I find it amazing and crazy that a company that hasn’t even acknowledged that it has a tablet-like computing device in development is getting more news coverage and attention than products that are already here or have been actually announced. How many e-readers and tablet devices were publicly announced at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier [...]

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The Chinese government issued a series of statements defending the country’s Internet censorship policies and accusing the U.S. of having a “double standard” when it comes to online surveillance. The comments, made through the state news agency Xinhua, were in part a reaction to statements made by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last [...]

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Linux inched ahead in the operating-system arena during the final month of 2009, even as Windows and Mac gave up some ground. That’s according to research firm Net Applications, which recently released its Market Share report covering operating systems in December. Linux accounted for 1.02 percent of the market in December, up from an even [...]

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Forget about the debate over whether “Avatar” or “The Hurt Locker” will win movie awards this year. The real argument among those who create and share their own Web videos — DIY James Camerons, as it were — centers on whether or not they should dump Adobe Flash and other plug-in players for HTML 5, [...]

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TV viewers who can’t bear to be without access to news and programs from their local television stations will this year have new ways to be connected wherever they go. New devices that will carry local TV broadcasts will hit the market later this year. Some of these new mobile digital television devices debuted at [...]

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Google on Tuesday launched a new version of Google Voice for the iPhone, half a year after Apple kicked the application off the iTunes App Store. However, the latest version of Google Voice is a browser app leveraging HTML 5 and accessible through the iPhone’s Safari browser, not an app that’s downloadable from the App [...]

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AP - Even if its stand against censorship leads it to close its search engine in China, Google Inc. still hopes to maintain other key operations in the world’s most populous Internet market.

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AP - Texas Instruments Inc. said Monday its fourth-quarter profit soared as factories that use its chips for a wide range of consumer gadgets and industrial products hummed straight through the typically slow December holidays.

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Reuters - Apple Inc reported record sales of Mac computers and strong growth overseas, but iPhone shipments were slightly below some of Wall Street’s most bullish forecasts.

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AP - Google’s top lawyer says the global search giant’s dispute with China over Internet censorship will probably be resolved in weeks, but it could take months.

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