examiner, AppleInsider and Digital Trends

Andy Baio / Waxy:

The Daily: Indexed — Anybody else think it's weird that The Daily, News Corp's new iPad-only magazine, posts almost every article to their official website... but with no index of the articles to be found? They spent $30M on it, but apparently forgot a homepage! — So I went ahead and made one for them!

Discussion: Bits, Between the Lines Blog, Fast Company, MacStories, AppScout, TidBITS, Daring Fireball, Mediaite and Internet Evolution, more at Mediagazer »

Joe Weisenthal / SAI:

Sorry Rupert, Everyone Can Now Read “The Daily” For Free — Yesterday News Corp unveiled The Daily, its new iPad-only daily newspaper. You have to pay $1/week to subscribe to it. — Bad new though: anyone can easily read it for free. — Andy Baio has created The Daily Index on Tumblr …

Discussion: Examiner and App Advice

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

The Verizon iPhone 4 — It's the same phone. The only difference is the network. And Verizon's network is better. — That's it in a nut. — Here's the whole story. I've been using a Verizon iPhone 4 since Friday morning.1 I was in San Francisco through Sunday morning, and I've been home in Philadelphia ever since.

Discussion: Notebooks.com, The Toybox Blog, iPhone Buzz, App Advice and SlashGear

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 …

Discussion: The Apple Core Blog, MobileCrunch, GottaBeMobile, Gadgetell, Notebooks.com, IntoMobile and Newlaunches.com

Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Verizon Beats AT&T in Voice Calls for iPhones

Washington Post:

Facebook treads carefully after its vital role in Egypt's anti-Mubarak protests — In Egypt, the tried-and-true tool for opponents of President Hosni Mubarak in recent years has been Facebook. Most recently, it was on Facebook - which boasts 5 million users in Egypt, the most in the Arab world …

Discussion: Jillian C. York and New Scientist

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Vodafone Says Egyptian Government Hijacked Its Networks To Send Propaganda

Discussion: CNET News, Gizmodo, Associated Press, Reuters, The Huffington Post, The Register, AOL News, ReadWriteWeb, Reuters, Geekosystem, PC Pro, Switched, The Next Web, mocoNews, GMSV and Mediaite, Thanks:forbestech

Martyn Williams / PC World:
Blocking Internet Cost Egypt at Least $90M, Says OECD

Discussion: Computerworld, Disruptors, PC Pro and Business and Leadership

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Latest WikiLeak Reveals Google And The State Department Talked …

Discussion: CNET News, more at Mediagazer »

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Google's Bing Attack Has Larry Page Written All Over It — Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — While he won't officially take over as CEO of Google until April, the recent full frontal slapfest on Microsoft's Bing search engine for shoplifting results from the search giant …

Discussion: Geeking with Greg and PlagiarismToday

Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
My thoughts on this week's debate

Discussion: The Register and Vivek Wadhwa

Google Chrome Blog:

A dash of speed, 3D and apps — Today, we're excited to bring several new features from Chrome's beta channel to the stable build, including WebGL, Chrome Instant, and the Chrome Web Store. — WebGL is a new technology which brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the browser.

Discussion: Google Chrome Releases, Download Squad, Softpedia News, Techie Buzz, gHacks Technology News and MacNN

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Jon Stewart's Hulu Price Tag: At Least $40 Million — Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were two of Hulu's biggest draws until they left the video site last March. And it will cost Hulu at least $40 million to get them back. — That's according to people familiar with the new deal …

Discussion: VentureBeat, New York Times, paidContent, SAI and Electronista, more at Mediagazer »

Jason Kilar / Hulu Blog:
Stewart, Colbert, and Hulu's thoughts about the future of TV

Discussion: MediaMemo, Fortune, Technologizer, Show Me The Money, Techland, ClickZ, SAI, GigaOM, Hulu, Gizmodo, Lost Remote, Digital Trends, Thoughts from the Sidelines, CNET News and FierceIPTV, more at Mediagazer »

Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:

Is Apple's Data Center Using a ‘Unique’ Design? — Is Apple using custom enclosures and “unique” airflow and cable management in its North Carolina data center? We can't say for certain, but it sure looks that way based on an announcement today from several data center industry equipment vendors.

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, MacNN and Between the Lines Blog

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.

Discussion: PC Magazine, Computerworld, ITworld.com, Android Phone Fans, Mashable!, Android Community and Gearlog

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Honeycomb: What You Need to Know (It's Not Just For Tablets)

Discussion: Computerworld, AppScout and VentureBeat

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
First Impressions Using Android Honeycomb, Google's iPad Rival

Discussion: PC Magazine, BBC, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and Softpedia News

Ryan Singel / Epicenter:

‘Dating’ Site Imports 250,000 Facebook Profiles, Without Permission — How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day? — Simple. — You scrape data from Facebook.

Discussion: PSFK

Douglas Soltys / Inside BlackBerry:

Introducing BlackBerry Radio (Select Beta) — Later today, select BlackBerry Beta Zone users in the United States will get the opportunity to test out an upcoming radio discovery app, BlackBerry® Radio, and provide feedback to help us perfect it. This app will put multiple mobile radio services …

Discussion: Mobilized, The Download Blog, IntoMobile and BlackBerry Cool

Sinead Carew / Reuters:

Some Verizon Wireless iPhone customers complain — (Reuters) - Some Verizon Wireless customers complained they were unable to buy its iPhone online, but the phone company said sales were mostly running smoothly on its first day of Internet orders for the long-awaited phone.

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Verizon iPhone Pre-Order Process Not Without Bumps

Discussion: SAI, MacDailyNews, Bits, Tech Musings, Phones Review, TUAW, Black Web 2.0 and GottaBeMobile

Rafael Rivera / Within Windows:

Yahoo: Your buggy IMAP server affects iPhone too; thanks for playing though. — I was happy to see Microsoft's admission regarding Yahoo's buggy IMAP server, and even more so with Yahoo's apology. But today, Yahoo issued another statement pointing a finger at Microsoft …

Discussion: WPCentral.com, WMPoweruser.com and SlashGear, Thanks:wizardcm

Electronista: Yahoo mail's Windows Phone bug affects iPhone as well

Peter Skomoroch / The LinkedIn Blog:

Introducing LinkedIn Skills — Today, knowledge is evolving at an increasingly rapid pace. To succeed in the talent economy, it is crucial to showcase your skills and build a rich network of connections who have the expertise you need to get the job done.

Discussion: TechCrunch

Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:

Rumor: Dual-core HTC Pyramid superphone coming to T-Mobile by May — Let me be the first to admit that not everything in my last rumor report came true, but it was pretty darn close. Google unveiled their web-based Android Market and we heard that the music store is finished, but legal wrangling is still holding it up.

Discussion: eWeek, Engadget, TmoNews, DailyTech, Gizmodo, THINQ.co.uk, Android Phone Fans, Pocket-lint, Newlaunches.com, SlashGear, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, Android Community and Techie Buzz

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple CEO Succession Proposal Gets Backing From ISS — Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) — An Apple Inc. shareholder proposal requiring the company to disclose a succession plan for Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs gained the support of Institutional Shareholder Services, a proxy-advising service.

Discussion: AppleInsider and Ars Technica

Stephen Shankland / CNET News:

Moving to IPv6: Now for the hard part (FAQ) — Today is the beginning of the end of the Internet as we know it. — That's because the rules that govern how data is sent across the Net, a standard called Internet Protocol version 4, just became significantly more obsolete.

Discussion: The Official Google Blog, BetaNews, internetnews.com, PC World, CNET News, Bing, Inquirer, Networking Blog, WinRumors, VentureBeat, AOL News, ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News, Gearlog and Epicenter

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Hipmunk's Official Round: $4.2 Million Led By Ignition And A Group Of Online Travel Experts — About a week ago, we had heard that the travel startup Hipmunk was in the process of raising a new round of funding. Sure enough, an SEC document appeared, confirming the raise …

Discussion: VatorNews, eMoney, VentureBeat, silicontap.com and Tnooz

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