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9:55 AM ET, January 25, 2010

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Overheard: Steve Jobs Says Apple Tablet “Will Be The Most Important Thing I've Ever Done.” — “This will be the most important thing I've ever done” - Steve Jobs, referring to the soon-to-be-launched Apple Tablet. — We haven't heard this first hand, but we've heard it multiple times second …

Discussion: CNN, Screenwerk, New York Times, Between the Lines, Mark Evans Tech, Scobleizer, Mashable!, TUAW, Edible Apple, App Advice, T3.com News, Ars Technica, jkOnTheRun, Softpedia News, I4U News, Erictric, lalawag, Electronista, MacRumors, The Huffington Post, Crave, iPhone Savior and Gawker, Thanks:rkrishnakumar

CrunchGear:

The killer app for Apple's tablet: Gaming — This guest post is by Jeff Scott, founder and publisher of 148Apps, a blog providing fanatical coverage of everything iPhone and hopefully soon, the Apple tablet. — While we still don't know the name of the new tablet device; could be iPad …

Discussion: Gizmodo, Telegraph, I4U News, blogs.chron.com, PalmAddicts, techeblog.com and broadstuff

Alan Long / Hitwise Intelligence:

The Apple Tablet - iWonder! — The computing industry and no doubt a few other industries, such as publishing, are holding their collective breath for the announcement of the impending release of the Apple iSlate / iPad / iTablet this coming Thursday morning (8am Australian East Coast time UTC/GMT +11 hours)

Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Why Amazon won't launch its own tablet, but will use Apple's

Discussion: bub.blicio.us, Howard Lindzon and AppleInsider, Thanks:arjo

Peter Farago / blog.flurry.com:

Apple Tablet: The Second Stage Media Booster Rocket — Insights from Tracking 200 Apps Across 50 Apple Tablets in Testing — Using Flurry Analytics, the company identified approximately 50 devices that match the characteristics of Apple's rumored tablet device.

Discussion: PC World, Network World, Guardian, AppleInsider, ITworld.com, MobileCrunch, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Eye, LIVEdigitally, Gadget Lab, Softpedia News, O'Grady's PowerPage, DailyTech, Neowin.net, Brainstorm Tech, The iPhone Blog, Mobile Entertainment and mocoNews, Thanks:atul

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Evidence of Apple tablet tests show up in Flurry data

Discussion: Engadget, New York Times, The Register, Gadget Lab, GigaOM, Mobile Whack, MediaPost, SlashGear, Mashable!, Go Rumors and Electronista

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

AOL CTO Cahall Out-As It Buys a Video Platform Company for $36.5 Million and Opens a NY Tech Center (Press Releases, Memos-Natch!) — While AOL denied last week a report last week suggesting that he was leaving, CTO Ted Cahall is actually, um, leaving. — Oops!

Discussion: MediaPost, CNET News, paidContent, TechCrunch, Between the Lines and Silicon Alley Insider

Christopher Blizzard:

HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web — For background on the free software angle on this story please check out Robert O'Callahan's post on this topic. Also check out Mike Shaver's shorter background post as well.

Discussion: Guardian, Well, I'm Back, Communications …, Beet.TV, Softpedia News, SitePoint, Ajaxian, OSNews and shaver, Thanks:chrismessina

Chris Gourlay / Times of London:

OMG: brains can't handle all our Facebook friends — WE may be able to amass 5,000 friends on Facebook but humans' brains are capable of managing a maximum of only 150 friendships, a study has found. — Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University …

Discussion: All Facebook and Mashable!

Owen Fletcher / PC World:

Chinese Human Rights Sites Hit by DDoS Attack — Five Web sites run by Chinese human rights activists were attacked by hackers over the weekend, as a separate row continued between Google and China over political cyberattacks. — The Web site of Chinese Human Rights Defenders …

Discussion: Reuters

Susan Stumme / Agence France Presse:
China says not involved in cyberattacks on Google

Discussion: news.xinhuanet.com, BBC, Between the Lines, Telegraph, Guardian, New York Times, Softpedia News, Associated Press, Maximum PC, The Next Web, CNET News, Mashable! and CNN

Reuters:
China steps up defense of Internet controls

Discussion: Reuters

Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:

Visualize Dissent: Turkish Users Protest Censorship Using Google Maps — Internet users in Turkey have found an interesting visualization to highlight their numbers, connect with one another, air their grievances and hopefully reach their goals using Google Maps and shared documents.

Discussion: Google Maps Mania and All Points Blog

Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:

Mobile 2010 Predictions: Apple, Google & RIM, Oh My! — Near the eve of Apple's tablet announcement, I'd like to turn my 2010 predictive eye again to the mobile space where, as my title suggests, there are only three software players that matter — Apple, Google, and RIM (Blackberry).

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Brightcove Wants To Take “TV Everywhere” Beyond Your Cable Company's Video Website — When cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner talk about “TV Everywhere,” they are generally talking about a Web video portal they control themselves which gives their regular cable TV subscribers access …

Discussion: Brightcove, NewTeeVee, Broadcasting & Cable and Beet.TV

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Who Needs iTunes? doubleTwist Partners With T-Mobile, Now Bundled On Some Android Phones — Big news for doubleTwist, the iTunes alternative that allows you to manage media for hundreds of devices, including Android phones, the Palm Pre, and BlackBerry. Tomorrow, the company will announce …

Discussion: Download Squad, Gizmodo and Engadget

Hunter Skipworth / Telegraph:

The myth of the Sony ‘kill switch’ — In Japan, a surprising number of consumers really do claim to believe that Sony products are programmed to break as soon as the warranty expires. — Sony PS3 — For nearly 20 years Sony in Japan has been plagued by the myth of the “Sony Timer” …

Bloomberg:

Acer to Offer Applications Store, E-Book Reader This Year to Boost Profit — Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) — Acer Inc., the world's second- largest computer vendor, plans to boost profitability to the highest since 2004 by offering an online applications store and its first electronic book reader by mid-year.

Discussion: Fast Company, The Toybox, CrunchGear, Electronista, SlashGear, Engadget, Kindle Review, Electricpig.co.uk and Gizmodo

Mike Hirshland / VCMike's Blog:

Comscore, Calacanis, Quantcast etc. — Unless you've been asleep or unconscious the last few days, you no doubt have been following the brouhaha kicked off by Jason Calacanis's angry rant against Comscore and its business practices. The Silicon Alley Insider joined the fray with a post entitled …

Discussion: Tom Foremski: IMHO, the Econsultancy blog, Silicon Valley Watcher, Quantcast, Silicon Alley Insider and The Jason Calacanis Weblog, Thanks:berecruited

Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera / San Francisco Chronicle:

‘Fatal System Error’ has insight on cybercrime — “Fatal System Error,” the new book by Financial Times' cyber-security reporter Joseph Menn, sheds light on the $1 trillion cybercrime industry that festers beneath the Internet. — The book tells the tale of Barrett Lyon …

Cedric Giorgi / TechCrunch Europe:

Deezer rides a doozy of a storm as CEO is ousted by investors — [France] Music search and discovering service Deezer is currently caught up in a storm of controversy: its co-founder and CEO Jonathan Benassaya has effectively been forced out by his investors.

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:

Juniper, Polycom forge telepresence, video conferencing alliance — Juniper Networks and Polycom have teamed on a joint telepresence and video conferencing offering that's designed to serve as a counterweight to Cisco Systems and its recent acquisition of Tandberg.

Discussion: Network World

Shawn Oliver / HotHardware.com News:

Will AT&T Lose Their iPhone Exclusivity On Wednesday? — It's sort of hard to believe all the hype from CES is already over and done with. Larger companies spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to introduce and showcase new products at the show, and now all anyone wants to talk about in the tech world is Apple.

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