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William Alsup / Groklaw NewsPicks:
Apple Wins Like a Champ - Psystar is Toast — What? You're Surprised? — Psystar just got what's coming to them in the California case. Here's the order [PDF]. It's a total massacre. Psystar's first-sale defense went down in flames. Apple's motion for summary judgment on copyright infringement and DMCA violation is granted.
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Download Squad, Lockergnome Blog Network, Computerworld, TG Daily, Engadget, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Macsimum News and Slashdot
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Stephen Wildstrom / Tech Beat:Apple Crushes Clone Maker in Court
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Hardware 2.0, PC World, CNET News, Brainstorm Tech, 9 to 5 Mac, Macworld, TUAW, Guardian, AppleInsider and digg.com
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Apple Wouldn't Risk Its Cool Over a Gimmick, Would It? — “SOME of the best-loved technology on the planet” is how Apple describes its products when recruiting new employees. It's a fair description. — But the love that consumers send Apple's way could flag if the company puts into place …
Jon Ungoed-Thomas / Times of London:
Belle de Jour revealed as research scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti — The secret life of Dr Brooke Magnanti, an obscure research scientist, is revealed today as she unmasks herself as the writer behind the pseudonym Belle de Jour. — Her identity has been one of the great literary mysteries …
Chippy / UMPCPortal:
Sponsorship-supported Crunchpad is alive. ‘Steamrolling’ says Arrington. — I should have been in bed but I got hooked into an excellent Gilmore Gang videocast (below) this evening. Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, P Rangaswami, Kevin Marks, and Saul Hansell talk a lot about the iPhone and Driod war …
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple looks to hire AAA game developer for in-house iPhone team — Apple is looking to hire a game and media software engineer for its iPhone and iPod touch team, perhaps signaling that the company intends to expand its first-party software offerings. — The listing posted this week …
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I4U News, TECH.BLORGE.com, EverythingiCafe, The iPhone Blog, Ubergizmo, ChannelWeb, Macsimum News and LOOPRumors
Eli Hodapp / Touch Arcade:
‘Ravensword’ and Many Other Unity-Powered Games Rejected by Apple — For the past couple days we have been anxiously anticipating that imminent release of Ravensword: The Fallen King, the thread on our forums has been going crazy, and we even had Ravensword developers Russ Menapace …
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Ballad of a Windows 7 fanboy — Most kids in talent shows dance or play instruments. Fifth-grader Will Smith made a musical pitch for Windows 7 instead. — After seeing this video on YouTube yesterday afternoon, I almost didn't believe it was real, so I sent a message to the person who posted it …
Fox News:
Apple Reverses Decision, Approves iPhone App Showing Political Caricatures — An iPhone application that Apple had rejected as “objectionable” for its caricatures of members of congress now is available to users, the application's developer told FoxNews.com Saturday.
Roselyn Roark / Gadget Lab:
Verizon Won't Offer Free Tethering But Droid Hackers Might (Updated) — Updated 8 p.m. EDT: Google has released the source code for Android 2.0, according to Android developer Cyanogen. — In TV ads, Verizon is trying to sell its new Google-powered phone by highlighting everything the “Droid Does” that the iPhone doesn't.
Dan Clancy / Google Public Policy Blog:
Modifications to the Google Books Settlement — Last year, we joined with a broad class of authors and publishers to announce a settlement agreement that would make millions of out-of-print books available to students and readers in every part of the U.S., while forging new opportunities for rightsholders to sell access to their books.
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
It's Google's world and handset makers just live in it — When the Motorola Droid launched this month everyone was amazed that a company so down on its luck was able to put together a well-designed phone running a powerful, “brand new” OS. The whole package - hardware, software, and marketing - seemed flawless.
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Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
iDroid Wars on Gillmor Gang — The Gillmor Gang debated the virtues and otherwise of the smartphone's latest pretender to the iPhone crown: Droid. Michael Arrington led the Droid's faction, with a QVC-like enthusiasm for the power of Any Phone That Runs Google Voice.
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Robert McMillan / PC World:
DNS Problem Linked to DDoS Attacks Gets Worse — Internet security experts say that misconfigured DSL and cable modems are worsening a well-known problem with the Internet's DNS (domain name system), making it easier for hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against their victims.
