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John Scalzi / Whatever:
All The Many Ways Amazon So Very Failed the Weekend — Leaving aside the moral, philosophical, cultural and financial implications of this weekend's Amazon/Macmillan slapfight and What It All Means for book readers and the future of the publishing industry, in one very real sense the whole thing …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amazon Caves To Macmillan's eBook Pricing Demands — A new development in the Amazon vs. Macmillan fiasco. Amazon just posted an announcement indicating that it will be “capitulating” to Macmillan by selling the publishers' books for their desired prices.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Hey, John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan Books, Screw You!
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
8.9-inch ExoPC Slate has iPad looks, netbook internals, Windows 7 soul — Yes, we realize that it's hard to provide too much visual differentiation between tablet PCs with large, ebony bezels, but we can't help but think that this 8.9-inch multitouch tablet looks a lot like another, recently announced 9.7-inch multitouch tablet.
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Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Stephen Colbert Gets An iPad & Shows It Off At The Grammys — Haha, it seems like after begging for one the entire week, Stephen Colbert just saw his dreams come true. — Tonight at the Grammys, instead of pulling out the “Song of the Year” envelope, he managed to surprise everybody with a shiny Apple iPad.
Max Wang / DigiTimes:
Acer has no plans for iPad-like product, says Acer Taiwan president — Acer will focus on pushing ultra-thin notebooks for 2010 and currently has no plans to jump on the bandwagon to launch a hardware device similar to Apple's new iPad, according to Acer Taiwan president Scott Lin.
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Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
How to Hate the iPad: A Break-Down of the Backlash — A friend recently admitted a favorite past time of his - watching plane crashes on YouTube. Planes crashing, helicopters twirling out of control, boats sinking - all are fair game. For a lot of people, this has been the story of the iPad over the past few days.
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Gizmodo:
Zune Phone to Debut at MWC, Will Use Nvidia Tegra — Spanish blog MuyComputer claims that Microsoft will present the Zune Phone this February, at the MWC in Barcelona. According to them, it's 100% confirmed. Since the Zune Phone will use Tegra, Nvidia will team with Microsoft for the anti-JesusPhone debut.
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft tries to reinvent the bar code — REDMOND, Wash.—Remember the CueCat—the quirky bar code reader that was going to connect magazine readers with digital material? — Well, apparently Microsoft does too. And while the CueCat meowed into obscurity, the software maker thinks …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook COO: 175 Million People Log Into Facebook Every Day — Last year we interviewed Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This year we interviewed her again. Notably, this time I brought a tripod with me and didn't cut off Sheryl's forehead.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The iPad And Chrome OS Netbooks Are On A Collision Course — “We don't know how to build a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk.” — “Netbooks aren't better at anything.” — Those two quotes are both from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The first was during an earnings call in late 2008 …
Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
Google Chrome to go polyglot? Auto-translate lands in Chromium nightly — The Chromium source code has seen a number of changes recently, and a new feature which poked its head out earlier this weekend has now landed. — You can now enable auto-translation of pages in Chromium.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Ad Data Firm BlueKai Raises $21 Million Third Round — Online ad data provider Bluekai has raised a huge $21 million third round funding led by GGV Capital (formerly Granite Global Ventures). Previous backers Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures also participated.
Owen Fletcher / PC World:
China Tablet PC Maker May Sue Apple Over IPad Design — A Chinese company that sells a tablet PC like Apple's newly announced iPad may sue the U.S. company over the similar design between the devices, it said Monday. — Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial started selling its P88 tablet …
Mike Swift / Mercury News:
Honoring a creative force in high tech: Douglas Engelbart turns 85 — Steve Wozniak leaned over to Douglas Engelbart at The Tech Museum in San Jose on Saturday, to speak a personal tribute to the man who invented the computer mouse and who, back in the 1950s, began to conceptualize the possibility …
TechCrunch:
Context is King: How Videos Are Found And Consumed Online — Editor's note: This is the third in a series of posts by guest writer Ashkan Karbasfrooshan. Previously, he wrote about the State of Online Video, and 12 Surprising Things Holding Back Online Video Advertising.
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Foursquare Teams With Bravo TV — Bravo TV and Foursquare will announce a new partnership on Monday that will integrate Bravo TV shows with the game aspects of Foursquare, a social networking site that encourages people to interact in the real world. The partnership hopes to engage viewers long …
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia cuts phone prices as market growth returns — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) cut phone prices across its portfolio in late January, putting its cheapest smartphones on a collision course with mid-range phones from rivals Samsung (005930.KS) and Sony Ericsson.
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
JooJoo CEO pledges to ship this month, claims deal with leading phone maker — During last week's Apple iPad mania, one company was notably silent: Fusion Garage, the 13-person Singapore company that makes the JooJoo tablet, which began life as TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington's CrunchPad.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Google Chrome steals usage share from IE/Firefox, Win 7 breaks 10% — Net Applications' data for January is out, and there are some interesting trends displayed. — First, the data shows that Google's Chrome browser has managed to snatch usage share from Internet Explorer and Firefox.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Does Foursquare Have A Douchebag Problem? — With Foursquare seeing fast growth and starting to be embraced by elements of the mainstream (like their new deal with Bravo), it might be decision time. — A popular part of the gaming element of the service is gaining badges …
