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8:50 PM ET, February 16, 2011

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Lee Shirani / The Official Google Blog:
A simple way for publishers to manage access to digital content  —  At Humboldt University in Berlin today, Eric Schmidt announced Google One Pass, a service that lets publishers set their own prices and terms for their digital content.  With Google One Pass, publishers can maintain direct relationships …
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Hayley Tsukayama / Faster Forward:
Google launches subscription service — Google One Pass  —  One day after Apple introduced its controversial subscription service, Google has announced that it will also offer a subscription service for digital content, called Google One Pass.  “With Google One Pass, publishers can customize …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:   Forget 90/10 Split, Key To Google One Pass Is That Customer Information Is Shared With Publishers
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Google Outbids Apple, Offers Publishers 90% Cut on Tablet Subs
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Motorola's Xoom tablet priced at $799  —  (Reuters) - Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc's Xoom tablet will sell for an unsubsidized $799 at Verizon Wireless, with WiFi-only version priced at around $600 price, chief executive Sanjay Jha said on Wednesday.  —  “Competing with Apple …
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Exclusive: Verizon iPhone sales fail to meet expectations  —  One of our Apple sources has shared some very sensitive information on first-week Verizon iPhone launch sales with us.  It's quite interesting — we're being told sales are performing a little under what Apple and Verizon anticipated, and we have the data to show it.
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DSLreports:   Verizon iPhone Sales Failed To Meet Expectations - Just 14% Of Verizon iPhone Buyers Former AT&T Users
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
More Detail On Apple's Plans For MobileMe: Think FaceBook, Foursquare & uStream [Exclusive]  —  Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple is working on a “major revamp” of MobileMe, including a “locker” that will stream movies and TV shows to iPhones and iPads.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Exclusive: Sony ‘S1’ PlayStation tablet (updated)  —  Think for a second, what major consumer electronics company doesn't have a tablet to show?  Right, Sony.  In fact, the rumor womb has been conspicuously barren of salacious Sony tablet tattle ever since Apple's iPad was announced back in 2010.
Dieter Bohn / WPCentral.com:
Dell Wrigley revealed in Dell 2011 Roadmap!  [Exclusive]  —  A reliable tipster has just sent us Dell's roadmap for 2011 on both the tablet and smartphone fronts.  While naturally Windows Phone doesn't make an appearance on the slate side of things (check out sister-site Android Central for that scoop) …
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Barry Collins / PC Pro:
The true cost of publishing on the Amazon Kindle  —  Ever wondered why newspapers and magazines published on the Amazon Kindle rarely contain photos?  I've downloaded several copies of The Times and The Telegraph on my Kindle, and you're lucky if you get more than one photo in the entire newspaper.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Why Are You People Defending Apple?  —  As you've doubtless heard by now, yesterday Apple revealed its new fee structure for premium content: all apps that offer premium content outside of the App Store have to also offer it via Apple's official in-app purchases (this includes Amazon's Kindle) …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’  —  As part of “Operation Save Our Children” ICE's Cyber Crimes Center has again seized several domain names, but not without making a huge error.  Last Friday, thousands of site owners were surprised by a rather worrying banner that was placed on their domain.
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Google will launch iTunes music store competitor with upgrade to Android  —  ‘Google Music’ service will form part of new version of Android operating system designed specifically for tablet devices  —  Google is to launch a music service to compete with Apple's iTunes music store as part …
Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Whoops!  Did Intel Just Leak the New MacBook Pro Design?  —  We think Apple's on the verge of updating its MacBook Pro line of laptops, but Intel may have let the cat out of the bag early with an image in an ad.  Skinnier?  Check.  Optical drives?  Gone (probably).
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Inside Twitter's Sales Machine: A Secret Guide for Advertisers (Video)  —  Twitter hopes to generate something like $100 million from advertising this year, but first it has to teach people how to buy its ads.  Here's how it's doing that: A hand-holding how-to video, which walks through everything …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Texas Wants Google to Spill Its Secrets-Here's the List  —  The antitrust investigation Google is facing in Texas is quite a bit broader than originally thought.  A civil investigative demand sent last July by the office of Attorney General Greg Abbott, and first reported by Bloomberg …
Scott Gilbertson / Webmonkey:
Microsoft, Mozilla Battle Over What Makes a ‘Modern’ Web Browser  —  HTML5test.com scores for IE9 and Firefox  —  Microsoft and Mozilla are trading barbs over the coming Internet Explorer 9.  Microsoft has been touting its HTML5 support in IE9, claiming that it renders HTML5 better than Firefox (and Chrome, Safari and Opera).
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Nokia to delay Windows Phone  —  • Microsoft faces long wait to have its software on any handsets  —  • Mobile company to wait until ‘Mango’ is released in October  —  Nokia is not adopting Microsoft's current Windows Phone 7 platform - which means that there is no chance …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia earnings focus on the transformation from PCs to mobile chips  —  Nvidia reported a strong fiscal fourth quarter and said it was upbeat about the potential for its Tegra 2 mobile phone chips to be used in a raft of new smartphones and tablets coming out this year.
Discussion: NVIDIA and The Register
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Egyptian Behind #Jan25: “Twitter Is A Very Important Tool For Protesters”  —  Social media's role in the Egyptian revolution has been picked apart, but what do people in Egypt think about it?  Meet Alyouka, the 21-year-old Egyptian who was the first person to Tweet out the #Jan25 hashtag which …
Discussion: Hope140 Blog and Fast Company
Walter S. Mossberg / All Things Digital:
Atrix 4G: Faux Laptop With a Phone For Brains  —  Today's best smartphones are really hand-held computers.  They run a vast variety of applications, from productivity programs to games, that mimic what laptops do.  Their biggest limitations for serious work, gaming, Web surfing and multimedia …
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Nokia Plan B was just a hoax all along  —  There's been a lot of chatter about a “Nokia Plan B” over the past 48 hours — the site was put up by “nine young investors” who outlined an audacious plan to rally shareholders, get themselves elected onto Nokia's board, and radically change …
Sam Gustin / Epicenter:
IBM Watson Scientist: Speed Matters, But So Do Accuracy, Intuition  —  IBM supercomputer Watson's Game 1 blowout of Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter may not have come as much of a surprise, considering how much information is packed inside the machine's brain.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Javelin Venture Partners Closes New $105 Million Fund  —  Early-stage VC Javelin Venture Partners has closed a second, $105 million fund.  The firm expects to use the money to fund around 20 companies over three years in seed and Series A rounds ranging from $500K to $3 million …
 
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Net Neutrality, Nausea & Political Theater at Its Worst
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
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TED Blog:
Announcing TED Conversations!
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Andy Furillo / Sacramento Bee:
California chief justice blocks Facebook evidence order
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Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Greplin's Social Search Opens Its Doors To All
Discussion: Computerworld and Digits
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Lookout: Android Market Growing Faster, But App Store Attracting More Developers
Discussion: VentureBeat and VentureBeat
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Twitter's Biz Stone On Starting A Revolution
Discussion: TechCrunch
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Warner Brothers Debuts App-Based Movie Purchases
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Google's Schmidt Sees Payments as a Big Business
Discussion: eWeek and Fast Company
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Analyzing Comcast's spinoff of cable networks, purposefully structured with low debt: the move might be a signal to the industry that it's time to consolidate

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Tubi launches Scenes, a mobile feature that lets viewers watch 60-to-90-second trailer-style clips from its library to help with content discovery

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
James Harding says the Tortoise-Observer deal could create a profitable media group and there isn't a guaranteed future for the Observer with the Guardian
 
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