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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Rumor: Apple Has Another Tablet In The Works. More Like A Mac Than An iPhone. — In the movie Contact, when revealing to main character Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) that there is actually a second space travel machine that was being built at the same time as the first one, but in secret …
Ian Fette / Chromium Blog:
40,000 More Extensions! — One thing that got lost in the commotion of the extensions launch is a feature that is near and dear to my heart: Google Chrome 4 now natively supports Greasemonkey user scripts. Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension I wrote in 2004 that allows developers …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
iPad For Verizon Is Happening, Verizon Source Says (AAPL, VZ, T) — Apple is working with Verizon on a version of its iPad tablet, despite Apple only announcing an AT&T partnership, according to Fox News Channel's Clayton Morris, who just spoke with a Verizon source.
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google Planning Store for Business Apps — Google is developing an online store where it will sell business software from its partners in an effort to ramp up sales of Google Apps, its own suite of business applications, according to a person familiar with the project.
HardMac.com:
Production of ALL iMac 27" Core ix Models Stopped by Apple! — Apple is facing new problems and issues on the production of the iMac 27" Core i5 and i7, and is already announcing to its customers that it will not be able to ship the unit for the expected delivery date.
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Dave McClure / Master of 500 Hats:
Subscriptions are the New BLACK. (+ why Facebook, Google, & Apple will own your wallet by 2015) — I'm on a redeye to NYC, supposed to be working on a presentation i'm giving in a few hours... but f**k it, i can't get this outta my head, so here we go. — (note: extremely raw, uneven …
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
JooJoo CEO pledges to ship this month, claims deal with leading phone maker — During last week's Apple iPad mania, one company was notably silent: Fusion Garage, the 13-person Singapore company that makes the JooJoo tablet, which began life as TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington's CrunchPad.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Could Become World's Leading News Reader (Sorry Google) — From TV to Tivo and Hulu, from the mall to Amazon and eCommerce and from newspaper carriers and delivery trucks to online syndication and subscription - distribution of goods, services and information has changed a lot thanks to the internet.
Niraj Sheth / Digits:
IPhone Loses Market Share in Fourth Quarter — In the last quarter, Apple Inc.'s iPhone did something it's rarely done before: lose market share. — Worldwide, the iconic device accounted for 16.6% of smartphone sales in the fourth quarter, dropping from 18.1% in the third, according to data compiled by ABI Research.
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James McQuivey / paidContent:
In Amazon vs. Macmillan, Amazon Is The Winner — It was a surprising weekend for those of us who had naively imagined that after crossing the River iPad, we might actually get some Elysian rest. But, alas, the fates conspired against us and handed us the curious case of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) vs. Macmillan.
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Nine out of 10 premium-priced PCs sold at US retail is a Mac — Windows 7 did little to slow the Mac's sales trajectory during fourth quarter, according to NPD. Year over year, Apple doubled US retail unit share — from 5 percent to 10 percent — for PCs selling between $500 and $1,000.
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Electronista, DisplayBlog, The Loop, MacRumors, Lockergnome Blog Network, Wall Street Journal, MacDailyNews, Fudzilla, 9 to 5 Mac and LOOPRumors
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Google Chrome steals usage share from IE/Firefox, Win 7 breaks 10% — Net Applications' data for January is out, and there are some interesting trends displayed. — First, the data shows that Google's Chrome browser has managed to snatch usage share from Internet Explorer and Firefox.
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internetnews.com, InfoWorld, BetaNews, Google Watch, Boy Genius Report, Gadgetell, Electronista, Technologizer, Tech Eye, ClipperHouse and Computerworld
Daniel Ko / Korea IT Times:
World's First AMOLED With Touch Function — On January 31, 2010, it was announced that Samsung Mobile Display will begin mass producing the world's first touch function AMOLED panel starting in March. This product is known as Samsung's 3.3 inch WVGA (480X800) resolution AMOLED.
John Cook / TechFlash:
The dot-com bust finally catches up to venture capitalists — It has been about a decade since the bloom fell off the dot-com rose. Many of the employees and entrepreneurs who worked at failed Internet businesses have already moved on, chalking it up as an important life experience.
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Dylan F. Tweney / Epicenter:
Apple's Next Revolutionary Product: iTunes — Apple announced the iPad last Wednesday, and with it added e-books to the menu of content it's selling via iTunes. — But I can't believe that Steve Jobs is going to stop there. — Brian X. Chen and I predicted on Tuesday evening …
Jude Britto / Google News Blog:
Starring stories in Google News — A couple of months back, we launched the Custom Sections Directory feature in Google News to allow users to set up sections on topics of their interest, and to share them with other users. — Today, we are giving users even more options for following stories.
Bo Peabody / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook And Twitter Will Always Be Crappy Businesses — Two weeks ago, we ran an excerpt from a piece the Village Ventures partner Bo Peabody wrote for the Washington Post about how Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks would always be lousy businesses.
Ryanarter / Mission:
iPad Camera rumor becoming a reality? We think so. — Hello all- — We received our first shipment of iPad parts today. Here's one of the metal internal frames: — Upon opening them up and getting our hands on some of these rare items, we immediately noticed what appears to be a “spot” for a camera within the iPad frame.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
AP & Google Reach A Deal - Sort Of — Google and the Associated Press have reached an agreement allowing Google to continue using AP content. But whether this is a long-term agreement replacing the one that expired last month is unclear. And despite the agreement, AP stories won't be hosted by Google News any time soon, it seems.
Michael Gartenberg / Engadget:
Entelligence: Lessons from the iPad launch — Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he'll explore where our industry …
Gizmodo:
Zune Phone to Debut at MWC, Will Use Nvidia Tegra — Spanish blog MuyComputer claims that Microsoft will present the Zune Phone this February, at the MWC in Barcelona. According to them, it's 100% confirmed. Since the Zune Phone will use Tegra, Nvidia will team with Microsoft for the anti-JesusPhone debut.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft's Azure cloud is officially open for business — As of February 1, Microsoft officially jumps into the cloud-computing frey and now is charging customers for developing and running apps in its Azure cloud. — Microsoft has been working on Azure for more than three years …
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Platform Notifications Going Away March 1st — Facebook has just posted an update to its Developer Roadmap with a new date for the end of application notifications: March 1st. On that date, both application-to-user and user-to-user notifications will be no longer.
Netflix:
Netflix Adds Hundreds of Indie Films That Can Be Watched Instantly Through a String of New Streaming Deals — Agreements Add Meaningfully to Company's Reputation as a Great Source of Independent Film for Both Members and Distributors — Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) today announced deals …
Jeffrey Zeldman / Jeffrey Zeldman Presents …:
Flash, iPad, Standards — Lack of Flash in the iPad (and before that, in the iPhone) is a win for accessible, standards-based design. Not because Flash is bad, but because the increasing popularity of devices that don't support Flash is going to force recalcitrant web developers to build the semantic HTML layer first.
