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12:45 PM ET, January 25, 2010

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Peter Farago / blog.flurry.com:
Apple Tablet: The Second Stage Media Booster Rocket  —  Insights from Tracking 200 Apps Across 50 Apple Tablets in Testing  —  Using Flurry Analytics, the company identified approximately 50 devices that match the characteristics of Apple's rumored tablet device.
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Publishers talk about Apple's tablet  —  We had a chance to speak with a few friends in the publishing business last week.  Both work in Manhattan for companies not previously quoted by the Wall St. Journal or Bloomberg but who were recently contacted by Apple with tablet information in the past two weeks.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
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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 …
Alan Long / Hitwise Intelligence:
The Apple Tablet - iWonder!  —  The computing industry and no doubt a few other industries, such as publishing, are holding their collective breath for the announcement of the impending release of the Apple iSlate / iPad / iTablet this coming Thursday morning (8am Australian East Coast time UTC/GMT +11 hours)
Discussion: Gadget Lab
CrunchGear:
The killer app for Apple's tablet: Gaming  —  This guest post is by Jeff Scott, founder and publisher of 148Apps, a blog providing fanatical coverage of everything iPhone and hopefully soon, the Apple tablet.  —  While we still don't know the name of the new tablet device; could be iPad …
Nick Baum / The Official Google Blog:
Extensions, bookmark sync and more for Google Chrome  —  Today we're excited to introduce a new stable release of Google Chrome for Windows, which includes two of the browser's most frequently requested features: extensions and bookmark sync.  —  Extensions let you add new features and functions to your browser.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
CTO Cahall Out - As AOL Buys a Video Platform Company for $36.5 Million and Opens NY Tech Center (Press Releases, Memos - Natch!)  —  While AOL denied last week a report last week suggesting that he was leaving, CTO Ted Cahall is actually, um, leaving.  —  Oops!
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Joe Mandese / MediaPost:   AOL Acquires StudioNow, Will Merge It With Seed.com
Christopher Blizzard:
HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web  —  For background on the free software angle on this story please check out Robert O'Callahan's post on this topic.  Also check out Mike Shaver's shorter background post as well.
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:   Will Idealism be Firefox's Downfall?
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Who Needs iTunes? doubleTwist Partners With T-Mobile, Now Bundled On Some Android Phones  —  Big news for doubleTwist, the iTunes alternative that allows you to manage media for hundreds of devices, including Android phones, the Palm Pre, and BlackBerry.  Tomorrow, the company will announce …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Some SEO Advice For Bill Gates  —  What do you get for Bill Gates, the richest person in the world?  How about a little free SEO advice for his new blog?  It could use some.  —  Bill, I went looking for your blog today on Google.  Sorry, like many people, I have a habit of using that search engine first.
Thanks:atul
Chris Gourlay / Times of London:
OMG: brains can't handle all our Facebook friends  —  WE may be able to amass 5,000 friends on Facebook but humans' brains are capable of managing a maximum of only 150 friendships, a study has found.  —  Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University …
Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:
Visualize Dissent: Turkish Users Protest Censorship Using Google Maps  —  Internet users in Turkey have found an interesting visualization to highlight their numbers, connect with one another, air their grievances and hopefully reach their goals using Google Maps and shared documents.
Bloomberg:
Acer to Offer Applications Store, E-Book Reader This Year to Boost Profit  —  Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) — Acer Inc., the world's second- largest computer vendor, plans to boost profitability to the highest since 2004 by offering an online applications store and its first electronic book reader by mid-year.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Revealed!  Facebook's Plan To Double Its Revenues  —  Starting as soon as sometime this week, the 75 million monthly active users playing Zynga's FarmVille will have a new way to buy virtual tractors and seeds; they'll be able to “Pay With Facebook.”  —  With 25 million daily active users …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Brightcove Wants To Take “TV Everywhere” Beyond Your Cable Company's Video Website  —  When cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner talk about “TV Everywhere,” they are generally talking about a Web video portal they control themselves which gives their regular cable TV subscribers access …
Jack Marshall / ClickZ:
TweetDeck Launches ‘JobDeck,’ Teaming Up with Twitter Job Search Engine  —  TwitJobSearch, a Twitter-based real-time job search engine, has partnered with TweetDeck to launch a dedicated desktop client dubbed JobDeck.  The application uses the same technology as the TwitJobSearch site …
Discussion: TechCrunch and The Next Web
Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:
Ericsson slashing 1,500 more jobs amid restructuring  —  Ericsson said it would cut 1,500 jobs as part of its broad restructuring plan.  In addition, the vendor's profit plunged 92 percent in the fourth quarter, hit by higher restructuring costs and weaker sales.
Discussion: CNET News
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Dan Abrams Expands Mediaite Empire With Geek Culture News Site Geekosystem  —  When I interviewed Dan Abrams last year about his new media news and analysis blog, Mediaite, he indicated that he has ambitions of building a Mediaite mini-empire by expanding to other verticals.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Factery Labs' New Fact Engine: Just What Real-Time Search Needs  —  Not a month goes by without someone launching a new real-time search engine; but after trying out most of them, there are few I use on a regular basis.  Factery Labs is about to change that with today's launch of its real-time fact engine at 1:00 pm ET.
Discussion: MediaPost and CNET News
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
StockTwits Acquires Abnormal Returns, Creates Real Time Financial News Hub  —  StockTwits, a real time platform for the sharing of information around financial markets, has made it's second acquisition - a financial news site called Abnormal Returns, founded by Tadas Viskanta.
Discussion: paidContent
Hunter Skipworth / Telegraph:
The myth of the Sony ‘kill switch’  —  In Japan, a surprising number of consumers really do claim to believe that Sony products are programmed to break as soon as the warranty expires.  —  Sony PS3  —  For nearly 20 years Sony in Japan has been plagued by the myth of the “Sony Timer” …
Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
Mobile 2010 Predictions: Apple, Google & RIM, Oh My!  —  Near the eve of Apple's tablet announcement, I'd like to turn my 2010 predictive eye again to the mobile space where, as my title suggests, there are only three software players that matter — Apple, Google, and RIM (Blackberry).
Mike Hirshland / VCMike's Blog:
Comscore, Calacanis, Quantcast etc.  —  Unless you've been asleep or unconscious the last few days, you no doubt have been following the brouhaha kicked off by Jason Calacanis's angry rant against Comscore and its business practices.  The Silicon Alley Insider joined the fray with a post entitled …
 
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Juniper, Polycom forge telepresence, video conferencing alliance
Discussion: Computerworld
Cedric Giorgi / TechCrunch Europe:
Deezer rides a doozy of a storm as CEO is ousted by investors
Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera / San Francisco Chronicle:
‘Fatal System Error’ has insight on cybercrime
Jeffrey Burt / eWeek:
ARM-Based Mobile PCs to Outsell Intel Systems in 2013: ABI
Sebastian Rupley / GigaOM:
How Red Hat Routed the Recession
Katie Scott / Wired.co.uk:
Artwork selling itself on eBay
Discussion: PSFK, Felix Salmon and Slashdot
 Earlier Items: 
The Huffington Post:
‘Shadow Elite’: Information Is Power And Who's Controlling Our Information?
Ben Metcalfe Blog:
Something fishy going on with Kindle free bestseller ebooks?
John Cook / TechFlash:
Ground Truth emerges from stealth with mobile metrics idea
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Online Health Giant Everyday Health Files For $100 Million IPO
Discussion: alarm:clock
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link by Link: Hungry for New Content, Google Tries to Grow Its Own in Africa
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Why VCs Should Take Their Own Advice
Discussion: Venture Capital Dispatch, Thanks:atul
ArabCrunch:
Post Clinton's Internet Freedom Speech:US- SourceForge Blocked Syria …
Discussion: Download Squad