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January 14, 2013, 8:10 AM

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Wall Street Journal:

Legal Case Strained Troubled Web Activist — Just days before he hanged himself, Internet activist Aaron Swartz's hopes for a deal with federal prosecutors fell apart. — Two years ago, the advocate for free information online, who was known to have suffered from depression …

More: The Volokh Conspiracy, New York Times, Aaron Greenspan, Quote and Comment, memeburn and danah boyd

Tweets: @nikcub, @ryanjreilly, @xeni, @nikcub, @lrozen and @jeff

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Steven Musil / CNET:

Anonymous hacks MIT after Aaron Swartz's suicide — Hacktivist group defaces university pages after the school promises a full investigation into MIT's role in events leading up to the Internet activist taking his life. — Just hours after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pledged …

More: TechCrunch, TechCrunch, The Verge, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Neowin, The Next Web, NYT Bits and Mashable!

Tweets: @anonymousirc, @anonymousirc and @anonymousirc

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

MIT Responds to Death of Activist Aaron Swartz, Begins Internal Investigation

More: BBC, Ars Technica, The Verge, VentureBeat, CNET, Crooked Timber, MIT, TechCrunch, Politico and Business Insider. Tweets: @biellacoleman. See also Mediagazer

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Family of Hacktivist Aaron Swartz Accuses MIT, U.S. Attorney of Contributing to His Suicide

More: TechEye, Susie Bright's Journal, The Verge, Guardian and TheTechStorm

Tweets: @gaberivera and @gaberivera

Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:

Apple Cuts Order for iPhone Parts on Weak Demand — Apple Inc. has cut its component orders for the iPhone 5 due to weaker-than-expected demand, people familiar with the situation said Monday. — Apple's orders for screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half …

More: Reuters, Business Insider, Inquirer, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, Reuters, Neowin, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Life On My Mobile, iPhone in Canada Blog, AllThingsD, AfterDawn.com and atmaspheric. Tweets: @zacharye

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

WSJ: Demand For The iPhone Is Weak And Apple's Cutting Orders — The Wall Street Journal is reporting tonight what just about every analyst has already said: Apple is cutting iPhone parts orders. — The Journal's explanation for the cuts is pretty simple: “Apple has cut its component orders …

More: ZDNet, TechEye, The Atlantic Wire, The Verge, Apple Bitch, Quartz, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, BGR India, The Next Web and MacRumors

Tweets: @atul, @edbott, @gruber, @thinkingtrades, @stevestreza, @atul and @javed_del

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

A Look at Samsung's Curved Smartphone Concept and 4.99-Inch 1080p AMOLED Display — I got a chance to look at some of Samsung Displays' new and upcoming products, probably one of the highlights of my CES 2013 experience. There's a bit to go through, but first up are their buzzworthy curved displays and a concept phone or two.

More: digitaltrends.com, Pocketnow and PhoneArena

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Messenger For iPad, One More Thing Facebook Could Be Unveiling On Tuesday — Take a look at that “reach friends wherever they are now” image to the left. What's missing between the iPhone and the laptop? Ding ding ding! You're right! A tablet. — Okay, I'm sure it was obvious.

More: App Advice, Softpedia News, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocket-lint, Know Your Cell, VentureBeat, PhoneArena, Business Insider, BGR India and TechCrunch. Tweets: @ourielohayon

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

What Facebook Should Be Building — Facebook has a big launch event on Tuesday.

More: PhoneArena, iPhone Hacks and iDownloadBlog.com

Tweets: @stevekovach and @joshconstine

Thanks:@alexia

Steven Sinofsky / Learning by Shipping:

Learning by Sharing: Snark-free CES observations — Wheels up, returning from CES. Seems like a good time to reflect and share some of my observations. — Sharing raw data is an important part of building a strong cohesive team. Raw data allows everyone on a team to see the inputs …

More: 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, AllThingsD, WinBeta, SlashGear, GeekWire, Neowin, parislemon, atmaspheric, The Verge and The Wirecutter. Tweets: @waltmossberg. Thanks:@toddbishop

Pete Norman / Sky News:

TweetDeck: Twitter's UK Firm Risks Closure — TweetDeck is used by Twitter ‘power users’ to utilise multiple accounts — One of Twitter's UK companies is at risk of being struck off over repeated failure to file accounts with the business regulator, Sky News can reveal.

More: TechCrunch and The Next Web

Laura June / The Verge:

America's first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’ — Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while …

More: DVICE, iClarified and Gizmodo. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Oracle ships Java 7 Update 11 with vulnerability fixes, increased security level for Java applets — After announcing a fix was coming just yesterday, Oracle on Sunday released Java 7 Update 11 to address the recently disclosed security vulnerability. If you use Java, you can download …

More: Computerworld, CNET, Help Net Security, Inquirer, Krebs on Security, Reuters, The H Open Source, The Register, Guardian, InfoWorld, Computerworld, Naked Security, The Java Source, ZDNet, Examiner, Ars Technica, ZDNet and The Verge. Tweets: @0xcharlie

Jamie Yap / ZDNet:

Smartphones outpacing tablets in data consumption — Summary: Study by Arieso shows smartphones trumping tablets for the first time in data consumption, putting further pressure on mobile operators to better strategize their network coverage and management. — Jamie Yap

More: TechCrunch, Computerworld, PhoneArena, world.einnews.com and Reuters

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Start-Up Investors Grow Wary of Tech Ventures After Facebook's I.P.O. — SAN FRANCISCO — Call it the Facebook effect. Until recently, investors had been all too eager to pour millions into any Web start-up with rapid growth, regardless of whether it made money or even had plans to do so down the road.

More: Los Angeles Times

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