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David Drummond / The Official Google Blog:
Don't censor the web — You might notice many of your favorite websites look different today. Wikipedia is down. Wordpress is dark. We're censoring our homepage logo and asking you to petition Congress. So what's the big deal? — Right now in Washington D.C. …
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Ben Fritz / Company Town:
Wikipedia, Craigslist, other sites go black in SOPA protest — Following through on their threats to shut down for a day over controversial proposed anti-piracy legislation, a coalition of websites including the hugely popular user-generated encyclopedia Wikipedia went black as midnight struck the East Coast.
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Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
Taking SOPA/PIPA to the streets: Protests on for SF, NYC — A number of tech industry companies and organizations are taking to the web to protest the proposed anti-piracy legislation in the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA.) But the demonstrations don't stop …
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Hugh O'Connell / Business Insider:
How To Access Wikipedia During Its 24-Hour Blackout — IF YOU OBJECT to the legislation currently weaving its way through the US Congress and wish to participate in the 24-hour internet blackout taking place today then we suggest you stop reading now. — But if you are one of the many millions …
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft says it opposes SOPA ‘as currently drafted’
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay: PIPA/SOPA Won't Stop Us!
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Guardian, Inquirer, Gizmodo, Mashable!, AllThingsD, Policy Blog, Computerworld and FlowingData
House Judiciary Committee:
Stop Online Piracy Act Markup to Resume in February
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Yahoo! Inc.:
Yahoo! Announces Resignation of Jerry Yang — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), the premier digital media company, today announced that Jerry Yang has resigned from its Board of Directors and all other positions with the company, effective today.
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Sources: Four More Board Members Will Be Following Yang Out the Door — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is just the first shoe to drop in what is shaping up to be what looks like a large exodus of board members from the Silicon Valley Internet company.
Reuters:
Samsung says not interested in buying RIM — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co said on Wednesday it was not interested in taking over Research In Motion after shares of the BlackBerry smartphone maker jumped more than 10 percent following a tech blog report that it was seeking to sell itself to the South Korean firm.
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Research In Motion pushing for sale to Samsung
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Nielsen Wire:
More US Consumers Choosing Smartphones as Apple Closes the Gap on Android — According to the latest research from Nielsen, the high-profile launch of Apple's iPhone 4S in the Fall had an enormous impact on the proportion of smartphone owners who chose an Apple iPhone.
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paidContent, GigaOM, BGR, Engadget and The Next Web
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
NPD data suggests ‘soft’ sales of 4.9M Macs in December quarter
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Fortune, MacDailyNews, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider and iPodNN
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Turns to iWork Executive for Textbooks — As Apple Inc. prepares to unveil a new digital-textbook service on Thursday, the spotlight is falling on its vice president who is leading core aspects of the new service: Roger Rosner. — According to people familiar with the matter …
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Paul Venezia / InfoWorld:
Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed — A design decision made by Oracle architects long ago may have painted some of Oracle's largest customers into a corner. Patches have arrived, but how much will they correct? Over the past two months, InfoWorld has been researching a flaw …
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TechEye, Business Insider, eWeek, Ars Technica and Dennis Fisher
Nancy Messieh / The Next Web:
Clean up your email settings for Twitter, Facebook, YouTube & more in one go, with Notification Control — We recently introduced you to MyPermissions, a nifty site that makes it easy to adjust your application permissions within minutes. Inspired by the site, Israel-based Ben Lang …
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The Verge, Business Insider and ReadWriteWeb
Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Mobile Apps:
6Waves-Lolapps acquires Escalation Studios as it pushes into mobile gaming — 6Waves-Lolapps is going more aggressively into mobile gaming by acquiring Escalation Studios, the gaming company it worked with to publish its two very first iOS games. — Escalation is a bootstrapped …
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TechCrunch, AllThingsD and GigaOM
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Presents for social gifting service Wrapp: $5M more funding, Reid Hoffman joins board — Who says gift cards cool? After landing $5.5 million in a first round of funding last November, the social gifting service Wrapp, which lets you easily send gift cards to friends through Facebook …
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CNET, Business Insider, AllThingsD and TechCrunch
Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
Chegg Launches Mobile Reader For Online Textbooks — Having built, bought and partnered its way into the textbook distribution business, Chegg is launching a long-promised mobile web version today that lets readers easily read and mark up their textbooks. Of course the move is timed …
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GigaOM, Digits, Bits, VentureBeat and AllThingsD
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
For Some Internet Start-Ups, a Failure Is Just the Beginning — Every entrepreneur hopes to start the next big thing. But sometimes the first try doesn't go as planned. — Bradford Shellhammer remembers the exact moment he realized his fledgling Web start-up, Fabulis …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Why Are Android Smartphones Bigger Than the iPhone? — Interesting theory from Jin Kim: … Kim makes a good case that an Android phone with a 3.5-inch display and 300+ pixels per inch resolution would reduce on-screen tap targets (like buttons) and text to an uncomfortably small size.
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Royal Pingdom:
Internet 2011 in numbers — So what happened with the Internet in 2011? How many email accounts were there in the world in 2011? How many websites? How much did the most expensive domain name cost? How many photos were hosted on Facebook? How many videos were viewed to YouTube?
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Haaretz:
Israeli hackers bring down Saudi, UAE stock exchange websites — In fresh round of cyber warfare, Israel hackers, who go by the name IDF-TEAM, retaliate against Saudi attack on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, El Al websites. — Get Haaretz on iPhone — Get Haaretz on Android
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Ars Technica, @jspepper, Pastebin, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Betabeat and TG Daily
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Grooveshark Blocks German Users Over Licensing Costs — Grooveshark users in Germany officially became former users of the service today after the US-based music streaming site stopped offering its service there. Grooveshark has in excess of 30 million users, less than 10% of which are located in Germany.
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Digital Music News, The Next Web and gHacks Technology News
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Facebook, Zynga Luring Employees to Hog Bandwidth at Work Hours — Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) — Social-network users are hogging more computer-network bandwidth — from the cubicle next door. — A growing proportion of the capacity on corporate networks is being taken up by employees actively …
