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Topic:

Google hacked by Chinese Govt. via hole in IE / Microsoft patched hole today / Google threatens to pull out of China, Moto to keep selling Android phones
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358284,00.asp
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/google-or-not-motorola-pushes-forward-on-android-in-china/?src=twt&twt=nytimestech
http://gizmodo.com/5453984/motorola-working-around-google-for-android-phones-in-china

YouTube partners with Sundance Film Festival for YouTube rentals. Is this Google’s model for making money?
http://www.macworld.com/article/145829/youtube_rentals.html

3. What are we expecting to see at Apple’s January 27th announcement? Also, rumors say Bing may be frontrunner as default search engine on next iPhone OS
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703405704575015362653644260.html?ru=yahoo&mod=yahoo_hs
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10438870-1.html
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=5780

4. Apple files for interesting patent: solar-powered battery (just want to mention it briefly, not do a story on this)
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/21/apple-patent-applications-input-device-gestures-solar-powered-ipods-and-iphones/

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