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5:35 AM ET, January 15, 2011

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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Exclusive: The future of the iPad 2, iPhone 5, and Apple TV, and why Apple is shifting its mobile line to Qualcomm chipsets  —  We've been hearing a ton of rumors about what direction Apple's next set of products will take and when they'll be available — but now we've got some concrete information …
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Mike Jazayeri / Chromium Blog:
More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change  —  There has been a lot of discussion regarding this week's announcement of upcoming changes to HTML video codec support in Chrome.  The future of web video is an important topic, we welcome the debate, and want to address some of the questions raised.
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Matt Drance / Apple Outsider:
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish  —  Not satisfied with its polarizing about-face on net neutrality, this week Google threw away previous investments in H.264 and fully endorsed its own WebM format for native HTML5 video in Chrome.  —  There's no question that this is a shot at competing platforms …
Discussion: TechFlash
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:   So Much For Standards, Google Says WebM Plugins Coming Soon For Safari And IE9
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Tweeting tyrants out of Tunisia: the global Internet at its best  —  Even yesterday, it would have been too much to say that blogger, tweeters, Facebook users, Anonymous, and Wikileaks had “brought down” the Tunisian government, but with today's news that the country's president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali …
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Evgeny Morozov / Net Effect:
First thoughts on Tunisia and the role of the Internet
The Mozilla Blog:
The Next Major Version of Firefox is Ready to Test  —  The latest Firefox 4 Beta is available to test the cool features and improvements in the next version of Firefox.  As we continue to refine features and performance in Firefox 4 Beta, this release includes faster start-up time, bookmarking and makes complex animations smoother.
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Christopher Blizzard / Mozilla Hacks:
Firefox 4 Beta 9 - a huge pile of awesome
Discussion: InformationWeek and Techie Buzz, Thanks:arpitnext
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Shares Hit $28.26 Per Share, That's a $70+ Billion Valuation  —  The SecondMarket Facebook shares auctions are back on after a holiday break, and the valuation is up big time.  The last auction prior to this one closed December 15 at $22.75/share.  Today it hit $28.26 per share.
Discussion: Startup Meme
Chris Herbert / MacStories:
Twitter for Mac: ‘Tweet’ from Anywhere in OS X  —  Just a few days ago everyone (including us) was talking about a simple bookmarklet for Safari that sends the site title and link to Twitter for Mac (Tweetie 2).  Last night, I even found a Safari extension that did the same thing but also adds …
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Judge Delays Ruling on PlayStation Hack  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge here on Friday put off deciding whether PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz should surrender his computer gear as part of a lawsuit from console-maker Sony.  —  Sony sued Hotz on Tuesday, alleging Hotz' posting …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Android getting Google Music sync in Gingerbread?  —  Google's been teasing cloud-based music features in Android since its I/O conference last year, and the recent leak of a revamped first-party Music app suggests that the plans haven't evaporated into thin air.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iOS 4.3 Beta Hints at OpenCL-Capable SGX543 GPU in Future Devices  —  When it comes to the graphics performance on Apple's iOS devices, the company has been sticking with the powerful POWERVR SGX535 GPU from Imagination Technologies for quite some time, introducing it on the iPhone 3GS …
John C. Dvorak / PC Magazine:
Why I Don't Use Facebook  —  Facebook is basically AOL with a different layout and all the same retro problems.  —  People are always baffled by the fact that I don't use Facebook.  I don't care much about Facebook any more than I cared about MySpace and LiveJournal before it.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Cubeduel Goes Viral Too Quickly, Stumbles Over LinkedIn API Limits  —  Yesterday we ran a post about Cubeduel, a service that mixes the best (or worst) of Hot or Not with LinkedIn.  Fire up the site and it will show you photos of two coworkers — pick the one you'd prefer to work with …
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Meet Andreessen Horowitz's Newest Partner: Mark Cranney  —  Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has named Mark Cranney-a veteran tech executive with more than 20 years of experience in senior positions at Hewlett-Packard, Opsware and Parametric Technology-as its newest partner today.
Discussion: Digits and TechCrunch
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Exclusive: BlackBerry Storm 3 shows up, tells all  —  You thought we were done revealing RIM's 2011 BlackBerry lineup?  Not quite yet.  In addition to the new BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Curve, and BlackBerry Torch 2, we have received photos and information about the BlackBerry Storm 3.
Peter Cohen / The Loop:
The Beatles on iTunes - 5 million songs, 1 million albums sold so far  —  Many music fans finally got what they were asking for in November, 2010 when Apple announced that the music of the Beatles was now available for purchase from the iTunes Store.  It's a tribute to the band's enduring popularity …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo Says It's “Absolutely Committed” to Flickr  —  We wrote a post yesterday calling into question the financial viability of Flickr, given another blogger's rough estimates of its annual revenue, Yahoo's struggles and the recent news that Delicious is going to be shuttered or sold.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google, Bing Up While AOL Hits All-Time Low: comScore December Search Data  —  Ahead of their official release, financial analysts released comScore's December search data.  Total search query volume, minus “contextual search” (slideshows), was reportedly up 24 percent vs. a year ago for a total of 18.2 billion monthly queries.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Posterous Cofounder Garry Tan Steps Down, Heads To Y Combinator  —  Garry Tan, one of the cofounders of easy-to-use blogging service Posterous, is moving on from the company.  Tan will be leaving to take a position at Y Combinator, where he will serve as a designer in residence.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Mashable!
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple tells newspapers: no free iPad edition for print subscribers  —  A number of European newspapers have reportedly been told by Apple that they can no longer offer paid print subscribers free access to an iPad edition through the App Store, as the subscription strategy leaves Apple out of its 30 percent cut.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Boingo Wireless Files For $75 Million IPO  —  Boingo Wireless, a nationwide WiFi provider, has just announced that it has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC for a proposed initial public offering.  While the company's statement says that number of shares to be offered …
 
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Chris Burns / Android Community:
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against T-Mobile and Samsung Over Lack …
Discussion: SlashGear and Android Phone Fans
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google's John Hanke Speaks About New Mobile Incubator
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Screenwerk
Greg T. Spielberg / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Gizmodo taps illustrators to give stories more punch, pop, pow!
Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:
Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfein Said to Visit Groupon to Pitch IPO
 Earlier Items: 
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Verizon CEO: Carrier ‘Never in the Running’ for Original iPhone
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Mike Jones' Kiss-Off Letter To Laid Off MySpacers: “We Can't Continue …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and hypebot
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Android Hasn't Been Hurting The iPhone — It's Been Hurting RIM
Discussion: MacDailyNews
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Google Holds On to Product VP Sundar Pichai After Twitter Talent Raid Attempt
Discussion: SAI and Electronista
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
LG: Windows Phone 7 launch could have been better