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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Live from Nokia's CES 2012 press conference — Nokia unveils its next big thing at CES 2012 — Now Bjork is playing. Sounds like some kind of dub remix. One of our developers is obsessed with Bjork. He probably has this on vinyl. — As you might have guessed, there's a lot of color in the room.
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nokia Lumia 900 LTE Windows Phone announced on AT&T — Nokia's Lumia 900 LTE Windows Phone is official. We've witnessed speculation and leaks over the past few weeks, but Nokia CEO Stephen Elop unveiled the device on stage at CES 2012 today. — Developing... LUMIA 800 LUMIA 900 NOKIA CELLPHONES
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VentureBeat, BGR, Gizmodo, GeekWire, IntoMobile, CNET and MacNN
Anton D. Nagy / pocketnow.com:
Nokia Lumia 900: First Official Images — We're just hopefully a couple of minutes away from the AT&T event in Las Vegas where everyone expects the carrier to unveil the highly anticipated Nokia Lumia 900 (aka Ace). — We can now not only see the official, though minuscule, renders of the phone …
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Business Insider, PhoneArena, SlashGear and Neowin.net
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Vimeo shows slick new video apps for Android, Windows Phone, iPhone, iPad
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GeekWire, PC World, LAPTOP Magazine, Mashable!, GottaBeMobile, Engadget, Redmond Pie, GigaOM, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup.com, Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile, The Next Web, 9to5Google and The Verge
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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Bits, GigaOM, The Next Web, CNET, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Macgasm, PC Magazine, ONE37, Epicenter, Wired.co.uk, Geek.com, The Sociable, Softpedia News, WebProNews, paidContent, Pulse2, GigaOM, Engadget, Inquirer, BBC, VG247 and Hacking NetFlix, more at Mediagazer »
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Sam Byford / The Verge:
Lovefilm undercuts Netflix in the UK with new £4.99 streaming-only pricing
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TechCrunch Europe, PadGadget, ITbriefing.net, Guardian, Eurogamer.net • … and Business Insider
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Fusion Garage Disintegrates: Founder Creating New Company For Lots More Fraud? — Last month Fusion Garage, a Singapore startup that has defrauded just about everyone and everything it has come in contact with, had a huge flameout when they were publicly fired by both their law firm and PR firm.
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@jyarow and @arrington
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Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
Fusion Garage, The Guys Behind The CrunchPad, Are Officially Done And Owe Creditors $40 Million
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Pulse2 and Liliputing
Antonio Rodriguez / The Grain:
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.
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Tom Foremski and BetaNews, Thanks:semil
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.
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ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, eWeek, Between the Lines Blog, PC Magazine and Engadget
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Nancy Gohring / PC World:
AT&T Joins OpenStack — AT&T became the first U.S. telecom …
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GigaOM, IntoMobile, Network World and CloudAve
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
IPhone breathing down neck of Android in U.S. — The iPhone 4S, along with cheaper older models, has helped Apple close the distance on Google's Android, drawing within a few percentage points in recent smartphone sales market share in the U.S., according to the NPD Group.
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Fortune, Business Insider, parislemon, Business Insider, Chitika Insights, MacDailyNews, CNET, TechCrunch and Appolicious Advisor
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.
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Epicenter, TechCrunch, The Verge, Business Wire, Electronista, Media Decoder, ONE37, MarketWatch, GeekWire, WebProNews, Engadget and 9to5Google
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
OnLive Goes Beyond Gaming: Announces Cloud-Based Windows 7 Desktop for the iPad — Here is some unexpected news from CES: OnLive, the company best known for streaming video games over the Internet, just announced that it will release a new iPad app later this week that will give users access …
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Engadget, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, MacRumors, CNET, VentureBeat, Digits, TUAW, The Next Web, GigaOM, Lifehacker and PC Magazine
Matt McGee / Marketing Land:
Tebow-Mania Hits Twitter: More Tweets-Per-Second Than Bin Laden, Steve Jobs & Beyoncé's Pregnancy — Among the many miraculous things Tim Tebow has done, we can now add this: a record for the most sports-related tweets per second. — It happened yesterday during …
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Business Insider, @twitter, Mashable!, The Next Web and CNET
Dong Ngo / CNET:
Netgear Media Storage router makes Apple Time Capule so last year — The one of a kind Media Storage Router (WNDR4700) from Netgear. — (Credit: Netgear) — LAS VEGAS - Apple Time Capsule, Netgear is about to open a can of “so yester-year” on you! — The networking vendor announced today …
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LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, CNET, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and The Verge
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Tim Cook's Total Compensation For 2011 Is Almost $400 Million — 2011 was a very good year for Apple CEO Tim Cook. According to the company's proxy statement, he got $378 million in total compensation. As you can see in this table from the proxy statement, Apple's other executives we well taken care of, too.
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9to5Mac, Apple and @emilychangtv
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 …
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VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, PadGadget, PhoneArena, ITworld.com and FierceVoIP
Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Samsung Galaxy Note announced for AT&T (hands-on pictures and video) — AT&T has just announced that it'll be bringing the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note to the United States, a beastly half-phone, half-tablet that spans the divide between two white-hot product segments.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Wired, GottaBeMobile, The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog, Electronista, WebProNews, AT&T and IntoMobile
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 …
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Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb, The Firewall, Techland, WebProNews and MarketingVox News & Trends
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.
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.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Seeds iOS 5.1 Beta 3 to Developers, Restores ‘Enable 3G’ Toggle — Returning from a holiday break, Apple today seeded iOS 5.1 Beta 3 to developers to allow for further testing of the next update to the company's mobile operating system. The new version arrives as Build 9B5141a …
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CNET, @davezatz, Engadget, Phones Review, 9to5Mac, BGR, MacStories and MacNN
Arne Hess / the::unwired:
UNVEILED: Huawei announces world's slimmest Android smartphone - the Huawei Ascend P1 S — At today's starting Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Huawei is unveiling the world's slimmest smartphone - the Huawei Ascend P1 S. The device is 6.68 mm thin and features a 4.3" …
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Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
Brocade gets first-round bids for sale: sources — (Reuters) - Brocade Communications System Inc has received first-round bids from a handful of potential buyers as the company explores a sale, sources familiar with the matter said. — The San-Jose, California-based maker of switches …
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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 …
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Business Wire, TechCrunch, Computerworld, 9to5Google, GigaOM, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, PC Magazine, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, Computerworld, paidContent and Techland
Amar Toor / Engadget:
Dish Network announces Hopper DVR system, Joey set-top box, launches broadband, Test Drive services — Dish Network just made a slew of big announcements at its CES press conference today, introducing the Hopper HD DVR system, the corollary Joey set-top box, and a new, TV Everywhere-based Test Drive service.
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Between the Lines Blog, CNET, Gizmodo, Social Markets and L.A. Times Tech Blog
