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12:25 PM ET, January 2, 2011

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Kellex / Droid Life:
Verizon Drops Galaxy Tab Price to $499, Tosses in $60 in Free Movie Rentals (Updated)  —  Is Verizon ringing in the New Year with a price drop to its Samsung Galaxy Tab (our review)?  According to one of our peeps and that picture above, stores should be changing out displays to reflect a $499 price change …
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Electronista:
Verizon cuts Galaxy Tab to $500 to fend off iPad, Droid Xoom  —  Verizon was discovered tonight to be cutting the price of the Galaxy Tab to $500 contract-free.  The steep, $100 drop should take effect soon and will also include $60 of movie rentals from Blockbuster's app or Samsung's Media Hub.
Thanks:jonfingas
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Close To Naming Sun Microsystems Campus As New Headquarters  —  It's been less than two years since Facebook moved into its 150,000 square foot office space at 1601 South California Ave in Palo Alto, but the rapidly growing company is already itching for a new home.
Discussion: All Facebook
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
So Much For FREE!:  Apple Will Sell $2B in Apps in 2011  —  I've often wondered if the early Web pioneers had it all to do over again if Web companies would have put less of an emphasis on free.  —  People have been conditioned against paying for services or content on the Web, and the Web elite only have each other to blame.
Arn / MacRumors Page 2:
Verizon Buying Up iPhone Domains?  Well, Not Recently.  —  An enticing headline over the weekend at PocketNow claims that Verizon is buying up iPhone-related domains, presumably as a prelude to the launch of an actual Verizon iPhone.  —  The report notes that both iPhoneOnVerizon.com …
Chuck Falzone / AndroidGuys:
The “Android SMS Bug” Does Not Exist  —  Let me tell you all a story of my youth.  I was in high school, driving around in my first car, a 1976 Mercury Monarch.  Approaching an intersection, I saw the stop sign too late; I was going to run right into the guy coming the other way.
Discussion: PhoneDog.com, Examiner and Electronista
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Windows and Mac OS X make it onto the Cr-48, look great in matte black  —  Google built the Cr-48 with hacking in mind, so it's no surprise that we're seeing other operating systems crop up.  Still, it's fun to watch, and enterprising hackers have got most of the usual suspects up and running …
Soumyadip / Cutting the Chai:
Google Chrome Hoarding Gives a 404 Error  —  Unlike other web browsers Google Chrome is exploring different media to promote itself.  While online advertising for web browsers was so long believed to be the most effective way of getting more people to install, simply because it makes more sense.
Surur / WMPoweruser.com:
NES Emulator created, blocked for Windows Phone 7  —  Matt Bettcher has ported an open source emulator for the famous NES platform to Windows Phone 7.  He says the code, at present unoptimised, runs at 10-20 frames per second on this Samsung Focus, which is not too bad at all.
George Hobica / Airfarewatchdog:
Expedia removes American Airlines' fares completely  —  It's official.  At least for now, American Airlines' fares and any links to same have been completely removed from Expedia.com.  That means you'll no longer find AA's fares compared on Expedia or Orbitz (American removed fares from Orbitz in December).
Discussion: Bloomberg
Graham Bowley / New York Times:
The New Speed of Money, Reshaping Markets  —  Secaucus, N.J.  —  A SUBSTANTIAL part of all stock trading in the United States takes place in a warehouse in a nondescript business park just off the New Jersey Turnpike.  —  Few humans are present in this vast technological sanctum, known as New York Four.
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Wikipedia Raises $16 Million to Remain Ad-Free  —  The Wikimedia Foundation announced this morning that it has reached its goal of $16 million in record time, more than doubling the $7.5 million the organization raised in 2009.  The foundation, which is the non-profit parent organization …
Thomas Houston / Switched:
The Best Tech Writing of 2010  —  Writing, whether it appeared in print or on a blog, was dissected, critiqued, relinked and shared faster than ever in 2010.  Just take a look at the recent arguments on the Lamo/Manning Wikileaks chat logs between Salon's Glenn Greenwald and Wired's Kevin Poulsen …
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The 50 biggest tech stories of 2010
Discussion: TechCrunch and BetaNews
 
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Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
CES 2011 Preview: Phones and Tablets
Discussion: Fortune and GottaBeMobile
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
New Year's 2011 breaks non-recurring iPhone alarm clocks (update: auto-fixes)
Kurtis Alexander / Santa Cruz Sentinel:
Online impersonation banned starting in New Year
Discussion: Tech Broiler Blog and Examiner
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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