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6:15 PM ET, January 9, 2012

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NDH / The Official Netflix Blog:
Netflix Launches in UK, Ireland Today  —  Today we're bringing Netflix to the UK and Ireland.  I am Neil Hunt, chief product officer at Netflix.  I'm proud to have led the product team that brings Netflix to the country where I grew up, after spending most of my career in California.
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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Fusion Garage Disintegrates: Founder Creating New Company For Lots More Fraud?  —  Last month Fusion Garage, a Singapore startup that has defrauded just about everyone and everything it has come in contact with, had a huge flameout when they were publicly fired by both their law firm and PR firm.
Discussion: @jyarow and @arrington
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Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
Fusion Garage, The Guys Behind The CrunchPad, Are Officially Done And Owe Creditors $40 Million
Discussion: Pulse2 and Liliputing
Antonio Rodriguez / The Grain:
Android as we know it will die in the next two years and what it means for you  —  I used to think that, as with Linux and web services in the early part of last decade, Android was going to be the mortar for the Internet of post PC devices— an essential ingredient to put stuff together.
Discussion: Tom Foremski and BetaNews, Thanks:semil
Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Live from Nokia's CES 2012 press conference  —  Nokia unveils its next big thing at CES 2012  — Now Bjork is playing.  Sounds like some kind of dub remix.  One of our developers is obsessed with Bjork.  He probably has this on vinyl.  — As you might have guessed, there's a lot of color in the room.
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Bonnie Cha / CNET:
AT&T goes big with first 4G Windows Phones, six Android devices
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
AT&T unveils own APIs for carrier agnostic HTML5 web apps aimed at smartphones and tablets  —  Carrier AT&T is holding its sixth annual Developer Summit at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today, and President and CEO Ralph De La Vega addressed some 2,500 attendees from 33 different countries.
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Nancy Gohring / PC World:
AT&T Joins OpenStack  —  AT&T became the first U.S. telecom …
Discussion: GigaOM, ATT Blogs, IntoMobile and CloudAve
Arne Hess / the::unwired:
UNVEILED: Huawei announces world's slimmest Android smartphone - the Huawei Ascend P1 S  —  At today's starting Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Huawei is unveiling the world's slimmest smartphone - the Huawei Ascend P1 S. The device is 6.68 mm thin and features a 4.3" …
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Dan Graziano / BGR:
Verizon announces the Motorola DROID 4, RAZR MAXX, and Jetpack 4G LTE mobile hotspots
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Buy A 1-Year Nook NYT Subscription, Get The Nook Free  —  In Barnes & Noble's largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subscriptions to the Nook editions of People or the New York Times.
Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Samsung Galaxy Note announced for AT&T (hands-on pictures and video)  —  AT&T has just announced that it'll be bringing the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note to the United States, a beastly half-phone, half-tablet that spans the divide between two white-hot product segments.
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Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:   Enough with the Samsung bashing
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
OnLive Goes Beyond Gaming: Announces Cloud-Based Windows 7 Desktop for the iPad  —  Here is some unexpected news from CES: OnLive, the company best known for streaming video games over the Internet, just announced that it will release a new iPad app later this week that will give users access …
Matt McGee / Marketing Land:
Tebow-Mania Hits Twitter: More Tweets-Per-Second Than Bin Laden, Steve Jobs & Beyoncé's Pregnancy  —  Among the many miraculous things Tim Tebow has done, we can now add this: a record for the most sports-related tweets per second.  —  It happened yesterday during …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Enterprise Will Spend $19 Billion on Apple Hardware in 2012  —  The “Bring Your Own Device” philosophy spreading through enterprise these days is proving a real boon to Apple.  —  The company is expected to sell $10 billion worth of iPads and $9 billion of Macs to business customers in 2012 …
Dong Ngo / CNET:
Netgear Media Storage router makes Apple Time Capule so last year  —  The one of a kind Media Storage Router (WNDR4700) from Netgear.  —  (Credit: Netgear)  —  LAS VEGAS - Apple Time Capsule, Netgear is about to open a can of “so yester-year” on you!  —  The networking vendor announced today …
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
Boycott SOPA: An Android app that terrifies publishers and politicians  —  Armchair activists now have a tool that can transport their SOPA protestations into the real world: Boycott SOPA, an Android app that scans barcodes and tells you whether an object's manufacturer/publisher is a supporter …
Jake Coyle / Associated Press:
Tom Hanks' Web series to stream on Yahoo  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Hanks' long gestating Web series is coming to Yahoo.  —  “Electric City,” an animated futuristic series Hanks has been developing for years, will premiere on Yahoo this spring.  The series includes 20 episodes, each three- or four-minutes long.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Viral Aggregator BuzzFeed Raises $15.5M To Transform The Way People Get Their News  —  Social media optimized and meme focused aggregator BuzzFeed has just raised a $15.5 million round of Series C financing, lead by New Enterprise Associates and followed on by Lerer Ventures, Hearst Media, Softbank and RRE Capital.
Anton D. Nagy / pocketnow.com:
Nokia Lumia 900: First Official Images  —  We're just hopefully a couple of minutes away from the AT&T event in Las Vegas where everyone expects the carrier to unveil the highly anticipated Nokia Lumia 900 (aka Ace).  —  We can now not only see the official, though minuscule, renders of the phone …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Seeds iOS 5.1 Beta 3 to Developers, Restores ‘Enable 3G’ Toggle  —  Returning from a holiday break, Apple today seeded iOS 5.1 Beta 3 to developers to allow for further testing of the next update to the company's mobile operating system.  The new version arrives as Build 9B5141a …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
ChangeWave survey finds ‘explosive momentum’ for Apple and Samsung  —  Interest in the Galaxy Nexus is high, but the iPhone still leads in customer satisfaction  —  Click to enlarge.  —  The next few months should be very good for Apple (AAPL) and Samsung — and not so good for HTC and Research in Motion …
Amar Toor / Engadget:
Dish Network announces Hopper DVR system, Joey set-top box, launches broadband, Test Drive services  —  Dish Network just made a slew of big announcements at its CES press conference today, introducing the Hopper HD DVR system, the corollary Joey set-top box, and a new, TV Everywhere-based Test Drive service.
Nick Wingfield / New York Times:
Consumer Electronics Show Loses Clout as Industry Shifts  —  The International Consumer Electronics Show, which will open on Tuesday in Las Vegas, is impossible to ignore.  It will smother the city's gigantic convention center with gadgets and those who make and promote them …
Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
Brocade gets first-round bids for sale: sources  —  (Reuters) - Brocade Communications System Inc has received first-round bids from a handful of potential buyers as the company explores a sale, sources familiar with the matter said.  —  The San-Jose, California-based maker of switches …
Discussion: AllThingsD
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Ubuntu TV making its debut at CES, gets short demo clip  —  Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth promised that Ubuntu would come to TVs eventually, but we never expected it would arrive so quickly.  A concept preview is here at CES for convention goers to get their eyeballs on and we'll be swinging through …
Christopher Mims / Technology Review:
Microsoft Reinvents Wi-Fi for White Spaces  —  Researchers show that they can make more efficient use of the airwaves than previously thought.  But now Congress has to notice.  —  Microsoft has developed a new kind of Wi-Fi network that performs at its top speed even in the face of interference.
Agam Shah / PC World:
High-Speed USB 3.0 to Reach Smartphones, Tablets by Year End  —  USB 3.0 ports will reach smartphones and tablets by the end of the year or early next year, the USB standards setting organization said on Sunday.  —  Smartphones and tablets will likely get a MicroUSB port based on USB 3. technology …
 
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahapocalypse Now?  Q4 Results, Proxy Fight, Board Hijinks and Asia Solution Combine for Busy Month for Yahoo.
JournalGazette.net:
Indiana, Amazon.com, reach sales tax agreement
Discussion: PR Newswire and Reuters
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel: More than 75 Ultrabooks coming in 2012
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Hipmunk Checks In: Launches Hotel Search For iOS And Android
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Vimeo shows slick new video apps for Android, Windows Phone, iPhone, iPad
Zach Honig / Engadget:
ViaSat residential satellite broadband internet hands-on (video)
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
How People Watch TV Online And Off
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
LG to launch Android phones with VMware virtualization on Verizon ‘in the coming months’
Discussion: Engadget
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Why Everybody In Seattle Suddenly Wants To Work For Amazon
 

 
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