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Bloomberg:
China Brushes Off Google Threat, Welcomes Law Abiders — China brushed off Google Inc.'s threat to withdraw from the country because of censorship requirements and cyber attacks, saying it encourages the development of an open Internet. China welcomes international enterprises …
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Hillicon Valley, Digital Daily, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Agence France Presse, Neowin.net, Pocket-lint.com, Mashable! and New York Times
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Rebecca Mackinnon / Wall Street Journal:
Google Gets On the Right Side of History — The Chinese people will learn who their real friends are. — One night in the mid-1990s when I was working as a journalist in Beijing, I went out to dinner with some Chinese friends. I had just finished reading a book called “The File” by the British historian Timothy Garton-Ash.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Chinese entrepreneurs, investors on Google: 'Just quit. We don't care.' — What does the Chinese tech community think of Google's controversial plan to uncensor search and possibly leave the country? — I talked to several Chinese entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who were part …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Hackers used rigged PDFs to hit Google — and Adobe, says researcher — Adobe confirms attack against its network linked to Google's — Computerworld - Adobe today confirmed that the cyberattack that hit its corporate network earlier this month was connected to the large-scale attacks …
Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
Follow the Law, China Tells Internet Companies — BEIJING — A day after Google announced that it would quit China unless the nation's censors eased their grip, the Chinese government offered an indirect but unambiguous response: Companies that do business in China must follow the laws of the land.
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
Google attack part of widespread spying effort — IDG News Service - Google's decision Tuesday to risk walking away from the world's largest Internet market may have come as a shock, but security experts see it as the most public admission of a top IT problem for U.S. companies: ongoing corporate espionage originating from China.
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The Register, BBC, InfoWorld, Search Engine Land, Silicon Valley Watcher, InformationWeek, SFGate, dot.Maggie, Global Voices Advocacy, Financial Times, Graham Cluley's blog, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, SiliconANGLE, pluGGd.in, Public Address, Tom Foremski: IMHO, PC World, ReadWriteWeb and Jeremiah Grossman
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:Soul Searching: Google's position on China might be many things, but moral it is not
Roger Cheng / Digits:Google Exiting China Could Hurt Android Adoption in Region
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Bloomberg:
Apple IPhone With Better Camera May Be Out By June, Goldman's Chen Says — Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc.'s latest iPhone will probably be available as early as June, include a more advanced camera, and may feature a touch-sensitive casing, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst Robert Chen …
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Sony's E-Reader Opens New Chapter in Kindle Rivalry — Sony, the Japanese electronics giant, was a pioneer in the current wave of electronic book readers, introducing its first Sony Reader model back in 2006. But, it has been overtaken by Amazon.com, whose Kindle e-book reader …
Helen Walters / Brand New Day:
Consumers Don't Dig Apple iTunes — Forrester just released its annual Customer Experience Index, a ranking of some 133 companies across 14 industries. The firms were rated by regular users according to three principles: whether the service met the customer's needs; how easy it was to work with a firm …
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Vodafone takes on TomTom with free satNav iPhone app, shifts 50k iPhones — Vodafone began offering the iPhone to its UK customers today, and seems off to a strong start - it despatched 50,000 units to customers pre-ordering the device today. — Vodafone joins Orange …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Patent wars: Kodak sues Apple, RIM for patent infringement — Eastman Kodak said Thursday that it has filed lawsuits against both Apple and Research in Motion over digital imaging patents. — Kodak launched its lawsuits on two fronts. Kodak filed a complaint with the U.S. International …
Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Mag:
Q&A with Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha: Motoblur Tablet on the Way? — He's credited with rescuing Motorola from the blink of oblivion. And he recently spearheaded the introduction of the hottest-selling Android phone yet, thanks in part to Verizon Wireless' massive advertising campaign.
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Engadget, Phone Arena, Softpedia News, Electricpig.co.uk, Android Central, MobileCrunch and Gizmodo, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Dave Rosenberg / Software, Interrupted:
IBM grabs largest enterprise cloud deployment — IBM is expected to announce on Thursday the largest enterprise cloud computing deployment to date as Panasonic begins a migration off Microsoft Exchange to IBM's LotusLive cloud service. More than 100,000 employees will participate …
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
A Heated Debate at the Top — Co-Founder Brin Pushed for Backing Out of China, While CEO Schmidt Made Moral Argument to Stay — Google Inc.'s startling threat to withdraw from China was an intensely personal decision, drawing its celebrated founders and other top executives into a debate …
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PC World, A VC, DigiCha, Digits, CNET News, China Real Time Report and Washington Post, Thanks:atul
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:Sergey Brin Is Force Behind Google's Showdown with China, Ken Auletta
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Tim / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
12 Trends to Watch in 2010 — It's the dawn of a new year. From our perch on the frontier of electronic civil liberties, EFF has collected a list of a dozen important trends in law, technology and business that we think will play a significant role in shaping online rights in 2010.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple ‘experts’ to debut in retail stores within weeks — Apple's retail “experts” — a new position that will serve as a roaming counterpart to existing “geniuses” at brick-and-mortar locations — are expected to debut in stores in a matter of weeks, people familiar with the matter have told AppleInsider.
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Intel denies Corei5 MacBook prize claims — Intel has rejected yesterday's reports claiming imminent release of new Core i5 MacBook Pros. — As reported by Spanish site Faq-Mac.com, an Intel promotion suggested Apple to be on the cusp of releasing new Core i5 MacBooks.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mac sales can't keep pace with cheap PCs, Apple slips to No. 5 — Sales up 23% to 31%, say Gartner and IDC, but low-priced PCs gain share — Computerworld - While Mac sales in the U.S. were up 31% in the fourth quarter of 2009, Apple was unable to keep pace with exploding sales of cheap Windows PCs …
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MacRumors, eWeek, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, internetnews.com, CNET News, Electronista and MacDailyNews
Gabriel Snyder / valleywag - Gawker:
Announcing Valleywag's Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt: Win Up to $100,000! — We've had enough of trying to follow all the speculation around Apple's impending tablet — how it'll work, its size, the name, the software and whether it will save magazines. We want answers, dammit! And we're willing to pay.
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David Coursey / PC World:
Google's Free File Storage Not Such a Good Deal — Google's introduction of free online storage for any type of file serves as a reminder that storing a gigabyte of data in the Internet cloud can vary in price from free to $3.50 per, and that's just what Google charges its customers.
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
On second thought, maybe the RIAA did conspire to fix prices, appeals court finds — Did the United States' major record labels, as early as 2001, conspire to establish a system for the distribution and sale of digital music that would have seen subscribers paying up to $240 per year …
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Reuters, Associated Press, paidContent, Music Ally, Ars Technica, hypebot and Recording Industry vs …
Stuart Dredge / Mobile Entertainment:
iPhone, Android and BlackBerry users share same app tastes — They dream the same dreams, they like the same apps, says Mplayit — The same apps tend to be popular no matter what app store you look at, judging by a new piece of research from Mplayit. — The company, which runs …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
YouTube Helps Vevo Overtake MySpace Music In The U.S. (Plus, Top Ten Music Properties) — The biggest U.S. music service on the Web in December was Vevo, a new entrant which is a joint venture between Google, Universal Music Group, and Sony Music. Dubbed the “Hulu of music videos,” …
JBC / Nokia Conversations:
Nokia N900 software update (part 2) — GLOBAL - Today sees the release of the first major update for the Nokia N900. Following quickly on the heels of the minor release earlier this week, this latest version of the software brings with it a range of improvements across the device.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Lawsuits: AT&T collects illegal taxes on Internet access — AT&T's wireless unit has been hit by numerous federal lawsuits over the last month, each arguing that the mobile telephony giant is illegally collecting nonexistent “taxes” on phone data access plans.
