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September 26, 2012, 8:35 PM

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple-Google Maps Talks Crashed Over Voice-Guided Directions — Google Chairman Eric Schmidt says Apple should have continued to use Google's mapping application in iOS 6 instead of swapping it out for its poorly received home-brewed replacement, and given the sour reception Apple's Maps app has been given, he may have been right.

More: TechCrunch, MG Siegler, Daring Fireball, CNET, Gizmodo, Business Insider, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, BuzzFeed, Mashable!, Redmond Pie, SeekingAlpha.com, BGR and iClarified

David Pogue / New York Times:

Apple's Maps Tilt in Strange Directions — Last week, I used Apple's new Maps app on my iPhone to guide me to a speaking engagement. — The GPS navigation screen was clean, bold and distraction-free. The voice instructions spoke the actual street names. The prompts gave me just the right amount of time to prepare for each turn.

More: The Next Web, Business Insider, CNET and TechCrunch

Christian Zibreg / iDownloadBlog.com:

Street View coming to Google Maps mobile web app in two weeks — I just read through David Pogue's freshly published article on the Mapgate situation and noticed a couple interesting revelations. The New York Times technology columnist says that in two weeks, you'll be able to get Street View …

More: Gotta Be Mobile. Thanks:@dujkan

NYT Bits:

Google Working on Maps for iPhone and iPad

Jamie Rosenberg / Official Android Blog:

Google Play hits 25 billion downloads — Whether you're looking for directions, checking email or sharing a picture with friends, apps are now an indispensable part of life. And if you're using Android, it all starts with Google Play, home to 675,000 apps and games. That's a lot of choice.

Kathleen De Vere / Inside Mobile Apps:

Tracking growth: the iTunes app store vs Google Play — There are now more than 675,000 apps available in Google Play, a noteworthy figure not for the number of apps, but because it means Android is now within striking distance of overtaking iOS as the mobile operating system with the most apps.

Thanks:@kathleen_lrr

Anna Heim / The Next Web:

Google's President of Brazil Operations arrested for failing to remove YouTube videos — Google's President of Brazil Operations Fabio Coelho was arrested today in São Paulo, the Brazilian website G1 reports, quoting a press release from the country's Federal Police.

More: Reuters, The Verge, Associated Press and WebProNews

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Survey: iOS 6 Leads To Decrease In Device Satisfaction Among iPhone Users — Apple's iOS 6 doesn't appear to be doing the company any favors when it comes to user satisfaction, according to a new poll conducted by mobile customer research firm On Device. The survey of just under 16,000 iPhone owners …

More: App Advice, VatorNews, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, WebProNews, TUAW and PhoneArena

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google to remove exporting of old Microsoft Office formats from Google Apps on October 1 — Google today announced a huge change for Google Apps, including its Business, Education, and Government editions. As of October 1, users will no longer have the ability to download documents …

More: The Register and SmoothSpan Blog

Brian Hawkins / Data Liberation:

Your YouTube original videos now available in Google Takeout — Your Takeout menu is growing. Today's entrée: YouTube videos. — Previously, you've been able to download individual transcoded videos from your YouTube Video Manager. But starting today, you also have a more efficient …

More: ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, The Next Web and 9to5Google

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Remote wipe attack not limited to Samsung phones, Android dialer may be to blame — Yesterday we reported on a vulnerability on Samsung phones that could allow a malicious website to wipe a user's device, but new details are coming to light that indicate the issue extends beyond Samsung's product line …

More: SecurityWeek, SlashGear, Ubergizmo and Dylan Reeve

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Samsung has fix for Galaxy S III reset vulnerability, asks users to update software

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Xbox Music pricing and features revealed through Windows 8 and leaked Xbox interface — Microsoft cherry-picks the best cloud music features for Xbox Music — Microsoft has revealed its Xbox Music service pricing through the Windows 8 Music app, at the same time as pushing …

More: BGR, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Redmond Pie, digitaltrends.com, WMPoweruser, WinBeta, Softpedia News and VentureBeat

Miyoung Kim / Reuters:

Getting in tune; Samsung to shop for software — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, which has vaulted the value chain on the strength of its hardware, will go out and buy mobile content providers, a senior executive told Reuters, to compete with Apple, Google and Amazon.com in a global digital music market worth nearly $9 billion.

More: 9to5Google and Ubergizmo

Julia Boorstin / Media Money with Julia Boorstin:

Twitter CEO Costolo Talks Ads, Facebook, and IPO — Twitter is at a turning point, trying to roll out advertising while also maintaining the user experience. I sat down with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo at the company's new San Francisco headquarters to talk about his plans to grow the social media giant.

More: CNET, Mashable!, digitaltrends.com, The Next Web and Evolver.fm. Tweets: @rsarver

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Nest Takes Honeywell Patents Back to the Drawing Board — While the Apple versus Samsung patent trial got most of our attention this summer, another intellectual property suit stirred silently in the background: Nest versus Honeywell International, the designer thermostat outfit against the aerospace/consumer tech giant.

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:

Facebook Groups get more useful for business with Dropbox file sharing — Here's a hot bit of news for you. Starting today, Dropbox is rolling out a feature in conjunction with Facebook that will allow you to share your Dropbox files directly to Facebook Groups.

More: ZDNet, The Verge, Computerworld, TechCrunch, CNET, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile, Inside Facebook, AllFacebook, Mashable! and Engadget

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Netflix CEO Keeps Focus on Expansion, Price — Netflix Inc. Chief Executive Reed Hastings is trying to prove that his streaming-video company isn't in a state of arrested development. — Last year, Netflix lost subscribers and investor confidence with a debacle over a sharp subscription …

More: VentureBeat, GigaOM, CNET, GeekWire and WebProNews. Tweets: @carlesdijous

David Pakman / Disruption:

Not All Traffic Is Created Equal — To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and countless others employ this model. These models allow scale to emerge at very low-cost.

Tweets: @mathewi and @hunterwalk

Jun Yang / Bloomberg:

Samsung Sees Stronger Start for Note 2, Unfazed by iPhone — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) expects sales of its new Galaxy Note 2 smartphone to get off to a stronger start than its predecessor even after Apple Inc. (AAPL) sold a record number of the latest iPhone in its debut weekend.

More: CNET, GigaOM, AndroidGuys, 9to5Google and 9to5Mac

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

To Unlock A Full Price AT&T iPhone 5, Just Restore It In iTunes — If you have bought an AT&T iPhone 5 without a contract over the past few days, chances are that you want to unlock it to use it on another carrier. The traditional process involves filling out an online form on AT&T's website …

More: Gotta Be Mobile

Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits:

Amazon Starts a Shopping Site for the Environmental Crowd — Amazon.com is going after the environmental crowd with a new site called vine.com for buying green products. — Vine is part of Quidsi, the company that Amazon bought in 2010 that also runs sites like Diapers.com (baby stuff), Wag.com (pets) and YoYo.com (toys).

More: Gizmodo, GeekWire, SlashGear and WebProNews

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Andreessen Horowitz Hires Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty To Be Its Newest Special Advisor — Andreessen Horowitz is announcing this afternoon that Adrian Fenty, the 41-year-old political star best for his work as the Mayor of Washington, D.C. from 2007 to 2011, will be joining the venture capital firm in the role of “special advisor.”

More: Forbes, Business Insider, AllThingsD, Digits, Washington Post, Washington Post, PandoDaily, Fortune and PE Hub Blog

Associated Press:

RadioShack's Chief Executive Steps Down — FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — RadioShack CEO James Gooch has agreed to step down immediately and is leaving its board of directors, the struggling consumer electronics company said Wednesday. — Chief Financial Officer Dorvin Lively will serve …

More: professional.wsj.com, RadioShack Corporation, MarketBeat, Engadget, Bloomberg, Reuters and Daring Fireball

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Netflix iOS and Android apps have a remote control easter egg for PS3 owners — Now that the revamped Netflix interface has hit phones and tablets for both Apple and Android powered hardware, the service has quietly enabled something else: second screen remote control.

More: TUAW and GadgeTell

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Murdoch's Times unblocks search engines to seek new subscribers — In May 2010, News Corp.'s The Times newspaper said it would block search engines from indexing its stories, believing it must remove all possibility of free access as it introduced digital payments. — Two years later, that philosophy is being up-ended.

More: Telegraph, TechCrunch, Marketing Pilgrim, Memex 1.1, Inquirer, Pocket-lint and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Tipping Point? We're Watching More Web Video on TVs Than on PCs. — Getting Web video off your PC and onto your plasma screen used to be a niche activity. No more: Consumer-tracking service NPD says TV sets are now the most popular way to watch streaming video.

More: NYT Bits, PRWeb, fierceonlinevideo.com, PC Magazine and The Register

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Trouble in paradise? Cracks show in Microsoft-Intel alliance — Recent comments from Intel about Windows 8 underscore the tension between the chip giant and longtime partner Microsoft. — When Microsoft unveiled its Surface tablets earlier this year, Intel executives were shocked.

More: Digits, PC Magazine, The Next Web, ZDNet and The Next Web. Thanks:@jimkerstetter

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Facebook completes test asking you to snitch on your friends, has no plans for a broad roll out — Last week, we wrote about a controversial prompt Facebook was testing. Essentially, the social network was asking users to snitch on their friends if they weren't using their real name.

More: WebProNews

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:

TweetMeme, the precursor to DataSift, closes its doors after 500,000 installs — Since the earlier days of Twitter, one of my favorite services has been TweetMeme. It aggregated tweets around popular subjects, then categorized them so that you could easily find what topics were hot at any given time.

More: AllThingsD, TweetMeme Blog and WebProNews

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