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7:50 AM ET, March 21, 2010

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Ken Wills / Reuters:
China state media accuses Google of political agenda  —  (Reuters) - China's state media on Sunday accused Google Inc of pushing a political agenda by “groundlessly accusing the Chinese government” of supporting hacker attacks and by trying to export its own culture, values and ideas.
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
America's Real Dream Team  —  Went to a big Washington dinner last week.  You know the kind: Large hall; black ties; long dresses.  But this was no ordinary dinner.  There were 40 guests of honor.  So here's my Sunday news quiz: I'll give you the names of most of the honorees, and you tell me what dinner I was at.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
feature: Smoking guns, dark secrets aplenty in YouTube-Viacom filings  —  Court documents in the $1 billion lawsuit between Viacom and YouTube were unsealed today, finally shedding some light on key questions: did Viacom have “smoking gun” evidence that YouTube was deliberately profiting …
Discussion: broadstuff, FM Blog and Digital Society
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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Reasons to care about Viacom vs. Google (FAQ)  —  Viacom has accused YouTube of looking the other way when clips from the Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures were once plentiful on the site.  —  (Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET)  —  Thursday's 200-page dump of court documents in the 3-year-old …
Discussion: eWeek and PlagiarismToday
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Video: This is easily the coolest thing I've seen an iPhone do this week.  —  You hear that sound?  That's the sound of my mind being blown.  —  When the folks over in Cupertino strapped a little speaker to the bottom of the iPhone and released an SDK, do you think that any of them thought …
Discussion: Gizmodo
Stephen Totilo / Kotaku:
Apple Bans Game, Days After Developer Publicly Trashes App Store  —  Last week, game developer Tommy Refenes publicly called Apple's app store “awful” and “horrible.”  This week, Apple yanked his game from their store.  —  There are a couple of reasons that may have compelled Apple …
Kyle VanHemert / Gizmodo:
Blackberry Internet Service 3.0 Coming March 28 With Gmail Syncing  —  In the wee hours of the morning on March 28, RIM will roll out Blackberry Internet Service 3.0.  During the four hour upgrade, Blackberry users can expect their email service to be a bit wonky, but it'll be worth it …
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
iPhone will be first mobile device to fall at Pwn2Own 2010  —  The fourth annual Pwn2Own contest—which takes place at the CanSecWest security conference every year—kicks off next week.  Like last year, 2010's contest will offer security experts and hackers the chance to “pwn” …
Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
Wrapsol Ultra Film Protects Phones When They're Dragged Behind a Car at 35 MPH  —  The makers of Wrapsol Ultra adhesive film wanted to prove how well their product protects gadgets.  So they took an innocent Nokia, wrapped it up like a sandwich, and dragged it behind a car at 35 miles per hour.
Mike Blanchfield / The Canadian Press:
Supreme Court overturns child-porn conviction, says search was unreasonable  —  Mike Blanchfield, THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - A botched search warrant and the right to computer privacy featured Friday in a Supreme Court ruling that overturned the child pornography conviction of a Saskatchewan man.
Zee / The Next Web:
Happy Birthday Twitter.  This little bird is all grown up...  Many people, usually those who aren't using Twitter yet, are under the impression the service has only just launched.  In many respects it has, but at four years old it's fair to say it has officially flown the start-up nest.
Discussion: Mashable!
Jeremy Toeman / LIVEdigitally:
Thinking about Googling my TV  —  Google, Intel, and Sony have apparently teamed up (and Logitech too) to develop an Android-based platform for interactive television.  Let me start my post with some important background points and disclosure:  — I was a cofounder of Mediabolic …
Blake Ellis / CNNMoney.com:
Palm's new price target: $0  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Palm's future already looked bleak.  But after reporting worse than expected results for the third quarter Thursday, some analysts think the company's stock is now essentially worthless.  —  Shares of Palm (PALM) plunged 19% to $4.59 a share early Friday, a new 52-week low.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Palm: this is your survival guide
 
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Happy Birthday, Gnutella: Pioneering P2P Protocol Turns Ten
Maya Baratz / All Shook Down:
Choose Your Own Adventure! On Twitter.
Discussion: Laughing Squid, Thanks:nicklucchesi
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Novell Rejects Hedge Fund's Offer To Take The Company Private For $2 Billion
Discussion: Seeking Alpha and CNET News
Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Unprecedented 25-Year Sentence Sought for TJX Hacker
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Grothaus / TUAW:
Cool weird stuff: TUAW reader accidentally downloads 10.6.3 pre-release
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac
Paul Levy / CL&P Blog:
The Hot News Doctrine Rides Again
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Check-In Fatigue. Or, Why I'm Rooting For An All-Out Location War.
Discussion: The Next Web and Digits
Sogrady / tecosystems:
Why I Am Against Software Patents
Discussion: rc3.org
 

 
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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, potentially complicating hiring in Hollywood as firms try to protect trade secrets and other info

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
An interview with NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who defends NPR and accuses critics of “bad faith distortion” of her past comments about the First Amendment

Tom Jones / Poynter:
How the Columbia Daily Spectator, the independent student newspaper of Columbia University, is covering the tense protests over the Israel-Hamas war

 
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