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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 …
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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?
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 …
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Google+, TechCrunch, John Battelle's Search Blog, Daily Patricia, @amac, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Marketing Land, Reuters, GigaOM, parislemon, SiliconFilter and Bits
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Schmidt: Google+ Not Favored, Happy To Talk Twitter & Facebook Integration — Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt says Google+ content is not being favored over Twitter and Facebook by Google's search engine. Rather, those companies can be treated the same if they grant Google the right permissions to access their content.
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parislemon and ces.cnet.com
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi:
Google says (on Google+, of course) that it is “surprised” by Twitter's angry response to Google+ results in search: http://t.co/VQRxpfL7
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TechCrunch, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Digital Trends, @alexia, parislemon, @alexia, @mathewi, @lizgannes, @dannysullivan and @mathewi
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google's Results Get More Personal With “Search Plus Your World”
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The Verge, Forbes, Gizmodo, Digits, Search Engine Watch, CNET, Engadget, Inquirer, @manan, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TechCrunch, Marketing Pilgrim, VentureBeat, SiliconFilter and The Next Web
Poornima Gupta / Reuters:
Exclusive: Dell plots late-2012 consumer tablet launch — (Reuters) - Dell Inc intends to launch its first consumer tablet computer in late 2012, marking its entry into a hotly contested and increasingly crowded arena that has already claimed arch-foe Hewlett Packard.
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VentureBeat, The Verge, Windows 8 Tablet Forum and The Next Web
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Agam Shah / PC World:
Dell Announces XPS 13, Its First Ultrabook — Dell on Tuesday announced its first ultrabook, the XPS 13, making some noise amid a smaller presence at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas compared to previous years. — The laptop looks much like Apple's MacBook Air, has a 13-inch screen and weighs 2.99 pounds (1.35 kilograms).
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Engadget, BGR and VentureBeat
Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook:
Breaking: Sponsored Stories begin to appear in News Feed — Facebook is now showing Sponsored Stories in users' News Feeds, a Facebook spokesperson tells us. These paid units include a subtle indication that the post is “Featured.” However, to respect the user experience …
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CNET, Friending Facebook Blog, The Next Web, Marketing Land and @joshconstine
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Rolling Out News Feed Ads Ambiguously Marked “Featured”
Thanks:joshconstine
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.
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LAPTOP Magazine, Guardian, AllThingsD, The Register, VentureBeat, Inquirer, ces.cnet.com, Between the Lines Blog, Engadget, Mashable!, mocoNews and Ars Technica
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Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech:
Intel's Medfield SoC unveiled, x86 Android phones from Motorola and Lenovo incoming
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The Verge, Wall Street Journal and Windows 8 Tablet Forum
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Motorola CEO: We're Going to Release Fewer Phones This Year
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The Verge, PhoneArena, Android and Me and Pocketables
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.
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Macgasm, CNET, Edible Apple and MacRumors
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Exclusive: Windows 8 pre-beta hands-on video and pictures — Microsoft is well on its way to providing a public beta copy of Windows 8, and we got an early hands-on with a pre-beta version of the operating system today. Windows 8 build 8175 is on show at CES 2012, and Microsoft is demonstrating …
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Pocketables, Business Insider, @tomwarren, VentureBeat, Liliputing, Forbes and Windows 8 Tablet Forum
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 …
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T3 News, Redmond Pie, Macgasm, Geek.com, everythingiCafe, Apple Bitch, GigaOM, Electronista, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Business Insider and iClarified
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm on Pricing, LTE, iPhone — With the AT&T deal dead and no similar transaction in sight, T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm has his work cut out for him. — So just what is he going to do? — Well, some of the details are still being worked out.
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PC World, Mobilized, PhoneArena and DSLreports
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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
T-Mobile CEO says frequency band issue is ‘key reason’ for lack of iPhone
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Mobilized and AllThingsD
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.
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Reuters, Gadget Lab, 9to5Mac, MacRumors 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 …
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CNET, Computerworld, PC Magazine, AllThingsD, Electronista, MobileBurn.com, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, The Next Web, The Tech Trade, iPhone Savior and 9to5Mac
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Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:
Samsung outs new Chromebooks, Chromebox for April ship — Specs and price are similar to ast models but these are much better looking with a aluminum shells and thinner profile. — Perhaps most interesting (and fitting to the mission of Chrome) is the Chrome Box, a Mac Mini-looking ChromeOS device …
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Gizmodo, Engadget and Liliputing
Want China Times:
Indignant workers threaten suicide at Foxconn park in Wuhan — About 300 Foxconn employees threatened to kill themselves on Jan. 2 after being denied compensation they were promised by the company. (Internet Photo) — According to the Chinese anti-government website China Jasmine Revolution …
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Kotaku, Destructoid, MCV: Home Stream, Digital Trends, Mashable!, @malcolmmoore, WebProNews, PC Magazine, Reuters, Business Insider, ReadWriteWeb, ITProPortal and The Atlantic Wire
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Pegatron said to land next-gen iPad orders as Apple reportedly changes its outsourcing strategy — Let's make it clear: DigiTimes has been coming up with a lot of pretty far out predictions lately. The publication's accuracy and reliability - at least when it comes to reporting Apple rumors - has been disputed more and more.
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DigiTimes, CNET, MacRumors, iClarified, Techland, Electronista and Softpedia News
Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
Samsung 2012 SmartTVs will access DirecTV without a set top box, minimalists rejoice — Samsung's new range of super-thin, super-powerful Smart TVs got another big fillip at CES: the company's teamed up with DirecTV to offer its service without the use of a set top box.
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GigaOM and Electronista
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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 …
