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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Patents Reveal Thunderbolt is headed for iOS Devices — Three new patent applications from Apple were published this morning by the USPTO that detail various aspects of Apple's revolutionary I/O technology called Thunderbolt. Apple filed many Thunderbolt trademarks in 2011 which opened …
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
RIM now working on only one BlackBerry 10 smartphone; Colt, Milan canceled — We already reported that the BlackBerry Colt — the handset that was originally intended to be the Research In Motion's first BlackBerry 10 smartphone — had been cancelled. Now, we have heard from multiple sources …
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
BlackBerry OS 10 to get February reveal at MWC
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Amy Willis / Telegraph:
Apple ‘threatens legal action’ over Steve Jobs action doll — The makers of an action figure with an uncanny resemblance to the late Apple founder Steve Jobs are reportedly being ‘threatened with legal action’ by the computing giant. — The action figure of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Warner Brothers Will Make Netflix, Redbox, Blockbuster Wait Longer for New Movies — Want to watch a new movie just out on DVD from Warner Brothers? You're going to have to buy it, or wait even longer to get it from Netflix or other disc renters. — A new deal between Time Warner's movie studio …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
HBO Ends DVD Discounts for Netflix
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Sprint Announces First LTE Cities and, Prematurely, Its First LTE Phone — Sprint made a bunch of 4G network news on Thursday and some of it was even intentional. — On the intended front, CEO Dan Hesse told investors that the company would launch its first high-speed LTE service …
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Brad Molen / Engadget:
AT&T expands LTE coverage to eleven new markets, including NYC, San Francisco and Los Angeles
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AT&T, BGR, TechCrunch, The Verge, GottaBeMobile, Mercury News, PC World, NBC Bay Area, Electronista, SlashGear, BetaNews, The Verge, Sidecut Reports, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, GottaBeMobile, VentureBeat and AllThingsD
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
New Yahoo Chief Rallies Troops With Talk of Innovation — Yahoo Inc.'s newly named chief executive, Scott Thompson, Thursday told employees that Yahoo needed to be “world class” and to “fund innovation” in addition to its core business, said a person familiar with the matter.
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Brad Molen / Engadget:
Corning to show off Gorilla Glass 2 at CES 2012 — Gorilla Glass is tough, real tough. And it's got a solid reputation as a durable screen for small and large displays alike. But by no means is it perfect, and Corning has been hard at work to make the product's sequel even better.
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9to5Mac, Corning Incorporated, The Verge, MobileSyrup.com, Electronista and Mashable!
Vinton G. Cerf / New York Times:
Internet Access Is Not a Human Right — FROM the streets of Tunis to Tahrir Square and beyond, protests around the world last year were built on the Internet and the many devices that interact with it. Though the demonstrations thrived because thousands of people turned out to participate …
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TechCrunch, The Register, GigaOM, dailywireless.org, Errata Security, PC Magazine, msnbc.com, SlashGear and The Verge
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Adam Thierer / Technology Liberation Front:
Vint Cerf on Why Internet Access Is Not a Human Right (+ A Few More Reasons)
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Chris Pendleton / Bing:
Bing Maps New Routing Engine — Did you happen to notice the new routing engine we implemented on Bing Maps? No? I suppose that's a good thing since your service was never interrupted. However, I can tell you that we're enjoying the reduced latency, high performance …
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Ryan Mack / Facebook:
Building Timeline: Scaling up to hold your life story — Timeline isn't just a bold new look for Facebook—it's also the product of a remarkably ambitious engineering effort. While our earlier profile pages surfaced a few days or weeks of activity, from the onset we knew that with Timeline …
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
BitTorrent takes on Dropbox with personal file sharing — BitTorrent Inc. launched a personal file sharing application called Share Thursday that aims to give users an alternative to paid cloud storage companies and media sharing over social networks. Share makes it possible to transfer files without …
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TorrentFreak and The Verge, Thanks:alliewag
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Even Sprint's “Truly Unlimited” Plan Isn't Truly Unlimited — Watch the video up above. Note the end: … Also watch: — Now, read this bit from the Dow Jones Newswire, quoting Sprint CEO Dan Hesse on an investor call today: … Something doesn't quite match up here.
Casey Chan / Gizmodo:
Digital Music Sales Beat Physical Music Sales for the First Time — It took longer than I thought it would (because physical music sales still makes the monies) but digital music sales has finally topped physical music sales. According to Nielsen and Billboard, digital music sales accounted …
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BGR, Digital Media Wire, The Next Web and Engadget
Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:
New Chrome Will Pre-Load Web Pages Before You Hit Enter — Google Chrome released a new beta version today that takes the insurgent browser's instant and predictive features even further. The Instant Pages feature that pre-loads Web pages in the background as you search has been expanded to the omnibox …
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Google Chrome Blog, VentureBeat, CNET and 9to5Google
Paul Marks / New Scientist:
Apple power adapters could remember your passwords — Apple has worked out a way in which the power cords for computers or smartphones can help people recover their forgotten login passwords - or the answers to secret questions (like “what was the name of your first pet?") that are often used to recover them.
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Geek.com and MacDailyNews, Thanks:paulmarks12
Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint:
White Samsung Galaxy Nexus and 32GB model coming 6 February — A white 16GB version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is due to hit stores from the week beginning 6 February. Additionally, a 32GB version of the titanium silver handset will also be on sale from that date.
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Handtec Blog, Electronista, Techie Buzz, Phones Review, TechCrunch, MobileBurn.com and The Verge
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
LG, Sony, Vizio announcing Google TV devices at CES, Samsung later in the year — Google just announced that LG, Sony, and Vizio will be showing off Google TV devices at CES 2012, with additional devices from Samsung coming later in the year. Google's also partnering with MediaTek and Marvell …
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TechCrunch, Business Insider, paidContent, The Official Google TV Blog, Marketing Land, CNET, Engadget, Android Phone Fans and Gadget Lab
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Kanye West Now Hiring “App Guys” and “Tech Guys” for New Company: DONDA — After a long sabattical from his Twitter account, Kanye West returned to the internet last night with a flurry of thoughts in 140 characters or less. The big news, he is forming a new company, DONDA.
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Ray Ozzie Gathering Ex-Microsoft Colleagues for New Start-Up, Cocomo — Everyone knew that Ray Ozzie would eventually resurface after leaving Microsoft. — The Lotus Notes creator and Groove founder has lain extremely low since departing the software giant at the end of 2010.
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Network World, CNET and Domain Name Wire
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
US Threatened To Blacklist Spain For Not Implementing Site Blocking Law — United States government interference in Spain's intellectual property laws had long been suspected, but it was revelations from Wikileaks that finally confirmed the depth of its involvement.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Ventures, Mark Cuban And Others Invest $1M In Social CRM Startup Nimble — Customer relationship management startup Nimble has raised $1 million in funding from notable investors Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Don Dodge, Dharmesh Shah and more! — Nimble CEO Jon Ferrara views Nimble …
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Italian court denies Samsung motion for preliminary injunction against iPhone 4S — ANSA, the leading Italian news agency, just reported that Judge Marina Tavassi of the Tribunale di Milano — the Milan-based Italian first-instance court for patent cases — has rejected a Samsung request …
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GigaOM, PhoneArena, PC Magazine, London Calling Blog, The Next Web, CNET, TUAW and MacRumors
Eric Martin / reddit:
2 Billion & Beyond — In December 2011, reddit served 2.07 billion pageviews. Crazy. Here are some details: 2,065,237,338 pageviews 34,879,881 unique visitors 12.97 pages / visit 16 minutes average time on site Over 100 million monthly pageviews per employee And, more importantly …
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple's television could offer superior picture quality with advanced backlighting — Apple has explored building displays with dynamic backlight adaptation for better picture quality, particularly when watching letterboxed widescreen movies on a high-definition screen.
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Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
Apple Profit Margins Rise at Foxconn's Expense: Chart of the Day — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s margins have widened at the expense of its main supplier as Foxconn Technology Group cuts prices to retain orders for iPhones and iPads. — The CHART OF THE DAY compares the operating margins of Apple …
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Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
Mobile Ad Seller Millennial Media Files For IPO — Millennial Media, a leading server of ads on mobile devices, filed S-1 papers with the SEC to go public. The company made nearly $70 million in revenues through the first nine months of 2011 but saw a net loss of of $417,000 …
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Bloomberg:
Sprint Puts Investment in LightSquared on Hold, Hesse Says — Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) — Sprint Nextel Corp. put its investment in a partnership with LightSquared Inc. on hold as the wireless venture seeks an operating license from U.S. regulators, Sprint Chief Executive Officer Dan Hesse said.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
You Can Now Post Full Size Instagram Pics To Facebook (And Timeline) — You know what's cool? When you subconsciously want something and a startup responds to your (unvoiced) requests. Well, mobile photosharing app Instagram has just made a very small tweak that has the potential for huge growth …
