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Consumer Reports Electronics Blog:
Verizon iPhone 4: Mind the gap, our tests show — The Verizon iPhone 4 has a problem that could cause the phone to drop calls, or be unable to place calls, in weak signal conditions, Consumer Reports engineers have found in lab tests. — The problem is similar to the one we confirmed …
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Antennagate 2.0? Consumer Reports Won't Recommend Verizon iPhone Either — Oh no, please tell us this isn't the start of another “antennagate,” but it appears that Consumer Reports is again making headlines for throwing the iPhone 4 under the proverbial bus.
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PC World, Crave, IntoMobile and Network World
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Testing Google's New Algorithm: It Really Is Better — When we heard that Google had unleashed a new algorithm in the United States to battle content farms, we were cautiously optimistic. Content farms, which bet they can make more more money on any advertisements than they spend producing …
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Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search:
Google and Search Tweaks — Chatter blizzard! There is a flurry of commentary about Google's change to cope with outfits that generate content to attract traffic, get a high Google ranking, and deliver information to users! You can read the Google explanation in “Finding More High-Quality Sites …
Michael Hickins / Wall Street Journal:
Groupon Revenue Hit $760 Million Last Year — Daily deals website Groupon Inc. saw its revenue surge to $760 million last year from $33 million the previous year, with more than a third of its 2010 sales coming from outside the U.S., according to an internal memo.
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WebProNews, Digits, paidContent, SAI and New York Magazine
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Groupon Files SEC Form For Another $16.2 Million
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Reveals “Places” - A Social Networking Related Trademark — On February 24, 2011, The European Trademarks and Designs Office published Apple's latest trademark application for the word “Places” under application 009760141. Apple has filed their trademark under four distinct International …
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SAI, mocoNews, TiPb, IntoMobile, Know Your Mobile, MacNN and MacRumors Page 2
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Watch Out iPad, Honeycomb Has 16 Tablet Apps! — The tablet war between Apple and Google is only just getting warmed up, but it's going to take time before it becomes a full-scale conflict. Apple's iPad has a good 10-month head-start over Google Honeycomb tablets, the first of which became available only yesterday.
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ReadWriteWeb, Technologizer, Electronista and eWeek
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Motorola Xoom Teardown
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Examiner, Ars Technica, CNET News, Gadget Lab, Digits, MobileWhack, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Androinica, Liliputing, DisplayBlog, DailyTech, I4U News, Android Phone Fans, Droid Life, Electronista, Erictric, Engadget, Engadget, Android Police, thinq_, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, Gearlog, Know Your Mobile, PalmAddicts and Crave
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Verizon Says Short iPhone Lines Due to Strong Online Sales, Staggered Rollout — The Wall Street Journal reports on an interview with Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead, who claims that short lines for the public launch of the Verizon iPhone were the result of an intentional effort to push sales …
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CNET News, Wall Street Journal, Electronista, Pulse2, everythingiCafe, MacDailyNews and TiPb
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Verizon CEO claims Apple LTE products are coming, doesn't specify when
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IntoMobile, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, Erictric, The Loop, Electricpig.co.uk and Voices on All Things Digital
Chris Preimesberger / eWeek:
How Apple Dodged a Sun Buyout: Former CEOs McNealy, Zander Tell All — Table of Contents: — At Churchill Club dinner, former Sun CEOs Scott McNealy and Ed Zander discuss why the company didn't buy Apple in 1996, the real beginnings of cloud computing and why Linux should never have come into existence.
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Digits and ITworld.com
Fred / A VC:
Marketing — You asked for it Arnold and 84 others (so far). So I'm gonna talk about marketing. — I believe that marketing is what you do when your product or service sucks or when you make so much profit on every marginal customer that it would be crazy to not spend a bit …
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TechCrunch, @cdixon, broadstuff, @loic, Seattle 2.0 and SAI
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
MobileMe is officially online only — Expanding on the report from yesterday, a Genius (who uses Chrome interestingly) sent us this screenshot of the Apple Internal systems which shows that MobileMe is online-only now. — It also appears you can't currently pay for MobileMe online.
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MacNN, The Next Web, SlashGear, App Advice, MacStories, Black Web 2.0 and Examiner
Facebook Site Governance / Facebook:
A Privacy Policy Re-imagined For Users Like You — At Facebook, we are constantly developing new experiences and features to help you control your information. Some of our recent work includes simplified privacy settings and publisher privacy controls that let you select your audience every time you post something on Facebook.
Brad Feld / Feld Thoughts:
Dear Google, I Have More Than 10,000 Contacts — I just received the “amusing email of the day” from Google. I feel like I'm in one step forward / one step back with Google Enterprise Support. If you read my two recent posts on this, you saw that I started by saying that it's Time For Google …
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Verizon to launch Windows Phone 7 device in late March — Verizon is scheduled to launch its first Windows Phone 7 device in late March WinRumors has learned. — Verizon officials may be planning to announce the device as soon as Monday February 28 according to people familiar with the company's plans.
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Network World, PhoneArena, CNET News, The Next Web, Electronista, Faster Forward, WMPoweruser.com, Engadget, Gizmodo and Crave
Jackie Cohen / All Facebook:
REPORT: Facebook Profiles Are Now Part Of 80% Colleges' Admissions Outreach — Recruiters aren't the only ones looking at candidates' Facebook profiles. Four out of every five college admissions offices use the social network to recruit students. — That statistic comes …
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msnbc.com, L.A. Times Tech Blog and The Next Web
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Nabs Career Recruiting Service Pursuit — It looks like recruiting service Pursuit has been gobbled up by Facebook, the latest in a string of acqui-hires, judging by the brief message on their homepage: … The San Francisco based Pursuit was just three extremely over-educated guys …
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All Facebook, Between the Lines Blog, WebProNews, NetworkEffect and Inside Facebook
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Post-Optical Disc Era Gets Off To A Rocky Start With The OS X Lion Beta — If there was any doubt in peoples' minds that Apple intends to kill off the optical disc, it was put to rest today. This morning's unveiling of the OS X Lion Developer Preview came with the news …
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AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Examiner, PC World, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac and Neowin.net
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Bing's Travel Search, So Much Better Than Google, Gets Even Better — Google does almost nothing interesting in travel search. Bing offers a much more compelling travel search experience and today added a new little feature that makes me want to use it even more.
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Bing, eMoney, SlashGear and LiveSide.net
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter's Ad Team Runs Into the Learning Curve, and Promoted Tweets Take a Step Back — Another sign that Twitter's advertising plans are very much a work in progress: The company is playing down Promoted Tweets, the first ad units it introduced last year. — Instead, Dick Costolo's sales force …
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple may surprise with near immediate availability of iPad 2 next week — While media reports have shed considerable doubt on Apple's capacity to facilitate a full-scale launch of its second-generation iPad in the short term, AppleInsider has reason to believe that customers could be holding …
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Digital Daily, MacNN, Electronista, Engadget and ITProPortal
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple exploring capacitive touch buttons to control a closed MacBook — Apple could add the ability to control applications like iTunes while a notebook is closed via capacitive touch buttons added to the lid of future MacBooks. — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week disclosed …
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CrunchGear, MacNN, Gizmodo and iClarified
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Bank of America trialing Mobile Wallet program, uses NFC-enabled BlackBerry smartphones — According to a BGR source, Bank of America has started inviting select customers to trial its new Mobile Wallet payment service program based on NFC technology. The program only works with BlackBerry smartphones …
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MobileWhack, CrackBerry.com blogs, SlashGear, BlackBerry Cool, PhoneArena, Know Your Cell and Electronista
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
T-Mobile USA losing customers, says turnaround will take time — T-Mobile USA, hoping to lift itself out of fourth place in the U.S. mobile market, instead dug itself a little deeper in the fourth quarter, according to results released this morning. — The Bellevue-based wireless company …
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FierceWireless, Business Wire and TmoNews
Neil Hunt / The Official Netflix Blog:
30% of Netflix Streaming Content Has Subtitles; 80% By End of 2011 — This is Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer for Netflix, with an update on subtitles on content available to watch instantly from Netflix. In the US, more than 3,500 TV episodes and movies have subtitles available, representing about 30% of viewing.
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BetaNews, Fast Company, Engadget, GigaOM, TechSpot, Los Angeles Times, NewsGrange and fierceonlinevideo.com …
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
HTC Merge official, coming to ‘multiple’ US carriers this spring — Boy, we've had so many leaked materials relating to the HTC Merge that we kind of assumed the handset was official by now. Never mind, HTC is taking care of that little oversight now, admittedly much later than we expected …
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MobileCrunch, Gearlog, IntoMobile and Electronista
Scott Thurm / Wall Street Journal:
Online Trackers Rake In Funding — Venture capitalists are plowing money into companies that help target online advertising, despite public concern about privacy and potential government restrictions. — In the past three months alone, online-tracking specialists Lotame Solutions Inc. …
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The Precursor Blog, Venture Capital Dispatch and Fortune
