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The Street won’t like guidance, though: Apple is predicting Q1 EPS of $4.80, below the $5.04 analysts were looking for. They will also sputter a bit on this number: Apple sold 4.19 million iPads, and the consensus was 4.7 million. And then on the other hand, Apple sold 14.1 million iPhones last quarter, well above both the official 11 million consensus and the 13 million “what we’re really looking for” number.

the definition of open: “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make”

In an e-mail to all Microsoft employees today, Ballmer said Ozzie will remain at Microsoft for transition period of unannounced time. Afterward, but before he retires from Microsoft, Ozzie will focus on entertainment technology, Ballmer said. But perhaps the biggest piece of Ballmer's announcement was that there are no plans to fill the chief software architect position again.

If you do stuff online, people are tracking it and putting it into a database and trying to sell you stuff based on that. There’s not much you can do about it except not be online. And it’s not all that bad, really, to get ads for diapers when you’re having a baby, or ads for cars when you are looking to buy a car. Life will go on.

Today, YouTube Leanback moves forward into a new role at the center of the YouTube experience on Google TV, which you’ll start seeing in U.S. stores this week. When you view Leanback on Google TV (or online), videos based on your subscriptions and viewing history will begin playing immediately. If those don’t pique your interest, Leanback offers 10 channels, updated daily, featuring popular and interesting videos in genres like Comedy, Entertainment, News, Science & Technology, How To & Style, and more. You can also watch full-length movies and TV shows rented from youtube.com in the highest quality.

The Wall Street Journal reported Monday morning that some of Facebook's most popular applications - like FarmVille, Texas HoldEm Poker and FrontierVille - have been sending personal information of users to dozens of advertising and Internet monitoring companies.

Worldwide media tablet sales will reach 19.4 million units in 2010, according to a new research note from Gartner. That's good news for manufacturers such as Apple, maker of the iPad, which is driving much of that growth. However, Gartner also said tablet sales are having a negative impact on sales of other mobile devices such as e-readers and mininotebooks.

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