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Clayton Morris / Fox News:
Verizon, AT&T May Carry Apple Tablet — Which wireless carrier will offer Apple's soon-to-be-released mystery device? Will it be Verizon? AT&T? The answer, according to sources at the two companies, is both.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
The Apple Tablet Interface Must Be Like This — Some people want the Apple Tablet to run Mac OS X's user interface. Others think its UI will be something exotic. Both camps are wrong: The iPhone started a UI revolution, and the tablet is just step two. Here's why.
Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
New Tablet Details: Twin Dock Connectors, a Big Antenna Panel, and Pricing Q's — So yesterday, I promised on Twitter that there would be a tablet-related update today. Here are a couple of late-breaking, interesting details that we've had double-confirmed by sources. — (a) Double Dock Connectors.
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Sources detail physical design of Apple's upcoming tablet device — When Apple finally takes the wraps off its long-anticipated tablet next Wednesday, the device will strike a familiar chord with owners of the original iPhone, with similarities in industrial design trickling …
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Google Investor Relations:
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES FOURTH QUARTER AND FISCAL YEAR 2009 RESULTS — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter and the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009. — “Google had a strong fourth quarter, with 17% year over year revenue growth,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Beats Estimates With Very Strong Q4: $6.67 Billion — Google posted a very strong Q4, given the recession, with $6.67 billion in revenues. This beats financial analyst general consensus estimates. Here are some top-level highlights from the earnings release:
Joshelman / Twitter Blog:
The Power of Suggestions — Hi, I'm Josh and I work in the product team at Twitter. One of the areas I'm working on is helping new users get started so they know how to find and discover what interests them. Today we're making the first of many changes here to help people ease …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Review: “open” Listorious vs. “closed” new Twitter suggestion list
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Windows 7 growing faster than Vista, overtakes Mac OS X — Windows 7 sold well during the 2009 holiday season, and the results are showing up, not only in sheer revenue, but in the OS market share numbers as well. Nevertheless, in December 2009, Linux was the only operating system to show positive percentage growth in market share.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Sun CEO: Go Oracle! [Internal Memo] — Oracle (ORCL) said this morning that it has received unconditional regulatory approval from the European Commission for its acquisition of Sun (JAVA). Below, the all-hands memo Sun CEO Jon Schwartz sent to employees following the announcement.
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Chris OBrien / SiliconBeat:
Looks like Netflix is dead. Again. — Once again, Netflix has been placed on a death watch. But I'm not buying it for a second. We've heard that too many times over the company's history. And each time, the company has nimbly defeated new and established competitors, while growing like gangbusters in a horrid economy.
HardMac.com:
The Macbook Air to Be Updated After the MacBook and MacBook Pro? — While most computer manufacturers have already announced and/or released their Intel Core i3/i5-based notebook models, Apple is still offering Core 2 Duo-based units and will most likely quickly move on to the new Intel mobile platform.
Andrew Hyde / Startups. Start Here.:
Committing Location Based Service Suicide — Yesterday I checked in for my last time. I'm done. No more BrightKite, FourSquare or Gowalla. I was an early user on all three of the services, and am quitting cold turkey. — But why? (and why would anyone care...)
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Andrew Lyle / Neowin.net:
Adobe Flash 10.1 allows private browsing — The next big release for Adobe Flash Player, 10.1 will allow private browsing while web surfing in supported browsers. Flash Player will automatically clear your flash history data off your computer once you terminate the session.
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Christopher Bodeen / Associated Press:
China: Clinton Internet speech harms ties with US — Buzz up! — BEIJING - China rejected Friday a call by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for the lifting of restrictions on the Internet in the communist country, denouncing her criticism as false and damaging to bilateral ties.
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Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Microsoft to announce date for Windows Mobile 7 at MWC 2010 — Alongside the launch of Windows Mobile 6.6 at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2010, Microsoft is also expected to announce a date for the commercial availability of WM7, according to sources familiar with Microsoft's roadmap.
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Paul Bonanos / GigaOM:
As VC Industry Shrinks, First-Time Investments Plummet — It's been suggested that the venture capital industry needs to shrink to as little as half its former size, and new data from the National Venture Capital Association shows that it's almost there — with some evidence suggesting that further contraction is in order.
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Michael French / mcvuk.com:
BBC gets back into games — Broadcaster's commercial division Worldwide wants to turn key IPs into DS, Wii, iPhone and online games, MCV can reveal — After spending years sat on the fence, the BBC is returning to games in a big way, MCV can exclusively reveal.
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Claudine Beaumont / Telegraph:
‘Drastic’ Digg overhaul could ‘shock’ users, says Kevin Rose — Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, says the site will undergo a major redesign later this year to better embrace the real-time web — Rose said that the new version of Digg, which will go live in the next few months, would represent the biggest change in the site's history.
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Seagate Goes Direct — Some companies - most notably Dell - opt to go direct, others have directness thrust upon them. — Seagate, the world's largest hard drive maker, has started selling products directly to large customers in higher volumes than ever before because more companies with big data centers are trying to cut costs.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Android tops iPhone 7 to 1 in free wallpaper and ringtone downloads — Hip-hop/R&B dominate the sound of Android devices; iPhone users like a little more rock — Click to enlarge. Source: Myxer's Boombox report — Here's an interesting peek into the world of free Web-based mobile phone downloads.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Comscore's Gift to Web Publishers: (Almost) Free Traffic — Hey Web publishers! Want to boost your traffic overnight? Talk to Comscore, which is handing out millions of unique visitors. — The Web's dominant traffic counter is in the midst of overhauling its traffic counting system …
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Windows Mobile devs to Microsoft: where's our money? — Over at the Windows Mobile Developer Center, a few Windows Mobile developers are up in arms for not getting paid. Some claim they are owed thousands of dollars after selling their apps through Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:
Lenovo Stands By Google Android Phone — HONG KONG—Lenovo Group Ltd. said Friday its new smart phone using Google Inc.'s Android platform is on track to be launched in May in China and the U.S. search engine giant's ongoing spat with China won't impact its operations.
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Yelp Brings Location Check-in Data to Its Web Reviews — Last week, the battle for your check-ins took an interesting new turn as Yelp rolled out a set of location features for its iPhone app. Today, Yelp's expanding the feature to include check-in information alongside user reviews on its website.
