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5:25 PM ET, January 5, 2011

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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Disruptive Android App Store Now Open To Developers — Full Details  —  Fragmentation.  Curation.  Recommendations.  Take your pick: Android is getting all three, compliments of a new Amazon-run application marketplace due to launch later this year.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Amazon's Android store: Disruptive or just meeting a market need?
Discussion: ZDNet and Platform Wars
Paul Miller / Engadget:
iPad 2 case shows up at CES, packing a mockup iPad 2  —  We've been seeing supposed iPad 2 cases for about a month now, all of them with the same telltale cutouts: a camera hole in the back, a camera hole in the front, and a big ol' speaker hole.  Today's find beats them all, however …
Zach Epstein / BGR:
AT&T details 4G plans [updated]  —  AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega gave a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday.  The focus was undoubtedly 4G — as we reported earlier today — and de la Vega was joined by Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha, HTC CEO Peter Chou …
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Facebook Has More Than 600 Million Users, Goldman Tells Clients  —  Facebook has “600 million+ monthly active users,” according to a document Goldman Sachs is showing clients interested in investing in Facebook at a $50 billion valuation.  —  Goldman, which is itself investing $450 million in Facebook …
Discussion: Pulse2, MarketingVOX and Mixed Media
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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google Wins One Against Microsoft  —  Google Inc. has won a key ruling in its lawsuit against the U.S. Interior Department, two months after the Web giant accused the agency of improperly favoring rival Microsoft Corp. in a contract bid to provide a new email system.
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Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
Google Wins Freeze on Microsoft Contract With U.S. Department of Interior
Allen Kiehl / AndroidSPIN:
Exclusive: Hands on with the HTC Thunderbolt 4G  —  HTC Thunderbolt Browser, AndroidSPIN.com  —  We managed to get our hands on one of the new HTC Thunderbolt 4G's today and took a few pictures for your viewing pleasure.  As well we also managed to run a Quadrant Benchmark and show the results (which are at the bottom of this post).
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Next Version of Windows to Run on System-on-a-Chip Architectures  —  Happy New Year everyone!  At CES 2011 in Las Vegas, we hosted a press conference announcing that the next version of Windows will support System on a Chip architectures from Intel, AMD, and ARM.
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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
Gene Munster: Google Has Given Up On Social  —  Count Piper Jaffray tech analyst Gene Munster among the Facebook bulls.  He just gave an interview to Bloomberg TV which must have made any Googlers listening cringe.  —  Here are the main points, paraphrased:  — Google has given up on social.
Discussion: Pulse2 and Fortune
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Apple Is Granted Its First Liquidmetal Patent [Exclusive]  —  A prototype fuel cell mobile phone by Hitachi.  Apple may be working on similar technology for the iPhone and iPad.  Photo: Slashphone  —  Apple has been granted its first patent related to Liquidmetal, a space-age metal alloy.
Discussion: Pulse2
Kyle Baxter / TightWind:
Android Isn't About Building a Mobile Platform  —  Google isn't a web application company—they're an advertising company.  That's what they do best, and that's what drives their company.  Of Google's $23.6 billion of revenue in 2009, all but $760 million of it was derived from advertising …
Discussion: MacDailyNews
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Matt Asay / The Register:   Beastly Android will batter Apple's iOS beauty
Anil Dash:
If You Didn't Blog It, It Didn't Happen  —  Clive Thompson's newest Wired piece argues that the flow of short-form messages as we see on Twitter and Facebook is encouraging longer meditations in other media.  I've been thinking about this phenomenon for a while in terms of the impact …
Discussion: Stowe Boyd
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Vizio Phone hands-on preview  —  Along with Vizio's new tablet, we had a chance to look at the HDTV maker's new Android device, unsurprisingly dubbed the Vizio Phone.  The phone is still in the early stages (both the hardware and software aren't production ready at all) …
Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:
New Tile-Based Shell, App Model, And App Store Coming In Windows 8?  —  Article Rating: (Total Ratings: 47)  —  I don't normally like to publish rumors that I can't verify with at least a second source, but based on the corroborating evidence I received along with this tip, I do believe it's genuine.
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Google Who?  LG Launches App Platform for TVs  —  LAS VEGAS — LG Electronics on Wednesday introduced its new Smart TV platform bringing apps, games and web-streamed movies to its latest televisions.  —  The platform will enable LG televisions to expand their capabilities …
Jake Smith / Teens in Tech:
Google Posts Android Honeycomb Promotional Video  —  While all of the press are at CES and we're stuck with school, Google decided to post this video to give us a little taste of Android 3.0.  Sadly, the video can't be embedded so you'll have to view with the link below.
Discussion: BGR, Engadget and LaptopMemo, Thanks:jakeosmith
Shira Ovide / Deal Journal:
Google Was the Busiest Startup Acquirer of 2010  —  Google Inc. missed out on prized daily discounter Groupon in 2010, but it still acquired far more start-ups owned by venture capital firms than any other company last year.  —  In fact, it's the first time that Google has topped the annual list …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel CEO: New chip will spur $125B in 2011 PC sales  —  Intel chief executive Paul Otellini said today that Intel's newest chip will generate $125 billion in revenue this year for PC makers.  The chip, codenamed Sandy Bridge, combines graphics and general computing functions …
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
See If You Can Spot The Problem With Microsoft's Tablet Strategy  —  Earlier today, computer maker Asus kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show a day early by announcing four upcoming tablet computers.  Three of them run Google's Android operating system.  One runs Windows 7.
Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Spotify 2010 US launch ‘delayed by labels’ high cash demands'  —  Spotify's long-awaited 2010 US launch failed because the major record labels demanded “extremely high cash advances”.  —  Spotify until recently has claimed it will launch stateside by the end of 2010.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Cable giant Comcast to Offer Live TV Streaming on Tablets  —  CEO Brian Roberts says the company wants to “reinvent how customers interact with their entertainment on TV, online and on mobile devices.”  —  NEW YORK - Cable giant Comcast plans to offer in-home streaming of live TV …
 
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Blogging Forefather Seeks to Re-Invent Blogging, Again
Discussion: Scripting News
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's How Twitter Is Laying The Foundation For Its Own Photo Sharing Service
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Exclusive: HP CMO Resigns, Replaced by SAP Exec
Emma Hall / AdAge:
Three Groupon Ads Ruled Misleading in U.K.
Discussion: asa.org.uk, TechEye and The Next Web
Matt Richtel / Bits:
Eye Specialists Question Nintendo's Warning on 3-D Technology and Children
Discussion: Gizmodo and GoNintendo
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Nielsen: U.S. consumers crave TVs, mobile devices
Discussion: Nielsen Wire and USA Today
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LG Optimus Black: Meet the World's New Slimmest Phone (For Now)
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Memo to Twitter: Popularity Is Becoming a Commodity
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
‘Hurt Locker’ lawyers continue antipiracy fight
Discussion: DSLreports and TechEye
Paul Thurrott / Windows Phone Secrets:
What's happening with Windows Phone updates in 2011
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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