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9:10 AM ET, January 30, 2010

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google news  —  First, the news: Google told me today that they would consider giving more transparency about revenue splits in Adsense.  —  At a private meeting with a dozen and a half media people at Davos with CEO Eric Schmidt, President of sales Nikesh Arora, search boss Marissa Mayer …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Confirmed: iPhone OS 3.2 has support for video calling, file downloads, and SMS (update: handwriting keyboard?)  —  The iPad may not have a camera in its current incarnation, but Apple's at least laying the foundation for one: we just confirmed with extremely trusted sources …
Brad Stone / Bits:
Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement  —  As Venture Beat and other blogs have noticed Friday evening, books from Macmillan, one of the largest publishers in the United States, have vanished from Amazon.com.  —  The question is why.  —  I've talked to a person …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
The Apple-Amazon Ebook War Begins: Amazon Deletes Macmillan Books
Discussion: Whatever
New York Times:   Amazon Removes Macmillan Books
Fraser Speirs:
Future Shock  —  I'll have more to say on the iPad later but one can't help being struck by the volume and vehemence of apparently technologically sophisticated people inveighing against the iPad.  —  Some are trying to dismiss these ravings by comparing them to certain comments made after the launch of the iPod in 2001: “No wireless.
Discussion: stevenf.com and TechnoLlama, Thanks:jondillon
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple to target iPad at business users with added features - sources  —  Apple's new iPad isn't just a new product for consumers; the company is targeting the new device at business users with features designed to make it attractive to the enterprise market, AppleInsider has learned.
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Apple confirms 3G VoIP apps on iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch; Skype is waiting
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:   Apple reinventing file access, wireless sharing for iPad
David Coursey / InfoWorld:
Citrix will have an iPad app to run Windows 7 sessions
Discussion: internetnews.com and ITworld.com
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
BoomTown's Apple iPad Day, Starring Walt Mossberg (Plus a Steve Jobs Cameo!)  —  Here is one of two videos I made at the launch of the iPad by Apple in San Francisco yesterday, stalking my All Things Digital partner, Walt Mossberg, to get his take on the event.
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Steve Jobs: iPad to offer Word support, $10 e-books, 6 days of music
Discussion: BoomTown, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Adobe Plays the Porn Card in Flash Campaign Against iPad  —  Apple has clearly hurt Adobe's feelings.  When Steve Jobs demonstrated an iPad at Wednesday's tablet event, its Safari browser clearly did not support Flash.  Adobe has published a blog post calling Flash the Apple iPad's “broken link.”
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Michael V. Copeland / Brainstorm Tech:   Behind the Adobe-Apple cold war
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Apple makes $208 on each $499 iPad
Discussion: CrunchGear, ParisLemon and InfoWorld
Alex Payne / al3x:
On the iPad  —  For years, me and thousands of other techies have been wondering what comes after the Personal Computer as we've known it.  Yesterday, in Apple's iPad, we caught a glimpse.  If I had to pick one predominant emotion in reaction, it would be “disturbed”.
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Gina Trapani / Smarterware:
Hackers Don't Tinker Because They Got Invited
Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
Developers, not Apple, will make or break the iPad
Discussion: O'Reilly Radar, TUAW and MobileCrunch
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Eric Schmidt: ‘Tell Me The Difference Between A Large Phone And A Tablet’ (GOOG, AAPL)  —  Lore has it than when Google's (GOOG) top Android developer first showed off the mobile operating system in 2007, CEO Eric Schmidt's first question was, “So what do I do when Steve Jobs kicks me off Apple's board?”
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Nexus One for AT&T's 3G bands likely in the works  —  By all appearances, Google's trying to break Android free of the surly bonds of the manufacturers and carriers that support it, opening its own online store and selling unlocked Nexus Ones to anyone willing to pony up the $529.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Steve Jobs' Entourage Forbids Pictures of His ‘Labored Old Man Shuffle’  —  By all accounts, Steve Jobs personally drove the rapid creation and wildly successful hyping of the just-unveiled iPad.  So you'd think his handlers would be confident in his healthy image, no matter how slowly he walks in public.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Hulu's Plans for the iPad, the Mobile Internet  —  From the moment Apple announced its new iPad mobile device, people have been wondering when (and if) Hulu was going to make a specialized application for it.  But Hulu has so far tended towards public generalities and general inaction …
Erica Jostedt / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox for Mobile Now Available on Nokia's Maemo Platform!  —  We're pleased to announce that Firefox is now available for Nokia's Maemo platform.  Starting today, Nokia N900 owners can enjoy many of the same Firefox features they know and love on the desktop on their mobile device.
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Wikipedia Is Finally Gearing Up For Video  —  This week, it almost happened.  The servers hosting all of Wikipedia's media were ready to burst, filled up to the max with almost six million files totaling close to eight terabytes of data.  Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia …
 
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
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Discussion: Techdirt
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
The Faulty iMac Saga, Chapter 3: We Have Your Internal Memo, Apple
Discussion: Macworld and MacNN
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Has Apple started a Youtube Channel?
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hulu Gets The NFL Network (DIS, GE, NWS)
Discussion: Mashable!
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Multi-Recipient SMS Comes to Google Voice
Discussion: Gadgetell
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Financial Times:
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Kamala Harris, who has mostly avoided interviews over the past few months, readies a media blitz, including the Call Her Daddy podcast, The View, and 60 Minutes

Matthew Jordan / The Conversation:
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