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July 19, 2012, 3:56 AM

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Kit Chellel / Bloomberg:

Apple Must Publish Notice Samsung Didn't Copy IPad In U.K. — Apple Inc. (AAPL) was ordered by a judge to publish a notice on its U.K. website and in British newspapers alerting people to a ruling that Samsung Electronics Co. didn't copy designs for the iPad.

Amanda Conway / YouTube Blog:

Face blurring: when footage requires anonymity — As citizens continue to play a critical role in supplying news and human rights footage from around the world, YouTube is committed to creating even better tools to help them. According to the international human rights organization WITNESS …

Ryan Singel / Wired:

YouTube Offers Face-Blurring Tool to Protect Dissidents

Yoni Heisler / Network World:

Earliest known photos of an Apple iPad prototype — Well before the iPhone, and going back all the way to the early 2000s, Apple had been working on tablet prototypes that would eventually form the groundwork for the original iPad It's well established that Apple's iPhone was in the works …

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Fab Seals The Deal On $105 Million In New Funding — Design-oriented flash sales site Fab has raised $105 million in new funding, the company announced today. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and was subsequently confirmed by Fab CEO Jason Goldberg in a detailed blog post.

More: Wall Street Journal, CNET, Digits, betashop, VatorNews, GigaOM, Betabeat, Business Insider, Mashable!, VentureBeat and Pulse2 Technology …

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Steve Jobs shouldn't influence upcoming Apple/Samsung trial: judge — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday approved Apple Inc's request to bar disparaging statements by Steve Jobs about Google's Android operating system from an upcoming patent trial against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.

More: Washington Post, The Verge, Electronista and CNET. Tweets: @dangillmor

Charles E. Schumer / Wall Street Journal:

Memo to DOJ: Drop the Apple E-Books Suit — Restoring Amazon's monopoly in digital publishing is not in the public interest. — Recently the Department of Justice filed suit against Apple and major publishers, alleging that they colluded to raise prices in the digital books market.

More: CNET, paidContent, Hillicon Valley, Ars Technica, TeleRead, Engadget, App Advice and 9to5Mac. See also Mediagazer

Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Magazine:

McDonald's Denies Employees Assaulted Human Cyborg Steve Mann — In response to a storm of controversy surrounding its treatment of Human Cyborg Steve Mann, McDonald's has issued a statement, claiming that it has investigated the incident and determined that it “did not involve a physical altercation …

More: TechnoBuffalo and msnbc.com

Reuters:

EU regulators investigating Microsoft's Windows 8 — (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft blocks computer makers from installing rival web browsers on its upcoming Windows 8 operating system following complaints from several companies.

More: ZDNet, Computerworld, The Verge, VentureBeat, Engadget and PC Magazine

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Now Including Unique Identifiers for In App Purchase Receipts to Combat Hack — Following last week's launch of a hack that allowed users to obtain In App Purchase content free of charge by routing their purchase requests through a server run by a Russian hacker, Apple began taking steps to thwart the method.

More: The Verge, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, App Advice and The Next Web

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

New Mobile App Vyclone Aims to Remix Social Video From Every Angle — Instagram proved there is such a thing as a billion-dollar app. Now everyone wants a shot at being the next messiah. Naturally, Instagram's photographic medium laid the foundation for the current round of contenders: Video.

More: GigaOM, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, ABCNEWS and Mashable!

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Evernote adds Activity Stream and Retina display support — Evernote for Mac has just been updated with a brand new notification center and improved graphics for Macbook Retina displays. — The new ‘Activity Stream’ works much the same way as the notification system used on Facebook or Spotify …

More: Evernote Blogcast and The Verge

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Ebay Beats Forecasts On Strong Growth From Marketplaces, Q2 Revenue Up 23 Percent To $3.4B — eBay has just released its second quarter 2012 earnings report, in which the eCommerce giant outpaced expectations for yet another quarter. Revenue increased 23% to $3.4 billion, compared to the same period of 2011.

More: Business Wire, Tech Trader Daily, internetretailer.com, eWeek, VentureBeat, The Tech Trade and AllThingsD

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

64GB Samsung Galaxy S III not canceled, set for release later this year — We had all but forgotten about it, but the 64GB version of the Galaxy S III is alive and well. We heard a few reports yesterday that the high-capacity variant was canceled — the source of the news was a notice …

More: Engadget and Tech Trader Daily

Donna Tam / CNET:

Yahoo pushes Olympics coverage through all sites, apps — Yahoo plans to broadcast Olympics-related information across every screen it can, making it possible to follow the 2012 London games on the company's various apps in addition to its usual news outlets. — Follow @DonnaYTam

More: AllThingsD and TechCrunch. See also Mediagazer

Nicole Perlroth / Bits:

Researchers Say They Took Down World's Third-Largest Botnet — On Wednesday, computer security experts took down Grum, the world's third-largest botnet, a cluster of infected computers used by cybercriminals to send spam to millions of people. Grum, computer security experts say …

More: PC Magazine, Gizmodo, FireEye, CNET, The Verge, ZDNet, SecurityWeek and Ars Technica

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Sprint Won't Charge Customers for FaceTime Over Cellular — While AT&T hasn't yet decided whether or not it will charge users for using Apple's FaceTime video-chat service over its cellular network, Sprint says it's customers can use the service free of charge. — Reports the Wall Street Journal:

More: The Verge, Android Phone Fans, Gotta Be Mobile, AppleInsider, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena and 9to5Mac

Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM:

Top Hat Monocle snags $8M to turn students' cell phones, laptops into tools for in-class learning — Over the past few years, the use of hand-held “clickers,” which enable students to respond to professors and live polls during class, has seen adoption on college campuses nationwide.

More: Chicago Tribune, VentureBeat, VatorNews, Forbes, BetaKit, iNovia Capital and Mark Evans Tech

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Sen. Al Franken Grills Facebook and the FBI Over Their Use Of Facial Recognition Technology — Sen. Al Franken used an enlarged Facebook privacy page as a prop during the hearing — The man with the most recognizable face in Congress is worried about the citizens of America …

More: The Verge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Network World and Computerworld

Wall Street Journal:

Nokia's Bad Call on Smartphones — Frank Nuovo, the former chief designer at Nokia Corp., gave presentations more than a decade ago to wireless carriers and investors that divined the future of the mobile Internet. — More than seven years before Apple Inc. rolled out the iPhone …

More: Digits and PhoneArena

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Viacom says there's ‘no deal in sight’ to get channels back on DirecTV — It's hard to distinguish who's behaving like the bigger drama queen when it comes to the recent carriage fee dispute between DirecTV and Viacom. For the moment, DirecTV seems to be inching ahead, according to a Viacom blog post published this afternoon.

More: Blog.Viacom, CNET, CNNMoney.com and Engadget

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Bing Maps piles on 215TB of new Bird's Eye imagery, proves it's a small world after all — Did you think Microsoft was done with Bing Maps updates after it threw a whopping 165TB of satellite imagery at virtual explorers? You've got another thing coming. The mapping crew in Redmond …

More: Bing and Ubergizmo

Vivek Gowri / AnandTech:

The 2012 MacBook Pro Review — With most of the attention from Apple's hardware refresh event centered around iOS 6 and the new Retina MacBook Pro, the updated 2012 edition of the regular MacBook Pro has flown a little bit under the radar. Basically, it's just an Ivy Bridge-infused version …

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

Taller ‘iPhone 5’ Cases Begin to Appear for Sale — Smaller bottom dock, and headphone jack — Cydia Blog notes the appearance of “iPhone 5” cases from TVC-Mall that correspond to circulating rumors about the next generation iPhone. — The case design lines up with the many part leaks …

More: AppleInsider, iPhone BlogiPhone Blog, digitaltrends.com, CNET, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena, Gizmodo UK and everythingiCafe

Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:

Foursquare paves way for ad products with release of Local Updates — Change is underway at check-in service Foursquare, which is one month into a radical redesign that has refocused its entire service around social interactions. Today, the social network is giving venues a way to communicate …

More: CNET, TechCrunch, Mashable!, AdAge, The Verge and AllThingsD. Thanks:@jbruin

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