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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.
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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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New York Times, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Reuters, Agence France Presse, Wall Street Journal, Neowin.net, Mashable! and Pocket-lint.com
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 …
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.
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
Soul Searching: Google's position on China might be many things, but moral it is not — “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.” - John F. Kennedy — How exciting! Google has issued a statement saying it's un-censoring its search results in China!
New York Times:Google's Threat Echoed Everywhere, Except China
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Bloomberg, InformationWeek, Gawker, Financial Times, Graham Cluley's blog, The New Republic, Silicon Valley Watcher, Electronic Frontier Foundation, GeekSmack, Network World, Telegraph, Shanghaiist, EE Times, Tom Foremski: IMHO, TaoSecurity, Mashable!, Technology Review, AdExchanger.com, Open Source and The Next Web, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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 …
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SoftSailor, MacRumors, Softpedia News, Electronista, The iPhone Blog, 9 to 5 Mac and Mashable!
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 …
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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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Sergey Brin Is Force Behind Google's Showdown with China, Ken Auletta — Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the son of persecuted Russian Jews, has been the driving force in the the company's showdown with China, says Ken Auletta, New Yorker media columnist and author of the best selling book “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It.”
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Google LatLong:
Haiti imagery layer now available — We've worked closely with GeoEye throughout the afternoon to make their most recent satellite imagery of Haiti, taken at approximately 10:27am EST today, available as a KML overlay for Google Earth. You can download the KML here and open it in Google Earth …
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Boy Genius Report:
Apple's tablet is an “iPhone on steroids” — One of our close Apple connects who hasn't steered us wrong dropped a little bit of information on us. Here's what we know: — The tablet's multi-touch gestures are “out of control.” — It's powered by an incredibly fast ARM CPU
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IntoMobile, Softpedia News, The iPhone Blog, PC World, Neowin.net, internetnews.com, GottaBeMobile.com, Mashable!, Phone Arena, Daring Fireball, TechCrunch, Electricpig.co.uk, Digital Trends, App Advice, Redmond Pie, MacRumors, InformationWeek, The Next Web, Edible Apple, TG Daily, MacDailyNews, Silicon Alley Insider, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, TUAW, Gizmodo, SlashGear, I4U News and Ubergizmo
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.
Business Wire:
Samsung Announces 30nm-class, High-density NAND Flash for Mobile Devices — SEOUL, South Korea—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology solutions, today announced two high-density memory solutions for mobile devices.
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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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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, MobileCrunch, Android Central 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 …
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.
Rebecca MacKinnon / Guardian:
Will Google stand up to France and Italy, too? — The stand against China will rightly be lauded. But western states also imperil internet freedom — Google's stand against Chinese censorship and surveillance - triggered by suspicions that China had been trying to hack activists' accounts …
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, Music Ally, Associated Press, paidContent, hypebot, Ars Technica and Recording Industry vs …
Daily Mail:
Recaptured: The convict who taunted police on Facebook during FOUR months on the run — An escaped convict who relentlessly taunted police on Facebook has finally been arrested after nearly four months on the run, it was announced today. — Craig ‘Lazie’ Lynch, 28, was nearing the end …
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.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel cites AMD exec who ‘would never buy’ AMD — In a recent response to longstanding antitrust accusations from chipmaking rival Advanced Micro Devices, Intel included in a Federal Trade Commission filing a quote from one of AMD's own executives critical of AMD chips.
