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10:25 AM ET, January 6, 2011

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Apple:
Apple's Mac App Store Opens for Business  —  Apple® today announced that the Mac® App Store℠ is now open for business with more than 1,000 free and paid apps.  The Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store experience to the Mac, so you can find great new apps …
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Apple Releases OS X 10.6.6 and Mac App Store  —  A few minutes ago Apple released OS X 10.6.6 with access to the Mac App Store in Software Update.  It is available now as a free 114 MB download for Snow Leopard users.  As noted by Macworld, the Mac App Store already includes some apps …
Discussion: Macworld, GigaOM, tonymacx86 Blog, Gizmodo and TUAW, Thanks:viticci
Andy Rubin / Google Mobile Blog:
A Sneak Peek of Android 3.0, Honeycomb  —  The past few weeks have been exciting ones for the Android team: we recently released Nexus S and Android 2.3, Gingerbread, and we've even had some of our most popular team members take a trip to space.  But we haven't stopped buzzing with excitement …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Ballmer At CES 2011: “Whatever Device You Use, Windows Will Be There”  —  Today in his Consumer Electronics Show keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer declared that Xbox is no longer a gaming device but an entertainment hub.  And Windows will be everywhere, from your TV through Xbox …
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Windows at CES 2011  —  It's been an exciting day for Windows with lots of news shared.  I did however want to take a few minutes to share with you a bit more about the rest of the Windows story and the things we will be talking about this week at CES.  —  At last year's CES …
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Next Version of Windows to Run on System-on-a-Chip Architectures
AppleInsider:
Apple restricting employee vacations as first 2011 products loom  —  Apple is quietly prohibiting vacation days for some retail employees for three weeks beginning later this month, a move that could foreshadow a significant product introduction in the coming weeks, AppleInsider has learned.
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Ross Miller / Engadget:
Netflix and Hulu Plus with Kinect coming this spring to Xbox 360
Discussion: TechNet Blogs and The Next Web
Wall Street Journal:
Goldman Flooded With Facebook Orders  —  Interest in shares of Facebook Inc. is so strong that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. plans to stop soliciting interest from potential investors on Thursday, after the securities firm received orders of several billion dollars, according to people familiar with the situation.
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Bloomberg:
Facebook at $50 Billion Looks More Like Tencent Than Google
Discussion: Bloomberg
Shira Ovide / Deal Journal:
Read Goldman Sachs' Secret Facebook Pitch Memo
Discussion: SAI and TechCrunch
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Microsoft gives LCDs the power to see with Surface 2.0  —  Microsoft's Surface touchscreen technology for large displays has lost a lot of bulk in its newest iteration, and in the process it has also given LCDs the power to see with its new PixelSense technology.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
CES: New Microsoft Surface to be priced at $7,600
Discussion: Engadget
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Motorola XOOM tablet announced  —  Motorola Mobility on Wednesday announced the tablet countless Android fans have been waiting for.  The Motorola XOOM is a 10.1-inch full touchscreen device with specs that look like they'll line up pretty well with the rest of the Android slates we'll …
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Jacob Schulman / Engadget:   Motorola Xoom first hands-on! (update: video!)
Marco.org:
Google's decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search  —  Jeff Atwood, in Trouble In the House of Google: … (via Anil Dash's nice roundup on the issue)  —  I've been frustrated as well by Google's apparent defeat by spam.  It's not a sudden issue — it's been gradually worsening for a few years.
Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
LinkedIn plans to go public in 2011: sources  —  (Reuters) - LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, plans to go public in 2011 and has selected its financial underwriters, three sources familiar with the process told Reuters.  —  Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and JPMorgan …
BBC:
Thousands of stolen iTunes accounts for sale in China  —  Apple's iTunes service has been targeted several times by criminals in recent years  —  Tens of thousands of fraudulent iTunes accounts are for sale on a major Chinese website, it has been revealed.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zynga To Acquire Flock, The Social Browser That You Never Used  —  Zynga is acquiring Flock, a beleaguered startup founded in 2005 by Bart Decrem and Geoffrey Arone, we've confirmed.  The deal should be announced shortly.  —  The company has raised nearly $30 million in venture capital, although the last round was closed in 2008.
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Ballmer on Windows Phone 7: 5,500 apps, updates coming, Verizon and Sprint in first half of 2011  —  Speaking at his company's CES keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer let go several pertinent facts about the Windows Phone 7 operating system.  For starters, the much anticipated WP7 software update …
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Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:   Windows Phone 7's Success May Hinge On Games
Arron / RazorianFly:
EXCLUSIVE: Tweetie 2.0 For Mac Will Launch With The Mac App Store, Tomorrow … Post comment as  —  This is awesome, I can't wait to see the App Store and Twitter for Mac!  —  Reply  —  View comment  —  If it's free, what is the business model ?  Shouldn't it be paid, at least a buck ?
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
BlackBerry PlayBook Review  —  A Hands-On Pre-Release Review of the BlackBerry PlayBook  —  I've FINALLY gone hands-on with the BlackBerry PlayBook and thus it's time for me to report back with my initial review and impressions of Research In Motion's first tablet device featuring the all-new QNX-based BlackBerry Tablet OS.
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Marin Perez / IntoMobile:
BlackBerry PlayBook will have Sprint 4G
Jonathan Christensen / The Big Blog:
Skype coming soon to Sony BRAVIA and VIZIO VIA TVs  —  Last year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), we ushered in a new era of face-to-face communications with the introduction of Skype-enabled TVs.  This year at CES, we're making further strides in the living room by making it even easier to get Skype on your TV.
Discussion: SlashGear
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Samsung's Series 9 laptop is the Windows Macbook Air killer you've been waiting for  —  Second-generation Intel Core Family processors are here, and laptop manufacturers are wasting no time announcing new models.  Samsung has the eye-popper of the Consumer Electronics Show (OK, so far) …
 
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 More Items: 
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
T-Mobile, LG Team Up for Honeycomb G-Slate Tablet
Discussion: Engadget, VentureBeat, IntoMobile and SAI
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
US Gov't Strategy To Prevent Leaks Is Leaked
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Movie And TV Show Recommendation Engine Jinni Raises $5 Million
AppleInsider:
New Apple patent for network booting could lead to cloud-based Mac OS X
Discussion: GigaOM and TUAW
Emil Protalinski / TechSpot:
Samsung develops DDR4 memory, up to 40% more efficient
Discussion: Geek.com, PC Magazine and PC Pro
Matthew Miller / Smartphones and Cell Phones Blog:
CES: Motorola reveals three Android smartphones, one is Bionic
Discussion: Verizon and pocketnow.com
 Earlier Items: 
Verne G. Kopytoff / Bits:
Cyber Monday Finally Gets Some Respect
Discussion: comScore, Inc. and SFGate
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Responds To Android SMS Bug: Fixes Are On The Way
Discussion: BGR and Neowin.net
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
In 4G Race, Verizon Pulls Ahead With Pricey Speed
Discussion: Electronista
Chris Thompson / About Foursquare:
Foursquare puts a limit on the number of friends you can have
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
NVIDIA announces Project Denver ARM CPU for the desktop
 

 
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