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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, Between the Lines Blog, @andrewlitvak, VentureBeat, Computerworld, CNET News, Gizmodo, THINQ.co.uk, SAI and Security Watch
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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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.
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App Advice, Redmond Pie, PadGadget, MacRumors, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Ars Technica, CrunchGear, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories and MacDailyNews
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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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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9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, MacRumors, TechCrunch and iClarified, Thanks:jonfingas
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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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 …
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, @gartenberg, MacDailyNews, SAI and PhoneArena
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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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Gladwell Still Missing the Point About Social Media and Activism
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Stowe Boyd and The Awl
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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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Verizon halts iPhone orders. An estimated 100,000 units pre-sold
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eWeek, App Advice, AppleInsider, Obama Pacman, DailyFinance, DailyTech and Engadget
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
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.
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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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 …
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, iPad in Canada Blog, 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 …
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, The Next Web, Digital Trends, SlashGear, ConceivablyTech, Softpedia News, Neowin.net and Bloomberg
DSLreports:
Verizon Tells Us New Throttling Isn't Implemented Yet - ‘Too Early To Tell’ What Precise Triggers, Rates Will Be — As we noted yesterday, Verizon Wireless is preparing a new throttling system just as the Verizon iPhone hits their network. The system as described in this Verizon document …
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Electronista
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 …
