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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
What is SOPA and how does it work? The Stop Online Piracy Act explained — Oh, but it gets worse. Much worse. SOPA section 104 offers legal immunity to ISPs that independently block websites that host illegally copied material without any prompting from the government.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day — At this point quite a few internet companies have protested H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in creative ways. Held by many to be the worst thing to ever happen to the Internet if it passes …
Glenn Kelman / Redfin Corporate Blog:
SOPA Witch-Hunters, Count Me Out — UPDATE: I was wrong in this post in saying that a boycott stifles free speech. A boycott is a form of free speech. I retracted that argument in a subsequent post a few hours later. *sigh* — The opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) …
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Jeff Epstein / livin' the dream:
A Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy — Follow these step-by-step directions to transfer all of your domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap. — I'm Boycotting GoDaddy because they are pro-SOPA. — Step 1: Login to GoDaddy and get to the domain manager. — Step 2: Select all domains
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The Next Web and Global Nerdy
John Paul Titlow / ReadWriteWeb:
GoDaddy's SOPA Support Sparks Calls for Boycotts and Domain Transfers
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TechEye, Computerworld, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, The Next Web, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Skatter Tech, @dannysullivan, Digital Trends, The Daily What, kottke.org, @mattcutts, Gizmodo and Softpedia News
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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eWeek, Digital Trends, Softpedia News, Mike Linksvayer, SlashGear, Neowin.net, L.A. Times Tech Blog, ZDNet, TechFlash, Computerworld, CNET News, Search Engine Journal, Pulse2, internetnews.com, Techie Buzz, VentureBeat, parislemon, Business Insider, Electronista and Between the Lines Blog
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Matt McGee / Marketing Land:
Google Triples Its Spending To Keep Default Search Spot In Firefox
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple investigating fuel-cell-powered MacBooks — Apple could build new notebooks that are even smaller and lighter than current battery-powered devices by switching to fuel cells for power. — The prospect of fuel-cell-powered MacBooks and other devices was raised in a pair …
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Electronista, freepatentsonline.com, Business Insider, @pkeys, HEXUS.net Latest Content, T3 News, SlashGear, CNET News, Pulse2, Redmond Pie, Ubergizmo and Gizmodo
Élyse Betters / 9to5Google:
Dropbox releases v2.0 Android app with ICS support; Offers whopping 500MB more space to students — (Image via The Dropbox Blog.) — The Dropbox Blog announced version 2.0 of its Android application Thursday. The free service lets users bring photographs, documents …
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Engadget, The Dropbox Blog, Gizmodo, Electronista, Android Phone Fans, Tech Goonies, Life On My Mobile, Pocket-lint and The Verge
Dan Rowinski / ReadWriteMobile:
Study: Apps Are For Android, Games For the iPhone — The iPhone is the domain of the game. Android is the land of the app. 2011 showed some very distinct trends in user activity on the two major mobile platforms. A study done by Xylogic shows that of the top 25 app publishers for iOS, only one does not produce games.
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Xyologic, paidContent:UK, GigaOM, Inside Mobile Apps and VentureBeat
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Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
Samsung launches two dual-sim Galaxy Y phones for carrier cheaters — Samsung is rolling out a pair of dual-SIM blowers for everyone who wants to keep their working and private lives separate, or take advantage of constantly changing carrier deals. The Galaxy Y Duos packs a 3.14-inch QVGA …
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eWeek, GSMArena.com, Ubergizmo, Softpedia News, AndroidOS.in, Product reviews, BGR, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, Unwired View, Know Your Cell and GigaOM
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Y Combinator Startup Priceonomics Tells You How Much To Pay For Any Used Product — You want the best price on things you buy second hand, but finding out how much you should pay is a hassle. Removing this friction from a lucrative part of the purchase funnel is the goal of Priceonomics.
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.
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Gizmodo, The Verge, CNET News, All Facebook and Mashable!
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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Mashable!, BB Geeks, TechCrunch, BGR, Washington Post, TechSpot, Know Your Cell, MobileBurn.com, PhoneArena, PC Magazine, WebProNews, I4U News, Business Insider, paidContent, Gizmodo and Tech Trader Daily
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Roger Cheng / CNET News:
RIM CEOs lied about BlackBerry 10 delay, report says
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BGR, VentureBeat, Pulse2, BerryReview.com, GottaBeMobile, Softpedia News, eWeek, Between the Lines Blog, Electronista and SlashGear
Rachel Swaby / Wired.com:
With Sync Solved, Dropbox Squares Off With Apple's iCloud — In early 2009, just months after Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi launched Dropbox, a service that promised to sync users' photos, music, and documents across computers, Apple's MobileMe team suggested the pair come by for a chat.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Republic Wireless changes stance: unlimited will be truly unlimited, ‘no thresholds’ or asterisks — Credit where it's due: Republic Wireless has just made an about-face on the only major downfall we saw in its new wireless proposition. While most of the big boys have had an asterisk by …
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republic wireless blogs, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, FierceWireless, Phone Scoop, Electronista and Technologizer
C. Custer / Tech in Asia:
Hackers Steal Data of Millions of Chinese Net Users — Information from hacked Duowan accounts, via TechWeb — Yesterday, the Chinese internet was shaken by the news that IT portal and community CDSN has been hacked and data for its more than six million users had been stolen, including usernames and passwords.
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Kunur Patel / AdAge:
Apple Has More Online Shoppers Than Walmart — Tech Maker's Traffic Trumps That of World's Largest Retailer in November — Apple got more traffic online last month than Walmart Stores. In fact, Apple is the only retailer other than Amazon and eBay in the top 15 most-visited websites in the U.S. in November, according to ComScore.
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
More Picture-Takers Are Phoning It In — No big surprises here. The single-purpose camera is in decline, the smartphone camera on the rise. — New research from NPD finds that smartphones are now responsible for more than a quarter of the photos and videos people take in the U.S …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Codecademy Builds ‘Labs,’ A Web-Based Code Editor — Smoking hot startup Codecademy, a service which teaches you how to program online has launched its Labs feature today, as a sign of things to come. — Codecademy founder Zach Sims tells me that Codecademy, and specifically new hire Amjad Masad …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Hurt Locker BitTorrent Lawsuit Dies, But Not Without Controversy — After being honored with an Oscar for Best Motion Picture last year, the makers of The Hurt Locker went on to secure the award for the biggest file-sharing lawsuit a few months ago. — By targeting at least 24,583 alleged …
Sarah Mitroff / VentureBeat:
Cloudability raises $1M, helps keep your cloud spending in check — Cloudability, a company that helps people manage cloud services spending, has secured $1 million in its latest investment round. This seed investment round was led by Trinity Ventures and Walden Venture Capital …
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Cloudability, TechCrunch and GigaOM
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Verizon To Launch a Home Media Server In 2012, Plans To Eliminate Set-Top Box — Verizon will be rolling out a new Media Server product for its FiOS customers later next year, which will be a single hardware device that will eventually eliminate the need for a set-top box altogether.
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The Verge and Electronista
Julie Scelfo / New York Times:
Video Chat Reshapes Domestic Rituals — AFTER nightfall on Tuesday, the Darvick family of Birmingham, Mich., began their Hanukkah rituals, just as they had done for years. — Debra and Martin Darvick set out a tin menorah given to them by long-gone relatives. Their son, Elliot, 27, struck a match and lighted the first candle.
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Venture Capital Dispatch and FierceVoIP
