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12:05 PM ET, January 19, 2012

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Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Apple announces new iPad textbook experience with iBooks 2  —  On Thursday, Apple SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller took the stage to talk about education, and announced Apple's ambitious plan to reinvent the textbook.  That plan includes iBooks 2, which Schiller called a “new textbook experience for the iPad.”
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Apple: 20,000 Education iPad Apps Developed; 1.5 Million Devices In Use At Schools  —  At Apple's education event today, the company revealed a number of compelling stats regarding iPad use in the education and learning space.  Apple's SVP of Marketing Phil Schiller announced …
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple's new iBook textbooks start at $14.99 or less from partners Pearson, McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and DK Publishing  —  Apple has officially unveiled their entrance into textbooks with the new iBooks 2 app and iBooks Author e-book authoring tool.
Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Apple announces free iBooks Author app for OS X for publishing books to the App Store  —  We're here at Apple's education-themed event at the Guggenheim museum in New York City, and Phil Schiller's just introduced iBooks Author, an OS X program for producing books including — yes — educational texts.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Apple's New Math. Or: Why A $15 eBook Equals a $75 Paper Book
Carl Sjogreen / Facebook Blog:
Introducing New Apps for Timeline  —  New timeline apps are now available from Foodspotting, Foodily, Ticketmaster, Pinterest, Rotten Tomatoes, Pose, Kobo, Gogobot, TripAdvisor, and others.  You can now enhance your timeline with apps that help you tell your story, whether you love to cook, eat, travel, run, or review movies.
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
The Most Interesting Uses of Facebook's New Open Graph  —  As I told you yesterday would happen, and as had been expected for a while, Facebook tonight added tools to help more than 60 food, fashion, fitness, travel and other applications share users' activity to Facebook more smoothly, precisely and automatically.
Discussion: eWeek and CNET
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
This is the full list of apps included in Facebook's massive new Open Graph update
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
PIPA support collapses, with 13 new Senators opposed  —  Members of the Senate are rushing for the exits in the wake of the Internet's unprecedented protest of the Protect IP Act (PIPA).  At least 13 members of the upper chamber announced their opposition on Wednesday.
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Brian X. Chen / Bits:
How Wikipedia Turned Off the Lights
Discussion: New York Times, Thanks:bxchen
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Not a Kodak Moment: Legendary Camera Maker Files for Bankruptcy Protection  —  Struggling camera maker Kodak said on Wednesday night that it has filed for Chapter 11 reorganization.  —  The move, which had been expected, follows years of struggle by the film giant to transition to a digital imaging company.
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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Wolfram unveils interactive education portal on eve of Apple NYC event  —  On the eve of Apple's education-related event in New York City, Wolfram has launched an education portal that features an interactive textbook, dynamic teaching tools and lesson plans.
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Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Could Instagram Come To Windows Phone Before Android?  —  Instagram is one of the most popular apps on the iPhone.  The photo-sharing service, which lets users snap pictures and spruce them up with one-click filters, has rocketed to 15 million users, and was recently named iPhone app of the year by Apple.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Handset maker: Windows Phone OS costs $23-plus per copy?  —  Summary: Is Microsoft charging some of its phone OEMs between $23 and $31 per copy to license its Windows Phone OS?  —  There's a report on TrustedReviews.com that quotes an official with Windows Phone OEM ZTE as saying the company …
Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:
Amazon Kindle Fire: More Profitable Than Expected?  —  The Amazon Kindle Fire might be a more profitable product than you think.  —  RBC Capital analyst Ross Sandler reached that conclusion in a research note this morning, after he assessed the results of a proprietary survey of 216 Kindle Fire owners.
Michael Hastings / Rolling Stone:
Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview  —  Under house arrest in England, the WikiLeaks founder opens up about his battle with the ‘Times,’ his stint in solitary and the future of journalism  —  It's a few days before Christmas, and Julian Assange has just finished moving to a new hide-out deep in the English countryside.
Electronista:
New fast Fourier math could give image compression 10X boost  —  MIT develops new Fourier algorithm for image tech  —  MIT researchers have put forward a paper for a new approach to fast Fourier transform math that could provide a major lift to image compression and other signal processing technology.
Discussion: PhysOrg.com
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Whited00r Puts iOS 5 on iPhone 2G, iPod Touch 1G  —  Give new life to your aging iOS devices with Whited00r  —  Still using a first-gen iPod Touch or a second-generation iPhone?  Sick of all the multi-tasking, home-screen folders and faster performance of all those iOS versions you can't run on your …
eMarketer:
US Online Advertising Spending to Surpass Print in 2012  —  Overall ad spending expected to rebound after 3.4% growth last year, as TV remains steady  —  US online advertising spending, which grew 23% to $32.03 billion in 2011, is expected to grow an additional 23.3% to $39.5 billion this year …
Discussion: The New Persuaders
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
eBay's John Donahoe Literally Starts Hammering Out the Plan for Mobile Payments  —  John Donahoe has a hammer, and he's not afraid to use it.  —  The yellow hammer, which the eBay CEO purchased at Home Depot using PayPal, signals that the company's plans for entering the mobile payments business has entered the construction phase.
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
GM augmented reality window prototype will entertain you, make your back hurt  —  Sure, we knew Samsung's windows were getting smarter, but now your car windows may be joining in as well.  GM asked students at Israel's Bezalel Academy of Art and Design to come up with apps that could be used …
Basil Katz / Reuters:
Man charged with stealing software from NY Fed  —  (Reuters) - Prosecutors charged a computer programmer with stealing software code valued at nearly $10 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  —  They charged Bo Zhang, who worked as a contract programmer at the bank …
Discussion: TechEye and CNET
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
As Weak Q4 Earnings Loom, Yahoo Freezes Hiring and Also Contemplates Layoffs  —  According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo has instituted a hiring freeze across the company and is contemplating a reduction-in-force in support units of the company.  —  While the details of any layoffs …
Discussion: The Tech Trade
Reuters:
News Corp pays out over hacking claims, said to admit coverup  —  (Reuters) - The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp looks set to settle at great expense a string of legal claims after admitting wide-scale phone hacking that was both known about and concealed by senior management.
 
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple introduces us to Siri, the Killer Patent
Discussion: AppleInsider
TechFlash:
Amazon tops in customer service; toppling Zappos subsidiary
Discussion: Marketing Pilgrim
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Oops - Sony Ericsson Swings To A 207 Million Euro Net Loss In Q4 2011
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Wins Smart Garment & iPhone Circuit Board Patents
Discussion: TUAW and PhoneArena
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Digital Pen Maker Livescribe Lands New Funding, Taps Ex-HP Exec as New CEO
Discussion: FT Tech Hub and VentureBeat
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Grooveshark Fights a Copyright Lawsuit by Chasing After Anonymous Commenters
Discussion: Business Insider and Media Decoder
 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
Virus infections stop after suspects named
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Too little, too late: Google launches Orkut for iPhone
Discussion: Mashable!
Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:
Google+ Gets Video Status Updates
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Steve Jobs Credited with an Apple TV Patent for Episodic TV
Discussion: Fast Company
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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