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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Rumor: Apple Has Another Tablet In The Works. More Like A Mac Than An iPhone. — In the movie Contact, when revealing to main character Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) that there is actually a second space travel machine that was being built at the same time as the first one, but in secret …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
A First Taste Of What The Google Tablet's Interface Will Look Like (Pics) — Last week, the world saw Apple's long anticipated tablet device, the iPad, for the first time. In the aftermath since that announcement, a few things have become clear: it will be great for some people …
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Andrew Fairbairn / Neowin.net:
Google's tablet UI concept pictures — Whilst Google's upcoming Chrome OS is being primarily designed for netbook computers, as we reported recently, it could be the ideal operating system to run on a tablet device - and this is an option that Google is considering.
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Telegraph, 9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, Computerworld, MobileContentToday, GottaBeMobile.com, Electricpig.co.uk and Download Squad
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google's two-front war with Apple and Facebook; who are the winners and the losers? — I've now heard from three separate Google employees that Google will release a news feed that will compete with Facebook and Twitter. I expect to see a demo at Google's IO conference in April.
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Ryanarter / Mission:
iPad Camera rumor becoming a reality? We think so. — Hello all- — We received our first shipment of iPad parts today. Here's one of the metal internal frames: — Upon opening them up and getting our hands on some of these rare items, we immediately noticed what appears to be a “spot” for a camera within the iPad frame.
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google Planning Store for Business Apps — Google is developing an online store where it will sell business software from its partners in an effort to ramp up sales of Google Apps, its own suite of business applications, according to a person familiar with the project.
James McQuivey / paidContent:
In Amazon vs. Macmillan, Amazon Is The Winner — It was a surprising weekend for those of us who had naively imagined that after crossing the River iPad, we might actually get some Elysian rest. But, alas, the fates conspired against us and handed us the curious case of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) vs. Macmillan.
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Dion / techno.blog:
Google isn't Evil. Flash isn't Dead; Thank god the Open Web doesn't have a single vendor — Steve Jobs didn't hold back when talking about Google and Adobe. That is great. Life is so much more fun when people speak their mind. I remember hearing a story when Sir Steve was asked why mac keyboards where the way they were.
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Nine out of 10 premium-priced PCs sold at US retail is a Mac — Windows 7 did little to slow the Mac's sales trajectory during fourth quarter, according to NPD. Year over year, Apple doubled US retail unit share — from 5 percent to 10 percent — for PCs selling between $500 and $1,000.
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Marcus Yam / Tom's Hardware Guide:PC vs. Mac in Security: Experts Share Opinions
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Jude Britto / Google News Blog:
Starring stories in Google News — A couple of months back, we launched the Custom Sections Directory feature in Google News to allow users to set up sections on topics of their interest, and to share them with other users. — Today, we are giving users even more options for following stories.
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Softpedia News, SEO and Tech Daily, Search Engine Journal, TechCrunch and Google Operating System, Thanks:davidblack
Greg Hecht / Google Voice Blog:
Send SMS to multiple recipients — Until now, sending a text message to multiple recipients required copying and pasting the message for each recipient. — To make this a bit easier, we just launched the ability to send a single SMS message to multiple recipients.
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
CONFIRMED: Facebook Gets Faster, Debuts Homegrown PHP Compiler — The rumors have been flying over what's going on over at Facebook headquarters. The word has been that a PHP team was brought in and made to sign non-disclosure agreements before discussing a PHP project that has been in development for the past two years.
HardMac.com:
Production of ALL iMac 27" Core ix Models Stopped by Apple! — Apple is facing new problems and issues on the production of the iMac 27" Core i5 and i7, and is already announcing to its customers that it will not be able to ship the unit for the expected delivery date.
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Marco.org:
iPhone-to-iPad development: How's the timing going to work out? — Either I'm missing something, the initial iPad apps are going to suck, or we haven't yet been told that iPad-native apps won't be available for some period of time after the iPad's launch. — We have strong incentives …
Jeffrey Zeldman / Jeffrey Zeldman Presents …:
Flash, iPad, Standards — Lack of Flash in the iPad (and before that, in the iPhone) is a win for accessible, standards-based design. Not because Flash is bad, but because the increasing popularity of devices that don't support Flash is going to force recalcitrant web developers to build the semantic HTML layer first.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Could Become World's Leading News Reader (Sorry Google) — From TV to Tivo and Hulu, from the mall to Amazon and eCommerce and from newspaper carriers and delivery trucks to online syndication and subscription - distribution of goods, services and information has changed a lot thanks to the internet.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
The ‘nirvana phone’ turns your phone into a portable computer — As far as I'm concerned, no one has completely solved the problem of delivering all the on-the-go computing capabilities I need in a truly portable device. You may have experienced this yourself, if you've tried to use …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
iPad For Verizon Is Happening, Verizon Source Says (AAPL, VZ, T) — Apple is working with Verizon on a version of its iPad tablet, despite Apple only announcing an AT&T partnership, according to Fox News Channel's Clayton Morris, who just spoke with a Verizon source.
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AppleInsider, GottaBeMobile.com, Gizmodo Australia, Techland, Phone Arena, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, Macsimum News, Edible Apple and Electronista, Thanks:bobcaswell
New York Times:
A Little Chip Designed by Apple Itself — SAN FRANCISCO — Sure, the screen is nice. But the iPad's most important component, at least for Apple's future, may be the A4, the fingernail-size chip at the tablet's heart. — With the A4, Apple has taken another step toward challenging the norms of the mobile device industry.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony Ericsson Aspen: first with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 — It's finally here: Windows Mobile 6.5.3, the iterative finger-friendly Windows Mobile release that should have been wrapped into 6.5.0. The latest mobile wares from Microsoft come wrapped inside the Sony Ericsson Aspen (aka, Faith); …
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Zee / The Next Web:
Twitter forcing some users to change password. Reported threat of phishing attacks. — We're seeing tweets that various people are being forced to change their passwords on Twitter in response to possible phishing threats. — There have been a number of cases where phishers …
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Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
Softbank Leads $75 Million Investment in Ustream Video Site — Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — Ustream Inc., a provider of live video streaming to the Internet and mobile phones, said it raised $75 million in capital, led by Softbank Corp., Japan's third-largest mobile-phone operator.
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Dave McClure / Master of 500 Hats:
Subscriptions are the New BLACK. (+ why Facebook, Google, & Apple will own your wallet by 2015) — I'm on a redeye to NYC, supposed to be working on a presentation i'm giving in a few hours... but f**k it, i can't get this outta my head, so here we go. — (note: extremely raw, uneven …
David Barboza / New York Times:
Hacking for Fun and Profit in China's Underworld — CHANGSHA, China — With a few quick keystrokes, a computer hacker who goes by the code name Majia calls up a screen displaying his latest victims. — “Here's a list of the people who've been infected with my Trojan horse,” he says …
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Platform Notifications Going Away March 1st — Facebook has just posted an update to its Developer Roadmap with a new date for the end of application notifications: March 1st. On that date, both application-to-user and user-to-user notifications will be no longer.
Phil Nickinson / Android Central:
Behold: Verizon's Motorola Devour — Well lookie what just slipped into our inbox. It's the retail box for the Motorola Devour (aka the Calgary), which we're going to see on Verizon any time now. Looks like the leaked shot we saw a ways back was right on track, as the D-pad's given way to an optical sensor.
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