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Wall Street Journal:
Apple Works on Line of Less-Expensive iPhones — Apple Inc. is working on the first of a new line of iPhones and an overhaul of software services for the devices, people familiar with the matter said, moving to accelerate sales of its smartphones amid growing competition.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Small iPhone to Have Edge to Edge Screen, Voice Navigation? — The Wall Street Journal has updated their previous story, adding some new details about the rumored smaller iPhone. … The new phone is said to have an “edge to edge” screen with (obviously) a touch interface.
Arn / MacRumors:
New MobileMe to Offer Wireless Access to iTunes Library? — The Wall Street Journal has added more details about the rumored MobileMe revamp that is potentially due this summer. … The newspaper indicates that users will finally be able to access their iTunes libraries without syncing to their computer.
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 official: Tegra 2, Honeycomb, dual cameras (hands-on with video) — Geez, it's been a long weekend of almost incessant Galaxy Tab II teasing, but the time has come: Samsung's finally releasing the official details of its 10.1-inch, Android Honeycomb tablet to the world.
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PC World, Examiner, GigaOM, Mobilized, BetaNews, Samsung Hub, MobileCrunch, Redmond Pie, Scobleizer, SAI, PhoneArena, Android, IntoMobile, Reuters, Android, Crave, Android News, Rumours …, @scobleizer, PhoneDog.com and Liliputing
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy S II official: dual-core 1GHz CPU, 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus, coming this month (hands-on with video) — One of the worst-kept secrets of MWC this year — the Galaxy S II — is finally official, and we'd say it definitely lives up to its name as a proper successor …
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MobileCrunch, BGR, Examiner, Redmond Pie, Crave, Gizmodo Australia, @inafried, PhoneDog.com, ITProPortal, Android News, Rumours … and VentureBeat
Nancy Gohring / Computerworld:
Microsoft to pay out ‘billions’ as part of Nokia deal — IDG News Service - Nokia on Sunday hinted that Microsoft essentially won a bidding war against Google to supply software to the world's largest handset maker and that the software giant agreed to pay “billions” of dollars for the privilege.
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CNET News, ITworld.com and PC World
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Nokia CEO Elop Denies Being “Trojan Horse” For Microsoft — Nokia finished up its press conference at Mobile World Congress a few minutes ago, and toward the end of the conference somebody in the audience yelled to CEO Stephen Elop: “Are you a Trojan Horse?”
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Smartphones …, WPCentral.com, SlashGear and DailyFinance
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Live from ‘An Evening With Nokia’ at MWC 2011! — We've been gathered at the same cozy venue as two years ago (for the introduction of the E52, if memory serves correctly) for Nokia's event at MWC 2011 this evening... and frankly, in light of what's happened the past few days, we're not quite sure what to expect.
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WPCentral.com, Engadget, LiveSide.net, Gizmodo Australia, TechCrunch, Mobilized, MobileWhack.com and Gizmodo
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Nokia hints we'll see first Windows Phone 7 device this year
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The Next Web
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Search is amazing compared to 10 years ago at AltaVista — We all use web search engines a lot...about 3 Billion times a day around the world. We hear pundits say that search sucks, or hasn't advanced much beyond 10 blue links. Eleven years ago I was director of engineering at AltaVista …
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@arrington and @carnage4life, Thanks:dondodge
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Search Still Sucks
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TechCrunch Europe, @qhardy, Gawker, Technologizer, @carnage4life, Search Engine Watch, Digital Trends, Gizmodo Australia and New York Times, Thanks:sidharthdassani
Aaron Saenz / Singularity Hub:
Yes, The Khan Academy IS the Future of Education (video) — Salman Khan has taken a simple idea, YouTube videos that explain math, and transformed it into the future of education. — I'm just going to come out and say it: the Khan Academy is the best thing that has happened to education since Socrates.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Partners With Khan Academy to Distribute Education
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Ross Miller / Engadget:
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (update: video and full spec sheet!) — We'll forgive you if you thought the Xperia Play was eons before. Let's quickly run through its short-yet-illustrious history: we published first details in August last year, followed by the very first pictures in late October.
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Ars Technica, Electronista, eMoney, The Next Web, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Engadget, MobileCrunch, BGR, Computerworld, Examiner and techeblog.com
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Kent German / Crave: The gadget blog:
Sony Ericsson debuts Xperia Neo and Xperia Pro
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Techie Buzz, Engadget, The Next Web, Engadget, PhoneArena and CNET News
Anupreeta Das / Wall Street Journal:
J.P. Morgan Plans a Fund Geared to Firms Like Facebook and Twitter — J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM 46.57, +1.04, +2.28%) & Co., riding the wave of investor interest in fast-growing, privately held technology firms such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., plans to start a fund that would invest …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Instagram Finally Gets A Better Website — For The Grammys. A Sign Of What's To Come? — When it comes to Instagram, there are generally two complaints: 1) there's no Android app yet. 2) the web experience is severely lacking. Today they've finally taken a stab at the latter. Well, sort of.
Bob Warfield / SmoothSpan Blog:
Scoble Discovers Developers are Schizo About New Platforms — I just listened to Scoble's bar interview of @longview (Nick Long) and @renatto (Paul Robinett), two Dreamworks developers who are building a mobile app of their own. They're talking about the Mobile World, and there are some great sound bites coming from the interview.
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