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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Is Said to Pay Nokia More Than $1 Billion in Accord — Microsoft Corp. will pay Nokia Oyj more than $1 billion to promote and develop Windows-based handsets as part of their smartphone software agreement, according to two people with knowledge of the terms.
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The Register, CNET News, mocoNews, Internet2Go, Hardware 2.0 Blog, TechCrunch, Erictric, DailyTech, MobileWhack, VentureBeat, Engadget, Android Community, The Next Web, WinRumors, Electronista, The Seattle Times, IntoMobile, MobileTechWorld, Neowin.net, WPCentral.com, WMPoweruser.com, SAI and GeekWire
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Doug Bewsher / The Big Blog:
Advertising in Skype — Today we announce something new - the launch of advertising in Skype, which will appear in the Home tab in Skype starting this week. — The Skype experience is our first priority, which is why we we've taken a lot of time working through and testing what kind …
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SAI, AdAge, The Next Web, BW: GUEST HOME, mocoNews, Gadgetell, NewEnterprise, Softpedia News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Erictric, Techland, TG Daily, Between the Lines Blog, WebProNews, BlogsDNA, VentureBeat, Skype Journal, SiliconANGLE, GigaOM, NBC Bay Area, Fast Company, Electronista, Disruptive Telephony, TechCrunch, 901am, Adotas, MarketingVOX, Engadget, The Register, GeekSmack and Download Squad
Adario Strange / Zenroll:
Steve Gillmor, Japan, and the Trojan Horse called Facebook Comments — There are increasingly few areas in which my professional background in print publishing comes into play when discussing digital distribution, but one area offers me the opportunity for a direct, and quite important comparison: the new Facebook commenting system.
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Both Sides of the Table, Thanks:adariostrange
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The Real “Authenticity Killer” (and an aside about how bad the Yahoo brand has gotten) — Steve Cheney has never written something that so pissed me off than the blog he wrote today stating that Techcrunch's switch to Facebook comments has killed authenticity. — Here's the rub. He used his real name.
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GigaOM, Engadget, PC World, Technologizer, @tolles, Stowe Boyd, TomsTechBlog.com, Adam Sherk, broadstuff and @loic, more at Mediagazer »
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
YouTube Buys Next New Networks, a Video Producer — SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube, the video site owned by Google, formally announced on Monday that it had acquired Next New Networks, a Web video production company, in its biggest effort yet to move beyond short, quirky home videos to professionally produced content.
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GigaOM, New York Times, Fast Company, TechCrunch, Company Town, fierceonlinevideo.com …, SAI, MediaMemo, AdAge and Mashable!, more at Mediagazer »
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Fred Seibert / Next New Networks:
Here comes YouTube Next.
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CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, YouTube Blog, GigaOM, paidContent, Erictric, Beet.TV, Electronista and Techie Buzz, more at Mediagazer »
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple to cut 32 games, some hardware from retail stores — Apple is in the process of cutting software titles and some hardware peripherals from its retails stores to make room for other services. — Sources that I've spoken with said Apple is going to expand its personalized in-store setup service for customers that purchase a Mac.
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CNET News, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, TUAW, Gearlog, MacNN, SlashGear, AppleInsider, MacStories, Computerworld, Apple Bitch, iClarified, MacRumors and NBC Bay Area
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Windows Phone 7 not reversing Microsoft's mobile slide — From November to January — the first full three months that Windows Phone 7 was available — Microsoft's share of the U.S. smart-phone market continued to slide, new data from comScore shows. — Microsoft's slice of the market fell …
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Electronista, ZDNet, ThinkMobile, WebProNews and PhoneArena
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Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Latest comScore numbers have Android at #1 in US
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MediaPost, DailyFinance, Mobile Marketing Watch, comScore, Inc., CNNMoney.com, TechCrunch, The Next Web, iLounge, WMPoweruser.com, WinRumors and SAI
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
Pay-as-you-go shocker! CDMA iPhone 4 makes its way to Cricket Wireless (via jailbreak) — As any astute follower of the “pay-as-you-go” world knows, there are quite a few back alley Cricket dealers (and quite a few main street ones as well) that will happily flash any phone you give …
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IntoMobile, MacStories, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, Electronista and everythingiCafe
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Handset Hackers Get Google's Music Syncing Service For Android To Work A Bit Early — Sometimes you just gotta do things because you can, you know? It's the sign of being a true gadget geek. Lets say you stumble across the Music application that comes built into the Motorola Xoom …
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Nemesis / The Local:
Text messages to replace stamps in Sweden — Double click on a word to get a translation — The Swedish postal service plans to give customers' tongues a rest by allowing them to pay their postage via mobile phone text message instead of stamps. — A similar system is set for launch …
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PC Magazine, SlashGear, Examiner, p2pnet and Electronista
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Netflix spooks Hollywood more than ever — LOS ANGELES—Hollywood film executives want you to know that they are not at war with Netflix or the Internet. — Some of them told me over the past week that they have every intention to continue to distribute films and TV shows over the Web and at attractive prices to boot.
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Neowin.net and techblog.dallasnews.com
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Dear Apple, Please Copy This Notification System For The iPhone Immediately — As you're aware, I tend to take Apple's side on almost all matters iPhone versus Android. Having tried over a dozen Android devices ranging from the G1 to the Nexus S, I simply still prefer iOS. And it's not really close.
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Talking Pengwin, Gadgets DNA, SlashGear and IntoMobile
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
News Corp Leads Additional $77 Million Round In Music Start-Up — The bubble in digital music continues: this evening, Beyond Oblivion told The Guardian that it had secured a whopping $77 million investment. The round was led by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and charity Wellcome Trust.
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paidContent and Guardian
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Security experts decipher malware that attacked Android phones — Lookout Mobile Security has deciphered the DroidDream malware that managed to infect numerous apps on the Android Market. Google has taken action to deal with DroidDream, but the risk of infection is still there given the wide diversity of the Android ecosystem.
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The Official Lookout Blog, PC World, internetnews.com, ReadWriteWeb, PC World, Android Tapp, Computerworld, Inquirer and Macworld
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Researcher finds serious Android Market bug
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jon.oberheide.org, Dennis Fisher, The Register and The Firewall
Lucas Atkins / N4BB:
Exclusive: BlackBerry 2011 Software Roadmap - OS 7, BIS 4.1, and more! — In the beginning of the year we learned the 2011 BlackBerry lineup through various leaks and roadmaps surfacing. It looks like an exciting year to see RIM release the Dakota/Montana, Malibu, Apollo/Sedona, Monaco …
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LAPTOP Magazine, Erictric, PhoneArena, Geek.com, IntoMobile, GottaBeMobile, iGeneration Blog, Softpedia News, Electronista, TechEye, Life On My Mobile, BlackBerry Cool and MobileWhack
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Apple shipped 1.1 million MacBook Air laptops last quarter, analyst claims — Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo revealed on Saturday that Apple shipped a total of 1.1 million MacBook Air units over the course of the refreshed laptop's first quarter of availability.
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PC World, AppleInsider, Electronista, PC World, iClarified, Softpedia News, T3.com News, ITProPortal, DisplayBlog, Edible Apple, The Atlantic Online, TUAW and Digital Trends
Daniel Ek / Spotify:
Spotify reaches one million subscribers — It seems like only yesterday we were hatching ideas for a new music service in a tiny office-cum-apartment with a broken coffee machine, and the party we threw having reached one million users almost two years ago today was one to remember.
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MediaMemo and louisgray.com
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Google's Navigation App Now Able to Steer Android Users Away From Traffic — Google said on Monday that it is adding a feature to its Android-based navigation app that will allow the turn-by-turn program to automatically reroute users around traffic jams. — “You don't have to do anything …
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Google Mobile Blog, Technologizer, Techland, MobileCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Examiner, PC Magazine, Electronista and silicontap.com
Emily Steel / Speakeasy:
Charlie Sheen Signs His First Twitter Sponsor: Internships.com … Charlie Sheen scored his first Twitter sponsor on Monday: the online internship site Internships.com. — The “Two and a Half Men” star has signed a deal to post an endorsed message for Internships.com as part of efforts …
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Campus Overload
Patricia Reaney / Reuters:
Not getting enough sleep? Turn off the technology — (Reuters) - Dependence on televisions, cellphones and laptops may be costing Americans dearly — in lack of sleep. — The national penchant for watching television every evening before going to sleep, playing video games late …
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National Sleep Foundation, The Register, Techland, SAI, PC World and The Huffington Post
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
App Stores Everywhere! Opera Opens Mobile App Storefront — When Pocketgear changed course recently and announced it was going to be a white label app store provider for other companies called Appia, I said we should be prepared for an app store onslaught.
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ReadWriteWeb, Mobilized, The Register, TechCrunch and Download Squad
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Feature: Ars reviews the Motorola Xoom — Motorola's Xoom tablet is the first device to ship with Android 3.0, codenamed Honeycomb, a highly anticipated new version of Google's mobile operating system. Honeycomb introduces a sophisticated new user interface that was designed for the tablet form factor …
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GottaBeMobile, MacDailyNews and Edible Apple
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
Nokia dumps the comercial half of Qt to Finnish firm Digia [Nokia likely to dump the other half soon] — Roughly 3 years ago Nokia purchased Trolltech, the Norwegian company responsible for developing the Qt platform. Nokia's goal was simple: Let's make Symbian easier to develop for and create …
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The Qt Blog, All About Symbian, PC World, OSNews, The Register, eWeek, Digital Trends, Inquirer and PhoneNews.com
Jason Ankeny / FierceDeveloper:
RIM scraps BlackBerry App World developer ID notarization rule — In the wake of a much-discussed developer rant against the logistical difficulties of creating software for Research In Motion's (NASDAQ:RIMM) BlackBerry platform, RIM has responded with a significant change …
