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Nick Farrell / www.itexaminer.com:
Apple to allow Verizon connections — When Jobs is away the cats will play — Apple is certain to allow Verizon to join its elite band of Iphone providers, bringing to an end the exclusive and somewhat stupid exclusivity deal in its biggest market. — Deep throats in Apple claim …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple To Launch iPhone On Verizon Wireless? — So, this is a pretty sketchy report, but fascinating if right. — A Rome-based reporter for the Bangalore-based tech news site ITExaminer.com is reporting that “deep throats” at Apple (AAPL) say “iPhones for Verizon Wireless (VZ, VOD) will be announced soon.”
Richard Jones / Last.fm:
“Techcrunch are full of s**t” — On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who's been listening to the “leaked” U2 album. — I denied it vehemently on the Techcrunch article …
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Snow Leopard screenshots show interface tweaks — A gallery of screenshots from the latest build of Apple's upcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system showcases a handful of minor design tweaks that have been reported around the web in recent weeks.
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OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Build 10A261 Highlights — The latest OS X 10.6 build has multiple observable (some intriguing) changes — World of Apple, which usually posts entire sets of release notes / seed notes the instant Apple makes a new move in the Snow Leopard area, has “refrained” …
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
AT&T rivals seen driving down cost of iPhone service — Tough macroeconomic conditions are causing wireless carriers like Sprint and T-Mobile to become more aggressive with pricing of their monthly service plans, a move which could ultimately help drive down the cost of owning an iPhone.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:Analyst: iPhone benefits from carrier rate war
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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
iTunes Concept Shows How iPhone App Management Should Have Worked From the Start — Add, delete, rate, and move—these are your app options on the iPhone. This interface concept, though, puts full app management within iTunes, and makes us wonder why it wasn't there in the first place.
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VentureBeat, The Apple Core, AppScout, MobileCrunch, textually.org, last100, Electronista, Out of the Box, Electronic Pulp and digg.com
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Surprise: America is No. 1 in Broadband — There is a constant refrain that the United States is falling behind in broadband, as if the speed of Internet service in Seoul represents a new Sputnik that is a challenge to national security. — It's certainly true that in some countries …
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Ars Technica, Between the Lines, GigaOM, dailywireless.org, blogs.chron.com, GottaBeMobile.com, Gizmodo, Gearlog, Zoli's Blog, Obsessable, DSLreports and New York Times
Wall Street Journal:
Information Wants to Be Expensive — Newspapers need to act like they're worth something. — With newspapers in cities across the country on the brink, an old idea is being resurrected in the hope of saving them: They should charge for access to their journalism on the Internet.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Music Industry Orders BitTorrent Blackout — Last month, Eircom announced that at the behest of the music industry it will disconnect customers who are allegedly sharing copyrighted material. Initially the ISP planned to stand up for its customers in court.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo News Head Khemlani Departs for Hearst as VP Digital Media — [UPDATED: With Hearst press release confirming the move at the bottom.] — Neeraj Khemlani (pictured here), Yahoo's general manager and executive editor of news, is set to leave his job-right in the midst of a major restructuring …
Tim O'Reilly / Forbes:
Why Kindle Should Be An Open Book — Unless Amazon embraces open standards, the Kindle's lead will become a very short story. — SEBASTOPOL, Calif. — The Amazon Kindle has sparked huge media interest in e-books and has seemingly jump-started the market.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Yahoo Management Structure: Who Is In and Who Is Out? — On Friday, BoomTown first reported that new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is likely to be announcing a sweeping new management structure soon, which can only mean the possibility that some existing top execs are likely to be broomed out, even as some new ones are ushered in.
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Industry Standard, Silicon Alley Insider, Contentinople, Search Engine Land and Gawker, Thanks:atul
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Red Dog: Can you teach old Windows hounds new tricks? — It has been four months since Microsoft took the official wraps off its cloud-computing initiative. Yet still relatively little still is known about the Azure platform and plans. — The part of Azure which intrigued …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T pulls Quickfire handsets from shelves, floor — We got a couple tips this morning that AT&T has issued a notice to all store managers to stop selling AT&T Quickfires, and they've even been asked to pull the demo handsets from the floor. We heard the reason that AT&T is bailing on the phone is due to “quality issues”.
Mike Shields / Adweek:
Facebook Grapples With Revenue and Data — Ascending social net mulls app taxing and community liaison post/board — A few weeks ago, the social application developer Slide announced that movie and TV star Ashton Kutcher would headline an original Web series on Facebook.
Brian Prince / eWeek:
Survey: Axed Employees Often Walk Out with Corporate Data — A study of people who left or lost their jobs in 2008 found close to 60 percent kept corporate data after leaving. The survey, performed by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Symantec, included more than 900 responses and found …
Nielsen Wire:
TV, Internet And Mobile Usage In U.S. Continues To Rise — Viewing of video on television, Internet and mobile devices — the Three Screens — continues to increase and has hit record levels. Nielsen's fourth quarter A2/M2 Three Screen Report reports that the average American watches …
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Who's Advising Tom Friedman? I Have a Guess — A lot of people have been expressing their surprise and disappointment in the recent writings of Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist who has, inarguably, become one of the nation's most influential journalists over the past decade.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple's growing cash hoard — Two days before Apple's (AAPL) annual meeting — the first in more than a decade that Steve Jobs won't attend — Financial Alchemist's Turley Muller offers beleaguered shareholders a statistic that should provide some comfort: — Apple's cash holdings have grown …
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
iPhone apps for Lady Gaga, Pussycat Dolls and other UMG artists — Interscope Geffen A&M is launching iPhone applications for five of its key artists, through a partnership with mobile firm Kyte. The five are Lady Gaga, the Pussycat Dolls, Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, the All American Rejects, and Keri Hilson.
Nick Broughall / Gizmodo Australia:
Hands On With The Kogan Agora Android Phone Prototype — Just in case you thought the entire Kogan Agora smartphone was a play in the game of marketing chess some companies tend to play, tonight I managed to get some hands-on time with one of the prototypes. And I liked it.
APC:
Sol's stolen phone wiped remotely … Where are the leaked screenshots of the supposedly top secret Windows Mobile 6.5? After last week's pick-pocketing theft of a handset given to Telstra head honcho Sol Trujillo we'd be expecting someone, somewhere to be leaking details of the latest mobile OS from Redmond.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Oscar's YouTube No-Show — Looking for highlights of last night's Oscars on YouTube? Good luck. — That's because ABC, which broadcast last night's show, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which produces the event, don't want clips of last night's show on the world's biggest video site.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Associated Press Considers Locking Up Its Online Content — You can almost hear Reuters, CNN, UPI and a few others laugh maniacally over the news that the Associated Press is considering locking up its content. The Associated Press has a pretty long history of not having much of a grasp …
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Wayne Schulz / Gear Diary:
Mini USB to Micro USB adapter solves BlackBerry charger incompatibility issues - $1.94 — You can explain all you want about how Research in Motion had to switch from Mini USB to Micro USB (comparison photo here) to save space on their new BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry 8220 and BlackBerry Curve 8900.
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
MSI unveils new X-Slim models ahead of CeBIT — We certainly aren't tired of the X-Slim 320 laptop from MSI, with its Air-like form-factor in less expensive and slightly more practical packaging — it's still many moons away from release, after all. Despite that, MSI felt the need to announce …
