Techmeme: New York to displace Silicon Valley (Tristan Louis/TNL.net)

9:00 PM ET, January 8, 2011

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Verizon iPhone to Be Available Around End of January — Apple Inc.'s iPhone will make its way to Verizon Wireless stores around the end of the month, a person familiar with the matter said. — The largest U.S. wireless carrier by subscribers will make the long-awaited announcement to carry …

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Paul Miller / Engadget:

Verizon iPhone: everything you need to know — Ah, the Verizon iPhone. In our bizarre careers as tech journalists, if there's one question we've heard more than “When is Verizon getting the iPhone?” we can't think of it. Also, outside the original rumors for the iPhone and iPad …

Discussion: Digits, PC World, techeblog.com and Forbes

Tristan Louis / TNL.net:

New York to displace Silicon Valley — There's been a lot of discussion in the past couple of years about the resurgence of New York City as a tech center (I actually called the comparison to Silicon Valley a silly one about a year ago). In the past couple of years, however …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

DoJ Subpoena Proves Twitter's Value — and Its Weakness — Not that long ago, there was much debate about whether Twitter was just a plaything for nerds or a powerful, real-time information network. Now the US Department of Justice has answered the question for us by serving the company …

Discussion: Associated Press and Mediactive

Peter Beaumont / Guardian:

WikiLeaks demands Google and Facebook unseal US subpoenas — Call comes after revelation that US has tried to force Twitter to release WikiLeaks members' private details — WikiLeaks has demanded that Google and Facebook reveal the contents of any US subpoenas they may have received …

Discussion: iGeneration Blog

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
DOJ subpoeans Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers

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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
DOJ sends order to Twitter for Wikileaks-related account info

Discussion: Computerworld, The Register, Mashable!, Softpedia News, NEWS.com.au and digg.com

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Informs Users Of DOJ WikiLeaks Court Order, Didn't Have To

Discussion: Techie Buzz, Pulse2 and Softpedia News

Jon Evans / TechCrunch:

Can Google Get Its Mojo Back? — A spectre is haunting Mountain View. No, not bed bugs: bit rot. Google is in serious decline. — I don't see how they can deny it. They have famously always been a data-driven organization, and the data is compelling.

Discussion: TomsTechBlog.com and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Open Source Blog:

No GPL Apps for Apple's App Store — Some people swore to me that just because the free-software General Public License (GPL) clashes with the Apple App Store's Terms of Service (ToS), didn't mean that Apple would actually pull down GPLed apps. Well, Apple just did.

Discussion: CNET News, Tech Broiler Blog and App Advice

Chris Rawson / TUAW:

VLC app removed from App Store — Not long after a version of multi-format video player VLC hit the App Store, speculation swirled surrounding its possible removal because of licensing issues. A few months later, it appears that everyone's fears were true: VLC has been removed from the App Store.

Discussion: MacStories, TorrentFreak, RazorianFly, Download Squad, Lifehacker, Engadget, Geekword, 9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear, AppleInsider and iClarified

Chris Ziegler / Engadget:

Windows Phone 7 using lots of 3G data while idle, even on WiFi? — Complaints seem to be growing among some users that Windows Phone 7 is consuming an abnormally plump quantity of data when you're not doing anything. Granted, there's lots of stuff on the platform that might need data continuously …

Discussion: VentureBeat

Evgeny Morozov / Wall Street Journal:

A Walled Wide Web for Nervous Autocrats — Beijing and Moscow see American information technology as a threat. They want systems of their own — At the end of 2010, the “open-source” software movement, whose activists tend to be fringe academics and ponytailed computer geeks, found an unusual ally: the Russian government.

Brian Lam / Gizmodo:

How Lady Gaga Just Reinvented Eye Contact — Lady Gaga's weirdo Polaroid glasses are about to turn our faces into Facebook feeds and mood rings. — The glasses have two little screens in them. The weird thing is that they face outward. You can imagine the scene as Polaroid's suit brigade …

Discussion: PC Magazine, Faster Forward, Gizmodo Australia, CNET News and Mashable!

Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:

Facebook, Google, Microsoft - comparable? — When something is unlike anything we have seen before we look for analogies or comparables to try to put it in context. Investors didn't know what to think the first time they saw Microsoft (MSFT), later Google (GOOG), and now Facebook.

Discussion: Venture Capital Dispatch, Thanks:dondodge

Douglas Rushkoff / CNN:
Opinion: Facebook may have already peaked

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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

SoundCloud announces big-name investment - “The Web should not be mute” — Audio sharing platform SoundCloud has received a huge boost today, confirming that it has received investment from major US tech VC firms Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures. — The value of the investment …

Discussion: A VC, SoundCloud, Union Square Ventures, Softpedia News and TechCrunch, Thanks:spinn12

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo: Music Sharing Service SoundCloud Raises $10 Million From Index, Union Square

Clint Boulton / eWeek:

Samsung to Sell Google TV Blu-ray Player, Companion Box — Samsung Electronics vowed to ship Google TV-based Blu-ray players and companion boxes later this year, but it is still mulling whether or not to build a Google TV set. — Samsung Electronics Jan. 7 joined Sony …

Discussion: Home Theater Blog, Samsung USA Newsroom, GigaOM, Gizmodo, Engadget and The Official Google TV Blog

Alex Howard / Gov 2.0:

2011 Trends: National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace highlights key online privacy, security challenges — Blackberrys, cell phones and communications devices are tagged with post-its during a briefing on Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Cabinet Room of the White House, March 26, 2009.

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