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February 13, 2012, 9:00 PM
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
iPad 3 announcement March 7, quad-core, possible 4G LTE — According to sources who have been reliable in the past, Apple currently plans to hold their iPad 3 announcement on Wednesday, March 7, 2012. Along with the 2048×1536 Retina display, the iPad 3 will feature a quad-core Apple 6 system …
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The Verge, BGR, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, OS X Daily, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, T3 News, Geek.com, MobileWhack.com, App Advice, PadGadget, TUAW, MacStories, The Next Web, Redmond Pie, Gotta Be Mobile, Fudzilla and Electronista
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| Reuters: |
Google gets approval to buy Motorola Mobility — (Reuters) - U.S. and European regulators approved Google Inc's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility on Monday and said they would keep a sharp eye on the web search giant to ensure patents critical to the telecom industry would be licensed at fair prices.| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
DOJ approves Google, Motorola Mobility merger — Summary: Following a seal of approval from the European Commission, now the U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly following suit in the matter of Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility. — Google could be well on its way to finalizing …
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AllThingsD, Los Angeles Times, United States Department …, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, TechSpot, New York Times, PhoneArena and ReadWriteWeb. Tweets: @poornimagupta
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Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views A Month And Harder To Scale Than Twitter — With over 15 billion page views a month Tumblr has become an insanely popular blogging platform. Users may like Tumblr for its simplicity, its beauty, its strong focus on user experience, or its friendly and engaged community, but like it they do.
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| Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple forcing contract manufacturer Pegatron to choose sides, give up Asustek Zenbook orders — The high-profile Apple business with Asian contract manufacturer Pegatron Technology is facing scrutiny as the iPhone-maker is reportedly exercising its supply chain influence by asking Pegatron …
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AppleInsider, The Register, TUAW and WebProNews
| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Apple shares shatter $500 milestone — Apple's stock has surpassed $500 a share today, reaching an all-time high and prompting many investors to wonder just how high the company's shares can go. — At their height this morning, Apple's shares reached $503.83 before falling to about $499.
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| John Melloy / Fast Money: |
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U.S. Consumer Electronics Sales Reach $144 Billion in 2011 — Apple tops 2011 as the #1 Brand and Best Buy is the #1 Retailer — U.S. consumer technology hardware and consumable sales* fell just one half of a percent in 2011 ending the year at nearly $144 billion, according to leading market research company The NPD Group.| Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site: |
Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool — It's tough being a journalist, especially if you're covering technology and living in Silicon Valley, because it seems as if everyone around you is getting fabulously rich while you're stuck in a job that will never, ever make you wealthy.
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ReadWriteWeb, Uncrunched, Silicon Valley Watcher, Poynter, Scripting News, InfoWorld, broadstuff and parislemon
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See also Mediagazer| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Bram Cohen: My goal is to kill off television — BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen demoed his P2P live streaming protocol at the San Francisco MusicTech Summit on Monday, which he said could potentially stream live video to millions of computers with no central infrastructure.| Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac: |
VLC 2.0 arriving with all-new UI, native full screen in Lion, Blu-ray support, more — VideoLAN, the organization behind the open-source cross-platform VLC media player, is geared to launch VLC 2.0—a total rewrite of the program with new capabilities and an all-new user interface on the Mac platform.
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The Verge, Lifehacker, feepk@videolan, Computerworld, Softpedia News and Electronista
| Roni Zeiger / Inside Search: |
Improving health searches, because your health matters — Every day, people search on Google for health information. Many of these searches relate to symptoms they or their loved ones may be experiencing. You might be trying to understand why you've had a headache every morning for a week … | iFixit: |
Motorola Droid 4 Teardown — It's the dawn of a new year, and 2012 brings another update to the line of Droid smartphones by Motorola. Will this be the best Droid to date? Will it fall completely on its face? Will it blend? The only way to find out is to scroll down and check out the teardown.
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Computerworld, Computerworld, Electronista, Ars Technica, 9to5Google and PhoneArena
| Chris Strohm / Bloomberg: |
Obama Budget Calls for Cuts in Spending for U.S. Technology — (Updates with industry plans in the ninth paragraph. For further information on the budget, see {BUDG <GO>}.) — Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) — U.S. government spending on information technology would decline 1.2 percent next fiscal year under …
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
YouTube's Offer Video-Makers Can't Refuse: We're Putting All Your Stuff Everywhere — Last night YouTube rolled out a new app for Google TV. And behind the scenes, YouTube has made a small but important change in the way it deals with content owners. — YouTube is now insisting …
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Securing your Twitter experience with HTTPS — Last year, we added the option to always use HTTPS when accessing Twitter.com on the web. This setting makes your Twitter experience more secure by protecting your information, and it's especially helpful if you use Twitter …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
DOJ closes investigation of Apple acquisition of Nortel and Novell patents on FRAND commitments — In a statement from the United States Department of Justice clearing Google's acquisition of Motorola, the DOJ also closed its investigations into Apple's acquisition of certain Novell patents …
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The Register, Digital Trends, Computerworld, Seattle Times and Engadget
| Joshua Brustein / New York Times: |
Start-Ups Aim to Help Users Put a Price on Their Personal Data — Facebook's pending initial public offering gives credence to the argument that personal data is the oil of the digital age. The company was built on a formula common to the technology industry: offer people a service … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Apple Beats Out Google, Amazon For Highest Corporate Reputation Score — Apple took the top spot from Google for the highest corporate reputation score, according to the 2012 Harris Poll Reputation Quotient, a survey which measures corporate reputation for brands and companies in the U.S … | Brian X. Chen / Bits: |
Get Ready for 1 Billion Smartphones by 2016, Forrester Says — In just four years, one billion people will own smartphones, many of whom will be professionals taking these devices to work, says Forrester, a research company. And because of that, businesses need to think big …
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| Kunal / Sammy Hub: |
Samsung's 7-inch Galaxy Tab 2, runs Android 4.0 [Updated w/ pricing] — Samsung has officially announce their first tablet running the latest Android OS. The Galaxy Tab 2 runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and is somewhat similar to the original Galaxy Tab.
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Examiner, PC World, SlashGear, Samsung Mobile Press, CNET, Pocketables, TechSpot, ExtremeTech, BGR, GigaOM, Mashable!, Appolicious Advisor, Gotta Be Mobile, Inquirer, paidContent, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Redmond Pie, MobileSyrup.com, Reuters, The Next Web, Liliputing, 9to5Google, Phones Review, Electronista, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena, Engadget and UnleashthePhones
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Coming in 2012: Firefox for Windows 8's Metro — The Metro interface in an early build of Windows 8 that was shown to developers in September 2011. — Mozilla plans to release a concept version of Firefox for Windows 8's new Metro interface in the second quarter with alpha and beta versions to follow in the second half of 2012.
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VentureBeat, Liliputing, SiliconFilter, Electronista, PC World, The Verge, Internet Evolution, GeekWire, Ed Bott and Asa Dotzler
| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
21 Percent Of Ads On News Sites Are House Ads: Pew Study — Online news sites are struggling to get advertisers to move from their traditional platforms to online outlets. One of the effects of that, according to a new report from Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism …
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Journalism.org, Poynter, Search Engine Land, Mobile Marketing Watch and Mashable!. Tweets: @steverubel. See also Mediagazer
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Breaches galore as Cryptome hacked to infect visitors with malware — A breach that caused Cryptome.org to infect visitors with virulent malware was one of at least six attacks reported to hit high-profile sites or services in the past few days. Others affected included Ticketmaster …
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CNET, Betabeat, F-Secure Antivirus …, eWeek, Cryptome, SecurityWeek and Softpedia News
| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
PlayStation Vita review — Look familiar? It should: that's the PlayStation Vita, Sony's up-and-coming challenger to the mobile gaming throne. It's made the rounds a few times before, from E3, to Tokyo Game Show, to San Francisco's Vita Hill Social Club, and it even took …
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