Be sure to tune in around 10 a.m. ET as we discover whether the guesswork pans out and how — if at all — Apple adds a dash of flavor to a seemingly plain topic. Read more at gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com

Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) — Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia where users contribute and edit entries, will shut the English version of its website for 24 hours tomorrow to oppose proposed U.S. anti-piracy legislation.

The move is a protest against pending legislation including the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, bill, according to a statement by Wikimedia Foundation Inc., the non-profit organization that operates the encyclopedia

“If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United States,” Wikimedia said in the statement. Read more at www.sfgate.com

At Hearst Magazines, 30 percent of the single copies sold on tablets are back issues.

And Hearst isn’t the only company to be benefitting from the sale of archival issues. Over at Popular Science, AdWeek reports, back issues have accounted for a whopping 40 percent of the single digital copies the mag has sold this year. And at Popular Photography, the single-copy number jumps to 41 percent.

Those stats aren’t just good news for a magazine industry that’s always on the lookout for new ways to make money from old content Read more at www.theatlantic.com

Mercedes-Benz on Tuesday expanded its in-vehicle Internet offerings by incoporating services like Facebook, Yelp, and Google into the dashboard via a service dubbed mbrace2.

Powered by Hughes Telematics, mbrace2 is the second-generation of Mercedes-Benz’s cloud-based services. Updates will be provided over-the-air, and mbrace2 works with iOS and Android devices. With it, you can check your Facebook updates, get information from Google, hear about the latest news, and tap into services provided by a real-time concierge service. Read more at www.pcmag.com

LAS VEGAS – Google’s new Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, can bring new features to even the least expensive tablets. The new Viewsonic Viewpad E70 costs only $169—and while it doesn’t run ICS at blazing speed, it definitely runs ICS adequately enough. Read more at www.pcmag.com

The new take from Taiwanese industry publication DigiTimes offered on Tuesday projects that Apple will keep its current iPad 2 available after it launches a third-generation iPad in the coming months. At most, it projects that the iPad 2 price will drop to $399 for the entry-level model, which would be $100 less than the current cheapest model, and would be a strategy similar to what Apple has employed with its iPhone lineup.

But Apple could be even more aggressive and price the iPad 2 even less, potentially at $349 or even as low as $299, the analysis concluded. Read more at www.appleinsider.com

Rupert Murdoch has begun the new year by setting up in a new field of communications — he’s started tweeting

The media mogul, who is recovering from perhaps his most difficult year in the business, is posting on Twitter under the handle rupertmurdoch, spokeswoman Daisy Dunlop at News International confirmed Monday.

The account was opened over the New Year’s holiday, but many doubted its authenticity because Murdoch, 80, has generally tried to stay out of the spotlight as his media empire comes under increased scrutiny because of widespread phone hacking at his U.K. newspapers. Read more at www.washingtonpost.com

The New York Times Company announced on Tuesday that it had reached an agreement to sell the company’s Regional Media Group to Halifax Media Holdings, of Daytona Beach, Fla., for $143 million in cash.

which consists of 16 regional newspapers including The Gainesville Sun; The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, Calif.; The Sarasota Herald Tribune; and The Tuscaloosa News

The company, in a statement, said it estimates net after-tax proceeds from the sale will be approximately $150 million.

“That’s saying basically each title is worth about $10 million” on average, he said, “which is just breathtaking when you consider what kinds of profit machines these newspapers used to be.” Read more at mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

It seems like Google may no longer be content to simply watch from the sidelines as the likes of Apple and Amazon go from strength to strength in the tablet market, with executive chairman Eric Schmidt telling Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera this week that “in the next six months we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality.” He added that introducing such a device would be guaranteed to increase the “brutal competition between Apple and Google Android.”

See more at www.digitaltrends.com

You’ve heard of tech companies starting in a Silicon Valley garage. What about on a ship?

That’s the idea being floated by a California startup that wants to dock a vessel off the coast to house foreign entrepreneurs who have dreams of creating the next Google but can’t get visas to work in the United States. Read more at www.google.com