1. New Software Update for Nexus One phones 10 hours ago   permalink

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Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:

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2. Vorhang auf f�r das Anti-iPad 27 minutes ago   permalink

Www.spiegel.de

Plant Google einen Tablet-Computer? Seit auf einer offiziellen Google-Seite entsprechende Bilder aufgetaucht sind, wird in der Blogosphäre heftig gestritten, ob und wie der Suchmaschinenkonzern dem Apple-iPad Konkurrenz machen könnte. SPIEGEL ONLINE erklärt, was an den Gerüchten dran ist.

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Coupons / Chris Pirillo Skooba Coupons   —  Skooba Coupons is a post from Chris Pirillo You may not be able to buy an iPad yet , but you can already buy a case for it. As Skooba says: Step 1: Buy an iPad bag Step 2: Stare at the empty bag and dream for a few weeks Step 3: Run to the Apple store in a month or two and enjoy your new toy! Skooba already has three carrying solutions that are &#

3. Fight on for Obama's old Senate seat 1 hour ago   permalink

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Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias emerged Tuesday night as the Democratic Party's choice to fight for President Obama's former Senate seat.

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() / Articles on National Review Online Obama Appears Blinded by His Own Ideological Biases -- By: Jonah Goldberg   —  ‘I am not an ideologue,” President Obama insisted at his truly refreshing confab with the Republican caucus in Baltimore last Friday. When he heard some incredulous murmurs and chuckles from the audience in response to the idea that the most sincerely ideological president in a generation is no ideologue, he added a somewhat plaintive, “I’m not.”

() / Articles on National Review Online An Obama-Sized Government -- By: The Editors   —  T he president has a peculiar understanding of leadership. By all accounts, federal fiscal policy has now run completely off the rails. Budgetary pressures have been building for years because of unconstrained entitlement spending and Washington’s unchecked appetite for ever-more activist government. But what had been a chronic problem that all ...

4. China warns against Obama-Dalai Lama meeting 14 minutes ago   permalink

Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned President Barack Obama on Wednesday that a meeting between him and the Dalai Lama would further erode ties between the two powers, already troubled by Washington's arms sales to Taiwan.

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Reuters Illinois sets race for Obama's old Senate seat   —  CHICAGO (Reuters) - An Illinois Democrat who won his party's nomination on Tuesday to campaign for Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat struck a populist tone, attacking his Republican opponent as part of the Washington establishment.

5. Stephen Colbert: Blippy Is More Exciting Than Going Through Old Receipts 1 minute ago   permalink

MG Siegler / TechCrunch

Normally, it takes quite a bit of time before a startup gets any sort of mainstream spotlight. That's not the case with Blippy . Tonight, the controversial social credit card data aggregator was featured on Comedy Central's Colbert Report . As you might imagine, host Stephen Colbert ripped into the service's ability to show everyday purchases at ...

6. Evernote, Now Playing On Nokia N900 10 minutes ago   permalink

Om Malik / GigaOM

Evernote, a Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up that says that Nokia has developed a version of its web service that allows users to capture and store information using the built-in sharing functionality of the device. It is made possible using a plug-in using the Evernote API.

7. Iran test-fires satellite rocket: report 16 minutes ago   permalink

Reuters

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran test-fired a domestically made satellite-carrier rocket on Wednesday, Iranian media said, a move that may worry Western powers who fear Tehran is seeking to build a nuclear bomb and missile delivery systems.

8. Facebook Formally Announces HipHop For PHP 18 minutes ago   permalink

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After ongoing rumors of a new version of PHP being released by Facebook today, the company has officially announced HipHop for PHP: a source code transformer.

9. Fwix Launches Mobile City Apps to Provide You Local News on the Go 1 hour ago   permalink

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As you’ve probably realized, local news is undergoing a massive transformation. The rapid demise of “old media” has resulted in fewer local publications, and it’s likely that in a few months your local paper may no longer exist. As “new media” takes over, users will be faced with a plethora of choices to ...

10. Study: 73% use bank password everywhere 2 hours ago   permalink

Shub Tnediserp Remrof / Newsvine

For years computer security experts have been preaching that users should never share the same password across their connected lives -- at online banking sites, at Amazon, on their Web mail services, even on their cell phones. Apparently, most people ignore that advice.

11. NASA picks 5 firms for commercial spaceflight plan 2 hours ago   permalink

Quiet Dogood / Newsvine

Obama's budget plan, unveiled on Monday, scuttles the Constellation program, begun under former President George W. Bush to return humans to the moon and spends $6 billion over five years to develop commercial space transportation.

12. Feature: Hands-on: Mozilla's pocket-sized Firefox mobile for Maemo 3 hours ago   permalink

Ars Technica

Mozilla announced last week the availability of Firefox for Maemo 1.0, the first official release of Firefox Mobile for Nokia's Linux-based smartphone operating system. It offers adequate browsing performance, support for add-ons, and a finger-friendly user interface that includes popular Firefox features like the AwesomeBar. This Firefox ...

13. Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs 10 hours ago   permalink

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After a big public announcement of the sort Apple had this week for the iPad CEO Steve Jobs often takes time in the day or two afterwards to have a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, making himself available for questions from employees bold enough to stand up and take one right between the eyes.

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14. Suspect's family cooperates with WH 3 hours ago   permalink

CNN.com

Senior Obama administration officials revealed late Tuesday they've secretly gained the cooperation of family members of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to help get the alleged Christmas Day airline bomber talking.

15. 3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market 4 hours ago   permalink

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ...

16. Bing: “built out to be a much larger player”, will be profitable, says Yusuf Mehdi 4 hours ago   permalink

Kip Kniskern / LiveSide.net

In an interview posted today at Reuters , Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President, Online Audience Business, talked about the Yahoo! search deal, profitability, MSN, AOL, and more. Mehdi expects closing the Yahoo! search deal to be a milestone moment, saying that “for advertisers, we are a credible No. 2”, once the deal closes. Mehdi talked about ...

17. Brokers must think twice before tweeting, Facebooking 5 hours ago   permalink

Ars Technica

If you're a registered broker or work for firm that sells any sort of investment products, you'll want to think twice before blurting out anything that could be construed as investment advice on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking site. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has updated its guidelines for interpreting ...

18. Toyota had to be pressured into recall, U.S. official says 5 hours ago   permalink

CNN.com

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday it took pressure from the government to get Toyota to take action over its sticking gas pedals.

19. Twitter Resets User Passwords in Wake of Phishing Attack 5 hours ago   permalink

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Twitter says it was hit by a phishing attack that forced it to reset the passwords of a number of accounts. Early Tuesday, Twitter says it had to reset the passwords of a small number of accounts compromised in an external phishing attack.

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20. January giveaway wrap-up and more freebies for new subscribers 5 hours ago   permalink

Ars Technica

We had a great response to our January giveaway . We're sending out e-mails to our winners today; if you commented on last month's post or are an Ars Premier Subscriber , keep an eye on your inbox (and possibly spam folder). Additionally, if you were one of the first 20 Ars Premier subscribers after we made the original posting on January 11 or ...