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Jun Yang / Bloomberg:
Samsung Profit Rises to Record on Galaxy Sales — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), Asia's largest consumer-electronics company, reported a record quarterly profit on surging sales of Galaxy phones and proceeds from selling its hard-disk drive business. — Operating profit (005930) …
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Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
HTC Has First Profit Drop in Two Years — HTC Corp. (2498), Asia's second-largest smartphone maker, posted its first quarterly profit decline in two years as competing models from Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co. damped demand for its handsets.
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Samsung/HTC: Two Sides Of An Android Coin. Why's Samsung Winning The Toss?
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Digital Trends, Thanks:ingridlunden
Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:
Apple's Voice Recognition Siri Doubles IPhone Data Volumes — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s voice recognition software Siri has prompted users of the iPhone 4S to use almost twice as much data compared with the handset's predecessor, placing greater pressure on operators, network firm Arieso said.
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Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Top 1% of Mobile Users Consume Half of World's Bandwidth, and Gap Is Growing — The world's congested mobile airwaves are being divided in a lopsided manner, with 1 percent of consumers generating half of all traffic. The top 10 percent of users, meanwhile, are consuming 90 percent of wireless bandwidth.
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dailywireless.org, Betabeat, Technologizer and Memex 1.1
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0 Blog:
iPhone 4S ‘doubles’ data usage ... but is Siri really to blame?
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iOS 5.1 beta reveals Apple's plan to soon ship iPads, iPhones with quad-core chips — Speed increases are an expected part of Apple's iOS device hardware upgrades, but what Apple has up their sleeves for speed enhancements is typically up for debate. The first-generation iPad clocked around 1GHz …
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Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Steve Jobs Doll Legal In Most States, Not Indiana — Apple's lawyers have a fearsome reputation for defending the company's intellectual property. But it sure looks like they're bluffing in the controversy over a new Steve Jobs doll. — A UK newspaper caused a stir yesterday when it reported that Apple …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Al Gore Comes Out Against SOPA/PIPA — Well, check this out. Al Gore has come out strongly against SOPA and PIPA, angrily denouncing the bill and its supporters. It's a quick 2-minute video taken at a CareerBuilder event, and it's in response to an audience question.
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Ben Dimiero / Media Matters for America:
REPORT: News Networks Ignore Controversial SOPA Legislation
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple to open new store-within-a-store outlets inside Target this year — Apple will be opening new store-within-a-store locations in select Target locations later this year, enabling the company to expand its retail reach into smaller metro areas. — According to a source familiar with Apple's plans …
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Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
WARNING: All That Free Spotify Music You've Been Enjoying Is Going To End Soon — Spotify made its big U.S. debut on July 14, 2011. — In one week, we'll be marking the streaming music service's six-month anniversary. — And in one week, all those users who signed up for the free …
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Between the Lines Blog, WebProNews and Evolver.fm, Thanks:jfedor
Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:
Symantec Confirms Hackers Accessed Source Code of Two Enterprise Security Products — On Thursday evening, SecurityWeek and other news outlets reported on news that hackers claimed to have accessed the source code to an unspecified version of Symantec's Norton Antivirus product.
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Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
New Lawsuit Means All Major Labels Are Suing Grooveshark — Grooveshark, a popular digital music service that is being sued for copyright infringement by three of the four major record companies, now has problems with the one big label that it has a licensing deal with.
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Matt Alexander / The Loop:
The E-Reader, as we know it, is doomed — The E-Reader, as we know it, is doomed — Matt Alexander is the owner and editor of ONE37.net, a writer, a technology enthusiast and a contributing writer for The Loop. — In November I reviewed the Kindle Touch, and I was a fan.
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Fortune, CNNMoney.com and ONE37, Thanks:jdalrymple
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Windows 8 Storage Spaces detailed: pooling redundant disk space for all — When Microsoft killed Windows Home Server's “Drive Extender” technology, we mourned its loss but held up hope that the company would persevere with the concept. The company has done just that with a new Windows 8 …
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Bloomberg:
China Unicom Offers Free IPhone 4S for $45 Monthly Contract — Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — China United Network Communications Group, the nation's second-largest wireless carrier, will give users an Apple Inc. iPhone 4S if they sign multiyear service contracts costing as little as 286 yuan ($45) a month.
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Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
Facebook and Moo partner to print Timeline photos on business cards — What happens when the world's largest social network hooks up with a beloved social business card maker? The birth of beautiful, Facebook-infused business cards. — Digital print shop Moo, long-celebrated for its ability …
Zachary Wolff / the dialog:
Twitter: To log or not to log: Is that the question? — As Twitter continues to thrive as the communications tool of choice amongst activists, dissenters and occupiers worldwide it should be no surprise that the San Francisco-based company is drawing heightened attention from US law enforcement agencies.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Bessemer Leads $6M Round In Q&A Platform For Students And Teachers, Piazza — Piazza, a Q&A platform for students and instructors, has raised $6 million in Series A funding from Bessemer Venture Partners with Kapor Capital and Felicis Ventures also participating in the round.
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Xconomy, VatorNews, GigaOM, AllThingsD, VentureBeat and Mercury News
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google's 30 Most Recent Search Quality Changes — Google provided an update with the 30 or so most recent search quality updates. — They also added in the code names, when applicable, used internally at Google for each of these updates. They include words like concepts, leaf, simple …
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eWeek and Inside Search
Himank Sharma / Reuters:
Sony to name Kazuo Hirai president: Nikkei — (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp will promote Kazuo Hirai as president replacing Howard Stringer as early as April, the Nikkei business daily reported. — Stringer is expected to remain chairman and chief executive officer, the paper said.
Peter-Paul Koch / QuirksBlog:
The Java ME nonsense story — Earlier this week Net Market Share released numbers that allegedly show the Java ME operating system is gaining ground to the expense of iOS and especially Android. — Unfortunately the story isn't true, and I suspect it's a good example of headline grabbing aimed …
Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Puzzles Over $4 Billion Tax Break — Yahoo Inc.'s new chief executive is likely to face a key decision almost immediately: whether to support a complex tax deal that could save the Internet company up to $4 billion in taxes. — The deal, which tax experts dub a “cash-rich split-off …
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E.B. Boyd / Fast Company:
Data Darlings: Why New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Has A Fighting Chance
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