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Clayton Morris / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: iPad Competitor Coming Soon From Palm — FoxNews has obtained exclusive images of Palm's forthcoming competitor to the iPad, called the PalmPad, which will debut at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. — The Apple iPad has a solid lead in the tablet space.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Apple Removes WikiLeaks App From App Store — Looks like an unofficial iPhone and iPad app that let you view WikiLeaks site content and follow the WikiLeaks Twitter account on the go has been removed from the App app store earlier today. The app used to be available here (here's the Google cache).
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Why Apple Removed a WikiLeaks App From Its Store — Apple on Tuesday confirmed that it had removed from its online store an iPhone and iPad app that let users view the content on the WikiLeaks site and follow WikiLeaks Twitter account. — Trudy Muller, an Apple spokeswoman …
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Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
Fluther Flocks to Twitter — There are now three times as many people on the Twitter team as there were at this time last year. More than half of our employees work in engineering and operations, and those teams continue to grow as we attract more and more talented people interested …
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TechCrunch, Fluther Blog, ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, paidContent, SiliconANGLE, Download Squad and The Next Web
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The Politico:
FCC approves net neutrality rules — The Federal Communications Commission adopted new rules that will govern how Internet providers treat Web traffic and services, a move that sets the stage for a heated political battle on Capitol Hill come January. — Led by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski …
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Between the Lines Blog, Ars Technica, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Post Tech, CNET News, MarketWatch and techPresident
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Robert Quigley / Geekosystem:
FCC Chair Julius Genachowski's Statement on the New Net Neutrality Rules — This afternoon, the FCC is expected to pass a landmark new set of rules governing online communications. Update, 1:38pm: The FCC has voted to approve the new rules, which will be the first enforceable rules on net neutrality.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Launches Instant Personalization On TripAdvisor — Hot on the heels of bringing Instant Personalization to Clicker last week, today Facebook is announcing the latest addition to the program: TripAdvisor. The popular travel site, which includes user reviews of hotels, restaurants …
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Tiffany Chang Black / Facebook Blog:
Plan the Perfect Trip with Help from Friends
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Inside Facebook, ReadWriteWeb, Macworld, Softpedia News, The Next Web and PR Newswire
Apple:
New Apple TV Sales to Top One Million This Week — Apple® today announced that it expects sales of its new Apple TV® to top one million units later this week. The new Apple TV offers the simplest way to watch your favorite HD movies and TV shows, stream content from Netflix …
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Josh Kosman / New York Post:
Google shopping for Groupon wannabe: sources — Google, whose $6 billion buyout offer was spurned by online coupon site Groupon, is in talks with much smaller rivals of the two-year-old firm, a source close to the situation told The Post. — The deal talks show that the search giant …
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Reuters, Venture Capital Dispatch, DealBook, Adotas, TechCrunch, SAI, MediaPost Raw, NYConvergence.com and The Atlantic Online
Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
Windows Phone 7: 1.5 Million Devices Sold, But Not To Consumers — In the last six weeks, there has been a lot of speculation over just how many Windows Phone 7 handsets have been sold since the devices hit the market. Now we have a number, sort of: 1.5 million, revealed by Microsoft's …
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Microsoft:
Windows Phone 7 Sales Off to a Promising Start, First Step in a New Era of Mobile
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
EXCLUSIVE: PlayStation phone to hit shops in April — Sources confirm to Pocket-lint launch date and release — The Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone will hit shops in April, after a February Mobile World Congress launch, sources close to the matter have confirmed to Pocket-lint.
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Roku CEO: Sales Doubled When Apple TV Launched — When Apple and Google made big moves into the “digital living room” this year, it made sense to assume that business would become a lot harder for Roku. — The Silicon Valley-based company has been selling inexpensive web TV set-top boxes since 2008 …
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Surur / WMPoweruser.com:
IDC: Windows Phone 7 marketplace ramping up “faster than Android” — The Windows Phone 7 marketplace is ramping up faster than Android, and even when compared to the iPhone App store (red line) it does not look too bad. (WP7 graph from WP7Applist.com) — We continue to see rather odd stories …
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Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
One of the “Killer Apps for Android,” Swype Opens Its Beta — Oh, the war of words between iPhone and Android fans. How it has preoccupied us this year. I won't take sides now. I own both. (Don't judge.) But I will say this: if you're an Android user, you might want to go now and join Swype's beta.
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Internet2Go, AppScout, Android and Me, BlogsDNA, IntoMobile, Download Squad, Gadgetell, FierceMobileContent, Droid Life and Softpedia News
Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
Cloud Engines raises $15M to turn old hard drives into private cloud servers — Cloud Engines, maker of the Pogoplug set-top appliance that turns external hard drives into private cloud servers, announced today that it has raised $15 million from Softbank Capital and Morgan Stanley.
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
About.Me CEO Tony Conrad: Here's Why I Sold My Company To AOL So Quickly — About.me, a super-simple make-your-own-pretty-looking- homepage tool, just launched last week, and today the company announced that it had already been acquired by AOL. (Actually, the company signed a letter of intent in November …
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InformationWeek, SiliconANGLE and Digital Trends, Thanks:blogfisher
Ezone.com iPhone News:
It's Official: EA Owns the App Store - Now What Do We Do? — It's official. The big publishers now own the App Store. We all knew it was going to happen sooner or later (it's just we all hoped it would be later). Apologies for leading off our second idevblogaday post with another ranking chart …
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Bloomberg:
Amazon Is Said to Exceed Kindle Sales Estimates by 60 Percent — Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. is likely to sell more than 8 million Kindle electronic-book readers this year, at least 60 percent more than analysts have predicted, according to two people who are aware of the company's sales projections.
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Tricia Duryee / eMoney:
LivingSocial CEO Has Big Plans Now that Amazon Is in His Back Pocket — Groupon's co-founder and CEO Andrew Mason has stolen the spotlight recently, by appearing on the “Today Show” and being interviewed on “Charlie Rose.” — But it's hard not to make news when you turn down a $6 billion buyout offer from Google.
DigiTimes:
Acer, Asustek, Lenovo to launch new notebooks with ultra-thin design in 1Q11 — As Apple's new MacBook Air notebook has seen a strong demand in the channel, notebook brands including Acer, Asustek Computer and Lenovo are all set to follow suit and launch 13.3- to 14-inch notebooks …
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Computerworld, CrunchGear, Softpedia News and TechEye
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Salesforce Buys Email Contact Manager Etacts — We heard earlier today that Y Combinator-funded Etacts shut down its CRM-like email contact manager after less than a year in service. We subsequently learned that Salesforce has bought Etacts, and have confirmed the acquisition with Salesforce.
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NetworkEffect and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:bpedro
Riley McDermid / VentureBeat:
VCs say they'll invest, hire and sell more in 2011 — Venture capitalists say they will invest more in 2011, as hiring in the sector heats up and selling begins to shake off the lingering woes of the financial crisis, according to a study released today by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Dow Jones VentureSource.
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CNET News, TechFlash and Venture Capital Dispatch
Verne G. Kopytoff / Bits:
EBay Sends Shoppers to Offline Stores — To help last minute holiday shoppers, EBay is sending them to bricks and mortar stores. — Yes, you read that right. The company has adopted a counter-intuitive strategy intended to make its Web site more of a resource - even if it means sending shoppers elsewhere.
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ReadWriteWeb and TechCrunch
