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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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Michael Geist Blog, danah boyd, Beth's Blog and TechCrunch
Jacob Appelbaum / @ioerror:
And Google is now showing US visitors a blackout banner and linking to this: https://www.google.com/landing/ takeaction/ #SOPA #PIPA
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paidContent, Techdirt, @rob_sheridan, @scepticgeek and @mattcutts
reddit:
A technical examination of SOPA and PROTECT IP
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Digital Trends, PC World, The Next Web, Business Insider, Mashable! and TechCrunch, more at Mediagazer »
Emily Steel / Digits:
Need Wikipedia Wednesday? Here's How to Access It
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The Verge, Gizmodo, Associated Press and @pkafka
House Judiciary Committee:
Stop Online Piracy Act Markup to Resume in February
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay: PIPA/SOPA Won't Stop Us!
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Gizmodo, AllThingsD, Politico Pro, Webmonkey, Tech Daily Dose, Mashable! and TechCrunch
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.
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Jerry Yang's Decision to Leave Yahoo Was His Own — Even If It Was Inevitable
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Staci D. Kramer / mocoNews:
Jerry Yang Has Left the Building; Resigns From Yahoo, Alibaba Boards
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AdExchanger.com, Digits, TechCrunch, Mashable!, VentureBeat, @pourmecoffee, BGR India, MediaPost, Hollywood Reporter, Tech and China, SiliconANGLE and Search Engine Watch
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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PhoneArena, TmoNews, GottaBeMobile, Android Phone Fans, AllThingsD, MediaFile, MobileSyrup.com, Engadget and Electronista
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Research In Motion pushing for sale to Samsung — Research In Motion is currently weighing every single option it can think of in an effort to reverse a negative trend that is approaching a boiling point for investors. Reports that RIM is currently in talks to license its software …
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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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eWeek, Ars Technica, Dennis Fisher and Business Insider
Eytan Bakshy / Facebook:
Rethinking Information Diversity in Networks — How do your friends shape the information you see and read online? Social networking technologies like Facebook let us connect to hundreds, even thousands of people — and have fundamentally changed how people get their information.
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Slate, ReadWriteWeb, PC Magazine, Mashable!, MediaPost, Friending Facebook Blog and All Facebook
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Facebook Is Totally Not an Echo Chamber, Says Facebook
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Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security:
Hackers steal $6.7 million in bank cyber heist — A perfectly planned, coordinated and executed bank robbery was executed during the first three days of the new year in Johannesburg, and left the targeted South African Postbank - part of the nation's Post Office service - with a loss of some $6.7 million.
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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 …
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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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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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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 …
Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:
Apple axes last remaining Mac purchase rebate — Apple's promotion that offered a $100 rebate to customers who purchased a Mac and qualifying printer has been discontinued with no alternative incentives announced. — In a change to its promotion information webpage on Tuesday …
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Developing for BlackBerry 10 — “If you have a codebase, we're making it easy for you to bring your codebase to the platform.” — One of the bigger issues for developers in the wake of the BlackBerry Developer's Conference last October was the massive array of development platforms available on PlayBook and, by extension, BB10.
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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Darren Murph / Engadget:
HP appoints Bill Veghte as chief strategy officer, will lead ‘cloud and webOS open source initiatives’ — Bill Veghte was already having his checks cut by HP (after cutting ties with Microsoft), but now he'll be filling a slightly different corner office. The company today announced …
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HP, Reuters and The Register
T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Sources: Google contractors fired after vandalizing OpenStreetMap, ‘no connection’ with Mocality incident (updated) — OpenStreetMap (OSM) representatives reported yesterday that miscreants originating from a Google IP address in India had extensively vandalized OSM — a Google spokesperson …
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MediaNama, Wired Enterprise, Web 2.0 Asia Blog and Daring Fireball
Electronista:
iPhone 4S ship times shrink to 3-5 days — iPhone 4S shipping delays contract three months in — Apple showed it was just now starting to catch up to iPhone 4S demand on Tuesday after the online Apple Store saw lead times contract. Having been set back by a week for nearly …
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Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
Amazon to Launch Cloud Search Service, Possibly Tomorrow — The genius of Amazon reminds me of the honeypot Winnie-the-Pooh gets stuck in. They give such enticing value, that you can't resist sticking a paw in. And then they keep giving more value. Another paw. Then a foot.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Will Windows 8 on ARM be an OEM-only product? — Summary: Will Windows 8 on ARM be available only as something preloaded on new tablets and PCs from selected vendors? We still don't know for sure. — All the recent back and forth over Microsoft disallowing the installation …
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Windows 8 News, Rumors & Tips, Softpedia News, Gizmodo and WebProNews
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Lionsgate Sacrifices “Abduction” To Test Simultaneous Facebook/DVD Release — When you're in charge of getting people to rent a move like Abduction, with its Metacritic score of 25 and a truly remarkable 4% on Rotten Tomatoes, what can you really do? The answer: whatever the hell you want.
