Techmeme: Verizon iPhone to go on sale late January, use current plans (MacNN)

11:05 PM ET, January 8, 2011

Top Items:

Verizon iPhone to Be Available Around End of January — Apple Inc.'s iPhone will make its way to Verizon Wireless stores around the end of the month, a person familiar with the matter said. — The largest U.S. wireless carrier by subscribers will make the long-awaited announcement to carry …

Discussion: App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, TiPb, Erictric, I4U News, Gadget Lab, louisgray.com, RazorianFly, THINQ.co.uk, GottaBeMobile, Macgasm, Engadget, Examiner, The Loop and New York Times

MacNN:

Verizon iPhone to go on sale late January, use current plans — The Verizon iPhone should go on sale sooner than expected and with relatively little change to plans, two late leaks gave away on Saturday. Once thought to be ready February 3, the CDMA iPhone 4 is now said by the WSJ to be ready for late January.

Discussion: Reuters, TiPb and Engadget

Chris Ziegler / Engadget:

Windows Phone 7 using lots of 3G data while idle, even on WiFi? — Complaints seem to be growing among some users that Windows Phone 7 is consuming an abnormally plump quantity of data when you're not doing anything. Granted, there's lots of stuff on the platform that might need data continuously …

Discussion: Examiner and VentureBeat

Tristan Louis / TNL.net:

New York to displace Silicon Valley — There's been a lot of discussion in the past couple of years about the resurgence of New York City as a tech center (I actually called the comparison to Silicon Valley a silly one about a year ago). In the past couple of years, however …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

DoJ Subpoena Proves Twitter's Value — and Its Weakness — Not that long ago, there was much debate about whether Twitter was just a plaything for nerds or a powerful, real-time information network. Now the US Department of Justice has answered the question for us by serving the company …

Discussion: Associated Press and Mediactive

Peter Beaumont / Guardian:
WikiLeaks demands Google and Facebook unseal US subpoenas

Discussion: iGeneration Blog

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Informs Users Of DOJ WikiLeaks Court Order, Didn't Have To

Discussion: Techie Buzz, Pulse2, Softpedia News and WL Central

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
DOJ subpoeans Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers

Discussion: BoomTown, New York Times, New York Magazine, eWeek, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Hillicon Valley, Guardian, Boing Boing, OSNews, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Examiner, The Business Insider, WL Central, Gawker, Threat Level and rop.gonggri.jp, Thanks:hornokplease

Jon Evans / TechCrunch:

Can Google Get Its Mojo Back? — A spectre is haunting Mountain View. No, not bed bugs: bit rot. Google is in serious decline. — I don't see how they can deny it. They have famously always been a data-driven organization, and the data is compelling.

Discussion: TomsTechBlog.com, more at Mediagazer »

Chris Rawson / TUAW:

VLC app removed from App Store — Not long after a version of multi-format video player VLC hit the App Store, speculation swirled surrounding its possible removal because of licensing issues. A few months later, it appears that everyone's fears were true: VLC has been removed from the App Store.

Discussion: TorrentFreak, MacStories, RazorianFly, Download Squad, Lifehacker, Geekword, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear, Switched and iClarified

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Open Source Blog:

No GPL Apps for Apple's App Store — Some people swore to me that just because the free-software General Public License (GPL) clashes with the Apple App Store's Terms of Service (ToS), didn't mean that Apple would actually pull down GPLed apps. Well, Apple just did.

Discussion: CNET News, App Advice and Tech Broiler Blog

Evgeny Morozov / Wall Street Journal:

A Walled Wide Web for Nervous Autocrats — Beijing and Moscow see American information technology as a threat. They want systems of their own — At the end of 2010, the “open-source” software movement, whose activists tend to be fringe academics and ponytailed computer geeks, found an unusual ally: the Russian government.

Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:

Exclusive: Twitter Courts Google's Sundar Pichai to Be Its Head of Product — Sundar Pichai, the man in charge of Chrome and Chrome OS at Google, is being aggressively courted by Twitter to be its next head of product, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.

Dan Goodin / The Register:

Feds relax export curbs on open-source crypto — Hold the applause — Federal restrictions will be relaxed on the export of open-source software that incorporates strong encryption, the US government announced on Friday in a lengthy disclosure. — The effect of the changes announced …

Discussion: Federal Register

Brian Lam / Gizmodo:

How Lady Gaga Just Reinvented Eye Contact — Lady Gaga's weirdo Polaroid glasses are about to turn our faces into Facebook feeds and mood rings. — The glasses have two little screens in them. The weird thing is that they face outward. You can imagine the scene as Polaroid's suit brigade …

Discussion: PC Magazine, Gizmodo Australia, Faster Forward and CNET News

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

SoundCloud announces big-name investment - “The Web should not be mute” — Audio sharing platform SoundCloud has received a huge boost today, confirming that it has received investment from major US tech VC firms Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures. — The value of the investment …

Discussion: SoundCloud, A VC, Union Square Ventures, Softpedia News and TechCrunch, Thanks:spinn12

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Music Sharing Service SoundCloud Raises $10 Million From Index, Union Square

Discussion: PC Magazine and bub.blicio.us

Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:

Facebook, Google, Microsoft - comparable? — When something is unlike anything we have seen before we look for analogies or comparables to try to put it in context. Investors didn't know what to think the first time they saw Microsoft (MSFT), later Google (GOOG), and now Facebook.

Discussion: Venture Capital Dispatch, Thanks:dondodge

Douglas Rushkoff / CNN:
Opinion: Facebook may have already peaked

Discussion: confused of calcutta, Memex 1.1, Screenwerk, DealBook and Digits

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