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David Drummond / The Official Google Blog:
A new approach to China: an update — On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence …
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Steve Lohr / Bits:
Interview: Sergey Brin on Google's China Gambit — China's censorship of the Internet may be blunt, but Google has found negotiations with the Chinese government in recent weeks to be subtle and uncertain. — That was the message from a brief interview in New York on Monday with Sergey Brin …
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New York Times:
Google Will Redirect China Users to Uncensored Site — SAN FRANCISCO — Just over two months after threatening to leave China because of censorship and intrusions by Chinese hackers, Google said Monday that it was closing its China-based Internet search service and instead directing Chinese users …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's ‘Evil Meter’ Tells You What Sites China Is Blocking And What It Isn't (GOOG) — Google is no longer censoring its search engine in China — now hosted in Hong Kong — and now it seems likely that the Chinese government will start blocking more Google sites.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
China: Google Broke Promise, Wrong to Stop Censoring — Looks like the Chinese government has settled on a theme for its response to Google's decision to stop censoring search results in China: Red-in-the-face indignation. In a bulletin issued by state-run news agency Xinhua entitled …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Official: Apple now offering iPhones contract free (updated: not unlocked) — We heard from 9 to 5 Mac that Apple was due to begin selling a contract-free variant of the iPhone in the near future “at list price.” And guess what happened when we inquired to an Apple store?
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New York Times:
The iPad App Derby Gets Under Way — It can be difficult to write software for a gadget without being able to touch it. But that has not stopped developers from rushing to create applications for the Apple iPad. — For small start-ups and big Internet and media companies alike, the iPad …
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Perseus Signs an EBooks Deal for the iPad — Apple's iBookstore on the forthcoming iPad is set to get larger. The company has just signed a deal with the largest distributor of independent publishers to sell electronic versions of it books on the new device.
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Rana June Sobhany / The iPhone Era:
Apple Closing Gap on App Store Inadequacies — Today, one of the biggest irritations and shortcomings on the App Store has been remedied. Apple has now integrated gifting into the App Store, a move which will likely bring significant additional revenue to developers around key holidays.
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Jon Ying / The Dropbox Blog:
The Dropbox Android App! — In Dropbox's two year history, we've had some ardent fans salivating over the next killer Dropbox feature. We love these people! — Our first huge feature following (and birthplace of our Dropbox poetry tradition) was our Linux version, which was soon followed by the highly anticipated iPhone app.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Welcome To Evelyn Rusli, Whom We Stole From Forbes — Everyone please say hello to Evelyn Rusli. It's her first day here at TechCrunch as part of our core writing team. — Evelyn joins us from Forbes where she was an anchor reporter for the Forbes Video Network.
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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / Silicon Alley Insider:
The Startup Visa Act Must Be Stopped — Bad news: the widely-beloved Startup Visa project is a terrible idea — and this is coming from a guy who desperately wants to see it work. — About a year ago, Paul Graham of Y Combinator put out an idea for a Startup Visa that would allow foreign entrepreneurs …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
For sale: A million-dollar iPad address — Behind those iPad domain names on eBay with asking prices in the stratosphere — About a year ago, when Apple's (AAPL) latest creation was, as far as anyone outside Cupertino knew, still but a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye, Nik Tyler made an inspired guess.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
GIF, H.264, and Patents — Arthur Wyatt, in a post on MetaFilter regarding the battle over HTML5 video codecs: … A few readers have emailed me expressing a similar sentiment — more or less that GIF serves as an example showing why Mozilla should continue to refuse to support H.264.
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Symantec:
The Norton Top 10 Riskiest Online Cities Report Reveals Who's Most Vulnerable to Cybercrime — Seattle Tops the List with its Residents at Greatest Risk — Cybercrime, a threat that affects one in five online shoppers⊃1; and cost Americans $560 million in 2009 due to online fraud⊃2;, may hit closer to home than many realize.
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Nielsen Wire:
Americans Using TV and Internet Together 35% More Than A Year Ago — Americans increased their overall media usage and media multitasking according to The Nielsen Company's latest Three Screen Report, which tracks consumption across TV, Internet and mobile phones.
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Botnet pierces Microsoft Live through audio captchas — ‘Look at these delineations!’ — The prolific Pushdo spam botnet has found a new way to penetrate Microsoft's Live.com by exploiting weaknesses in the audio captchas designed to prevent automated scripts from accessing the popular email service.
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Andrew Silverman / Google LatLong:
Experiment to show hotel prices on Google Maps — Google Maps is often one of the first stops travelers make to find and compare hotels. Today we started experimenting with a new feature, visible to a small portion of users, to help make that process even easier by showing specific prices for selected hotel listings.
Paola Antonelli / Inside/Out:
@ at MoMA — Ray Tomlinson. @. 1971. Here displayed in ITC American Typewriter Medium, the closest approximation to the character used by a Model 33 Teletype in the early 1970s — MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design has acquired the @ symbol into its collection.
James Surowiecki / New Yorker:
SOFT IN THE MIDDLE — Apple's launch of the iPad next week is a gamble in more ways than one. To start with, it's obviously a bet that there are millions of people looking for a new way to surf the Web, watch movies, and read magazines. But it's also a more fundamental gamble; namely, that people will pay for quality.
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
My chat with Google News founder, Krishna Bharat, with video — Krishna Bharat, the creator of Google News, has never been a journalist. Though he's often asked what is more important for the search giant's news site: editorial judgment or Google's famous attention to its algorithms.
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
Let the E-Reader Price War Begin? Sony Drops to $169 — Sony says it is cutting the price on its entry-level e-book reader, dubbed the Pocket Reader, to $169 — perhaps the first in a coming price war for the devices. … Sony's $30 discount only lasts through April 4 …
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Secret Service Paid TJX Hacker $75,000 a Year — Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez earned $75,000 a year working undercover for the U.S. Secret Service, informing on bank card thieves before he was arrested in 2008 for running his own multimillion-dollar card-hacking operation.
