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Slater Tow / Facebook Blog:
Timeline: Now Available Worldwide — We recently announced our plans to introduce Facebook Timeline, an entirely new kind of profile. — Timeline gives you an easy way to rediscover the things you shared, and collect your most important moments. It also lets you share new experiences …
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Mick Johnson / Facebook Blog:
Timeline Now Available on Mobile — Timeline gives you an easy way to see the things you've shared, and collect all your best moments in a single place. In addition to making timeline available on the web , today we're also launching timeline on Android and m.facebook.com.
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Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog:
Facebook Timeline goes live: Gives users seven-day grace
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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
House Judiciary Committee Has More Work to do With SOPA Markup — After a 12-hour Thursday hearing, Smith says it will be a “long hard day” on Friday — After a 12-hour hearing that saw a parliamentary inquiry prompted by a tweet and some heated exchanges, the House Judiciary Committee still …
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Computerworld, Bloomberg, Washington Post, The Politico, Threat Level, Wilshire & Washington and Hillicon Valley
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
SOPA votes derailed by politician's ‘offensive’ tweet — A marathon debate today in the House of Representatives on the Stop Online Piracy Act wasn't derailed by procedural questions, even though not one hearing had been held on how the law would actually work.
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Guardian, paidContent, Ars Technica and Electronic Frontier Foundation, more at Mediagazer »
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
The nightmarish SOPA hearings
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Felix Salmon, @digiphile, Kotaku, Plagiarism Today and Techdirt, more at Mediagazer »
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Source Reveals Facebook Is Swimming In Cash — A well-placed mole has forwarded us the Silicon Valley equivalent of hard-core pornography: an explicit look at Facebook's finances. They're even more staggering than we expected. A gusher of profits has left the social network with a cash hoard …
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Guardian, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Friending Facebook Blog, Pulse2, PC Magazine, VatorNews, Adotas and Business Insider
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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Facebook's Revenue Numbers Just Leaked, And The Numbers Look Underwhelming
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Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:
Horses**t — Last night I tweeted at John Gruber and MG Siegler: “What a load of horses**t. All due respect, but horses**t.” The tweet was in reference to a post on Daring Fireball citing MG's “review” of the Galaxy Nexus. Now, I won't take issue with his review overall.
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“Horses**t” — Wow. Josh Topolsky is mad. And that by itself is fine — he's clearly passionate about technology, which is great. What's not fine is the fact that he's way off-base in his rant. So far off-base that I need to respond. — First and foremost, Topolsky has decided …
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Christian Science Monitor:
Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer — In an exclusive interview, an engineer working to unlock the secrets of the captured RQ-170 Sentinel says they exploited a known vulnerability and tricked the US drone into landing in Iran. — ISTANBUL, TURKEY
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VentureBeat, Pulse2, The Register and Electronista
Nielsen Wire:
New Mobile Obsession: U.S. Teens Triple Data Usage — Teens have officially joined the mobile Data Tsunami, more than tripling mobile data consumption in the past year while maintaining their stronghold as the leading message senders. Using recent data from monthly cell phone bills …
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ReadWriteWeb, PhoneArena, The Tech Trade, Fortune, Bits, Pulse2, Mashable!, VentureBeat, WebProNews, blog.chron.com, Between the Lines Blog and The Next Web
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
CashVille: Zynga finally goes public in a triumph for social games — After months of delay, social game maker Zynga is finally going public in an initial public offering. The company priced its stock moments ago at $10 a share, the upper end of the price range.
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Business Insider, Inside Social Games, Social Markets and Pulse2
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Nick Turner / Bloomberg:
Zynga Elaborates on Its IPO Risks After Google's Eric Schmidt Praises CEO
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@emilychangtv, Bloomberg, Social Markets, Gamasutra and MediaFile
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
RIMM Slips 7%: Q4 BB Shipments Falling to 11M to 12M — Research in Motion (RIMM) this afternoon reported fiscal Q3 revenue per share in line with a pre-announcement earlier this month, and earnings per share in line with its reduced range, but forecast Q4′s results below expectations.
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Zachary Lutz / Engadget:
RIM: BlackBerry 10 smartphones won't arrive until end of 2012
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Business Insider, MobileWhack.com, TechCrunch, CNET News, Electronista, The Verge and GottaBeMobile
Ryan Gavin / The Windows Blog:
IE to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 — Everyone benefits from an up-to-date browser. — Today we are sharing our plan to automatically upgrade Windows customers to the latest version of Internet Explorer available for their PC.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Chrome 15 puts IE8 in rear-view mirror, takes No. 1 spot — First time in years that a non-Microsoft browser has been top dog — Google's Chrome 15 has jumped into the number one spot, replacing Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) as the world's most popular browser edition.
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Digital Trends, PC Magazine, L.A. Times Tech Blog, StatCounter Global Stats, The Verge and Mashable!
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
‘iPhone flaw’ that could cost you thousands? Not so fast, it's an Apple wording mistake — There is a bug that is being shopped around as a huge issue with Automatic Downloads over cellular data in iOS 5. The bug was discovered by Pocketlint and has been reported by sites like 9to5mac.
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9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, GottaBeMobile and @grg, Thanks:alexbrooks
Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:
Zeitgeist 2011: How the world searched — This year marks our 11th annual look back at the searches that compose the year's Zeitgeist—the spirit of the time. With Zeitgeist, we look at the most popular and the fastest rising terms—the terms with the highest growth in 2011—in many categories across many countries around the world.
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eWeek, SlashGear, John Battelle's Search Blog, Googling Google Blog, Pulse2, Android Phone Fans, MacRumors, Computerworld, TUAW, T3 News, Gawker, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, Between the Lines Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TechSpot, Macgasm, TechCrunch, CNN, NBC Bay Area, msnbc.com, Techie Buzz, WebProNews, ReadWriteWeb and PC Magazine
Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Windows 8 activity sinking among early adopters, claims study — Windows 8 activity among developers and other early adopters has fallen over the past three months, says a new study from ad network Chitika. — Looking at ad impressions for the Windows 8 Developer Preview on its own network earlier …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Salesforce Buys Social Performance Platform Rypple; Will Launch ‘Human Capital Management’ Unit Successforce — Salesforce.com has just announced the acquisition of social performance platform Rypple. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close early next year, were not disclosed.
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Salesforce.com, Business Insider, Pulse2, Between the Lines Blog and GigaOM
Richard Nieva / Fortune:
Isaacson: Jobs biography could expand — The author discussed possible plans for expanding the 630-page book in the future with Fortune senior editor at large Adam Lashinsky. — By Richard Nieva, contributor — FORTUNE — Liked Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs? There may be more to come.
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Pulse2, L.A. Times Tech Blog and NBC Bay Area
Joanna Stern / The Verge:
Dell quits netbooks, says 'thin and powerful is where it's at' — While very few are still buying netbooks, many manufacturers have continued to release the small Intel Atom-powered computers (see Asus, Toshiba, etc.). However, Dell isn't going to be one of those companies.
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Liliputing, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Hardware 2.0 Blog and netbooknews.com
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iTunes Match Goes Live Internationally (For Real This Time) — Following last night's premature access to iTunes Match some users in international markets were able to achieve through their iTunes Store account pages, the service now appears to officially be going live in several countries.
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Macgasm, everythingiCafe and iDownloadBlog.com
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Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
ITunes Match international rollout premature; refunds being issued
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MacStories, 9to5Mac, TUAW and The Verge
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Verizon Galaxy Nexus hands-on — We finally got our hands on Verizon's Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and... well, it's almost identical to the HSPA+ version we reviewed last month. It's thicker, though we actually like holding and using the Verizon unit better because the slightly thicker case makes one-hand a bit more comfortable.
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9to5Google, bijan sabet, GottaBeMobile, Google Mobile Blog and GigaOM
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Alex Heath / Cult of Mac:
Apple Makes Siri iPhone 4 Port Legally Possible With Today's iOS 5.0.1 Update — Siri is by far the iPhone 4S's most-desired feature, and many non-4S users have been clamoring for hackers to make the voice assistant available on older iOS devices. While Siri ports have been demoed to the public before …
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Zennstrom Said to Plan Skype-Like Wireless With FreedomPop — Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) — Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype Technologies SA, is backing a startup called FreedomPop that plans to offer free basic wireless service for laptops and smartphones, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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