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Rebecca Mackinnon / Wall Street Journal:
Google Gets On the Right Side of History — The Chinese people will learn who their real friends are. — One night in the mid-1990s when I was working as a journalist in Beijing, I went out to dinner with some Chinese friends. I had just finished reading a book called “The File” by the British historian Timothy Garton-Ash.
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Will / Imagethief:
Google detonates the China corporate communications script — Imagethief stumbled blearily to his computer this morning expecting a relaxed scan of the news but found the Chinese Twittersphere ablaze with the news of Google's bombshell blog post, which went up [in the middle of the night] early this morning our time.
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Foreign Policy, Ars Technica, Global Neighbourhoods, Guardian, TaoSecurity, Epicenter, Andrew Lark, Gawker, BBC, John Battelle's Searchblog and Wall Street Journal
Hillary Rodham Clinton / US Department of State:
Statement on Google Operations in China — Washington, DC — We have been briefed by Google on these allegations, which raise very serious concerns and questions. We look to the Chinese government for an explanation. The ability to operate with confidence in cyberspace is critical in a modern society and economy.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Baidu Soars As Google Threatens To Leave China — Hardly surprising, but also worth noting is that Google's (GOOG) threat to shutdown Google.cn and leave the China market is sparking a mammoth rally in shares of Baidu (BIDU), the leading China-based search engine.
New York Times:
Google's Threat Echoed Everywhere, Except China — BEIJING — Google's declaration that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting down its operations in the country ricocheted around the world Wednesday. But in China itself, the news was heavily censored.
Danny / Electronic Frontier Foundation:Uncensoring China: Bravo Google
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The New Republic, Search Engine Land, Rough Type, PC World, Financial Times, Between the Lines, Gawker, InformationWeek, Redmond Pie and Network World
Boy Genius Report:
Apple's tablet is an “iPhone on steroids” — One of our close Apple connects who hasn't steered us wrong dropped a little bit of information on us. Here's what we know: — The tablet's multi-touch gestures are “out of control.” — It's powered by an incredibly fast ARM CPU
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Daring Fireball, PC World, The iPhone Blog, Mashable!, AppleInsider, InformationWeek, Digital Trends, App Advice, The Next Web, TG Daily, TechCrunch and Redmond Pie
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
RealNetworks Founder And CEO Rob Glaser Finally Quits (RNWK) — RealNetworks founder and CEO Rob Glaser is quitting. It's about time. — The question is, did Rob just get bored? Or was he pushed out? — Sounds like both. — A source familiar with the situation says that while Rob …
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internetnews.com, The Register, The Seattle Times, CNET News, Digital Daily, paidContent, PC World, Between the Lines, TechFlash, Tech Trader Daily, Electronista and Xconomy
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Rafat Ali / paidContent:
RealNetworks' Management Change: Memos From Rob Glaser And Robert Kimball — Internal memo from Rob Glaser about him stepping down as CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) after 16 years, followed by one from the new acting CEO Robert Kimball: — From: Rob Glaser — Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:35 PM
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Peter Farago / blog.flurry.com:
Flurry Special Report: Google Nexus One Launch Week Sales — Flurry Estimates 20,000 First Week Nexus One Sales: — Not an Apples to “Apple” Comparison — The Google Nexus One launch has become the most controversial and confusing Android handset launch to date.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Google Watch, Mobile Entertainment, Gadget Lab, PC World, The Register, eWeek, Thoughts from the Sidelines, VentureBeat, BusinessWeek, Mashable!, Tech Trader Daily, New York Times, BetaNews, GigaOM, The Toybox, InformationWeek, Google Android News …, Android Phone Fans, The Next Web, 901am, IntoMobile, Internet2Go, Phone Arena, www.pocketgamer.biz, Neowin.net, SlashGear, Digital Daily, MobHappy, GMSV and Tech Beat
Gmail Blog:
Default https access for Gmail — In 2008, we rolled out the option to always use https — encrypting your mail as it travels between your web browser and our servers. Using https helps protect data from being snooped by third parties, such as in public wifi hotspots.
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Threat Level, Zero Day, Gadgetwise, eWeek, The Register, Between the Lines, TidBITS, Maximum PC, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and CNET News
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Peter Eckersley / Electronic Frontier Foundation:Gmail takes the lead on email security
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New York Times
Gabriel Snyder / valleywag - Gawker:
Announcing Valleywag's Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt: Win Up to $100,000! — We've had enough of trying to follow all the speculation around Apple's impending tablet — how it'll work, its size, the name, the software and whether it will save magazines. We want answers, dammit! And we're willing to pay.
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24/7 Wall St.:
Apple App Store Has Lost $450 Million To Piracy — Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and the companies that sell software for the iPhone and iPod touch at the App Store have lost over $450 million to piracy since the store opened in July 2008 according to an analysis by 24/7 Wall St. There have been over …
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Mashable!, GigaOM, Tech Trader Daily, MacRumors, Mobile Marketing Watch, TheAppleBlog and jkOnTheRun
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Shutting Down Rupert Murdoch's Social Experiments Lab — We hear News Corporation is winding down MySpace spinoff Slingshot Labs, a vestige of the media conglomerate's efforts to retain MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe. But the labs are hatching one last diabolical plot, on behalf of the Wall Street Journal.
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Intel promo confirms Apple's plans for Core i5 MacBook Pros [u] — An e-mail sent to members of Intel's Retail Edge promotional program highlight a forthcoming MacBook Pro from Apple sporting a new Core i5 processor, AppleInsider can confirm. — The promotion was included in an e-mail sent …
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Ars Technica, Gizmodo, CNET News, TechSpot, Electronista, MacRumors, TG Daily, 9 to 5 Mac, Gadget Lab and I4U News
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Nintendo Wii to Add Netflix Service for Streaming Video — SAN FRANCISCO — Owners of the Nintendo Wii can finally stop waving their video game controllers in the air and sink back onto the couch. — Nintendo is bringing Netflix's online streaming video service to its Wii gaming console …
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Download Squad, Electronista, Associated Press, Boy Genius Report, Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle, DailyTech, Gizmodo, 901am, NewTeeVee, paidContent, Gear Diary, I4U News, MediaMemo, CNET News, TechFlash, CrunchGear, Neowin.net and Beet.TV
Tim Mullaney / Bloomberg:
Zillow Plans to Have 2011 IPO, Change Its Image on Wall Street — Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) — Zillow Inc., the second-largest U.S. real-estate listing site by users, plans to go public in 2011 and will begin courting investors next month to boost its valuation, Chief Operating Officer Spencer Rascoff said.
Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:
Sprint drops price of mobile WiMAX by another $10 — Sprint Nextel reduced the monthly price of its CDMA/mobile WiMAX service by another $10, down to $59.99, a Sprint spokeswoman confirmed. The price cut is the second $10 cut in less than five months; Sprint made a similar change …
Pooja Prasad / Adobe Featured Blogs:
Adobe Investigates Corporate Network Security Issue — Adobe became aware on January 2, 2010 of a computer security incident involving a sophisticated, coordinated attack against corporate network systems managed by Adobe and other companies. We are currently in contact with other companies and are investigating the incident.
Simon Sage / IntoMobile:
Samsung Announces First 32 GB MicroSD Memory Cards — The upper-end of the microSDHC category has been reached! Samsung has announced that they're working on 32 GB memory cards, which will be good news to media hogs who have long capped out 16 GB cards on their mobile phones.
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Business Wire, eWeek, Obsessable, Digital Trends, PC World, Engadget and Boy Genius Report
Scott Gilbertson / Webmonkey:
Mozilla Gets Ready to Put Prism on Your Desktop With New Beta Release — Soon, you'll be able to pull your favorite website — like Gmail or YouTube — out of the web browser and run it as a stand-alone application on your computer's desktop. Mozilla has announced that its Prism software …
Don Reisinger / CNET News:
Google rules search in December, Bing drops — Google continued to dominate the search market in December, trailed by Yahoo and Microsoft, according to media research firm Nielsen. — According to Nielsen's December U.S. Search Rankings, released on Wednesday, Web users queried search engines more than 9.9 billion times in December.
