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AP - Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.
AP - A new Internet streaming venture built around Redbox's DVD-rental kiosks adds to a crowded field of online video-viewing services dominated by Netflix.
AP - Database software maker Oracle Corp. has formally rejected a court-ordered award of $272 million from German rival SAP AG, saying it would rather have another trial over SAP's theft of software and customer-support documents.
What to expect from Apple?s iPad 3 (Yahoo! News)Yahoo! News - When Apple pulled back the curtain on the iPad 2 to reveal a more powerful, slimmer, but not all-that-different successor to its original tablet, rumors immediately began to swirl around what the company might be planning for its next slate. Now, as we approach ?
Liquid glasses and a new smartphone app could bring perfect vision to the third world (Yahoo! News)Yahoo! News - The need is compelling: Over 1 billion people in the third world need corrective eyewear but lack access to testing and glasses. The solution is spectacularly innovative: A $2 scope attached to a smartphone tests for vision defects, and a new pair of ?
NASA Launches Facebook Game to Test Space Program Knowledge (Mashable)Mashable - How much do you know about the NASA space program, Earthling?
The top 10 songs and albums on the iTunes Store (AP)
AP - iTunes' Official Music Charts for the week ending Feb. 6, 2012:
Reuters - A cat that invaded the famous Anfield turf for three minutes during Liverpool's 0-0 Premier League draw with Tottenham Hotspur on Monday has become an internet celebrity.
Florida postal worker falls into storm drain, dies (AP)AP - U.S. Postal Service officials in Miami say an employee died when he tumbled into a storm drain while searching for his cell phone.
Did Instagram hit Android, or was it a spam link? (Appolicious)Appolicious - Android users have been waiting for what seems an eternity for Instagram to hit the Market, and while the app developers haven?t revealed an exact launch date, it may be sooner than we think. According to InFlexWeTrust, a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 user saw a message for a Featured App that was none other than Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service. But when he went to download the file, the Android Market link was broken. A quick check of the Android Market confirms that there is no Instagram app yet.
