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DigiTimes:
Apple to expand iPhone screen size to 4-inches — Apple reportedly will change the screen size of iPhone to 4-inch for its fifth generation iPhone to compete with the Google Android platform in the 4- to 7-inch smartphone market, according to upstream component suppliers.
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple rumored to be evaluating 3 new iPhone prototypes, one with slideout keyboard — A Taiwanese website that has been the source of numerous Apple hardware leaks now claims that Apple has built three hardware prototypes for its next-generation iPhone, including one model with a slide-out physical keyboard.
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPhone 5 to pack 4-inch display, A5 processor? — Although the last few days have been packed with rumors pointing to a smaller iPhone with a smaller display, Digitimes is now reporting that Apple's fifth-generation iPhone, due in June, will pack a 4-inch display to go toe-to-toe with Android device's larger displays.
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DigiTimes, Apple Bitch, MacStories and TechEye
Apple:
Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store — Apple® today announced a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store℠, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. This is the same innovative digital subscription billing service …
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TechCrunch, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, AppAdvice, MacRumors, TUAW and MacStories
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
HTC launches 1.5GHz, 7-inch Android 2.4 Flyer into the tablet wars (update: hands-on video!) — Boy oh boy, HTC is entering the tablet arena with quite a bang. The company has just taken the wraps off its brand new 7-inch Flyer Android tablet, which touts a 1.5GHz single-core CPU …
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Friending Facebook Blog, eWeek, PC World, Between the Lines Blog, MobileCrunch, Inquirer, CNET News, SlashGear, Gadget Lab, Geek.com, mocoNews, IntoMobile, Mobilized, TechSpot, Fudzilla, Newlaunches.com, Black Web 2.0, Softpedia News, TechEye, Liliputing, Electronista, The Next Web, Unwired View, BGR, The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog, wirelessgoodness.com and The Tech Herald …
Matt Cutts / The Official Google Blog:
New Chrome extension: block sites from Google's web search results — We've been exploring different algorithms to detect content farms, which are sites with shallow or low-quality content. One of the signals we're exploring is explicit feedback from users.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Crowdsources Content Farm Detection With A Chrome Extension
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Search Engine Land, t-break, Techdirt and ReadWriteWeb
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's Web of Frenemies — Facebook Inc.'s growing ambitions are redrawing battle lines in Silicon Valley. — As the seven-year-old company ramps up its hiring and adds new features to its social network, it is disrupting the businesses of established companies like Yahoo Inc …
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Search Engine Land
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Nokia Plan B:
An open letter to Nokia shareholders and institutional investors — We are a group of nine young Nokia shareholders. All of us have worked with Nokia in different capacities in the past. We plan to challenge the company's strategy and partnership with Microsoft in the next Annual General Meeting scheduled for May 3, 2011.
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Mobilized, InfoWorld and The Register
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
HTC Salsa and Chacha bring the dedicated Facebook button to Android (update: eyes-on) — Yes folks, the leaks were for real, HTC really is bringing out a pair of new handsets adorned with a dedicated, delicately illustrated Facebook key front and (almost) center.
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SlashGear, CNET News, PR Newswire, Electronista, everwas, IntoMobile, MobileCrunch, Electricpig.co.uk and Gizmodo
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
HTC refreshes Android lineup with Incredible S, Desire S and Wildfire S (update: hands-on)
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eWeek, MobileCrunch, PC World, Inquirer, DailyTech, The Next Web, Electronista, CrunchGear, Smartphones …, BGR, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, The Next Web and Telegraph
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Now The Most Valuable Tech Company By $100 Billion; Google Closing In On Microsoft — It's hard to believe that it wasn't even a year ago when I wrote the following post: What Happens When Apple Passes Microsoft In Value? Yes, When. It's even harder to believe just how many people thought …
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Post Tech, MacStories and NBC Bay Area
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Court confirms: IP addresses aren't people (and P2P lawyers know it) — Wrapping up the last of the United Kingdom's notorious copyright infringement “pay up” letter cases, a UK patent and copyright judge has had a major revelation. Just because some lawyer cites an Internet Protocol (IP) …
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
IBM “Jeopardy” Challenge Day One Ends in a Tie — Day one of the three-day battle between the human brain and silicon on the game show “Jeopardy” ended in a tie. — The IBM supercomputer and human player, Brad Rutter, each had $5,000 on the scoreboard, while Ken Jennings …
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
HTC Revolver: a flagship ‘Honeycomb’ phone for AT&T? — Well, this is certainly curious. If the tipster who sent us the image above is to be believed, you're looking at HTC's new flagship smartphone, the Revolver, which is supposedly headed to AT&T in the third quarter of this year.
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The Toybox Blog, t-break and PhoneArena
Ethan Bauley / Data Central:
HP research shows mainstream media drive Twitter ‘trends’ to a surprising degree — Who gets to determine the big topics of conversation on social media? And how do they do it? Looking to find out, HP researchers recently examined how popular subjects get to be listed among the top ‘trending’ topics on Twitter.
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MarketingVOX, Mashable!, SAI, VentureBeat, Neowin.net, ReadWriteWeb and Fast Company, more at Mediagazer »
Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
How Zendesk's iPad app makes customer support child's play — Zendesk operates a Web-based help desk service that lets companies track customer complaints across most of the web. It's one of a number of startups that are trying to bring the ideas behind consumer-facing technology like Twitter and Facebook to the enterprise space.
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Datamation, ReadWriteWeb and PC World
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
3 Months To The First Million Users, Just 6 Weeks To The Second Million For Instagram — Back in late December of last year, we noted a huge milestone for photo-sharing app Instagram: a million users. As we noted at the time, remarkably, it took them only three months to hit the mark.
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong buys $10 million in company stock — AOL Inc. Chief Executive Tim Armstrong is putting his money where his mouth is. — He has invested more than $10 million in 477,000 shares of his company's stock, according to a Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Netflix Finally Arrives On the Boxee Box — Can you hear that? That's the sound of relief coming from Boxee's offices in New York, as the startup is finally able to add a Netflix app to its Boxee Box today. Owners of the device can access the app by manually initiating a firmware update …
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Geek News Central, Macworld, Appletell, Gearlog and Electronista
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Avner Ronen / Boxee Blog:
Happy Valentine's Day: Netflix on the Boxee Box
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PC Magazine, Gadgetell, TechSpot, The Digital Home, The Toybox Blog, SlashGear, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Engadget, Hacking NetFlix, eHomeUpgrade, Reddit, Gizmodo and The Next Web, Thanks:richdemuro
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Is UberMedia On a Collision Course With Twitter? — Bill Gross, a Silicon Valley legend and serial entrepreneur — best known for coming up with the advertising model that now makes Google billions — has gotten some attention lately by buying up Twitter clients, including the recent purchase of Tweetdeck, a popular desktop app.
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MediaMemo, @cdixon, The Ben Weiss Blog and Pulse2, Thanks:mathewi
Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. Policy to Address Internet Freedom — WASHINGTON — Days after Facebook and Twitter added fuel to a revolt in Egypt, the Obama administration plans to announce a new policy on Internet freedom, designed to help people get around barriers in cyberspace while making it harder …
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Associated Press
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
Asus Tried Windows Phone 7 Two Years Ago, Assessing Whether To Try Again — Microsoft has won Nokia's support for its mobile platform but Asus is still weighing whether to release handsets that utilize Windows Phone 7. — Asus' hesitance stands out since the Taiwan-based electronics maker signed …
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Newlaunches.com, Engadget, MobileTechWorld, WPCentral.com, The Next Web and Disruptors
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Firefox's Director to Leave the Consumer Tech World — Mike Beltzner, the man in charge of the development of open source browser Firefox, announced this morning that he'll be leaving Mozilla once the 4.0 version of the popular browser launches and he's helped transition the team towards developing 5.0 without him.
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beltzner, PC World, Softpedia News, thinq_, The Register and ConceivablyTech
Jackie Cohen / All Facebook:
First Facebook SIM Card Released — Every GSM cell phone will soon have Facebook built right in, as Gemalto has created the first SIM card including functions related to the social network. — A spokesperson for the social network confirmed the development in via email:
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ReadWriteMobile, TechCrunch, Beyond Search, Geek.com, BlogsDNA, Pulse2, MarketingVOX, Gizmodo, Redmond Pie and The Register
