Techmeme: Stopped they must be; on this all depends. (The Reddit Admins/reddit)

9:15 PM ET, January 10, 2012

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Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:

Search, plus Your World — Google Search has always been about finding the best results for you. Sometimes that means results from the public web, but sometimes it means your personal content or things shared with you by people you care about. These wonderful people and this rich personal content …

MG Siegler / parislemon:

Antitrust+? — Given my post last night, this will probably sound like piling on. But I'm sorry, it's the first thing that comes to mind. I don't see how it can't. — How on Earth is Google going to avoid antitrust inquiries with their new Search+ features announced today?

Discussion: CNET, paidContent, ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Land, @grimmelm, John Battelle's Search Blog, @jpbarlow, The Atlantic Online, BetaNews, AllThingsD, @sg, The Next Web, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Techie Buzz, WebProNews, Hillicon Valley and Softpedia News

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Twitter Complains About Google Giving Preference to Google+ Content — Twitter is now officially speaking out against Google's new search features that give prominent placement to content from its own social network, Google+. — In a statement, Twitter complained that “people, publishers …

Discussion: VentureBeat, @amac, GigaOM, John Battelle's Search Blog, Business Insider, TechCrunch, SiliconFilter, Marketing Land, parislemon and Bits

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google's Results Get More Personal With “Search Plus Your World” — Google's search results are undergoing their most radical transformation ever, as a new “Search Plus Your World” format begins rolling out today. It finds both content that's been shared with you privately along with matches …

Discussion: Forbes, Gizmodo, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Engadget, CNET, The Verge, Search Engine Watch, Digits, GSMArena Blog, Inquirer, @manan, Marketing Pilgrim, SiliconFilter and The Next Web

Mike Isaac / Epicenter:
With Search+, Google Fires Another Shot at Facebook

Discussion: Ben Parr's Entrepreneurial …, @miguelrios, Tom Anderson, All Facebook and TechCrunch

The Reddit Admins / reddit:

Stopped they must be; on this all depends. — The freedom, innovation, and economic opportunity that the Internet enables is in jeopardy. Congress is considering legislation that will dramatically change your Internet experience and put an end to reddit and many other sites you use everyday.

Discussion: CNET, The Firewall, Ars Technica, Business Insider, Mashable! and Daily Dot

Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:

Reddit to Black Itself Out Next Week in Protest of SOPA — The popular news-sharing site announced today that it will broadcast a message of protest during next week's hearings. — The Reddit community has been one of the strongest and loudest voices in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act …

Discussion: oversight.house.gov and VentureBeat

Tom Krazit / paidContent:

@ CES: Apple Is Scouting The Competition — Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) famously avoids the biggest event on the tech industry calendar, and given the traffic on Paradise Road this morning you can't exactly blame them. But that doesn't mean Apple isn't scouting the competition in person at CES 2012.

Discussion: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Gadget Lab and iClarified

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Eastman Kodak sues Apple over four and HTC over five digital imaging patents — Eastman Kodak keeps trying to force Apple into a license agreement relating to its portfolio of approximately 1,000 digital imaging patents. It hasn't achieved a breakthrough in an ongoing ITC investigation …

Discussion: The Tech Trade, AllThingsD, CNET, PC Magazine, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, iPhone Savior, Bloomberg, Electronista, The Next Web, MobileBurn.com and 9to5Mac

Sam Biddle / Gizmodo Australia:

Samsung's New TVs Beat Apple To The Voice (And Face!) Recognition Game — Samsung's long made some of the best HDTVs — and now that they're all decked out with 3D and apps, what's left? Beautiful, slim TVs that'll use your voice and face as controls. That rumoured Apple iTV just got jumped.

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
Samsung 2012 SmartTVs will access DirecTV without a set top box, minimalists rejoice

Discussion: GigaOM, CNET and Electronista

Jason Costa / Twitter Developers:

Twitter's new @handle distribution pilot program — Today we introduce a new pilot program for distributing Verified Account @handles and public profile metadata to developers, media and content services, and consumer device manufacturers. The Echo Nest, Gracenote, and Rovi are the first partners …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Marketing Land, FT Tech Hub, The Next Web, The Next Web, AllTwitter, Engadget and WebProNews

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
Twitter gives developers new access to Verified Accounts

Discussion: Guardian and Digital Media Wire

Jason Hiner / Tech Sanity Check Blog:

Tablets: What Amazon and Apple know that all the CES tablet peddlers are still missing — Takeaway: Tablets are everywhere again at CES 2012, but none of them combine the two big reasons why Apple and Amazon tablets have succeeded. — When I wrote about why Android tablets did a faceplant coming …

Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:

Hope To See The Next iPad At CES? You Might, Without Knowing It — Yesterday, one day ahead of the 2012 CES, I saw what's supposedly the next-generation iPad. I'd show you a picture, but there's honestly nothing to be seen. Think iPhone 4 to iPhone 4S: this device so resembles the iPad 2 …

Discussion: Geek.com, Macgasm, Apple Bitch, GigaOM, Redmond Pie, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Electronista, everythingiCafe, Business Insider and iClarified

Bloomberg:

Apple Acquires Israel-Based Flash-Memory Part Maker Anobit — Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. said it acquired Anobit Technologies Ltd., an Israeli company that makes a flash-memory drive part for the iPhone and iPad, confirming a press report from last month.

Discussion: CNET and MacRumors

Stephen Wolfram Blog:

A .data Top-Level Internet Domain? — There's been very little change in top-level internet domains (like .com, .org, .us, etc.) for a long time. But a number of years ago I started thinking about the possibility of having a new .data top-level domain (TLD).

Discussion: TechCrunch and WebProNews

Joanna Stern / The Verge:

Motorola to make Intel-powered phones and tablets, first phone coming in the second half of 2012 — You've read that headline right: Motorola and Intel have inked a multi-year, multi-device partnership, meaning Motorola will be making both phones and tablets powered by Intel's new Medfield, Atom Z2460 processor.

Discussion: AllThingsD, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo, Between the Lines Blog, Engadget, VentureBeat and ces.cnet.com

Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:

Qualcomm Unveils Thinnest, Lightest Mirasol E-reader, The Hanvon C18 — Chinese e-reader maker Hanvon will sell the thinnest and lightest e-reader yet to utilize Qualcomm's energy-efficient mirasol displays, the Hanvon C18. — Hanvon's C18 e-reader is the thinnest and lightest e-reader yet to use Qualcomm's mirasol display.

Discussion: SlashGear, Engadget, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, ONE37, BetaNews, The Verge and VentureBeat

Dan Graziano / BGR:
Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 processor coming to TVs, notebooks, and smartphones early this year

Discussion: The Tech Trade, VentureBeat, Forbes, Mobilized, LAPTOP Magazine, The Seattle Times and SiliconFilter

Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:

Amazon launches new touch-friendly Kindle Store for iPad — Amazon on Tuesday announced a new touch-optimized version of its Kindle online store aimed at the iPad. The touch-friendly shopping experience used to be available only through Amazon's Cloud Reader web-based Kindle reading client …

Discussion: paidContent, Redmond Pie, The Verge, TUAW, TeleRead, Computerworld, App Advice, Engadget, AllThingsD and 9to5Mac

Ben Popper / Betabeat:

Former HuffPo CTO Paul Berry Building New Startup and Incubator With Lerer Ventures — The news broke today that Paul Berry, the longtime CTO of Huffington Post credited with their legendary SEO and early adoption of social networking tools, was leaving the company.

Discussion: paidContent, Mixed Media, AllThingsD, Business Insider and @peretti, more at Mediagazer »

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Comcast Begins Rolling Out ‘AnyPlay’ Live TV Streaming for iPad — Back in September, we reported on a leaked document from cable and Internet provider Comcast revealing details on the company's forthcoming “AnyPlay” live television streaming service. While Comcast is not the first cable provider …

Discussion: Comcast Voices, Computerworld, DSLreports, IntoMobile, Ars Technica, TUAW, Engadget, Technologizer, Macworld and Electronista

Amar Toor / Engadget:

Polaroid announces Android-powered SC1630 Smart Camera, slated for release this year — Here's something we weren't expecting to see at CES today: Polaroid has just announced a new camera... powered by Android. The company's new, 16-megapixel SC1630 Smart Camera features a 3x optical zoom lens …

Discussion: The Verge, ces.cnet.com, Polaroid.com Latest Press, 9to5Google, 1001 Noisy Cameras and GottaBeMobile

Carl Franzen / TPM:

State Dept: Online Piracy Is ‘Very Serious’ But No Stance On SOPA — Spanish newspaper El Pais published a story last Wednesday, January 4, that sent chills down the spines of a number of American tech writers. The story described a leaked letter published by Wikileaks …

Discussion: Techdirt

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

Oracle rolls out big data play with aggressive price, Cloudera — Summary: Oracle comes out with a big data appliance just north of $500,000, a good $250,000 below expectations. Cloudera goes along for the ride. — Oracle said its big data appliance is now available and an aggressive price point means …

Discussion: eWeek, DBMS 2, GigaOM, AllThingsD, TechCrunch and The Register

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

Mobile in-game purchases to hit $4.8B by 2016 — All that virtual currency sold in mobile games is anything but virtual in terms of revenue. Juniper Research, in a new mobile games report, said that worldwide revenues from mobile in-game purchases totaled $2.1 billion in 2011 and is expected to grow to $4.8 billion by 2016.

Discussion: www.pocketgamer.biz, Juniper Research, Juniper Research, Appolicious Advisor and Mobile Marketing Watch

Jason Livingood / Comcast Voices:

Comcast Completes DNSSEC Deployment — I am pleased to announce that Comcast, the largest ISP in the U.S., is the first large ISP in the North America to have fully implemented Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). As part of our ongoing efforts to protect our customers …

Discussion: Deploy360 Programme

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