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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Google likely to face FTC complaint over ‘Search Plus Your World’ — A privacy watchdog group probably will complain to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that a new Google search feature raises privacy and antitrust concerns. — Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Real-Life Examples Of How Google's “Search Plus” Pushes Google+ Over Relevancy — The new Google “Search Plus Your World” feature — which I'm now simply calling “Search Plus” — has just gone live for me. Huge debate erupted yesterday over whether it somehow favors Google+.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google And The Monopoly Paradox — We've been over this. A lot. And this story is going to continue for some time to come. It sure looks like Google is almost asking for an inquiry into potentially anti-competitive practices (and it's coming). Which is insane. So the next logical question is why?
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iCrossing, parislemon, Daring Fireball and The Next Web
John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
Compete To Death, or Cooperate to Compete?
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Softpedia News, Business Insider, Search Engine Land, WebProNews, Ben Parr's Entrepreneurial …, TechCrunch and Mashable!
Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
Google+ Search = A Way To Call The Feds In On IPO-Bound Facebook (?)
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CNET, the Econsultancy blog, The Huffington Post and Daring Fireball
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
If SOPA's Main Target Is The Pirate Bay, It's Worth Pointing Out That ThePirateBay.org Is Immune From SOPA — In looking over Eric Goldman's excellent “linkwrap” of a bunch of recent SOPA/PIPA stories, it pointed me to a News.com article from last month, about how SOPA was really about going after one single site: The Pirate Bay.
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ExtremeTech, PC Magazine, The Register, DSLreports and The Next Web
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E.D. Kain / Forbes:
Time Is Running Out For SOPA Opponents Congressmen Warn At CES 2012 — Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) showed up at CES 2012 in Las Vegas to issue a stark warning: we're running out of time to stop legislation aimed at cracking down on copyright infringement.
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AllThingsD, The Register, Fox Business and NBC Bay Area
Stephen Rosenman / Seeking Alpha:
Apple's Foreign Cash Hoard — Apple (AAPL) is piling up boatloads of cash: just not here. — Those boatloads are increasing becoming docked in Apple's foreign subsidiaries and cannot be repatriated without incurring additional hefty U.S. taxes. A whopping $54 billion of Apple's $82 billion cash …
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TUAW and PhoneArena
Cade Metz / Wired Enterprise:
Google's Data Center Engineer Shares Secrets of ‘Warehouse’ Computing — Luiz Barroso, one of the minds behind the Googlenet. Photo: Google — Luiz André Barroso doesn't see Google's data centers as data centers. He sees them as computers the size of warehouses.
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Why Samsung Is The Next Apple — For most of the ten years I've been coming to CES, every presentation, every booth, has had one goal: to create an ecosystem in order to encourage consumer to lock in. Year after year, presentation after presentation, someone has come out to show how the phone …
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paidContent, Macgasm, MacStories and Business Insider
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Nokia Could Sell 37 Million Windows Phones This Year — If 2011 was the year of Windows Phone's slow slog to market, 2012 may be the year of its breakout. — With a decent selection of handsets in the marketplace — including Nokia's newly announced LTE device, the Lumia 900 …
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The Year of Microsoft — How the former tech giant can reclaim its throne in 2012.
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Guardian, Nokia Conversations, Geek News Central and BrianMadden.com
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
EMI Sues Irish State For Not Implementing Piracy Blocking Provisions — The place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide — EMI Sues Irish State For Not Implementing Piracy Blocking Provisions — After failing last year in its attempt to force a local Internet service provider …
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Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
The MacBook Air Samsung SSD is about to get twice as fast — I had a chance to meet with Samsung Storage solutions at CES 2012 this week and got the low down on its new OEM SSDs that Apple tends to buy in large numbers. Samsung and Toshiba are the OEMs that provide the SSDs in MacBook Airs.
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Nick Wingfield / Bits:
Apple Aims to Take On the Textbook Market — Apple is expected to begin a much-anticipated foray into the textbook market at an event in New York next week. — The company sent invitations to reporters on Wednesday for an event at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York on Jan. 19.
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Digits, Digital Trends, Softpedia News, Mashable!, The Register, The Tech Herald Technology …, MacRumors, App Advice, The Digital Reader, GottaBeMobile, Media Decoder, WebProNews and Epicenter, Thanks:nickwingfield
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple announces special event in New York on Jan. 19
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AppleInsider, I4U News, IntoMobile, AllThingsD, The Verge, Gadget Lab, AppleTell, The Apple Core Blog, T3 News, 9to5Mac, Neowin.net, Pulse2, iPhone, TUAW, VentureBeat, Macgasm, PhoneArena, ZDNet, BGR, Redmond Pie, TUAW, Apple Bitch, eCampus News, Mercury News, CNET, everythingiCafe, TechCrunch, MacStories, MacNN, The Next Web, MacRumors, Between the Lines Blog, Engadget, Gizmodo and Edible Apple, Thanks:kevinmcelligott
Julie Bort / Business Insider:
Amazon Web Services Now Available Without That Messy ‘Web’ Part — Data doesn't have to travel over the messy, dangerous public Internet to use Amazon's cloud. — Amazon today expanded its AWS “direct connect” service to Northern California and three other global locations.
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Grab Your Cash and Warm Up the Wagon — ICANN Domain Rush Kicks Off Tomorrow — The domain name landgrab begins tomorrow. — That's when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — the organization charged with managing the Internet's domain name system …
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Guardian, Inquirer, Softpedia News, The Kernel and Bloomberg
Facebook:
Bringing Facebook Comments to Mobile — Today we're launching the Comments Box plugin for mobile to make it easier for media sites to engage people across the web and mobile devices, and for people to comment on news regardless of where they're reading it. — If your website has the Comments Box …
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IntoMobile, Pulse2, Engadget, WebProNews, Friending Facebook Blog, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, All Facebook, The Next Web, Inside Facebook and VentureBeat
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
LG signs Android, Chrome OS patent deal with Microsoft — Summary: LG Electronics is the latest Android vendor to license Microsoft patents in order to head off potential legal issues. — It's been a couple of months since Microsoft has touted any new Android/Chrome OS vendors agreeing to license its patents.
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Microsoft, TechCrunch and ZDNet
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Said Planning Marketing Shakeup — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is making plans for a companywide restructuring of its marketing operations, a move that may include hundreds of job cuts, according to people familiar with the matter. — The plans haven't been settled and could change …
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Neowin.net, Pulse2, LiveSide.net, All about Microsoft Blog, Tech Trader Daily, GeekWire, Business Insider and TechFlash
Mat Honan / Gizmodo:
Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter — I trudge past several million dollars worth of 3DTVs, looking for a good place to take a s**t. The toilets are all filthy. CES attendees are overwhlemingly men. Men are filthy, especially when they've been drinking too much coffee and eating Vegas buffets.
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SplatF, The Wirecutter and Macgasm
Wall Street Journal:
Google Renews Push in China — Two Years After Censorship Clash, Company Renews Push to Expand in World's Biggest Internet Market — Google Inc., which pulled its Web-search engine out of mainland China two years ago after a confrontation with Chinese authorities over censorship …
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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
NewsGator Has Quietly Built An Enterprise Social Networking Business On Top Of SharePoint — NewsGator. Those of us who were using RSS readers in the middle of the past decade most likely think of desktop app FeedDemon for Windows or desktop/mobile app NetNewsWire for Mac when we hear the name.
Alicia Eler / ReadWriteWeb:
Study: Your Facebook Personality Is The Real You — If you think you're different on Facebook than you are in real life, you've got some explaining to do. — A 2011 study from the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Psychology called “Manifestations of Personality in Online Social Networks …
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