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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft will no longer provide detailed Windows Phone update information — Microsoft is planning to remove detailed Windows Phone update information from its site, the company announced on Friday. Where's My Phone Update? has served as a popular destination with carrier specific update information …
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MobileBurn.com, SlashGear, Computerworld, The Windows Blog, pocketnow.com, IntoMobile, Pulse2, Techie Buzz, PhoneArena, Gizmodo UK, Electronista, WMPoweruser, @theromit and Neowin.net
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Vizio's next market? Desktop and laptop PCs (Update: pictures!) — Just when it seems like everyone is running away from the PC business, well known HDTV company Vizio has apparently decided that after dabbling in lightbulbs, it's a great time to get in. Chief Technology Officer Matt McRae revealed …
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Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg:
Yahoo's New CEO May Have Compensation as High as $27 Million — Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Scott Thompson may receive compensation of as much as $27 million, including salary, potential bonus, restricted shares and other forms of pay.
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Hollywood Reporter, Business Insider and AllThingsD
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Agam Shah / Computerworld:
OLPC's XO-3 tablet to debut at CES — OLPC will defy skeptics by delivering the XO-3 on time and at the projected price point of under $100 — One Laptop Per Child's XO-3 tablet is ready to ship after years in the making, and working units will be shown next week at the Consumer Electronics Show …
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The Verge, VentureBeat, Electronista, CNET, Gizmodo UK, Techie Buzz, Gizmodo, Liliputing, LAPTOP Magazine, TechCrunch and Engadget
Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Safari 5 for OS X, Firefox 9 for Windows 7 crowned victors of browser benchmark battle — Tom's Hardware has been running its meticulously detailed Browser Grand Prix since early 2010, and today it has crowned two new winners: Firefox 9 won in the latest Windows 7 Ultimate tests, while Safari 5 was the top browser for OS X Lion.
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Tom's Hardware Guide, Gizmodo UK, Techland and PalmAddicts
Manan Kakkar / India IT Blog:
Have RIM, Nokia & Apple provided Indian Military with backdoor access to cellular comm? — Summary: In exchange for mobile presence in India, RIM, Nokia and Apple have allegedly provided backdoor access for the Indian intelligence to spy on communication. — On January 6th reports of Symantec …
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@csoghoian, Computerworld and eWeek Security Watch, Thanks:manan
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Building a NAND Empire, Says Bernstein — Sanford Bernstein's Toni Sacconaghi today weighs in with his view on the rumored purchase recently by Apple (AAPL) of an Israeli company called Anobit and what it means in the context of Apple's being the world's largest buyer …
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Fortune, Electronista, NBC Bay Area and GigaOM
Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
Battle of the Bands: Tech Firms Compete for Rock Stars — Big Names Fire Up Crowds, but Can Put Limits on Handshaking — SAN FRANCISCO—Shortly before Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison gave his keynote speech about a new cloud-computing effort at his annual customer conference here in October …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
SV Angel And Founder Collective Give Hackruiter $200K For Its Hacker School — YCombinator-backed hacker recruiter platform Hackruiter has raised a modest seed round from investors SV Angel and Founder Collective. The company raised $200K but could have raised much more …
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Unschooled
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
EMI sues MP3 reseller ReDigi — Music buyers are prevented from selling or distributing used digital tracks and albums in the same way they do with CDs or vinyl albums, EMI said in copyright complaint filed in New York today. — EMI, one of the four largest recorded-music companies …
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Media Decoder and hypebot, more at Mediagazer »
J.B. / Fusible.com:
Warner Bros. to launch photo sharing social network called Out My Window — With photo sharing one of the fastest growing segments of social networking and services like Flickr and Instagram exploding in popularity, it looks like Warner Bros. is throwing its hat into the ring with a new photo sharing service called Out My Window.
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Business Insider, Out My Window, The Next Web, Pulse2 and Electronista
James Temple / The Technology Chronicles:
Breaking: Salesforce.com signs biggest SF lease in a decade — Salesforce.com has signed a 400,000-square-foot lease in San Francisco, striking what Mayor Ed Lee's office says is the largest office deal in the city in a decade. — The transaction at 50 Fremont St. doubles …
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Business Insider, @benioff and bizjournals
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
AT&T has a stake in Microsoft's Windows 8 tablets, too — Summary: At a pre-CES developer conference, AT&T and Qualcomm execs are going to be talking up LTE-charged Windows 8 tablets. — It's already well established that AT&T seems to be Microsoft's best friend among the four U.S. carriers for Windows Phone.
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eWeek, BGR, Good E-Reader, The Tech Trade, Softpedia News, Engadget, The Next Web, Windows 8 Beta, Electronista, Microsoft News, MobileTechWorld and Neowin.net
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Sprint: We're Not Really Throttling Our Customers — Sprint CEO Dan Hesse stirred up a mini firestorm on Thursday when he assured investors at a financial conference that it had a way of dealing with those gobbling up too much data. — “For those that want to abuse it, we can knock them off …
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BGR, Daring Fireball, Android and Me, MobileBurn.com, GigaOM, Geek.com and The Verge
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Carey Gillam / Reuters:
Sprint ousts 4 executives, merges consumer/business
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Reuters, PhoneArena, Sprint Community, Sprintfeed, The Verge, Engadget, Between the Lines Blog, Electronista and AllThingsD
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Stymiest Looks to Be a “Lock” for RIM Chair — Research In Motion's 2011 was about as ugly as they come. And with few indications that 2012 will be much better, the company is preparing to make some significant management changes. — Sources close to the company say that co-founders Mike Lazaridis …
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PhoneArena and Stowe Boyd
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The limited world of auto-renewable subscriptions — Apple's In-App Purchase system permits two types of subscription purchases. The documentation suggests that Auto-Renewable subscriptions are the right choice in almost every case: … When developing Instapaper 4.0 …
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