[Best of the Web — Monday, 25 January 2010]

We didn’t attack Google, China says: China has dismissed suggestions that it was involved in recent cyber attacks on Google and other companies in that country. The attacks have have led to escalated tensions between the US and China, with US secretary of state Hillary Clinton last week calling on the communist country to put an end to online censorship. Now Chinese officials have said the country will not change the way it censors the Internet. [Reuters] [PC World]

Jobs conjures up the buzz, without saying a word: When Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes to a stage in San Francisco this Wednesday to unveil a tablet computing device, he will have to live up to months of hype about the product. The magical part? “Even as the media and technology worlds have anticipated this announcement for months, Apple has said not word one about The Device,” says The New York Times. “However miraculous the thingamajig turns out to be — all rumors point to some kind of tabletlike device — it can’t be more remarkable than the control that Apple and Jobs have over their audience.” [The New York Times] [Wired News]