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February 6, 2012, 4:22 AM

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Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

First Legal Streaming Super Bowl A Success, But Audience Still Denied The Real Show — Lately, we've been seeing more and more big television events come with an online streaming counterpart. Sporting and televised events are showing up online with increasing frequency …

More: CNET and TVexchanger.com. See also Mediagazer

Chris Matyszczyk / CNET:

Samsung's Bowl ad claims it can help Apple fanboys break free — Many of the deeply affected have been standing in line waiting to see how Samsung would attack Apple in launching the Galaxy Note. — So here we were, during the Super Bowl, with Apple fanboys and fangirls lining up in San Francisco.

More: AppleInsider, The Verge, BetaNews, 9to5Google, MacRumors, IntoMobile, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, LIVEdigitally and Mashable!

Tweets: @gattaca, @gruber, @mulligan, @parislemon, @rsarver and @jpar0

Electronista:

Best Buy Super Bowl ad puts phone, app makers in one place — Best Buy kicks off tech-driven Super Bowl ads — Best Buy as part of a promo has started the run of tech-focused Super Bowl ads with a segment pitching its mobile stores. The ad unites both the inventors of phone technology …

More: VentureBeat, The Verge and The Apple Core Blog

Tweets: @brianstelter and @learmonth

@twitter:

In the final three minutes of the Super Bowl tonight, there were an average of 10,000 Tweets per second.

More: TechCrunch and The Next Web. Tweets: @twitter

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

Toyota takes to spamming Twitter for Camry Super Bowl ‘promotion’ — Twitter is a great platform to get people stoked about anything, if done right. You can promote potato chips like @popchips does, and it could turn into a huge following for your brand and have fun doing it.

More: Pulse2 and WebProNews. Tweets: @theonetruebix. Thanks:@empoprises

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

A Super Social Bowl

More: CNET

Anthony Quintano / @anthonyquintano:

Creator of @Instagram, @Kevin in @BestBuy's @superbowl commercial. #SB46 #SuperBowl #Instagram http://instagr.am/...

More: GigaOM. Tweets: @kevin, @frankgruber, @kevin, @bryanveloso and @instagram

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Google hires a senior director at Apple for a top secret project (exclusive) — Google has pulled off a coup by hiring an Apple senior director of product integrity for a secret project, VentureBeat has learned. — The recruiting feat is historic since Google has never hired such a senior person away from Apple.

More: IntoMobile, The Verge, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Android Phone Fans, Pulse2, Electronista, Business Insider and MacGazette

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 8 Start button removed by Microsoft in ‘Consumer Preview’ — Microsoft has taken the bold step of removing the traditional Windows Start button from its Windows 8 “Consumer Preview.” The Start button and menu were both introduced with Windows 95 over 15 years ago …

More: Dream In Tech, AfterDawn.com, The Tech Bulletin, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Electronista, LiveSide.net and PalmAddicts

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:

Over 3 years later, “deleted” Facebook photos are still online — Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic. The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content …

More: eWeek and The Next Web

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Why Apple's A5 is so big—and iPhone 4 won't get Siri — Why Apple's A5 is so big and the iPhone 4 won't get Siri Noise-reduction technology from a start-up called Audience accounts for the size of the iPhone 4S chip and keeps Siri off the iPhone 4, analyst Linley Gwennap concludes.

More: Pulse2, AppleInsider, MacGazette and MacStories

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Andreessen Horowitz-Backed Nicira Pulls The Curtains Back On Disruptive Network Virtualization Platform — The enterprise is moving towards simplicity, and this extends to the data center. Nicira, a stealthy virtualization startup with backing from big-name investors …

More: Technology Review, VentureBeat, GigaOM, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, Business Wire and AllThingsD

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

AT&T Starts Throttling Unlimited Data Users after 2GB of Monthly Usage — In October, AT&T announced that they would start throttling data usage amongst mobile Unlimited Data Plan users. While AT&T no longer offers an Unlimited Data plan to new customers, many of the original iPhone purchasers are still grandfathered into that plan.

More: John Cozen, iDownloadBlog.com, Pulse2, MacGazette.net, PhoneArena, Electronista and TechSpot. Tweets: @zpower

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Google loses app refund appeal in Taiwan, still not selling apps there — Last June, the city of Taipei in Taiwan issued a complaint to several companies contending that they weren't in compliance with a local law that entitles users to a seven-day trial period, during which a user could request a refund.

More: Android Phone Fans

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