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Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Verizon Wireless to begin throttling data speeds of heaviest users, optimizing content; starts today — According to a PDF memo available on Verizon Wireless' website (for now), the company will begin to throttle the data-throughput speeds of customers that consume an “extraordinary amount of data” …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Verizon can now throttle top five percent of bandwidth hogs, downres multimedia transfers — Nice timing, Verizon. Just as thousands — possibly zillions — of smartphone users are pondering the switch to Big Red for Apple's iPhone 4, the carrier has slipped in two critical policy changes that are apparently effective immediately.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Examiner, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Digital Trends and Internet Evolution
Andy Baio / Waxy:
The Daily: Indexed — Anybody else think it's weird that The Daily, News Corp's new iPad-only magazine, posts almost every article to their official website... but with no index of the articles to be found? They spent $30M on it, but apparently forgot a homepage! — So I went ahead and made one for them!
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Joe Weisenthal / SAI:
Sorry Rupert, Everyone Can Now Read “The Daily” For Free — Yesterday News Corp unveiled The Daily, its new iPad-only daily newspaper. You have to pay $1/week to subscribe to it. — Bad new though: anyone can easily read it for free. — Andy Baio has created The Daily Index on Tumblr …
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Examiner and App Advice
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
My thoughts on this week's debate — Earlier this week I was on a search panel with Harry Shum of Bing and Rich Skrenta of Blekko (and moderated by Vivek Wadhwa) and the video now live. It's forty minutes long, but it covers a lot of ground: — One big point of discussion is whether Bing copies Google's search results.
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TechCrunch, Technologizer, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, The Register, Search Engine Land, PlagiarismToday, puremango.co.uk, Google Watch, Vivek Wadhwa, BoomTown and Inquirer
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Google's Bing Attack Has Larry Page Written All Over It — Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — While he won't officially take over as CEO of Google until April, the recent full frontal slapfest on Microsoft's Bing search engine for shoplifting results from the search giant …
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Geeking with Greg
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
‘Dating’ Site Imports 250,000 Facebook Profiles, Without Permission — How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day? — Simple. — You scrape data from Facebook.
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Online Dating Insider and PSFK
Google Chrome Blog:
A dash of speed, 3D and apps — Today, we're excited to bring several new features from Chrome's beta channel to the stable build, including WebGL, Chrome Instant, and the Chrome Web Store. — WebGL is a new technology which brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the browser.
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Is Apple's Data Center Using a ‘Unique’ Design? — Is Apple using custom enclosures and “unique” airflow and cable management in its North Carolina data center? We can't say for certain, but it sure looks that way based on an announcement today from several data center industry equipment vendors.
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9 to 5 Mac and Between the Lines Blog
Peter Skomoroch / The LinkedIn Blog:
Introducing LinkedIn Skills — Today, knowledge is evolving at an increasingly rapid pace. To succeed in the talent economy, it is crucial to showcase your skills and build a rich network of connections who have the expertise you need to get the job done.
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John Battelle's Searchblog and TechCrunch
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
LEAKED: All Of Ron Conway's Investments Since 2005 — We knew Ron Conway and his “SV Angel” were prolific angel investors. But we didn't know he was this prolific. — An Excel file, purportedly of SV Angel's entire portfolio, has made its way into our inbox, and we have reproduced it here.
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Washington Post:
Facebook treads carefully after its vital role in Egypt's anti-Mubarak protests — In Egypt, the tried-and-true tool for opponents of President Hosni Mubarak in recent years has been Facebook. Most recently, it was on Facebook - which boasts 5 million users in Egypt, the most in the Arab world …
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Vodafone Says Egyptian Government Hijacked Its Networks To Send Propaganda
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Martyn Williams / PC World:
Blocking Internet Cost Egypt at Least $90M, Says OECD
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Computerworld, Disruptors, Business and Leadership, PC Pro and Neowin.net
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Verizon iPhone 4 — It's the same phone. The only difference is the network. And Verizon's network is better. — That's it in a nut. — Here's the whole story. I've been using a Verizon iPhone 4 since Friday morning.1 I was in San Francisco through Sunday morning, and I've been home in Philadelphia ever since.
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The Apple Core Blog, Engadget, Notebooks.com, The Toybox Blog, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile, iPhone Buzz and App Advice
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Google Gets 75,000 Job Applications in One Week, Topping Record Set in '07 — Google Inc., the world's biggest Internet-search service, received more than 75,000 job applications worldwide last week, setting a record for the company as it embarks on a hiring spree.
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Hillicon Valley, SAI and Search Engine Watch
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Moving to IPv6: Now for the hard part (FAQ) — Today is the beginning of the end of the Internet as we know it. — That's because the rules that govern how data is sent across the Net, a standard called Internet Protocol version 4, just became significantly more obsolete.
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The Official Google Blog, CNET News, BetaNews, internetnews.com, Pulse2, Bing, Ars Technica, PC World, VentureBeat, Networking Blog, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, Inquirer, Gearlog, Epicenter, Softpedia News and WinRumors
Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
Rumor: Dual-core HTC Pyramid superphone coming to T-Mobile by May — Let me be the first to admit that not everything in my last rumor report came true, but it was pretty darn close. Google unveiled their web-based Android Market and we heard that the music store is finished, but legal wrangling is still holding it up.
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CNET News, eWeek, TmoNews, Engadget, SlashPhone, Newlaunches.com, THINQ.co.uk, Techie Buzz, DailyTech and Pocket-lint
Andrew Brackin / Gizable:
Twitter adds (then removes) the ‘shorten’ button. — A few moments ago I noticed a new button on my twitter web client, after refreshing it had vanished. The button said ‘Shorten’ and was placed next to the standard tweet button. This is a feature we've never seen before from the Twitter web client.
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TechCrunch, Thanks:hunterowens
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Jon Stewart's Hulu Price Tag: At Least $40 Million — Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were two of Hulu's biggest draws until they left the video site last March. And it will cost Hulu at least $40 million to get them back. — That's according to people familiar with the new deal …
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PC World, New York Times, Show Me The Money, VentureBeat, paidContent, Electronista and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
Some Verizon Wireless iPhone customers complain — (Reuters) - Some Verizon Wireless customers complained they were unable to buy its iPhone online, but the phone company said sales were mostly running smoothly on its first day of Internet orders for the long-awaited phone.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Verizon iPhone Pre-Order Process Not Without Bumps
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SAI, MacDailyNews, Bits, Phones Review, TUAW, DailyFinance, Black Web 2.0, GottaBeMobile and Tech Musings
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple CEO Succession Proposal Gets Backing From ISS — Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) — An Apple Inc. shareholder proposal requiring the company to disclose a succession plan for Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs gained the support of Institutional Shareholder Services, a proxy-advising service.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, AppleInsider, Ars Technica and Reuters
Douglas Soltys / Inside BlackBerry:
Introducing BlackBerry Radio (Select Beta) — Later today, select BlackBerry Beta Zone users in the United States will get the opportunity to test out an upcoming radio discovery app, BlackBerry® Radio, and provide feedback to help us perfect it. This app will put multiple mobile radio services …
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Mobilized, IntoMobile, The Download Blog, BlackBerry Cool and Electronista
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Piper: Apple's $3.9B component deal more evidence of Apple television — Apple's recent investment of $3.9 billion in components is likely for device displays ranging from the iPhone to the 27-inch iMac, and could signal Apple's intention to build a television set up to 50 inches in size, investment firm Piper Jaffray believes.
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Tech Trader Daily and TG Daily
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ Release Candidate (minus Drive Extender) goes to testers — For those Windows Home Server (WHS) loyalists hoping against hope that Microsoft might reconsider its decision to cut Drive Extender from the coming ‘Vail’ release, your prayers have NOT been answered.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Hipmunk's Official Round: $4.2 Million Led By Ignition And A Group Of Online Travel Experts — About a week ago, we had heard that the travel startup Hipmunk was in the process of raising a new round of funding. Sure enough, an SEC document appeared, confirming the raise …
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TechFlash, VatorNews, eMoney, VentureBeat, Tnooz, silicontap.com and Xconomy
John Leyden / The Register:
Sony PS3 rootkit rumours rubbished — Uh, check the several-years-old small print yeah — Suggestions that Sony has added a rootkit with the latest firmware update to its PS3 console have been denounced as bunkum by a leading gaming security expert. — Rumours began flying …
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Mike Prospero / LAPTOP Mag:
Motorola Atrix 4G Up for Pre-Order Feb. 13 for $199, $499 with Laptop Dock — The most versatile smart phone we've ever laid hands on will be available for pre-order February 13, and will hit AT&T stores starting March 6. To recap, this Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core superphone can power a laptop dock that has its own battery.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Social Music Startup Rdio Raises $17.5 Million, Adds Rob Cavallo To Board — Rdio, the social music startup founded by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, isn't exactly waiting around for Spotify to make its way to the United States (or Google Music for that matter).
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Paul Buchheit:
The two paths to success — The recent WSJ article on the supposedly Chinese style of parenting has generated a lot of interesting discussion. The most amusing commentary comes from The Last Psychiatrist, who also points out that Amy Chua, the “Chinese” mother, was actually born in America.
