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Nathan Koppel / Wall Street Journal:
Apple's Subscription Rules Raise Possible Antitrust Issues — Apple Inc.'s new subscription service could draw antitrust scrutiny, according to law professors. — Apple will allow magazines, newspapers and other publishers to sell subscriptions of varying lengths to users of Apple's popular iPad, iTouch and iPhone products.
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Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
App Publishers Rebel Against Apple. Google Offers A Solution? — We're starting to see some significant backlash over the new subscription charges announced by Apple. Now a source tells us that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) could try to use to destabilisation to its advantage...
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Rhapsody won't bow to Apple's subscription policy, issues statement — In case you weren't aware, Apple's newly launched App Store subscriptions aren't sitting so well with everybody. While the functionality could of course be a boon to services that have struggled getting paying customers …
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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.
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Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Is Apple Getting Too Greedy? Demands 30% Cut of In-App Subscriptions
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The Register, Appolicious Advisor, Poynter, Think Vitamin, MediaPost, FM Blog, AppAdvice, ThinkMobile, DailyFinance, Mediactive, ZDNet and Geek News Central
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Nokia Plan B shareholders “calling it quits” after just 36 hours — When Nokia announced it was to partner with Microsoft to make Windows Phone 7 its primary operating system, some were surprised, some delighted and quite a few were outraged by the Finnish mobile phone makers intentions.
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Mobilized, Nokia Plan B, SAI, The Register, MacNN, www.pocketgamer.biz, Computerworld UK's News and Pulse2
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
The Engadget Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop talks Microsoft, Symbian, MeeGo, and Windows Phone
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Diana ben-Aaron / Bloomberg:
Nokia's Elop Only Put Microsoft Plan for Board Vote
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Feature: Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack — It has been an embarrassing week for security firm HBGary and its HBGary Federal offshoot. HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr thought he had unmasked the hacker hordes of Anonymous and was preparing to name and shame those responsible …
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
NVIDIA announces quad-core Kal-El SOC, promises it in tablets by August (video) — So it turns out that NVIDIA roadmap we saw last month was as true and pure as driven snow. The barely conceivable quad-core Tegra chip that it listed has now been made official by none other than NVIDIA itself …
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Michael Rayfield / NVIDIA:
Tegra Roadmap Revealed: Next Chip to be World's First Quad-Core Mobile Processor — Twelve days ago, an amazing thing happened. — Project Kal-El came into the building, shepherded by a team of engineers from around the world, who had been working around the clock for months.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Facebook Grabs Microsoft Global Ad Head Carolyn Everson — Apparently, it's not only in Google's pond where Facebook fishes for talent-the social networking giant has recruited Microsoft's global advertising head Carolyn Everson as one of its top sales execs.
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Steve Hamm / A Smarter Planet Blog:
Watson on Jeopardy! Day Two: The Confusion over an Airport Clue — Well, Watson beat the human champions in the first game of the Jeopardy! face off between man and machine, with a score of $35,734 to $10,400 for Brad Rutter and $4,800 for Ken Jennings. But Watson's developers were puzzled …
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Arik Hesseldahl / All Things Digital:
IBM “Jeopardy” Challenge Day 2: Very Different From Day One
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Jeff Bliss / Bloomberg:
Texas Attorney General Seeks Google Ad Rate Formula — Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott's office has requested an array of information from Google Inc., including the firm's formula for setting advertising rates, according to a demand for documents by state antitrust officials.
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ZDNet, Fortune, The Register, Bits and PC Pro
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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Texas AG Discloses Details of Google Antitrust Review
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Lydia Leavitt / Pocket-lint:
Angry Birds Windows Phone 7 and 3D confirmed — EXCLUSIVE: Rovio Mobile spills the beans to Pocket-lint — In an exclusive chat with Pocket-lint, Rovio Mobile has revealed its plans to bring Angry Birds to Windows Phone 7. In addition, the developer has confirmed that it's working …
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Digital Trends, Hardware 2.0 Blog, WinRumors, The Next Web, BlogsDNA, CenterNetworks, Electricpig.co.uk, TechFlash, MobileBurn.com and WMPoweruser.com
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can't Find You — On Tuesday afternoon, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke in Washington about the Internet and human liberty, a Columbia law professor in Manhattan, Eben Moglen, was putting together a shopping list to rebuild the Internet …
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US Department of State, GMSV, Threat Level and Fast Company
New York Times:
Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet — Epitaphs for the Mubarak government all note that the mobilizing power of the Internet was one of the Egyptian opposition's most potent weapons. But quickly lost in the swirl of revolution was the government's ferocious counterattack …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Paperless Billing Service Doxo Raises $10 Million In Series B Funding — Paperless billing is one of those things that is slower to take hold than it should, but it just seems inevitable that is how we all will be receiving our bills sooner or later. One startup trying to speed along …
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Greylock Invests $2.5 Million in 1000Memories (TCTV) — 1000Memories has raised a $2.5 million round led by Greylock Partners, with the participation of some high-profile angel investors including Caterina Fake, Ron Conway, Keith Rabois, Mike Maples, Paul Buchheit and Chris Sacca.
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NetworkEffect, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable! and Xconomy
Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:
Apple: Cheaper iPhone Could Expand Addressable Market By 6x — For many months now, Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi has been making the case that Apple (AAPL) basically has two options for taking more market share in smart phones. One option would be to expand distribution to more carriers.
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MacStories and Tech Cores
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Mapquest Takes On Google Navigation With Free Android App — Following the success of its iPhone app, Mapquest has released a free, voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation app for Android handsets. The new app differs in a couple ways from its older iPhone sibling.
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Brad Sams / Neowin.net:
Microsoft says Zune services are not being killed — Earlier today it was reported that Microsoft was going to be killing off the Zune branding. This information detailed out that Microsoft was going to blend the Zune branding into other services and eventually kill off Zune.
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WinRumors and All about Microsoft Blog, Thanks:bdsams
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
HTC Flyer tablet hits Amazon.de for 669 euros — We're seeing some rather unattainable prices for many of the sexiest Android tablets to be unveiled at MWC and CES this year, but thankfully HTC's Flyer looks to be coming in a little lower than most. It's just popped up on Amazon.de at €669.
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