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NDH / The Official Netflix Blog:
Netflix Launches in UK, Ireland Today  —  Today we're bringing Netflix to the UK and Ireland.  I am Neil Hunt, chief product officer at Netflix.  I'm proud to have led the product team that brings Netflix to the country where I grew up, after spending most of my career in California.
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Sam Byford / The Verge:
Lovefilm undercuts Netflix in the UK with new £4.99 streaming-only pricing  —  It didn't take long for Lovefilm to respond to yesterday's launch of Netflix in the UK.  It now has an introductory streaming-only subscription price of £4.99 a month for Lovefilm Instant …
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
Boycott SOPA: An Android app that terrifies publishers and politicians  —  Armchair activists now have a tool that can transport their SOPA protestations into the real world: Boycott SOPA, an Android app that scans barcodes and tells you whether an object's manufacturer/publisher is a supporter …
Nick Wingfield / New York Times:
Consumer Electronics Show Loses Clout as Industry Shifts  —  The International Consumer Electronics Show, which will open on Tuesday in Las Vegas, is impossible to ignore.  It will smother the city's gigantic convention center with gadgets and those who make and promote them …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Enterprise Will Spend $19 Billion on Apple Hardware in 2012  —  The “Bring Your Own Device” philosophy spreading through enterprise these days is proving a real boon to Apple.  —  The company is expected to sell $10 billion worth of iPads and $9 billion of Macs to business customers in 2012 …
Christopher Mims / Technology Review:
Microsoft Reinvents Wi-Fi for White Spaces  —  Researchers show that they can make more efficient use of the airwaves than previously thought.  But now Congress has to notice.  —  Microsoft has developed a new kind of Wi-Fi network that performs at its top speed even in the face of interference.
Antonio Rodriguez / The Onda:
Android as we know it will die in the next two years and what it means for you  —  I used to think that, as with Linux and web services in the early part of last decade, Android was going to be the mortar for the Internet of post PC devices— an essential ingredient to put stuff together.
Thanks:semil
Jake Coyle / Associated Press:
Tom Hanks' Web series to stream on Yahoo  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Hanks' long gestating Web series is coming to Yahoo.  —  “Electric City,” an animated futuristic series Hanks has been developing for years, will premiere on Yahoo this spring.  The series includes 20 episodes, each three- or four-minutes long.
Guardian:
Hackers expose defence and intelligence officials in US and UK  —  Security breach by ‘hacktivists’ reveals email addresses of 221 British military staff and 242 Nato officials  —  Thousands of British email addresses and encrypted passwords, including those of defence …
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Why Everybody In Seattle Suddenly Wants To Work For Amazon  —  Amazon has been a cornerstone in Seattle for more than 15 years now, but it wasn't always seen as a great place to work.  —  Employees talked about long hours and a pressure-cooker atmosphere, and the core business — e-commerce — didn't seem very sexy.
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Lenovo launches first Ice Cream Sandwich TV  —  Lenovo is entering the TV business at this year's CES, and it's doing so with a splash: The company announced the world's first TV set running Android 4.0, a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich, Sunday.  The device, dubbed the Lenovo K91 Smart TV …
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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Lenovo IdeaTab S2: a 10.1-inch, dual-core Android 4.0 tablet with keyboard dock attachment
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
How People Watch TV Online And Off  —  At this point, video is just a regular part of the web.  But how is it gaining on regular TV watching.  Just in terms of audience reach, Nielsen estimates that almost 145 million people watch video online in the U.S., compared to about 290 million who watch traditional TV.
Discussion: VatorNews and dailywireless.org
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Ubuntu TV making its debut at CES, gets short demo clip  —  Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth promised that Ubuntu would come to TVs eventually, but we never expected it would arrive so quickly.  A concept preview is here at CES for convention goers to get their eyeballs on and we'll be swinging through …
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
AT&T unveils own APIs for carrier agnostic HTML5 web apps aimed at smartphones and tablets  —  Carrier AT&T is holding its sixth annual Developer Summit at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today, and President and CEO Ralph De La Vega addressed some 2,500 attendees from 33 different countries.
Discussion: Engadget, AT&T and BGR
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Viral Aggregator BuzzFeed Raises $15.5M To Transform The Way People Get Their News  —  Social media optimized and meme focused aggregator BuzzFeed has just raised a $15.5 million round of Series C financing, lead by New Enterprise Associates and followed on by Lerer Ventures, Hearst Media, Softbank and RRE Capital.
Jay Greene / CNET:
Google reportedly faces maximum fine from Korean trustbuster  —  Google could face the maximum fine for allegedly obstructing a Korean investigation of its business practices, the head of the Korean Fair Trade Commission told that country's fourth-largest newspaper.
Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
Fusion Garage, The Guys Behind The CrunchPad, Are Officially Done And Owe Creditors $40 Million  —  The CrunchPad experiment — a $200 tablet for viewing the web — is officially dead.  —  An industry source just forwarded us the first page of a legal document showing Fusion Garage is done.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
LG to launch Android phones with VMware virtualization on Verizon ‘in the coming months’  —  LG's here at CES 2012 showing off VMware virtual Android machines running on a Verizon Revolution — you can have a “personal” phone that you manage yourself, and then hit a button and click …
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Vimeo launches Android, WP7 mobile apps; previews revamped iPhone, iPad apps  —  Popular video sharing site Vimeo has launched slick new mobile apps for Android and Windows Phone 7 devices.  The company is also showing off its upcoming revamped iPhone app and brand-new iPad app at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas.
Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:
Enough with the Samsung bashing  —  Samsung Electronics did about $140 billion in revenue in 2011.  They're the biggest tech company in the world by revenue.  They make everything from cameras to telecom gear to TVs.  They are also the second-biggest semiconductor company in the world …
Zach Honig / Engadget:
ViaSat residential satellite broadband internet hands-on (video)  —  Last Thursday, ViaSat announced pricing for its new home broadband service, which is set to deliver 12 Mbps+ download speeds (3 Mbps+ up) beginning next week for $50 per month.  We just dropped by the company's demo home …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Buy A 1-Year Nook NYT Subscription, Get The Nook Free  —  In Barnes & Noble's largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subscriptions to the Nook editions of People or the New York Times.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
ChangeWave survey finds ‘explosive momentum’ for Apple and Samsung  —  Interest in the Galaxy Nexus is high, but the iPhone still leads in customer satisfaction  —  Click to enlarge.  —  The next few months should be very good for Apple (AAPL) and Samsung — and not so good for HTC and Research in Motion …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel: More than 75 Ultrabooks coming in 2012  —  Intel said today that more than 75 thin laptops known as Ultrabooks are coming in 2012.  —  At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the world's biggest chip maker said that its third generation of Core microprocessors will serve as the brains of the ultra-thin devices.
Galen Moore / Mass High Tech:
Nuance announces Smart TV play called Dragon TV  —  As a race for smart TV heats up, Nuance Communications Inc. aims to make obsolete the domestic battle for control over the TV remote.  With Apple TV and Google TV both reportedly in the works, Burlington-based Nuance (Nasdaq: NUAN) …
 
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Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
Brocade gets first-round bids for sale: sources
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Hipmunk Checks In: Launches Hotel Search For iOS And Android
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
InfoSpace Buys Online Tax Solutions Company TaxACT For $287.5M In Cash
Mark Ballard / ComputerWeekly.com:
Microsoft hustled UK retreat on open standards, says leaked report
Discussion: Computerworld UK and The Next Web
Dante Cesa / Engadget:
OnStar announces ‘closed’ API, developers welcome to apply
Discussion: Shiny Objects and Electronista
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
CES 2012: Tobii technology enables your eyes to control computers
Discussion: The Verge and Gizmodo
 Earlier Items: 
Sam Sheffer / The Verge:
Dish Remote Access app updated, now streams on-demand video on iPad
Discussion: Engadget
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Intel Awaits Microsoft's Next Number
Discussion: @eghosao
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Nintendo purportedly advising developers to not publish digital sales figures
Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:
CES Live: Global Gadget Biz To Be $1 Trillion In 2012 (Updated)
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Belkin Bringing Mobile TV to Lots of Cellphones, Will Anyone Tune In?
Discussion: FierceWireless and Phone Scoop
Antti Vilpponen / ArcticStartup Posts:
Finnish Operator Required To Block Access To ThePirateBay, Among Others