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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Not a Joke: An Apple App Patent (Pic) That Looks Like an Actual App Selling on the App Store — Updated at 8.15:: Apple apparently has started filing patents for certain applications. And one of them looks exactly like an actual app — Where To — that has been available on the iTunes app store for a long time.
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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Controversy erupts over Apple software patent “copying” existing app's home screen — Today's Apple controversy: Apparently, a recent mobile app patent filed by Apple is blatantly copying the home screen of an existing application — the local search app Where To — reports GigaOm.
Ortwin Gentz / The FutureBlog:
The patent case we haven't called
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Apple Patent Diagrams Send The Wrong Message To Developers
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David Glazer / The Official Google Blog:
Google and Slide: building a more social web — We're excited to announce we've acquired Slide, a social technology company with an extensive history of building new ways for people to connect with others across numerous platforms online. — For Google, the web is about people …
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Here's What Everybody Made From The Slide Sale
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple opens “Try Before You Buy” section in App Store, Step to fight app piracy — Apple seems to be adding to and changing up their App Store's featured sections quite frequently. Today Apple added a new section dedicated to promoting free applications on the App Store.
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Dean Goodman / Reuters:
Beatles, iTunes deal still at impasse — Yoko Ono — * Widow unveils John Lennon commemorative projects — Don't hold your breath waiting for Beatles songs to go on sale at iTunes or other online retailers, Yoko Ono said on Thursday. — The Fab Four have long resisted the allure of digital downloads …
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Oleoleolson / AlterNet Blogs:
Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered — A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives.
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Digg investigates claims of conservative ‘censorship’
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Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com:
New ASUS Windows Phone 7 Device Appears in Pakistan — We don't have much information on this (yet) but it looks like an ASUS device running on Windows Phone 7 has been spotted in Pakistan. Unlike the LG Panther and Samsung Taylor devices that are only intended to be development devices …
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
BlackBerry Torch 9800 Teardown Photos and Video of Slider Mechanism in Action! — Tear down posts of a new smartphone don't normally happen until the new device is available for commercial purchase and somebody is crazy enough to sacrifice it to the tech gods.
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Kelvin Soh / Reuters:
Apple in talks to buy China's Handseeing — (Reuters) - Apple Inc is in takeover talks with Chinese software maker Handseeing, an executive of the Chinese company said on Friday. — The deal would be the iPhone maker's first major acquisition in the country.
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Introduces us to the Smart Bike — On August 5, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals various concepts behind a newly advanced Smart Bicycle System in development. The premise is rather like Apple's Nike + iPod system for runners except for cyclists.
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Wall Street Journal:
Google Loses Discrimination Ruling — The California Supreme Court ruled that an age-discrimination lawsuit filed against Google Inc. should proceed to trial, potentially paving the way for more lawsuits that previously were blocked under a theory that crude and possibly discriminatory workplace comments were merely “stray remarks.”
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Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Kinect patent detailed; American Sign Language supported — The patent for Microsoft's Kinect console has been unearthed, describing the “gesture keyboarding” system that's tracked by the special PrimeSense-developed depth camera. Kinect builds a dynamic wireframe representation - or …
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Anand Srinivasan / Go Rumors:
How Microsoft Kinect Works
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
Private browsing modes in four biggest browsers often fail — You've been warned — Features in the four major browsers designed to cloak users' browser history often don't work as billed, according to a research paper that warns that users may get a false sense of security when using the built-in privacy settings.
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Bangkokpost.com:
Saudis block BlackBerry messaging — Saudi Arabia suspended BlackBerry messaging services on Friday, users said as concerns spread across the Middle East and parts of Asia over security issues with the popular smartphones. — BlackBerry subscribers in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom …
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John Siracusa / Ars Technica:
Can you buy me now? Apple and the war for the mobile market — The short history of the computer industry is dominated by two well-known stories of business triumph and defeat. The first is the story of how mainframe makers failed to take the personal computer seriously until it was too late.
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Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
Rdio Gaga: How Spotify's Inferior Rival Is Playing America Like A Violin — Poor old Spotify. Less than a week after Billboard magazine reported that the music-on-demand service had “rebooted” its negotiations with US labels, rival service Rdio has just opened its doors in both the US and Canada …
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