Google’s Political Action Committee Getting Lots of Action These Days

The 2012 election cycle is proving a big one for Google NetPAC, the company’s political action committee.

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Fire in the Hole! Amazon May Ship 9-Inch Kindle by Midyear.

And we call it … Kindle Conflagration.
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DOJ Likely to Clear Rockstar Bidco’s Nortel Patent Purchase

Looks like the Justice Department plans to approve the $4.5 billion sale of Nortel’s wireless technology patents to a consortium led by Microsoft and Apple. Sources familiar with the matter say the DOJ has addressed concerns that the consortium might use the patents to unfairly hamstring competitors. It’s not clear when the DOJ will issue its approval, but when it does some 6,000 wireless patents will be transferred over to Rockstar Bidco, an alliance that also includes Research In Motion, Sony, Ericsson AB and EMC.

FBI File Shocker: Steve Jobs Was a Willful, Mercurial Ex-Hippie and Computer Genius

What did the FBI have on Steve Jobs? Heh.
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Apple to Announce iPad 3 First Week in March

Gee, I wonder what 2012 will be the year of …
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Google: That 2.25 Percent MoMo Patent Royalty Sounds About Right to Us

Motorola Mobility’s demand that Apple pay it patent royalties of 2.25 percent on sales of some iPhones and iPads raised a lot of eyebrows. But not at Google.
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Nokia: And Plan C Is We End Up Like RIM

“Plan B is that Plan A must succeed.”
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Fracture Putty: It Heals, Bounces, Molds, Stretches, Snaps & More!

If only they could get it to transfer newspaper images to other surfaces …
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Apple Gets the Credit (And the Cash) for Growth of Mobile Computing Revenue

What would the mobile computing industry be without Apple, had the company not entered it in June of 2007 with the iPhone?
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Motorola: Act Now and We’ll Include the Previous Owner’s Personal Data on Your Refurbished Xoom Free!

Motorola sells a bunch of refurbished Xoom tablets without wiping them of their previous owners’ data.
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Push Comes to Shove: German Injunction Targets Apple’s iCloud Email Alerts

Motorola wins an injunction against iCloud in Germany, using what Apple describes as “an old pager patent.”
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Apple: All iPad and iPhone Models Will Be Back on Sale Online in Germany Shortly

Lawmakers: Google Dodging Details on Privacy Issues

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World’s Top Three Phone Makers: Nokia, Samsung and Apple

Apple Versus Samsung: Win Some, Lose Some

Apple Spotted Shopping Around for TV Parts

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Salar Kamangar: It’s Time to Channelize YouTube (Video)

Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff: We Made $150 Million Last Year

WMG Chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. on Apple, Spotify and the Fate of EMI (Video)

YouTube’s Salar Kamangar on Building a Video Channel Ecosystem

An Exit Interview With Warner Music Group Chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr.

Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman on YouTube, SOPA and Breaking the Cable Bundle (Video)

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For iPad and Mobile Devices, a ‘Port’ out of the Norm

Walt reviews a special flash drive that can transfer and stream files to popular mobile devices without standard USB ports.

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A Textbook Case of iPad Fun With Studying

Katie looks at the new iBooks 2 app which offers enhanced educational textbooks that are, for now, focused on high-school students.

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