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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
GoDaddy Boycott Fizzles; Twice As Many Domains Transfer In As Out — Yesterday, we noted that it appeared that the “GoDaddy boycott” concept may have been losing steam, thanks to the company's decision to move away from supporting the bill... combined with a new aggressive advertising campaign.
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Gizmodo, DSLreports, CNET, PC World, Business Insider, The Next Web, Neowin.net and Fox News
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Burned By Fleeing Customers, GoDaddy No Longer Just 'Doesn't Support' But Actually “OPPOSES” SOPA — Just in time for the aptly named “Dump GoDaddy” day, our favorite PR piñata GoDaddy just emailed a number of press, with a fresh statement from new CEO Warren Adelman. — From the email ...
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The Verge, Destructoid, Elliot's Blog, BetaNews, The Next Web, Electronista, donttreadonmike.com and HBR.org
Gabe Donnini / Chitika Insights:
Traffic for Google+ on the Rise Along with User Count — Chitika Insights has covered the heavily publicized launch of Google+ amidst a variety of reported statistics, some which stated that Google+ hosted a user base comprised of over 40 Million people, others which described …
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WebProNews
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
“Uncomfortable Dance”: Here's the Sexual Harassment Letter That Got Mark Hurd Fired — Finally, you can read for yourself about the controversial allegations of sexual harassment that eventually led to the departure of Hewlett-Packard's CEO Mark Hurd from his job. — Here's the entire letter.
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Business Insider, The Register, Gizmodo, New York Times, TechEye, Mercury News, Mashable!, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, Mercury News, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Bits, Reuters, CNET, Electronista and AllThingsD
Royal Pingdom:
Symbian is still top mobile OS - finished 2011 with resurgence — As we're quickly approaching the end of 2011 we take a last look at what the year for mobile operating systems was like. — Would it surprise you to know that Symbian finished 2011 stronger than it started the year?
Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:
Verizon explains its string of LTE outages — Verizon's LTE network has had a hell of a month. After a year of smooth performance, interrupted only by one major glitch in April, the new ultra-fast 4G network has experienced a string of three outages in a single month …
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Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
Here's Verizon's Weak Statement For Why Its 4G Network Keeps Failing
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Between the Lines Blog, CNET, Android Community, Reuters, The Verge and msnbc.com
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple will not release iPad 3 at Macworld or CES — Apple will not release iPad 3 at Macworld or CES — Reports began circulating earlier today that Apple would release two new iPads at Macworld Expo in January. These rumors are completely false. — I checked with a number …
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DigiTimes, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, ITProPortal, Examiner, AppleInsider, Newlaunches.com, eWeek, USA Today, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, parislemon, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, AppleInsider, WebProNews, iPhone, Technologizer, everythingiCafe, @alexia, The Digital Reader, The Tech Report, Shiny Objects, MacNN, SlashGear, Adotas, The Verge, GottaBeMobile, PC Magazine, The Next Web, iClarified, I4U News, TechCrunch, Redmond Pie, Business Insider, Washington Post, Electronista, mocoNews, Techland and 9to5Mac, Thanks:jdalrymple
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Testing New Email Subscription Ad Format — Google is experimenting with its Google Adwords offerings, attempting to go beyond regular text ads with Google Email Subscription Ads, allowing companies to buy ads that automatically fill in a “Subscribe to newsletter (or whatever …
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paidContent and Softpedia News
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Bulls**t — Apple: — This web app or social network we're making is going to be great. — Our app-review rules are always in everyone's best interests. — Nobody wants a [popular new product category that Apple doesn't make yet]. — Google: — Android is open. — Don't be evil.
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@mariosundar, @marcoarment and Daring Fireball
MG Siegler / parislemon:
Andy Rubin Didn't Delete “Open” Tweet, Twitter Lost It, Then Found It — A couple days ago I noted something odd: Andy Rubin's first tweet, the one in which he gives the definition of open (for Android) was gone. Given that Rubin had just sent another tweet updating some numbers for Android, I assumed he deleted it.
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SlashGear, OSNews, Guardian, Electronista and 9to5Google
Sean / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
440,783 “Silent SMS” Used to Track German Suspects in 2010 — The 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) is currently underway in Berlin and on Tuesday, researcher Karsten Nohl gave a presentation called: Defending mobile phones. If you have an hour, it's worth watching.
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The H Security and Slashdot
Jessica E Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
App Developers Skirt Apple's Limits With Work-Arounds — The cat-and-mouse game between the Bay Area's legion of mobile developers and app kingmaker Apple Inc. is heating up. — Mobile-software developers have long complained about Apple's limits on them.
David Kravets / Threat Level:
2011: The Year Intellectual Property Trumped Civil Liberties — Online civil liberties groups were thrilled in May when Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), the head of the powerful Judiciary Committee, announced legislation requiring the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant …
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Office of Inadequate Security:
AntiSec dumps 860,000 Stratfor members' details, including 75,000 credit card numbers — As expected, hackers involved in the recent Stratfor hack have dumped everything other than the 200 GB of e-mails, which they are working on releasing after redaction.
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Bits, Pastebin, SlashGear, @nealunger, @youranonnews and Cyber War News
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Ian Paul / PC World:
Anonymous Hacks SpecialForces.com, Posts Passwords and Credit Card Data
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Bits, TechNewsDaily.com and Datamation.com
Matt Hickey / The Daily:
Nintendo stealthily building app store for its next-gen console — Nintendo's next game console, the Wii U, is months away from launch, but its touchscreen controller is already turning heads — and The Daily has learned that Nintendo plans to implement a full-blown app store for the system.
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ITProPortal, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends and Electronista
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Instant Costs Google $65,000 In France — The Local, a French newspaper, reports Google France was ordered to pay €50,000 ($64,670) to Lyonnaise de Garantie, a French insurance company over a search suggestion that had them labeled as being a “crook.”
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Softpedia News, The Local, ITProPortal, WebProNews and Business Insider
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Envisions Face & Presence Detection Security for iOS Devices — On December 29, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next chapters for device security. In 2009, Apple's presence detection patent first came to light in relation to future MacBooks.
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freepatentsonline.com, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile, Gadget Lab, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, NBC Bay Area, Android Phone Fans, textually.org, ReadWriteWeb, TUAW, Redmond Pie, Pulse2, 9to5Mac, MacNN, BGR, GigaOM, everythingiCafe, iClarified, PhoneArena and Business Insider
Tom Anderson / Google+:
Dear +MG Siegler, Are you seriously upset about your photo removal? (MG's complaint here: http://bit.ly/sp8mLo) I thought I'd offer an alternate opinion here in the public and see what happens. (An opinion that PR from Google+ will probably not take the time to express, because they're busy and have better things to do.
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parislemon, @parislemon, @karaswisher, @davemcclure, L.A. Times Tech Blog, PC Magazine, Boing Boing, Business Insider, WebProNews, @mathewi, 9to5Google and Beyond Search, Thanks:digicarephil
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Greg Finn / Marketing Land:
Google+ Censoring Borderline Offensive Profile Images; Author Images in Search Results To Blame?
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parislemon and Slashdot
Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:
Exclusive: Microsoft's LTE Plans For Windows Phone — Since other sites are starting to leak glimpses of what Microsoft is doing with Windows Phone and LTE in 2012, I've decided to simply reveal what's happening. And as you might expect, Microsoft and its Windows Phone partners do indeed intend …
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The Verge, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile, MobileWhack.com, PhoneArena, Geek.com, My Nokia Blog, WMPoweruser, DSLreports, GadgeTell, Ubergizmo, Booredatwork, msnbc.com, The Verge, WinBeta, Electronista, The Verge, The Nokia Blog, All about Microsoft Blog, Business Insider, The Next Web, Neowin.net, BGR, dailywireless.org, Windows Phone Sauce, TechCrunch and Softpedia News
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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Windows Phone LTE plans: Nokia Ace, HTC Radiant, Samsung Mendel coming to AT&T early 2012
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Tech Shout!, GottaBeMobile and Softpedia News
