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| Chris Matyszczyk / CNET: |
Samsung's Bowl ad claims it can help Apple fanboys break free — Many of the deeply affected have been standing in line waiting to see how Samsung would attack Apple in launching the Galaxy Note. — So here we were, during the Super Bowl, with Apple fanboys and fangirls lining up in San Francisco.
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| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
First Legal Streaming Super Bowl A Success, But Audience Still Denied The Real Show — Lately, we've been seeing more and more big television events come with an online streaming counterpart. Sporting and televised events are showing up online with increasing frequency … | @twitter: |
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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Marketing Land, AllTwitter, The Next Web, Lost Remote, GigaOM, Washington Post, BostInno, VentureBeat, SocialTimes.com and Business Insider. Tweets: @twitter
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good — Founded in June 2005, BTjunkie has been among the top BitTorrent sites for more than half a decade. — The site was never involved in any legal action, and to keep it this way the site's operators decided to shut the site down for good today.| Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
Over 3 years later, “deleted” Facebook photos are still online — Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic. The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content … | Zach Epstein / BGR: |
Samsung's quad-core Galaxy S III reportedly just 7mm thick, set to launch in May — Samsung's next-generation Galaxy S III will reportedly be one of the thinnest smartphones in the world when it is unveiled in the coming months. South Korea's Electronic Times News on Monday cited unnamed sources … | Nick Bilton / Bits: |
Disruptions: Facebook Users Ask, 'Where's Our Cut?' — SAN FRANCISCO — By my calculation, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and chief executive, owes me about $50. — Without me, and the other 844,999,999 people poking, liking and sharing on the site, Facebook would look like a scene …
Tweets: @romenesko
| Clare Jim / Reuters: |
Taiwan smartphone maker HTC sees Q1 revenue falling — (Reuters) - HTC was once the standard bearer of the Android phone but that was 2010 — a long time ago in mobile terms. Now analysts say it faces another weak quarter and an uphill struggle to prove to investors it still retains its innovative touch.
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| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
RedBox Partners With Verizon, Launches Streaming Service — Coinstar subsidiary Redbox today announced a new partnership with Verizon for the launch of a streaming video service. The joint venture will launch in second half of 2012, and be subscription-based and “affordable service …
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| Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
Facebook's Mobility Challenge — Lots of people love their cellphones. Facebook, so far, is not a big fan. — Amid the jaw-dropping financial figures the company revealed last week when it filed for a public offering was an interesting admission. Although more than half …
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| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Busted By The FBI: The Life Of An Elite Teen BitTorrent Uploader — In the early part of the last decade when they were still the innocent side of 15-years-old, one schoolfriend showed another an Iomega ZIP drive (right) full of ‘warez’ - games and software with a big fat zero written on their price tag.
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| Artem Russakovskii / Android Police: |
The Secret Google X Lab May Be Revealed Today (Feb 6), As “Solve For x” Website And YouTube Channel Go Live [Video] — The veil of secrecy surrounding Google's mysterious X lab may be getting pulled back later on today, as evident from new developments around the web in the last couple of days.
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| Michael Kozlowski / Good E-Reader: |
Amazon in the Process of Launching a Retail Store — Amazon sources close to the situation have told us that the company is planning on rolling out a retail store in Seattle within the next few months. This project is a test to gauge the market and see if a chain of stores would be profitable.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Is GigaOM Buying paidContent? — Who wants to pay for paidContent? We'll find out soon, it seems, because the sales process for the pioneering blog and its parent company ContentNext appears to be wrapping up. — But if you were making a bet, you'd get good odds that the most likely buyer … Sponsor Posts
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