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Clayton Morris / Fox News:
Apple Tablet, iPhone 4 Launch Confirmed for January 27 — Apple just announced an event on January 27th that will no doubt dazzle us with what the company is calling its “latest creation.” At the event, Apple will unveil the company's long-rumored tablet device.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Publisher in Talks With Apple Over Tablet — HarperCollins Publishers is negotiating with Apple Inc. to make electronic books available for the introduction of a new tablet device from Apple, according to people familiar with the situation, posing a challenge to Amazon.com Inc.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Apple Announces Jan. 27 Special Event: “Come See Our Latest Creation” — Confirming a date first reported by Digital Daily, Apple (AAPL) this morning announced an invitation-only special event to be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on January 27 - a Wednesday.
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Daniel Ionescu / PC World:
Apple Tablet and NY Times Paywall: Rumors Merge — The New York Times hasn't spilled the beans over the Apple tablet again, but rumors are linking the two companies once more. Reports of an upcoming paid model to be adopted by the New York Times are correlated with the mythical Apple tablet …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Xbox Takes On Cable, Streaming TV Shows and Movies — Executives at Microsoft are fond of saying that its subscription gaming service, Xbox Live, should be thought of as a cable channel. — They want Xbox to be seen not merely as a gaming machine for teenagers, but as a media portal for parents and grandparents, too.
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DigiTimes:
Apple to launch 22-inch touch-enabled all-in-one PC in 2010, says paper — Apple reportedly plans to launch a 22-inch touch-enabled all-in-one PC in 2010, in addition to the current non-touch 21.5- and 27-inch iMacs, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.
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Reuters:
Google probing possible inside help on attack — Buzz up! — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a cyber-attack that the U.S. search giant said it was a victim of in mid-December, two sources told Reuters on Monday.
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Times of London:
China tried to hack our computers, says India's security chief M.K. Narayanan — Chinese hackers are believed to have attempted to penetrate India's most sensitive government office in the latest sign of rising tensions between the two rival Asian powers, The Times has learnt.
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Edward Wong / New York Times:Foreign Journalists in Beijing Hit by E-Mail Hackers
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Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
The case against a 10" AMOLED Apple tablet — Active matrix OLED (AMOLED) was one of the hot technologies at CES this year—the tech's profile was raised by Google's launch of the Nexus One, and vendors had 3D and 2D OLED prototype displays of up to 32 inches in size on the CES show floor.
The Independent:
Twitter joke led to Terror Act arrest and airport life ban — When heavy snowfall threatened to scupper Paul Chambers's travel plans, he decided to vent his frustrations on Twitter by tapping out a comment to amuse his friends. “Robin Hood airport is closed,” he wrote.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
HTC ‘Supersonic’ to ring in WiMAX on Sprint, Android-style — Remember that mysterious HTC A9292 with WiMAX rumored for Sprint a few days back? Well, take a seat, folks — we think we've got the lowdown on it here from a trusted source, and it's a bit of a monster:
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Malatesta / WMExperts:
Windows Mobile 7: What we expect and what we are hearing — Okay everyone, time to put on your rumor helmets (they're like beer helmets, but filled with vodka). Here's what we are hearing about Windows Mobile 7 from various sources (none of which has been announced by Microsoft).
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
BarMax: The $1,000 iPhone App That Might Actually Be Worth It — In August 2008, Apple approved an application in the App Store called I Am Rich. The app did nothing beyond show a picture of a red gem. So why was it notable? Because it cost $999.99. Though Apple pulled it relatively quickly …
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Ryan Vance / Revision3:
An Open Letter to Conan O'Brien — I'm taking this opportunity to officially offer you a brand-new show of your choosing here at Revision3. Rest assured, you'll be able to bring your set, band and even Andy (especially Andy) with you as you transition to our cutting-edge online TV network.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Foursquare Not Flattered By Yelp Check-Ins — Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But Foursquare doesn't seem too tickled by Yelp's newest feature. — On Friday, Yelp fired a major shot across the bow of the location-based services with the launch of the latest version of its iPhone app.
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Steven Sande / TUAW:
Acrobat.com Mobile now available on the iPhone; free, but expensive — Adobe's Acrobat.com website is not only an online collaboration center, but also provides a way to convert files to PDF, meet live over the web, or store and share files. — Now some of that Acrobat.com goodness has found its way into your iPhone.
Emily Geminder / New York Observer:
Google Gobbles 57K More Feet in Taconic's 111 Eighth — 111 Eighth Avenue — The amount of silicon in Manhattan just got bigger. Since Google first occupied the old Port Authority building at 111 Eighth Avenue back in 2006, New York has been rife with speculation about the day-to-day exploits of the Internet empire.
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Kim Thai / Brainstorm Tech:
Ringtones' requiem — Customized cellphone rings are so 2004. But the music industry has a new source of revenue - it's all about the ringback tone. — Remember the ringtone? Just two years ago consumers were spending $1 billion a year on song snippets for their cellphones.
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Fred / A VC:
Twitter.com vs The Twitter Ecosystem — John Borthwick, co-founder of Betaworks, parent company to bit.ly, twitterfeed, tweetdeck, chartbeat, and many other interesting web services, posted yesterday on “Ongoing tracking of the real time web ...” — Through these various Betaworks companies …
Alex Williams / ReadWriteWeb:
RIM and IBM Load up the Blackberry with Lotus Collaboration Applications — IBM and Research in Motion announced a partnership today to sell Blackberry devices fully loaded with IBM's collaboration software. This is the first time IBM has sold Blackberry devices into its business channel.
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Tony Adam / Shrinkage Is Good:
The Ultimate Cell Phone Plans Comparison — On Friday, Verizon Wireless announced pricing plan restructuring that would reduce the cost of voice usage. AT&T Wireless quickly followed suit and unveiled their updated cell phone plans as well. Today is the day that those changes go into effect.
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
The Subscription War: You're Bleeding to Death — You know what's great? My smartphone puts the world in my pocket. Broadband puts 2,454,399 channels on my HDTV. I can access the internet from a freaking airplane! You know what's unsustainable? Paying for it all.
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Companies Fight Endless War Against Computer Attacks — The recent computer attacks on the mighty Google left every corporate network in the world looking a little less safe. — Google's confrontation with China — over government censorship in general and specific attacks on its systems …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Baidu CTO Yinan Li Quits, Days After COO's Departure — There's something going on over at Baidu, the leading search engine provider in China. A mere ten days after the company's chief operating officer Peng Ye bailed for ‘personal reasons’, Baidu this morning announced that chief technology officer Yinan Li is also calling it quits.
