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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
BlackBerry 10 is a failure that won't be able to compete, company source says — Bad products, horrible software and no cohesive vision have seemingly turned Research In Motion into a company without motion at this point. Throw in a huge delay before BlackBerry 10 smartphones start shipping …
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
RIM: Rumors About BlackBerry 10 Problems “Simply False” — Research In Motion has a simple rebuttal to rumors claiming it hasn't been truthful about the reasons behind the delay of its forthcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system: They're bogus. — Responding to a Boy Genius Report post claiming …
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BGR, MobileBurn.com, Gizmodo, Electronista and Tech Trader Daily
Roger Cheng / CNET News:
RIM CEOs lied about BlackBerry 10 delay, report says — The BlackBerry PlayBook will be the only device running on RIM's next-generation platform until late next year. — RIM just can't get its act together. — The company's best hope for a recovery, its next-generation BlackBerry 10 platform …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Google Will Pay Mozilla Almost $300M Per Year in Search Deal, Besting Microsoft and Yahoo — Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — Earlier this week, Google and Mozilla said they had struck a deal to renew their search royalty agreement for another three years.
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Matt McGee / Marketing Land:
Google Triples Its Spending To Keep Default Search Spot In Firefox
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John Paul Titlow / ReadWriteWeb:
GoDaddy's SOPA Support Sparks Calls for Boycotts and Domain Transfers — The list of companies that support the controversial piece of U.S. legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is fairly predictable. It includes huge media conglomerates, music industry groups, pharmaceutical companies and the like.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
How SOPA's ‘circumvention’ ban could put a target on Tor
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The Verge, Boing Boing, Geek.com, TechSpot, Mashable!, Dennis Fisher, Gizmodo, The Firewall and The Atlantic Wire
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
New iPhone? No thanks, say cash-conscious Europeans — (Reuters) - Weakening economies and falling prices of rival smartphones are hurting sales of Apple iPhones across Europe, data from research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech showed on Thursday. — The October roll-out of Apple's iPhone 4S boosted …
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Apple's sinking share in France and Germany may be fueling patent wars
Thanks:greggdourgarian
Experian Hitwise:
Facebook was the top search term for third straight year — Social network search term tops list for sixth straight year; Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian most popular public figure and top personality search New York, N.Y., Dec. 21, 2011 - Experian Hitwise, a part of Experian Marketing Services …
Matthias Inverardi / Reuters:
Apple nears German court rebuff in row with Samsung — (Reuters) - A German court rejected Apple's claims that Samsung Electronics' reworked tablet PC still looks like a copycat version of the iPad, in a preliminary assessment. — Apple is fighting several rival makers of smartphones …
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Reuters:
German patent firm sues retailers to halt HTC sales
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BGR, PhoneArena, Bloomberg and Electronista
John Markoff / New York Times:
Jacob Goldman, Founder of Xerox Lab, Dies at 90 — Jacob E. Goldman, a physicist who as Xerox's chief scientist founded the company's vaunted Palo Alto Research Center, which invented the modern personal computer, died on Tuesday in Westport, Conn. He was 90. — The cause was congestive heart failure, his son Melvin said.
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Jason Green / Mercury News:
Construction to begin soon on ‘prototype’ Apple store in downtown Palo Alto — Work is set to begin “any day now” on a prototype Apple store in the heart of downtown Palo Alto, according to city planning officials. The city issued a building permit on Dec. 12 for the modern …
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CNET News, NBC Bay Area, The Next Web, iClarified and 9to5Mac
Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
Mossberg's Look at 2011's Biggest Tech Products — While other industries struggled, consumer technology seemed to march ahead as always in 2011, with important new products and services continuing to roll out. Sure, some tech companies, like BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, suffered reverses.
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia And RIM To Battle Google Over Indoor Location Market — Indoor location positioning looks poised to be the next hot mobile service with its ability to enable smarter mobile offers and more accurate local searches. Google has an early lead but an analysis …
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Alexandra Bruell / AdAge:
That Was Fast: Twitter, Edelman Part Ways — But Did the Social Network Need PR Help In the First Place? — Faster than you can type a 140-character tweet, the relationship between Twitter and PR giant Edelman is over. — The relationship went south within a few weeks …
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Business Insider and The Next Web
Fred / A VC:
Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies — We have an IPO market for web companies again. I don't have all the names in front of me, but this year has brought IPOs for Pandora, LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga, and TripAdvisor. These five companies are all trading for north of $1bn market cap.
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Betabeat and Nick O'Neill
Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:
White spaces are a go! (at least in Wilmington) — Ignoring the threats by Congress to kill off white spaces, the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday green-lighted commercial operations of the first networks and devices to tap into the airwave gaps between TV broadcasts …
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Computerworld, AllThingsD, BetaNews, Mashable!, FCC.gov, dailywireless.org and Electronista, more at Mediagazer »
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
iPad gets 83% satisfaction rating — A new study from the Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL) shows that Apple's iPad continues to satisfy its customers. — According to the research, 83.65 percent of respondents to the survey were satisfied with the iPad.
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BGR and IntoMobile, Thanks:jdalrymple
Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
LogMeIn provides free remote Mac access from iOS devices — LogMeIn has a nice holiday gift for iOS device owners this season: a new free app called simply LogMeIn (iTunes link) that provides remote viewing access and control of Macs and PCs on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
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Computerworld, MobileSyrup.com, ZDNet, TUAW, ReadWriteWeb and Lifehacker
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amazon Debuts Store To Recommend ‘Best Of’ Digital Books, Apps, Movies, Software, Music And More — Amazon is making it easier for its users to discover recommended content today with the launch of a new ‘best of’ digital store, where consumers can find recommendations from Amazon's team …
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Amazon.com and ReadWriteWeb
Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:
The truth about Microsoft and CES — There's been a bit of back and forth today over Microsoft's announcement that it would be ending its long-standing CES keynote role, and will no longer have a booth at the show as it's done for many years. Head of Microsoft's corporate communications …
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Louis CK's digital distribution experiment clears $1M in 12 days — Comedian Louis CK's recent digital distribution experiment to sell his latest standup performance independently has generated over $1 million, he announced in a statement on his website yesterday.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Launches Suggested Events Feature Based On Checkins — We're creatures of habit. We go where we've already gone. That's why Facebook's new Suggested Events feature I just discovered is so powerful — it knows where we've been thanks to our checkins.
Chris Dixon:
The TripAdvisor IPO — Great startup story. Raised a total of $4.2m in venture capital, sold to IAC/Expedia for $210M, and had some interesting adventures and pivots along the way. They started out by trying to aggregate reviews from other websites and white label their product to Expedia and other large travel websites.
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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
SetJam acquired by Motorola Mobility — Video discovery startup SetJam just got acquired by Motorola Mobility, founder and CEO Ryan Janssen wrote in an email Thursday morning. Financial details of the deal weren't disclosed, but Janssen wrote: … SetJam used to compete with companies …
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Rhapsody tops 1M paying subscribers, and its president has the shaved head to prove it — Rhapsody's Jon Irwin, before and after 1 million subscribers. — Rhapsody says it has surpassed 1 million paying subscribers — leveraging its MetroPCS partnership, its recent acquisition of Napster …
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