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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Reveals New Touch Screen Technology for iPhone & MacBook Tablet — On January 7, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next chapters for Apple's multi-touch screen technology. Apple's patent generally relates …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Plastic Logic (Finally) Shows Off The Que, Its (Very Expensive) Kindle Competitor — After promising to deliver its take on Amazon's Kindle for a couple of years, Plastic Logic is finally delivering: Here comes the Que Pro Reader, which the company promises is “more than an eReader"-it's a “paperless briefcase.”
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google real-time search: 6 min. to spot quake — At 10:09:36 a.m. PST, a modest but noticeable magnitude 4.1 earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Area. Six minutes later, Google's real-time search system had spotted the activity and spiced up its search results.
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Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Earthquake in the Bay Area? Facebook Real-Time Search Starts to Look More Interesting — Although Twitter has until now owned real-time search results for news events, a minor (4.1) earthquake that hit Palo Alto and other parts of Silicon Valley today shows Facebook's real-time search …
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New York Times:
Despite Risks, Internet Creeps Onto Car Dashboards — LAS VEGAS — To the dismay of safety advocates already worried about driver distraction, automakers and high-tech companies have found a new place to put sophisticated Internet-connected computers: the front seat.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Other HP Slate Runs On Android — Last night, during his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed off a prototype for a new HP Slate computer running on Windows 7. It was supposed to be an Apple-stealing moment and it was Microsoft's moment …
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Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:HP's Windows 7 Slate Device Revealed by Steve Ballmer
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Yukari Iwatani Kane / Digits:
CES: The Network Is Our Top Priority, AT&T Says — AT&T's comments late last year about iPhone owners' data habits set off a firestorm among its customer base, some of whom interpreted it as AT&T being more interested in persuading customers to cut their data usage than in improving its network.
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Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
HTC launching “new category” of smartphone with HTC Smart — This morning HTC announced that it will be releasing a new BREW powered smartphone dubbed the HTC Smart, perhaps better known by its former name the Touch.B/Rome. The goal of the HTC Smart, and future like handsets …
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Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple enables browser-based iTunes music previews — All this Lala.com talk and Apple still won't let us even preview tracks using a Web browser, why? Well, the news here is that that just isn't true any more - Apple has at last fully -enabled Web browser-based song previews of tracks offered for sale via iTunes.
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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Intel Core presser: 32nm Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 CPUs (update: video!) — Intel has just concluded its first CES press event of 2010, dedicated to “announcing” the already well known Arrandale and Clarkdale CPUs. They will be part of Intel's planned 27 total SKUs coming in 2010 …
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Happy birthday to me! I'm joining Google — Yes friends, I'm turning 29 and I've decided to go work for The Man. — In all actuality, I've been mulling over such a move for some time, considering a number of compelling opportunities for my next step. After reviewing my options …
Alex Williams / ReadWriteWeb:
2 Million Downloads and Counting: Why Such Loyalty for Microsoft Office? — In the past seven weeks, more than 2 million people have downloaded the beta for Microsoft Office 2010. That's a whopping 40,000 downloads per day. It's a record breaking pace, surpassing the beta release for Microsoft Office 2007.
Avner Ronen / Boxee Blog:
Boxee Beta Goes Public, Download Now — The Boxee Beta is officially out. You can grab it here. — The Beta is available for Mac, Windows and Ubuntu (including 64bit.. ). The version is still not available for Apple TV, yet, but we are working with the atv-creator community, and look forward to having news on this front.
Martin LaMonica / CNET News:
‘Google Energy’ subsidiary considers clean power — Google took a step toward entering the energy business with the creation of a subsidiary called Google Energy and a request with a federal agency to buy and sell electricity on the wholesale market. — The search giant formed …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Jive Software Acquires Social Media Monitoring Startup Filtrbox — Businesses and brands have already caught onto the immense power of the social stream that runs through Twitter and Facebook to track the pulse of conversations around consumers. Both tech giants and startups are competing …
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
Samsung's 14-inch transparent OLED laptop (video) — If you thought the XPERIA Pureness was wild with its meager 1.8-inch transparent screen, wait'll you get a hold of Samsung Mobile Display's prototype 14-inch notebook — complete with what's being touted as the world's first and largest transparent OLED prototype.
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Breaking Up in a Digital Fishbowl — THERE is a scene in the movie “He's Just Not That Into You” in which Mary, played by Drew Barrymore, laments the numerous technological ways she is being rebuffed by a potential beau. E-mail. Text messages. MySpace. “It's exhausting,” she complains.
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Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
The Real Value of Tweets — Google and Microsoft are paying millions for tweets, but even they can't tell whether their deals will pay off — Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) are paying Twitter $25 million to crawl the short posts, or tweets, that users send out on the micro-blogging service.
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint.com:
Dell confirms Android-powered tablet device — CES 2010: New slate-like 5-incher shown off — Dell has teased with a new tablet/slate PC at its keynote speech at CES in Las Vegas.? — Giving virtually no details, as per usual with Dell's teasers, the new device will get a 5-inch screen size and be Android powered.?
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Sophie Hardach / Reuters:
France to explore “Google tax” to pay creative work — Buzz up! — PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday that he wanted the authorities to explore whether online advertising revenues of major search engines could be taxed in France as well as their home countries.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Microsoft's collaboration on SVG is a win for the open Web — Microsoft's Patrick Dengler, a senior program manager on the Internet Explorer team, revealed this week that Microsoft is joining the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) working group. In a post on the official IE blog …
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Might Dump Google For Microsoft (AOL, MSFT, GOOG) — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong says the company's search deal with Google expires soon, and that while it'd be happy to re-up, Microsoft (MSFT) and others will get a fair chance to earn AOL's business. — “I had a Google sweatshirt on for almost …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Google And On2 Technologies Revise Merger Agreement — In August 2009, Google announced that it had agreed to acquire On2 Technologies for - then - roughly $106 million. At the end of last year, On2 - not for the first time - postponed a meeting at which it had hoped to get shareholder approval for its purchase by Google.
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Kartik Singh / The Official Google Blog:
Chat on Translator Toolkit — Collaboration is an important part of translation. Whether you work with editors to translate documents, customers to clarify terms or project managers to meet deadlines, working with other translators is key to making high-quality translations.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Yahoo Widget Engine gets more traction with MIPS deal — Yahoo is trying to become the de facto leader in putting web pages on the TV. That's why it has cut a deal with MIPS Technologies, the chip design company, which will make it easy to run the Yahoo Widget Engine on TVs and other digital home devices.
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Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook is Building a New Payment Operations Team — Although Facebook has been talking about building a payments service for years, the project has only slowly rolled out. — One big part of payments, its Credits virtual currency, launched more than a year ago and the company began testing …
