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Wall Street Journal:
Apple's New iPad in Production — Apple Inc. has started production of a new version of its iPad tablet computer, said people familiar with the matter. — The new device will be thinner, lighter and will come with a faster processor, more memory and a more powerful graphics processor, said the people familiar with the matter.
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
WSJ on iPad 2: FaceTime, thinner, lighter, faster, 1024 x 768 display — The well-informed Wall Street Journal has backed up just about every iPad 2 rumor we have heard so far. The WSJ says the iPad 2 will have a front facing camera for FaceTime video calling, in addition to a new lighter, thinner design.
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Wenzhang Zhu / Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing the Google Translate app for iPhone — Back in August 2008, we launched a Google Translate HTML5 web app for iPhone users. Today, the official Google Translate for iPhone app is available for download from the App Store. The new app has all of the features of the web app …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Makes It Official: We Bought The Old Sun Campus In Menlo Park (And Don't Forget We're Hiring!) — Why has Facebook brought together big time press from Agence France, ABC 7 and TechCrunch together here at Menlo Park City Hall? Because it's hiring, and it wants to announce it by purchasing a building.
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Charles Starrett / iLounge:
Verizon iPhone 4 antenna problems persist (video) — In the course of conducting our standard suite of iPhone 4 performance tests, iLounge has discovered that the Verizon CDMA iPhone 4 suffers from signal attenuation problems similar to ones discovered in the original GSM version of the iPhone 4.
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TechCrunch, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Pulse2, MobileCrunch, IntoMobile, MacStories and Gizmodo, Thanks:starrett
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple's Verizon iPhone 4 has improved antenna, integrated GPS
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Mark Milian / CNN:
Verizon plans 4G internet calling service — Basking Ridge, New Jersey (CNN) — Verizon Wireless is close to launching a new cellular calling service that offers better sound quality than its current network and is capable of doing video chat. — The new voice and video protocol …
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Engadget, VentureBeat, PR Newswire, GottaBeMobile, Gadget Lab, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile, Mashable!, DSLreports, GigaOM, Electronista, FierceWireless, Droid Life, Tecca and PhoneNews.com
Laura Kusisto / New York Observer:
Apple's Next Stop? Grand Central — Apple has begun a super-secret quest for a store in historic Grand Central Terminal, potentially creating a hive of buzzing techies in the glamorous Beaux Arts landmark. — Reliable sources tell The Observer that the maker of ubiquitous iGadgets …
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TUAW, AppleInsider, MacRumors, ifoAppleStore, 9 to 5 Mac, Erictric and MacDailyNews
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Sony Lawyers Expand Dragnet, Targeting Anybody Posting PlayStation 3 Hack — Sony is threatening to sue anybody posting or “distributing” the first full-fledged jailbreak code for the 4-year-old PlayStation 3 gaming console. — What's more, the company is demanding that a federal judge order Google …
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Examiner, Techdirt, CrunchGear, TG Daily, TechSpot, Engadget, The Register, Electronista and Destructoid
Daniel Jacobson / The Netflix Tech Blog:
Redesigning the Netflix API — This is Daniel Jacobson, Director of Engineering for the API here at Netflix. The Netflix API launched in 2008 with a focus on the public developer community. The expectation was that this community would build amazing and inspiring applications …
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GigaOM and Daring Fireball
Fred / A VC:
Anatomy Of A Pirate — I like to buy music. I buy it from emusic (where I pay $23/month for use it or lose it credits for music downloads), Amazon, and when in a pinch, iTunes. I also have two Rhapsody music subscriptions that cost an additional $20/month.
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Guardian, virtualeconomics, @gartenberg, @eghosao and SmoothSpan Blog
TMZ.com:
Mark Zuckerberg — I Fear My Facebook Stalker — Mark Zuckerberg claims he's being stalked by a man who's been sending him creepy messages through Facebook and threatening his safety ... TMZ has learned. — Zuckerberg has obtained a restraining order against 31-year-old Pradeep Manukonda …
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CNET News, Computerworld, Techland, PC World, All Facebook, The Not-So Private Parts, newsfeed.time.com, MediaPost and Digital Trends
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Techmeme Opens the Door to Twitter Commentary by Select People — Technology news aggregator Techmeme sent an email today to a select group of readers it has put on a whitelist of Twitter users whose short commentary about news of the day will appear automatically on the site.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Bing's Search Share Is Growing? Must Be All Those “Hiybbprqag” Searches, Eh Google? — Some encouraging new search metrics for Bing. Experian Hitwise data for January shows Microsoft's search engine with 12.81 percent of the market, up from 10.6 percent in December-a 21 percent gain.
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Between the Lines Blog, Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch
Megan Friedman / TIME:
Smartphone Sins: Catholic Church Approves Confession by iPhone — First came the iPod, then the iPhone. Now there's iPrayer. — The Catholic Church in America has approved Confession: A Roman Catholic App, for use among churchgoers and lapsed Catholics alike.
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App Advice, SAI, Engadget, BBC, Digital Trends, MobileWhack.com, USA Today, AppScout, TUAW, ITProPortal, I4U News, Reuters, The Register and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Leslie Katz / CNET News:
Dell unveils 10-inch Windows 7 tablet — Steven Lalla, vice president and general manager of Dell's commercial client product group, holds up a non-working mockup of the company's new commercial Windows tablet. — Dell expanded its foray into tablets today with a new 10-inch Windows 7-based device designed …
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Steve Ballmer's change of heart is touching, but it's five years too late — S-o-o-o-o, if the unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg are to be believed, Microsoft's CEO wants to shakeup management by shaking out the sales and marketing guys and bringing in more technically-oriented leadership. Oh yeah?
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Between the Lines Blog, MediaPost and V3.co.uk
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Sequoia Leads $15 Million Round In Wireless Networking Company Meraki — Meraki, the cloud-based wireless networking company, has raised $15 million in Series C funding led by Sequoia Capital. This brings Meraki's total funding to $40 million. Previous investors include Google, DAG Ventures and Northgate Capital.
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VentureBeat and Pulse2
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
White House will propose new digital copyright laws — The Obama administration has drafted new proposals to curb Internet piracy and other forms of intellectual property infringement that it says it will send to the U.S. Congress “in the very near future.”
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Techdirt, @digiphile, CrunchGear, PlagiarismToday and White House.gov Blog
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
LG Optimus 3D - new tantalising video leaked — EXCLUSIVE: We've got the HD clip and pics — We know that LG?will launch the LG Optimus 3D at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We know that the LG Optimus 3D will have a 3D screen and dual cameras. And we now know what the new phone will look like.
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Engadget, I4U News, BGR, Android Community, Mobile Knots, Liliputing, SlashPhone, SlashGear, CrunchGear, IntoMobile, Fonehome.co.uk, PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, Electricpig.co.uk, Know Your Cell, The Toybox Blog, TechSpot and Phones Review, Thanks:craigt44
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Meebo Acquires Psychographic Ad Targeter Mindset — Social content sharing and IM platform Meebo is putting last fall's $25 million funding round to work: the company is buying online ad measurement and targeting firm Mindset Media. As an online branding specialist that has a particular focus …
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Mashable!, Fast Company, NetworkEffect, MediaPost, TechCrunch, EngageDigital, Techland, AdAge and Pulse2
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Search engine optimization won't work forever. — Are you wondering, “will AOL's acquisition of the Huffington Post be successful?” I bet you are, as that's been a common search engine query since the announcement earlier this week that AOL will buy the Huffington Post.
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Wall Street Journal:
Columbia Law's Tim Wu to Advise FTC — Silicon Valley has a new fear factor. Columbia University Law School professor Tim Wu, an influential academic and author who popularized the term “net neutrality,” has been appointed senior advisor to the Federal Trade Commission.
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Technology Liberation Front, Electronista, The Precursor Blog and MediaPost Raw
Bryan Llenas / Fox News:
‘Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration’ iPhone App Draws Outrage — Want to smuggle immigrants across the border? — Well, there's an app for that. — It's a game called “Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration” and it's causing outrage. Developed by a Boston-based tech company …
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PC World
Ronald D. White / Los Angeles Times:
Fake iPods and iPhones are seized from downtown warehouses — More than $10 million in counterfeit and stolen goods are recovered in a case stemming from a theft investigation begun by Los Angeles Port Police. — These are some of the counterfeit iPods, iPhones and other items seized …
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VentureBeat, Fortune, @gartenberg, Pulse2, Geek.com and iLounge
Jonny Evans / Computerworld:
Journey to the Center of the Mac App Store — IT TOPICS:Desktop Apps, Laptops & Netbooks, Macintosh, Macs & PCs, Mobile Apps, Operating Systems — Apple [AAPL] now plans to cease boxed software sales through its retail channels in favor of pushing all application sales via the Mac App Store, a report claims.
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The Register, Neowin.net, GigaOM and Digital Trends
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch Europe:
Nokia heading to Silicon Valley? And the ‘Standing on a burning platform’ memo — With Nokia expected to unveil a shift in its long term strategy at the company's annual Capital Markets Day this Friday, it should be no surprise that rumor and conjecture are rife.
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Engadget, AppleInsider, Digital Daily, mocoNews, MacStories, The Register, blogs.chron.com, @loic, I4U News, @gartenberg, Reuters, Geek.com, Electronista, SlashGear, Gearlog, The Next Web, Electricpig.co.uk, MacDailyNews and WMPoweruser.com, Thanks:mikebutcher
Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
HomeAway Is Said to Be Choosing Bankers to Handle IPO — Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) — HomeAway.com Inc., the vacation rental website, is choosing bankers for an initial public offering, two people with knowledge of the plans said. — No time frame for a decision was provided by the people …
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Venture Capital Dispatch
