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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Apple to announce tools, platform to “digitally destroy” textbook publishing — Apple is slated to announce the fruits of its labor on improving the use of technology in education at its special media event on Thursday, January 19. While speculation has so far centered on digital textbooks …
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple working with McGraw-Hill on education announcement slated for Jan.19 at Guggenheim
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BGR and Wall Street Journal
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Scott Forstall is Apple's ‘CEO-in-waiting’ says new book — The senior VP's chief weakness, writes Fortune's Adam Lashinsky, is his naked ambition — Jobs and Forstall. Source: AppLecture.com — He's young (43). Comfortable on stage (played Sweeney Todd in high school).
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CNET, 9to5Mac and Business Insider, Thanks:philiped
Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
OK, Gawker, We'll Engage in Your Link Bait for Just One Post — The water cooler chatter from early this morning in PandoDaily's virtual offices (aka email): — Sarah: “We don't want to reference ‘accusers’ before we have them.” — Trevor: “Well by the afternoon, we will have them!”
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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Sarah Lacy Launches Pando Daily, Your New Favorite News Site
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Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS … In this blog post I'd like to talk about a new file system for Windows. This file system, which we call ReFS, has been designed from the ground up to meet a broad set of customer requirements, both today's and tomorrow's …
Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Wikipedia founder defends blackout — Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, has defended the decision to blackout the website tomorrow despite criticism from Twitter's chief executive. — The digital encyclopaedia will voluntarily shut down for 24 hours tomorrow in a protest against internet piracy laws in the United States.
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Ian Paul / PC World:
Log into Gmail on a PC via Your Smartphone — Google recently introduced a fun (and more secure) way to log into your Google account from a public terminal without entering your password into the PC, and instead using your smartphone and a QR code. — The method is similar to how Google sets …
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Google: That QR Login Page is Just an Experiment, “We're Already Working on Something Better”
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Softpedia News and ZDNet
Ben Grubb / The Age:
Aussie wunderkind gets $US250k for technology that could revolutionise web — He is 16, an Australian living in London and recently scored $US250,000 in investment from a billionaire for a technology that could change the way we read emails, news articles or any other text on our computers.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Troubling Google Contractor Allegedly Caught Vandalizing Open Street Map — The official blog of Open Street Map reports tonight that someone at a range of Google IP addresses in India has been editing the collaboratively made map of the world in some very unhelpful ways …
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The Register, OpenGeoData, Techdirt, Softpedia News and SlashGear
Miyoung Kim / Reuters:
Samsung Group plans record $41 billion investment in 2012 — (Reuters) - Samsung Group, which includes Samsung Electronics Co, said on Tuesday it is raising its 2012 investment to a record $41.4 billion, underscoring the widening gulf between the dominant South Korean conglomerate and its faltering competitors.
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Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:
Apple Files German Design Lawsuit Against Ten Samsung Smartphone Models — Apple Inc. (AAPL) filed another suit in Germany, seeking to ban sales of Samsung Electronics (005930) Co.'s smartphone models, including the Galaxy S Plus and the S II. — The suit targeting 10 smartphones was filed …
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Dan Lyons / The Daily Beast:
Even Woz Thinks the Android Bests the iPhone — Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak still loves his iPhone, but says in some ways, Android has leapt ahead. Wow. — Apple CEO Steve Jobs hated the Android smartphone operating system so much that he vowed he would spend his last dying breath …
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Facebook Open Graph Actions Are Coming This Wednesday — Facebook will on Wednesday launch the Open Graph applications it first debuted last September, sources told AllThingsD. These are the apps made by outside developers that “frictionlessly” and continuously share users' actions …
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The Next Web, WebProNews and ITworld.com
Daniel Frankel / paidContent:
Netflix Hit With Class-Action Suit By Angry Investors — Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has been hit with a class-action suit by a group of disgruntled investors who claim the online movie-rental chain withheld information from them prior to its steep stock-price plunge over the late summer and fall.
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Between the Lines Blog, Fast Company, The Wrap and The Next Web
John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
What Might A Facebook Search Engine Look Like? — (image) Dialing in from the department of Pure Speculation... As we all attempt to digest the implications of last week's Google+ integration, I've also be thinking about Facebook's next moves. There's been plenty of speculation in the past …
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Techland and Business Insider
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Former First Round Capital VC Charlie O'Donnell Launches New Brooklyn-Based Venture Firm — A new venture firm is launching in Silicon Alley today. VC Charlie O'Donnell, who has worked as at both First Round Capital and Union Square Ventures, is launching his own venture firm today, New York-based Brooklyn Bridge Ventures.
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Business Insider, GigaOM, AllThingsD, Thisisgoingtobebig.com, Redeye VC and Laughing Squid
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Samsung and Apple looking at new waterproof smartphone tech — A new technology that could save your phone from getting water damaged could be included the next wave of smartphones about to be made by Samsung and Apple. — Called HZO, the technology creates a nano-scale film barrier …
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The inneractive Blog, O'Grady's PowerPage, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, iPhone Alley, Android Phone Fans, Know Your Mobile, T3 News, Techie Buzz, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, TUAW, The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog, GigaOM, WebProNews, The Next Web, everythingiCafe, MacRumors, PhoneArena, iClarified and Macgasm, Thanks:stuartmiles
Zach Epstein / BGR:
America's first Nokia Windows Phone already free on contract — Nokia's first Windows Phone-powered smartphone to launch in the United States is already available for free on contract. Nokia and T-Mobile unveiled the Nokia Lumia 710 last month and confirmed that while the handset is certainly …
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Phones Review, IntoMobile and Softpedia News
Daniel Frankel / paidContent:
Why UltraViolet Produced More Questions Than Answers At CES — The UltraViolet initiative left the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week with an important new retail channel in Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), a new marketing partnership to launch an upcoming ad blitz, and some splashy …
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
The Year Of The Dumb And Dumber, Sub-$100 Smartphone - 500 Million Of Them — We've heard about how the boom in smartphone popularity, the dropping cost of components and the rapid rise of Android, a “free” smartphone OS, has led to a number of handset makers driving down the price for smartphones …
Cornelius Rahn / Bloomberg:
Europe Seeks to Prevent U.S. Dominating Cloud — European governments, determined not to lose another technology battle to the U.S., are giving domestic companies a leg-up in the cloud. — France set up a venture in November with companies including France Telecom SA (FTE) and Thales SA …
