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Business Week:
Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet's Nest — The PlayStation data breach comes shortly after Sony sued and prosecuted hackers — There's an Internet phenomenon called the Streisand Effect. It happens when a person or company tries to suppress a piece of information and, in so doing, unintentionally popularizes it.
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Bloomberg:
Amazon Server Said to Be Used in Sony Attack — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)'s Web Services cloud- computing unit was used by hackers in last month's attack against Sony Corp. (6758)'s online entertainment systems, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
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PC Magazine, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Kotaku, The Register, Digital Trends, Neowin.net, Mashable!, Destructoid, Softpedia News, Pulse2, VG247, thinq_, TechFlash and IndustryGamers
Electronista:
iPhone ‘5G’ case shows edge-to-edge screen, moved flash — Supposed iPhone 5G case tips up in China — A very early instance of a 2011 iPhone case has shown up in a listing at Asian trading site AliBaba. Guangdong-based Kulcase is selling what it claims is a crystal case for an “iPhone 5G.”
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Gadgets DNA, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, TiPb, everythingiCafe, App Advice, Tools, MacStories, Apple Bitch and iClarified
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPhone 5 front and rear-facing camera parts appear, point to relocated camera flash? — Just off the heals of rumors pointing to Apple repositioning the iPhone LED flash to the top-right side of the next-generation iPhone, purported iPhone 5 camera parts have appeared online.
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MacStories and iClarified, Thanks:markgurman
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
The Ad-Supported Kindle Is Amazon's Best Seller — Amazon's cheapest Kindle, the one supported by advertising and special offers, it its best-selling Kindle, if you can trust Amazon's best-selling Kindles list. — This tells us: — 1) People don't hate advertising as much as some Internet wonks think they do.
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Techie Buzz, Kindle Review, Pulse2, BGR and Electronista
Michael Geist Blog:
Forget the iPod Tax, Canadian Copyright Collective Demanding Memory Card Tax — During the most recent election campaign, there was no shortage of debate over the so-called iPod Tax, a proposed levy on iPods and similar devices to compensate for copies of sound recordings.
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Slashdot
Tom Simonite / Technology Review:
Six Reasons Why Chromebooks Are a Bad Idea — Not everyone thinks Google's attempt to reinvent the computer will work. — When it took the wraps off its stripped down, nothing-but-the-browser Chromebooks this week Google was attempting its own iPad moment.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
The Bestsellers: Fortune Article ‘Inside Apple’ Beats Out Full-Length Books — Among the usual suspects like Michael Connelly and James Patterson on the top 10 list of paid Kindle bestsellers this week was something of a surprise: “Inside Apple—From Steve Jobs Down to the Janitor …
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TechCrunch and @jlanzone
Ben Sillis / Electricpig.co.uk:
Just how many people are using the iPad 2 camera? (Answer: Not many) — So remember back when the iPad first launched, and everyone had a good old a moan about the the lack of a camera? Yeah, here's Flickr's current daily average user stats for Apple's devices with cameras.
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Mashable!, SAI, App Advice, I4U News, PadGadget, CrunchGear, PetaPixel, TUAW, MacStories and 9 to 5 Mac
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Close To A Big Search Deal With Baidu, Says Chinese Press — Microsoft is close to announcing a partnership with Chinese search company Baidu, according to rumors in the Chinese press, via Bill Bishop on Twitter. — It looks like Baidu is taking over the paid ads on Bing China …
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LiveSide.net and WinRumors
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Programming Error Invalidates U.S. Green Card Lottery Results — The U.S. State Department just announced that it has invalidated the results of this year's Green Card lottery (officially the 2012 Diversity Lottery), which gives a set number of randomly drawn winners a permanent residency card to live and work in the United States.
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Computerworld and Slashdot, Thanks:fredericl
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Nuance and Apple partnership is all but confirmed: Lion uses Nuance speech technology — Apple and Nuance's rumored partnership is all but official at this point: Apple's upcoming Mac OS X Lion uses Nuance's speech technology. A quick look in Lion's system preferences application reveals several …
