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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
“Don't Be Evil” Tool — Backed By Facebook & Twitter — Gets Them Into Google's “Search Plus Your World” — I've written that Google has plenty of public data to allow parts its new Search Plus Your World feature to be inclusive of rival social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
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PandoDaily, TechCrunch, Computerworld, 9to5Google, AllThingsD, Marketing Land, parislemon, Pulse2, GigaOM, Macworld, Network World and Webmonkey, Thanks:@blakeross
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
Facebook Coalition To Google: Don't Be Evil, Focus On The User — Last week I spent an afternoon down at Facebook, as I mentioned here. While at Facebook I met with Blake Ross, Direct of Product (and well known in web circles as one of the creators of Firefox).
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Search, Punctuation Marks and Other Symbols — Google usually ignores punctuation and mathematical symbols from a query because it doesn't index them. They rarely change the meaning of a query and Google's index would have to grow a lot bigger, without improving the results too much.
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Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Land
Bradley Horowitz / Google+:
Toward a more inclusive naming policy for Google+ — With Google+, we aspire to make online sharing more like sharing in the real world. And during the Google+ signup process, we've asked users to select the name they commonly use in real life. — Since launch we've listened closely …
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Bits, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Epeus' epigone, GadgeTell, The Next Web and WebProNews
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Lance Ulanoff / Mashable!:
Handle This: Google+ Finally Allows Pseudonyms — The Google+ Common Name policy will never be the same. Google promised it would take a close look at the requirement that only real names and identities reside on its seven-month-old social network, and now the search giant has reversed course …
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ReadWriteWeb
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
350,000 Textbooks Downloaded From Apple's iBooks in Three Days — Though nascent and unproven, Apple's new textbook initiative appears to be gaining lots of momentum — and quickly, too. Within days of its debut, Apple's iBooks textbook store had already racked up a significant number of downloads.
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Lee Rainie / Pew Internet:
Tablet and E-book reader Ownership Nearly Double Over the Holiday Gift-Giving Period — The share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to e-book readers …
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Wall Street Journal:
RIM CEOs Give Up Top Posts in Shuffle — WATERLOO, Ontario—After 20 years together at the helm of Research In Motion Ltd., Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, the company's co-chief executives, turned over the top job late Sunday to a little-known insider as part of a board and management shuffle.
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Tom Krazit / mocoNews:
Denial Is Not A Turnaround Strategy: Why RIM's New CEO Needs To Get Real
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CNET and Toronto Standard
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
New RIM CEO Won't Split Company Up: “I Don't Think There Is a Drastic Change Needed.”
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Wall Street Journal, Engadget, parislemon, The Verge, mocoNews, Globe and Mail, FierceWireless, Redmond Pie, TechCrunch, PadGadget, MarketBeat and Digits
Darren Murph / Engadget:
RIM's new CEO isn't the shakeup it needed
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TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Telegraph, Daring Fireball, Dice Blog Network, YouTube, Guardian, SplatF, PandoDaily, HBR.org, BaltTech and The Verge
Bloomberg:
Nokia Lumia Sales Seen Topping 1 Million — Nokia Oyj (NOK1V)'s first phones running Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) software may have sold enough units last year to help rebuild investor confidence in the Finnish company, which lost $19 billion in market value in 2011.
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Business Insider, GeekWire, eWeek, VentureBeat, CNET, GigaOM, MobileSyrup.com, Seattle Times, The Next Web, AllThingsD, IntoMobile, Electronista and MobileBurn.com
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Cyberlocker Ecosystem Shocked As Big Players Take Drastic Action — While the shutdown last week of Megaupload and the arrest of its founder and management team was certainly dramatic, a situation of perhaps even greater gravity is beginning to emerge. — Over the past 48 to 72 hours …
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Exclusive: YouTube hits 4 billion daily video views — (Reuters) - YouTube, Google Inc's video website, is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 percent increase in the past eight months, according to the company. — The jump in video views comes as Google pushes YouTube beyond …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Our Apple whisper numbers — Averaging the Q1 2012 estimates of the six analysts with the best track records — Whisper numbers, according to Wikipedia, emerge from widening cracks in the spreadsheets maintained by Wall Street analysts. Quoting an article by Daniel Svensson, the entry explains:
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parislemon, MacRumors, CNET, GeekWire and 9to5Mac
Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
Dear Rupert Murdoch: Let's Talk Piracy & “The Simpsons” — Rupert, my son had a simple request. “Daddy, can we watch last week's episode of The Simpsons?” No, son, we can't. You can blame Rupert Murdoch for that. — Rupert, I know you're all upset about all those SOPA & PIPA protests last week.
Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:
Rumor: Apple spent $100 million in its first case against HTC — and got almost nothing — As I reported in this week's Newsweek, Apple's “thermonuclear war” on Android smartphone makers has been fizzling out lately. Most of Apple's legal claims have been tossed out, and the two minor victories Apple …
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9to5Google, MacRumors, BGR and Electronista
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Supreme Court Court Rejects Willy-nilly GPS Tracking — The Supreme Court said Monday that law enforcement authorities might need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor its every move — but the justices did not say that a warrant was needed in all cases.
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CNET, Techdirt, Mashable!, Computerworld, The Not-So Private Parts, Gizmodo, Reuters, TechEye, Ars Technica, Neowin.net, VentureBeat, USA Today and dailywireless.org
Roger Cheng / CNET:
Android will be the platform of choice for developers, study says — It seems the Android momentum can't be stopped. — This guy is everywhere now. — Google's Android will become the preeminent platform for developers over the next 12 months, according to a study by research firm Ovum.
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The Register, Electronista, Ovum and BGR
Jay Greene / CNET:
Google nearly doubles lobbying spending in 2011, tops Microsoft — Google nearly doubled its federal lobbying expenditures last year, surpassing rival Microsoft in dollars doled out to persuade legislators to consider its policy positions. — The Web giant spent $9.68 million in 2011 on federal lobbying …
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Marketing Land, GeekWire and Softpedia News
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Gilt Groupe Cuts Include 10 Percent of Employees and Two Executives — Gilt Groupe, a luxury e-commerce and flash sales site, has trimmed roughly 10 percent — as many as 90 — of its employees, including some of its management team. — Earlier this month, Gilt Groupe CEO Kevin Ryan downplayed rumors …
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VentureBeat, Betabeat and Business Insider
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Evi arrives in town to go toe-to-toe with Siri — When Siri arrived on the iPhone 4S I thought to myself, who else could do this? It would need to be a search engine with natural language processing, but also behave in the manner of artificial intelligence and respond to voice recognition.
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SlashGear, MacRumors, Android Market, Redmond Pie, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, WebProNews and iPhone Hacks, Thanks:@mikebutcher
The Mozilla Blog:
Crowdsourcing the State of the Union — Mozilla partners with public media to empower citizen engagement in U.S. election coverage — Tuesday's State of the Union Address from U.S. President Barack Obama will include something special: crowdsourced captions and subtitles provided by everyday citizens around the world.
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The Next Web, Between the Lines Blog and WebProNews
Michael Geist Blog:
The Behind-the-Scenes Campaign To Bring SOPA To Canada — The Internet battle against SOPA and PIPA generated huge interest in Canada with many Canadians turning their sites dark (including Blogging Tories, Project Gutenberg Canada, and CIPPIC) in support of the protest.
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Ars Technica
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
64GB iPhone 4S takes 21% of sales, 36% of iPhone buyers come from another platform — A new survey of recent iPhone customers found that 21 percent of iPhone 4S buyers chose Apple's highest capacity 64-gigabyte model, while 36 percent of users migrated from another platform like Android, BlackBerry or Palm.
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BGR, Electronista, WebProNews, Gotta Be Mobile and PhoneArena
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
News Aggregator Wavii Wants To “Make Facebook Out Of Google,” Bring Relevant Content To You — The problem of how to find relevant content on the web has yet to be solved on a mass scale. You've got cyborg news aggregators like Techmeme and Google news and social aggregators like Reddit …
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GeekWire, @adpowers, @markpuck, @kristiewells and @ireneros
Tom Loftus / Digits:
T-Mobile, AT&T File For FCC Approval Of Spectrum Transfer — T-Mobile USA and AT&T filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission for approval of the transfer of $1 billion in wireless airwaves AT&T promised as a result of the failure of its $39 billion bid to take over its smaller rival.
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The Verge, Engadget and FierceWireless
Sam Byford / The Verge:
HDR video and improved low-light sensitivity headed to smartphones via new Sony CMOS sensors — New backside-illuminated CMOS sensors from Sony are to allow for greater low-light shooting capabilities, along with the ability to record HDR video. Sony's “RGBW Coding” adds a white pixel to the arrangement …
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CNET, TechCrunch, BetaNews, BGR, Xperia Blog, MacRumors, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, SlashGear and GigaOM
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Joyent grabs $85M from Weather Investment II, Telefonica to take on Amazon in cloud computing — Cloud computing startup Joyent has raised a humongous $85 million round of funding, which will help the company with its plan of out-innovating Amazon in cloud computing technology.
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GigaOM, The Register and Business Insider
