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Stefan Magdalinski / Mocality Kenya:
Google, what were you thinking? — I'm very proud of the business that we've created here at Mocality, but I'm especially proud of two things: — Our crowdsourcing program. When we started this business, we knew that (unlike in the UK or US, where you can just kickstart your directory business …
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Busted: Google gets caught scraping Kenya's biggest business listings database — When Google enters a new market, it likes to fully commit itself to its work and building its services. However, when it entered Kenya and attempted to help get Kenyan businesses online, it seems to have gone above and beyond the call of duty.
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The Atlantic Wire, Search Engine Land, SlashGear and Slashdot
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Updated: ‘Mortified’ Google To Act On Those Who Poached Rival's Clients — Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has “apogised unreservedly” after its Kenyan outfit poached customers from a rival business directory by systematically accessing its database. — The CEO of local business directory startup Mocality …
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Guardian and SiliconFilter
Jim Forsyth / Reuters:
Author of U.S. online piracy bill vows not to buckle — (Reuters) - The lawmaker behind a bill to combat online piracy vowed on Thursday to press ahead in the face of fierce criticism from Internet giants such as Google and Facebook. — “It is amazing to me that the opponents apparently …
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Jamie Lee Curtis Taete / Vice:
The Author of SOPA Is a Copyright Violator — Wanna spend your Thursday night looking for hypocrites on the internet? Help us expose other SOPA-supporting, copyright-flaunting hypocrites here. US Congressman and poor-toupee-colour-chooser Lamar Smith is the guy who authored the Stop Online Piracy Act.
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DSLreports, Plagiarism Today, TorrentFreak and Mashable!
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Author of Controversial Piracy Bill Now Says ‘More Study’ Needed
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The Verge, Techdirt, ReadWriteWeb, Threat Level, ReadWriteWeb, Social Media, Policy Blog, Electronista, Computerworld, CircleID, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Ars Technica and The Domains
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
As SOPA/PIPA Becomes Toxic, Frantic Congress Test Runs Dropping DNS Blocking Provisions
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Facebook Finds Quieter Ways to Complain About Google's Search+ — While Twitter lead the charge this week in publicly and unequivocally blasting Google's new promotion of Google+ in its search results, Facebook stayed quieter. — Well, on the surface. Multiple stories about Google …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
OnLive Desktop for iPad Now Available on App Store — OnLive's virtual Windows 7 / Office app for the iPad has arrived on the App Store. As we reported earlier this week, OnLive Desktop offers iPad users access to full-featured versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
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BetaNews, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, PadGadget, SlashGear, Apple Bitch, Engadget, ZDNet, Redmond Pie, The Register, PhoneArena, Phones Review, The Verge and MacNN
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Hands-On With OnLive's Windows 7 iPad App: Nice Tech Demo, Not That Useful Yet
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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Lumia 900 to be released in March, says Nokia developer newsletter — When Microsoft and Nokia announced that the Lumia 900 is coming to AT&T, the best either company would give us for a release date was in “the coming months.” However, apparently the message that they need to keep things vague …
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Christina Bonnington / Gadget Lab:
Why Windows Phones Are the Most Exciting Handsets at CES
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CNET, BetaNews, IntoMobile, GottaBeMobile, CNET, mobilegroove, Fonehome, @maximbark and @dannysullivan
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
iPhone 4S Sales Cancelled at Beijing and Shanghai Apple Stores — Apple has decided to postpone the retail availability of its new iPhone 4S at some stores in mainland China after a rowdy crowd disrupted the device's debut at its Sanlitun store in Beijing. — Would-be customers …
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Zachary Lutz / Engadget:
iPhone 4S launch in China draws large crowds, unnecessary violence and SWAT teams (video)
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BBC, Financial Times, PC World, Reuters, AllThingsD, M.I.C. Gadget, MacRumors, The Tech Trade, Guardian, MacRumors, BGR, The Register, Phones Review, The Tech Herald Technology …, Fudzilla, ifoAppleStore, Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, iClarified, DigiCha, TUAW, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com and 9to5Mac
BBC:
Ex-Apple boss Sculley sets record straight on Jobs — Former Apple boss John Sculley said he enjoyed a great working relationship with Steve Jobs during ‘the good times’ — Apple's former chief executive John Sculley is perhaps best known as the man who first mentored and then clashed with Steve Jobs …
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PC Magazine, AllThingsD, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, Macgasm, mocoNews, SlashGear, Softpedia News, CNET, MacNN and T3 News, Thanks:zackwhittaker
Rupert Murdoch / @rupertmurdoch:
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents — After half a decade of loyal service, The Pirate Bay shut down its tracker in November 2009. — The Pirate Bay argued that BitTorrent trackers have been made redundant by technologies such as DHT and PEX. In addition, The Pirate Bay team …
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Inquirer, Ars Technica, The Verge, Computerworld, The Next Web, Neowin.net, TechSpot, WebProNews, SlashGear and Softpedia News
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
AMD's Lightning Bolt: Low Cost Thunderbolt Alternative for USB 3.0/DP — One of the things I love the most about AMD is the balance it provides to Intel. While I've spent much of CES looking for Thunderbolt products and lamenting the cost of controllers and devices, AMD put together a concept it calls Lightning Bolt.
Amit / Digital Inspiration Technology Blog:
This is the New YouTube Player with Storyboards — The next version of YouTube video player will have one very useful feature - you can hover your mouse to any point in the video, without actually moving the playhead, and the YouTube player will show you an image thumbnail of the video frame at the position.
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Gizmodo, VentureBeat and The Next Web, Thanks:labnol
Don Reisinger / CNET:
RIM hires Goldman Sachs to field buyout offers? — Talk of Research In Motion being acquired just won't go away. But this time, it might be RIM's fault. — The BlackBerry maker has hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to help it field potential buyout offers, according to the rumor mill on the Wall Street trading floor.
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SlashGear, The Verge, mocoNews, AllThingsD, FierceWireless, Between the Lines Blog, PhoneArena and Bloomberg
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Texas Instruments demos first OMAP 5, Android 4.0-based reference design, promises it in laptops next year (video) — Texas Instruments promised us a new helping of OMAP right around a year ago, and sure enough, OMAP 5 processors will be sampling to partners as early as next week.
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9to5Google, Electronista, AnandTech, PhoneArena, Liliputing and India's Technology News …
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
New York City gets a Software Engineering High School — This fall New York City will open The Academy for Software Engineering, the city's first public high school that will actually train kids to develop software. The project has been a long time dream of Mike Zamansky …
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Nicole Perlroth / Bits:
Malicious Software Attacks Security Cards Used by Pentagon — Chinese hackers have deployed a new cyber weapon that is aimed at the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department and potentially a number of other United States government agencies and businesses, security researchers say.
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CNET, The Register, Alienvault Labs, Computerworld and Softpedia News
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
Apple reveals a list of its suppliers for the first time — For the first time ever, Apple has released a list of its official suppliers on its supplier responsibility page. This is significant because Apple has previously been notoriously secretive about who supplies its components.
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GigaOM, New York Times, Bloomberg, AllThingsD, MacRumors, Engadget, MacDailyNews, Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and SlashGear
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Survey: 80% Say Social Networks Had No Influence On Holiday Shopping Decisions — Social networks could one day revolutionize how we get shopping recommendations, but not yet. Instead, tablets are causing the biggest shakeup in ecommerce. 80.2% of 1000 holiday shoppers said no …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
GamesBeat becomes bible of the Games industry: Acquires Bitmob — I'm delighted to confirm that VentureBeat has acquired Bitmob, the respected gaming news site known for its passionate community of users. Bitmob will be integrated with our GamesBeat channel.
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Bitmob.com and IndustryGamers, more at Mediagazer »
