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4:10 PM ET, October 30, 2010

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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Files Lawsuit against Motorola to Defend Multi-Touch  —  The inevitable: When Motorola preemptively launched their declaration judgment action against Apple earlier this month, we knew that Apple was likely to launch multiple patent infringement lawsuits against Motorola once …
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AppleInsider:
Apple countersues Motorola over multi-touch iPhone patents  —  As expected, Apple has responded to a patent suit from Motorola with its own legal action, accusing the company of violating six patents related to multi-touch features found in the iPhone.  —  Apple filed two lawsuits on Friday …
Discussion: Engadget
Henry Blodget / SAI:
Hey, Twitter, Enough Of This Crap About “Here's How You Can Use The Word Tweet”  —  Twitter has issued new rules about how the rest of us can use the words “Twitter” and “Tweet,” MG Siegler of TechCrunch tells us.  —  And the rules are right out of a handbook on how to take yourself way too seriously.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:   Do Twitter's Application Naming Rules Spell Bad News For TweetDeck?
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:   Twitter Updates Logos, Rules: Info On Logo Use, Screenshots, And Capital “T” Tweets
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Will Facebook have an IPO bounce?  Has 409A changed the game?  —  The conventional wisdom is that you join a hot startup pre-IPO to get the low priced stock options.  Techcrunch reports that some people are joining Facebook now to get in on pre-IPO shares.
Thanks:dondodge
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Glenn Kelman / Redfin Corporate Blog:
One in Five Facebook Employees Has No Imagination Whatsoever  —  Whoa!  Shocking news, guys.  An engineer left Google for Facebook.  The great Lars Rasmussen, creator of Google Maps and Google Wave, quit Google Thursday to join Facebook.  This has, admittedly, happened before.
Thanks:calbucci
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
VLC for iOS May Soon Be Gone From the App Store Due To Videolan's Complaint  —  VLC, the popular media player for Windows, Mac and Linux that landed on the iPad in September and on the iPhone last week, may soon be gone from the App Store.  Rémi Denis-Courmont, one of the primary developers of VLC …
Tim Anderson's ITWriting:
Microsoft's Silverlight dream is over  —  Remember “WPF Everywhere”?  Microsoft's strategy was to create a small cross-platform runtime that would run .NET applications on every popular platform, as well as forming a powerful multimedia player.  Initially just a browser plug-in …
Discussion: TechFlash, winrumors and Mashable!
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Why is Microsoft suddenly so hot for HTML5?
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Lars Rasmussen, Father Of Google Maps And Google Wave, Heads To Facebook  —  When Google put their faith in Wave, an ambitious new project last year, they knew it was a gamble.  But a big part of it was the team behind the project.  A team led by Lars Rasmussen, the engineer best known …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Why Twitter's C.E.O. Demoted Himself  —  AT the annual South by Southwest gathering of techies in Austin, Tex., in March, conference organizers had chosen a hangar-size room to accommodate their star speaker: Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, the messaging and social networking site that had become a digital phenomenon.
Aram Bartholl:
“Dead Drops” preview  —  I am pleased to preview ‘Dead Drops’ a new project which I started off as part of my ongoing EYEBEAM residency in NYC the last couple weeks.  ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space.  I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Hack a Day and MAKE Magazine
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sprint CEO: Our 4G Strategy Is WiMAX, Full Stop!  —  “Our 4G strategy is WiMAX, full stop,” said Dan Hesse, CEO of Overland Park, Kan.-based mobile phone company Sprint.  In an interview, Hesse, a 33-year veteran of the telecom industry, said people should ignore all the talk about Sprint switching to LTE.
Alexandra Hudson / Reuters:
Turkey lifts its ban on YouTube: agency  —  (Reuters) - Turkey has lifted its ban on video-sharing website YouTube as material deemed insulting to Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk has been removed, Turkish state-run news agency Anatolian reported Saturday.
Discussion: Agence France Presse
David Hunt / Florida Times Union:
Jacksonville mom shakes baby for interrupting FarmVille, pleads guilty to murder  —  A Jacksonville mother charged with shaking her baby to death has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.  —  Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, was arrested after the January death of 3-month-old Dylan Lee Edmondson.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Facebook hires Drop.io's Sam Lessin, calls it an acquisition  —  File-sharing service Drop.io announced today that it has been acquired by Facebook.  —  The New York startup's blog post said that the social networking company has bought “most of Drop.io's technology and assets” …
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Jay Adelson's Got a Plan, Post-Digg, to Fix Silicon Valley
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Brian Caulfield / Shiny Objects:
Paving The Way For Kinect, Microsoft Scoops Up Motion-Sensing Intellectual Property
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
iPhone locked for early 2011 on Verizon, says Fortune
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Best Buds: Gmail Creator Joins Facebook Co-Founder, Donates 100K …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Holding Special Mobile Event This Wednesday
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
The PlayStation Phone: new photos, more details!