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• Steve Jobs wins posthumous Grammy, accepted by Apple iTunes chief Eddy Cue (Appl...

  
  Techmeme 4:40pm
  AppleInsider: Steve Jobs wins posthumous Grammy, accepted by Apple iTunes chief Eddy Cue  —  Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was awarded a Grammy Trustees Award on Saturday, and Apple senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue, accepted the award on his behalf.

• Grammys 2012 Live Blog: Join Our Discussion

  
  Mashable 4:28pm by: Brian Anthony Hernandez
  The 54th Grammy Awards airs tonight, and we’re capturing all the action for you on scene in Los Angeles and remotely from New York City. Join us…

• Mobile customers still sprout in Aus

  
  The Register 4:26pm
  Optus scores growth Despite heated competition and with an ailing third competitor in Vodafone, Australia’s dominant mobile carriers continue to cram customers onto their networks.…

• New Updates to YouTube for Google TV (Jurek Foryciarz/The Official Google ...)

  
  Techmeme 4:25pm
  Jurek Foryciarz / The Official Google TV Blog: New Updates to YouTube for Google TV  —  In the next few days we're releasing an update to your YouTube experience on Google TV making it faster and easier to find great content, adding YouTube channel pages, and giving you more control over your experience.

• Google updates YouTube app for Google TV with new interface, channels

  
  The Verge 4:21pm by: Jeff Blagdon
  Like most people on the internet, Google’s cryptic teaser got us wondering which exciting possibility was going to come true, but it turns out that the big reveal is for — no, not a new device, and not Google TV’s promised annual software update — a new YouTube app for Google TV. Google’s claiming the updated app is faster, with...

• Google investing $120 million on hardware testing facilities, 'Google Experience...

  
  The Verge 4:17pm by: Ryan Heise
  Google is apparently bolstering its campus with new testing facilities for consumer devices, as the Mountain View company seems to be taking its own hardware more seriously. The San Jose Mercury News laid out the $120-million expansion plans for the Googleplex, which include wireless testing facilities for a new group known as "Google/@home." The group's pro...

• Start-Ups Aim to Help Users Put a Price on Their Personal Data

  
  NYTimes 4:15pm by: By JOSHUA BRUSTEIN
  Personal data management has none of the obvious appeal of social networks or smartphones, but concerns about privacy may be changing that.

• Can Pinterest Help Your Job Search?

  
  Mashable 4:14pm by: Sean Weinberg
  Just when you thought you had mastered the job search on all social media platforms, along came Pinterest. You’ve optimized your Facebook and…

• Yahoo Product Unit Readies Major Exec Reorg -- But It's Just a Tremor for the Bi...

  
  All Things D 4:14pm by: Kara Swisher
  More musical chairs on the deck of the S.S. Yahoo!

• No Longer An Awkward Teenager? Gamification Grows Up

  
  TechCrunch 4:00pm by: Contributor
  Over the last year, you may have noticed that a once-niche trend not only crept into the mainstream, but is starting to really make a big splash. Gamification has become one of the hottest buzz words in the industry and is probably in the process of taking over a website or user experience near you. For the uninitiated, gamification, said simply, is the us...

• Is Google planning to offer IP video to Kansas City?

  
  Ars Technica 4:00pm
  Does Google want to provide some kind of IP video service for the people of Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri? We've heard the rumors. Here's another hint that they may be true after all: the Federal Communications Commission has received and reviewed an application from Google Fiber for a fixed satellite, receive-only earth station to be located...

• Google TV's "Big Announcement" Isn't

  
  All Things D 3:43pm by: Peter Kafka
  Think "new YouTube app," not "Everything. Just. Changed."

• Digital Services Seek a Captive Consumer

  
  NYTimes 3:43pm by: By DAVID STREITFELD
  The new strategy for technology companies is to build a device, sell it to consumers and then sell them the content to play on it — and maybe some ads too.

• Reddit bans "suggestive or sexual content" of minors (Kevin Morris/Dai...

  
  Techmeme 3:40pm
  Kevin Morris / Daily Dot: Reddit bans “suggestive or sexual content” of minors  —  After months of controversy, Reddit has finally banned the posting of suggestive or sexually exploitative images of children.  —  {{ related_stories }}  —  The social news site—still reeling from the r/jailbail...

• 10 Kinetic Typography Music Videos

  
  Mashable 3:37pm by: Amy-Mae Elliott
  If you’re a music lover and a font fan, then a kinetic typography video beats the more traditional genres hands-down. While you’ve no doub…

• Anonymous take down Greece government and police websites

  
  The Next Web 3:35pm by: Zee
  Online activist group Anonymous has reportedly taken down a number of Greece government run websites in response to the the people powered uprising in Athens. This latest attack comes just...

• An Open Alternative To Kickstarter

  
  Slashdot 3:33pm by: timothy
  angry tapir writes "Crowd-funding website Crowdtilt officially launched last week, expanding upon the collective fundraising model pioneered by Kickstarter to enable raising money for any project — even a beer blitz. Like Kickstarter, Crowdtilt allows users to create a fundraising campaign with a tipping point. If the effort falls short of the set amou...

• A new approach to GNOME application design

  
  OSNews 3:23pm
  "One of the things that the GNOME design crew have been focusing on recently is creating a new approach to application design for GNOME 3. We want GNOME applications to be thoroughly modern, and we want them to be attractive and a delight to use. That means that we have to do application design differently to how we've done it in the past."

• Maxroam Launches An MVNO With Vodafone In The UK

  
  TechCrunch 3:20pm by: Mike Butcher
  While startups across the world are doing their best to disrupt mobile networks with clever voice call apps, like Viber, there remains the basic issues of actual voice and data access which still requires some chipping away at. It's a particular issue in places like Europe where you can drive for only a couple of hours and cross two or even three borders and...

• SNL on Verizon’s 4G marketing: “It’s an old person’s nightmare”

  
  VentureBeat 3:13pm by: Devindra Hardawar
  While it’s pretty much hit-or-miss these days, when Saturday Night Live scores, it still does so with a vengeance. Last night the sketch comedy show aired a segment that ripped apart Verizon’s 4G LTE marketing confusion, bringing to light the …

• The Social Media Salary Guide [INFOGRAPHIC]

  
  Mashable 3:10pm by: Lauren Drell
  Social Media Week is upon us, so we thought it would be appropriate to delve into the social media industry and see how its salaries stack up. Social…

• Newspaper Ethics Scandal Has Not Yet Hurt Sun Sales

  
  paidContent 3:03pm by: Robert Andrews
  While the UK’s media ethics furore ended up closing the News Of The World last year, how did News Corp.‘s next-best-selling UK newspaper fare?

• Google TV Facebook page teases new announcement (Update: It's a new YouTube app)

  
  Engadget 2:40pm by: Christopher Trout
  Since Eric Schmidt made the rather bold proclamation that "most" new TVs would have Google TV embedded by summer 2012, we've all been waiting for something "big" from Mountain View. Well, if you can believe the services' Facebook page, "big announcements" are just what we can expect Monday. A post on Google TV's profile leaves a lot to the imagination, but w...

• Telstra gets mail with Microsoft

  
  The Register 2:38pm
  Dumps BigPond platform Telstra is to dump its current BigPond email platform and supplant it with Microsoft’s Windows Live products.…

• 10 Apps for Finding Apps

  
  Mashable 2:35pm by: Jeana Lee Tahnk
  With the bounty of apps available for mobile devices, it would take a full-time job to customize the best apps to suit our needs and populate our devi…

• Why Microsoft Developers Need a Style Guide

  
  Slashdot 2:30pm by: timothy
  snydeq writes "What your interface communicates to users can be just as important as what your software does, writes Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister in discussing the latest edition of the 'Microsoft Manual of Style', a style guide aimed at designers and developers who create Microsoft software, as well as those who write about it. 'The gist of much of Mic...

• The Age of Big Data (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

  
  Techmeme 2:15pm
  Steve Lohr / New York Times: The Age of Big Data  —  GOOD with numbers?  Fascinated by data?  The sound you hear is opportunity knocking.  —  Mo Zhou was snapped up by I.B.M. last summer, as a freshly minted Yale M.B.A., to join the technology company's fast-growing ranks of data consultants.

• Carbon Twitter client for Windows Phone released: inline images, live tiles, and...

  
  The Verge 2:11pm by: Dante D'Orazio
  Carbon, a fully-featured Twitter app for Windows Phone, has been released out of beta to the (hopeful) joy of many Twitter users. The Metro-styled app is not only attractive, but it also has all of the features that we've come to expect from premium Twitter clients: URL shortening, image uploads, multiple accounts, Read It Later and Instapaper support, and t...

• Five Ways That Mobile Apps Can Save Your Valentine’s Day

  
  TechCrunch 2:00pm by: Contributor
  It’s that time of the year again and if you haven’t started thinking about what to get that special someone in your life, better start thinking fast, or Cupid’s arrow might just speed right past you. Luckily, we live in a world where our smartphones have become pragmatic problem solvers. Need the perfect gift? There’s an app for that. Can’t get a...

• NSW government accused of dodgy software cover-up

  
  The Register 2:00pm
  FirstNet: the First State's deadest duck The buggy FirstNet emergency department software has become the subject of a political argument in NSW.…

• Apple launching sidelong attacks against Google with new lawsuits in US

  
  Ars Technica 2:00pm
  Apple is once again circling back to the US in its legal patent squabbles. The company has filed a new infringement suit against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus covering four features of the Android 4 operating system, and another lawsuit against Motorola over Motorola's legal actions against Apple in Germany. Given Google's imminent acquisition of Motorola, both s...