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Jun Yang / Bloomberg:
Samsung Profit Rises to Record on Galaxy Sales — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), Asia's largest consumer-electronics company, reported a record quarterly profit on surging sales of Galaxy phones and proceeds from selling its hard-disk drive business. — Operating profit (005930) …
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Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
HTC Has First Profit Drop in Two Years — HTC Corp. (2498), Asia's second-largest smartphone maker, posted its first quarterly profit decline in two years as competing models from Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co. damped demand for its handsets.
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Between the Lines Blog, Inquirer, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Verge, IntoMobile, SlashGear, PhoneArena and The Next Web
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Patents Reveal Thunderbolt is headed for iOS Devices — Three new patent applications from Apple were published this morning by the USPTO that detail various aspects of Apple's revolutionary I/O technology called Thunderbolt. Apple filed many Thunderbolt trademarks in 2011 which opened …
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GottaBeMobile, @scobleizer, The Apple Core Blog, VentureBeat, BGR, PadGadget, MacRumors, Pulse2, Gizmodo UK and iDownloadBlog.com
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Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Puzzles Over $4 Billion Tax Break — Yahoo Inc.'s new chief executive is likely to face a key decision almost immediately: whether to support a complex tax deal that could save the Internet company up to $4 billion in taxes. — The deal, which tax experts dub a “cash-rich split-off …
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Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:
Apple's Voice Recognition Siri Doubles IPhone Data Volumes — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s voice recognition software Siri has prompted users of the iPhone 4S to use almost twice as much data compared with the handset's predecessor, placing greater pressure on operators, network firm Arieso said.
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Business Insider, AppleInsider, Engadget, Reuters, Gizmodo, Apple Bitch, Pocket-lint and GottaBeMobile
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Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Top 1% of Mobile Users Consume Half of World's Bandwidth, and Gap Is Growing
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Warner Brothers Will Make Netflix, Redbox, Blockbuster Wait Longer for New Movies — Want to watch a new movie just out on DVD from Warner Brothers? You're going to have to buy it, or wait even longer to get it from Netflix or other disc renters. — A new deal between Time Warner's movie studio …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
HBO Ends DVD Discounts for Netflix
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Variety, CNET, The Next Web, Engadget, VatorNews, Mashable!, Lost Remote, Epicenter and CNET, more at Mediagazer »
Brad Molen / Engadget:
Corning to show off Gorilla Glass 2 at CES 2012 — Gorilla Glass is tough, real tough. And it's got a solid reputation as a durable screen for small and large displays alike. But by no means is it perfect, and Corning has been hard at work to make the product's sequel even better.
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Corning Incorporated, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, Newlaunches.com, iClarified, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup.com, Electronista, Mashable! and The Verge
Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
New Lawsuit Means All Major Labels Are Suing Grooveshark — Grooveshark, a popular digital music service that is being sued for copyright infringement by three of the four major record companies, now has problems with the one big label that it has a licensing deal with.
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The Verge, Gizmodo, Guardian, Reuters, CNET, The Next Web, hypebot and AllThingsD
Matt Alexander / The Loop:
The E-Reader, as we know it, is doomed — The E-Reader, as we know it, is doomed — Matt Alexander is the owner and editor of ONE37.net, a writer, a technology enthusiast and a contributing writer for The Loop. — In November I reviewed the Kindle Touch, and I was a fan.
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ONE37 and Hardware 2.0 Blog, Thanks:jdalrymple
Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:
Facebook: most hijacked logins by Ramnit were invalid — Summary: Menlo Park has provided further details in regards to a nasty piece of malware that stole Facebook usernames and passwords, mostly from users in France and the U.K. — Ramnit, a worm first discovered almost two years ago …
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Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Ramnit malware steals 45,000 Facebook login credentials
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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
The incredible shrinking TV replacement cycle — Consumers only replace their TVs every seven or eight years: That's been industry gospel and is frequently cited as a reason for slow smart TV adoption, as well as one reason many people say Apple shouldn't enter the TV business.
Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
This Is The Billion Dollar Opportunity That Could Save Zynga — In Zynga's first month or so of trading, its stock from an IPO price of $10 to a price of around $8.90 today. — This happened because Zynga bookings (more important than revenues) and user growth have stalled. — It needs help.
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
BitTorrent takes on Dropbox with personal file sharing — BitTorrent Inc. launched a personal file sharing application called Share Thursday that aims to give users an alternative to paid cloud storage companies and media sharing over social networks. Share makes it possible to transfer files without …
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Softpedia News, gHacks Technology News, Geek.com, TorrentFreak, ZDNet and The Verge, Thanks:alliewag
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
You Can Now Post Full Size Instagram Pics To Facebook (And Timeline) — You know what's cool? When you subconsciously want something and a startup responds to your (unvoiced) requests. Well, mobile photosharing app Instagram has just made a very small tweak that has the potential for huge growth …
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Instagram, John Nack on Adobe, @fonsus, Gizmodo and Mashable!
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Even Sprint's “Truly Unlimited” Plan Isn't Truly Unlimited — Watch the video up above. Note the end: … Also watch: — Now, read this bit from the Dow Jones Newswire, quoting Sprint CEO Dan Hesse on an investor call today: … Something doesn't quite match up here.
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Mashable!, The Verge, Engadget, BGR, Gizmodo, Android Phone Fans, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Electronista and PhoneArena
Amy Willis / Telegraph:
Apple ‘threatens legal action’ over Steve Jobs action doll — The makers of an action figure with an uncanny resemblance to the late Apple founder Steve Jobs are reportedly being ‘threatened with legal action’ by the computing giant. — The action figure of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs
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Ryan Mack / Facebook:
Building Timeline: Scaling up to hold your life story — Timeline isn't just a bold new look for Facebook—it's also the product of a remarkably ambitious engineering effort. While our earlier profile pages surfaced a few days or weeks of activity, from the onset we knew that with Timeline …
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GigaOM, Between the Lines Blog, memeburn, TechCrunch, Betabeat and Business Insider
Eric Martin / reddit:
2 Billion & Beyond — In December 2011, reddit served 2.07 billion pageviews. Crazy. Here are some details: 2,065,237,338 pageviews 34,879,881 unique visitors 12.97 pages / visit 16 minutes average time on site Over 100 million monthly pageviews per employee And, more importantly …
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@jason, WebProNews, Pulse2 and Business Insider, Thanks:adamsinger
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
The World Is Overflowing With Memory Chips — If you haven't had your fill of gloomy indicators for the state of the tech ecosystem in the new year, here's another: DRAM chips are oversupplied. — This is, of course, bad news if you're in the business of making the commodity Dynamic Random …
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iSuppli®, SlashGear and Computerworld
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
LoveFilm partners with the UK's ITV & BBC Worldwide to boost streaming catalog — UK movie-streaming and rental service LoveFilm has partnered with ITV and BBC Worldwide to give its members instant access to TV titles from the UK's largest broadcasters. — The news follows hot on the heels …
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paidContent, Guardian, Bloomberg, TechRadar.com, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo UK and SlashGear
Ashlee Vance / Business Week:
Kaggle's Contests: Crunching Numbers for Fame and Glory — The startup's competitions lure PhDs and whiz kids to solve companies' data problems — A couple years ago, Netflix held a contest to improve its algorithm for recommending movies. It posted a bunch of anonymized information …
