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| Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog: |
Google's home entertainment foray: Why the Motorola deal may work — Summary: The search giant's Motorola acquisition, which on the surface looks like it's all about Android and patents, may ultimately turn out to be about the living room. — Google is reportedly developing … | Matt Rosoff / Business Insider: |
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
As Iran Cracks Down Online, Tor Tests Undetectable Encrypted Connections — Keeping secrets on the web in a country as digitally repressive as Iran isn't easy. But as Iran tightens the screws on its Web censorship, the hackers at the anti-censorship Tor project are working on something harder …
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| Thomas Erdbrink / Washington Post: |
| Kasper Jade / AppleInsider: |
Apple to disrupt notebook space with radically redesigned MacBook Pros — While most of its rivals are struggling to match innovations Apple pioneered with its first MacBook Airs over three years ago, the Mac maker this year is hoping to further distance itself from the competition with a pair …
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VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, CNET, Geek.com, Macgasm, SlashGear, MacRumors, Business Insider, Electronista and iClarified
| Joanna Stern / The Verge: |
MacBook Air with Windows 7 review: the ultrabook to rule them all? — Does putting Windows 7 on the MacBook Air make it the best ultrabook? Let's be honest: The ultrabook phenomenon is by and large Intel's and the rest of the PC industry's reaction to Apple's MacBook Air.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Fire in the Hole! Amazon May Ship 9-Inch Kindle by Midyear. — There's no question that Amazon's going to sell a lot of Kindle Fires this year. And it might sell even more if it rolls out new and larger versions of the device. And according to some, that's the plan.| Gabe Donnini / Chitika Insights: |
iOS passes Mac OS in Share of Web Traffic Propelled by Record Sales for Mobile and Tablet Devices — Apple sold a historic number of mobile devices in 2011. IDC reports that in 2011, Apple shipped 93.2 iPhone units and sold an impressive 40 million+ iPad units.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple sues Motorola in the U.S. over Qualcomm patent license — Apple, today, has filed a lawsuit against Motorola over their use of Qualcomm technology, as reported by Reuters. Apple explains that Motorola has breached a contract pertaining to their use of a patent license and …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
BitTorrent Piracy Doesn't Affect US Box Office Returns, Study Finds — With their unconditional support for SOPA, PIPA and ACTA, Hollywood is pressing hard for new legislation to curb piracy. The studios want ‘rogue’ websites to be censored and are calling on Google and Internet providers to take responsibility.
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| Miguel Helft / Fortune: |
Ron Conway is a Silicon Valley startup's best friend — The prolific angel investor has rarely met an Internet startup he didn't like. When it comes to picking the next big thing, there's a right way and a wrong way. And then there's the Conway. — Ron Conway, with Coco, his rescue dog, photographed at their San Francisco home
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| Katherine Noyes / PC World: |
‘Do Not Track’ Tool Promises Page Loads Up to Four Times Faster — “Do Not Track” technologies have become an increasingly standard part of the Internet today, offering users a variety of ways to protect their privacy as they surf the Web. — Yet while there are numerous anti-tracking tools …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple is rushing to finalize apps for onstage iPad 3 demos and commercials — Now that the beans have been, mostly, spilled with regards to the early March announcement of the iPad 3, more information is coming forward about Apple's preparations for the event.
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SlashGear, ITProPortal, Fast Company, Redmond Pie, Phones Review, The VAR Guy, Business Insider, MacRumors, Macgasm, SiliconANGLE, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, O'Grady's PowerPage, Dice Blog Network, PC World, iDownloadBlog.com, PadGadget, MacGazette, TeleRead, iLounge, Computerworld, iClarified, everythingiCafe, Tech Shout!, HEXUS.net Latest Content, Network World, I4U News, The Tech Report, Mobile Entertainment, Datamation.com, Techie Buzz, CNET, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, Electronista, Pulse2, Examiner and TechCrunch
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU seen approving Google's Motorola deal: sources — (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOG.O) is expected to win approval next week from European regulators, as well as from U.S. antitrust authorities, for its planned $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility (MMI.N), according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Anand Babu / The Windows Blog: |
Solving the attachment problem with SkyDrive … The attachment problem — Every day, the average office worker receives over 170 email messages a day, and sends over 35. With that kind of volume, it's understandable that over half of the average work day consists of dealing with email.
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| Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher: |
Wow. Facebook Rules Prohibit Users From Promoting Their Work, Company, And Much, Much More... Have you seen Facebook's rules for users, developers, and partners? They give Facebook tremendous powers to disable accounts and to make money from your content.
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple sues Samsung in Mannheim over patent based on which Munich court denied preliminary injunction last week — Apple does not let anyone off the hook too easily when it comes to patent litigation. Samsung, which has so far also shown quite some perseverance, knows exactly what I mean.
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| Rio Caraeff / VEVO: |
VEVO Powerstation at Sundance: An Explanation — You may know we had some fun at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah last month. Our VEVO Powerstation & Sorel Suite was a popular spot for celebrities to get warm, pick up some gifts from our friends at Sorel and Fresh and …
| Brid-Aine Parnell / The Register: |
EU competition chief threatens patent war smackdown — Tough-talking Almunia will take mobile giants to task — European anti-competition chief Joaquin Almunia has warned that the EU won't stand for any messing about with technology standards-related patents.
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| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
Yahoo Lifts The Curtain On Its Home Page Content Algorithm, C.O.R.E. — Yahoo has launched a new visualization tool that offers some insights into how it chooses what content to show on the Yahoo home page and other properties. It offers data that should be of interest to anyone in the news/publishing space.| Ryan Lawler / GigaOM: |
Amazon: No plans to launch a standalone video service soon — Amazon has aggressively grown its Prime Instant Videos service over the past year, more than tripling the amount of content available to subscribers since launch. And as Amazon continues to add more content to Prime Instant Video …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Big News: Germany Says It Won't Sign ACTA — Okay, things just got serious over ACTA. In our post on Latvia bailing on signing ACTA, we noted that in joining with Poland and the Czech Republic, these were still much smaller European states, and unlikely to have too much of an impact.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Foursquare Adds NFC Support To Its Android App — In addition to the updated “Explore” feature that rolled out to Foursquare's Android and iPhone applications this week, the social discovery service also added a special feature to its Android app that sort of flew under the radar: support for NFC.| Paul Thurrott's / SuperSite for Windows: |
Windows 8 Secrets: Windows 8 Is NOT Dropping The Start Button — There's been a lot of silliness and angst about Windows 8 supposedly dropping the Start button, the first time this central user interface has been absent from Windows since its debut in 1995. There's just one problem: The Start button isn't going anywhere.
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Hardware 2.0 Blog and I'm Just Being Manan
| Sascha Segan / PC Magazine: |
Moto Exec on Android Upgrade Delays: It's The Hardware — Don't blame manufacturers' software customizations for holding up mobile phone upgrades to the new version of Google's mobile operating system, Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” (ICS), a top executive at Motorola said Wednesday.| Mike Ramsey / Wall Street Journal: |
Cars That Tweet, Buy Tickets — As Distracted-Driving Push Fades, Auto Makers Will Let Drivers Check Facebook, Buy Movie Tickets — Undaunted by fear of safety regulations, auto makers are piling new technologies into their vehicles: everything from 17-inch dashboard screens to services that check Facebook and buy movie tickets.
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