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July 23, 2013, 1:20 AM

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Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:

Victory Lap for Ask Patents — There are a lot of people complaining about lousy software patents these days. I say, stop complaining, and start killing them. It took me about fifteen minutes to stop a crappy Microsoft patent from being approved. Got fifteen minutes? You can do it too.

Tweets: @bfeld, @mcuban, @cdixon, @anildash, @ericries and @spolsky

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Netflix's Q2 Misses Due To Lower-Than-Expected Subscriber Adds, Earns 49 Cents Per Share On $1.07B In Revenue — Netflix just released its second-quarter earnings report, missing analyst expectations with lower-than-expected subscriber numbers. For the second quarter …

More: Bloomberg, The Technology Chronicles, Engadget, Mercury News, MoneyBeat, internetretailer.com, CNBC, VatorNews, The Verge, DailyFinance.com, Business Insider, ZDNet, GeekWire, Forbes and Electronista

Tweets: @pkafka and @alex

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

“Arrested Development” Helps Netflix Add More Than 600,000 Subscribers

More: BGR, Tech Trader Daily and TechCrunch

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Netflix says it will produce original documentaries, stand-up comedy specials

More: Digits

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Yahoo Loses Its Media Head, as Mickie Rosen Ankles From Company — According to sources, Yahoo's media head Mickie Rosen is leaving the Silicon Valley Internet giant. — Rosen, who reported to COO Henrique De Castro, is one of the highest-ranking execs to depart the company in recent months.

More: Digits, TechnoBuffalo and Hollywood Reporter. See also Mediagazer

Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:

Samsung to cut out Google middleman with own developers' conference — Samsung's own devcon will put the hardware manufacturer first. — Samsung plans to hold its first developers' conference this October in San Francisco, the company announced Monday morning.

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Samsung unlikely to pull away from Google at October developer event

More: Computerworld and Sammy Hub

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Analyst: New iPhones to be in short supply, no new iPad mini, Haswell iMacs/MacBook Pros in 2013 — Analyst Ming-Chi-Kuo, who has a fairly strong track record in predicting future Apple products (timing not withstanding), has issued a new report with claims for some of Apple's new products for the rest of 2013.

More: MacRumors, iClarified and TechnoBuffalo. Thanks:@chancehmiller

Rob Williams / HotHardware:

MIT Researchers Develop Computer-Generated TCP for Network Connections That are Twice as Fast — Thanks to the efforts of some MIT researchers, our use of the Transmission Control Protocol could soon experience a nice upgrade. Since its introduction decades ago, TCP has become an integral part …

More: Softpedia News

Macworld:

Apple: One billion iTunes podcast subscriptions and counting — Apple on Monday announced that the iTunes Store eclipsed 1 billion podcast subscriptions. That's a whole lot of talking. A special promotion appeared in the iTunes Podcasts directory to commemorate the big number.

More: The Verge, The Next Web, Engadget, AppleTell, MacRumors, TUAW, Geek News Central, iClarified, Insanely Great Mac, AppleInsider, MacNN, Pocket-lint and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @itunespodcasts

Robert McMillan / Wired:

Google Now Serves 25 Percent of North American Internet Traffic — Everyone knows Google is big. But the truth is that it's huge. On an average day, Google accounts for about 25 percent of all consumer internet traffic running through North American ISPs.

More: CNET, ZDNet, DeepField, TechSpot, ITworld.com, The Technology Chronicles, BGR, Engadget, Computerworld and 9to5Google

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

The Web's longest nightmare ends: Eolas patents are dead on appeal — The Eolas patents were uniquely threatening to the Web, and drew Tim Berners-Lee's personal attention. — Christian Payne / flickr — The inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, had never testified in court before last year.

More: CNET, Bloomberg, The Register and Reuters. Tweets: @counternotions

Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal:

Pentagon Offers Compromise on Spectrum Sought by Wireless Carriers — Decision Is a Win for Mobile-Telecom Companies — The Defense Department has offered to compromise with wireless carriers in a fight over valuable spectrum now used for purposes like training pilots in the Pentagon's drone program.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Updates Cloud Storage With Faster Uploads, Auto-Delete And Regional Buckets — Google today announced three new features for its Cloud Storage service that brings it closer to feature parity with Amazon's Web Services (AWS). Just like AWS's S3, Google's Cloud Storage …

More: Cloud Platform Blog, eWeek and The Next Web

Dan Nosowitz / Popular Science:

The First Affordable Home Security System That Can Think For Itself — Canary, a new networked home security system, was posted on Indiegogo this morning. There are lots of similar inexpensive systems out there - most notably the Dropcam - but we're intrigued by the Canary because it's …

More: The Verge, Electronista, VentureBeat, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, Digital Trends, MacStories, Geek.com, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, iClarified, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Mashable and AppleInsider

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

iPhone 5 accounts for half of Apple's smartphone sales, iPhone 4S takes 30% — More than half of all smartphones sold by Apple in June were the latest-generation iPhone 5, according to new data, while the iPhone 4S, first released in 2011, accounted for 30 percent of sales.

More: AllThingsD, CNET, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Mobile Marketing Watch, 9to5Mac, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, Forbes, App Advice, ZDNet, GigaOM, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleTell and Gotta Be Mobile

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Chill: Gmail's New Email Ads Aren't Actually New, And Aren't Even Real Emails — Only weeks after Google rolled out the revamped tabbed interface for Gmail, users began spotting a new ad format, which placed advertisements directly into the “Promotions” section of the inbox.

More: VentureBeat, CNET, Geek.com, BGR, The Atlantic Wire, TechSpot, WebProNews, GeekWire and Business Insider

Jeffrey Burt / eWeek:

ARM, Oracle to Optimize Java for 64-Bit ARM-Based Servers — ARM officials are continuing to lay the groundwork for the company's plans for a greater role in the data center, reaching a multi-year agreement with software giant Oracle to expand the capabilities of Java Platform Standard Edition on ARM's chip architecture.

More: GigaOM, ARM, The Register and PC Advisor

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

HopStop for Windows Phone Scrapped Following Apple Deal — HopStop, the transit-navigation app that Apple recently acquired for an undisclosed sum, appears to have had its platform availability narrowed a bit since the deal closed. — Though it was available for Windows Phone as recently as last week …

More: AppleInsider, asymco, iDownloadBlog.com, MobileBurn.com and Macgasm

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Finland Writes History With Crowdsourced Copyright Law — Since last year the Finnish public has had the option of suggesting the kind of laws they want to be governed under. — A recent modification of the national Constitution allows citizens to make legislative proposals for Parliament to vote on …

More: The Escapist

Elizabeth Armstrong Moore / CNET:

Surplus computing power on your Android? Donate it to science — Users of Android 2.3 or higher can become citizen scientists by downloading software and choosing the projects they want to power, such as fighting AIDS and finding new stars. — Mom said to reach for the stars, right? Now you can.

More: IBM and UC Berkeley NewsCenter

Noel Randewich / Reuters:

Intel heads off rivals with low-power server chip — SAN FRANCISCO — Chipmaker Intel (INTC) said it is planning to launch a low-power version of its brawny server processors, potentially heading off competitors hoping to expand into the data center with energy efficient-chips based on smartphone technology.

More: Intel Newsroom, Ars Technica, ZDNet, The Register, PC World, AnandTech, GigaOM and Electronista

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