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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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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Consumer Reports won't recommend the Verizon iPhone. Do consumers care?
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The Weblog of Jamie Murai:
You Win, RIM! (An Open Letter To RIM's Developer Relations) — You win. I concede defeat. I no longer want to attempt developing an app for the Playbook. Are you happy now? Surely you must be. Considering how terribly designed the entire process is, from the registration right through …
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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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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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Shoutpedia, BlogsDNA, Redmond Pie, Digital Daily, Electronista, MacNN and iClarified
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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MacNN, Pulse2, Digits and ITworld.com
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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Motorola Xoom Teardown
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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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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Verizon CEO claims Apple LTE products are coming, doesn't specify when
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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.
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook's Publishes Re-Imagined Privacy Policy for the Average User — Facebook has published an alternative, unofficial version of its privacy policy that is easier for the average user to understand. This “re-imagined” privacy policy uses simpler language, is more visual with graphics and screenshots …
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Facebook Site Governance / Facebook:
A Privacy Policy Re-imagined For Users Like You
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Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times Tech Blog, PC Magazine, msnbc.com, Digital Trends, The Huffington Post, Facebook, Neowin.net and WebProNews
Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:
30%, the long tail and a future of serialized content — The 1960s and 70s were the golden age of magazines. Why? — Lots of people wanted to read them — The newsstand could only hold a few of them (barrier to entry permits some to win) — The winners had no trouble selling ads …
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
The Truth About The iPad, Day 300: I Barely Use It Anymore — The main thing you need to know about my iPad right now is that I'm not sure where it is. — It's definitely at home, because I've stopped bringing it to work most days. I think it's next to the bed, because that's where I've …
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPhone 5 part surfaces, shows larger display and thinner bezel? — A purported image of an iPhone 5 part has appeared on a Chinese reseller of Apple parts' website. Specifically, this part may be the digitizer panel for the fifth generation iPhone's touch screen.
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
E-mail innovator pitches self-deleting e-mails — Joshua Baer, CEO of the e-mail company OtherInBox, agitated for a new addition to email standards at the Inbox Love e-mail conference today. He's proposing a standard that would let email messages carry with them the date of their own irrelevance.
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Ubergizmo and ReadWriteWeb
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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TechCrunch, Digits, Pulse2, paidContent, WebProNews, New York Magazine and SAI
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, WebProNews, eMoney, SlashGear and LiveSide.net
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The new Silicon Valley hype machine: AngelList — Yesterday at the Launch event I was sitting next to Naval Ravikant. I kept watching his screen. I had heard about his site, AngelList, before, but I didn't have an opportunity to really dig into what it was and how it worked.
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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 …
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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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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