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May 31, 2013, 2:05 PM

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Declan McCullagh / CNET:
Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands  —  San Francisco federal judge tells Mountain View company to comply with FBI's warrantless National Security Letter requests for user details, despite ongoing concerns about law's constitutionality.
Naomi Tajitsu / Reuters:
Megaupload founder wins access to evidence seized in raid  —  (Reuters) - A New Zealand court granted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom access on Friday to all evidence seized by police in a 2012 raid, bolstering the Internet entrepreneur's fight against extradition to the United States to face online piracy charges.
Xbox Wire:
The Beauty of Xbox One: A New Approach to Design  —  “Xbox has always had something to say.  It's always been bold with a strong personality,” said Carl Ledbetter, Creative Director, Industrial Design.  “Xbox One needs to serve our most loyal gaming fans and deliver unique entertainment experiences …
AppleInsider:
Apple's iPhone sales reportedly up 400% in India thanks to aggressive pricing strategies  —  The institution of installment payment plans and deep discounts in India has netted Apple up to a fourfold boost in iPhone sales over the past four months, said investment firm Credit Suisse …
Joshua Green / Businessweek:
Google's Eric Schmidt Invests in Obama's Big Data Brains  —  During the 2012 campaign, Barack Obama's reelection team had an underappreciated asset: Google's (GOOG) executive chairman, Eric Schmidt.  He helped recruit talent, choose technology, and coach the campaign manager, Jim Messina …
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth leaves Twitter to start something new, The Guardian's Bulusu now PM  —  TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth announced today that he is leaving Twitter to start “something new”.  In a Tweet, he shared that it's been two years since his Twitter client was acquired …
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Microsoft to settle Vringo lawsuit over search-related patents  —  (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp(MSFT.O) has agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing it of infringing patents that enable Internet search engines to place advertisements most effectively.  —  Vringo Inc(VRNG.O), whose …
Andy / TorrentFreak:
Movie2K Down: The Mystery and Possible Reincarnation Revealed  —  While the world's largest torrent indexes tend to grab most of the headlines, a relatively new range of sites have been scooping up huge numbers of users during the past few years.  —  Avoiding the relative complexity of torrent clients …
Jack Clark / The Register:
Heroku publishes API for its platform cloud  —  Amazon piggybacker wants kids of its own  —  Heroku has released the public beta of a platform API to help its developers build apps and services that sit on top of its PaaS, which in turn sits on Amazon Web Services.
Cade Metz / Wired:
Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet  —  At Google, Chris Zacharias spent his “20 percent time” building a new version of YouTube just for places with slow internet connections.  It was called Feather, and the basic idea was to build a YouTube page that contained …
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Not So Anonymous: Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Tightens Identity Requirement  —  Since the crypto-currency Bitcoin hit the limelight, many libertarians and privacy advocates have heralded it as anonymous, digital cash.  But the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange-and the U.S. regulators breathing down its neck-see things differently.

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