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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Truth: What's Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&T And The FCC — Apple has responded to the FCC's request for information around its rejection of various Google and third party iPhone applications for the iPhone. — In short, Apple denies that they rejected the Google Voice application …
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Foreigners Attending US Grad Schools Way Down: Wake Up, Xenophobes — It's happening: Lou Dobbs' dream come true and Silicon Valley's worst nightmare. We're already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants take their US educations and experience building companies and creating technology back to their home countries.
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Gagan Biyani / MobileCrunch:
Cheating the App Store: PR firm has interns post positive reviews for clients — When it comes to winning in the App Store, one PR firm has discovered a dynamite strategy: throw ethics out the window. Reverb Communications, a PR firm that represents dozens of game publishers and developers …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Five Pirate Bay BitTorrent Alternatives — The Pirate Bay we know and love, though still harboring torrents for now, is going away. But that doesn't mean BitTorrent is dead. Far from it. Here are five places to get your torrent on after it closes for good. — Demonoid
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Cable Vs. Wireless: Guess Which Is Growing Faster? — It's almost impossible believe, but there it is: the cable industry is actually outgrowing the wireless sector. — This stunning factoid comes courtesy of the latest Weekend Media Blast piece from Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Judge tosses much of S.F. computer-hijack case — (08-21) 18:15 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco judge tossed out three hacking charges Friday against a jailed former San Francisco city computer engineer, but preserved a lone count that he deliberately locked authorities out of the city's main network last year.
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Samsung's Instinct HD shows up on Best Buy site — S50, M850 and Dash be damned, it's pretty clear now that Samsung has latched onto the “HD” trend for its latest Instinct handset. Spotted by one of our eagle-eyed readers on Best Buy's website, some of the Instinct HD's most talked about specs …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
The Odd Tale of Facebook, TipJoy, the Deal that Didn't Happen and the Hire that Did — What's next for the team behind Tipjoy, a micropayments service that closed its doors this week? For one of the company's founders, it's a job at Facebook-the social network that offered to buy the start-up this summer …
Agence France Presse:
Smartphones drive language learning innovation — The boom in “smartphones”, led by Apple's iPhone, has inspired language learning tools that would have been inconceivable just months ago — and a Hong Kong firm is leading the charge. — Tens of thousands of “apps” …
Griffin McElroy / Joystiq:
Rumor: Walmart catalog lists $100 price cut for Xbox 360 Elite — Oh, man. This ish just got real, son. Last week, a supposedly leaked Meijer's catalog revealed a $100 price cut for the Xbox 360 Elite SKU — we weren't sure what to make of it, but a recent Walmart catalog …
New York Times:
Europe Divided on Google Book Deal — BERLIN — The proposed U.S. legal settlement giving Google the right to sell digital copies of millions of books is dividing publishers and authors in Europe, which has struggled to develop viable alternatives to Google's ambitious book digitization project.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Would-Be FFugees Shouldn't Pack Up And Find A New Home Just Yet — Following Facebook's acquisition of FriendFeed, a lot of users in that community were up in arms. Basically, everyone was quick to jump to the conclusion that FriendFeed, as we knew it, was dead.
