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Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq Computers — Hackers have repeatedly penetrated the computer network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year, and federal investigators are trying to identify the perpetrators and their purpose, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Between the Lines Blog, @andrewlitvak, Gizmodo and Security Watch
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple prepared 2 million Verizon iPhone 4 for preorders, retail [u] — Apple prepared 2 million CDMA iPhone 4 units to deliver to Verizon Wireless and its own retail stores through January, manufacturer reports indicate, suggesting that this year's preorders and launch of iPhone 4 on Verizon …
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Electronista, MacDailyNews, TechSpot, WebProNews and Engadget
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Verizon halts iPhone orders. An estimated 100,000 units pre-sold
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AppleInsider, DailyFinance, DailyTech, dailywireless.org and Digital Trends
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Verizon breaks first day sales record with iPhone 4 pre-orders — in only two hours
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AppleInsider, PR Newswire, Mobilized, BGR, VatorNews, @hobronto, Redmond Pie, Obama Pacman, The Next Web, TUAW, The Atlantic Online, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, NBC Bay Area and Phones Review
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
iOS 4.3 To Be Released On February 14th At 10 AM PST? — According to several reports surfaced earlier this week, Apple is targeting a release of the next major iOS update, version 4.3, in two weeks. We just got word from a reliable source that iOS 4.3 should be available on February 14th at 10 AM PST.
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
The Xoom Super Bowl Ad: 1984 Meets 2011 — Xoom's coming soon, but how is Motorola going to introduce its iPad foe to the general public? The Super Bowl, of course! And the biggest tech ad to invoke 1984 since... well... hmmm, let's see. Oh, right. Apple.
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Electronista, Engadget, TUAW, @steveshu, @motorola, PadGadget, Macworld, @gartenberg, Appletell and SAI
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Bing: Why Google's Wrong In Its Accusations — Along with everything else going on for Bing's Harry Shum on Tuesday — a panel about search spam, dealing with Google's accusations that Bing “copies” Google's results — Shum dealt with perhaps his most important worry.
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Network World, Mashable!, PC Magazine, @bobcaswell, Technologizer, MarketingVOX, ReveNews, msnbc.com and The Official Microsoft Blog
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
China's Tencent acquires majority stake in online game firm Riot Games for nearly $400M — Tencent, China's most valuable internet company, has acquired a majority stake in U.S. online games firm Riot Games for nearly $400 million. — The deal is another validation of the social game business …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
NBC: Here's Why We Fired The Today Show YouTube Leaker — Yup, NBC did indeed fire the guy who put that 1994 “Today Show” clip up on YouTube. Here's the company's official statement: “The individual in question violated the company's standards of conduct by repeatedly copying and distributing …
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Techdirt, paidContent, techPresident, Switched, lalawag, Geekosystem, SAI, Gearlog and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Facebook holding Feb. 8 event to discuss new H.Q. — Facebook has sent out an invitation for a Feb. 8 press conference at an address in Menlo Park, Calif. which houses the city's municipal buildings. — Why the location? Facebook said late last year that it was searching for locations …
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Reuters, eWeek, VentureBeat, All Facebook, SFGate and WebProNews
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Zuckerberg's Old Best Friend Poaches From Facebook, As Quora Hires A New Product Leader — Quora just poached Facebook product whiz Sandra Liu Huang to lead product development, three sources confirm. — At Facebook, Sandra last worked on the Instant Personalization program …
Wendy Zukerman / New Scientist:
Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth — Indiana Jones, put down your whip. To scour the globe for archaeological sites these days all you need is a desktop computer. — Almost two thousand potential archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia have been discovered from an office chair in Perth …
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newsfeed.time.com, SAI, Slashdot and Gawker
Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
New iPad details: RFID/NFC add-ons, carbon body, 7" iPad still in works — A previously accurate source has provided iLounge with some interesting new details on Apple's ongoing iPad development efforts, cautioning that some of the information is very preliminary. Here's what we've heard.
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MacRumors, PadGadget, CrunchGear, MacStories, 9 to 5 Mac, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Electronista, Ars Technica and MacDailyNews
Pauli Asikainen / Nokia Beta Labs:
Introducing Nokia Bubbles - A fun and efficient way to unlock your phone and get to what matters — Bubbles is a fun and efficient way to take a shortcut to timely or useful things on your phone. Bubbles appears when you press the “Apps” key while your device is in sleep mode …
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Nokia Beta Labs, IntoMobile, Electronista, Gizmodo, Techie Buzz, BetaNews, Geek.com, Technabob, Digital Inspiration …, Download Squad, PC World and SlashGear
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Mexican drug cartel selling counterfeit Microsoft software — A notorious Mexican drug cartel has been selling counterfeit Microsoft software on the streets, a company attorney said today, and has been shoving it in authorities' faces by stamping fake Office 2007 discs, for instance, with the familiar “FMM” logo of the Familia cartel.
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TechNet Blogs, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Digital Trends, The Next Web, SlashGear, ConceivablyTech, Softpedia News, Neowin.net and Bloomberg
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Search Underdog Blekko Sees Over 30M Searches In January, More Than 110K Slashtags Created Since Launch — Nowhere has the need for a more diverse search market been more apparent than this week's revelation that Bing was cribbing Google's notes. — While Microsoft VP Harry Shum …
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Takes Huge Steps towards a Graphics Pen for iPad — Just yesterday the news broke about HP's new graphics tablet dubbed the Digital Sketch coming to market with a three-button stylus and today you'll read all about Apple's latest research and development in this same area.
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AppleInsider, Bits, Fast Company, Macgasm, GottaBeMobile, ThinkMobile, The Apple Core Blog, CrunchGear, TUAW, App Advice, SlashGear, Cult of Mac and MacDailyNews
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Nokia, Microsoft announcing partnership next week, possibly involving Windows Phone 7? — As Nokia comes up on Capital Markets Day next Friday — an event where the company has historically unveiled interesting things and launched important initiatives — rumors are once again swirling …
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SAI, CNET News, ITworld.com, Redmond Pie, BetaNews, IntoMobile, internetnews.com, Android Phone Fans, Geek.com, GMSV, TechFlash, Know Your Cell, Fortune, Fast Company, eWeek, VentureBeat, Gearlog, WPCentral.com, Computerworld, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, The Microsoft Blog, Disruptors and New York Times
AppleInsider:
Over 60% of Apple's first-wave iPad 2 production to be 3G models — The majority of Apple's second-generation iPad models now being built will include either GSM/UMTS or CDMA 3G support, according to checks overseas manufacturers, suggesting the company plans on forging stronger relationships …
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The Download Blog, Electronista, MacStories, TUAW, iClarified, MacDailyNews and Computerworld
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Former Owner of eHow Says Demand Media Model Is Flawed — Demand Media has been getting a lot of attention since its initial public offering, which gave the company a market value of more than $1.5 billion. Much of that attention has been less than favorable, however, focusing on Demand's status as a …
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Egypt: Kenneth Cole's failtweet comes to life in street prank — A real-world prank making fun of Kenneth Cole's ill-timed and tone-deaf tweet. — Coilhouse has the story, and here are photos. Adobe Illustrator, a little font knowledge, a vinyl cutter, and bitter, bitter sarcasm.
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Mashable!, Coilhouse, SFist, WebProNews, @lovesocial, @kennethcole, The Huffington Post and blogs.chron.com
Dan Nystedt / Computerworld:
Q&A: Asustek chairman vows ‘secret weapon’ for iPad 2 — IDG News Service - The chairman of Asustek Computer, Jonney Shih, noticed the growing thirst for mobile computing early on. When he challenged his engineering teams to design a new, more mobile computer, they came up with the netbook …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Homeland Security Tries And Fails To Explain Why Seized Domains Are Different From Google — The Marketplace radio show from American Public Media spoke to Special Agent James Hayes from Homeland Security, who was apparently in charge of the “raids” (if you can call them that) …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Gladwell Still Missing the Point About Social Media and Activism — After weeks of discussion in the blogosphere over whether what happened in Tunisia was a “Twitter revolution,” and whether social media also helped trigger the current anti-government uprising in Egypt, author Malcolm Gladwell …
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
How Google removed the muzzle on Twitter in Egypt — Even before his first day on the job at Google, Ujjwal Singh was trying to figure out how to use his passion for the spoken word and the company's technological prowess to help Egyptians bypass government efforts to muzzle the massive protests there.
Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:
TiVo offers free insight into TV ad effectiveness — If you ever wanted to know how well a particular company's commercial campaigns are performing in the increasingly DVR'd world, TiVo has the solution for you. — The company announced the launch of a free tool today, called Ad Scorecard …
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