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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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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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Post Tech, Fortune, Edge Online, VatorNews, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, thinq_, Reuters and Gawker
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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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Nokia CEO Elop Denies Being “Trojan Horse” For Microsoft
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The Register, WPCentral.com, Computerworld, Smartphones … and SlashGear
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Live from ‘An Evening With Nokia’ at MWC 2011!
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TechEye, WPCentral.com, Neowin.net, Engadget, t-break, Mobilized, Gizmodo Australia, MobileWhack.com, Engadget, LiveSide.net, TechCrunch Europe, Gizmodo and TechCrunch
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Qualcomm enables instant streaming of Netflix movies on Android — Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon mobile processors will enable future Android devices to be able to instantly stream TV shows and movies from Netflix. — Instant streaming is the hottest new way to get movies into the hands of users.
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CNET News, MobileCrunch, CrunchGear, SlashGear, Light Reading and CrackBerry.com blogs
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Jessica Dolcourt / CNET News:
Adobe spells out Flash-y plans for Android — Adobe may be leaving the flashy announcements to Nokia and Sony Ericsson this Mobile World Congress, but there are some plans pertaining to Flash that will impact a wide swatch of Android smartphones and tablets going forward.
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Fast Company, Crave, VentureBeat, eWeek, GigaOM, GottaBeMobile, The Register, PC Magazine, Business Wire and Softpedia News
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Steve Jobs On The Apple Campus Is Like A Double Rainbow — On Friday the WSJ published an article entitled “Apple's Jobs Calls Shots From Home” which depicted the Apple CEO as still having a generous hand in the day to day going ons of the company despite being on medical leave.
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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)
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BGR, MobileCrunch, Yahoo! News, TDW Geeks, Redmond Pie, Android News, Rumours …, Phones Review, Gizmodo Australia, @inafried, Crave, PhoneDog.com, Android, Examiner and ITProPortal
Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
The new nightmare of developers and brands — It used to be simple. You just needed a website. Whatever you do on the web today, it's now a nightmare if you want to optimize your presence. — Platforms — You need to be on all popular platforms. iPhone of course …
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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?
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Economics of Blogging and The Huffington Post — When The Huffington Post announced earlier this week that it was being acquired by AOL for $315 million in cash and stock, one group felt slighted: a set of unpaid bloggers for the site, identifying by the Twitter hashtag #huffpuff …
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New York Times and Invisible Inkling, more at Mediagazer »
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Motorola Mobility to Buy Software Start-Up — Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. has agreed to buy a small company developing software to boost the security of mobile devices powered by the Android operating system and spur wider use by businesses, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Inside Mobile Apps, Mobilized, VentureBeat and Electronista
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Inside the DNA of the Facebook Mafia — A lot of things about Facebook have been impressive, even by the Silicon Valley standards. Almost no other Valley company has reached so many people around the world so quickly. Few Valley companies have been considered important forces in causes …
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
iOS developers making leap to the Mac, thanks to Mac App Store — The Mac App Store is, by most accounts, off to a good start. But not all entrenched Mac developers are ready to entrust their entire business to Apple's recently opened digital distribution point due to certain restrictions placed …
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
What future for the Macintosh? — With Apple's smartphones and tablets making so much money and taking up so much media bandwidth, one has to wonder: Is there a future for the Macintosh? — We'll first take a look at broad trend numbers and try not to molest them too much.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
RIM BlackBerry 4G PlayBook tablet now in delicious LTE and HSPA+ flavors (updated) — Count 'em, because RIM has now announced four varieties of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. As of today, we've got the PlayBook with WiFi + LTE and WiFi + HSPA+ models joining the previously announced PlayBook …
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eWeek, PC World, TechEye, Wall Street Journal, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Electronista and Phones Review
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
