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February 17, 2012, 8:30 AM

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Wall Street Journal:

Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing Apple Browser Privacy Settings — Web Giant, Others Bypassed Apple Browser Settings for Guarding Privacy — Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.'s Web browser …

John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:

A Sad State of Internet Affairs: The Journal on Google, Apple, and “Privacy” — The news alert from the Wall St. Journal hit my phone about an hour ago, pulling me away from tasting “Texas Bourbon” in San Antonio to sit down and grok this headline: Google's iPhone Tracking.

More: Business Insider, Marketing Land and Digits

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Microsoft blasts Google over iPhone browser tracking, pushes IE9 while it's at it — With Google acknowledging that it utilised features in its services to bypass Apple's built-in security measures in its Safari mobile browser to track users, Microsoft has taken the opportunity to join the debate …

More: The Windows Blog and WinBeta

Chris Rawson / TUAW:

Mountain Lion drops support for several older Mac models (Updated) — Every new version of OS X comes with harsh news for owners of older Macs: “Your Mac is too old. You're stuck with your current OS. Forever.” For Mac OS X Leopard in 2007, anyone who owned a Mac with a processor slower than 867 MHz was stuck with Tiger.

More: AppleTell, Electronista, The Verge, Joystiq, InformationWeek, Computerworld, Ars Technica, BetaNews, Highsnobiety.com, CNET and 9to5Mac

Om Malik / GigaOM:

The slow rise of the SoMoClo OS — Even at first glance, one can see that Apple's new desktop operating system, OSX Mountain Lion is unifying the user experience across its different devices and platforms. Common applications and modes of interaction such a reminders, notes …

More: Computerworld

Steven Frank / Panic Blog:

About Gatekeeper — Today's Mountain Lion announcement introduces an important new security feature, called Gatekeeper, in addition to the “sandboxing” feature that premiered in Lion. I'd like to talk a little bit about it, and why it's important to all Mac users. — Malware is out of control.

More: Computerworld, Naked Security, TidBITS, MacStories, rc3.org, Securosis Highlights and Hardware 2.0 Blog

Apple:

Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview with Over 100 New Features — Apple® today released a developer preview of OS X® Mountain Lion, the ninth major release of the world's most advanced operating system, which brings popular apps and features from iPad® to the Mac® …

Jason Snell / Macworld:

Hands on with Apple's new OS X: Mountain Lion

More: Atlassian Blogs, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Computerworld, The Verge, Boing Boing, eWeek, Gizmodo, CNET, BGR, BetaNews, TechCrunch, AllTwitter, Computerworld, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Pogue's Posts and Inquirer. See also Mediagazer

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Apple officially renames Mac OS X to OS X, drops the ‘Mac’

More: Interactioned, Dustin Curtis, App Advice, Los Angeles Times, Techie Buzz, Digits, GadgeTell, Mercury News, GigaOM, creativebits™ and DailyTech

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Google Drive in the wild? Screenshot and possible logo — Google appears to be getting closer to the launch of its online storage service: A GeekWire reader says Google Drive has been enabled in his Google Account — as shown in the screenshot above, which has been redacted for the sake of his privacy.

More: Softpedia News, Android Community, Forbes, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Android and Me, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear, The Next Web and Electronista

Charles Duhigg / New York Times:

How Companies Learn Your Secrets — Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn't want us to know, can you do that? ”

More: MediaPost, The Not-So Private Parts, AdExchanger.com, Forbes, Felix Salmon and The Not-So Private Parts. Tweets: @kashhill

Horace Dediu / asymco:

Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than all the Macs it sold in 28 years — Tim Cook on the 55 million iPads sold to date: … via Transcript: Apple CEO Tim Cook at Goldman Sachs - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech. — That gave me an idea. Here is a plot of each major computing product Apple sold throughout …

More: Mashable!, Inquirer, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Between the Lines Blog, Daring Fireball and TechCrunch

Caterina Fake / Caterina.net:

Pinwheel! In Private Beta — I'm happy we're about to start inviting people into the thing we've been working on!! It's called Pinwheel, and it's a way to find and leave notes all around the world. — We're opening it up in private beta on the web and mobile web. An iOS version is coming next.

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, bub.blicio.us, Business Insider and VentureBeat. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@chadcat

Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:

Early Praise in Inspection at Foxconn Brings Doubt — The president of a nonprofit group hired by Apple to inspect its suppliers' factories has begun praising the Chinese plants of Foxconn, Apple's largest supplier, just days after his group began inspections there.

More: Bits and PC Magazine

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Apple labor petitioners to make deliveries again next week

More: Examiner and Mashable!

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Google Patent Reveals Future Unlock Features for Android Devices — Back in October 2011 we reported that Apple's “Slide to Unlock” patent stirred up a hornet's nest in Taiwan and we now see that Apple has filed another patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung over this feature.

More: SlashGear, Gizmodo, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans and Android Community

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Take a Look at Some of Apple's Evidence in Proview iPad Dispute — You've seen the text of the Chinese court decision that sided with Apple in its dispute with Proview Technology over rights to the iPad trademark in China. Now, here's some of the supporting documentation.

More: The Register, China Real Time Report, The Next Web, Business Insider, PadGadget, MacNN, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET and TechnoBuffalo

Andrew Tarantola / Gizmodo:

Netflix Is Bringing DVD-Only Rentals Back — Since the whole Qwikster debacle, Netflix has tried to distance itself from DVD rentals in favor of its streaming service. But red envelopes will soon be popping through mail slots again now that Netflix has reintroduced DVD rentals.

More: TechCrunch, Softpedia News, The Official Netflix Blog, SlashGear, Ubergizmo and Hacking NetFlix

Tweets: @ericjackson and @tcarmody

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Apple and the New York Times not meshing — The Wall Street Journal's Jessica Vascellaro scores the access coup of the week, maybe month. An exclusive interview with Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook yields insight on how the company is migrating iPhone functionality to boxes.

More: Fortune, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, New York Times, Fortune, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE and TUAW. See also Mediagazer

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

Swype hits Android 4.0 with Dragon Go! integration — Nuance added support for Ice Cream Sandwich, or Android 4.0, in the latest beta of its Swype software keyboard on Thursday. The new version has a limited audience base since so few handsets and tablets currently run Google's …

More: TechnoBuffalo, Nuance Mobile Life, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Mashable!, MobileSyrup.com and Electronista

Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:

Nevada Approves Rules for Self-Driving Cars — In a statement, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles said that its Legislative Commission today approved regulations allowing for the operation of self-driving vehicles on the state's roadways. Nevada's rules are the next step in a process began last June …

More: Business Insider, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Googling Google Blog and VentureBeat

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Twitter Opens Up Self-Serve Ad Platform to 10,000 Small Businesses — American Express Cardmembers and Merchants Are Eligible to Register for Platform Starting Tonight — Twitter is rolling out the self-serve ad platform it's been testing to 10,000 small and midsize businesses next month through …

More: Marketing Pilgrim, AllThingsD, CNET, The Wall Blog, Wall Street Journal, Marketing Land, MediaPost and TechCrunch

Rhoda Alexander / iSuppli®:

Apple's Toughest Competition in the Fourth-Quarter Tablet Market Was...Apple — Although soaring sales of Amazon's Kindle Fire and other low-priced tablets trimmed Apple Inc.'s media tablet market share in the fourth-quarter, it was Apple's own newly introduced iPhone 4S that proved …

More: eWeek, Technologizer, Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, IntoMobile, PadGadget, PC Magazine, App Advice, GigaOM and iDownloadBlog.com

Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:

OpenXC: Ford Launches an Open-Source Platform for In-Car Connectivity and Apps — Cars and the Internet are slowly getting closer, but it's still hard for developers to get their apps into cars without being invited by the automobile industry. Given the security and especially safety concerns involved …

More: Fast Company, ReadWriteWeb and Electronista. Thanks:@stfncassu

Kukil Bora / International Business Times:

Anonymous Hacks U.S. Government Consumer and Trade Commission Web Sites, Posts Anti-ACTA Video … By KUKIL BORA: Subscribe to Kukil's RSS feed — The hacker group Anonymous took down a number of U.S. government websites early Friday in a fresh protest against the looming Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA.

More: Inquirer, Betabeat, Bloomberg and Softpedia News

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

YES! Congress isn't killing white spaces broadband before it's born — Congress has reached a compromise on key wireless spectrum issues that had the potential to put the kibosh on innovation and competition when it came to both mobile broadband and unlicensed spectrum.

More: Electronista, TPM Idea Lab and Washington Post

Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:

Feds Propose Ban on In-Car Dialing, Texting, Surfing — The Department of Transportation has proposed guidelines that would block all in-vehicle communications by a driver, including texting, dialing, Internet browsing, and even entering a GPS address by hand.

More: National Highway Traffic …, The Register, SlashGear, MobileBurn.com, Examiner and All Facebook

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

UK bank Barclays targets PayPal with new mobile number money transfer service Pingit — From today, any customer banking with UK bank Barclays will be able to utilise the company's new mobile money transfer service, Pingit, which allows money to be sent and received using just a mobile phone number.

More: ZDNet, Bloomberg, Crave, The Verge, Guardian, Pocket-lint, Telegraph, Inquirer and Fast Company

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