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Nick Wingfield / New York Times:
Microsoft, Defying Image, Has a Design Gem in Windows Phone — “GORGEOUS,” raves The Huffington Post. — “Best-looking smartphone operating system in the industry,” gushes Slate. — “Far superior to most if not all the Android smartphones,” says TechCrunch. — Sounds like the usual adulation for a gadget from Apple.
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Dan Seifert / MobileBurn.com:
“Sleek, metallic” Nokia Lumia 900 to debut for AT&T next week — The New York Times is reporting that the long-awaited flagship Nokia Windows Phone smartphone for the U.S. will debut next week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Citing unnamed sources, the Times describes the phone as …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Acer's next-gen, quad-core Iconia Tab introduced at CES 2012 with a 1080p display — Acer's finishing up its CES 2012 presser with a teaser to end all teasers: there's a next-generation, quad-core Iconia Tab on the way. The Android-based slate will be powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 3 and will boast …
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The Verge, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, The Verge, Gizmodo, CNET, Electronista and Neowin.net
Paul Miller / The Verge:
Acer's AcerCloud unveil is a blatant iCloud ripoff — Which is which? Acer just showed off its AcerCloud service, something that already sounded suspiciously like Apple's iCloud. Even the “PicStream” element sounds a lot like Photo Stream. Still not convinced?
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Acer takes to the cloud with AcerCloud service, to launch in Q2 2012 — Acer has today announced its entrance into the cloud computing space with its AcerCloud service. The company says the software — which will come bundled with Acer's consumer PCs beginning in the second quarter of this year …
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Forbes, LAPTOP Magazine, TechCrunch, Engadget, ces.cnet.com, Electronista, Acer and SlashGear
David Pierce / The Verge:
Acer announces Aspire S5, 'world's thinnest ultrabook' with Thunderbolt port — Ahead of its press conference at CES, Acer has just announced the new Aspire S5 ultrabook, which the company says is the world's thinnest — it's only 15mm at its thickest point.
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Jason Hiner / Tech Sanity Check Blog:
Why Android tablets failed: A postmortem — Takeaway: Android tablets were expected to give the Apple iPad fierce competition in 2011. It never happened. Here's why Android tablets flopped. — As I gear up for CES 2012 next week, I can't help but think back to CES 2011 where the big story was all about Android tablets.
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SlashGear, CNET and Hardware 2.0 Blog, Thanks:abraham_pareja
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft: It's business as usual with Windows Phone updates — Summary: ‘Nothing has changed in regard to how we work with carriers to deliver Windows Phone updates to our customers,’ maintained a Microsoft official following a change in Microsoft's update disclosure policy.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
NinjaVideo “queen” gets 22 months in jail, owes $200,000 to Hollywood — NinjaVideo.net's “queen” is going to jail—and paying the MPAA over $200,000. — A federal judge today sentenced Hana Amal “Queen Phara” Beshara to 22 months in a West Virginia prison and enrolled her (at her request) in a drug rehab program there.
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Deadline.com/hollywood, Reuters, Hollywood Reporter, Broadcasting & Cable and Company Town
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Square Expands Retail Partnerships; Now Sold At OfficeMax And UPS Store Locations — For disruptive mobile payments startup Square, 2011 was a year of massive growth on many levels. The startup ended the year with over 1 million merchants using the mobile payments platform to accept credit cards …
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Netflix expected to launch streaming service in the UK this week, says report — U.S online video streaming service Netflix is expected to launch in the UK this week, finalising a number of deals with movie and television studios and debuting a new marketing campaign in the coming days, The Guardian reports.
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VentureBeat, Engadget, Guardian, SlashGear, Connected Consoles and TechRadar.com
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
2011: The Year Google & Bing Took Away From SEOs & Publishers — Increasingly over the years, search engines — Google in particular — have given more and more support to SEOs and publishers. But 2011 marked the first significant reversal that I can recall, with both linking and keyword data being withheld.
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