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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
Lumia 900 review — It occurred to me that the Lumia 900 review would be one of the more important critiques of a product that I write this year. For those of you who don't know the backstory here, the new LTE-equipped, AT&T-bound smartphone represents what could be the beginning of a new era …
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| Bill Detwiler / TechRepublic: |
Nokia Lumia 900 teardown reveals mediocre hardware, reasons for great price — Takeaway: Nokia's Lumia 900 is an attractive Windows Phone handset, but TechRepublic uncovers hardware that's a step behind the Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4S. — Nokia, Microsoft, and AT&T are placing huge bets on the Lumia 900.| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
It's Big, It's Blue, It's Windows, but Can It Beat Rival Phones? — In the lucrative and competitive world of smartphones, Apple's iPhone is the most popular device and Google's Android—used by phone makers like Samsung and Motorola—is the most widely used operating system.
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The Verge, New York Times, iPhone, IntoMobile, Business Insider and My Nokia Blog
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Cuts 14 Percent Of Workforce; 2,000 Given Pink Slips; Will Save $375M — Yahoo has made its massive round of layoffs official. The company just released a statement saying that 2,000 jobs have been cut, or 14 percent of it total workforce (which was previously around 14,000).| Amir Efrati / Digits: |
Read Yahoo CEO's Letter to Employees About Layoffs — Yahoo today confirmed this morning it plans to cut 2,000 jobs, or 14% of its 14,000 work force. — Here's CEO Scott Thompson's letter to employees: — Yahoos - — Today we are restructuring Yahoo! to give ourselves the opportunity to compete and win in our core business.
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Instagram for Android hits 1m downloads in under 24 hours — Instagram's Android launch has been a successful one, with the company hitting the 1 million downloads mark in less than 24 hours since it became available on the Google Play marketplace. — It app had been a long time coming.
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BGR, The Verge, Instagram, Phones Review, MobileSyrup.com, Business Insider, CNET, Bits, Softpedia News and TechCrunch
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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Inquirer, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Phone Fans, Gotta Be Mobile, Computerworld and Washington Post. Tweets: @theromit
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Time Inc. Hearst, Conde Nast, Meredith Launch “Netflix For Magazines” — Remember Next Issue Media, the “Hulu for Digital Magazines” consortium made up of the biggest names in publishing? It has finally delivered something worth talking about: Call it Netflix for Magazines.
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Engadget, everythingiCafe, WebProNews, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, Techland, VentureBeat, Adweek, Media Decoder, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, The Verge, Mixed Media, PalmAddict, Digits and paidContent. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Paramount, Google Link Up For Movie Rentals, Despite YouTube Lawsuit — Viacom and Google are locked in a copyright lawsuit that is nearly five years old. But that doesn't mean the companies can't do business together. — This morning, for example, Google's YouTube is announcing a deal …
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CNET, TechCrunch, Washington Post, Engadget, The Verge, YouTube Blog, Marketing Pilgrim, Variety, AdAge and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer
| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
These Are The Prices AT&T, Verizon and Sprint Charge For Cellphone Wiretaps — If Americans aren't disturbed by phone carriers' practices of handing over cell phone users' personal data to law enforcement en masse-in many cases without a warrant-we might at least be interested to learn …
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DSLreports, Gizmodo, SlashGear, msnbc.com, Ars Technica, ACLU and textually.org
| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
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| Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
Silicon Valley has Facebook's back in Yahoo knife fight — This much is clear about the patent showdown between Yahoo and Facebook: Yahoo is losing friends left and right. — Last month, Yahoo sued Facebook, claiming the world's largest social-networking company had infringed on 10 of its patents.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
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| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Here We Go: Groupon Hit With First Shareholder Suit Over Accounting Shenanigans — Daily deal site Groupon is fast clinching its reputation as the bad boy of the IPO circuit. Less than four months after going public, Groupon is already facing an SEC probe - and now its new shareholders are suing it for gimmicky accounting practices.| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
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| Daniel Frankel / paidContent: |
Researcher: Over 1 Million U.S. Cable Subscribers Cut Cord In 2011 — Cable and satellite TV subscription growth slowed down more than had been previously reported, and cord-cutting was a primary factor. But don't worry about it — a revolution that will re-create the current multi-channel access paradigm is still a long way away.
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Bloomberg, The Wrap and mediabistro.com
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Surprise: Microsoft makes list of top 20 Linux kernel contributors — first time ever — Has Microsoft figured out a cure for cancer? — The company, whose CEO Steve Ballmer once famously compared Linux to that disease, is now one of the top 20 contributors of code to the open-source …
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eWeek, WebProNews, The Verge, VentureBeat, SlashGear, InfoWorld and TechCrunch
| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Phonedeck puts your Android phone in the cloud — There are cross-platform contact management services. There are remote mobile device management tools. And then there's Phonedeck, a scarily comprehensive platform that offers much of the same functionality, and considerably more.
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The Verge, The Register and TechCrunch
| Mikael Ricknäs / Computerworld: |
Samsung delays Galaxy Tab 2 family launch until end of April — More work on Android 4.0 is needed before the products can ship, according to Samsung — Samsung's low-cost tablets, the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) and Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1), have been delayed, and will now start shipping in the U.K at the end of April, the company said Tuesday.
| Michael Blake / TechHog.com: |
Exclusive: Sprint quietly CONFIRMS that their 4G LTE network will be “unlimited” — Update: We just got a response from Sprint's PR person Nichole Cappitelli, who confirmed that Sprint WILL in fact offer unlimited data with their new 4G LTE network when it goes live.
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PC World, Gizmodo, Betabeat, PhoneArena, Mashable!, Engadget, Android Phone Fans and The Verge
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Threatens To Sue TechCrunch Commenter — Last year, Alexia covered a funny Chrome web browser extension called “Defaceable” that allowed you to comment anonymously on Facebook and on other websites using Facebook Comments. Instead of having to associate your comment with your real name … | Sasha Issenberg / Slate: |
Obama's Technology Innovation: How the president can use the intellectual property his campaign is creating — Will technology developed by his campaign make the president a power broker for many elections to come? — In the middle of 2008, Derek Dukes decided he wanted to help Barack Obama get elected president.| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Dropbox doubles referral rewards, offers up to 32GB for those dripping in charisma — That whole ‘refer a friend’ thing must be working. Or maybe it isn't. Either way, Dropbox has felt the need to double the extra capacity you get as a reward for persuading your buddies that cloud storage really is 153x better than a USB stick.| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Teen survey: 34% own an iPhone, 40% want one — Apple is the favorite — once again — in Piper Jaffray's 23rd semi-annual teen survey — “The bottom line,” writes Gene Munster in a note summarizing the results of Piper Jaffray's latest survey of the aspirations of American teenagers …
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AllThingsD, Appolicious Advisor, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac and MacRumors
| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
Stanford, Open University reach 50 million downloads on iTunes U — Two of Apple's university partners reached significant milestones this month on the company's free education service, iTunes U. Both Stanford and Open University reached 50 million downloads of their respective content.
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iPhone in Canada Blog and The Next Web
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
EU Cybercrime Bill Targets Anonymous: Makes It A Criminal Offense To Conduct ‘Cyber Attack’ — While we're still sorting through the crazy cybersecurity bill proposals in the US, it appears that some in the EU are going through a similar process. The EU Parliament's “Civil Liberties Committee” …
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