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Wall Street Journal:
Apple Works on Line of Less-Expensive iPhones — Apple Inc. is working on the first of a new line of iPhones and an overhaul of software services for the devices, people familiar with the matter said, moving to accelerate sales of its smartphones amid growing competition.
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
More Detail On Apple's iPhone Nano [Exclusive] — We have more detail on Apple's iPhone nano, which according to Sunday's Wall Street Journal is real and may be headed to market this year. — But what we have will blow your mind. — This week, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal …
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9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, MacStories, Softpedia News, MacHackPC and Apple Bitch
Arn / MacRumors:
Small iPhone to Have Edge to Edge Screen, Voice Navigation?
Discussion:
MacDailyNews and 9 to 5 Mac
Wall Street Journal:
Zynga's Talks With Investors Value Gaming Concern at Over $7 Billion — Social-gaming company Zynga Inc. is holding discussions with potential investors about raising around $250 million in new funding in a deal that could value the three-year-old start-up at between $7 billion and $9 billion …
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Post Tech, SAI, Fortune, Edge Online, Softpedia News, VatorNews, thinq_, VentureBeat, Reuters and Gawker
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Nokia in talks with Verizon over CDMA possibility; is “considering everything” — Nokia has been in talks with Verizon Wireless in the US, CEO Stephen Elop has confirmed to us, and while the Finnish company has no plans to announce today, the possibility of CDMA devices is still on the table.
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PhoneArena, MobileBurn.com and Phones Review
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Nancy Gohring / Computerworld:
Microsoft to pay out ‘billions’ as part of Nokia deal
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CNET News, SAI, Digital Trends, TechFlash, ZDNet, GSMA Mobile Business Briefing, The Register, WinRumors, Wall Street Journal, PE Hub Blog, mocoNews, FierceMobileContent, Electronista, CNET News, Dow Jones Newswires, Mobile Opportunity, SAI, thinq_, ITworld.com, Wall Street Journal, MobileBurn.com, PC World and ConceivablyTech
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Qualcomm enables instant streaming of Netflix movies on Android — Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon mobile processors will enable future Android devices to be able to instantly stream TV shows and movies from Netflix. — Instant streaming is the hottest new way to get movies into the hands of users.
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Computerworld, CNET News, MobileCrunch, Android Tapp, Notebooks.com, SlashGear, CrunchGear and Light Reading
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
The new nightmare of developers and brands — It used to be simple. You just needed a website. Whatever you do on the web today, it's now a nightmare if you want to optimize your presence. — Platforms — You need to be on all popular platforms. iPhone of course …
Thanks:loic
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
HP's ‘Everybody On’ ad goes to the Grammys, causes nationwide cringing — HP told us to watch for a special new campaign during the Grammys, so watch we did — only to find this commercial and occasional on-stage pimping of the HP TouchPad. The latter is standard business practice, to be sure, but the former?
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET News:
Adobe spells out Flash-y plans for Android — Adobe may be leaving the flashy announcements to Nokia and Sony Ericsson this Mobile World Congress, but there are some plans pertaining to Flash that will impact a wide swatch of Android smartphones and tablets going forward.
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Business Wire, Fast Company, Download Squad, VentureBeat, Crave, GigaOM, PhoneArena, GottaBeMobile, eWeek, The Register, PC Magazine, IntoMobile and Softpedia News
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Microsoft to Add Multitasking, Internet Explorer 9 to Windows Phone Later this Year — Microsoft announced on Monday plans to fill in some of the key gaps from the initial Windows Phone 7 release with two updates due out this year. — The more interesting of the updates is the second one-a major release-is due later this year.
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Motorola Mobility to Buy Software Start-Up — Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. has agreed to buy a small company developing software to boost the security of mobile devices powered by the Android operating system and spur wider use by businesses, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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GigaOM, eWeek, Computerworld, Mobilized, Inside Mobile Apps, VentureBeat and Electronista
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Steve Jobs On The Apple Campus Is Like A Double Rainbow — On Friday the WSJ published an article entitled “Apple's Jobs Calls Shots From Home” which depicted the Apple CEO as still having a generous hand in the day to day going ons of the company despite being on medical leave.
Discussion:
SAI, Tech Trader Daily and MacRumors
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
RIM BlackBerry 4G PlayBook tablet now in delicious LTE and HSPA+ flavors (updated) — Count 'em, because RIM has now announced four varieties of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. As of today, we've got the PlayBook with WiFi + LTE and WiFi + HSPA+ models joining the previously announced PlayBook …
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eWeek, PC World, TechEye, Research in Motion, Wall Street Journal, Faster Forward, I4U News, Liliputing, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Phones Review and Electronista
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Economics of Blogging and The Huffington Post — When The Huffington Post announced earlier this week that it was being acquired by AOL for $315 million in cash and stock, one group felt slighted: a set of unpaid bloggers for the site, identifying by the Twitter hashtag #huffpuff …
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New York Times, The Atlantic Online and Invisible Inkling, more at Mediagazer »
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Inside the DNA of the Facebook Mafia — A lot of things about Facebook have been impressive, even by the Silicon Valley standards. Almost no other Valley company has reached so many people around the world so quickly. Few Valley companies have been considered important forces in causes …
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SarahLacy.com
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
What future for the Macintosh? — With Apple's smartphones and tablets making so much money and taking up so much media bandwidth, one has to wonder: Is there a future for the Macintosh? — We'll first take a look at broad trend numbers and try not to molest them too much.
Discussion:
9 to 5 Mac
Dan Nystedt / PC World:
YouTube Partners With LG on Mobile 3D Videos — YouTube is working with LG Electronics to make it easier for users to capture 3D images and video on mobile devices and upload directly to the Internet with LG's new Optimus 3D smartphone. — The Optimus 3D, which uses Google's Android mobile …
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GigaOM, The Toybox Blog, newswire.co.kr, Phones Review, Newlaunches.com, Engadget and Electricpig.co.uk
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
iOS developers making leap to the Mac, thanks to Mac App Store — The Mac App Store is, by most accounts, off to a good start. But not all entrenched Mac developers are ready to entrust their entire business to Apple's recently opened digital distribution point due to certain restrictions placed …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Wants You To “Map Your Valentine” — Google has created a little site called “Map Your Valentine” in honor of today (thanks Mike Blumenthal). It uses Google Maps and enables you to send a email card to your spouse/partner/lover/friend/ stalkee. — At the end of the sequence it allows …
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Screenwerk, msnbc.com, Switched, The Next Web and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
MacNN:
Apple poised to become Samsung's biggest customer — Apple will become Samsung's largest customer in 2011 if a new parts contract is signed, says the Korea Economic Daily. Under the terms of agreements, Apple is expected to pay $7.8 billion to Samsung for various parts including LCD panels …
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Dow Jones Newswires, iClarified and 9 to 5 Mac
Peter Norvig / New York Post:
The machine age — This week, Watson takes on humans at “Jeopardy!” But how close are we to a computer that thinks? Google's director of research explains how far we've come ... Forty years ago this December, President Nixon declared a war on cancer, pledging a “total national commitment” to conquering the disease.
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@google and UMBC ebiquity
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Foursquare adds five new languages to platform, big focus on API this year — In an on-stage announcement at Mobile World Congress, Foursquare founder and CEO Denis Crowley said the location-based startup had added five new languages to its mobile application. — These are: Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese.
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Bits, SAI and Softpedia News, Thanks:mikebutcher
