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MarketingWeek:
Google and Dell tipped to reveal iPhone rival plans — Speculation is mounting that Google is plotting the launch of a mobile phone in partnership with computer giant Dell. — Senior industry sources claim the two companies will reveal their plans at next month's 3GSM telecoms conference in Barcelona …
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Rumor: Dell to reveal Android-based handset next month? — Dell has long been rumored to be working on a handset, and the latest speculation is that Google will be part of those plans. — MarketingWeek reported Wednesday that the two companies are teaming up on a handset based …
Lynn Fox / Apple:
MacBook Air Now Shipping — Apple TV Update Coming Soon — Apple® today announced that MacBook Air™, the world's thinnest notebook, is now shipping. MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76-inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks.
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CNET News.com, MacUser, Podcasting News, CrunchGear, Gearlog, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, The Apple Core, TechSpot News and Insanely Great Mac
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Apple: Apple TV rental update “not quite finished” — It has been a couple of weeks since the Macworld 2008 keynote, so where the heck are all those updates that Mr. Jobs promised us? Namely, where's the Apple TV update that will bring us early adopters direct movie rental capabilities?
Carl Howe / Blackfriars' Marketing:
News flash to reporters and analysts: Apple doesn't do loss leader products — I read two articles this morning from mainstream news sources that made me realize most people writing about Apple don't really understand its marketing and how it sells its products.
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Verizon: We don't want to play copyright cop on our network — WASHINGTON—AT&T may be flirting with filters designed to ferret out pirated material on its network, but Verizon Communications isn't interested. — That's the message that company Executive Vice President Tom Tauke delivered during …
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Camilla Hall / Bloomberg:
Mediterranean Cables Cut, Disrupting Communications — Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — Internet and telephone communications across the Middle East and India were disrupted after two submarine cable systems in the Mediterranean Sea were cut. — Six ships were diverted from Alexandria port …
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Rokali / The Storque:
Etsy's First Five Years — In early April of 2005, I sat in an orange chair facing an open window. It was nighttime and the lights were off. I was back in Brooklyn after a brief residence in Paris, and I was about to sketch the initial ideas that would become Etsy.
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GigaOM, CNET News.com, Tech Confidential, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Silicon Alley Insider and Union Square Ventures
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Yahoo's Vision-Goes-Here Strategy — Listening to the droning, jargon-filled Yahoo conference call on Tuesday night, you could only think that Jerry Yang and Sue Decker were aiming their conversation only at analysts who needed to fill out their 2008 spreadsheets. — That strategy didn't work.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Universal Search: 2008 Edition — It's just over a half-year since Google launched Universal Search, its method of blending results from its own various topically-focused or “vertical” search engines. Since that time, the system has evolved. In particular, Google Universal Search …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Copy a CD, owe $1.5 million under “gluttonous” PRO-IP Act — Not content with the current (and already massive) statutory damages allowed under copyright law, the RIAA is pushing to expand the provision. The issue is compilations, which now are treated as a single work.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Amazon Q4 In Line; Q1, '08 Outlook Beats; But Shrs Fall — Amazon.com (AMZN) this afternoon reported fourth quarter revenue of $5.67 billion and EPS of 48 cents, compared with Street estimates of $5.37 billion and 48 cents. The revenue figure included a $200 million bump from foreign exchange factors.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
It's a done deal: Dell puts an end to all 140 US mall kiosks — Just as we feared, Dell will indeed be axing 100-percent of its US mall kiosks — 140 in total. Unsurprisingly, the official word attributes the move to Dell's shift into big box retail stores, but we're sure that's …
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Business Wire, Gizmodo, eWeek, Computerworld, Epicenter, Digital Daily, CrunchGear, Direct2Dell, Tech Trader Daily, TechBlog, CNET News.com, Electronista and Between the Lines
comScore:
comScore Releases 2007 U.S. Internet Year in Review — Google and Facebook among Biggest Winners in 2007 — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a report highlighting the major trends in U.S. Internet activity in 2007 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Let's Trash Yahoo During Happy Hour — Yesterday I was scheduled to appear live on the Happy Hour show on the Fox Business Channel. The show is held at the Bull and Bear bar at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, with customers milling around and drinking. I can't believe no one has rushed the set as a prank yet.
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Download Squad, Money Out Blog, Webomatica, New York Times, Search Engine Land, David Dalka and Seeking Alpha
Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
Intro to Social Design Podcast — For those of you who listen to podcasts and are interested in social design, here's an option: Alex Barnett and Ted Haeger (the Bungee Connect folks) recently interviewed me about my take on social design. Long-time Bokardoans might remember me doing …
