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updated at 4:52am on 2/9/2010

Top Meme

Kickstar13, TmoNews - Unofficial T-Mobile Blog - News, Videos, Articles and more — The FCC has been eye-balling the four major U.S. carriers regarding Early Termination Fee’s and when Google dropped their bombshell, it certainly raised some eyebrows. Thankfully, Google has thought twice about their own ERF on the Nexus One. Starting today, Google has reduced the “Equipment Recovery...

Secondary Memes

Microsoft: your battery is the problem, not Windows 7

Ars Technica — Last week, Microsoft said it was investigating issues in Windows 7 that affect batteries on certain notebooks after hundreds of users reported they thought the OS was to blame. Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division, has posted a lengthy response on the Engineering Windows 7...

Google Making Gmail Into a Communications Hub

Ryan Singel, Wired: Epicenter — Gmail users will soon have more ways to keep up with their friends via a widget that shows quick status updates like Facebook and Twitter do, The Wall Street Journal reports. The move would further turn Gmail, which revolutionized online e-mail, into a comprehensive communications hub. The intent is to keep...

Tertiary Memes

Fear & Loathing Over iPad Pricing

Om Malik, GigaOM — The Wall Street Journal in a blog post today points to a research note by Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope...

Super Bowl Ads: Hulu’s Winners and Losers [STATS]

Christina Warren, Mashable! — We’ve already looked at how on-air Super Bowl advertisers fared with audiences during the Big Game, but how...

Holtek posts almost 17% growth for January

DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia — Microcontroller unit (MCU) maker Holtek Semiconductor has announced its revenues grew 16.7% on month and...

Foursquare patches its content gap with Zagat, HBO partnerships

Kim-Mai Cutler, VentureBeat — As competitors with rich content offerings like Yelp close in on its core market, Foursquare is rallying to...

IHound Aims to Help You Find Your Missing IPhone

PCWorld Latest Technology News — If you're outside Moscone Center for this week's Macworld Expo, and someone hands you a "Lost iPhone"...

Android 2.1 update for the Motorola DROID rolling out this week

Michael Bettiol, Boy Genius Report — Motorola DROID users as a whole are a pretty happy bunch, but after finally getting their first taste of...

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