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10:55 PM ET, January 15, 2010

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Sky Canaves / China Real Time Report:
Clearing Up Confusion on Google and China  —  From Silicon Valley to Zhongguancun, Google's surprise announcement that it may pull out of China has fueled an enormous amount of discussion in recent days, not all of it 100% accurate.  Below are some misstatements and misunderstandings we've seen:
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Chinese authorities behind Google attack, researcher claims  —  Forensics expert who examined malware believes it's too good to have come from independent hackers  —  Computerworld - The malware used to hack Google is so sophisticated that researchers brought in by the company to investigate believe …
George Kurtz / McAfee Security Insights Blog:
“Aurora” Exploit In Google Attack Now Public  —  Computer code that exploits the yet-to-be-patched Internet Explorer vulnerability used in Operation Aurora to attack Google and others in December has now been published on the Internet.  —  McAfee Labs researchers have seen references …
Reuters:
Yahoo knew of attacks before Google, kept mum  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc knew it had been a target to sophisticated Chinese cyber attacks on U.S. corporations before Google alerted the company to them, a source familiar with the matter said, but chose to remain silent after its bigger rival went public.
New York Times:   Scaling the Digital Wall in China
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Verizon undercuts AT&T, reduces monthly voice plan by $29  —  Competition in the mobile landscape became more intense Friday, when Verizon Wireless announced it has cut its basic voice plan by $29 per month, to $69.99 for unlimited calling.  —  Verizon also has an unlimited voice and text plan …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
AT&T Matches Verizon With $69.99 Unlimited Voice Plans. iPhone Not Included (But Also Cheaper).  —  As you may have heard, Verizon made some headlines today by unveiling new, cheaper plans to its customers.  Specifically, they cut the price of their unlimited voice plans by $29 down to $69.99.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Verizon Wireless revamps calling plans; Goes for customer grab ahead of 4G
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yelp Enables Check-Ins On Its iPhone App; Foursquare, Gowalla Ousted As Mayors  —  When you think of the idea of “checking-in” at a venue in a mobile app, you likely think of Foursquare or Gowalla right now.  The two gained significant momentum, funding, and users in the location space in 2009.
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Eric / Yelp Official Blog:
You're Gonna Want to “Check-Out” Yelp for iPhone v.4
Discussion: VentureBeat and CNET News
Gilly / My Microsoft Life:
Bing has its own shortening URL, binged.it  —  In a tweet I have just seen from Bing's @fareologist I noticed that they used a new URL shortening service by the name of binged.it.  I think this is a new URL Bing are using, I certainly haven't noticed this before.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:   Fa.il: Bing's URL Shortener Is Longer Than Bing's Own Domain
Matthew Moore / Telegraph:
Sarcasm punctuation mark aims to put an end to email confusion  —  Expressing sarcasm in the written word can be a dangerous business, as anyone forced to apologise for sending a tongue-in-cheek email will confirm.  —  The SarcMark costs $1.99 to download  —  Now a US firm has come …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Analyst: Apple tablet ‘in full production’  —  An analyst at AVI Securities said Friday morning that the Apple tablet is “in full production” and a research note stated that Apple “NAND” flash chip requirements may be increasing because of the tablet.  —  The Apple tablet information comes from …
Discussion: Electronista, eWeek and TechSpot
Noel / Games from Within:
Making A Living (Barely) On The iPhone App Store (aka The Numbers Post)  —  The App Store is a very hit-driven environment.  A few apps sell a large amount of units, and the great majority sell next to nothing.  That's somewhat similar to the music industry, except that the audience for music …
Discussion: App Advice and www.pocketgamer.biz
Economist:
The return of the mainframe: Back in fashion  —  The mother of all computers no longer looks that old  —  GEEKS may roll their eyes at the news that Namibia is only now getting its first mainframe—a technology that most consider obsolete.  Yet the First National Bank of Namibia …
Discussion: broadstuff
BBC:
Music file-sharer ‘Oink’ cleared of fraud  —  A man who ran a music-sharing website with almost 200,000 members has been found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud at Teesside Crown Court.  —  Alan Ellis, 26, was the first person in the UK to be prosecuted for illegal file-sharing.
Gagan Biyani / MobileCrunch:
Patent Reveals Possible Groundbreaking Multi-Touch Features for Apple's iSlate  —  Now that everyone knows the iSlate is real, the question is: what the hell is this thing going to be like?  How will it work?  What will wow us about the iSlate that we never really expected?
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Xobni takes over Twitter's old offices  —  You can measure the success of a start-up in square footage.  —  Just ask Xobni.  —  A few weeks ago, Xobni moved into Twitter's old offices in the South of Market area of San Francisco.  With 30 employees, it could no longer squeeze into the offices …
Discussion: Xobni Blog
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
The inside track on Apple's tablet: a history of tablet computing  —  Apple's anticipated press event later this month is widely expected to debut a new tabled-sized device as a sibling to the company's Mac, iPod and iPhone product lines.  Here's what has led up to the launch, and why the futuristic tablet hasn't taken off so far.
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Nokia 2010 Symbian UI update detailed: built on Qt  —  Remember the concept mockups of what Nokia envisaged its Symbian S^4 UI might look like after it's reworked in 2010?  The company showed off a brief video demo back in early December 2009, and now they're opening up the floodgates …
Phil Wainewright / Software as Services:
Why freemium is bad for business  —  I've never been comfortable with free products for business use, even though it's difficult to avoid using them if you're a small or one-person business (web analytics, for example, has been all but wiped out as a low-end paid service by Google's free offering).
Discussion: broadstuff
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Original Tablet  —  I enjoyed Paul Thurrott's daily coverage of CES last week.  A big trade show is a hard thing to capture in prose, and Thurrott got it.  —  But I chuckled at this piece starting his CES coverage, “Exclusive!  Microsoft to Announce Tablet PC Before Apple!”:
Discussion: Technologizer, Thanks:atul
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple's Media Players will One Day be Both Portable TV & DVR  —  On January 14, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next chapters coming to Apple's Media Players.  In Q4 2010, Apple introduced their fifth generation iPod nano …
 
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL To Name An Ex-Googler “Head Of Technology” (AOL, TWX)
Discussion: TechCrunch
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
No Surprise: Real Estate Ads Shrink From the Web. …
Amy Schatz / Digits:
Google and Verizon (Sort of) Play Nice on Net Neutrality
Phone Arena:
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Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Microsoft Exchange Team Fires Back at IBM Ahead of Lotusphere
Dan Fletcher / Time:
Foursquare's Twist on Facebook: A Reward for Checking In
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Magna: DVRs In 44% By 2015  —  In five years, network programmers …
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Broadway Must Vacate Airwaves to Make Room for Verizon, AT&T
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Mozilla dumps Firefox 3.7 from schedule, changes dev process
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