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9:25 AM ET, January 7, 2011

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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Without Proper Code Validation, Mac App Store Downloads Are Easily Bootlegged  —  Copy the App Store receipt from any legit Mac App Store download — including from any free app — and paste it into a bootleg download of Angry Birds, and it'll run.  —  This isn't true for all paid Mac App Store apps.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Mac App Store Cracked Open for Piracy  —  The Mac App Store's security has been cracked.  This means that, by installing a software called Kickback, you will be able to pirate any applications in the store.  However, the crack will not be available until February 2011, according to Dissident:
Whitson Gordon / Lifehacker:
Why the Mac App Store Sucks  —  Apple launched the Mac App Store today, allowing you to browse, search, read reviews, and buy Mac software of all kinds in one streamlined location.  And it's terrible.  Here's why.  Sure, the Mac App Store is a good idea in theory.
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Apple's Mac App Store fundamentally changes PC software usage rights  —  Earlier today, Apple officially launched its application store for Macintosh, with about 1,000 free and paid applications available.  Snow Leopard users download the Mac OS X 10.6.6 update, and the store is included.
Reuters:
Goldman customers get Facebook financials  —  (Reuters) - Facebook earned $355 million in net income in the first nine months of 2010 on revenue of $1.2 billion, according to documents that Goldman Sachs is providing to clients.  —  Goldman began hand-delivering copies of the 101-page private …
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Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Will Go Public or Disclose Financials by April 2012  —  Facebook Inc. will begin disclosing financial information or stage an initial public offering by April 2012, according to a new 100-page private-placement memo now being distributed to potential investors in the company.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Facebook, Goldman Sachs & How Money Seeks Regulatory Free Zones
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Uniformity vs. Individuality in Mac UI Design  —  The new Twitter for Mac is somewhat polarizing, what with its almost entirely custom UI.  I used to have a fervor for uniform consistency in Mac UI design.  A perusal through the early DF archives will show that.  But the HIG is dead.  It died long ago.
Discussion: RiSC future
Mike Schackwitz / The Windows Blog:
What happened in the recent Hotmail outage  —  On December 31, 2010, a number of our users reported their email messages and folders were missing from their Hotmail accounts.  I want to take a little time to explain what happened, and what steps we've taken to fix this problem and prevent it from happening in the future.
Tony Bates / The Big Blog:
Skype to acquire Qik  —  I'm happy to announce that we've entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Qik, a provider of mobile video software and services that let people capture, instantly share and preserve great moments on video from anywhere.  Qik has 60 employees …
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
Dell Streak 7: The First 4G Tablet Is a Pocket Pit Bull  —  The 7-inch version of Dell's Streak tablet has been rumored and teased for months, but today it's officially official!  And what it lacks in size it makes up for in sweet, speedy 4G goodness.  —  The Streak 7 weighs less than a pound …
Jenna Dawn / Twitter Blog:
Celebrating a New Year with a New Tweet Record  —  Well, that didn't take long.  Just four seconds after midnight in Japan on January 1st, Twitterers set an all-time record in the number of Tweets sent per second (TPS).  At that moment, the world sent a staggering 6,939 TPS wishing friends …
Rob Wong / Hulu Blog:
Hulu Plus Coming Soon to Android Mobile Phones, Live on Vizio HDTVs  —  Since we launched Hulu Plus, it's been our goal to continue to add more platforms and devices to the subscription service to offer you as many ways as possible to stream the shows you want, whenever you want.
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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Hulu ‘Coming Soon’ to Android Tablets & Mobile Phones
Discussion: Eurodroid
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Can Quora Survive Its Growing Popularity?  —  If you're a web service, especially a young startup, you want to get as many users as possible, right?  But there are worse things than having a small number of users — particularly when the service you are offering depends on the quality of the content provided by those users.
Discussion: Mashable!, broadstuff and Sysomos Blog, Thanks:mathewi
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
Do People Really Want Apps on Their TVs?  —  TVs stuffed with apps that bring popular Web services to larger screens are crowding the floors of the Consumer Electronics Show this week.  —  But do people really want their TVs to act like already app-ified computers or mobile phones?
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Android 3.0 Honeycomb shown off in new series of videos  —  Courtesy of T-Mobile and its newly announced G-Slate tablet by LG, several videos showing off Google's new tablet-only OS have surfaced.  Honeycomb will power the next generation of Android tablets, and it appears to offer …
Richard Lai / Engadget:
Sony's PlayStation Phone gets in-depth preview in China, PlayStation Pocket app in tow  —  Well, that was quick.  It was just two days ago when the elusive PlayStation Phone popped up on a Hong Kong forum, and now it's back again in full exposure thanks to Chinese website IT168.
Wall Street Journal:
Gadget Makers Follow Facebook's Lead  —  Compatibility of Cameras, Games, E-Books Grows Along With Social Network's Role in Consumers' Lives  —  LAS VEGAS—Investors are hardly the only ones friending Facebook Inc. these days.  —  Gadget makers increasingly are adding Facebook to their products …
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Ford introduces MyFord Mobile app for smartphones  —  Sadly Ford isn't confirming the Focus Electric that it saw fit to tease earlier this week, but we can now tell you all about the new smartphone app that will let you monitor the charging of... certain Ford vehicles.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
More on Microsoft ‘Jupiter’ and what it means for Windows 8  —  After a first tip this week on Microsoft's Jupiter — a new “application model” for Windows 8 — I started nosing around to learn more about this mysterious new Microsoft codename.  —  Here's a brain dump of what I learned …
Discussion: Neowin.net and The Next Web
Nicholas Kolakowski / eWeek:
Microsoft CEO Ballmer: Xbox Passes Apple Among Young Consumers  —  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested during a CNBC interview that the Xbox was the most popular young consumer brand in tech.  —  LAS VEGAS—Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his Jan. 5 keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show …
Discussion: CNBC and SAI
Bloomberg:
Apple Said to Have Approached Blackstone's Tosi to Becoming Finance Chief  —  Apple Inc. approached Blackstone Group LP Chief Financial Officer Laurence Tosi to become its finance chief, three people with knowledge of the matter said.  —  Tosi told Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman that he plans to stay …
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The Most Worthless Week in Tech  —  The case against the Consumer Electronics Show.  —  A year ago, Steve Ballmer took the stage of the Consumer Electronics Show to tout a technology that he promised would change the world: the Windows operating system.  Newcomers to CES might have been baffled …
 
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Gartner raises IT spending forecast for 2011
Discussion: NewEnterprise and Gartner
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Show's over: how Hollywood strong-ARMed Intel and the CE biz
Discussion: PC World and Guardian
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Inc. To Launch All-In-One BitTorrent Ecosystem
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Docs Plays Videos
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
MOG Lands Deal With Verizon, Will Come Preinstalled On All 4G Android Phones
Discussion: Music Ally, ReadWriteWeb, hypebot and SAI
Neil Stevens / The Big Blog:
Group video calling ready for primetime
Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
Twitter for Mac  —  Twitter is proud to introduce an appropriately …
 

 
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency
 
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