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4:20 PM ET, January 8, 2011

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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Verizon iPhone: everything you need to know  —  Ah, the Verizon iPhone.  In our bizarre careers as tech journalists, if there's one question we've heard more than “When is Verizon getting the iPhone?” we can't think of it.  Also, outside the original rumors for the iPhone and iPad …
Discussion: techeblog.com and Forbes
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Apple CEO Likely to Appear at Verizon iPhone Event
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
DOJ subpoeans Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers  —  Last night, Birgitta Jónsdóttir — a former WikiLeaks volunteer and current member of the Icelandic Parliament — announced (on Twitter) that she had been notified by Twitter that the DOJ had served …
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Peter Beaumont / Guardian:
WikiLeaks demands Google and Facebook unseal US subpoenas  —  Call comes after revelation that US has tried to force Twitter to release WikiLeaks members' private details  —  WikiLeaks has demanded that Google and Facebook reveal the contents of any US subpoenas they may have received …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Informs Users Of DOJ WikiLeaks Court Order, Didn't Have To
Discussion: Softpedia News
Rop / rop.gonggri.jp:
US DOJ subpoenas my twitter account info
Discussion: Softpedia News and WL Central
Chris Rawson / TUAW:
VLC app removed from App Store  —  Not long after a version of multi-format video player VLC hit the App Store, speculation swirled surrounding its possible removal because of licensing issues.  A few months later, it appears that everyone's fears were true: VLC has been removed from the App Store.
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Open Source Blog:
No GPL Apps for Apple's App Store  —  Some people swore to me that just because the free-software General Public License (GPL) clashes with the Apple App Store's Terms of Service (ToS), didn't mean that Apple would actually pull down GPLed apps.  Well, Apple just did.
Discussion: App Advice
Douglas Rushkoff / CNN:
Opinion: Facebook may have already peaked  —  Editor's note: Douglas Rushkoff is the author, most recently, of “Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take it Back” , and “Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age”  —  (CNN) — All signs for Facebook appear to be pointing up.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Facebook, Google, Microsoft - comparable?  —  When something is unlike anything we have seen before we look for analogies or comparables to try to put it in context.  Investors didn't know what to think the first time they saw Microsoft (MSFT), later Google (GOOG), and now Facebook.
Discussion: Venture Capital Dispatch, Thanks:dondodge
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
How Lady Gaga Just Reinvented Eye Contact  —  Lady Gaga's weirdo Polaroid glasses are about to turn our faces into Facebook feeds and mood rings.  —  The glasses have two little screens in them.  The weird thing is that they face outward.  You can imagine the scene as Polaroid's suit brigade …
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
SoundCloud announces big-name investment - “The Web should not be mute”  —  Audio sharing platform SoundCloud has received a huge boost today, confirming that it has received investment from major US tech VC firms Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures.  —  The value of the investment …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:   Music Sharing Service SoundCloud Raises $10 Million From Index, Union Square
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google Bangladesh Site “OwN3D by TiGER-M@TE”  —  We just got an anonymous tip that Google's been ‘hacked’ - sure enough, visitors of the company's Bangladesh search site (Google.com.bd) see a defaced landing page rather than the usual search site.  As far as I can tell, www.google.com.bd functions properly …
Discussion: bdnews24.com
Janet Novack / Taxing Matters:
Amazon, CouponCabin Threaten As Illinois Moves To Tax Internet Sales  —  With Republicans now in charge in the U.S. House, the states' hopes that Congress might force Internet sellers to collect their sales taxes have faded.  But that's not keeping individual states from moving forward on their own.
Tricia Duryee / eMoney:
EBay Augmented-Reality App Lets You Try It On Before You Buy  —  One of the problems with ordering clothing online is not knowing whether it will fit or look good.  —  EBay has a technology fix for that using augmented reality on the mobile phone.  Now you will never have to go to the mall!
Discussion: PhoneArena and WebProNews
Danny O'Brien / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Tunisia invades, censors Facebook, other accounts  —  The Tunisian government has been a notorious censor for many years, for journalists online and off.  In the wake of widespread domestic protests in December, however, the authorities appear to have turned to even more repressive tactics to silence reporting.
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Obama's Solution for Online ID?  Let Silicon Valley Take the Lead  —  To help solve the modern nightmare of trying to control your online identity and keep track your passwords, the government came to Silicon Valley Friday and said it was here to help.  —  But rather than propose …
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Alex Howard / Gov 2.0:   2011 Trends: National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace …
Howard A. Schmidt / White House.gov Blog:
A National Program Office for Enhancing Online Trust and Privacy
Discussion: Bloomberg, eWeek and Computerworld
 
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Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Samsung to Sell Google TV Blu-ray Player, Companion Box
Jon Evans / TechCrunch:
Can Google Get Its Mojo Back?  —  A spectre is haunting Mountain View.
Dan Moren / Macworld:
Mac app piracy risk overblown, for now
Discussion: CNET News and Computerworld
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
Samsung Plans Dual-Core Phones, New Tablets in Feb.
Discussion: Android Phone Fans and Engadget
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on Platforms, Reliability and Independence at D@CES
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Mashable! and WL Central
 Earlier Items: 
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Kleiner Perkins To Invest In Groupon's Massive $950 Million Funding Round
Kevin Rose:
Rumor: iPad 2 is coming soon!
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Courtney Love's Slanderous Twitter Account Suspended
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Why Your Next Car Will Have an IP Address
 

 
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