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Reuters:
Exclusive: Verizon to take on Netflix with Web service — (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc plans to launch a standalone service allowing customers to stream movies and television shows over the Web, in a fresh challenge to Netflix Inc and the traditional cable TV business, according to several people briefed on the plan.
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Dirk Dougherty / Android Developers Blog:
10 Billion Android Market Downloads and Counting — [This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] — One billion is a pretty big number by any measurement. However, when it's describing the speed at which something is growing, it's simply amazing.
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Phil Nickinson / Android Central:
A slew of popular apps suddenly are 10 cents in the Android Market
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The Verge, PalmAddicts, Electronista, Gizmodo UK, IntoMobile and MobileSyrup.com
Jay Greene / CNET News:
Microsoft works to lure devs by taking less for app sales — Microsoft's Antoine Leblond at the unveiling of the Windows Store app marketplace. — SAN FRANCISCO—In a bid to lure developers to its upcoming application store for Windows, Microsoft revealed a new pricing scheme designed to undercut rivals' marketplaces.
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Shiny Objects, AppleInsider, MSDN Blogs, WinRumors, The Register, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, AllThingsD and Neowin.net
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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Windows Store launch details: late February, $1.49 minimum price, 80% revenue share after $25K sales
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PC World, WinRumors, TechCrunch, MSDN Blogs, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Within Windows, All about Microsoft Blog, GeekWire, Seattle Times, BetaNews, Neowin.net, T3 News, The Windows Blog and LiveSide.net
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Microsoft confirms Windows 8 public beta coming February 2012
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SlashGear and netbooknews.com
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Flipboard launches sleek iPhone app with new ‘Cover Stories’ section — Popular iPad news reading application Flipboard has made the move to the iPhone and while it retains its smart and simple design, it also has added a new Cover Stories section to boot. — Flipboard's application …
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Flipboard CEO's new media mission: ‘crawl the social networks’
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CNET News and MacStories
Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Isn't it ironic: Google Wallet “closed” on the airwaves Google lobbied the FCC to keep “open” — About four years ago, Google was in activist mode, campaigning the FCC to force our wireless airwaves “open”, serving consumers' interests above those of wireless operators.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Verizon Couldn't Be More Full Of It — Yesterday news broke …
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Softpedia News, Computerworld, eWeek, Network World, Ars Technica, NFC World, Forbes, CNET News, Electronista, The Verge, Neowin.net, 9to5Google and Pulse2
Curtis Cartier / The Daily Weekly:
Crystal Cox, Oregon Blogger, Isn't a Journalist, Concludes U.S. Court—Imposes $2.5 Million Judgement on Her — A U.S. District Court judge in Portland has drawn a line in the sand between “journalist” and “blogger.” And for Crystal Cox, a woman on the latter end of that comparison, the distinction has cost her $2.5 million.
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Gary Ng / iPhone in Canada Blog:
Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino, Reveals Stunning Renderings — Steve Jobs surprised the Cupertino City Council when he personally showed up to explain and debut plans for a new massive Apple Campus 2. The original campus plans were submitted back in the summer …
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Pocket-lint, CNET News, AppleInsider and MacRumors, Thanks:iphoneincanada
Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog:
Facebook flaw allows access to private photos — Summary: A flaw in Facebook allows users to access private photos that are hidden from view, through no less than the social network's own image reporting tool. — Reporting features in Facebook apparently can allow users to access personal …
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Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog:
Facebook acknowledges photo privacy bug; Issues immediate fix
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Fox News
Tim Carmody / Wired:
With TVs, Microsoft Is Right and Apple Is Wrong — “The problem with innovation in the television market is the go-to-market strategy,” Steve Jobs told Hillcrest Labs' Dan Simpkins at D8 in 2010. “It's not a problem of technology; it's not a problem of vision; it's a fundamental go-to-market problem.”
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Dice Blog Network, Forbes and The Toybox Blog
Andrew Munn / Google+:
Follow up to “Android graphics true facts”, or The Reason Android is Laggy — Yesterday +Dianne Hackborn posted to Google+ an article that dismissed the common accusation that Android is laggy because UI rendering wasn't hardware accelerated until Honeycomb: — https://plus.google.com/105051985738280 261832/ posts/2FXDCz8x93s
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AppleInsider, App Advice, PhoneArena, Daring Fireball, Android Community, SlashGear, Electronista, ExtremeTech, Redmond Pie and Android Phone Fans
Ed Sutherland / Cult of Mac:
The iPhone Is About To Become The FBI's Newest Crime-Fighting Partner [Exclusive] — The next time you are pulled over by police you may encounter a familiar face: your iPhone. Faster than you can say “Book 'em, Dano,” Apple's handset is quickly becoming law enforcement's favorite tool for identifying unknown fingerprints.
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The Verge and iClarified
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Emoji in iPhones Signals a Shot at Mainstream Success — Say you wanted to invite a friend to happy hour. You could send a simple text message, but that would be boring. Instead, why not send a cartoony picture of two clinking beer mugs? — That's the kind of thing Alicia Fernandez …
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Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
It's a start: Facebook begins Timeline rollout in New Zealand — Screenshot of Timeline (click to enlarge) — Updated. Facebook has officially started rolling out the new Timeline user interface in earnest, some 10 weeks after announcing its imminent release at the f8 conference in September.
Jonathan Chang / Facebook Blog:
Like My Status: Memology 2011 — Each year, millions of people post on Facebook to share what's important to them, discuss world events, or just catch up with friends. With more than 800 million people connected around the globe on Facebook, news about the world's triumphs and tragedies spreads fast.
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TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
RIM loses BBX trademark battle, next OS is named BlackBerry 10 — Die-hard fans of RIM's mobile efforts should put those BBX tattoo plans on hold, as the US Federal Court has blocked the company from using the BBX trademark, favoring the existing use by BASIS International for its software.
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Guardian, @blackberrydev, CrackBerry.com, InfoWorld, Computerworld, Gizmodo, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Reuters, Electronista, MobileSyrup.com, The Verge, IntoMobile, @jperlow, GottaBeMobile, BerryReview.com and PhoneArena
Benoit Maison / Benoit Maison's blog:
Why Siri had to start in beta — Bashing Siri, the iPhone 4S virtual assistant, seems to be fashionable these days. Mat Honan declares it “Apple's broken promise”. CNN reports on Siri's alleged anti-abortion bias (via Danny Sullivan). Colbert weighs in.
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AppleInsider, Edible Apple, LIVEdigitally and iDownloadBlog.com
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iBooks updated with nighttime reading theme, full-screen option, and more — Apple has pushed out a fairly major update to its iBooks application for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The 1.5 update includes a new nighttime reading theme for a better digital reading experience in the dark.
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Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, MacStories, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac and Macworld, Thanks:deancorp
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Guy In Charge Of Google+'s Google Bar Joins Path — Google+ Lead Product Manager Dylan Casey, the guy most famously in charge of the recently launched Google Bar, is leaving Google to join social app Path, the company tells me. Casey, who had been at Google since 2003, will start at Path on Tuesday as Director of Product Management.
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Business Insider
Mike Swift / Mercury News:
Google to finance affordable housing in Mountain View — Better known for its investments in green energy or for buying tech startups at a dizzying pace, Google (GOOG) has discovered a new investment opportunity — affordable housing. — Google has recently become a significant investor …
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Associated Press
Maciej Ceglowski / Pinboard:
Don't Be A Free User — Were you a big Gowalla fan? Did you like Dodgeball? Did you think Trunk.ly (gasp!) was better than Pinboard? Did you make a lot of contributions to Nextstop? Do you miss Aardvark and EtherPad? Did “I Want Sandy” change your life?
Mobiledia / Forbes:
Smaller, Thinner and Maybe Bendable Phones Coming Soon — A new chip-making material may compete against silicon, according to researchers, leading to smaller, thinner and possibly flexible mobile devices. … Scientists at the Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures have created …
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