Techmeme: Google Defeats Publishers Over Copyright in German Parliament (Bloomberg)

March 1, 2013, 4:50 PM

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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Judge strikes $450 million from $1 billion damages award in Apple v. Samsung: second trial needed — Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over two Apple v. Samsung cases in the Northern District of California, has just entered an order striking (or, more precisely, vacating) $450,514,650 …

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Bloomberg:

Apple Award Cut With New Trial for Some Samsung Products — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s $1.05 billion victory against Samsung Electronics (005930) Co. in a patent infringement case was cut almost in half by a judge who ordered a new trial for some Samsung products.

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Einhorn's Greenlight Drops “Silly” Apple Suit — Hedge fund magnate and famous Apple bull David Einhorn has dropped his lawsuit against the company in which he holds some 1.3 million shares. Einhorn's Greenlight Capital on Friday withdrew the suit it brought against Apple over a proxy proposal …

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Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:

FCC To Investigate Cell Phone Unlocking Ban — Following an online uproar over a law banning the unlocking of cell phones, the Federal Communications Commission will investigate whether the ban is harmful to economic competitiveness and if the executive branch has any authority to change the law.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Facebook holding an event to show off a ‘new look for News Feed’ on March 7th — Facebook has just sent out an invite to press with the text ‘come see a new look for News Feed’. The event will be held at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters on Thursday March 7th, 2013 at 10am PST and we'll be on site.

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Bloomberg:

Google Defeats Publishers Over Copyright in German Parliament — Google Inc. (GOOG) and other news aggregators may continue to show short news items on their Internet sites without being required to pay, German lawmakers decided in a parliamentary vote today in a blow to publishers including Axel Springer AG (SPR) and Bertelsmann SE.

More: GigaOM, Search Engine Land, PC Magazine, Spiegel Online, Search Engine Land, VentureBeat, Associated Press, ZDNet, German Pulse and Datamation.com. See also Mediagazer

Melissa Eddy / New York Times:

German Copyright Law Targets Google Links

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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Square Slapped With Cease And Desist By Illinois State Department Of Financial Regulation — Mobile payments company Square appears to have just received a cease and desist order from the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation. You can access the document here.

More: Business Insider, The Next Web, PandoDaily and WebProNews

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David Hsieh / DisplaySearch Blog:

Smaller Tablet PCs to Take Over in 2013? — The launch of the iPad mini in late 2012 has been seen as an acknowledgement by Apple that smaller size (7-9") tablet PCs would become a larger part of the market than larger sizes (9.7" or 10.1"). Key aspects are more attractive prices and the ability …

Jamie Rigg / Engadget:

First BB10 update addresses battery life, low-light photography, third-party app performance and more — BlackBerry 10 has been out in the wild for almost a month, and today early adopters will begin receiving the first update to the new platform: version 10.0.10.85.

More: Inside BlackBerry, GigaOM, IntoMobile, ZDNet, SlashGear, PhoneArena, ReadWrite, CNET, VentureBeat, Inquirer, The Verge, FierceMobileContent News, The Full Signal, MobileSyrup.com, Pocket-lint and Gotta Be Mobile

Zach Epstein / BGR:

BlackBerry coup confirmed: iPhone, Android users make up half of Z10 sales in Canada, one-third in UK

More: Examiner, Ars Technica and PC Magazine

Bloomberg:

Best Buy Says It Got No Offer From Founder Schulze — Best Buy Co. (BBY) said it received no offer from founder Richard Schulze by the deadline yesterday and will continue to focus on its turnaround. — The deadline expired and Schulze didn't make a bid, the Richfield, Minnesota-based retailer said in a statement today.

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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Invents Advanced iPad Magnetics System for Dual iPad Notebook, Tripod Stands, Gaming Controller & Much More — On February 28, 2013, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals a system for magnetically attaching a tablet device to a supporting structure.

More: The Register, VentureBeat, PhoneArena, Business Insider, Mashable!, CNET, PadGadget and AppleInsider

Chris Welch / The Verge:

At last, Microsoft brings Photosynth panorama app to Windows Phone 8 — After previously making the panaroma app available for iOS (and Windows Phone 7 after that), Microsoft is finally bringing Photosynth to Windows Phone 8. As you'd expect, Microsoft has tapped into WP8's feature set …

More: Windows Phone, The Windows Blog, Engadget, CNET, BetaNews, GeekWire, The Next Web, Pocketnow, Neowin, The Official Microsoft Blog and Softpedia News

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Is Now Officially Calling Itself A ‘Technology Company’, Ditching The ‘Digital Media’ Tagline — Yahoo today issued its annual 10-K report to the Securities And Exchange Commission. These kinds of forms have a lot of boilerplate language that is reused again and again — often …

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

FTC: Chairman was unaware of Google's donation to ceremony celebrating his work during investigation — The FTC has responded to yesterday's controversy regarding Google and its director stating that he knew nothing at the time of the donation in question. This implicitly states …

More: ValueWalk

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Exploit lets websites bombard visitors' PCs with gigabytes of data — A Web developer has demonstrated a simple-to-execute exploit that allows websites to surreptitiously bombard visitors' storage devices with gigabytes of junk data. — As its name suggests, FillDisk.com loads …

More: The Register, GitHub, The Verge and Gizmodo

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google Releases Interactive Infographic: “How Search Works” — Every wondered how Google Search works, finds pages from across the web and decides how to list them in response to a search? If so, Google's got a new resource designed to answer questions. Called “How Search Works,” …

More: Inside Search, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, The Verge, VentureBeat and WebProNews

Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blog:

Evernote for iOS Update: New View, Better PDF Support, Evernote Business Improvements, and More — Today's Evernote for iOS (5.2) update is full of exciting and useful features, including a new way to view your notes, a completely overhauled PDF experience, more formatting options …

More: Apple, MacRumors, TUAW, MacNN, Engadget, iPhone, SlashGear and The Next Web

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Google's CFO says Motorola's upcoming products aren't ‘wow’ by Google standards (update) — If you were hoping to see a revelatory smartphone from Motorola in the near future, you might want to tone down those expectations. Google's Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President Patrick Pichette today …

More: Examiner, Network World, TechHive, DailyTech, Business Insider, Electronista, Phones Review, PhoneArena, Beyond Search, Gizmodo, PC World, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, Android and Me and Gotta Be Mobile

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

Oracle investigating after two more Java 7 zero-day flaws found — Summary: Polish security researchers have discovered yet more zero-day vulnerabilities in Java, the beleaguered Web plug-in, that led to the successful intrusion of Facebook, Apple and Microsoft in recent weeks. — Zack Whittaker

More: FireEye, The Next Web, SecLists.Org Security … and WebProNews. Thanks:@zackwhittaker

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