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Ben Rooney / Tech Europe:
Motorola Executive Defends Tablet Price Tag … Motorola mobility chief Sanjay Jha confirmed that the company's new Xoom tablet will go on sale in the U.S. at $800, a higher price tag than current market leader Apple's iPad. — And in what has been described as the worst kept secret in the tech world …
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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 …
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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 …
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Dell's 2011 smartphone and tablet lineup leaked: Android Ice Cream, WP7 sliders, and a slate running Windows 8 — Wrigley, Hancock, Millennium, Gallo, Sterling, Rosemount, Silver Oak, Peju and Opus One. What are we rattling off? Oh, just the list of codenames from one of the largest leaks we've ever seen out of Dell.
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Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central:
Gallo, Sterling, Opus One and Silver Oak Android tablets on Dell's leaked roadmap [Exclusive] — Dell's tablet roadmap has been leaked by a very reliable tipster along with Dell Android Smartphones and Dell Windows Phones, and it appears that there are four new Android tablets in the works.
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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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg to Meet With President Obama Thursday in San Francisco — Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who recently took a medical leave of absence from his company, and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt will be among the attendees of President Obama's event …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs Spotted at Stanford Cancer Center
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DigiTimes:
Apple secures 60% of global touch panel capacity, causing tight supply — In order to achieve its internal goal of shipping 40 million iPad products in 2011, Apple has occupied close to 60% of the global touch panel capacity causing tight supply among Apple's competitors, according to sources from upstream component makers.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why Google's One Pass Could Be a Ticket to Nowhere — Google has gotten a lot of attention for the launch of One Pass, the all-in-one subscription plan for publishers that the search giant revealed earlier today — primarily because it made for a nice counterpoint to Apple's new in-app subscription system, which launched on Tuesday.
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Lee Shirani / The Official Google Blog:
A simple way for publishers to manage access to digital content
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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.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
BitTorrent is to movies what “bolt-cutters are to stealing bicycles” — The Authors Guild really doesn't like piracy. Guild president Scott Turow, a best-selling author of legal thrillers, today summoned his powers to tell Congress: — “BitTorrent is to stealing movies, TV shows …
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Greg Weston / CBC News:
Foreign hackers attack Canadian government — An unprecedented cyberattack on the Canadian government from China has given foreign hackers access to highly classified federal information, and forced at least two key departments off the internet, CBC News has learned.
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple's iPhone 4 wins Best Mobile Device award at Mobile World Congress — Apple didn't attend Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but it took the event's top award for a mobile device. — The event, a major confab of the mobile industry, has been virtually ignored by Apple in much the same …
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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.
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Groupon Spars with Tencent; Joint Venture Isn't Inspiring Local Confidence — There's trouble in Tencent and Groupon's China group buying joint venture, Gaopeng.com, according to press reports from China. Apparently the site went up for a day, Tencent balked and pulled it back down.
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.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
IBM's Watson victorious in Jeopardy; Our new computer overlord? — IBM's Watson computer ultimately proved to be too much for the humans in Jeopardy. — Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two of the most successful players in Jeopardy, put up a spirited fight, but ultimately couldn't hang.
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: The Death Of The Music Industry — Here is a stunning visualization of the collapse of the music industry from Bain. As you can see, the growth of digital sales is not doing enough to offset the death of the CD. — (Chart via Peter Kafka, who spotted it on Flickr.)
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
+1 Incoming? Google's New Toolbar Is Rolling Out — For months, we've been getting tips about a new toolbar that Google has been testing on google.com. In fact, we first posted about it back in November and the tips have been steadily coming in since then.
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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) …
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Tory Newmyer / Fortune:
Apple, Cisco, others organize for a tax holiday lobby — FORTUNE — Economists, businessmen, and politicians of every stripe have spent months talking themselves hoarse about how to get the roughly $2 trillion in corporate reserves back into the economy. Get ready to start hearing a lot about that sum's international cousin.
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