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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Apple Expects to Sell 10 Million Tablets in First Year [REPORT] — Apple expects to sell 10 million tablet computers in the product's first year, according to a former Google executive. — Lee Kai-fu, founding president of Google China until September 2009, says in a blog post he heard the numbers from a friend.
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Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
Apple Expects to Ship 10 Million Tablets in First Year, Lee Kai-Fu Says — Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. expects to ship 10 million tablet computers in the device's first year of release, former Google Inc. Greater China president Lee Kai-fu wrote on his Web log, citing a friend familiar with the project whom he didn't name.
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Marco.org:
“The Tablet” and gadget portability theory — I haven't written about the supposed Apple tablet yet because nobody knows anything (including whether it even exists), so everyone's just talking out of their asses about it. — Normally, I'm perfectly willing to join in and endlessly talk …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:The Tablet … —"Just a Touch Away, the Elusive Tablet PC" …
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Wall Street Journal:
China Is Losing a War Over Internet — Beijing Has Prevailed in Battles, but Segment of Society Has Awakened to the Constraints — BEIJING—These appear to be dark days for the Internet in China. — Four months into a crusade against Internet pornography, the government is closing thousands of sites …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Are You Ready for iEconomy? — Jack Dorsey's Square, Incase, Verifone and now Mophie — these companies' credit card readers are turning the iPhone/iPod touch platform into an e-commerce engine. — Mophie, a Los Angeles-based company that makes accessories for the iPod/iPhone devices …
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TUAW, SlashGear, I4U News, IntoMobile, TechStartups.com, Gizmodo, Engadget and Pocket-lint.com
Megan McCarthy / Techmeme News:
Top 10 objectively biggest tech stories of 2009 — Ignore all the other lists! As we did last year, Techmeme has distilled its very own Top 10 story list, utilizing headline ranking data archived throughout the year. While we employ a terrific team of news editors to guide our story selection …
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Nigel Kendall / Times of London:
Domain name extension ‘could boost cyber-crime’ — The introduction of internet addresses in non-Roman scripts could offer fresh opportunities to cyber-criminals, experts have warned. — Next year the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) will for the first time …
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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
TSA Withdraws Subpoenas Against Bloggers — TSA Special Agent John Enright, left, speaks to Steven Frischling outside the blogger — In the wake of public outcry against the Transportation Security Administration for serving civil subpoenas on two bloggers, the government agency has canceled …
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Hugh Schofield / BBC:
French online piracy law in force — The first effects of France's new law against internet piracy will begin to be felt as the new year begins. — The law was passed after a long struggle in parliament, and in the teeth of bitter opposition from groups opposed to internet restrictions.
Maggie Shiels / BBC:
‘Start-up’ visas to boost US tech — A proposal that will make it easier for foreign entrepreneurs in the US to start the next Google or Yahoo will be debated in the new year. — Congressman Jared Polis has proposed a start-up visa to entice “foreigners with good ideas” to stay in the US.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Peering into MySpace's collective consciousness with real-time search — One of the most provocative essays on Internet culture I've read in the last couple years is Danah Boyd's take on viewing class divisions through social networks. She controversially argued that “white flight” …
Aaron Mielke / SnapStream's ‘TV Searcher’ Blog:
Television news in 2009: Twitter, infidelity and more — (First time visitors: Welcome to SnapStream! We make TV search software used by organizations, like the Daily Show, to search inside TV shows. Read on or learn more about our products.) — At SnapStream we've been hanging onto …
