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Wall Street Journal:
China Is Losing a War Over Internet — Beijing Has Prevailed in Battles, but Segment of Society Has Awakened to the Constraints — BEIJING—These appear to be dark days for the Internet in China. — Four months into a crusade against Internet pornography, the government is closing thousands of sites …
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Chris Buckley / Reuters:
China says 5,394 arrested in Internet porn crackdown — Buzz up! — BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police arrested thousands in a drive against Internet pornography throughout 2009, officials said, vowing a deepening crackdown that critics say is being used to tighten overall censorship.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Are You Ready for iEconomy? — Jack Dorsey's Square, Incase, Verifone and now Mophie — these companies' credit card readers are turning the iPhone/iPod touch platform into an e-commerce engine. — Mophie, a Los Angeles-based company that makes accessories for the iPod/iPhone devices …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple: Best [— ] of the Decade — Steve Jobs and Apple appeared in an extraordinary number of 2009's “Best of” lists — Our favorite: “There's an app for that,” the Yale Book of Quotations' No. 3 quote of the 2009, right before Rep. Joe Wilson's “You lie” and after Captain Sully Sullenberger's …
blog.pavlov.net:
Firefox for Maemo RC1 — To help bring in the new year, Mozilla has released the first release candidate of Firefox for Maemo. If you've already got beta 5 installed on your N900 or N810, you will be receiving a software update shortly. Otherwise, if you're viewing this on your device, you can install it from here.
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Acer Aspire One AO532h joins the Pine Trail party with a $299 pricetag — It's about time that the number one netbook manufacturer officially release details on its Pine Trail packing netbooks. The 10-inch Acer Aspire One A0535h seems to look slightly different than its predecessors …
Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
Apple Expects to Ship 10 Million Tablets in First Year, Lee Kai-Fu Says — Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. expects to ship 10 million tablet computers in the device's first year of release, former Google Inc. Greater China president Lee Kai-fu wrote on his Web log, citing a friend familiar with the project whom he didn't name.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:The Tablet … —"Just a Touch Away, the Elusive Tablet PC" …
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Hugh Schofield / BBC:
French online piracy law in force — The first effects of France's new law against internet piracy will begin to be felt as the new year begins. — The law was passed after a long struggle in parliament, and in the teeth of bitter opposition from groups opposed to internet restrictions.
Nigel Kendall / Times of London:
Domain name extension ‘could boost cyber-crime’ — The introduction of internet addresses in non-Roman scripts could offer fresh opportunities to cyber-criminals, experts have warned. — Next year the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) will for the first time …
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
TSA Withdraws Subpoenas Against Bloggers — TSA Special Agent John Enright, left, speaks to Steven Frischling outside the blogger's home in Niantic, Connecticut, after returning Frischling's laptop Wednesday. — Photo: Thomas Cain/Wired.com — In the wake of public outcry …
Maggie Shiels / BBC:
‘Start-up’ visas to boost US tech — A proposal that will make it easier for foreign entrepreneurs in the US to start the next Google or Yahoo will be debated in the new year. — Congressman Jared Polis has proposed a start-up visa to entice “foreigners with good ideas” to stay in the US.
Aaron Mielke / SnapStream's ‘TV Searcher’ Blog:
Television news in 2009: Twitter, infidelity and more — (First time visitors: Welcome to SnapStream! We make TV search software used by organizations, like the Daily Show, to search inside TV shows. Read on or learn more about our products.) — At SnapStream we've been hanging onto …
