Techmeme: As Europe Presses Google on Antitrust, U.S. Backs Away (New York Times)

December 18, 2012, 8:00 AM

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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Judge denies Apple permanent injunction, throws out Samsung's jury misconduct claims — Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over the Apple v. Samsung litigation in the Northern District of California, just entered two important post-trial orders. Within minutes of each other …

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Samsung drops Apple patent lawsuits in Europe — Samsung has today announced it will drop its lawsuits against Apple for standard essential patent infringement in Germany, the UK, France, Italy and the Netherlands. In a statement given to The Verge, the manufacturer said:

More: TechCrunch and Bloomberg. Tweets: @wsj

NYT Bits:

What Instagram's New Terms of Service Mean for You — Instagram released an updated version of its privacy policy and terms of service on Monday, and they include lengthy stipulations on how photographs uploaded by users may be used by Instagram and its parent company, Facebook.

More: BBC, CNET, ZDNet, Wired, AllThingsD, Telegraph, Softpedia News, TechRadar.com, Thomas Hawk Digital Connection, Ubergizmo, Gawker, memeburn, SlashGear, TechCrunch, WebProNews and Betabeat

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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Why You Should Want to Pay for Software, Instagram Edition — If you want to stop social networking services from exploiting your likeness for advertising, you've got to start paying up. — Instagram is changing its terms of use in January. Included in the new legalese is one section …

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, PetaPixel and BuzzFeed. Tweets: @nickbilton

Reed Morse / YouTube Blog:

Film and share videos instantly with YouTube Capture for iPhone and iPod touch — Life moves fast. To speed up recording, enhancing and sharing videos with your friends or the whole world, you can now use the YouTube Capture app on your iPhone or iPod touch. — Making sharing fast and easy

More: CNET, The Appside, ITProPortal, 1001 Noisy Cameras, digitaltrends.com, BGR India, iPhone Alley, SocialTimes, AppleTell, TUAW, Lifehacker, iPhone Hacks, PC Magazine, Mashable!, iDownloadBlog.com, GigaOM and MacRumors. Tweets: @theromit. Thanks:@hunterwalk

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:

Hands-on: YouTube Capture app one-ups Apple's video sharing options

More: iMore.com, Softpedia News, Pocketnow and Macgasm

Wall Street Journal:

Apple in Preliminary Talks with Foursquare About Data-Sharing Deal — Apple Inc. is in early discussions to integrate local data from Foursquare Labs Inc. into its mapping application, according to people familiar with the talks, as the company continues to build an arsenal of local data to try to take on Google Inc.

More: iMore.com, The Appside, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, The Next Web, AppleInsider, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, PhoneArena, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, App Advice, Electronista, Pocketnow and AllThingsD

Tweets: @erickschonfeld, @panzer and @pkafka

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Samsung unveils new 5-inch dual-SIM Galaxy Grand, with dual-core 1.2GHz processor and 8MP camera — Adding yet another Galaxy S III (or maybe Note) clone to its collection of Android smartphones, Samsung today launched its new Galaxy Grand handset, offering a dual 1.2 GHz processor …

More: SAMSUNG TOMORROW Global, digitaltrends.com, InfoWorld, Inquirer, ZDNet, CNET, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Verge, IntoMobile, ITProPortal, Phones Review, Electronista, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena and SlashGear

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Hands On With Facebook Nearby, A New Local Biz Discovery Feature That Challenges Yelp And Foursquare — Each month 250 million Facebook users tag posts with location. Today that data goes to work for you in a major revamp of Facebook's Nearby feature for its iOS and Android apps.

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Josh Williams On Why Facebook Acqhired His Startup Gowalla To Put A “Nearby” Lens On 250M Geo-Posts Per Month

More: ReadWrite, PC Magazine and Android Community

Nielsen:

Nielsen and Twitter Establish Social TV Rating — Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, and Twitter today announced an exclusive multi-year agreement to create the “Nielsen Twitter TV Rating” for the US market.

More: The Appside, Social News Daily, Wall Street Journal, Marketing Pilgrim, The Blog Herald, TechCrunch, dailywireless.org, CNET, Podcasting News, Splitsider, Tech Cocktail and Ars Technica

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

The Nielsen Twitter TV Rating just made Twitter the first purely social ranking of US TV program popularity

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evleaks / Unwired View:

HTC M7, successor to the One X, detailed: 4.7-inch 1080p, Sense 5, much more — HTC is once again preparing the launch of a flagship Android handset, according to a previously reliable source, among whose cutting-edge components will reportedly be several industry firsts.

More: Gizmodo, Phones Review, Pocket-lint, SlashPhone, AndroidOS.in, Techie Buzz, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, The Verge, Android and Me, Pocketables, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Android Community and TechCrunch. Thanks:@uvstaska

Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:

DARPA begins work on 100Gbps wireless tech with 120-mile range — DARPA has begun development of a wireless communications link that is capable of 100 gigabits per second over a range of 200 kilometers (124mi). Officially dubbed “100 Gb/s RF Backbone” (or 100G for short) …

More: CNET, The Register, Ars Technica and Mashable!

Loek Essers / ITworld.com:

German privacy regulator orders Facebook to end its real name policy — Facebook said it would vigorously fight the order — A German privacy regulator ordered Facebook to stop enforcing its real name policy because it violates a German law that gives users the right to use nicknames online.

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, BBC, The Next Web, datenschutzzentrum.de, MediaPost, SlashGear and facecrooks.com

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Letterpress 1.2 Brings HTML5 Replay Feature — Loren Brichter's Letterpress is my favorite iOS game. It's no surprise that the game has been adopted so quickly and listed by Apple as a runner-up for Game of the Year on the “Best of App Store” list for 2012. Letterpress is fun, clever, and incredibly addictive.

More: The Next Web, iPhone Hacks and Macgasm

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Instagram's latest app update fixed my biggest pet peeve, and people hate it — As a long time user of Instagram, I have come to loathe a certain thing that people do on the service. No, it's not duckface or Throwback Thursdays. It's not even the fact that most people will never …

Tweets: @remic and @trenti

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:

Tor: An Anonymous, And Controversial, Way to Web-Surf — For more than four years, William Weber has helped run a free service called Tor that makes Web surfing anonymous for anyone. — Then on Nov. 28, the police showed up at the 20-year-old's home in Graz, Austria, and accused him of distributing child pornography.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Google Maps for iOS downloaded 10M times in under 48 hours — Google's Jeff Huber has just announced via Google+ that Google Maps for iOS was downloaded 10 million times in under 48 hours from its release last week. — “We're excited for the positive reception of Google Maps for iPhone around the world,” writes Huber.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

What The Twitter/Instagram Standoff Has Meant For Traffic To Instagram — When Instagram began to pull its inline previews of photos out of Twitter almost two weeks ago, many did not take that turn of events too well. Consumers like things easy, and clicking out of one app or site to go elsewhere is not always the best experience.

Sencha Blog:

The Making of Fastbook: An HTML5 Love Story — When we started what became Sencha, we made a bet on the web: a bet that modern application development didn't need anything except the browser, a great set of frameworks and a great set of tools. With those three weapons in hand …

Anthony McCartney / Associated Press:

Hollywood hacker sentenced to 10 years in prison — LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Monday sentenced a hacker to 10 years in prison after he broke into the personal online accounts of Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera and other women and posted revealing photos and other material on the Internet.

More: Inquirer, SlashGear, Naked Security, DailyTech, CNET, The Verge and Associated Press

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Xbox introduces SportsPicks app, new SmartGlass experience for ESPN, NBA — For sports fans, the Xbox was once just a device for scoring touchdowns on Madden or making birdies with Tiger Woods. — But as Microsoft continues to turn the Xbox into an entertainment hub, its sports content is following a similar path.

More: Xbox Live's Major Nelson, SlashGear, BGR, WinBeta, TechNet Blogs, Neowin and Engadget

Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:

Microsoft Scrutinized by EU Privacy Watchdogs for Policy Changes — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s policy changes for its Internet products including Hotmail and Bing are being formally examined by European data protection regulators for potential privacy issues.

More: ZDNet

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft left ‘surprised’ by Google's Exchange ActiveSync announcement — Google announced last week that it plans to drop Exchange ActiveSync support for new devices on personal Gmail accounts from January 30th. While Microsoft has remained quiet on the issue affecting Windows 8 …

More: The Microsoft Office Blog, PC Pro, WinBeta, Forbes, MobileBurn.com and The Next Web

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Cloud Foundry:

Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …

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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …

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