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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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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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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
The nightmarish SOPA hearings
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Felix Salmon, Kotaku, Techdirt and Plagiarism Today, more at Mediagazer »
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress
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Poornima Gupta / Reuters:
Exclusive: Made in Texas: Apple's A5 iPhone chip — SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc is famous for relying on low-cost Asian manufacturers to both source and assemble its popular gadgets, but the consumer device giant recently started receiving a critical component in its iPad and iPhones from closer to home - Texas.
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Guardian, The Verge, AppleInsider, Fudzilla, ITProPortal, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada Blog, Softpedia News, Electronista, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and iClarified
Tom Krazit / paidContent:
Why RIM Needed To Fire Its Co-CEOs Months, If Not Years Ago — The two Waterloo Wallys running Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) have presided over the incredible destruction of shareholder wealth in 2011 by misleading the public again and again about its ability to compete in mobile.
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Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
The PlayBook Is Killing RIM — RIM finally eked out a decent quarter. Beat analyst estimates, even. That is, if you don't count the $485 million bath the company took on unsold tablets. The PlayBook—ill conceived, poorly executed—is RIM's worst product. And it might just take down the whole company.
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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
RIMM Slips 7%: Q4 BB Shipments Falling to 11M to 12M
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Zachary Lutz / Engadget:
RIM: BlackBerry 10 smartphones won't arrive until end of 2012
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Business Insider, TechCrunch, MobileWhack.com, GottaBeMobile, CNET News, Electronista and The Verge
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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Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
INSIDE ZYNGA: Meet The Man Charged With Making The Biggest Tech IPO Since Google Just A Footnote
Nick Turner / Bloomberg:
Zynga Elaborates on Its IPO Risks After Google's Eric Schmidt Praises CEO
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@emilychangtv, Social Markets, Gamasutra, VentureBeat and MediaFile
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 …
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Chris Burns / SlashGear:
iPhone 4S gets new iOS 5.0.1 build, file system now accessible by PC — For those of you on the developer tip, you're more than likely already working on the update that goes by the number 5.1, but for us lowly peasants, there a new build of 5.0.1 out there today for the iPhone 4S that goes by the name 9A406.
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MacRumors, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie and iPhone in Canada Blog
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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parislemon:
“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 …
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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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
UMG claims “right to block or remove” YouTube videos it doesn't own — Universal Music Group has responded to Megaupload's request for a temporary restraining order barring the music giant from further interference with the distribution of its “Mega Song.” UMG insists that it had a right …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
In SOPA's shadow, Megaupload strikes back against Universal
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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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Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Gadget Lab, Fudzilla, Softpedia News, CNET News, Liliputing, Guardian, Hardware 2.0 Blog, VentureBeat, netbooknews.com, TechCrunch and Electronista
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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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 …
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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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Facebook's Revenue Numbers Just Leaked, And The Numbers Look Underwhelming
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Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
Verizon stores sell out of Galaxy Nexus within hours, but Amazon has it for $149 — We just returned from our local Verizon Wireless store where the Galaxy Nexus sold out within the first hour. The store we visited only received 30 units, but we overheard that more were arriving daily.
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9to5Google, PhoneArena and Electronista
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Verizon Galaxy Nexus hands-on
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9to5Google, GottaBeMobile, Droid Life and GigaOM
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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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Your Life on Facebook, in Total Recall
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TechCrunch, Consumer Reports News, Betabeat, Gadgetwise, Marketing Pilgrim, DailyTech and Pulse2
Jake Smith / 9to5Mac:
Digitimes: Apple to begin producing 7.85-inch iPads in Q2 2012 — Digitimes has published an interesting report this evening, saying Apple will begin the production of a 7.85-inch iPad in Q2 2012. Apple will reportedly begin selling the smaller iPads prior to Q4 2012 …
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DigiTimes, Digital Trends, Newlaunches.com, IntoMobile, Silicon Republic, PhoneArena, Phones Review, AppleInsider, Electronista, Edible Apple, iClarified, SlashGear, MacRumors and GottaBeMobile
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, GigaOM, Between the Lines Blog and Pulse2
