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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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CNNMoney.com, Computerworld, New York Times, PC Magazine, Techie Buzz, Pulse2, VentureBeat, CNET News, Reuters, THINQ.co.uk, Between the Lines Blog, @andrewlitvak, Security Watch, Gizmodo and SAI
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
Payback: Upset Ex-Girlfriend Spams Boyfriend In Google Images — Upset boyfriends and girlfriends are nothing new. There are plenty of stories of girlfriends getting back at their ex-boyfriends for mistreatment and visa versa. But in the age where Google ranks supreme …
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@loic, Pulse2, Gawker, p2pnet, The Huffington Post, Geekosystem and Gearlog
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.
Reuters:
Nokia likely to sack several executives: report — (Reuters) - The world's biggest cellphone maker Nokia is likely to sack several executive board members in a management shake-up, a German weekly reported. — As rival companies have been eating into Nokia's market share …
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PhoneArena, The Next Web, Electronista and SlashGear
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Survey: 44% of Verizon Android users likely to switch to iPhone on Day One — For Blackberry users it's 66%, and nearly a quarter are willing to stand in line to get one — We're not familiar with the work of uSamp, a high-tech online research firm based in Los Angeles …
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App Advice, Android Phone Fans, CNET News and PC World
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Daily Wait — I've been reading The Daily each day since its debut Wednesday. Three days, three issues. My opinion of it has declined each day. Until I see an updated version of the app, I'm done with it. I noticed yesterday that it took way too long to load the day's new issue.
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@dannysullivan, SAI and Scripting News
Electronista:
AT&T fires back at Verizon's iPhone TV ads with an ‘Answer’ — AT&T refused to remain silent on Verizon's iPhone ads and today posted one of its own (below). The appropriately titled “Answer” focuses on the ability to call and use data at the same time on an HSPA phone and shows an example of where it could be useful.
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CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, MacRumors, AppleInsider, TechCrunch and iClarified, Thanks:jonfingas
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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Engadget, TUAW, Electronista, @steveshu, @motorola, PadGadget, Appletell, Macworld, SFGate, @gartenberg, MacDailyNews, SAI and PhoneArena
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Ze Frank's Star.me Is Like Being In Kindergarten All Over Again — Every once in awhile you come across people who are entirely original, and Ze Frank is one of those people. While many people as eccentric as Frank end up with not so amazing lots in life, Frank, who originally studied Neuroscience …
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
E-Readers Catch Younger Eyes, and Find Room in the Backpack — Something extraordinary happened after Eliana Litos received an e-reader for a Hanukkah gift in December. — “Some weeks I completely forgot about TV,” said Eliana, 11. “I went two weeks with only watching one show, or no shows at all.
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TeleRead and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
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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NBC Bay Area, Switched, gHacks Technology News, newsfeed.time.com, SAI and Slashdot
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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Softpedia News
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Rodney H. Brown / Mass High Tech:
MocoSpace looking to buy MySpace — MocoSpace, a Boston-based mobile social network operated by JNJ Mobile Inc., is interested in buying MySpace now that the web-based social network has been put on the block by current owner News Corp., and CEO Justin Siegel said that News Corp. has already responded to their advances.
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Online Dating Insider, paidContent and EngageDigital
Metronome:
Does Spotify Make Bands Money? — Reactions from the industry are mixed. — Spotify appears to be the free music streaming service that is loved as much as it is hated. The startup has taken off in Europe but has not yet rolled out in the US as it struggles to ink licensing deals.
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Electronista, SAI and Daring Fireball
Byron Acohido / USA Today:
Survey: 32% admit mooching neighbor's Wi-Fi — It's the digital equivalent of mooching a cup of sugar, only without asking. Some 32% of respondents to a recent national survey admitted borrowing a neighbor's unencrypted Wi-Fi connection. That's nearly double the 18% who said they borrowed Wi-Fi in a 2008 poll.
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Ars Technica, Gearlog, CNET News, Switched and NewsGrange
Davidw / Joho the Blog:
Gladwell proves too much — Malcolm Gladwell is going further out on his cranky branch. His reading of the role of social media in Tunisia and Egypt actually seems to lead to conclusions that I think he would acknowledge are extreme and extremely unlikely. (I look at his new post in some detail after the big box below.)
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technosociology and GalleyCat
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Gladwell Still Missing the Point About Social Media and Activism
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Stowe Boyd and The Awl
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, iPad in Canada Blog, Electronista, MacStories, TUAW, iClarified and MacDailyNews
Louis Gray:
Yahoo! Hires Hotmail Vet to Manage Mail, Flickr, More — While most of the recent personnel news surrounding Yahoo! has dealt with who has left the company rather than who has joined it, the company is expanding its efforts in communities, social and communications, building …
