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The Official Google Blog:
Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network — Imagine sitting in a rural health clinic, streaming three-dimensional medical imaging over the web and discussing a unique condition with a specialist in New York. Or downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Your new ISP? Google launches 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home trial — People have wondered for years what Google might be up to with all that dark fiber it had bought up around the country. Now, we may have an answer: delivery of open-access, fiber-to-the-home Internet service at speeds of 1Gbps.
Opera Press Room:
Opera Mini for iPhone sneak peek — Exclusive press and partner preview at MWC 2010 — Opera Software, maker of the world's most popular mobile Web browser, plans to reveal Opera Mini for iPhone in an exclusive press and partner preview during the 2010 Mobile World Congress (MWC).
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AT&T:
AT&T Selects LTE Equipment Suppliers — Agreements with Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson Extend Existing 3G Relationships to Cover Planned Deployment of Next-Generation LTE Mobile Broadband Network
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AT&T starts vendor selection for LTE trials; Picks Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson — Updated: AT&T has picked Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson as its two equipment suppliers for its planned wireless broadband upgrade in 2011. — AT&T will roll out field trials of Long Term Evolution (LTE) …
Punit Singh Soni / Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing Google Buzz for mobile: See buzz around you and tag posts with your location. — Today we announced Google Buzz, a new product that integrates with your Gmail inbox and makes it easy to start rich conversations about the things you find interesting.
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Zengestrom:The Buzz is out — This morning Google switched on real …
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Kevin Rose:Changes/Feature Requests for Google Buzz
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Mia / YouTube Blog:
Safety Mode: Giving You More Control on YouTube — Diversity of content is one of the great things about YouTube. But we know that some of you want a more controlled experience. That's why we're announcing Safety Mode, an opt-in setting that helps screen out potentially objectionable content …
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Ian Youngs / BBC:
Warner quits free music streaming — Record label Warner Music has said it will stop licensing its songs to free music streaming services. — Companies like Spotify, We7 and Last.fm give free, legal and instant access to millions of songs, funded by adverts.
Simon Walker / AndroidSPIN:
HTC Scorpion Leaked. Maybe 1.5Ghz Processor. Android 2.2. Is it real? — Is the HTC / Google Nexus one the king of the crop anymore? — Not if the following rumor has any validity. — More and more rumors appear everyday about new devices coming from HTC and this latest leaked build file looks …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Disney's Iger Takes Big Swig Of iPad Kool-Aid — Bob Iger wasn't on stage for the iPad launch last month, but the Disney CEO just gave a demo spiel Steve Jobs, the company's largest shareholder, would applaud about a “really compelling” device that could be a game changer.
Royal Pingdom:
Twitter: Now more than 1 billion tweets per month — Over the past few months there has been plenty of speculation around the Web that Twitter's growth has stalled, but if we look at activity on Twitter in terms of the number of tweets, this is far from the truth.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Integrates Facebook Chat Into AIM — AOL Instant Messenger is integrating Facebook Connect to allow AIM users to chat with their Facebook friends. The image to the right shows how the initial sign up will look. — We expect AOL and Facebook to make an announcement on the product on Wednesday …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Google makes biggest gain in smartphone market share — US mobile users are increasingly getting into text messaging, Internet browsing, and social networks as they continue to shift to more capable devices. Additionally, Apple's and Google's share of the smartphone market is inching …
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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
iPad Costs Leave Room for Price Cuts — Apple may pay as little as $219.35 for the new tablet's parts, says iSuppli. That leaves room to cut the price of a device that analysts say may be too expensive — Apple's (AAPL) iPad tablet computer, introduced Jan. 27, may have component costs …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
HTC Legend makes an encore appearance, this time with specs — The race is on to see how many angles of HTC's upcoming Legend can be snapped before the phone's official debut, so here's our next submission. As you can see, the hard-edged aluminum theme continues to wrap its way around …
USA Today:
Some ditch social networks to reclaim time, privacy — By Marco R. della Cava, USA TODAY — Facebook reports that it has 400 million active users worldwide. Make that 399,999,999. Laura LeNoir is done. — “I feel better, I feel lighter, I got my privacy back,” says LeNoir, 42 …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
As Predicted, a Not-Terrible Quarter for the New York Times: Print Ads Shrink Less, and the Web Actually Grows — As predicted, a nice Q4 for the New York Times (NYT), at least by newspaper standards: Revenue shrank, but not as badly as it has in the past, and operating costs continued to come down.
Jeff Kunins / The Windows Blog:
Windows Live Messenger - a short history — Hi, my name is Jeff Kunins, and I am the Group Program Manager (GPM) for social networking across Windows Live. In other words, I'm totally focused on partnering with and connecting to social networks and other web services that you already love …
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Game Rental Service Gamefly Files For IPO; Up To $50 Million Raise — So Gamefly finally does file for an IPO, after flirting for years with a possible sale: The Los Angeles-based videogame rental-by-mail subscription service has filed its S-1, and intends to raise a smallish up-to-$50 million through it.
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Hacker ‘Mudge’ gets DARPA job — Peiter Zatko—a respected hacker known as “Mudge”—has been tapped to be a program manager at DARPA, where he will be in charge of funding research designed to help give the U.S. government tools needed to protect against cyberattacks, CNET has learned.
Michelle Maisto / eWeek:
Panasonic Rugged H1 Field Tablet Coming to Sprint, Verizon — The Panasonic Toughbook H1 Field is a handheld tablet pairing Panasonic toughness with enterprise savvy. At 3.4 pounds, it features a 10.4-inch touchscreen, an Atom processor and Qualcomm Gobi2000 technology for flexible connectivity.
Dave Caolo / TUAW:
iPad pre-orders overwhelm Norwegian stores — Who's got low expectations for the iPad? Not the Norwegians, as one local store can't keep up with pre-orders. — Late last week, retailer Eplehuset (Apple House) suspended pre-orders all together when they sold out.
Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Debuts XHP: More PHP Enhancement — Last week, we were chasing our tails in giddiness over HipHop, a newly open-sourced PHP runtime developed in house at Facebook. — Today, amid the rabid excitement over Google Buzz, Facebook quietly pumped some more code into the world.
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