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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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The Verge, The Nokia Blog, Electronista, Neowin.net, Gizmodo UK, MobileTechWorld, WMPoweruser, Engadget, Gizmodo, Bloomberg and PhoneArena
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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 …
Trevor / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
U.S. Government Threatens Free Speech With Calls for Twitter Censorship — “[T]he ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas....That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution.” — Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, dissent in Abrams v. United States, 1919
Joanna Stern / The Verge:
OLPC XO 3.0 tablet: an 8-inch tablet for $100, with Android and Sugar options for the children (update: pictures!) — It was over four years ago that OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte showed off images of an XO tablet, and promised it would ship to kids of the developing world in 2010 for $100 each.
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TechCrunch, Digits, Liliputing, Examiner, IntoMobile, FT Tech Hub, Daring Fireball, netbooknews.com, Electronista, VentureBeat, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, Liliputing, Techie Buzz, Gizmodo UK, Gizmodo, Computerworld, Engadget and TechCrunch
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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Neowin.net, Techie Buzz, MobileTechWorld, PhoneNews.com, parislemon, WinBeta, The Windows Blog and WMPoweruser
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft will no longer provide detailed Windows Phone update information
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LiveSide.net, MobileSyrup.com, MobileBurn.com, SlashGear, Pulse2, pocketnow.com, IntoMobile, Techie Buzz, PhoneArena, ITworld.com, Electronista, Gizmodo UK, WMPoweruser, @theromit and Neowin.net
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
HTML5 cross-platform game company Moblyng shuts down (exclusive) — Moblyng was ahead of its time in making cross-platform HTML5 games for mobile devices. Too far ahead, it seems, as the company has shut down, VentureBeat has learned. — Just a year ago, the company said in a filing …
Loic Le Meur:
Path is where the A list hangs out, don't tell anyone. — I was about to name them but no, Path is about privacy first, so I won't. Want to know where most influential and successful entrepreneurs, VCs and tech writers hide online these days? How they spent their new years eve and with whom?
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@dannysullivan, @fredericl, Business Insider and Gizmodo
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Apple facing $1.88 million lawsuit in China over sales of illegal book downloads — Apple will be required to defend itself in a Beijing court after officials accepted a case filed by nine well-known Chinese writers against the company, demanding that it pays the authors 11.91 million yuan …
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People's Daily Online, SlashGear, Electronista and ZDNet
Steve Myers / Poynter:
How Google beat AP with Iowa caucus results (and why it matters) — WNYC's John Keefe decided to use Google's election results for his map tracking the results of Iowa's GOP caucus for three reasons: — Google's data were easier to deal with than the files provided by the Associated Press.
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ReadWriteWeb and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »
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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Electronista, Media Decoder and hypebot, more at Mediagazer »
Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:
Nick Denton's 'State of Gawker 2012′ Memo: ‘Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.’ — Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton occasionally sends out missives for his company that usually contain a little bit of insight into the way his company is trending …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Etsy Makes It Easy For Users To Post Items To Pinterest With New ‘Pin It’ Button — Online pinboard Pinterest is all the rage these days, and as Etsy is showing today with its latest product announcement, e-commerce sites are starting to realize the power of pinning.
