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Apple:
Apple Updates MacBook Pro with Next Generation Processors, Graphics & Thunderbolt I/O Technology — Apple® today updated the industry-leading MacBook® Pro family with next generation processors and graphics, high-speed Thunderbolt I/O technology and a new FaceTime® HD camera.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Launches $0.99 Mac FaceTime App on Mac App Store — Apple has launched the FaceTime for Mac App on the Mac App Store for $0.99: … The app was in public beta before this, but with the imminent launch of the new MacBook Pros, Apple has launched version 1.0. New MacBook Pro owners will get FaceTime pre-installed.
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Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
Apple Updates The MacBook Pro Line With Sandy Bridge Intel CPUs, AMD GPUs, FaceTime HD, and Thunderbolt — Happy Birthday, Steve! Just like the rumors stated, Apple refreshed the entire line of MacBook Pros today, which just so happened to be Steve Jobs' birthday.
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Motorola's Xoom Starts Tablet Wars With iPad — After months of speculation, the tablet wars begin in earnest this week. Motorola is releasing its Xoom tablet on Feb. 24, and I consider it the first truly comparable competitor to Apple's hit iPad. That is partly because it is the first iPad challenger …
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Kellex / Droid Life:
Official Details of the 4G LTE Upgrade Process for the Motorola XOOM — For those of you heading into a Best Buy or Verizon store early tomorrow morning to pick up a Motorola XOOM, you are probably wondering how the upgrade process to 4G LTE will work and we have you covered.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
An iPad lovers review of Motorola Xoom
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Motorola Xoom tablet hit with trademark lawsuit right before launch
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paidContent, Android Community, Technologizer, Techland, Electronista and TechEye
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Motorola Xoom With Honeycomb: A First Look Video
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Network World, Engadget, CrunchGear and Technologizer
AppleInsider:
Apple releases dev preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion with AirDrop, FileVault — Apple on Thursday released a developer preview of Mac OS X Lion, which takes some of the best ideas the company has conceived for the iPad and brings them back to the Mac for the eighth major release of the flagship operating system due this summer.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Releases A Developer Preview Of OS X Lion — Through The Mac App Store
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Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Intel's Thunderbolt—The Stealth Effort to Take Over Every Wire on Your Desk — Intel's Light Peak data connection tech has evolved, and is now on sale in a real device—Apple's new MacBook Pros. It's clever, super-fast, and is actually a stealthy trick to replace the rats nest of wires …
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Marco Chiappetta / HotHardware:
Intel Officially Announces Thunderbolt Technology, Formerly Codenamed Light Peak — We have discussed Intel's Light Peak technology on a number of occasions over the last few years. We caught a glimpse of the technology at work at the Intel Developers Forum a couple of years ago …
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Crave, GigaOM, Neowin.net and Gadgetwise
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Exec David Eun Out - Here's His Email To Staff — David Eun, my boss's (Heather) boss since the acquisition, will shortly be leaving AOL. As President of AOL Media and Studios he oversaw the AOL homepage as well as all of the content brands and sites.
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Edmund Lee / AdAge:
AOL's First Big Change for Huffington Post: Bigger Ads — News Aggregation Site Will Get ‘Project Devil’ Ads, but Will Anyone Else? — After months of negotiations with advertisers and agencies, AOL is starting to roll out “Project Devil,” a larger ad format it hopes will deliver …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Pre-HuffPo Merger Changes At AOL; Eun Leaving, Brod To Be Arianna's COO
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SAI and MediaMemo, more at Mediagazer »
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Discontinuing MobileMe Retail Boxes, Preparing for Free Overhauled Version? [Updated] — Apple today notified resellers that it has discontinued the retail box version of MobileMe, shifting entirely to digital sales. Existing stocks of boxed MobileMe can continue to be sold while their supplies last.
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GigaOM, Data Center Knowledge, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, App Advice, TUAW, Ars Technica, iLounge, MacStories and TiPb
Shan Sinha / Docs Blog:
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office available to all — Many of you already use Google Docs for editing your documents, but there are still many people that are tied to desktop applications and haven't experienced the numerous benefits cloud applications to bring.
Bing:
Bing expands Facebook “Liked Results” — A few months ago, we announced an exciting partnership with Facebook to make search more social. As part of that work, we introduced Liked Results, which promotes links your friends have publicly liked or shared via Facebook.
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Search Engine Land, VatorNews, Search Engine Watch, LiveSide.net, Technologizer, Between the Lines Blog and WebProNews
Rainey / Bradley Manning Support Network:
PayPal Cuts Service to Alleged WikiLeaks Whistle-blower Support Effort — The online payment provider PayPal has frozen the account of Courage to Resist, which in collaboration with the Bradley Manning Support Network is currently raising funds in support of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning.
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ReadWriteWeb, Techdirt and @dhh
Michael Stroh / The Windows Blog:
More answers about our first software update — It's been roughly 48 hours since we hit the send button on our first Windows Phone software update. The rooms around me are buzzing with folks monitoring the rollout, sifting carefully through incoming phone health data (from customers who provide it) …
Stephen Chapman / SEO Whistleblower Blog:
Windows 8, Windows Server 8, and Office 15: Tons of new information straight from Microsoft and its employees! — In addition to my passion for SEO (Search Engine Optimization), I'm an investigative researcher/blogger with a penchant for finding confidential information on the cutting edge of topics I'm passionate about.
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Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Google Recipe Search Cooks Up Next Gen of Search — Stepping into the kitchen now, Google introduced a recipe search engine Thursday that serves up dishes based not only on the ingredients you may have on hand, but the calories you want to consume and even how much time you have to cook.
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ReadWriteWeb, Engadget, Google Watch, The Official Google Blog, Search Engine Land, Technologizer and The Next Web
Dan Wallach / Freedom to Tinker:
Things overheard on the WiFi from my Android smartphone — Today in my undergraduate security class, we set up a sniffer so we could run Wireshark and Mallory to listen in on my Android smartphone. This blog piece summarizes what we found. — Google properly encrypts traffic to Gmail and Google Voice …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Disney Acquires Social Network For Kids Togetherville — Disney has just acquired Togetherville, a social network for kids 10 years of age or younger, we've confirmed with the company. Terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed at the moment. — Togetherville, which exited beta last year …
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Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
IE9's ‘Do Not Track’ features could become Web standards — The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C,) the standards body responsible for HTML5, accepted and published Microsoft's member submission for standardized privacy features on Thursday. — Last year, the Federal Trade Commission endorsed …
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CNET News, W3C, WinRumors, The Next Web and MSDN Blogs
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
A New Search Engine for Hotel Rooms: Room 77 Launches — Like “seat guru for hotel rooms,” was my immediate thought; Room 77 is a search engine for hotel rooms. The site is creating and indexing data on hotels in the US and UK (and eventually around the world) that qualify with three stars and above.
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TechCrunch, TechFlash, CNET News, NetworkEffect, VentureBeat, Technologizer and Xconomy
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Announces More Ways to Publish to Users Who Click Like Buttons — Millions of websites and social games have implemented Facebook's Like button social plugin, yet relatively few are taking advantage of the capability to publish news feed stories to users that click those buttons.
