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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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Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Is Apple Getting Too Greedy? Demands 30% Cut of In-App Subscriptions — After a lot of confusion earlier this year, Apple today finally clarified its rules for in-app subscriptions for magazines, newspapers, video and music. The rules are very straightforward: Publishers can continue …
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paidContent, Why does everything suck? and GigaOM
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
June 30 Deadline for Apple Subscriptions — Apple's new subscription plan has a compliance deadline. June 30, according to a memo sent to publishers earlier this year. “For existing apps already in the App Store, we are providing a grace period to bring your app into compliance with this guideline,” it reads.
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AppleInsider, MacStories and MacNN
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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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPhone 5 to pack 4-inch display, A5 processor?
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internetnews.com, DigiTimes, Digital Trends and Apple Bitch
BBC:
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg answers mobile rumours — Facebook will help phone manufacturers achieve “deep integration” of its services — Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has responded to rumors that the company is planning to launch its own mobile phone.
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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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook SIMs, HTC/INQ Phones — Facebook's Phone Project Lingers, But It's None Of Those — Facebook wants to be everywhere. They've made this very clear. They want to be on your desktop, on your laptop, on your smartphone, on your tablet, and on your dumbphone.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Engadget and pocketnow.com
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, SuperSite for Windows, Computerworld, TechCrunch Europe, SiliconANGLE, Neowin.net and InfoWorld
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Dissenting Nokia shareholders: Bring us the head of Stephen Elop
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Internet2Go
Jay Solomon / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Calls for Global Standards for Internet Use — WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for common global standards to guide the use of the Internet, while increasing pressure on countries like Iran, Syria and China to allow the free flow of information in their societies.
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TechCrunch and The Atlantic Online
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. Policy to Address Internet Freedom
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Associated Press and Switched
AppleInsider:
Apple customer survey sparks hope for brawnier MacBook Airs with built-in 3G — Apple, a company notorious for relying on its own in-house research rather than the feedback of its customers, began reaching out to select MacBook Air owners this week in a new survey that could help define future versions …
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MacRumors, TUAW, Engadget, Notebooks.com, O'Grady's PowerPage, Softpedia News, SlashGear and GeekSugar
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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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Deutsche Telekom rolling out NFC payments with T-Mobile USA, other markets this year; NFC iPhone along for the ride? — At its press conference at Mobile World Congress today, Deutsche Telekom — the German parent of T-Mobile subsidiaries around the world — mentioned that it'll start launching …
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CNET News, Bits, Phone Scoop, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, iLounge, MacDailyNews, PhoneArena, BGR, RazorianFly, IntoMobile, TmoNews, TUAW and Electronista
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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MediaPost and Search Engine Land
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 and MacStories
Rene Ritchie / TiPb:
AT&T airs new iPhone 3GS for $49 commercial — AT&T is airing a new — that's right, new! — commercial for the 2010 iPhone 3GS 8GB highlighting it's recently lowered price of $49. AT&T also has a new logo treatment at the end, which has also been attached to their previous iPhone 4 “anniversary” commercial.
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BGR, MacRumors iPhone Blog and TUAW
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Google demos Android Movie Studio for Honeycomb — Google won't let anyone take pictures during its MWC 2011 keynote, so you'll just have to trust us when we say Eric Schmidt just demoed a new video editing application called Movie Studio for Honeycomb tablets.
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Mobilized, CNET News, SlashGear TV, @fromedome, Droid Life and Android Police
Josh / Social Apples:
Apple cripples iBooks for jailbreakers — I just recently updated my iPhone to 4.2.1 thanks to the greenpois0n jailbreak. Yes, I jailbreak... and I'm proud of it. There are many benefits to jailbreaking your iPhone like SBSettings, Activator, Infinifolders, etc. The real reason I jailbreak: because I can.
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MacRumors, Ars Technica, ReadWriteWeb, AppleInsider, The Register, AppAdvice, TUAW, thinq_, The Next Web, The Loop and Softpedia News
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy S 4G pegged for February 23rd launch at $150 — Liked that Galaxy S 4G we just showed you chowing down on tapas out in Barcelona? Well, take heart, T-Mobile subscribers: your Vibrant replacement with HSPA+ support and video calling capability has just been assigned a February 23rd release date for $149.99 on contract.
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Softpedia News
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
HTC refreshes Android lineup with Incredible S, Desire S and Wildfire S (update: hands-on) — The buttonless wonder we once knew only as “HTC's upcoming flagship device” has today been revealed to be the Incredible S. It's a new 4-incher that emulates the Droid Incredible's successful industrial design …
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MobileCrunch, Computerworld, The Next Web, Inquirer, PC World, DailyTech, Electronista, CrunchGear, Smartphones …, Gadget Lab, BGR, eWeek, Gizmodo and IntoMobile
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
McKinney: webOS to be integrated with Windows on PCs — HP made kind of a big point out of their plans for webOS beyond the smartphone and tablet during last week's Think Beyond event, but it was rather unclear to us and everybody else sitting in the audience how exactly HP planned to bring webOS to the desktop (and printers).
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The Seattle Times, IntoMobile, Engadget and DailyTech
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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Fortune, The Toybox Blog and t-break
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Next version of Android will combine Gingerbread and Honeycomb, arrive on a six-month cycle — Eric Schmidt didn't give a ton of details about the future of Android during his MWC 2011 keynote, but he did drop one interesting tidbit: the next version of Android will “start with an I …
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VentureBeat
