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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Nokia: Youths are fed up with iPhone, baffled by Android — 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, Product Marketing & Sales at Nokia Entertainment Global explained …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Nokia, iPhone, Android and wishful thinking — Man! When will these guys from Nokia learn not to put their foot in their mouth. Once again, yet another executive from Nokia is out dissing iPhone and Android. Niels Munksgaard, director of Portfolio, Product Marketing & Sales …
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Daring Fireball
Naval / Startup Boy:
Why You Can't Hire — There isn't a shortage of developers and designers. There's a surplus of founders. — The cost of starting a company has collapsed. It's now just (minimal) salaries. For entrepreneurs, desks are free, hosting is free, marketing is online, and company setup is cheap.
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@ryanchris and @nivi
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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ExtremeTech, Betabeat, @dannysullivan, Techdirt, Gizmodo and TechCrunch, more at Mediagazer »
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why apps are not the future — I hear it everywhere. The web is dead, apps are the future. — I heard it first on the cover of Wired Magazine in March 1997 and again in August 2010. I was so impressed I added it to my blogroll, as a reminder to all that you're reading a dead medium.
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Scott Hanselman, inessential.com, @dougw, @arrington, @msuster and Kindle Review
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.
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CNET News, TechCrunch, Friending Facebook Blog, VentureBeat, paidContent, Business Insider, Mashable!, Pulse2 and NBC Bay Area
Mike Torres / The Windows Blog:
Introducing SkyDrive for iPhone and Windows Phone — SkyDrive is your personal cloud for your documents, notes, photos and videos. Move your files into SkyDrive and immediately they're available from any web browser anywhere in the world. As we detailed a few days ago …
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The Verge, Forbes, BetaNews, LiveSide.net, Engadget, PC Magazine, Technologizer, All about Microsoft Blog, TechNet Blogs, CNET News, AnandTech, All About Windows Phone, IntoMobile, gHacks Technology News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, CodenameWindows, SlashGear, TUAW and GottaBeMobile, Thanks:weemundo
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft releases SkyDrive app for Windows Phone and iPhone
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ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, The Next Web, MacStories and MacRumors
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 …
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iClarified, PhoneArena, TechCrunch, Digits, SlashGear, Gamasutra, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent, AndroidGuys, Appolicious Advisor, MacDailyNews, Ed Burnette's Dev …, VentureBeat and Evolver.fm
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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CNET News, PC Magazine, VatorNews, Gizmodo, The Next Web, GigaOM, Mashable!, Android and Me, Electronista, VentureBeat, Deal Journal, MediaFile, 9to5Google, Tnooz and @thecleversense
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Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core Blog:
FAA approves iPads in the cockpit; American Airlines to start Friday — In June the Allied Pilots Association noted that American Airlines (AA) conducted the first tests of iPads for all phases of flight. AA pilots received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to test iPads …
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AllThingsD, CNET News, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Business Insider, Gawker and MacRumors
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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paidContent, Tech Trader Daily, Forbes, Macgasm, TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pulse2, PC Magazine, Washington Post, NBC Bay Area, GigaOM, PadGadget, ExtremeTech, Geek.com and AllThingsD, Thanks:srikardhanakoti
Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
Google Kills ‘Google Shoot View’ Video Game — Google has killed off “Google Shoot View,” a first-person shooter video game based on Google's Street View mapping product. The game used Google's Street View database of 360 degree street-level photography, and imposed an automatic rifle sight and some sound effects on top of it.
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VentureBeat and Stuff.co.nz
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Apple hires designer Jan-Michael Cart praised for his iOS interface concepts — Apple is hiring dozens of talented people on a daily basis, but this one deserves your attention. Jan-Michael Cart, a mass media arts student from Georgia, is the brains behind a bunch of very insightful iOS …
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MacRumors, Jan-Michael Cart, ReadWriteWeb, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ars Technica, MacStories, Softpedia News, PhoneArena and iClarified
Bloomberg:
Verizon ‘Very Serious’ About Making Bid for Netflix, Banker Says — Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), the second-largest U.S. phone company, is “very serious” about a bid to acquire online movie provider Netflix Inc. (NFLX), an investment banker said. — Verizon may kick off a bidding war …
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paidContent, Electronista, Pulse2, ReelSEO Online Video …, TechCrunch and FierceIPTV, more at Mediagazer »
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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Googling Google Blog, Agence France Presse, PC Magazine, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Japan Today, Pulse2, WebProNews, TechSpot, PC World, SlashGear, NBC Bay Area and 9to5Google
Damon Poeter / PC Magazine:
Maker of Yanked Driver's License App Fires Back at Apple — The maker of a fake driver's license app that was yanked from Apple's App Store this week has fired back, saying the free app was “specifically and deliberately designed ... to prevent the creation of counterfeit identification.”
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Washington Post and WebProNews
Katya Kazakina / Bloomberg:
Founding Apple Contract Sells for $1.6M — A three-page contract that established Apple Computer Co. (AAPL) sold for $1.59 million at Sotheby's (BID) in New York today. — A phone bidder acquired the document, signed on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
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CNET News, Fortune, Shiny Objects, PC Magazine, Neowin.net, Electronista, Pulse2, 9to5Mac, Epicenter, Apple Fan Site, Macgasm, Mashable! and MacRumors
Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
Microsoft offers free Windows phones to Android malware victims — Want a free Windows Phone? Well, it turns out that you may be able to get one for free - all you need to do is tell Microsoft about the malware problems you've had with Android smartphones. — Yes, that's right.
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@microsoft, CNET News, Pulse2, The Next Web, IntoMobile, Security Watch and BGR
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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The Verge, Engadget, Google Chrome Blog, BetaNews, Pulse2, @cisco_mobile, WebProNews, ReadWriteWeb, Webmonkey, MacStories, Softpedia News, LAUNCH, Dennis Fisher, The Next Web and SlashGear
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Moving to The Verge — As you know from reading WinRumors over the past year, the site has grown way beyond my imagination and has amassed a loyal and engaged community. You may or may not know that I don't write at WinRumors full time and have a day job that pays my bills.
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LiveSide.net and Business Insider
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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TechCrunch, WinRumors, eWeek, @majornelson, 9to5Mac, WMPoweruser, GeekWire, Business Insider, SlashGear, TUAW, Redmond Pie and Apple Gazette
Brad Molen / Engadget:
Verizon's Galaxy Nexus hitting Costco on December 15? (update: VZW stores too) — That elusive Samsung Galaxy Nexus is still heading to Verizon, believe it or not, and we may actually be nearing the end of our frustrating quest to get our hands on one. While we're still waiting …
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DroidDog Android Blog, GottaBeMobile, PhoneArena, Newegg.com, ITworld.com, BGR, Business Insider, CNET News, Android Phone Fans, 9to5Google, AndroidGuys, IntoMobile and WebProNews
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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TeleRead, Beyond Search and Techland
Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Back To Square One In The Google Books Lawsuit — It's been more than six years since the Authors Guild first sued Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for scanning books. Today, with a proposed settlement in tatters, the writers group took a fresh step to revive the case and move it towards a trial.
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Publishers Weekly and TeleRead, more at Mediagazer »
Dan Frommer / SplatF:
A look at the Mac App Store, 100 million downloads later — Apple announced yesterday that in less than a year, Mac users have downloaded 100 million apps from the Mac App Store. — With around 60 million Macs out there, that suggests the average Mac user has downloaded at least one app, but fewer than two.
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iPhone in Canada Blog
Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Testing New Coupon Posts and Ads — Facebook is testing a new premium ad offering that allows pages to post a coupon to their fans and then use that post as an ad unit on the Facebook homepage. — Users who see the ad or the page post can click “Get Coupon.” This action can be posted to a user's Wall.
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Judge dismisses “Other OS” class-action suit against Sony — Sony removed the ability to use the “Other OS” feature of the PlayStation 3 through a firmware update last year, and this made a small—but vocal—group of gamers very upset. A judge has thrown out a class-action lawsuit trying …
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TechCrunch and Slashdot
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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Venture Capital Dispatch, Jive Social Business and PE Hub Blog
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouSendIt Ups Its Game With New Desktop & Mobile Apps — YouSendIt, a cloud collaboration company that got its start long before “cloud” was cool, is today launching new mobile applications for the iPhone, iPad and Android devices, plus new Mac (beta) and PC desktop clients.
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Computerworld
