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Guinness World Records:
Kinect Confirmed As Fastest-Selling Consumer Electronics Device — New Kinect Device sells quicker than the iPhone and iPad — Guinness World Records, the global authority on record breaking, today confirm that the Kinect for the Xbox 360 is the Fastest-Selling Consumer Electronics Device.
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PC World, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, TechFlash, Examiner, The Microsoft Blog, MSDN Blogs, Electronista, I4U News and MarketingVOX
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Xbox.com:
Kinect Sales Surpass Ten Million — Following one of the biggest launches in consumer electronics history, Kinect for Xbox 360 continued its momentum in 2011, reaching 10 million Kinect sensors sold worldwide to date. Not only were sensor sales an overwhelming success …
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The Digital Home, eMoney, ReadWriteWeb, Engadget, The Seattle Times, SAI, GottaBeMobile, Techie Buzz, USA Today, The Next Web, WinRumors, Neowin.net and GeekSmack
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
iOS 4.3 released with faster Safari, hotspot, and more AirPlay features (direct links!) — It is time to get your iOS 4.3 download on. With a bevy of new features, bugfixes and sweet, sweet Safari speed improvements, you pretty much can't lose...unless you have a VZ iPhone or iPhone 3G that is.
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Music Ally, The Huffington Post, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, Macworld, BetaNews, Gizmodo, TUAW, Gizmodo, dailywireless.org, iLounge, Neowin.net, CrunchGear, PalmAddicts, Geekosystem, Ubergizmo, SlashGear and Fortune
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple releases iOS 4.3 — Apple on Wednesday released iOS 4.3, the promised update to its mobile operating system. — First announced during last week's iPad 2 event, iOS 4.3 wasn't supposed to be released until Friday when the iPad 2 ships to customers. However, Apple released the operating system a couple of days early.
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Examiner, Engadget, GigaOM, CNET News, Daring Fireball, Mobilized, VentureBeat, BGR, ThinkMobile, AppleInsider, Electronista and Download Squad
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Developers rip apart iPad iOS 4.3, find A5 processor == S5L8940 — Some interesting news is coming out of the development community as developers take apart the newly released iOS 4.3 software (or really just publish stuff they've been under NDA about until now).
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MacStories, iLounge, PhoneDog.com and Electronista
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple TV Now Has MLB.TV And NBA Live Game Streaming — Good news for baseball and basketball fans: Apple TV now has MLB.TV, baseball's live game streaming service, and NBA basketball streaming, too. — MLB is now promoting the service on this page. This will require a software update …
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PC World, Engadget, The Toybox Blog, TUAW, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, App Advice, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, Gizmodo, Techland, PadGadget, Insanely Great Mac, iLounge, The Loop, Electronista and TiPb
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Paul Thurrott / Windows Phone Secrets:
Still no update — I'll try not to get all emotional here, but ... WTF? — Every day, several times a day, I check my phone to see if there's an update available. When there isn't, I plug it into the laptop, sync via the Zune PC software, and then check there as well. Nothing.
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SAI and Daring Fireball
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft France says Windows Phone 7 NoDo to arrive in the second half of March
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eWeek, Engadget, MobileTechWorld, WMPoweruser.com, WinRumors, Smartphones … and PhoneRPT.com
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
JP Morgan: Apple's iPad 2 could cause ‘bubble burst’ for rival tablets — According to one Wall Street analyst, Apple's soon-to-be-released iPad 2 could burst a bubble for competitors who are hoping to capitalize on the growing tablet market but remain unable to catch up.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Stage Two, Digits, eWeek, GottaBeMobile, I4U News, SlashGear and TUAW
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft seeks to toss Apple ‘App Store’ brief, says font too small — In the legendary rivalry between Microsoft and Apple, there have been many subjects of dispute. But this may be a first. And no, the headline above is not from The Onion. — Microsoft, opposing Apple's attempt …
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CNET News, MacRumors Page 2 and Gizmodo, Thanks:johnhcook
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Inside AT&T vs Verizon iPad 2 data service plans — Apple is offering iPad 2 in two carrier options within the US, but AT&T and Verizon's plans differ significantly. — AT&T iPad data plans — AT&T continues to offer its no commitment plan that users can start or stop anytime without incurring any fees.
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TUAW, Electronista, Examiner and PhoneArena
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple to begin production of white iPhone 4 this month, ship by April, says analyst — Apple is expected to begin production of its long-awaited iPhone 4 sometime this month, with shipments no later than early April, according to one analyst's checks. — Manufacturers will initiate production …
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Between the Lines Blog, MacRumors, App Advice, GottaBeMobile, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, PC World, PhoneArena, Apple Bitch, TechnoBuffalo, PhoneDog.com, MacStories, Geek.com and Erictric
AppleInsider:
Xcode 4 available to all on Apple's Mac App Store for $4.99 — Apple on Wednesday released Xcode 4 for free to its registered developers, while everyone else can purchase the development environment for Mac OS X and iOS from the Mac App Store for $4.99. — “Xcode 4 has been streamlined to help you write better apps,” Apple said.
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PC World, MacStories, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac and TUAW
Kashmir Hill / The Not-So-Private Parts:
Google Privacy Lawyer's Fascinating (and Unofficial) Thoughts on the “Right to be Forgotten” — Here, in the U.S., many of us have accepted that “the Web means the end of forgetting.” But Europeans are resisting this digital development, and talking of passing a privacy directive …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Gmail Unveils Another Weapon Against Email Overload: Smart Labels — Back in August, Gmail launched a new feature that's proven to be one of its most effective tools in the fight against email overload: the Priority Inbox. The feature attempts to automatically sort your incoming email based on importance …
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Gmail Blog, Hunch Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Examiner, Computerworld, GigaOM, CNET News, NetworkEffect, VentureBeat and Bits
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
StumbleUpon's Second Wind Continues as It Raises $17M — StumbleUpon, the content discovery service, has raised $17 million in new funding, according to sources close to the company. — The round is from Accel Partners, August Capital, DAG Ventures, First Round Capital and Sherpalo Ventures.
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, paidContent and StumbleUpon.com
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
VeriFone calls out Square for ‘gaping security hole,’ publishes sample app to demonstrate — VeriFone, a huge provider of credit card processing systems that's been around since time immemorial, has taken a huge swipe at upstart Square today, branding its free, headphone jack-based credit card readers …
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MobileCrunch, Fast Company, PC World, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, SAI, Daring Fireball, WebProNews, As risky as it gets, eMoney, GigaOM, Know Your Cell, SlashGear and Mashable!
Lauren Dugan / AllTwitter:
Charlie Sheen Intern Tweet Generated 95,333 Clicks in First Hour [Infographic] — Ad.ly and Internships.com have released some pretty interesting stats about the Internship.com ad that Charlie Sheen tweeted on Monday. Not only did nearly 100,000 people click on the link in the first hour …
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GigaOM, DealBook and Brian Solis
Joel Spolsky / Stack Overflow:
A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending) — It's been a while since we've done something arbitrary, complicated, and confusing, so today I'm happy to announce that the name of the company has been changed, effective immediately, to Stack Exchange Inc!
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Mashable!, GigaOM and bijan sabet
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft promises final IE 9 to be downloadable on March 14 — I guess I can finally stop concluding my Internet Explorer (IE) 9 posts with the words “Microsoft officials continue to decline to provide a ship-date target for IE 9.” — On March 9, via a blog post, the IE team told users …
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The Windows Blog, PC World, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Channel 9, BlogsDNA, Geek.com, Computerworld, @ie, CNET News, BetaNews, Download Squad, Neowin.net and The Next Web
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Fusion-io, Star of Enterprise Storage, Files for an IPO, Cites Facebook Relationship — Remember when I said to keep a close eye on Fusion-io, the enterprise startup that uses flash memory to speed up data storage? I hope you were paying attention. Today it filed for an IPO.
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Between the Lines Blog, All Facebook, Computerworld, The Register, SAI, Reuters, GigaOM, VentureBeat, TheStreet and Dow Jones Newswires
Robert S. Boynton / The Atlantic Online:
North Korea's Digital Underground — To smuggle facts into or out of North Korea is to risk imprisonment and even execution. Yet today, aided by a half-dozen stealthy media organizations outside the country, citizen-journalists are using technologies new and old to break the regime's iron grip on information.
Mark LaPedus / EE Times:
Apple, TSMC to expand foundry ties — Apple, TSMC to expand foundry ties — SAN JOSE, Calif. - Rumors are running rampant that Apple Inc. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) are expanding their foundry ties-a possible blow for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
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SlashGear, Geek.com, Between the Lines Blog, IntoMobile, AppleInsider and Fonehome
Vikram Sahai / Official google.org Blog:
Click-to-call emergency information — In November 2010, we began displaying relevant emergency phone numbers at the top of the results page for searches around poison control, suicide and other common emergencies in 14 countries. Today, we are making it even easier for you to quickly reach …
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Creators of Steve Jobs Doll Move On to Zuckerberg — You might recall a Steve Jobs action figure that appeared online late last year. It was a good representation of Mr. Jobs, complete with his signature blue jeans, black mock-turtleneck sweater and New Balance sneakers. But the Mr. Jobs doll didn't last long.
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Friending Facebook Blog and SlashGear
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
E-mail anger meter gets sensitivity training — Lymbix is releasing a more accurate version of its e-mail sentiment analysis app, ToneCheck, today. If you're an Outlook user and haven't checked out this service, give it a whirl. It's one of the more interesting Outlook plug-ins.
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Digits, Engadget, PC World, VentureBeat and Mashable!
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Facebook “Deprecates” FBML Tomorrow (Aw, Poor FBML!) — Facebook on Thursday will start moving pages and applications on its platform toward using open Web elements rather than its proprietary FBML (Facebook Markup Language). As a side effect, the change will push pages and apps creators …
Jared Keller / The Atlantic Wire:
Megan McCarthy: What I Read — How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? Do they have some secret? Perhaps. We are asking various people who seem well-informed to describe their media diets.This is from an email exchange with Megan McCarthy …
