Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Belkin Employee Sheds Light On Belkin’s Supposedly Dirty Practices  —  Belkin’s alleged, and now confirmed, payola scheme may have been one of the first times we’ve heard about their shady practices, but an employee of Belkin says it’s actually very common.  —  To summarize the note …

Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Cisco Plans Big Push Into Server Market  —  SAN JOSE, Calif. — Within the next few months, Cisco Systems, the largest maker of networking equipment, plans to release a product that threatens to shake up the technology industry and put the company on a collision course with traditional partners […]

NokiaPressServices / Nokia Press Bulletin Board:
Nokia and Securitas to cooperate in bringing security services into mobile devices  —  Nokia and Securitas today announced a new cooperation regarding mobile services for personal security and every day safety.  Mobile devices already today give increased feeling of security with friends …

Agence France Presse:
Change.gov coming to the White House  —  WASHINGTON (AFP) — At exactly one minute after noon on Tuesday change.gov is coming to the White House.  —  That’s the moment when whitehouse.gov — the website for the past eight years of President George W. Bush — changes hands and the savvy young … […]

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Report: Search Spending Off 8 Percent In Q4  —  While search engine marketing has been somewhat more durable during the recession (to date), than other media, that may not save SEM from negative growth.  The Wall Street Journal is reporting on the latest Efficient Frontier search marketing report, set […]

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Lotus Notes Soon To Become Even More LinkedIn  —  LinkedIn has partnered with IBM to create a new plugin that integrates its professional social network into Lotus Notes, a popular business desktop client that includes Email, calendar, and IM functionality.  The plugin is making its debut …

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple’s App Store: Has it peaked?  No!  —  One of the results Apple’s executive team is sure to trot out Wednesday when it releases the company’s fiscal 2009 Q1 earnings report is the explosive growth of its iTunes App Store.  —  Six months after it opened for business …

Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Microsoft set to unveil MobileMe competitor next month  —  Microsoft is planning to unveil three new mobile services at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next month.  The software giant is aiming to move your mobile data into the cloud and rival Apple’s MobileMe service.

Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
IAA Finds Advertisers Wary of Google  —  Survey Underwritten by Microsoft Shows Concern About Size, Market Share  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Department of Justice may have shuttered the Google-Yahoo search deal two months ago, but Microsoft is still working the court of public opinion.

Jessica Vascellaro / Digits:
Search Advertising Runs into the Recession  —  By Jessica E. Vascellaro  —  On Thursday, the public will find out how online search advertising - the biggest chunk of the Internet ad market - weathered the rocky fourth quarter when Google reports its results for the period.