Techmeme: Why Google is a Better Apple Friend than Enemy (Mike Elgan/Cult of Mac)

11:40 AM ET, August 1, 2011

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Launching New iPhone in October, Not September — So those rumors claiming the iPhone 5 will debut in late September? They're wrong. — Instead, it's going to be an October surprise — the month in which Apple plans to launch its next-gen iPhone.

Bloomberg:

Apple Suit Puts Samsung Tablet Sales in Australia on Hold — Apple Inc. escalated a patent dispute against Samsung Electronics Co. and won an agreement that the South Korean company won't sell the newest version of its tablet computer in Australia until a lawsuit is resolved.

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:

Farewell Flash? Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Animations Tool “Adobe Edge” — Today, Adobe is launching a new tool called Adobe Edge which will allow creative professionals to design animated Web content using Web standards like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Not Flash.

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
First look: Adobe Edge promises Flash-style animation with HTML5

Discussion: The Loop, Between the Lines Blog, AppleInsider and About.com Web Design

Mike Elgan / Cult of Mac:

Why Google is a Better Apple Friend than Enemy — A casual observer might be forgiven for thinking that to Apple, Google is Enemy #1. Apple's most profitable (and therefore important) businesses center on the iPhone and iPad. The most serious competitors in both these product categories run on Google's Android platform.

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Google Chrome overtakes Firefox to become UK's second most popular web browser — Internet browser passes Firefox, with speed and a nationwide advertising campaign credited for the rise in popularity — Google's Chrome is Britain's second most popular browser, a sign of the internet giant's increasing grip on the UK search market.

Discussion: eWeek, 9to5Google, PC World, TechEye, MacDailyNews, Pocket-lint, WebProNews, The Next Web, The Register, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, SlashGear, T3.com News and ITProPortal

Daniel Rubino / WPCentral.com:

Windows Phone revenue “abysmal”, still better than Android — The Seattle PI has done some sleuthing in Microsoft's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and found out that by subtracting a few figures, you get a rough $600 million dollars in revenue for fiscal year 2011 for Windows Mobile and Windows Phone.

Discussion: Computerworld, PhoneArena, Fortune, The Business Insider and All New Musings

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Square Now Processing $4 Million In Mobile Payments Per Day — Flush with $100 million in new funding, Square is continuing to grow like a weed in the mobile payments space. After passing the $3 million mark at the end of May, Square is now processing $4 million in mobile payments daily …

Discussion: IntoMobile, FierceMobileContent, SocialTimes.com, The Business Insider, Sramana Mitra, FT Tech Hub and Singularity Hub

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Best Buy moves into the connected TV business with Tivo's user interface — Internet connected TVs are becoming a lot more mainstream. The latest sign of that is that Best Buy is announcing its own house label model, dubbed the Insignia Connected TV. — Best Buy, the nation's largest …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Engadget, GigaOM, Zatz Not Funny!, SlashGear, eHomeUpgrade, This is my next, Ubergizmo, Crave and Gizmodo

John Markoff / New York Times:

Data Centers' Power Use Less Than Was Expected — SAN FRANCISCO — Data centers' unquenchable thirst for electricity has been slaked by the global recession and by a combination of new power-saving technologies, according to an independent report on data center power use from 2005 to 2010.

Discussion: Data Center Knowledge, Jonathan G. Koomey, Ph.D., Data Center Knowledge, GigaOM Pro, GigaOM, GeekWire, VentureBeat, ZDNet and Slashdot

Emma Barnett / Telegraph:

Facebook expands UK operation — Facebook is moving into a larger office in London as it expands its advertising business operation in the UK. — Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook's founder and chief. — However, the social networking company has shunned Silicon Roundabout …

Discussion: Between the Lines Blog, ComputerWeekly.com and The Next Web

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:

Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple — Nicholas Allegra, better known by the hacker handle Comex. — A version of this story will appear in the upcoming issue of Forbes, published later this week. — Nicholas Allegra lives with his parents in Chappaqua, New York.

Discussion: 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie and SplatF, Thanks:forbestech

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