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ChangeWave Research:
ChangeWave Survey Results: AT&T iPhone 4 Owners vs. Verizon iPhone 4 Owners — A new ChangeWave survey of 4,068 consumers has taken a close up look at key comparisons between Verizon iPhone 4 owners and AT&T iPhone 4 owners - including customer satisfaction and dropped call rates.
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PC World, Mobilized, glgroup.com, Technologizer, VentureBeat, BetaNews, Between the Lines Blog, PC Magazine, Edible Apple, BGR, Neowin.net, Consumer Reports News, TiPb, Gadget Lab, Geekosystem, App Advice, Mashable!, mocoNews, AppleInsider, Macworld, Digital Trends, Gear Live, I4U News, Techland, TUAW, PhoneDog.com, IntoMobile, iClarified, Phones Review, Ars Technica, Electronista, Softpedia News, DisplayBlog and The Huffington Post
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Google Restructuring: Engineers, Not Managers, In Charge — Jonathan Rosenberg said his resignation from Google yesterday was precipitated by Larry Page's return as CEO, but unrelated to Page's effort to restore the urgency of innovation and nimbleness that was once the company's hallmark.
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Tech and China, Bloomberg, CIOInsight, SAI, eWeek, Adotas, Marketing Pilgrim and SAI
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Google's new cloud-based Android Music app leaks out — Wondering what Google's answer to Amazon's cloud music player for Android will look like? Then it would seem you now have your answer —the Tech From 10 website somehow managed to receive a developer version of the Android Market …
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SAI and FierceMobileContent
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Sarah Shearman / Marketing Magazine:
Twitter to offer brands Facebook-style pages — Twitter is considering creating Facebook-style branded pages as part of its drive to increase its revenue from advertising. — Twitter: considering Facebook-style branded pages — Branded pages, through which advertisers could deliver tailored messages …
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PC Magazine, Fast Company, NBC Bay Area, The Next Web, Digital Trends, SAI, Techie Buzz, Mashable!, AllTwitter and The Blog Herald
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter to Offer Brand Pages Like Facebook's, Report Says
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GigaOM, Jon Burg's Future Visions, Gizmodo and Techie Buzz
The Silverlight Blog:
Standards-based web, plug-ins, and Silverlight — As we drive toward MIX, we wanted to share our thoughts on the role of plug-ins in general, and Silverlight in particular, in the context of HTML5 and the future of the web. As we have been more vocal about our commitment to and investment …
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The Register, TechSpot, Microsoft News, The Next Web, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, InfoQ and Softpedia News
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Sebastian Moss / PlayStation LifeStyle:
Anonymous Gets Serious, Attacks Sony Employees [Updated] — Infamous hacking group, Anonymous, began a series of attacks against Sony earlier today, bringing down several Sony sites and the PlayStation Network. However, a radical offshoot of the main group believe that the attacks aren't enough …
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msnbc.com, VentureBeat, Kotaku Australia, PC World, PC Magazine and Techland
Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:
Motorola Mobility: Xoom, Atrix Both Duds, Pacific Crest Says — Xoom: No boom, just gloom. — Motorola Mobility (MMI) isn't seeing much love for its current cornerstone smart phone and tablet products, Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette asserts in a research note this morning.
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BGR, Unwired View and Android Phone Fans
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Why Nasdaq is giving Apple less weight, and Microsoft more — Nasdaq this morning sent a wave through the stock market with the announcement that that it will “rebalance” its closely followed and largely tech-oriented Nasdaq 100 Index to reduce the influence of Apple and boost the impact of Microsoft …
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Brix, a New Google Docs App — Google Docs code includes references to a new application code-named Brix. The files created using this application are called “Brix documents”, so Brix can't be a photo editor or a video editor. — Here's an icon that could be used for Brix documents: it shows some Lego bricks.
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ReadWriteWeb
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Twitter unveils a new homepage, with a focus on interests — Reports around Twitter are telling us that some people are starting to see a new homepage on Twitter.com. In fact, we've now seen a screenshot of it ourselves, so here you go. — Before: — After:
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Search Engine Land and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:bradmccarty
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Decline, plateau, decline: New data on The Daily suggests a social media decline and a tough road ahead — While the news industry looks at smartphone and tablet apps as a chance to build more engaged readers — and maybe even get people to pay! — for those of us who watch the business, apps are frustratingly opaque.
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Epicenter, MacStories, IntoMobile, I4U News and Betabeat, more at Mediagazer »
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
The Vote Is in and Twitter Gets its Tax Breaks. Now, What about Everyone Else? — We just got word that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted 8-to-3 to approve the Mid-Market incentive plan that would give Twitter- and other companies- a six year payroll tax deferral for net …
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bizjournals, Associated Press, @rdornhelm and @davidchiu
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Obama and Zuckerberg to Field Questions From Users at Facebook Live Town Hall — President Barack Obama, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will answer questions from users as part of a Facebook Live townhall to be held at the Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto.
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Engadget, Bits, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Digits, SFGate, Neowin.net, Hillicon Valley, SAI and Geekosystem
Kunur Patel / AdAge:
New iAd Targeting Tactic Helps Marketers Hunt for Clues About Consumers — 200 Million iTunes Accounts and Years of History Help Apple Reach People by Digital-Media Habits — Hawking minivans? Try targeting ads to Duran Duran or The Cure fans, likely to be young parents in their 30s or early 40s.
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Apple Launches Free App To Browse iAds
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SAI, MediaMemo, GigaOM, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, App Advice, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, GeekSmack, TiPb, TUAW and everythingiCafe
Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Toyota Pulls Out From Cydia - Struck By Apple's Lightning — We hear from time to time about apps that avoided Apple's approval process by going to Cydia. Those apps can then be sold to jailbroken users. If you're a big company like Toyota, it might not be that simple to do, not to mention naive to even try.
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Daring Fireball, GigaOM, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors and IntoMobile
Stephen Lawson / Computerworld:
Wozniak: Tablet is the PC for ‘normal people’ — IDG News Service - Tablets are the culmination of what Steve Jobs wanted to create at Apple from the beginning, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said Monday. — During a keynote session at Storage Networking World in Santa Clara, California …
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CNET News, TechSpot, Gearlog, 9 to 5 Mac and App Advice
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Zynga buys MarketZero team: 11th acquisition in 11 months — Zynga announced today its 11th acquisition in 11 months, acquiring the team working for MarketZero, the creator of PokerTableRatings, the largest online portal tracking career stats of online poker players.
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Inside Social Games, VatorNews, TechCrunch and eMoney
Agence France Presse:
Google, Facebook take France to court over privacy — PARIS — Internet heavyweights including Google and Facebook are to file a complaint with France's highest judicial body against a decree obliging them to keep web users' personal data for a year. — More than 20 Internet companies active …
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Fast Company, Search Engine Watch, The Next Web, Hillicon Valley, All Facebook, The Next Web, Mashable! and SlashGear
Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Dell Aims To Boost Innovation With Silicon Valley R&D Center — Dell plans to employ as many as 1500 people at a new Dell Silicon Valley Research and Development Center and consolidate its N. California operations. — The company also wants to use the facility to tap into local talent …
Shira Ovide / Deal Journal:
Read Cisco CEO's Mea Culpa: ‘No Excuses’ … Cisco CEO John Chambers is floating an “our bad” admission about Cisco's recent stumbles, which have weighed on the company's stock price. (Read Cari Tuna's news story HERE.) — Cisco's mea culpa doesn't have the writerly panache …
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SAI, Reuters, Cisco Blog, Wall Street Journal, Between the Lines Blog, Network World, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters and @carnage4life
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Accidentally Shows Users Someone Else's Timeline, Disables #NewTwitter To Fix — Twitter has been acting mightly strange for the past hour or so, with people reporting seeing random chunks of other users tweets in their timelines, including retweets while using the Twitter web client and browsing.
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Mashable, Pocket-lint, @mat and @support
Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
In Race With Groupon, LivingSocial Raises $400 Million — Last summer, Tim O'Shaughnessy drafted a fictional article, entitled “How LivingSocial Won the Local Commerce Space.” — In 1,500 words, the chief executive of LivingSocial spun a tale about how his site had fiercely battled its rival Groupon and emerged the victor.
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Wall Street Journal, Digital Trends, Guardian, VatorNews, ClickZ, Inc.com and WebProNews, Thanks:bensign
Alyson Shontell / SAI:
Amazon Is The Most Reputable Company In The U.S. — Forbes, with the help of consulting firm Reputation Institute, just released its list of least and most reputable companies. — Amazon ousted last year's winner, Johnson & Johnson, from the top position.
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PC World, WebProNews and TechSpot
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Likely Fake iPod 5th gen photos floating around, capacitive home button — We were happy to skip over these images that landed in our mailbox last night but they are starting to pop up all over the web so we're posting for discussion. Notice the capacitative button and the remarkable 128GB of space available in these images.
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CrunchGear, Digital Trends, Engadget, VentureBeat, MacRumors, GottaBeMobile, everythingiCafe, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, MacDailyNews, Electronista, App Advice, BGR, Softpedia News, IntoMobile and CNET News
