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Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Why Amazon won't launch its own tablet, but will use Apple's — The Kindle game is up, and Amazon knows it. In 2010, the world plus dog will be hawking an E-Ink-based e-reader, and major distribution and publishing houses like Barnes & Noble, Google, and Hearst will be offering their digital content on everything with a screen.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Overheard: Steve Jobs Says Apple Tablet “Will Be The Most Important Thing I've Ever Done.” — “This will be the most important thing I've ever done” - Steve Jobs, referring to the soon-to-be-launched Apple Tablet. — We haven't heard this first hand, but we've heard it multiple times second …
Shawn Oliver / HotHardware.com News:
Will AT&T Lose Their iPhone Exclusivity On Wednesday? — It's sort of hard to believe all the hype from CES is already over and done with. Larger companies spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to introduce and showcase new products at the show, and now all anyone wants to talk about in the tech world is Apple.
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Susan Stumme / Agence France Presse:
China says not involved in cyberattacks on Google — Buzz up! — BEIJING (AFP) - China on Monday denied any state involvement in cyberattacks on Google and defended Internet censorship as necessary, as a row with Washington over the US firm's threat to leave the country rumbled on.
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Bruce Schneier / CNN:
U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google — Editor's note: Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.” Read more of his writing at www.schneier.com. — (CNN) — Google made headlines when it went public …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Jason Calacanis Punches Comscore In The Face. Comscore Punches Back. Fred Wilson Drags Us Into It. $SCOR — Jason Calacanis, our partner over the years on the TechCrunch50 conference, wrote quite a rant yesterday about analytics company Comscore. His argument: that Comscore …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Comscore's Bogus Logic For Its Blackmail Fee: We Don't Make That Much Money
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Linda Abraham / comScore Voices:Update on the Evolution of comScore Media Metrix 360
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:Why We Should Boycott ComScore (and *perhaps* why traders should short their stock)
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Aaron Wall / SEO Book.com:
Mahalo SEO Spam Case Study — The Sales Pitch & Launch — Originally when launching Mahalo, Jason Calacanas claimed that it would be spam free and that SEOs would have hell to pay. — He had a multi-month sales pitch leading up to the launch of his site where he kept stating that Squidoo …
T-Marco / Cell Phone Signal:
Confirmed!! Motorola Sholes “MotoRoi” will arrive soon with T-Mobile 3G bands — Yes T-Mobile users, we had confirmed that the new Motorola device that just passed FCC few weeks ago carrying WCDMA AWS T-Mobile 3G bands (1700/2100) bands is the Motorola Sholes.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
WooRank Screens Your Website, For Free — WooRank is a brand new service designed to let website publishers and marketers evaluate the SEO-friendliness and other aspects of their Web sites on the fly, free of charge. If this reminds you of what HubSpot built with its Website Grader tool, it's because the concept is extremely similar.
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Boy Genius Report:
T-Mobile myTouch Slide to end all Sidekick sales? — We've been briefed on what appears to be T-Mobile's game plan regarding Sidekick devices. — The information comes from a new tipster so we haven't independently confirmed it. With that said, we have been told that with the rumored T …
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
HP to launch music service in Europe — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard, the world's biggest maker of PCs, will launch a digital music service across key European markets on Monday, hoping to benefit from consumers' rising appetite for new types of music download services.
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ArabCrunch:
Post Clinton's Internet Freedom Speech:US- SourceForge Blocked Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba: Is Open Source Still Open? — Since Linkedin lifted its blocking against Syria after ArabCrunch reported the incident ( and kept it against Sudan ), we heard different reports that American officials …
