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11:35 AM ET, January 11, 2011

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Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:
The Verizon iPhone — Confirmed for February Launch  —  In the U.S., we've been waiting a very long time for the elusive Verizon iPhone.  And today, Lowell McAdam, Verizon's President and COO took the stage saying, “If the press writes something long enough, eventually, it will be true.”
Discussion: CNET News, Gadget Lab and SAI
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Apple:
Verizon Wireless & Apple Team Up to Deliver iPhone 4 on Verizon  —  BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey and CUPERTINO, California—January 11, 2011—Verizon Wireless and Apple® today announced that the iPhone® 4 will be available on the Verizon Wireless network beginning on Thursday, February 10.
Discussion: Neowin.net, I4U News, Reuters and TheAppNews
Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Verizon Gets the iPhone, Arriving February 10th From $199  —  It's Verizon's big day: The day it reveals its own version of Apple's game-changing iPhone, ready to steal millions of unsatisfied customers from AT&T and launch Apple's share price into the stratosphere.
Discussion: CrunchGear
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Live From The Verizon iPhone Announcement  —  It's Time.  —  After years of whispers and hearsay, the most persistent rumor in the recent history of the Tech World is finally coming to fruition.  It's Verizon iPhone day.  At least, we think it is.  —  Verizon hasn't come right out and said it …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Live from Verizon's iPhone Event  —  We've waited.  We've watched.  We've wondered.  And now, by the grace of Steve Jobs and Lowell Mcadams, we're supposedly going to see a reveal of the mythical Verizon iPhone.  Of course, there's always a chance that Verizon just wants to reveal more details on LTE …
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Verizon's iPhone 4 has a new antenna design
Discussion: IntoMobile
Steve Kovach / The Business Insider:
HUGE: Verizon iPhone Will Act As A Mobile Hotspot
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac and Mobilized
Wall Street Journal:
AT&T Preps iPhone Plan  —  Carrier to Run New Adds Boosting Service as Rival Verizon Preps for New Phone  —  After enduring months of rumors about competition for the iPhone, AT&T Inc. executives are finally about to face their moment of truth.  —  On Tuesday, Verizon Wireless is expected …
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Why I'm not switching to the Verizon iPhone: Need for speed  —  The image above says it all.  It shows a screen capture of an actual speed test performed on an Apple iPhone 4 while connected to AT&T's 3G network in northern New Jersey.  It is not an anomaly.
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
IPhone May Cost Verizon $5 Billion in Subsidies in First Year  —  Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) — Verizon Wireless, set to get Apple Inc.'s iPhone this month after four years of waiting, may spend $3 billion to $5 billion to subsidize customer purchases of the device this year, cutting into profits, analysts say.
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Twitter's Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard  —  ANALYSIS — Twitter introduced a new feature last month without telling anyone about it, and the rest of the tech world should take note and come up with their own version of it.  —  Twitter beta-tested a spine.
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E. B. Boyd / Fast Company:
Why Twitter Was the Only Company to Challenge the Secret WikiLeaks Subpoena
Discussion: Forbes
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:   Wikileaks volunteer hires lawyers in Twitter fight
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Google Ice Cream landing in time for the summer  —  EXCLUSIVE: Sources date the next Android update  —  Google will release the next version of its mobile phone operating system, Android 2.4, in the summer, Pocket-lint has learnt.  —  According to multiple sources familiar with the matter …
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
Why I'm Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud  —  I've always been a big advocate of storing things in the cloud.  Not just emails and files, but my entire life.  As I've written before, I live permanently in hotels, and my whole life fits into carry-on luggage.
Discussion: broadstuff and SFWeekly
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Who Came Out On Top At CES?  —  Now that the Consumer Electronics Show is over and all the vendors are breaking down their booths, we have one question - who won?  —  Social media monitoring service RowFeeder kept track of a number of different brands over the last several months …
Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Winklevoss twins gamble $65m for Facebook fortune  —  The twins rose to prominence after the release of The Social Network film  —  Three Harvard graduates are to gamble a $65m settlement they made with Facebook over who came up with the idea for the site, in an effort to get more money.
Discussion: Digits and NetworkEffect
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Bump Raises $16 Million Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz  —  If you've got an iPhone or Android device, there's a decent chance you're familiar with Bump, the nifty service that lets you swap contact information (and other data) by simply tapping two phones together.
David Kirkpatrick / The Daily Beast:
Marissa Mayer and Google's Local Search Strategy  —  Marissa Mayer, the executive behind Google's search engine, now aims to help the company conquer social media and personalize your Web experience on mobile phones.  She talks to David Kirkpatrick about her war with Facebook.
Discussion: Google Watch
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
The Rise Of Facebook's Valuation From 2004-2011 [Graphic]  —  Click image to enlarge.  —  The panic at absurd rumors of Facebook's demise over the weekend, coupled with the Goldman Sachs Facebook investment frenzy at the beginning of this year got us thinking; Did initial Facebook investor Peter Thiel …
Discussion: Fortune and All Facebook
Yahoo! News:
Steve Jobs to join Murdoch to unveil iPad paper  —  Rupert Murdoch will unveil News Corp.'s much-anticipated iPad newspaper onstage this month with Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, The Cutline has learned.  —  The two media moguls will appear together at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art …
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Google TV Jailbreak Opens the Doors to Developers, Hulu  —  At the end of November, Android developer Howard Harte announced that he would give $1,000 to the first person who could jailbreak the Google TV.  Just over a month later, the $1,000 has been collected and Harte says he is now …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Kindle Comes To The Mac App Store, Already No. 5 Free App  —  Continuing its quest to be on every major computing platform, Kindle is now available as an app in the new Mac App Store.  As the first ebook app in teh Mac App Store, it is already the fifth most downloaded free app.
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David Dahlquist / Macworld:
Kindle app gets side-loading, background downloading
 
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David Morgenstern / The Apple Core Blog:
Apple's Mac App Store arrives and the world doesn't end
Discussion: Softpedia News
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Groupon Acquires Its Way Into Israel, South Africa And India
Discussion: Business Wire, paidContent, eMoney and SAI
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Apple Getting a Lot More Patents Than It Used To
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
T-Mobile UK Decides Mobile Broadband Shouldn't Actually Be Used For Mobile Broadband
Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
Facebook's Google Effect
Discussion: Business Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Former RIM Employee Highlights Playbook Challenges
Discussion: BGR, IntoMobile and Electricpig.co.uk
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
Best Buy Officially Launches Buy Back Program
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Muglia's e-mail to the Microsoft troops: 'I'm moving on to new …