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12:45 PM ET, January 25, 2011

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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Apple Plans Service That Lets IPhone Users Pay With Handsets  —  Apple Inc. plans to introduce services that would let customers use its iPhone and iPad computer to make purchases, said Richard Doherty, director of consulting firm Envisioneering Group.  —  The services are based on …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Aims To Take NFC Mainstream; Perhaps The Greatest Trick They've Ever Pulled?  —  Bloomberg has an interesting report tonight, but they have the headline all wrong.  Apple Plans Service That Lets IPhone Users Pay With Handsets — is technically correct (assuming the report is true …
Discussion: Fortune, Softpedia News and MacStories
Roger Cheng / Digits:
Verizon iPhone: $30 Unlimited Data (for Now)  —  It's official: Verizon is going to offer iPhone buyers a $30 unlimited data plan.  The carrier's heir apparent and chief operating officer, Lowell McAdam, told us the news ahead of the company's meeting with investors.  —  “I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot,” he said.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google To Acquire fflick For $10 Million  —  Back in August we wrote about a neat service called fflick that looked to harness Twitter to power a movie sentiment and recommendation engine, with an added dash of colorful style.  Now the service is getting two big thumbs up from Google …
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Facebook Credits: Virtual Goods Are Just the Beginning
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Why The Verizon iPhone Is Going To Be Huge: Only 26% Of Verizon Subscribers Have Smartphones  —  Apple probably would have been better off if it had started selling the iPhone at Verizon a year ago, as it probably would have stifled Google Android from becoming such a strong competitor.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Verizon's fourth quarter earnings fall short, but wireless subscribers surge
Irina Slutsky / AdAge:
Facebook Turns the ‘Like’ Into Its Newest Ad  —  Say Something About a Brand?  It Could End Up as an Ad in Your Friends' Feeds  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — The ubiquitous “like” is currency for brands, and Facebook is giving them a new way to collect: an ad unit that shows …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
DLD11: James Murdoch On The Daily, Paywalls, Google And Apple  —  James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and currently Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, Europe and Asia, was interviewed on stage at the DLD Conference in Munich, Germany.  —  Murdoch touched on everything …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Justice Department seeks mandatory data retention  —  Criminal investigations “are being frustrated” because no law currently exists to force Internet providers to keep track of what their customers are doing, the U.S. Department of Justice will announce tomorrow.
AWS Evangelist / Amazon Web Services Blog:
Introducing the Amazon Simple Email Service  —  Like most technical endeavors, sending email is a lot harder than it looks!  The simple solutions that are entirely adequate when you have to send a couple of dozen daily emails simply don't work when you need to send out hundreds, thousands …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Developers Report Increased Interest in Android, Tablets for 2011  —  The average developer is now building for four different devices, a joint survey from app development firm Appcelerator and analyst firm IDC has revealed.  Of those multiple devices, building apps for Android tablets …
Nick Farrell / TechEye:
Obama surrenders to Big Content  —  The President of the French-backed terrorist government of the former British colony of Virginia has turned over the control of his country's judiciary to the entertainment industry.  —  In an unusual move, by any country's standards …
Tricia Duryee / eMoney:
Facebook Acquires Mobile Advertising Startup Rel8tion  —  Facebook has acquired Rel8tion and the employees of the nine month-old Seattle-based startup, which has been working under the radar to develop a hyper-local mobile advertising service.  —  Facebook confirmed the acquisition in a statement …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
More codenames provide clues to planned Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV blitz  —  Microsoft filed an International Trade Commission complaint against Tivo in an attempt to stop that company from importing set-top boxes on January 24.  Just another day in Microsoft-litigation land?  Or is there something bigger going on here?
Discussion: TechFlash, SlashGear and WinRumors
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Mahalo 4.0 = Howcast + Quora + About.com  —  Jason Calacanis started Mahalo four years ago as a “human powered search engine,” but the latest version of the site moves completely away from the original idea, and much deeper into web video and “how to” content.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat and MediaMemo
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
HP's New Cloud Products Offer a Flashback to 2009  —  Hewlett-Packard unveiled four new cloud products in what I view as somewhat of a comeback tour for the hardware giant after staying on the sidelines for much of 2010.  However, the four new products, which range from an Infrastructure-as a-Service …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt At DLD11: Google Will Add 1,000 New Employees In Europe  —  In the closing keynote of the DLD Conference in Germany, soon to be former Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage, notably less than a week after passing on the reins of the company to Google co-founder Larry Page.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter Is Blocked In Egypt Amidst Rising Protests  —  Inspired by the recent Tunisian demonstrations against corruption, protesters are filling the streets of Cairo.  And like the protests in Tunisia, the Egyptian ones were partly organized on Facebook and Twitter.
Discussion: The Business Insider
Jared Newman / PC World:
The State of Windows 8  —  Beneath a thin surface layer of established fact about Microsoft's next OS lies a deep pool of rumor and speculation.  We plunge in to test the water.  —  Only Microsoft knows how the next version of its Windows operating system will look and what it will be called …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
‘The Social Network’ nominated for eight Oscars  —  The claim by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin that he was unduly ousted from the social network's early executive team formed the basis for “The Social Network,” the controversial yet acclaimed film about the birth of the company.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Exclusive: Barnes & Noble phasing out the Nook 3G  —  Barnes & Noble may be selling millions of Nook products, but it's sounding like the 3G variant hasn't really done its part to help those figures.  We've received hard evidence from within B&N that the Nook is being discontinued …
Electronista:
Pegatron making 10m initial iPhone 5s, all-out for iPhone 4  —  Pegatron has already earned enough trust from Apple to start manufacturing the iPhone 5, part makers said Monday night.  The company is due to make at least 10 million to 12 million CDMA iPhone 4 units but has reportedly been picked …
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Metro PCS follows Verizon in suing FCC to overturn net neutrality rules  —  Wireless service operator MetroPCS said Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules.  The suit was filed in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals …
Discussion: Hillicon Valley and FierceWireless
The Huffington Post:
Android vs. iPhone In China: Will Google Beat Apple?  —  Google may be winning in China: Not in search—Google's premiere product has been losing market share since the company's clash over censorship with Chinese officials—but in the smartphone market, with Android, Google's open-source mobile operating system.
 
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Cirtas raises $22.5M for cloud storage hardware and gets new CEO
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
First look: New Chrome Webstore app: PostPost brings awesome news …
Joel Spolsky / Stack Overflow:
State of the Stack 2010 (a message from your CEO)
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 Earlier Items: 
Roger Ebert / Roger Ebert's Journal:
Why 3D doesn't work and never will. Case closed.
Fatema Yasmine / The Next Web:
Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion.
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John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
T-Mobile: 10% Of Departing Customers Leave For The iPhone
Discussion: Post Tech and Gearlog
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
25% of files downloaded from The Pirate Bay are fakes
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Kodak's Push for Royalties From Apple, RIM Is Derailed
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple loses buzz, Microsoft gains
Discussion: WinRumors
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
How Microsoft plans to market against the iPad
 

 
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New Jersey Digest:
The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest newspaper, plans to end its print edition on January 30, 2025, citing growing costs and a shrinking demand for print

Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
A broad group of news outlets attracted new subscribers after WaPo's lack of an endorsement for president; The Philadelphia Inquirer gained 4,200+ subscribers

Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg:
Google faces increasing legal challenges from Russia and fines in non-US courts, after YouTube blocked three Russian channels following the invasion of Ukraine
 
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