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• Steve Jobs told Google to stop poaching workers (Reuters)

  Reuters - Apple's Steve Jobs directly asked former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to stop trying to recruit an Apple engineer, a transgression that threatened one junior Google employee's job, according to a court filing.

• Just Show Me: Great free to-do apps for your iPhone (Yahoo! News)

  Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you two amazing to-do apps for your iPhone. In addition to the Reminders …

• Weekly Rewind: Facebook makes Timeline mandatory, Foxconn employee leaks iPhone 5 details, and the Megaupload saga continues (Digital Trends)

  Digital Trends - Didn’t have time to keep up with every ripple in the technology pond this week? We’ve got you covered. Here are some of the most noteworthy stories from the last week.

• Ex-Palm chief leaves HP after WebOS move (Reuters)

  Reuters - Jon Rubinstein, who was instrumental in crafting Apple Inc's iPod music player, has left Hewlett Packard Co after two years on the job there.

  
  

• Apple's Tim Cook responds to supply chain worker mistreatment (Digital Trends)

  Digital Trends - Amidst celebration of a record quarter, during which Apple brought in more than $46 billion in revenue, a stench of worker mistreatment at Foxconn factories in China, where Apple’s popular iPhone and iPad devices are assembled, arose out of the media ether.

• Fresh iPhone Apps for Jan. 27: Frequency, Steam Mobile, RAGE HD update, Baseball Superstars 2012 (Appolicious)

  Appolicious - Start your weekend with all the best videos the Internet has to offer with Frequency, an iPad app that makes finding and organizing great videos from all over the place a snap. It’s our top Fresh App today, followed by Steam Mobile, an iOS app that ties to the popular digital video game download portal and lets you impulse-buy during Steam’s crazy game sales no matter where you are. A big update with new levels to RAGE HD tops off our games picks for this weekend, followed by a new, free edition to the Baseball Superstars series from Gamevil.

• Evi tops Android Apps of the Week (Appolicious)

  Appolicious - There’s been a second wave of Siri clones on the rise this week, with the launch of Evi gaining plenty of attention. While Android users seek their own version of the popular iPhone 4S artificial intelligence assistant, Evi, SimSimi and others have continued to gain traction in the Android Market. Lookout Labs unveiled a great app for visualizing mobile security threats, giving you deeper insight to malware behavior over time. Apartments.com also broke out with an Android app this week, joining the top real estate resources in the Market.

• Ant Raid tops iPhone Games of the Week (Appolicious)

  Appolicious - This week has seen an abundance of strong contenders for the best games of the week list, so much so that we’re holding a few back for next Thursday so that they all receive their dues. In the meantime, amuse yourself with this group of quality titles, starting with Ant Raid, a casual strategy game that first appeared on the iPad and is now available to players on all iOS devices. It offers a lot, whether you’re into action games or strategy games. Check it out, and four other great offerings, below.

• Samsung 4Q profit rises 17 pct on smartphone sales (AP)

  AP - Samsung Electronics Co. reported a 17 percent jump in fourth quarter profit on the strength of smartphone sales even as the company battled claims it had copied Apple's iPhone.

  
  

• Valve ventures into mobile with Steam on iOS and Android (Digital Trends)

  Digital Trends - Launched earlier this week and announced on the Steam site, Valve has started a closed beta for Steam Mobile on the iPhone and Android phones. The mobile application brings a vast amount of core functions found within the PC and Mac version of the Steam software, the most notable being the ability to make purchases through the application. This will allow any mobile Steam user to take advantage of the frequent sales that cut popular games up to 90 percent off. Assuming the user agrees to notifications from the application, Steam will also be able to feed mobile alerts to the user when a game on a user’s wishlist goes on sale. The interface offers the familiar Steam categories of new, featured, popular and specials. In addition, there’s a search interface allowing the user to find games by price, title or genre. 

• Are tablet ergonomics a pain in the neck? (Digital Trends)

  Digital Trends - Now that tablet devices like the Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, and Amazon Kindle Fire are becoming commonplace in everyday society, researchers have started examining some of the possible ergonomic impacts of these devices. After all, almost every other technological gizmo and device that has become ubiquitous in society seems to have an impact on our bodies, from desktop computer users suffering carpal tunnel syndrome and circulation problems to gamers and “Generation Text” experiencing thumb and wrist injuries. Before then, centuries of people wore down their bodies on telephone and telegraph gear, industrial machinery, looms, and countless other devices. Why should tablets be any different?

• Motorola posts loss, awaits Google deal approval (Reuters)

  Reuters - Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility Inc posted a fourth quarter loss on weak revenue on Thursday in what could be its last report before a planned takeover by Google Inc.

• Young Americans Pick Edison as 'Greatest Innovator' Over Steve Jobs (LiveScience.com)

  LiveScience.com - Even the Apple generation doesn't favor Steve Jobs over the most iconic inventor in U.S. history. Young Americans overwhelmingly chose Thomas Edison as the "greatest innovator of all time" in a new MIT survey.

• AT&T posts 4Q loss on charges; revenue increases (AP)

  AP - AT&T Inc. is still the home of the iPhone. It activated 7.6 million of them in the latest quarter, accounting for one out of every five iPhones sold globally.

  
  

• Report: Android accounts for 39 pct of tablet market (Digital Trends)

  Digital Trends - Market analysis firm Strategy Analytics has released its analysis of the worldwide tablet market during the fourth quarter of 2011, and finds that while the Apple iPad continues to dominate with a 58 percent share, Android tablets are catching up, accounting for 39 percent of the market. And even Windows tablets put in an appearance, accounting for roughly one percent of the global market. The figures represent a solid year-on-year improvement for Android, which Strategy Analytics pegged at holding 29 percent of the tablet market a year ago.

• As iPhone brings in record profits for Apple, AT&T and Verizon see losses (Appolicious)

  Appolicious - AT&T and Verizon reported selling huge numbers of iPhones during the October through December quarter of 2011, but that didn’t stop the nation’s two biggest carriers from seeing losses.

• Samsung Stratosphere Vs. iPhone 4S (ContributorNetwork)

  ContributorNetwork - When a wireless customer wants a "top of the line" phone these days, they have the benefit of a choice; do you want an iPhone or a Samsung's latest Galaxy device, which is currently the Stratosphere?

• AT&T reports $6.7 billion loss on hefty charges, iPhone costs (Reuters)

  Reuters - AT&T Inc posted a $6.7 billion quarterly loss as it was weighed down by a hefty break-up fee for its failed T-Mobile USA merger and other big charges on top of costly subsidies for smartphones such as Apple Inc's popular iPhone.

  
  

• Is the Neo Geo About to Return as a Slick iPhone-Like Device? [VIDEO] (Mashable)

  Mashable - The Neo Geo is said to be making a comeback with a flashy hand-held gaming device resembling an iPhone.

• Nokia profits dive as new phones slow to take off (Reuters)

  Reuters - Nokia Oyj reported a 73 percent fall in fourth-quarter earnings as sales of its new Windows Phones failed to dent the dominance of Apple Inc's iPhone or compensate for diving sales of its own old smartphones.