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Apple chief executive Steve Jobs was ordered by a U.S. judge to testify in an antitrust lawsuit that alleges the company prevented music files sold by competitors from playing on its iPods. (more)

Google’s Android has passed Nokia’s Symbian to become the top-selling smartphone platform globally, according to data from market research firm Canalys. (more)

Apple’s App Store has hit 10 billion downloads. (more)

Playboy is coming to Apple’s iPad, and despite Apple Chief Steve Jobs’s commitment to “free[ing] the world from porn,” the magazine’s app won’t censor ladies’ naughty bits. (more)

Two men have been charged with stealing e-mail addresses and personal information of about 120,000 Apple iPad users. (more)

Apple’s most recent line of MacBook Air computers is an impressive competitor in the ultraportable notebook market. While the 11-inch MacBook Air weighs in at just 2.2 pounds, the 13.3-inch version actually strikes me as somewhat more impressive given that its got a nice, big keyboard and the screen resolution is a whopping 1440×900 (most 13 inchers sports 1366×768 or lower resolutions) while keeping the weight at just shy of three pounds. (more)

Apple Inc got a wake-up call on Sunday, as iPhone users complained the New Year got off to a slow start because built-in alarms on their phones failed to wake them. (more)

Facebook kept a high profile in 2010. (more)

1.) Unethical Google alumnus leaves White House one day after FCC passes net neutrality — Andrew McLaughlin should have left the White House in March, when he was found to be using his personal gmail account while at work, or even in May, when internal memos revealed McLaughlin was coordinating PR with Google’s U.S. public policy director. Instead, the nation’s deputy CTO waited until the FCC passed its net neutrality bill to bid adieu to government life. According to WaPo, “McLaughlin, who previously worked as a Google executive, oversaw many of the White House’s Internet policy initiatives including Internet access regulations, the expansion of broadband connections and global cybersecurity.” Not mentioned in WaPo’s writeup is Google’s ardent support for net neutrality regulations. McLaughlin will dive back into the startup world, creating products for state and local governments. He “also said he will return to teaching law, which he did at Harvard University’s Berkman Center seven years ago.” Interesting factoid: The Berkman center is the far-left think thank that the FCC commissioned to produce objective reports on the apparent need for net neutrality regulations. (more)

NEW YORK – AT&T Inc plans to buy wireless spectrum from Qualcomm Inc for $1.93 billion and boost its 4G network, aiming to counter criticism over iPhone service quality and a threat from rivals like Verizon Wireless. (more)

The Federal Communications Commission is poised on Tuesday to pass so-called net neutrality regulations, first-time rules that prevent Internet service providers from blocking or giving preferential treatment to Web sites on their networks. (more)

Now that we have Skype and Facebook chat and email and teleconferencing and AOL Instant Messenger, what is the point of actually having a workplace? Why not work wherever we happen to be and, when and if others need us, beam in our eyes and ears? Because according to a new study from Harvard Medical School, when we collaborate remotely, our work may have less of an impact. (more)

Just a week before the FCC holds a vote on whether to apply fairness rules to some of the nation’s internet service providers, two companies that sell their services to the country’s largest cellular companies showed off a different vision of the future: one where you’ll have to pay extra to watch YouTube or use Facebook. (more)

Readers of Gizmodo, Lifehacker and other Gawker Media sites may be among the savviest on the Web, but the most common password for logging into those sites is embarrassingly easy to guess: “123456.” So is the runner-up: “password.” (more)

Full story: Eternal Citizen Vigilance, Now on Your iPhone! – Ricochet.com (more)

The Christian group that recently had its iPhone app removed from Apple’s software store after gay rights activists called the app “offensive” said it made changes to the free program and is resubmitting it to the ubiquitous tech company. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Dozens of websites have been secretly harvesting lists of places that their users previously visited online, everything from news articles to bank sites to pornography, a team of computer scientists found. (more)

Sometimes I question whether the internet’s upsides — its ability to disseminate information, facilitate collaboration, and connect people across continents — are outweighed by its downsides.  It’s a question I’ve been pondering a lot recently as I’ve watched an array of liberal bloggers demonize an Army veteran, Joe Rehyansky, for something he didn’t actually say. (more)

Is BlackBerry maker Research in Motion on the verge of becoming obsolete, or is it the next big thing in tech? Investors can’t seem to make up their minds. (more)

BRUSSELS — Europe opened a formal antitrust investigation on Tuesday into accusations that Google had abused its dominance in online search, exposing the company’s zealously guarded technology to unwelcome scrutiny. (more)