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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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CNET News, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Neowin.net, Electronista, TUAW, SAI, Redmond Pie, Daring Fireball, iPhone Alley, Engadget, NBC Bay Area, Shoutpedia, @yukarikane, Media Maverick, TiPb, Phones Review, AppAdvice, MacStories, Gizmodo Australia, Examiner, 9 to 5 Mac, RazorianFly, creativebits™, digiday:DAILY, everythingiCafe, The Next Web, MobileBurn.com, Gizmodo and iClarified
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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.
Michael Gartenberg / @gartenberg:
The long shadow cast over Barcelona comes from the company not exhibiting there. That's now become common.
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@9to5mac
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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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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Digital Trends, MobileCrunch, BGR, Redmond Pie, TDW Geeks, @inafried, Crave, Android News, Rumours …, PhoneDog.com, Android, Gizmodo Australia, Examiner and ITProPortal
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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The Register, Wall Street Journal, CNET News, ITworld.com, MobileBurn.com and PC World
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Nokia CEO Elop Denies Being “Trojan Horse” For Microsoft
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Smartphones …, WPCentral.com, Computerworld and SlashGear
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Live from ‘An Evening With Nokia’ at MWC 2011!
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WPCentral.com, Engadget, Neowin.net, Mobilized, Gizmodo Australia, LiveSide.net, TechCrunch Europe, MobileWhack.com, TechCrunch and Gizmodo
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Nokia hints we'll see first Windows Phone 7 device this year
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The Next Web
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
HP's ‘Everybody On’ ad goes to the Grammys, causes nationwide cringing — HP told us to watch for a special new campaign during the Grammys, so watch we did — only to find this commercial and occasional on-stage pimping of the HP TouchPad. The latter is standard business practice, to be sure, but the former?
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CNET News
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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Hack Education, Download Squad and TechSpot
Wall Street Journal:
Zynga's Talks With Investors Value Gaming Concern at Over $7 Billion — Social-gaming company Zynga Inc. is holding discussions with potential investors about raising around $250 million in new funding in a deal that could value the three-year-old start-up at between $7 billion and $9 billion …
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VentureBeat and Reuters
Peter Norvig / New York Post:
The machine age — This week, Watson takes on humans at “Jeopardy!” But how close are we to a computer that thinks? Google's director of research explains how far we've come ... Forty years ago this December, President Nixon declared a war on cancer, pledging a “total national commitment” to conquering the disease.
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@google and UMBC ebiquity
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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BetaNews, Electronista, The Next Web, Engadget, MobileCrunch, TDW Geeks, IntoMobile, Reuters, eMoney, BGR, Softpedia News, Ars Technica, techeblog.com, Computerworld and Examiner
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Kent German / Crave: The gadget blog:
Sony Ericsson debuts Xperia Neo and Xperia Pro
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Engadget, Examiner, Techie Buzz, Engadget, The Next Web, PhoneArena and CNET News
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Uber All Set To Pick Up New VC Money — Uber, formerly known as Uber Cab, a San Francisco based company backed by StumbleUpon co-founder Garrett Camp and Red Swoosh founder Travis Kalanick is close to raising a substantial new funding in a round led by Benchmark Capital.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Howard Stern and Twitter Just Made Me Watch “Private Parts” Again — “Private Parts” is a 1997 movie that most Howard Stern fans have a hazy fondness for and everyone else ignores. So why is the movie's title now trending on Twitter? — Because Stern has spent the afternoon delivering a scene-by-scene …
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paidContent and The Raw Feed
Anupreeta Das / Wall Street Journal:
J.P. Morgan Plans a Fund Geared to Firms Like Facebook and Twitter — J.P. Morgan Chase & 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 in Internet and digital-media companies …
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SAI, more at Mediagazer »
Clay Dillow / Popular Science:
Boston's ‘Street Bump’ App Tries To Automatically Map Potholes With Accelerometers and GPS — Street Bump The Street Bump app uses a phone's accelerometer to chart potholes in the road as a car drives over them, then broadcasts a GPS tagged report to city authorities. Street Bump
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Boston Globe, Engadget, DVICE and @timoreilly
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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TechCrunch Europe, @arrington, @carnage4life, TechCrunch and New York Times, Thanks:dondodge
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Fred Oliveira / Helloform:
On Search and spoiled bloggers
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