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1:45 PM ET, January 5, 2010

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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Nexus One review  —  The Nexus One.  In the modern climate of hyped (and over-hyped) smartphone launches, Google's official entry into the phone-sales game has excelled in a department where many find difficulty: generating legitimate excitement.  Of course, long before the name Nexus …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Moves to Keep Its Lead as Web Goes Mobile  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Google's expected unveiling on Tuesday of a rival to the iPhone is part of its careful plan to try to do what few other technology companies have done before: retain its leadership as computing shifts from one generation to the next.
Fred / A VC:
The Google Phone  —  In mid December as holiday gifts and cards were arriving daily in our office, I received a gift from Google.  It was a Nexus One.  I have been using it since that day as my primary phone.  In the box was a note from Google asking me to keep quiet about the phone until Jan 5th.
Discussion: Guardian
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The Google Reef  —  Today I'll be at Google to attend the press release of the Nexus One, the latest in a line of Android-powered phones and the first that will have Google's brand name on it.  —  I don't expect that the phone will be the real news (if you do, you can already read Engadget's review …
Discussion: Engadget, Thanks:atul
Richard Waters / blogs.ft.com:
Is this the real disruption from the Google Phone?
Discussion: Fone Arena and VentureBeat
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Apple to Buy Quattro Wireless for $275 Million  —  Apple is set to announce that it has acquired Quattro Wireless for $275 million, several sources confirmed.  —  The announcement might come as soon as tomorrow, upping the ante in the mobile advertising business significantly.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Apple Bought Quattro Wireless And Is Getting Into Advertising (AAPL, GOOG)  —  Why did Apple spend $275 million on Quattro Wireless, a mobile ad network?  The same reason it went after AdMob last year before Google outbid it, spending $750 million.  —  Here's a condensed version …
Discussion: GMSV
Trudy Muller / Apple:
Apple's App Store Downloads Top Three Billion  —  Apple® today announced that more than three billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store by iPhone® and iPod touch® users worldwide.  —  “Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months …
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple to Ship Tablet Device in March  —  Apple Inc. plans to unveil a new multimedia tablet device later this month, but doesn't plan on shipping the product until March, people briefed by the company said.  —  While the shipping time hasn't been finalized and could change …
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Gus Sentementes / BaltTech:
The 3D tech behind the rumored Apple “iSlate” tablet?  —  Some of the recent reports that predict Apple will launch some type of “tablet PC” next month have mentioned that the long-rumored device will have 3D graphics.  —  So what does “3D graphics” really mean and how could it be implemented?
Gartner:
Gartner Acquires Burton Group  —     Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT), the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry, today announced that, on December 30, 2009, it acquired Burton Group, Inc. for approximately $56 million in cash.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google To Introduce Click-to-Call (Billing) in Ads on Mobile Devices  —  Google sent out notification to its AdWords advertisers that this month “your location-specific business phone number will display alongside your destination url in ads that appear on high-end mobile devices.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
As AdWords Ads Get Images, What's Deemed Family Safe?
Discussion: Softpedia News
Edward C. Baig / USA Today:
ESPN to launch 3D network in June  —  ESPN is going 3D.  The venerable sports network will launch ESPN 3D on June 11 with a World Cup soccer match, creating what it says will be the first all three-dimensional television network to the home.  —  ESPN 3D expects to showcase at least 85 live sporting events during the first year.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
A Venture Integrating Skype Into the Family Room  —  SAN FRANCISCO — There will soon be something new to watch on the living room TV: your relatives and friends in different parts of the world.  —  On Tuesday, Panasonic and LG Electronics, two of the top television makers …
Eric M. Zeman / Phone Scoop:
T-Mobile Upgrades to HSPA 7.2Mbps, First to Deploy HSPA+  —  Today T-Mobile announced that it has upgraded its entire 3G network to HSPA 7.2Mbps (peak speeds).  That's an improvement from 3.6Mbps, and should allow for faster wireless downloads.  T-Mobile also pointed out that its 3G footprint now covers some 200 million Americans.
Meg Marco / The Consumerist:
Best Buy Optimization Is A Big Stupid Annoying Waste Of Money  —  Over the past year, a number of you have been telling us that, due to “pre-optimization” of computers, it's difficult — sometimes impossible — to walk into a Best Buy and leave with the advertised deal (in effect …
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
AirStash expands your iPhone's storage, wirelessly  —  You may be able to get your iPhones and iPod Touches in 32GB flavors these days, but what's an unlucky early adopter stuck with an 8GB model to do?  Get an AirStash, maybe, a device that pledges to add wireless storage to those devices and …
Discussion: O'Grady's PowerPage
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple, Verizon in disagreement over CDMA iPhone pricing - report  —  As Apple and Verizon are rumored to be in negotiations for a summer 2010 CDMA iPhone launch, the nation's largest wireless carrier and the handset maker are believed to be at odds over pricing.
Discussion: DSLreports
John Cook / TechFlash:
Msnbc buys breakingnews.com  —  A little more than a month ago msnbc announced plans to take over the @breakingnews Twitter handle, a news feed of breaking news tidbits with a whopping 1.5 million followers.  Today, the msnbc Digital Network — which is based in Redmond …
Dan Levy / Bloomberg:
Silicon Valley ‘Bloodbath’ Leaves Entire Office Buildings Empty  —  Over 43 million square feet of office space stands vacant in California's Silicon Valley, adding to the technology hub's biggest property glut since the dot-com bust  —  (Bloomberg) — Silicon Valley is beset …
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
iPhone and Magic Mouse linked up by BTstack (video)  —  Even though you probably still can't figure out what good the ability to connect your Bluetooth keyboard to your iPhone will do, the BTstack project is steaming ahead with this demo of a connected Magic Mouse twirling its pointer all over Apple's handset.
Discussion: TUAW and Mashable!
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Boxee Box officially announced: under $200, Flash 10.1 support  —  The Boxee Box has already been semi-announced once, but it's making a much more grand debut here at CES — and it's coming with a spec list this time.  Just as we'd heard, the asymmetrical streamer will be sold by D-Link for under $200 …
Discussion: Market Wire
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft rethinks, reveals prices for its Office 2010 SKU line-up  —  Microsoft is adding one new version to its line-up for Office 2010, a “Professional Academic” SKU that includes Outlook, as rumored late last year.  The company also is sharing its planned retail pricing for the suite.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Kindle DX now with global wireless?  —  See that text up there?  The part of the site that reads “Kindle DX Now with Global Wireless.”  Well, the Kindle DX doesn't have have global wireless... yet.  The link is dead but it certainly looks like Amazon is about to make good on its earlier promise …
Discussion: Boing Boing, Mobile Whack and SlashGear
Melanie Lee / Reuters:
Baidu in online video venture with Hulu investor-source  —  China's top search engine Baidu Inc (BIDU.O) is teaming up with Providence Equity Partners, an investor in U.S. video-viewing site Hulu, to set up an online video channel in China, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
Discussion: paidContent and Mashable!
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
OpenID Connect  —  I've been thinking about how we make OpenID both easier and sexier for quite a while now.  As frustrating as the answer may be to technologists, the problem is not necessarily one that can be solved with more technology.  Instead, at some point, you have to move beyond …
Discussion: Softpedia News
Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
Symantec software hits end-of-decade snafu  —  The company has modified its antivirus, antispyware, and intrusion protection updates to work around the problem until a permanent fix is ready  —  Symantec is warning that its Endpoint Protection Manager server product is erroneously marking …
Discussion: eWeek and TechRadar.com
 
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Charles Golvin / The Forrester Blog …:
2009: Year Of The Smartphone — Kinda
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Internet pirates find ‘bulletproof’ havens for illegal file sharing
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Macworld Expo 2010: Success story or a disaster waiting to happen
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