Top Items:
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” …
Discussion:
mocoNews, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, The Register, IntoMobile, Digital Daily, The Huffington Post, MacRumors, Lifehacker, BetaNews, FierceWireless, Ars Technica, Fast Company, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, SAI, TiPb, GigaOM, Computerworld, Droid Life, MobileCrunch, Digital Society, Bloomberg, DailyTech, Evolver.fm, Techland, Android Phone Fans, VentureBeat, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Electronista, John Battelle's Searchblog, Pulse2, Geek.com, CNET News, Neowin.net, Sidecut Reports, PhoneArena, DSLreports, ZDNet, Softpedia News and MacStories
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
Notebooks.com, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, The Apple Core Blog, The Toybox Blog, Electricpig.co.uk and iPhone Buzz
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Verizon can now throttle top five percent of bandwidth hogs …
Discussion:
AppleInsider, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Examiner, GottaBeMobile, Digital Trends and Thoughts from the Sidelines
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
My thoughts on this week's debate — Earlier this week I was on a search panel with Harry Shum of Bing and Rich Skrenta of Blekko (and moderated by Vivek Wadhwa) and the video now live. It's forty minutes long, but it covers a lot of ground: — One big point of discussion is whether Bing copies Google's search results.
RELATED:
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Google's Bing Attack Has Larry Page Written All Over It — Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — While he won't officially take over as CEO of Google until April, the recent full frontal slapfest on Microsoft's Bing search engine for shoplifting results from the search giant …
Vivek Wadhwa / TechCrunch:
How Google Ambushed Microsoft and Changed the Subject — In previous posts, I wrote about the epic battles that are brewing between spammers and content farms—which are turning the web into a massive garbage dump—and search providers, which have to choose between profit and customer satisfaction.
Discussion:
Fast Company, Google Watch and TechFlash
Andy Baio / Waxy:
The Daily: Indexed — Anybody else think it's weird that The Daily, News Corp's new iPad-only magazine, posts almost every article to their official website... but with no index of the articles to be found? They spent $30M on it, but apparently forgot a homepage! — So I went ahead and made one for them!
Discussion:
paidContent, MacStories, Bits, Between the Lines Blog, Fast Company, lalawag, Nieman Journalism Lab, AppScout, TidBITS, Fortune, Mediaite and Internet Evolution, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
Joe Weisenthal / SAI:
Sorry Rupert, Everyone Can Now Read “The Daily” For Free
Discussion:
Examiner and App Advice
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
‘Dating’ Site Imports 250,000 Facebook Profiles, Without Permission — How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day? — Simple. — You scrape data from Facebook.
Discussion:
All Facebook, Online Dating Insider and PSFK
Google Chrome Blog:
A dash of speed, 3D and apps — Today, we're excited to bring several new features from Chrome's beta channel to the stable build, including WebGL, Chrome Instant, and the Chrome Web Store. — WebGL is a new technology which brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the browser.
Andrew Brackin / Gizable:
[UPDATED] Twitter adds (then removes) the ‘shorten’ button. — UPDATE: Twitter has officially responded on the matter, stating on their @TwitterGlobalPR account: 'Reports of Twitter testing a “shorten” button are untrue. As we've said, someday you'll be able to shorten links in Tweets …
Discussion:
TechCrunch, Thanks:hunterowens
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Google Gets 75,000 Job Applications in One Week, Topping Record Set in '07 — Google Inc., the world's biggest Internet-search service, received more than 75,000 job applications worldwide last week, setting a record for the company as it embarks on a hiring spree.
Discussion:
Hillicon Valley, SAI, WebProNews and Search Engine Watch
Peter Skomoroch / The LinkedIn Blog:
Introducing LinkedIn Skills — Today, knowledge is evolving at an increasingly rapid pace. To succeed in the talent economy, it is crucial to showcase your skills and build a rich network of connections who have the expertise you need to get the job done.
Discussion:
John Battelle's Searchblog, WebProNews and TechCrunch
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Piper: Apple's $3.9B component deal more evidence of Apple television — Apple's recent investment of $3.9 billion in components is likely for device displays ranging from the iPhone to the 27-inch iMac, and could signal Apple's intention to build a television set up to 50 inches in size, investment firm Piper Jaffray believes.
Discussion:
Tech Trader Daily and TG Daily
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.
Discussion:
9 to 5 Mac, Between the Lines Blog, MacStories and MacNN
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
LEAKED: All Of Ron Conway's Investments Since 2005 — We knew Ron Conway and his “SV Angel” were prolific angel investors. But we didn't know he was this prolific. — An Excel file, purportedly of SV Angel's entire portfolio, has made its way into our inbox, and we have reproduced it here.
Discussion:
@ajoybhambani
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Moving to IPv6: Now for the hard part (FAQ) — Today is the beginning of the end of the Internet as we know it. — That's because the rules that govern how data is sent across the Net, a standard called Internet Protocol version 4, just became significantly more obsolete.
Discussion:
CNET News, @theiana, The Official Google Blog, Bing, Pulse2, Ars Technica, BetaNews, Networking Blog, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, Gearlog, Inquirer, Epicenter, Softpedia News, WinRumors and internetnews.com
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Google Instant Scores 98% Adoption Rate, 2% Opt-Out — When Google launched Instant back in September, users were confronted by one of the most radical makeovers of online search in years: a results-as-you-type search engine, which flashes answers to predicted queries with each key stroke—without having to hit return.
Discussion:
Search Engine Watch
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Jon Stewart's Hulu Price Tag: At Least $40 Million — Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were two of Hulu's biggest draws until they left the video site last March. And it will cost Hulu at least $40 million to get them back. — That's according to people familiar with the new deal …
Discussion:
PC World, New York Times, WebProNews, Show Me The Money, VentureBeat, Electronista, paidContent and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »
Mike Prospero / LAPTOP Mag:
Motorola Atrix 4G Up for Pre-Order Feb. 13 for $199, $499 with Laptop Dock — The most versatile smart phone we've ever laid hands on will be available for pre-order February 13, and will hit AT&T stores starting March 6. To recap, this Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core superphone can power a laptop dock that has its own battery.
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Hotmail launches accounts you can throw away — Microsoft knows you're making throwaway e-mail accounts, and wants to make that process easier. — Today, Hotmail is getting a new feature aimed at “e-mail enthusiasts,” which lets anyone create multiple e-mail accounts that can be read …
Discussion:
The Windows Blog, TechCrunch and @inafried
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.
Discussion:
CNET News, eWeek, Engadget, TmoNews, SlashPhone, Newlaunches.com, Techie Buzz, The Toybox Blog, THINQ.co.uk, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, DailyTech and Pocket-lint
Douglas Soltys / Inside BlackBerry:
Introducing BlackBerry Radio (Select Beta) — Later today, select BlackBerry Beta Zone users in the United States will get the opportunity to test out an upcoming radio discovery app, BlackBerry® Radio, and provide feedback to help us perfect it. This app will put multiple mobile radio services …
Discussion:
IntoMobile, Gadgetell, Pulse2, Mobilized, Electronista, The Download Blog, BlackBerry Cool, Know Your Cell, N4BB, Download Squad, CrackBerry.com blogs and Pocket-lint
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Social Music Startup Rdio Raises $17.5 Million, Adds Rob Cavallo To Board — Rdio, the social music startup founded by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, isn't exactly waiting around for Spotify to make its way to the United States (or Google Music for that matter).
Discussion:
PR Newswire, SAI, mocoNews, VatorNews, silicontap.com and MediaMemo, more at Mediagazer »
Romesh Ratnesar / Business Week:
Peter Thiel: 21st Century Free Radical — Never mind enormous yachts: Peter Thiel is spending his billions on space travel, life extension, artificial intelligence, and paying top students not to go to college — On a chilly December night, a few hundred people gathered at San Francisco's Palace …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Hipmunk's Official Round: $4.2 Million Led By Ignition And A Group Of Online Travel Experts — About a week ago, we had heard that the travel startup Hipmunk was in the process of raising a new round of funding. Sure enough, an SEC document appeared, confirming the raise …
Discussion:
TechFlash, VatorNews, VentureBeat, Epicenter, silicontap.com, Tnooz, eMoney and Xconomy
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iOS 4.3, Personal Hotspot, and iPad 2 Introduction Within Next Ten Days? — A series of reports and rumors are suggesting that Apple is preparing to release iOS 4.3 and its personal hotspot functionality to the public, possibly by February 13th. At the same time, Apple may be taking …
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple CEO Succession Proposal Gets Backing From ISS — Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) — An Apple Inc. shareholder proposal requiring the company to disclose a succession plan for Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs gained the support of Institutional Shareholder Services, a proxy-advising service.
Discussion:
L.A. Times Tech Blog, AppleInsider and Ars Technica
Paul Buchheit:
The two paths to success — The recent WSJ article on the supposedly Chinese style of parenting has generated a lot of interesting discussion. The most amusing commentary comes from The Last Psychiatrist, who also points out that Amy Chua, the “Chinese” mother, was actually born in America.
