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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
T-Mobile to get seven-year 3G roaming deal, 128 markets of AWS spectrum from AT&T — Deutsche Telekom now is detailing the consolation prize it's getting from AT&T in the aftermath of its failed acquisition of T-Mobile — and in looking through the details, calling it a “consolation prize” really doesn't do it justice.
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Phone Scoop, Engadget, Smartphones …, AT&T, Android Life, MobileBurn.com, Deutsche Telekom, SlashGear and PhoneArena
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Maria Sheahan / Reuters:
Deutsche Telekom could be forced into arms of Sprint
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Bloomberg, Hillicon Valley, Techland and TmoNews
Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:
Apple Claims Samsung Tablet, Phone Cases Infringe Patents — Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc., which on Dec. 9 lost a bid to keep Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy 10.1 tablet out of Australia, claims the case for the device and cases for Samsung phones infringe its patents and registered design.
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MacRumors, Engadget, GigaOM, 9to5Mac, BGR, Redmond Pie, Electronista, The Verge and RazorianFly
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Jon Russell / The Next Web:
First the court, now Samsung beating Apple in Australia's mobile market
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Electronista, IDC, AppleInsider, Techie Buzz and SlashGear
Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:
The End of the Web? Don't Bet on It. Here's Why — Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. The money slide is the graphic below. — The chart shows three scarce resources and their improvements over time.
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
iPhones, iPod Touches still on iOS 3.1.3 can't download new apps directly from the App Store — While fragmentation is a rare(r) problem on iOS there's still quite a few users rocking older versions on their devices. Unfortunately for them, ever since a recent update on the 16th …
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, TUAW, discussions.apple.com, The Verge, SlashGear, Business Insider, GottaBeMobile, PhoneArena, Redmond Pie and App Advice
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Kindle Fire On Track For Hundreds Of Millions Of Monthly Ad Impressions; Growing Faster Than The iPad In Early 2010 — Mobile ad network Millennial Media is releasing its monthly data for November. While Millennial, which is the largest independent mobile ad network, has focused on tracking iOS …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Rolls Out ‘Complete My Season Pass’ for TV Shows — While Apple has long offered a “Complete My Album” feature in the iTunes Store to allow users who have previously purchased individual tracks to upgrade to the full album at a discounted price reflecting their single-track purchases …
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Ars Technica, GigaOM, RazorianFly, 9to5Mac, Insanely Great Mac and MacNN
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
YouTube in 2011: Over 1,000,000,000,000 Playbacks, 140 Views for Every Person on Earth — We'll leave it up to the cultural anthropologists of the future to unravel the significance of the fact that Rebecca Black's “Friday” was the most watched video on YouTube in 2011.
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YouTube Blog, ReadWriteWeb, AllThingsD, Washington Post, Business Insider, Softpedia News, WebProNews, memeburn, msnbc.com, Pocket-lint and The Next Web
Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
First Round Capital rings in the holidays with “Friday” spoof — First Round Capital is famous in these parts for its irreverent, awkward and often hilarious holiday e-greetings. — This year, the team and its family of startups pitched in to create an elaborate send-up of Rebecca Black's soulless mistake of a song, “Friday.”
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AllThingsD, TechCrunch and Fortune
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple reportedly puts the final ink on $400-500 million purchase of Anobit, an Israeli flash-storage company — Last week's big Apple rumor was Apple's purported talks to purchase an Israeli flash memory firm called Anobit. Now, Israeli news website Calcalist reports that the rumored deal has actually been finalized.
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eWeek, Guardian, PC Magazine, Reuters, MacRumors, TechCrunch, BGR, Gizmodo, Fortune, GigaOM, Macgasm, TUAW, AllThingsD, Softpedia News, The inneractive Blog, SlashGear, Electronista, The Next Web, PhoneArena, App Advice and everythingiCafe, Thanks:neilisgreat
Horace Dediu / asymco:
The parable of RIM — Here are the highlights from RIM's latest quarter: — 14.1 million BlackBerry smartphones shipped, 13 million sold through — 150k PlayBook shipped with sell-through slightly higher. 800k PlayBooks shipped so far. — BlackBerry subscriber base up to 75 million
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google Puts $94M In Solar Projects; Clean Energy Investments Nearing $1B In Total — Google is ending 2011 with an investment that brings its total of renewable energy investments to an impressive $915 million. The online search and advertising juggernaut this morning announced …
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The Official Google Blog, @alexia, CNET News, 9to5Google, Reuters, PC World, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Silicon Republic, SlashGear, Forbes, PC Magazine and VentureBeat
Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:
Facebook is suing Mark Zuckerberg — Summary: Israeli entrepreneur Rotem Guez has legally changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg. It's his latest response to a legal battle he's fighting with the social networking giant over his Like Store. — Facebook is suing Mark Zuckerberg.
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Mashable!, Gizmodo, Geekosystem, Slashdot, ABCNEWS, Neowin.net and The Wrap
Deadline.com:
‘Wolverine’ Pirate To Serve Year In Prison — LOS ANGELES - A New York man who admitted illegally uploading to the Internet a pirated, nearly final “workprint” copy of the movie “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” was sentenced this afternoon to one year in federal prison.
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Betabeat and VentureBeat
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Wins Patent for iPhone GUI Supporting Application Switching during a Call and More — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of eight newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. This morning's report mainly focuses in on two of these patents.
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Inquirer, GigaOM, MacDailyNews, CBS News and iClarified
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:
Google X's wearable technology isn't an iPod Nano, but rather a heads up display (glasses) — Google Goggles gets a new meaning — The New York Times today relayed an open secret among some in the Google community: the company is working on wearable technology in its secret off-campus Google X lair.
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LAPTOP Magazine, CNET News, MacRumors, Edible Apple, ReadWriteWeb, Phones Review, Softpedia News, Gizmodo UK, Gizmodo, Shiny Objects, Digital Trends, TeleRead, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, App Advice, T3 News and @nickbilton
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
After Years Of Patent Litigation, Nuance Acquires Vlingo — In what Vlingo CEO Dave Grannan calls a ‘good outcome’ on Twitter, the voice-to-text technology company has just been acquired by speech recognition king Nuance. — Notably, Nuance has repeatedly sued Vlingo over patent infringement …
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AllThingsD, GigaOM, VentureBeat, BGR, 9to5Mac, Business Wire, The Tech Trade, Electronista, IntoMobile and BostInno
Laurie Segall / CNNMoney.com:
What's really behind Twitter's staff exodus — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Twitter's transformation from startup to power player has hit its rocky adolescent stage. In the past six months, more than a dozen high-level employees have departed. The sudden exodus set Silicon Valley chattering: What's going on at Twitter?
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Venture Capital Dispatch and Washington Post
Amazon.com:
The Hottest Holiday Gift Just got Hotter: Free Two-Day Shipping on All Kindles - Including Kindle Fire - in Time for Christmas — It's not too late to order Amazon's most popular gifts in time for Christmas - customers who order by 8 pm PT on December 21 will receive free two-day shipping on the $79 Kindle …
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Tech Trader Daily, VatorNews, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, GeekWire, GigaOM, Pulse2 and The Next Web
Shayndi Raice / Digits:
Groupon Launches Anti-Amazon Promotion of Sorts — Daily-deals site Groupon is firing back at Amazon by encouraging shoppers to buy local, not online. — Amazon, the world's biggest online retailer, on Dec. 10 offered customers discounts if they used its price-comparing smartphone app in a physical retail store.
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Groublogpon and WebProNews
Zach Epstein / BGR:
HTC responds to ITC ruling, says it has a solution ready to address Apple patent violations — HTC on Monday responded to a ruling from the United States International Trade Commission that will ban the import of several HTC devices beginning April 19th, 2012.
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Ars Technica, Financial Times, Edible Apple, The Register, Reuters, Inquirer, Pocket-lint, IntoMobile, SlashGear, WebProNews, Computerworld, VentureBeat, paidContent, Betabeat, Guardian, Gizmodo UK, The Tech Trade, Engadget and WMPoweruser, Thanks:zacharye
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple wins ITC ruling of narrow technical scope against HTC: a limited victory but just the beginning
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eWeek, Reuters, Bits, Open Source Blog, SlashGear, Appolicious Advisor, PC Magazine, The Next Web, The Verge, Techie Buzz, Computerworld, TechEye, Phones Review, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Forbes, Dice Blog Network, xda-developers, CNET News, Android and Me, Mashable!, Fortune, AllThingsD, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, InfoWorld, Forbes, iClarified, Android Phone Fans, LAPTOP Magazine, 9to5Mac, GottaBeMobile and MobileBurn.com
Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time:
Hyperbolic Headlines: Five Ways the Zynga IPO Changes Everything!!! — The Zynga IPO changes everything!!!! Well, not really but the last few days have been a torrent of conjecture about the future of social games, tech IPOs and Mark Pincus' management style.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Cable News Finally Realizing That SOPA And PROTECT IP Are Bad News — Well, well, well. We've noted in the past that while the serious concerns about SOPA and PROTECT IP (PIPA) have been all over the web and newspapers, they've mostly been mostly been absent from cable news …
Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
U.S. Considers Combating Somali Militants' Twitter Use — NAIROBI, Kenya — The United States government is increasingly concerned about the Twitter account of the Shabab militant group of Somalia, with American officials saying Monday that they were “looking closely” at the militants' use …
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Janice Wood / Psych Central News:
Meta-Twitter Analysis Shows Happiness Trending Down — Using Twitter, a team of scientists from the University of Vermont has created a happiness graph, which shows happiness has fallen over the last few years. — “After a gradual upward trend that ran from January to April 2009 …
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Burlington Free Press, US News and VTDigger
Sinha / Pluggd.in:
Dave McClure: “We will Invest in atleast 5-10 Indian Startups in 2012” — As part of GOAP (Geeks on a Plane) trip to India, we had a conversation with Dave McClure on his India trip and importantly 500Startups' India plans. In this short discussion, Dave talks about his India experience …
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Business Insider and The Next Web
