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5:35 PM ET, February 3, 2011

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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.
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 …
Discussion: Examiner and App Advice
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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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Verizon iPhone review  —  The Verizon iPhone 4 is an interesting product for Engadget to review.  Firstly, it's not exactly a new device (not in any outwardly noticeable way).  From design, down to its CPU, RAM, and even cost, this iPhone is the same as the AT&T model …
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Verizon Beats AT&T in Voice Calls for iPhones
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 …
Discussion: Jillian C. York
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Vodafone Says Egyptian Government Hijacked Its Networks To Send Propaganda
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Latest WikiLeak Reveals Google And The State Department Talked …
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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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.
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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Jason Kilar / Hulu Blog:
Stewart, Colbert, and Hulu's thoughts about the future of TV
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 …
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.
Discussion: PSFK
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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Rafael Rivera / Within Windows:
Yahoo: Your buggy IMAP server affects iPhone too; thanks for playing though.  —  I was happy to see Microsoft's admission regarding Yahoo's buggy IMAP server, and even more so with Yahoo's apology.  But today, Yahoo issued another statement pointing a finger at Microsoft …
Discussion: WPCentral.com, WMPoweruser.com and SlashGear, Thanks:wizardcm
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Electronista:   Yahoo mail's Windows Phone bug affects iPhone as well
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.
Discussion: TechCrunch
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Android 3.0 ‘Honeycomb’ can encrypt all your data, needs a full hour's charge  —  Diving through the Motorola Xoom's sweet, sweet blend of Android 3.0, we found an interesting perk — there's an “Encrypt Tablet” option buried in the settings page, intended to secure all your personal data with a password or PIN.
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Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Honeycomb: What You Need to Know (It's Not Just For Tablets)
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.
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.
Discussion: Ars Technica and AppleInsider
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.
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 …
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.
 
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Amid IPO Reports, Pandora Adds Two Big Media Names To Board
Discussion: bizjournals, bizjournals and Press
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Completes Outsourcing Its Real Estate Search To Zillow
Discussion: Bits, TechFlash and Zillow MediaRoom
John Leyden / The Register:
Sony PS3 rootkit rumours rubbished
Mike Prospero / LAPTOP Mag:
Motorola Atrix 4G Up for Pre-Order Feb. 13 for $199, $499 with Laptop Dock
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ Release Candidate (minus Drive Extender) goes to testers
Discussion: LiveSide.net and Neowin.net
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Local Q&A Site Hipster In Acquisition Talks With Groupon
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
SkyGrid Unleashes Social Messaging And Aggregation Platform …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Storify Raises $2M From Khosla Ventures To Blend Social Media With Storytelling
 Earlier Items: 
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iOS 4.3, Personal Hotspot, and iPad 2 Introduction Within Next Ten Days?
James Kendrick / ZDNet:
Samsung responds: Galaxy Tab return rate below 2%
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
PocketGear Rebrands To Appia; Shifts To White-Label App Marketplace Platform
AT&T:
AT&T Details Pricing, Launch of AT&T Mobile Hotspot App Coming February 13
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Digg This: Reddit Serves Up a Billion Pages a Month
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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