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Dylan Welch / Sydney Morning Herald:
New to Twitter: the tweet Murdoch took down ... fast — “Either @rupertmurdoch is genuinely now on Twitter, or some disgruntled ex-NOTW journo just won the hacking Olympics.” — Less than two days after joining Twitter, media mogul Rupert Murdoch appears to have had his first brush …
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AllThingsD, Guardian, VatorNews, Wonkette, CNN, Gizmodo, London Calling Blog, @lord_sugar, Betabeat, Lost Remote, CNET, Mediaite, The Tech Herald Technology …, ABCNEWS, The Next Web and TechEye, more at Mediagazer »
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Techmeme's biggest stories of 2011, literally, as measured by height — One the best things about Techmeme is how “huge” or “big” stories can literally be that: conveyed through a stack of headlines several times taller than your screen size. (Unless you hate this, in which case it's …
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Business Insider and om.co
Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
H.P.'s TouchPad Tablet Was Bound to Be a Flop, Some Say — The TouchPad tablet from Hewlett-Packard was one of the most closely watched new gadgets of 2011 — and quickly turned out to be the year's biggest flop. The TouchPad, which was supposed to be a rival to Apple's iPad …
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TechCrunch, SlashGear, IntoMobile, ITProPortal, Gizmodo, Beyond Search, TechEye, VR-Zone, Business Insider, Electronista, Technologizer, Electronista, All New Musings and Slashdot
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Unboxed: How Samuel Palmisano of I.B.M. Stayed a Step Ahead - Unboxed — BECAUSE it has become so consistently successful, I.B.M. is almost boring. This is a company so predictable that its financial forecast is packaged as a “five-year road map,” as if it were some sort of state planning exercise.
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Engadget, Bloomberg, AllThingsD, SlashGear and Bits
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft to enable Linux on its Windows Azure cloud in 2012 — Summary: Microsoft is preparing to launch a new persistent virtual machine feature on its Azure cloud platform, enabling customers to host Linux, SharePoint and SQL Server there. — This headline is not an error.
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Open Source Blog and OStatic blogs
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
It is now illegal to access any foreign website in the Republic of Belarus — According to the US Library of Congress, The Republic of Belarus has just recently published a law making it illegal for Belarusian citizens and residents access and/or use foreign websites (particularly for commercial purposes).
David Carr / New York Times:
The Danger of an Attack on Piracy Online — By invoking the acronym SOPA right at the get-go, I may be daring many of you to check the next column over for something a little less chewy. After all, SOPA, which stands for Stop Online Piracy Act, sounds like a piece of arcane Internet …
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ReadWriteWeb, Social Media and Slashdot
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Asus faces customer backlash over Transformer Prime's locked bootloader — Taiwanese electronics giant Asus has been the subject of intense criticism over the release of its new Transformer Prime tablet after it emerged that the company had locked the bootloader on its device …
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Gizmodo, The Verge, GottaBeMobile, AndroidOS.in and Android Phone Fans, Thanks:jonrussell
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Website Blocking Law Implemented By New Spanish Government — In the last decade Spain has truly emerged as one of file-sharing's safe-havens. Countless court decisions have affirmed that P2P indexing sites operate legally, with most cases against site operators going in favor of the defendants.
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GamePolitics blogs, ReadWriteWeb and Techie Buzz
Aaron Lee / DigiTimes:
Acer, Lenovo to launch Wintel tablet PC in 3Q12 — First-tier PC vendors Acer and Lenovo are set to launch table PCs based on Microsoft's Windows 8 and Intel's Clover Trail platform in the third quarter of 2012, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
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I4U News, BGR, Techie Buzz, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Electronista and Fudzilla
Thomas Rogers / Salon:
Are we on information overload? — The Internet has transformed knowledge. An expert explains why it's launched the greatest period in human history — The last two decades have completely transformed the way we know. Thanks to the rise of the Internet, information is far more accessible than ever before.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Luxury Car-Sharing Service HiGear Shuts Down Due To Theft — San Francisco-based HiGear, a peer-to-peer car-sharing service focused on luxury vehicles, is shutting down due to theft incidents involving its members' cars. According to CEO Ali Moiz, the company will send out an email tomorrow to its members with a full explanation.
DannyD / SamMobile:
EXCLUSIVE: Product picture Galaxy Note AT&T. (NFC) — On December the 30th we received a nice email. — As expected, the Galaxy Note will be hitting the stores in America Q1 or Q2. — However, there were no official pictures of this Galaxy Note. — Until now!
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Coursekit Raises $5 M. from Joel Spolsky, David Tisch, IA Ventures — Coursekit, a graduate of TechStars NY which bills itself as an academic social network, has raised $5 million in a Series A round of venture capital financing. Led by the Social+Capital Partnership …
Discussion:
Bits and AllThingsD
Lauren Goode / AllThingsD:
Uber CEO Responds to New Year's Eve Complaints, Plans More Surge Pricing — Uber, the San Francisco-based start-up behind a smartphone app that allows users to request car service, had some users uber-angry today over the fares they paid for rides on New Year's Eve.
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GeekWire, Uber Blog and @travisk, Thanks:laurengoode
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Semil Shah / TechCrunch:
Uber's New Year's Eve Surcharges Demonstrate The Harsh Reality Of Dynamic Pricing
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Uber Blog, Quora and Starting Up, Thanks:alexia
