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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
How Did Egypt Kill the Internet? Possibly With a Few Phone Calls — UPDATE: This post has been updated with more detailed information on the timing of the shutdown. — How do you turn off the Internet in an entire country? — In the case of Egypt, it was probably done with a few phone calls …
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Threat Level, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, CounterMeasures, CNET News, AOL News, Hillicon Valley, Examiner, L.A. Times Tech Blog, ZDNet, GigaOM, Datamation and rc3.org
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Matt Cutts / @mattcutts:
Google's Transparency Report flatlining for Egypt: http://goo.gl/y98XO Only 4 months old & really useful: http://goo.gl/2l4WU
Sean Bonner / Boing Boing:
Egypt turns off internet, Lieberman wants same option for US
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TechCrunch, ONI, Salon, Computerworld, Bloomberg, PC Magazine, PE Hub Blog, PC Magazine, GMSV, WebProNews, @anonyops, @beregond, @cscotta, MarketingVOX and @quepol
Wilson Rothman / Technolog:
Net-less Egypt may face economic doom Monday
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Mashable!, Ars Technica, msnbc.com and Reuters
Curt Hopkins / ReadWriteWeb:
Al Jazeera Releases Egypt Coverage Under Creative Commons (UPDATED)
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VentureBeat, Lost Remote, Epicenter, GigaOM, Technolog and Laughing Squid, more at Mediagazer »
Nathan Olivarez-Giles / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
President Obama calls on Egypt to bring back the Internet, social media
Timothy Karr / The Huffington Post:
One U.S. Corporation's Role in Egypt's Brutal Crackdown
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Free Press, Silicon Valley Watcher and CircleID
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Start Fund: Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer EVERY New Y Combinator Startup $150k — Everything just changed in the angel investing world. — Two years ago Yuri Milner, through his investment firm DST, disrupted the traditional Silicon Valley venture capital model when he began investing …
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Scobleizer, TechCrunch, The Next Web, @harjeet, @cdixon, @eghosao, @brezina and @gideonyu
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
War Maneuvers: Android Event Will Battle iPad Event For Press Love On February 2 — I love asking companies if the timing of events is on purpose or purely coincidental. Not only do they almost always say that it's purely coincidental, but they often try to claim that didn't even realize …
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@akovacs and Neowin.net
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Exclusive: Google to Show Off Honeycomb Next Week — Google is planning an event next week to show off the inner workings of Honeycomb, the next version of Android that is optimized to work on tablets and other devices, Mobilized has learned. — The software, which was first shown off at the D …
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Engadget, PalmAddicts, Redmond Pie, AndroidGuys, Droid Life, The Next Web, Android Phone Fans and TechCrunch
Twitter Blog:
The Tweets Must Flow — Our goal is to instantly connect people everywhere to what is most meaningful to them. For this to happen, freedom of expression is essential. Some Tweets may facilitate positive change in a repressed country, some make us laugh, some make us think, some downright anger a vast majority of users.
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VentureBeat, PC Magazine, DailyFinance, The Blog Herald, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, L.A. Times Tech Blog, WebProNews and Epicenter
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
So How Much Is Quora Worth? — For the rest of the world, it may have been a very cold winter, but for Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup Quora, it has been a scorching hot few weeks. Thanks to relentless media attention, the company started by Facebook alumni — ex-Facebook CTO Adam D'Angelo …
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@mathewi
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Verizon turns on iPhone 4 pre-order countdown, existing customers can order on February 3rd at 3AM — The grapevine did already hint at the timing of the Verizon iPhone 4 pre-orders, but now, to be absolutely sure nobody misses them, we have a countdown! Verizon's seriously pushing Apple's phone …
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App Advice, Phones Review and AppleInsider
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Microsoft: Consumers Should Think Twice Before Broadcasting Location — As more and more services tap into location-based data, consumers need to take steps to make sure they are aware just how broadly they are sharing that information. — That was one of several points stressed …
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TrendLabs, Faster Forward, Tech Daily Dose, MediaPost, WebProNews, @timcohn and Network World
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
We Fear for Our Online Privacy, But Do Little to Protect It
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Google Public Policy Blog, Technology Liberation Front and internetnews.com
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How 5 Big Companies Are Marking Data Privacy Day
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The Windows Blog, Softpedia News, PC Magazine, PC World and The Not-So Private Parts
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Angry Birds Planning a Trip to Rio — The Angry Birds are headed to Rio. — Rovio, maker of the popular mobile game, announced on Friday that it is teaming up with Twentieth Century Fox to create a version of the game centered on the upcoming animated movie “Rio,” which hits theaters in mid-April.
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Rovio Blog, MacGazette.net, Examiner, Inside Mobile Apps, Electricpig.co.uk, VentureBeat, MacStories and iClarified
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
How Angry Birds Is Becoming the Next Super Mario
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TechCrunch, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Source: SD Card slot on Apple's next-gen iPad just a rumor — With Apple expected to take the wraps off its second-generation iPad in the next few months, talk has focused largely around the potential hardware enhancements to the tablet device, including rumors of an SD Card slot …
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App Advice, MacGazette.net, Apple Gazette, Electronista, MacRumors, Erictric, iClarified and MacDailyNews
Naked Security / Sophos:
Facebook awarded over $360 million damages against spammer — Facebook's security team have reason to celebrate as they have claimed another scalp in the ongoing fight against spammers on the social network. — A post on Facebook's Security page announced that this week a federal court …
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Exclusive: The next generation of WikiLeaks — (Reuters) - All across Europe, from Brussels to the Balkans, a new generation of WikiLeaks-style websites is sprouting. — Like their forerunner, the fledgling whistle-blowing sites are a chaotic mixture of complex systems engineering, earnest campaigning, muckraking and self-promotion.
Jeff Yang / San Francisco Chronicle:
How Steve Jobs ‘out-Japanned’ Japan — The better part of a month has gone by, and most pundits have already weighed in on this year's CES — the global gadget extravaganza that makes Las Vegas the gravitational center of the geek universe every January. The consensus? Meh.
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SAI, MacDailyNews and Kotaku
Andrew Blum / The Atlantic Online:
Tunisia, Egypt, Miami: The Importance of Internet Choke Points — The news Thursday evening that Egypt had severed itself from the global Internet came at the same time as an ostensibly far less inflammatory announcement closer to home. Verizon, the telecom giant, would acquire “cloud computing company” Terremark for $1.4 billion.
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Network World, Data Center Knowledge, Fortune and TechSpot
Amit / Digital Inspiration Technology Blog:
PayPal in India is ‘Close to Dead’ — If you are based in India and have been using the PayPal service to receive payment from foreign clients and advertisers, here's some disheartening news for you. — Starting March 1st, you'll not be allowed to receive payments that exceed $500 per transaction.
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Just Skins, Devils Workshop, Seattle Times, @kaushal, @contactsunny, @aravindajith, Associated Press, TechCrunch, TechPluto, Pluggd.in and The PayPal Blog
