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Alex Rice / Facebook Blog:
A Continued Commitment to Security — This Friday is Data Privacy Day, an international effort by governments, businesses and advocacy groups to raise awareness about the importance of staying in control of personal information. A key part of controlling information has always been protecting …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
“Let The Hacking Begin” Declares Person Who Hacked Zuckerberg's Facebook Fan Page — Earlier today, a strange message appeared on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's fan page. It read as follows: … Who wrote such an odd and seemingly drunken message? Well, if you believe the page, Zuckerberg himself did.
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Computerworld, Telegraph, Mashable!, PC World, TechEye, CNET News, SlashGear, Zero Day Blog, Naked Security, Guardian, The Register, GMSV, @emmabarnett, Techie Buzz, The Not-So Private Parts, Digital Trends, Gearlog, Telegraph, SAI, V3.co.uk, Faster Forward, Geek.com and Gawker, Thanks:gigjets
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Facebook Beefs Up Security With Social Captchas and All HTTPS, All The Time — Facebook is introducing two new measures to beef up security: expanding HTTPS connections as an all-the-time option and using social captchas to authenticate users who have lost passwords. Let's take these one at a time.
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Computerworld and ReadWriteWeb
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Exclusive: BlackBerry PlayBook and smartphones to run Android apps? — As crazy as that sounds, we have been told by multiple trusted sources that RIM is seriously considering a feature that will allow BlackBerry devices to run Android apps. Here is what we know... Research In Motion …
Richard Lai / Engadget:
Exclusive: Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (PlayStation Phone) preview — Oh yes. After all the unbearable teasing since we unveiled the first ever photos of the PlayStation Phone, we've finally managed to get hold of the real deal for an in-depth preview. Honestly, we couldn't wait any longer …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Verizon iPhone Listings Go Live on Apple's Site [Update: Removed] — With the Apple online store's downtime last night, the company appears to have rolled out full details of the options available for Verizon iPhone customers. With both 16 GB ($199) and 32 GB ($299) models available …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
AT&T Offering Unlimited Data to Keep iPhone Customers From Defecting to Verizon? — Associated Press reports that AT&T is quietly offering some of its iPhone customers the ability to switch to unlimited data plans as a means to keep them from defecting to Verizon, which is rolling …
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Associated Press, IntoMobile, MacGazette.net, MacStories, Macgasm and everythingiCafe
Steven Musil / CNET News:
Verizon's iPhone hot spot to cost $20 a month — Using Verizon's forthcoming iPhone as a mobile hot spot is going to cost subscribers $20 a month—that's on top of the required data and voice plans subscribers will already be paying for. — The fee, which is in line with what Verizon charges …
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Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
Unhappy With Slow Growth Of Android App Purchases, Google Talks 2011 Roadmap — Google's Android platform manager Eric Chu knows that though the number of Android smartphone users may be rising quickly, the number of purchases of paid apps in the Android Market is not doing nearly as well.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Android In-App Payments Coming Soon — Were Delayed Because Developers Were Busy — Today at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco, Inside Network's Kim-Mai Cutler sat down with Eric Chu, a group manager at Google for the Android platform. The two discussed the platform mainly from a developer perspective.
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple revamps its public website using HTML5 — Apple has relaunched its entire website with a new design using HTML5, adding a darker, glossy navigation bar and speedy new animated page layouts for Mac and iPod pages. — The redesign officially upgrades the site from “HTML 4.01 Transitional” …
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The Next Web, MacRumors, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, MacGazette.net and 9 to 5 Mac
Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
7 digital trends at Davos 2011 [World Economic Forum talk] — It's my 9th Davos in a row and I am lucky to be invited to speak twice this year, I'm giving a talk on future trends “digital convergence” in David Kirkpatrick's session and I moderate my own dinner on “social networking addiction” …
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Data Central, Thanks:loic
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Apple's ‘PC’ shipments grow by 241 percent in iPad-inclusive Canalys stats — Canalys is a pretty well respected global stat-keeper and now it seems to be relying on that reputation to push through a pretty controversial message: tablets, such as Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy Tab, are PCs.
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Exclusive: Elevation's Bodnick is headed to Quora — Marc Bodnick is stepping down as a co-founding partner of private equity firm Elevation Partners, in order to join social question-and-answer site Quora, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
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VentureBeat, SAI and TechCrunch
The Official Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft is Imagining a NUI future — You don't have to look very far to realize that technology is becoming more natural and intuitive. In a typical day, many people use touch or speech to interact with technology—on their phones, at the ATM, at the grocery store and in their cars.
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Fast Company, WinRumors and The Next Web, Thanks:linderholm
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Facebook Brings Back (Part of) Beacon, and No One Blinks — In 2007, Facebook unveiled a plan to let brands turn Facebook users' online activities into ads. Cue uproar, and an eventual apology from Mark Zuckerberg. — Yesterday Facebook unveiled a plan to let brands turn Facebook users' online activities into ads.
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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Shipped 2 Million Units of Windows Phone 7 Software Last Quarter — Microsoft Corp. said it shipped more than 2 million copies of the Windows Phone 7 operating system last quarter, as the company tried to reverse sliding smartphone market share. — Customer satisfaction …
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Mobilized, VentureBeat, LiveSide.net, ZDNet, Engadget, @asymco, ConceivablyTech, Windows Phone Secrets, GeekSmack and WPCentral.com
Michael Rose / TUAW:
Good Technology Q4 2010 mobile device report shows huge iPad growth in the enterprise — Back in October the enterprise mobile integration company Good Technology released its first quarterly metrics report covering device activations and overall trends; the report showed extremely strong growth …
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AppleInsider and Electronista, Thanks:miketrose
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Kevin Rose: Yahoo Contacted Digg To See If We Wanted To Take Over Delicious — It looks like Yahoo has been looking for a home for Delicious for some time now. On his Diggnation web show this week, Digg founder Kevin Rose said that Yahoo contacted Digg to see if the company would be interested …
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Chitika Insights, Thanks:jkernsjr
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
After Blocking Twitter, Egypt Reportedly Starts Restricting Access To Facebook — According to a number of tips we've received in the past few minutes, the chatter on Twitter and several local reports (mostly in Arabic), it appears Egyptian authories have moved to block Facebook. Yesterday, Twitter was blocked.
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Fortune, All Facebook, Reuters, The Next Web, Techland, @_aek_ and TechCrunch Europe
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Paul Mutton / Netcraft:
Anonymous attacks websites in Egypt
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VatorNews, BBC, @anony_ops and Naked Security
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Verizon Starts Bundling Broadband Services With Google Apps To Small Business Customers — This is interesting. Verizon has just announced that it is bundling broadband with Google Apps for its small business customers. — Called Google Apps for Verizon, the package combines Google's …
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PR Newswire, SAI, Fortune and Telecompetitor
Bill Rigby / Reuters:
A year later, Microsoft picture looks very different — (Reuters) - A year ago, Microsoft Corp blew away Wall Street's earnings forecasts with blistering sales of its new Windows 7 operating system and trumpeted optimism about the recovery in tech spending.
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AppleInsider, TechEye, CNET News and MacDailyNews
David / TmoNews:
LG G-Slate, Dell Streak 7, Vibrant 4G Release Dates Confirmed — So this is the very first look we've had at the LG G-Slate release date which looks to be dropping on March 23rd, a date which jives with our late March info from before. Not to be outdone is the Dell Streak 7 which will release …
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IntoMobile, PhoneReport v2.0, The Toybox Blog and GottaBeMobile
Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
Kongregate Arcade back in Android Marketplace, with some minor changes — Exactly one week after Kongregate's promising mobile app, Kongregate Arcade, made its tumultuous debut on the Android Marketplace (from which it was pulled from the very same day!) the browser-based gaming platform …
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Technologizer, IntoMobile, Android Community, Eurodroid, VG247, mobiputing and Download Squad
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Facebook phone from HTC rumored to debut next month — Here we go again: Rumors of a potential Facebook phone have emerged once more, this time from the London business site City A.M. — According to the site, which makes no mention of its sources, Taiwanese manufacturer HTC will unveil …
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Wall Street Journal:
Skype Won't IPO Until Second Half This Year — Internet-phone company Skype Ltd. won't hold its initial public offering until the second half of the year, according to people familiar with the matter, later than some investors had expected. — The company's recent hiring of a new chief executive …
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