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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Confirmed: Personal Hotspot feature coming to all iPhones in iOS 4.3 — According to our source, the personal hotspot feature that debuted on the Verizon iPhone yesterday will, in fact, be making its way to all iPhones in iOS 4.3. We're sure there will need to be carrier support for this feature …
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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T: We're “Evaluating” The New iPhone Mobile Hotspot Feature — An AT&T rep says the carrier is “evaluating” Apple's new mobile hotspot feature, which was announced Tuesday as a new feature for the Verizon iPhone. (The mobile hotspot lets you access the iPhone's 3G Internet connection via …
Tim Sneath / MSDN Blogs:
An Open Letter from the President of the United States of Google — The world's ability to communicate with one another is a key factor in its rapid evolution and economic growth. The Esperanto language was invented last century as a politically neutral language that would foster peace and international understanding.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
So Google, You'll Be Dropping Support For Flash Next, Right? — Do you smell that? Just wait a second. You will. … The bolding is mine, but that's Google's actual statement as to why they're dropping support for the H.264 video codec from the Chromium open source browser (from which Chrome is built).
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Google Dropping Support for H.264 in Chrome
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft: Apple can't claim exclusive rights to ‘App Store’ — Should the phrase “App Store” be Apple's alone? Microsoft says no, and it's fighting for the right to use those words for its own mobile application store. — The Redmond company this week escalated its battle against Apple's attempt …
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Greg Blevins / Google Mobile Blog:
Now available: Google Places with Hotpot for iPhone — We recently released Google Places with Hotpot in Google Maps for Android, and starting now, you can have that same great experience as an iPhone app. We realize the importance of finding places you'll love while you're out and about, no matter what mobile device you use.
David / TmoNews:
Samsung Vibrant Plus Will Offer 21+ Mbps 4G Speeds — Well, we knew the Samsung Vibrant Plus existed but we didn't know was that it's slated to be T-Mobile's first 4G phone that offers 21+ Mbps speeds. Currently, the myTouch4G and T-Mobile G2 offer 4G speeds that are capped at 14.4 Mbps.
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook to Distribute AMBER Alerts, Perhaps Other Emergency Info — In an interesting tie between government and Facebook, users will soon be able to receive AMBER (America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response) Alerts on the site about children abducted in their area.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Demand Media Clears SEC and Prices IPO — Demand Media is set to go public, according to an amended filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, with shares priced from $14 to $16 each. — The online publisher could sell up to 8.625 million shares and, if it prices at the top of the range …
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Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo TV is a Paradigm Shift for Internet TV — Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show we got a sneak peek at the latest incarnation of Yahoo Connected TV and we were excited about what we saw: the first Internet TV device to bring passive and personalized Internet content to its users.
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Google Translate Adds Conversation Mode for Real-time Audio Translation — Google has implemented an early version of a feature for its translation app that does on the fly audio translation from one language to another. — The feature, known as Conversation Mode, is being added to Google Translate for Android.
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TechCrunch, Engadget, Android Community and GigaOM
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Formspring Closes $11.5 Million Round, Launches ‘Respond’ Button — One of the biggest phenomena of last year was Formspring, a social site that lets you invite your friends to “Ask you anything”. The site launched in November 2009 and rose from obscurity to some 40 million monthly uniques at its peak …
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Bloomberg:
Apple, Verizon Took Years to Clear IPhone Differences — Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) — Verizon Communications Inc. President Lowell McAdam works a few miles from the New York auditorium where he announced yesterday's deal to offer Apple Inc.'s iPhone. It took him four years to get there.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The Future Version Of Android Isn't Called Ice Cream. It's Ice Cream SANDWICH. — It's tough being a tech journalist. Countless phone calls, mountains of email, endless warring with legions of trolls. Really, you've got to be pretty hardcore to do this job. It's a wonder we ever get any posts up.
Noel Randewich / Reuters:
AMD CEO left partly over mobile strategy: source — (Reuters) - The departure of Advanced Micro Devices' chief executive followed months of concern among some board members that he wasn't doing enough to get the chip maker into the exploding mobile market, a company source said.
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Evan Selleck / SlashGear:
Verizon iPhone 4 Doesn't Suffer from Death Grip — Now that the device is real, and we've managed to get some hands-on time with it, we were curious to see if Verizon's and Apple's claims that the only-slightly altered antenna version for the CDMA-based variant of the iPhone 4 (in the United States) …
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Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
Google Android More Vulnerable Than IPhone, Antivirus Maker Says — Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.'s Android operating system for mobile devices is more vulnerable to hackers and viruses than Apple Inc.'s iPhone platform, according to security-software maker Trend Micro Inc.
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/ Shoutpedia:
Sony Files Lawsuit Against Geohot Over PS3 Jailbreak — After publishing the PS3 root keys publicly, Geohot released his first jailbreak for PS 3 firmware 3.55. Though he specifically wrote on his website that he doesn't condone piracy and disabled peek and poke features, yet he has been sued for jailbreaking PS3.
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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Updates Mac App, Gets Rid Of Secret Backdoor Feature, Avoids Apple's Wrath — Twitter has updated its Mac app for the Mac App Store with some modest changes, including a new, blue icon, replacing its previous black icon. — Twitter has also — as far as we can tell …
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Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Greylock Adds Former Data Domain CEO As A Partner — Hot on the heels of participating in the mammoth $950 million funding round of Groupon, venture capital firm Greylock Partners announced named Frank Slootman, the former CEO of Data Domain, now part of EMC, as a partner.
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Carolyn Duffy Marsan / Network World:
Facebook, Google, Yahoo commit to ‘World IPv6 Day’ trial — Internet Society attracts key sites to 24-hour test of next-gen Internet services — Several of the Internet's most popular Web sites - including Facebook, Google and Yahoo - have agreed to participate in the first global-scale trial of IPv6 …
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft will block ChevronWP7 unlock with first Windows Phone 7 update — Microsoft is planning to block the ChevronWP7 unlocker with its first Windows Phone 7 update due shortly. — Members of the ChevronWP7 confirmed the block in a blog posting on Wednesday.
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Daniel Cawrey / thechromesource:
Cr-48 Shipments to Resume, Applications for Pilot Still Open — Since late December, Chrome OS notebooks have not been going out as part of Google's Chrome OS Pilot Program. Yesterday, I speculated about some of the reasons why shipments from Google of the Cr-48 to test users may have stopped.
Saijel Kishan / Bloomberg:
Clarium Hedge Fund Slumps 90% From Peak After Thiel Has Third Losing Year — Peter Thiel got rich investing in PayPal and Facebook Inc. before most people knew them, built a hedge fund that at its apex managed $7.2 billion, and forecast the collapse of the U.S. housing market.
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