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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Nokia: Youths are fed up with iPhone, baffled by Android — EXCLUSIVE: We offer something different — Nokia?has claimed that the youth of today are fed up with the iPhone?and baffled by Android. — In an exclusive interview with Pocket-lint, Niels Munksgaard, director of Portfolio …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Apple Reportedly Buying Flash Memory Company Anobit For $400 Million - $500 Million — Apple is reportedly going to use part of its enormous pile of cash to buy an Israeli fabless semiconductor company that specializes in flash storage solutions. Calcalist reports - in Hebrew …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires Clever Sense, Creator Of Local Recommendations App Alfred — Google is acquiring the Silicon Valley-based startup Clever Sense, both companies are announcing today. Clever Sense, as you may recall, is the maker of the mobile application “Alfred,” which delivers personalized recommendations …
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Peter Farago / The Flurry Blog:
App Developers Bet on iOS over Android this Holiday Season — At the recent Le Web conference in France, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt declared that “Android is ahead of the iPhone now.” According to Schmidt, Android's success is due to “unit volume, Ice Cream Sandwich,” because …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox — A few days ago we wrote about a new website that exposes what people behind an IP-address have downloaded on BitTorrent. The Russian-based founders of the site developed the service so people can show their friends how public …
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Exclusive Interview: Carrier IQ Gets Transparent About Its Mobile Monitoring — It's been a tumultuous few weeks for Carrier IQ, the mobile analytics outfit at the center of a continuing privacy brouhaha over what its diagnostic software does and does not do.
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Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
Carrier IQ: Actually, we don't give your data to the FBI — or any other law enforcement
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Richard Russo / New York Times:
Amazon's Jungle Logic — Camden, Me. — I FIRST heard of Amazon's new “promotion” from my bookseller daughter, Emily, in an e-mail with the subject line “Can You Hear Me Screaming in Brooklyn?” According to a link Emily supplied, Amazon was encouraging customers to go into brick …
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Windows Phone SMS attack discovered, reboots device and disables messaging hub — Microsoft's range of Windows Phone devices suffer from a denial-of-service attack that allows attackers to disable the messaging functionality on a device. — The flaw works simply by sending an SMS to a Windows Phone user.
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Ross Miller / The Verge:
Kinectimals for iPhone and iPad: yes, Microsoft just released an iOS game — Microsoft isn't a stranger to the iTunes App Store — that dates back all the way to 2008 with Seadragon — but today's Kinectimals is arguably something different entirely. It's a game.
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Phil Milford / Bloomberg:
Apple Sued by Patent Holder Over IPhone Caller-ID Technology — Apple Inc. (AAPL), fighting to protect sales of the iPhone worldwide, was sued by a U.S. company contending its products infringe two patents for caller- identification technology. — Cequint Inc. of Seattle …
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple Softens Stance to Lure Mobile Ads — Apple Inc. is learning to compromise. — Facing challenges winning over advertisers for its iAd mobile advertising service, Apple is softening its approach to advertisers as it loses ground to Google Inc. in the fast-growing mobile ad market.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Jive Software's Shares Pop 27 Percent On First Trade; Valued At Over $800 Million — Social enterprise giant Jive Software started trading this morning on the Nasdaq under the symbol ‘JIVE.’ The company priced its IPO last night at $12 per share, giving the company a $600 million. -plus valuation.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Gowalla Went For $3M In Facebook Shares, And Many Investors Were Cool With That — What the headline says, basically, according to two sources. That and multiple sources are telling me that a majority of Gowalla investors were cool with the deal being entirely in Facebook shares …
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Kathleen De Vere / Inside Mobile Apps:
How Many Downloads Does an App Need to Reach The Top of The Free Charts on iOS? — It's a question we often get from developers: how many downloads does it take to make it to the top? — App tracking company Distimo has revealed data for top apps on a country-by-country basis for the biggest markets.
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Universal: Artists didn't consent to Megaupload video — The brouhaha around Megaupload's viral music video continues this week, with Universal Music (UMG) now claiming that several of its artists didn't consent to being used in the video. Megaupload is disputing these claims in a lawsuit it filed in federal court today.
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Bloomberg:
Facebook Plans First Foray Into Mobile Ads — Facebook Inc. plans its first push into mobile advertising by the end of March, giving the company a fresh source of revenue ahead of a possible initial public offering, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Google:
Google updates Chrome with multiple user profiles — Multiple user profiles in Chrome have been in the works for months and we first spotted this feature in the Chrome Canary build before it found its way into the beta channel. Today, it gets official as the search Goliath announced …
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Kei Kawai / The Official Google Blog:
Experience the tsunami-affected areas of Japan through Street View — Back in July, we announced our initiative to digitally archive the areas of Northeastern Japan affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Today, we're making good on that promise—after driving more than 44,000 kilometers through …
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Jeff Bertolucci / PC World:
Study: Tablet Buyers Use Wi-Fi, Not Cellular Data — Tablet owners overwhelming prefer Wi-Fi-only devices over those with cellular connections, according to a new study by Connected Intelligence, a service from market research firm The NPD Group. — Slate users are relying more and more on Wi-Fi for a number of reasons.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Rara Sells Streaming Music to Everyone Who Hasn't Heard of Streaming Music — You get your legal music on the Web from services like Apple, Amazon, Google, Spotify and Pandora. Also, perhaps, from services like Rhapsody, MOG and Rdio, etc. — Yet here comes one more, via Rara.com.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Android and iOS Now Control Over 80% of Smartphone Sales in U.S. — Market research firm NPD today issued a press release discussing some of the trends in U.S. smartphone sales in 2011 compared to previous years, noting the strong growth in Android and iOS that has led the two platforms …
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft releases SkyDrive app for Windows Phone and iPhone — Microsoft announced the availability of a new SkyDrive app for Windows Phone and iPhone on Tuesday. — The SkyDrive application follows a recent overhaul of Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service.
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Bottlenose Is a Web-Based Twitter Client for Power Users — It was nine months ago that Twitter told outside developers they should stop building new Twitter clients. Since then Twitter bought and integrated power-user client TweetDeck, and tried to make all of its own clients simpler and more new-user-friendly.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Wikipedia Mulls Total Blackout to Oppose SOPA — Later this week, the Senate's House Judiciary Committee will vote on the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA). — Supporters of the bill say it's needed to safeguard the interests of rightsholders who claim their businesses are threatened by online piracy.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Lamar Smith Proposes New Version Of SOPA, With Just A Few Changes
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Techland:
Facebook Aims to Prevent Suicide — MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook is making it easier for people who express suicidal thoughts on the social networking site to get help. — A program launching Tuesday enables users to instantly connect with a crisis counselor through Facebook's “chat” messaging system.
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Fiksu launches FreeMyApps to stimulate paid app downloads — Fiksu, a Boston-based start-up that helps developers obtain loyal app users, aims to drive paid downloads with a new service called FreeMyApps. The product builds on work Fiksu has done to build traffic for free apps and creates …
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft Tag adding support for QR codes and NFC, says it sees room for alternatives — Reading an NFC signal with Microsoft Tag software. (Microsoft image) — Microsoft is updating the mobile reader apps for its Microsoft Tag barcodes to also scan Quick Response (QR) …
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Twitvid launches its new social video network with 12 million users and a slick video discovery experience — Today, Twitvid is announcing that it is transforming its clip sharing site into a social video network that allows you to share video from any sources with friends and followers.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Google Wallet stores too much unencrypted data in a rooted device—report — ViaForensics gives a report card of sorts to Google Wallet, noting that it securely stores passwords but doesn't encrypt other data that could be used in a social engineering attack.
