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9:20 AM ET, February 17, 2011

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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Dell's 2011 smartphone and tablet lineup leaked: Android Ice Cream, WP7 sliders, and a slate running Windows 8  —  Wrigley, Hancock, Millennium, Gallo, Sterling, Rosemount, Silver Oak, Peju and Opus One.  What are we rattling off?  Oh, just the list of codenames from one of the largest leaks we've ever seen out of Dell.
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Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central:
Gallo, Sterling, Opus One and Silver Oak Android tablets on Dell's leaked roadmap [Exclusive]  —  Dell's tablet roadmap has been leaked by a very reliable tipster along with Dell Android Smartphones and Dell Windows Phones, and it appears that there are four new Android tablets in the works.
Dieter Bohn / WPCentral.com:
Dell Wrigley revealed in Dell 2011 Roadmap! [Exclusive]
Ben Rooney / Tech Europe:
Motorola Executive Defends Tablet Price Tag … Motorola mobility chief Sanjay Jha confirmed that the company's new Xoom tablet will go on sale in the U.S. at $800, a higher price tag than current market leader Apple's iPad.  —  And in what has been described as the worst kept secret in the tech world …
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Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Motorola's Xoom tablet priced at $799
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg to Meet With President Obama Thursday in San Francisco  —  Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who recently took a medical leave of absence from his company, and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt will be among the attendees of President Obama's event …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs Spotted at Stanford Cancer Center
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Sony Exec: We Are Not Abandoning iTunes  —  Sony has no plans to withdraw Sony Music songs from Apple's iTunes as payback for Apple's decision to block the Sony e-reader app from the App Store.  —  Sony is launching its own subscription service, Music Unlimited, in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand today.
Discussion: Softpedia News and Electronista
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Google will launch iTunes music store competitor with upgrade to Android  —  ‘Google Music’ service will form part of new version of Android operating system designed specifically for tablet devices  —  Google is to launch a music service to compete with Apple's iTunes music store as part …
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: The Death Of The Music Industry  —  Here is a stunning visualization of the collapse of the music industry from Bain.  As you can see, the growth of digital sales is not doing enough to offset the death of the CD.  —  (Chart via Peter Kafka, who spotted it on Flickr.)
Discussion: p2pnet
Greg Weston / CBC News:
Foreign hackers attack Canadian government  —  An unprecedented cyberattack on the Canadian government from China has given foreign hackers access to highly classified federal information, and forced at least two key departments off the internet, CBC News has learned.
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
More Detail On Apple's Plans For MobileMe: Think FaceBook, Foursquare & uStream [Exclusive]  —  Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple is working on a “major revamp” of MobileMe, including a “locker” that will stream movies and TV shows to iPhones and iPads.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
+1 Incoming?  Google's New Toolbar Is Rolling Out  —  For months, we've been getting tips about a new toolbar that Google has been testing on google.com.  In fact, we first posted about it back in November and the tips have been steadily coming in since then.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why Google's One Pass Could Be a Ticket to Nowhere  —  Google has gotten a lot of attention for the launch of One Pass, the all-in-one subscription plan for publishers that the search giant revealed earlier today — primarily because it made for a nice counterpoint to Apple's new in-app subscription system, which launched on Tuesday.
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple's iPhone 4 wins Best Mobile Device award at Mobile World Congress  —  Apple didn't attend Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but it took the event's top award for a mobile device.  —  The event, a major confab of the mobile industry, has been virtually ignored by Apple in much the same …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
IBM's Watson victorious in Jeopardy; Our new computer overlord?  —  IBM's Watson computer ultimately proved to be too much for the humans in Jeopardy.  —  Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two of the most successful players in Jeopardy, put up a spirited fight, but ultimately couldn't hang.
Barry Collins / PC Pro:
The true cost of publishing on the Amazon Kindle  —  Ever wondered why newspapers and magazines published on the Amazon Kindle rarely contain photos?  I've downloaded several copies of The Times and The Telegraph on my Kindle, and you're lucky if you get more than one photo in the entire newspaper.
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Groupon Spars with Tencent; Joint Venture Isn't Inspiring Local Confidence  —  There's trouble in Tencent and Groupon's China group buying joint venture, Gaopeng.com, according to press reports from China.  Apparently the site went up for a day, Tencent balked and pulled it back down.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
BitTorrent is to movies what “bolt-cutters are to stealing bicycles”  —  The Authors Guild really doesn't like piracy.  Guild president Scott Turow, a best-selling author of legal thrillers, today summoned his powers to tell Congress:  — “BitTorrent is to stealing movies, TV shows …
Discussion: paidContent
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Grant Gross / Computerworld:
Senators explore new website seizure options
Discussion: Techdirt and TorrentFreak
Shayndi Raice / Wall Street Journal:
Android Big in Barcelona  —  System Powers Slew of New Devices; Some Fear Market Duopoly With Apple's iOS  —  A year after wireless carriers gave Google Inc. a testy reception at their big industry conference in Barcelona, the software company's Android operating system has become the star of the show.
Discussion: Mobilized and The Register
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Why Are You People Defending Apple?  —  As you've doubtless heard by now, yesterday Apple revealed its new fee structure for premium content: all apps that offer premium content outside of the App Store have to also offer it via Apple's official in-app purchases (this includes Amazon's Kindle) …
Tory Newmyer / Fortune:
Apple, Cisco, others organize for a tax holiday lobby  —  FORTUNE — Economists, businessmen, and politicians of every stripe have spent months talking themselves hoarse about how to get the roughly $2 trillion in corporate reserves back into the economy.  Get ready to start hearing a lot about that sum's international cousin.
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Motorola pushes up Atrix 4G launch to Feb. 22, shoves Xoom pre-sales back to Feb. 20th?  —  The best laid plans of Motorola may be in disarray, as we hear the device manufacturer is shuffling release dates for its hottest new Android devices.  Supposedly, AT&T customer service reps are getting …
Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:
RIM's Balsillie: NFC Coming to ‘Many if Not Most’ BlackBerrys This Year  —  BARCELONA - Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie on Wednesday confirmed that the majority of new BlackBerry devices this year will include near-field communication.  —  “Many if not most of BlackBerry devices throughout …
 
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
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Discussion: The Register
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Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Apple Becomes Top Worldwide Mobile PC Maker Thanks to iPad
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Exclusive: Sony ‘S1’ PlayStation tablet (updated)
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Exclusive: Verizon iPhone sales fail to meet expectations