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3:30 PM ET, January 5, 2010

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Mario Queiroz / The Official Google Blog:
Our new approach to buying a mobile phone  —  Android was developed with one simple idea: Open up mobile devices to enable greater innovation that will benefit users everywhere.  —  We first executed on this vision a little over a year ago, when we launched Android on one device with one operator in one country.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's Biggest Phone Move: Disrupting Carriers By Selling Direct To You (GOOG, VZ, DT)  —  Google's biggest, most important announcement today isn't the Nexus One smartphone's feature set, specifications, or which carrier networks it will work on.  It's Google's business model that matters.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Google Nexus One: Everything You Need to Know  —  The Nexus One, the Google Phone, is really here.  And everything you need to know about it?  Right here.  —  What Is It?  —  It's the latest, maybe greatest, Android phone.  Google calls it a “superphone” that's an “exemplar” of what you can do with Android.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Nexus One: The TechCrunch Review  —  Yesterday Google wasn't in the business of selling mobile phones.  Today, they are.  The Nexus One smartphone has arrived and on sale at Google.com/phone.  Our live notes from the event are here.  —  I've been using the Nexus One with TMobile since mid-December as my primary mobile phone.
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Google's Nexus One Is Bold New Face in Super-Smartphones  —  Google this week is taking two dramatic steps to try to catapult devices using its Android mobile operating system into stronger competition with Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry in the battle for supremacy in the super-smartphone category.
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 …
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
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)
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 …
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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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
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.
Bgurley / abovethecrowd.com:
Android Or IPhone?  Wrong Question  —  In a recent New York Times article, Kathryn Huberty, a Morgan Stanley analyst was quoted suggesting that Apple's iPhone is the key catalyst for an important new technology trend.  “Applications make the smartphone trend a revolutionary trend …
Discussion: Paul Kedrosky's … and PC World, Thanks:atul
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Can big trade shows survive Apple and Google?  —  How strange is it that perhaps the two biggest product announcements this month will come right before major trade shows, rather than during them?  In less than two hours, Google is expected to officially launch the Nexus One smartphone at an event in Northern California.
Discussion: The Loop
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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 …
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 and Gizmodo
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.
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: Switched
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 …
Discussion: Technologizer and DailyTech
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 …
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: CNET News and eWeek
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
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?
eMarketer:
What's Working for Social Media Marketers?  —  A look at effectiveness  —  A September 2009 MarketingProfs survey of business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) marketers found that the marketing tactics most often used on social sites are not necessarily the best ones.
 
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
News Publishers Start Seeking Money From Twitter Feeds
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
Dreaming Up Textbooks on an Apple Tablet
Discussion: TechFlash, MacRumors and TheAppleBlog
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Kindle DX now with global wireless?
Discussion: Boing Boing, Mobile Whack and SlashGear
Amy-Mae Elliott / Pocket-lint.com:
3M unveils 22-inch M2256PW monitor with 10-finger multi-touch
Frank / MeFeedia Blog:
State of the Vlogosphere 2010  —  Since 2004, MeFeedia …
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Agam Shah / PC World:
Lenovo Pushes New Smartbook as Netbook Alternative
Discussion: eWeek
Dan Levy / Bloomberg:
Silicon Valley ‘Bloodbath’ Leaves Entire Office Buildings Empty
 Earlier Items: 
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Stewart, ‘South Park’ dragged into YouTube row
Discussion: Softpedia News
Charles Golvin / The Forrester Blog …:
2009: Year Of The Smartphone — Kinda
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, CNET News and VentureBeat
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
iPhone and Magic Mouse linked up by BTstack (video)
EA SPORTS:
EA SPORTS Moves Forward with Tiger Woods PGA TOUR Online Launch in January
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Internet pirates find ‘bulletproof’ havens for illegal file sharing
Discussion: TorrentFreak
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
OpenID Connect
Kim Hart / Hillicon Valley:
FTC set to examine cloud computing
Discussion: TechFlash and ChannelWeb
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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