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Some Twitter users are trying to wield the organizing power of the social-networking site against the site itself: they're using the hashtags #TwitterBlackout, #TwitterCensored, and #J28 to spread news of a Twitter boycott planned for tomorrow.

Yesterday, Twitter said it was willing to remove tweets on a country-by-country basis when there are local restrictions against content in the tweets, and when a country requires the tweets to be taken down. That's why these Twitter users are up in arms.

The company said the new plan promotes freedom of expression, transparency, and accountability because even though these tweets may … Read more

Holiday earnings reports are being posted, and Verizon's indicates that more than half of its smartphone sales were iPhones.

This resulted in a revenue surge for its wireless division, but because of heavy subsidies, an overall decline in profits.

Verizon's Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said in a report by CNNMoney the loss is OK in Verizon's eyes, noting that Verizon's business deal with Apple to get the iPhone will likely be a losing effort until 2015.

Shammo otherwise assured investors that profit margins are on the rise and should continue to grow as current customers … Read more

It's our first day back from CES so we'll give you quick recap of last week's shows, but you should really go back and hear them for yourself!

We'll also give you a backstage pass today for some of the events that happened when the microphones turned off, and tell you why the CES acronym should be changed to stand for the Chinese Exports Show.… Read more

Back in September at the F8 Conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company would deliver a "frictionless" experience across the Web through applications. And starting tomorrow, he plans to make good on that promise, according to a new report.

The world's largest social network will be holding a press event in San Francisco tomorrow unveiling the first group of Open Graph actions that share user activities from outside the site with its users, All Things Digital is reporting, citing sources. The sources didn't say how many actions, which are basically simple applications, will launch as … Read more

Apple today took steps to add more transparency to the way it makes its products, including the human labor involved.

The company published its latest progress report (PDF) detailing its auditing practices, while saying that it increased the number of audits by 80 percent compared to what it did in 2010.

Apple said that it addressed the issue of underage labor, and managed to get cases of it "down significantly." However the company said that there were still six active cases, and 13 past cases of it taking place at its component suppliers, but not in the suppliers … Read more

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, in a note to investors, has laid out his predictions for Apple's calendar year 2012. In it he expects a redesigned iPhone 5 to be released in midsummer and only one version of the iPad 3, despite other rumors that Apple could release an expanded lineup of iPad models.

Munster's note, reported by AppleInsider, suggests that Apple's "base case" scenario will see it selling 142 million iPhone units through 2013, which represents an 18 percent increase in revenue from the previous year. In a "bull case" scenario Apple … Read more

It's happened again. For the second year running, AT&T has been crowned king of poor customer satisfaction in Consumer Reports' annual survey.

The findings are based on responses from 66,000 subscribers. AT&T has a healthy customer base of more than 100 million customers, so there are plenty of people who want to weigh in with an opinion of the carrier.… Read more

Whether or not the masses actually jailbreak their iPhones, it seems as though users are willing to support the work that the jailbreak community is doing, feeding the Chronic-Dev Team with more than 10 million crash reports in a single week after the release of the Chronic-Dev Crash Reporter application.

The app was created for Mac and Windows and, once installed, allows the Chronic-Dev Team to access the crash reports from your iOS devices before they are sent to Apple. Once accessed, they are sent instead to a server run by the Chronic-Dev Team and analyzed.

That data is then … Read more

After a multiyear drought that has left many DirecTV customers peeved, TiVo-based devices might be coming back to the satellite provider's service later this week.

According to DirecTV forum poster, "Val_Installs," DirecTV will be launching a TiVo HD DVR on Thursday. For now, the person says, TiVo's set-top box will be available in just 10 major markets, including New York, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. There is no word on when the national rollout might occur, but the user said that it's currently "being evaluated" by the company.

Although a simple forum posting isn'… Read more