Techmeme: Microsoft's ecosystem is a tough sell to Verizon (Marguerite Reardon/CNET News)

5:20 PM ET, February 15, 2011

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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 …

Discussion: ZDNet, paidContent, RazorianFly and MacStories

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Apple's new App Store rules affect Amazon's Kindle — Amazon must remove link to Web e-bookstore from app, offer in-app purchases so Apple can take its 30% cut — Computerworld - Apple today unveiled the details of its App Store subscription plan, and confirmed that it will demand …

Discussion: TechFlash, SlashGear, @dsilverman, TUAW and Faster Forward

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.

Discussion: Computerworld, AppleInsider, AppAdvice, MacStories and MacRumors

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Apple's Big Subscription Bet: Brilliant, Brazen, Or Batsh*t Crazy? — We all knew it was coming, but the details of the App Store subscription model, which Apple outlined today, are fascinating on a number of levels. Simply put: this is one of the boldest bets Apple has ever made. And it could backfire.

Discussion: paidContent, PadGadget and GigaOM

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What Apple's new subscription policy means for news: new rules, new incentives, new complaints

Discussion: GigaOM

Nathan Koppel / Wall Street Journal: Apple's Subscription Rules Raise Possible Antitrust Issues

Diana ben-Aaron / Bloomberg:

Nokia's Elop Only Put Microsoft Plan for Board Vote — Nokia Oyj executives put only the Microsoft Corp. option for vote at a board meeting on Feb. 10 after having studied three plans, Executive Vice President Mary McDowell said in an interview. — “We had presented three scenarios …

Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:

Microsoft's ecosystem is a tough sell to Verizon — BARCELONA, Spain—Verizon Communications Chief Technology Officer Tony Melone would love to see a third player in the mobile OS market, but Microsoft's Windows Phone platform may not be it. — Melone said during an interview …

Discussion: SAI, Engadget, DailyTech, PhoneArena, WinRumors and PreCentral.net

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.

Discussion: Daring Fireball, TechCrunch Europe, Digital Trends, Computerworld, TechEye, SiliconANGLE, Mobilized, InfoWorld, thinq_ and Geek.com

Chris Ziegler / Engadget:

The Engadget Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop talks Microsoft, Symbian, MeeGo, and Windows Phone — We had a chance to sit down for a few minutes with the man who's arguably stolen the show here at Mobile World Congress this year — Nokia CEO Stephen Elop — to talk about everything …

Discussion: Windows Phone Thoughts.com

Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Google's Schmidt: We Would Have Loved for Nokia to Adopt Android

Discussion: Inquirer, Mashable!, PC World, ReelSEO Online Video … and SAI

Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Dissenting Nokia shareholders: Bring us the head of Stephen Elop

Discussion: Internet2Go

Charles Wu / Facebook Blog:

A Better Mobile Experience — Every day, hundreds of millions of people access Facebook from their mobile devices to share and connect with the people they care about, whenever and wherever they want. As this number continues to grow, we want to make sure that everyone has a great experience regardless …

Discussion: VatorNews

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.

Discussion: PC World and NBC Bay Area

Vlad Savov / Engadget:
HTC Salsa and Chacha bring the dedicated Facebook button to Android (update: eyes-on)

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook SIMs, HTC/INQ Phones — Facebook's Phone Project Lingers, But It's None Of Those

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, pocketnow.com and Engadget

Ina Fried / Mobilized:
HTC's One-Button Facebook Phones Headed to AT&T

Discussion: IntoMobile, NBC Bay Area, PC World, Seattle Times and The Seattle Times

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:

Is Microsoft Zune about to be Kinned? — Over the past few days, more and more Microsoft watchers are noticing that Microsoft execs seem to be making a deliberate effort to avoid using the Z (Zune) word. That avoidance has set off a wave of speculation. — Some pundits claiming …

Discussion: LiveSide.net, CrunchGear, SlashGear, I'm Just Being Manan and WinExtra

SuperSite for Windows:
Questions Remain In Wake Of Microsoft/Nokia Partnership

Discussion: Geek.com, The Lyons Den, The Next Web, Neowin.net and WinRumors

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.

Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPhone 5 to pack 4-inch display, A5 processor?

Discussion: Datamation, Digital Trends, internetnews.com, DigiTimes and iPhone Download Blog

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Hillary Clinton's speech: Shades of hypocrisy on internet freedom | Analysis: Dan Sabbagh — Last year, the US secretary of state criticised the ‘firewall’ approach. Yet after the WikiLeaks affair it is harder to moralise — Hillary Clinton is back, lecturing the world on internet freedom …

Jay Solomon / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Calls for Global Standards for Internet Use

Discussion: Computerworld, The Atlantic Online and TechCrunch

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 …

Discussion: Bits, Phone Scoop, CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, iLounge, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, PhoneArena, BGR, RazorianFly, IntoMobile, TmoNews, TUAW and Electronista

Jenna Wortham / Bits: Near-Field Communication: Beyond Mobile Transactions

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.

Discussion: GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, Ars Technica, TUAW, MacRumors, The Register, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, thinq_, The Next Web, The Loop and Black Web 2.0

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 …

Discussion: TUAW, The Loop, Notebooks.com, O'Grady's PowerPage, Engadget, MacRumors and Softpedia News

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