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2:15 PM ET, December 24, 2009

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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Possible Apple tablet multi-touch tactile keyboard detailed  —  Apple's forthcoming tablet could employ a dynamic surface that gives users tactile feedback when typing in order to identify individual keys, according to a new patent application revealed this week.
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
2010: The Year of the Tablet  —  An image from an Apple tablet patent.  —  Publishers made 2009 the year of the concept newspaper and magazine.  Time Inc. teamed up with design company The Wonder Factory to create a fun concept video of the Sports Illustrated of the future.
David Gelles / blogs.ft.com:
Exclusive: Apple to host event in January  —  Apple has something big up its sleeve for next month.  —  The company has rented a stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for several days in late January, according to people familiar with the plans.
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
DNS Issues Cause Downtime for Major Sites  —  Some of the web's most prominent sites experienced downtime and sluggishness Wednesday night due to problems with DNS services.  The issues were most pronounced at UltraDNS, which reported that its performance problems were caused by an electronic attack.
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ABCNEWS:
Pepsi's Big Gamble: Ditching Super Bowl for Social Media  —  Why Pepsi Is Pulling Out of the Big Game and What It Stands to Gain  —  This year for the first time in 23 years, Pepsi will not have ads in the Super Bowl telecast.  No Cindy Crawford, Britney Spears or Justin Timberlake.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Top Ten IPO Candidates For 2010  —  It's been a long drought for IPOs, but venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs are hopeful that 2010 will be the year they rain down on the Valley once gain.  Earlier this year, a handful of IPOs trickled out, such as OpenTable, Rackspace, and A123Systems.
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Paul Carton / ChangeWave HotWire Blog:
Windows 7 Accelerating Corporate PC Purchasing  —  By Andy Golub  —  ChangeWave's November corporate IT spending survey points to an uptick in IT spending for 1st Quarter 2010 - midst the strongest growth rate in 2 years.  —  Regarding PCs, the release of the Windows 7 operating system is the key factor driving growth.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:   Report: Windows 7 hasn't hurt the Mac
Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast:
Huge Evernote for iPhone Update: Offline notebooks and more!  —  Talk about a holiday gift!  The Apple AppStore elves work in mysterious ways and they just approved the biggest Evernote for iPhone (version 3.2) in months!  What's new?  Offline notebooks!  Speed improvements!  Better note editing!
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
XBMC Updates to 9.11 Camelot, Brings Awesome New Look, Improved Features  —  Windows/Mac/Linux/and more: XBMC is a killer open-source, cross-platform media center, and today they've released XBMC 9.11, introducing a whole new default look and feel, and it's very friendly on the eyes.
Discussion: XBMC
Twitter Blog:
Mixing It Up at 795 Folsom St  —  In August, we previewed expanded location support for developers.  Last month we launched our Geotagging API with support from several of the top Twitter clients.  When current location is added to tweets, new and valuable services emerge …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Great Location Land Rush Of 2010
Discussion: The Register and alarm:clock
David Talbot / Technology Review:
Security in the Ether  —  Information technology's next grand challenge will be to secure the cloud—and prove we can trust it.  —  In 2006, when Amazon introduced the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), it was a watershed event in the quest to transform computing into a ubiquitous utility, like electricity.
Discussion: Bits, Thanks:atul
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google's dominance draws interest of regulators  —  Complaints that Google Inc. is leveraging its dominance in search to tighten its grip on the local advertising market may be drawing the eye of regulators, adding to the mounting antitrust concerns surrounding the Internet giant.
Anupreeta Das / Reuters:
Qualcomm COO resigns to take CEO job elsewhere  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chief operating officer of U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc, Len Lauer, has resigned to become a chief executive of another company, Qualcomm said on Thursday.  —  Lauer, a telecommunications industry veteran …
Sharon Noguchi / Mercury News:
San Jose police test head-mounted cameras for officers  —  San Jose police, under fire for interactions with the public that have turned violent, on Friday launched a pilot project equipping officers with head-mounted cameras to record contacts with civilians.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Mint.com beefing up for 2010, including Android app  —  Tis the season - the season for stressing over money and coming up with a game plan for keeping better track of spending in the new year, that is.  —  I'd received a couple of inquiries about Mint.com, the online personal finance tool …
Discussion: jkOnTheRun
David Coursey / PC World:
Vonage Offers Unlimited Int'l Calling for iPhone, Blackberry  —  Vonage now offers an unlimited $24.99-a-month international calling plan for iPhone and BlackBerry users, the company said Wednesday.  The new “Vonage World Mobile” VoIP service competes with a $12.95-a-month service from Skype.
Discussion: Digital Trends
Business Wire:
Random House English-Language Books Now Available to Kindle Customers around the World  —  Already Available to Customers in the United States, Amazon Customers around the World Can Now Download English-Language Books from Random House in the Kindle Store  —  SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) …
The How-To Geek / Lifehacker:
Microsoft Security Essentials Ranks as Best-Performing Free Antivirus  —  Anti-malware testing group AV-Comparatives.org not only gave Microsoft Security Essentials a top rating for malware removal, but now they've given it their best ranking in their performance test as well.
Discussion: The Microsoft Blog
Josh Bernoff / AdAge:
Twitter at a Crossroads: Audience Growth Won't Be Enough in 2010  —  Plus Other Predictions From Forrester  —  Forrester has just published our interactive marketing predictions for 2010:  — Companies' use of social councils will attain budgets and power.  — Listening-platform insights will go mainstream.
Discussion: Internet Evolution
Tom Spring / PC World:
E-Book Piracy: The Publishing Industry's Next Epic Saga?  —  With the rise of e-book readers like the Kindle, Sony Reader, and Nook comes the scourge of the digital world: pirates.  —  Recommends  —  As e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle continue to rise, so follows the publishing industry's worst nightmare: e-book piracy.
Discussion: Digits
Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
Google Applications May Reach 150,000 in 2010 Amid Apple Chase  —  Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.'s Android mobile software may offer as many as 150,000 applications by the end of 2010, as the company chases Apple Inc. for downloads, according to a mobile-application research firm.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Clear Channel Radio Debuts Android Version of iheartradio App  —  Clear Channel Radio already had mobile applications for iPhone, BlackBerry and Chumby devices, but today it's adding an Android version to the line-up.  —  Not that there's a lack of decent radio streaming applications on well …
Discussion: Examiner and Erictric
 
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John Cox / Network World:
Forrester: Google Android smartphones to take 10% of market in 2010
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Noble ideas: Google Australia's engineering director
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Non-PC Devices Make Up For 14 Percent of iPlayer Use
Erik Sherman / industry.bnet.com:
New Patent Test for Machines Using Mathematical Algorithms
Discussion: Techdirt and Ars Technica
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Skout Studies What Happens When Dating Goes Mobile
Discussion: VentureBeat
 Earlier Items: 
Sandra Hanchard / Hitwise Intelligence:
2009 Year of the Status Update: Spending more time on fewer sites
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Grant Gross / Computerworld:
Study: US among world's leaders in broadband use
finchannel.com:
HBO App Now Available From App Store
Discussion: MediaPost and TUAW