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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Verizon Beats AT&T in Voice Calls for iPhones — For millions of iPhone owners, or would-be iPhone owners, who dislike AT&T's wireless service or prefer Verizon Wireless service, liberation is at hand. Starting Feb. 10, Apple's iconic smart phone finally will be available in the U.S. on a second carrier …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Verizon iPhone review — The Verizon iPhone 4 is an interesting product for Engadget to review. Firstly, it's not exactly a new device (not in any outwardly noticeable way). From design, down to its CPU, RAM, and even cost, this iPhone is the same as the AT&T model …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Verizon iPhone 4 — It's the same phone. The only difference is the network. And Verizon's network is better. — That's it in a nut. — Here's the whole story. I've been using a Verizon iPhone 4 since Friday morning.1 I was in San Francisco through Sunday morning, and I've been home in Philadelphia ever since.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iOS 4.3, Personal Hotspot, and iPad 2 Introduction Within Next Ten Days?
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Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Verizon Wireless to begin throttling data speeds of heaviest users, optimizing content; starts today — According to a PDF memo available on Verizon Wireless' website (for now), the company will begin to throttle the data-throughput speeds of customers that consume an “extraordinary amount of data” …
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Reuters:
Some Verizon Wireless iPhone customers complain — (Reuters) - Some Verizon Wireless customers complained they were unable to buy its iPhone online, but the phone company said sales were mostly running smoothly on its first day of Internet orders for the long-awaited phone.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
First Impressions Using Android Honeycomb, Google's iPad Rival — This morning Google held an event to showcase Android Honeycomb, the new version of the mobile OS that is focused on tablets. There wasn't much news around the OS — we've seen it previewed in a few demos …
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Android 3.0 ‘Honeycomb’ can encrypt all your data, needs a full hour's charge — Diving through the Motorola Xoom's sweet, sweet blend of Android 3.0, we found an interesting perk — there's an “Encrypt Tablet” option buried in the settings page, intended to secure all your personal data with a password or PIN.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
iPad, beware: Android tablets can run cool 3D games with Honeycomb software (video)
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Honeycomb: What You Need to Know (It's Not Just For Tablets)
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Washington Post:
Facebook treads carefully after its vital role in Egypt's anti-Mubarak protests — In Egypt, the tried-and-true tool for opponents of President Hosni Mubarak in recent years has been Facebook. Most recently, it was on Facebook - which boasts 5 million users in Egypt, the most in the Arab world …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Latest WikiLeak Reveals Google And The State Department Talked …
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Martyn Williams / PC World:
Blocking Internet Cost Egypt at Least $90M, Says OECD
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Jason Kilar / Hulu Blog:
Stewart, Colbert, and Hulu's thoughts about the future of TV — We are extremely happy to announce a broad content agreement between Viacom and Hulu that brings The Daily Show and The Colbert Report back to Hulu and now also to Hulu Plus, beginning this morning.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Jon Stewart's Hulu Price Tag: At Least $40 Million
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Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Is Apple's Data Center Using a ‘Unique’ Design? — Is Apple using custom enclosures and “unique” airflow and cable management in its North Carolina data center? We can't say for certain, but it sure looks that way based on an announcement today from several data center industry equipment vendors.
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Rafael Rivera / Within Windows:
Yahoo: Your buggy IMAP server affects iPhone too; thanks for playing though. — I was happy to see Microsoft's admission regarding Yahoo's buggy IMAP server, and even more so with Yahoo's apology. But today, Yahoo issued another statement pointing a finger at Microsoft …
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Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
Rumor: Dual-core HTC Pyramid superphone coming to T-Mobile by May — Let me be the first to admit that not everything in my last rumor report came true, but it was pretty darn close. Google unveiled their web-based Android Market and we heard that the music store is finished, but legal wrangling is still holding it up.
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Digg This: Reddit Serves Up a Billion Pages a Month — Reddit, the community news sharing site, has now joined the billion-page-per-month club, having served up some 1,000,404,480 pages to almost 14 million unique visitors in January, as measured by Google Analytics.
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CNET News, Digital Trends, Mashable!, Erictric, reddit, Pulse2 and Download Squad
AT&T:
AT&T Details Pricing, Launch of AT&T Mobile Hotspot App Coming February 13 — Application Provides Additional 2GB of Data, Bundled with AT&T Data Pro — AT&T* today announced select smartphone customers will soon be able to connect multiple devices from their smartphone - via Wi-Fi …
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day Blog:
Pwn2Own 2011: Google offering $20,000 for Chrome sandbox exploit — Google is offering a $20,000 cash prize for any hacker who can successfully compromise a Cr-48 Chrome Notebook via a vulnerability — and sandbox escape — in its Chrome web browser. — The prize is part of this year's …
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Piero Sierra / The Windows Blog:
Messenger now powering over 2.8 billion minutes of Facebook chat — We're excited to announce today that Facebook chat is now available to over 75 million more Messenger customers worldwide, wherever Facebook is available. — Nearly 18 million people now driving over 2.8 billion minutes of Facebook chat on Messenger
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All Facebook, CNET News, LiveSide.net and WinRumors
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Egyptian Government Web Site Shut Down by Hackers — The online group Anonymous said Wednesday that it had paralyzed the Egyptian government's Web sites in support of the antigovernment protests. — Anonymous, a loosely defined group of hackers from all over the world …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Q&A Site Answers.com Acquired By AFCV Holdings For $127 Million In Cash — Q&A platform Answers.com has been acquired by AFCV Holdings, a portfolio company of Summit Partners, for $127 million in cash or $10.50 per share. AFCV will be delisting Answers, which was a public company, from the NASDAQ and taking the company private.
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Reuters:
Unreleased Apple iPad spotted at News Corp event — * Prototype iPad featured front facing camera — Spotted at Rupert Murdoch's splashy digital newspaper launch on Wednesday: a prototype of Apple's (AAPL.O) newest iPad. — A Reuters eyewitness saw what appeared to be a working model …
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
News Corp. Has Given Up On MySpace; ‘Now Is Right Time’ For Sale — News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) is now definitely looking for a MySpace buyer. — “With a new structure in place, now is the right time to consider strategic options for this business,” COO Chase Carey told analysts.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Sequoia-Backed Hearsay Launches Social Media Platform For Corporations With Local Branches — For big brands who have local branches (i.e. Starbucks, BestBuy), managing Facebook, Twitter and other social media pages for the national brands as well as for the local shops can be a challenging process.
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