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Guardian:
WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company withdraws domain name — Everydns.net says attack against leaks site endangered other customers' service - effectively pushing site off the web — The US was today accused of opening up a dramatic new front against WikiLeaks, effectively …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Troubled Wikileaks Moves To Pirate Party Domain — After being cut off by its nameserver provider EveryDNS, Wikileaks has moved to a domain registered by Pirate Party Switzerland. EveryDNS was forced to stop its services to Wikileaks after continued DDoS attacks, creating yet another setback …
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GigaOM, BGR, Netcraft, The Next Web, Gearlog, CNET News, Inquirer, GeekSmack, Tech Europe, Agence France Presse, Associated Press and V3.co.uk
Nick Vinocur / Reuters:
France seeks to bar hosting WikiLeaks website
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Ars Technica, Guardian, Netcraft, L.A. Times Tech Blog and TechnoLlama
Mahendra Palsule / Skeptic Geek:
EveryDNS.net Terminates Wikileaks.org DNS Services, Wikileaks.ch …
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The Huffington Post, BBC, CNN, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, techPresident, Black Web 2.0, Netcraft, ReadWriteWeb, GeekSmack, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, The Register, Erictric, SlashGear, PC Pro, The Next Web, Pulse2, Reuters, SAI, Computerworld, Techdirt, Boing Boing, Telegraph, Go Rumors, Help Net Security and News: News blog
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Meet Cloud Picker, Google's Stealthy New Storage Product — What is Google Cloud Picker? According to these Blogger Forums, Sites Forums, and others, Google has been testing a new online storage tool called, you guessed it, Cloud Picker. — From these accounts, it appears that the tool …
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ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News, NBC Bay Area, Pulse2, Geek.com, Tech Report and Ubergizmo
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Some Data-Miners Ready to Reveal What They Know — Seeking to head off escalating scrutiny over Internet privacy, a group of online tracking rivals is building a service that lets consumers see what information those companies know about them. — The project is the first of its kind …
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GigaOM, Better Advertising's …, AdExchanger.com and Gadgetwise
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
LivingSocial Confirms $175 Million Amazon Investment — The rumors are true! Amazon and daily deals site LivingSocial have just officially confirmed their partnership, with the e-tailer investing a whopping $175 million in the latter. This comes at an interesting time for both companies …
Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Lieberman Introduces Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation — Senator Joseph Lieberman and other lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would make it a federal crime for anyone to publish the name of a U.S. intelligence source, in a direct swipe at the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks.
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Fast Company, Techdirt, TPMMuckraker, Pulse2, VizWorld.com, Tech Europe and broadstuff, more at Mediagazer »
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Maybe We Should Start Burning Books, Too
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Tableau Software blogs, Guardian, Boing Boing, techPresident and Slashdot
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple won't allow demos, trials, betas on Mac App Store — Apple this week provided more information to developers regarding its forthcoming Mac App Store, and informed them that, unlike on iOS, trial versions of software will not be allowed. — Apple issued a handful of updates via …
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Computerworld, GigaOM, App Advice, MacRumors, BGR, MacStories and SlashGear
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
Verizon LTE Blows Through Monthly Data Cap in 32 Minutes — Verizon's new 4G LTE network is so fast that you can use up your entire 5GB, $50 monthly allotment in 32 minutes. — I'm in the middle of testing Verizon's new LTE network, and the 2010-era speeds are soured by the 2005-era thinking on data plans.
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Computerworld, DSLreports, Android Phone Fans, Techdirt, The Mobile Technology Weblog, Geekosystem, ThinkMobile, Fudzilla, GigaOM, FierceWireless and Mobilized
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
In latest treatise, Level 3 says feud with Comcast like great telecom unbundling — Continuing its public feud with Comcast, Level 3 Communications Friday released its own FAQ to explain to both the public and public policy makers, why their fight is important.
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Level 3 Communications and Electronista
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Comcast: We bent over backwards to help Level 3! (those bastards)
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TechCrunch, Digital Society, CircleID and Technology Liberation Front
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Viber is a new free VOIP app, currently available only for the iPhone. I've been trying it today, and have a few notes. — The Good — Initial setup is very easy. Your phone number is your Viber identifier. You launch the app, tell it your phone number, and a moment or two later …
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TechCrunch, GigaOM and PhoneArena
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
50 Percent of Smartphones Sold in China Last Quarter Run Android — The smartphone market in China is growing at an extraordinary rate, largely thanks to Google's Android OS. Chinese consumers purchased 8 to 10 million smartphones last quarter, up from an estimated 2 to 3 million in the same period last year.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
iPhone sales in China ‘disappointing’
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Macworld, CrunchGear, AppleInsider, everythingiCafe, SAI and Electronista
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Prosecutors Dismiss Xbox-Modding Case Mid-Trial — LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities in the first-of-its-kind game-console-modding criminal trial abruptly dropped their prosecution here Thursday, “based on fairness and justice.” — “The government has decided to dismiss the indictment …
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PC World, AfterDawn.com, Neowin.net, Computerworld, Yahoo! News, The Escapist, The Register, SlashGear, msnbc.com, KitGuru, TechEye, Gamasutra, PC Magazine, Edge Online, I4U News, Techdirt, GamePolitics News, The Microsoft Blog, TechSpot, Joystiq, Switched, MTV Multiplayer, Inquirer, Boing Boing and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal:
Google to Buy New York Office Building — Google Inc. has signed a contract to buy the building that houses its New York City offices, in a deal that values the property at close to $1.9 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. — The deal for the massive 2.9-million-square-foot property …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
A Guided Tour of Computing History — Steve Wozniak with George Stibitz's one-bit computer from 1936 — On January 13th, the seven-year-old Computer History Museum will open its first truly full-blown permanent exhibit:, the 25,000-square-foot, $19 million “Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing.”
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PC World, Scobleizer, displayblog, Gizmodo, CNET News, GMSV and NBC Bay Area
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Engineering Shortage Is Real. Former Digg Engineer Gets 7 Offers, Takes One for $150K — In recent months, venture capitalists have been complaining that a shortage of talented engineers is driving up engineering salaries at their portfolio companies. — Turns out all that complaining is warranted.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Toying With Naming Social Product “Google +1″ As Sergey Brin Gets Involved — Yesterday, after some digging, we were able to confirm that the internal codename for Google's upcoming social project is “Emerald Sea”. Despite some confusion that it may be called “Emerald City” …
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Search Engine Land, Yahoo! News, Gizmodo, SlashGear, WebProNews and Ubergizmo
Justin O'Beirne / 41Latitude:
Google Maps & Label Readability — Why Do Google Maps's City Labels Seem Much More “Readable” Than Those of Its Competitors? — For months, I've been trying to figure out why Google Maps's city labels seem so much more readable than the labels on other mapping sites.
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Google Operating System, TechCrunch and Google Maps Mania
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Motorola CEO talks smartphones, tablets and 4G; alludes to Q1 Verizon iPhone launch — Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha delivered a keynote yesterday at the Credit Suisse 2010 Technology Conference, and it was quite a doozy. Topics covered included the future of Motorola's smartphone business …
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Gartner names Samsung top Android provider in States, 3M Galaxy S handsets shipped in U.S. — Samsung has just issued a press release pertaining to kudos it recently received from analytics firm Gartner. Gartner has named Samsung the top Android provider in the United States based on …
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Digital Chosunilbo, CNET News, GigaOM, Fortune, The Next Web, The Korea Times, Engadget, Unwired View, Business Wire, Electronista, Gearlog and SlashGear
Rebecca Moore / Official google.org Blog:
Introducing Google Earth Engine — Today, we launched a new Google Labs product called Google Earth Engine at the International Climate Change Conference in sunny Cancun, Mexico. Google Earth Engine is a new technology platform that puts an unprecedented amount of satellite imagery and data …
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All Points Blog, WebProNews and Ars Technica
Bloomberg:
Seagate Said to Have Spurned Takeover Proposal From Rival Western Digital — Seagate Technology Plc, the disk- drive maker that ended takeover talks with TPG Capital, also turned down a proposal from competitor Western Digital Corp., according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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The Tech Report, Softpedia News and Electronista
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Exclusive: Roger Ehrenberg raises big(ger) fund for big data — “Big data” is the tech startup world's latest buzzword, and one New York City investor has raised a fund to capitalize on the revolution. — IA Ventures has closed its debut fund with $50 million in capital commitments, Fortune has learned.
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VentureBeat and SAI
