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2:00 PM ET, July 18, 2010

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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Official statement from Research In Motion in response to Apple's iPhone 4 Antennagate propaganda!  —  I hoped this was coming.  Here it is.  A joint statement from RIM Co-CEOs in response to misleading comments from Apple made Friday by Steve Jobs at the iPhone 4 press conference:
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
HTC: Droid Eris complaints nothing compared to iPhone 4  —  EXCLUSIVE: HTC starts its fightback against Apple  —  While HTC?hasn't yet come back with an official comment in respect to Apple's decision to highlight the Droid Eris' performance at its emergency press conference …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Reactions to Steve Jobs' performance  —  A sampling of opinions — the good, the bad and the ugly  —  Given how much attention Apple (AAPL) was getting before Steve Jobs' “Antennagate” press conference Friday — CNBC greeted it with a countdown clock and eight simultaneous talking heads …
Discussion: IntoMobile, GottaBeMobile and Engadget
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
AwayFind Makes Sure You See The Emails That Matter  —  Email overload is a problem that's as common as it is difficult to solve.  Fortunately, everyone know it's a problem, and there are plenty of startups (and webmail providers themselves) looking to fix it.  One recent entry to the space is AwayFind.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Four Business Tips From Apple & Steve Jobs  —  This morning, Apple hosted a press event which included a 45-minute Q&A session with CEO Steve Jobs.  (Watch the video.)  Jobs, who returned from a vacation in Hawaii to host this conference, was pretty open (i.e. he was spinning a little less and was fractionally more candid.)
Discussion: Fortune, jkOnTheRun and CenterNetworks
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
As Older Users Join Facebook, Network Grapples With Death  —  Courtney Purvin got a shock when she visited Facebook last month.  The site was suggesting that she get back in touch with an old family friend who played piano at her wedding four years ago.  —  The friend had died in April.
Discussion: CNET News and The Atlantic Online, Thanks:rawmeet
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
You Want My Personal Data?  Reward Me for It  —  LIFE, as they say, imitates art.  And the way things work commercially today across much of the Web recalls that chapter in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” where Tom cajoles his guileless friends into whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence.
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Esther Dyson / The Huffington Post:
Release 9.0: User-managed privacy tools  —  The NY Times has an interesting piece today by Steve Lohr about Bynamite, a service that lets users manage their own data for themselves.  —  I love this idea... but I have loved it for more than 10 years!  What makes Ginsu Yoon more likely …
Thanks:rawmeet
Jesse Lichtenstein / New York Times:
Digital Diplomacy  —  It was a Wednesday night in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood, and Jared Cohen, the youngest member of the State Department's policy planning staff, and Alec Ross, the first senior adviser for innovation to the secretary of state, were taking their tweeting very seriously.
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
The Art of Trolling: Inside a 4chan Smear Campaign  —  Last night, the users of 4Chan.org's notorious /b/ message board decided declared war on the lead singer of an obscure electro-pop band.  More than 12 hours later, they're still waging it.  This is how the Internet's worst trolls works.
Washington Post:
A new America through broadband  —  The Texas State Board of Education voted in May to adopt a controversial set of guidelines for social studies and history textbooks.  Countless hours of debate and indignation — and countless words in newspapers and on blogs — were dedicated to such questions …
Discussion: Mobility Site and Post Tech
 
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple says it takes 3 years to get a new cell tower in San Francisco
Discussion: The Angry Drunk and Electronista
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Is the Difference Between MySpace and Facebook Black and White?
Discussion: broadstuff
Janet Novack / Forbes:
Academic Study: eBay Sellers Shirk Sales Tax Law
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Wi-Fi available on 1 in 3 U.S. planes
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
OAuth and OpenID Authentication Vulnerable To “Timing Attack”
Discussion: Techie Buzz
Chris Crum / WebProNews:
Google Eyes Mouse Movement as Possible Search Relevancy Signal
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Facebook Will Announce 500 Million Users Next Week With …
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Gawker Media Deals Its Way Out of iPhone Search Warrant
Discussion: everythingiCafe and PC World