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Why Didn't Google Throw Apple Under The Bus From The Start? — Apple lied. That is basically what Google claimed yesterday when it published the redacted version of its filing about Google Voice to the Federal Communications Commission. — My first reaction to this was: WTF?! My second take was: Why?
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Releases A Nuke. Apple Won't Win This Fight. — Well, something clearly broke down behind the scenes in the ongoing Apple/Google negotiations over Google Voice on the iPhone, because Google released one of two nukes it has been holding back. In a letter to the FCC today …
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901am, CNET News, Google Public Policy Blog, Brainstorm Tech and Silicon Alley Insider, Thanks:thinkmantra
Juan Carlos Perez / Computerworld:
DOJ: Court should reject Google book search settlement — IDG News Service - The U.S. Department of Justice has come out against the proposed agreement to settle copyright lawsuits that authors and major publishers filed against Google over the search company's book search program.
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eWeek, Webware.com, Agence France Presse, Telegraph, Softpedia News, Techgeist and PC World
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Government Urges Changes to Google Books Deal — SAN FRANCISCO — In the latest challenge to Google's plan to establish the world's largest digital library and bookstore, the Justice Department said late Friday that a proposed legal settlement between Google and groups representing book authors …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Importance Of Enthusiasm In Any Product — A video took the web by storm today entitled “Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple.” Basically, it boils down Apple's latest event into a series of superlatives. It's a funny video because Apple really does have a pattern of using these types …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Introduces App Store Resource Center for iPhone Developers — In an e-mail sent today to registered iPhone developers, Apple announced the introduction of the App Store Resource Center (iPhone developer membership required), a new site within the iPhone Dev Center dedicated …
Henry Newman / Enterprise Storage Forum News:
RAID's Days May Be Numbered — The concept of parity-based RAID (levels 3, 5 and 6) is now pretty old in technological terms, and the technology's limitations will become pretty clear in the not-too-distant future — and are probably obvious to some users already.
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Luis Corrons / PandaLabs:
Your Facebook account is worth $100 — Yesterday I came across (thanks Sean-Paul!) the following site, which really attracted my attention: — As you can see, it is an online service which promises to hack any Facebook account just for 100 bucks (!). My first thought about this was …
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Softpedia News, The Next Web, SC Magazine US News, Computerworld, eWeek and The Register
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Court: Disloyal Computing Is Not Illegal — A federal appeals court says employees are not liable for damages under anti-hacking laws for accessing their employers' computers for disloyal purposes. — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that workers authorized to access company computers …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
What Job Listings Tell Us About Google & Yahoo's Future Plans — Earlier this week, Google announced its intentions to start an exchange for display advertising, an attempt to take on Yahoo and its healthy position in the display ad business. This is a fairly big broadside by Google …
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Zune HD a major sellout? — Let it be known: we liked the Zune HD before it was popular, before all the poseurs jumped on the bandwagon with their tight-fitting jeans and their hairstyles. If various stores on the internet are to be believed, the Zune HD is selling out in a pretty big way.
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
HTC Tilt 2 reappears in AT&T's system in preparation for launch — Are you an AT&T subscriber anxiously awaiting the day when you can finally make the HTC Tilt 2 your own? If so, good news first came back in August when we gave you a screenshot of the handset sitting pretty in AT&T's system.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Lawsuit Brings Clarity To Skype's IP Problem (Prognosis: Screwed) — When a group of investors pooled their resources a few weeks ago to put a bid in to buy Skype from eBay, I thought there was a good chance that Skype's legal woes were behind them. Apparently, I was wrong …
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GigaOM, 901am, paidContent, broadstuff, L.A. Times Tech Blog, NewTeeVee and BloggingStocks, Thanks:atul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
While We Wait For Chrome For Mac, Mozilla's Camino Gets An Update — While Mac users grow impatient for Google's Chrome browser to come to the platform, there's a small bit of good news today: A new beta version of the excellent Camino browser. — Camino is a browser built by Mozilla specifically for the Mac.
Thanks:mgcreed
John Cook / TechFlash:
Cougar sighting at Microsoft? — Microsoft is already trying to fend off Snow Leopards. Now, it has cougars to deal with too. For the second day in a row, there's been an unconfirmed cougar sighting on Microsoft's Redmond campus near building 32. — A note to staffers gives some tips on what to do if they encounter a cougar.
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
FCC's Net Neutrality Push to Boldly Go Where Congress Has Failed Thrice Before — Julius Genachowski, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, plans to propose a set of rules to define network neutrality in a speech Monday at the Brookings Institution, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:U.S. as Traffic Cop in ‘Net Neutrality’ Fight
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PC World, Download Squad, Post I.T., Daily Patricia, Techgeist, Mashable!, Lockergnome Blog Network, New York Times, Digits, Epicenter, FierceWireless, DSLreports, savetheinternet.com/blog, mocoNews, dailywireless.org, Electronista, Silicon Alley Insider, CNET News, TG Daily and On Deadline, Thanks:blogfisher
Samantha Young / Associated Press:
Calif. advances tough flat-screen energy standards — SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Energy regulators on Friday moved forward with a plan that could ban the sale of the most power-hungry televisions from California retail stores. — The California Energy Commission released what it hopes …
Security Research & Defense:
Update on the SMB vulnerability situation — We'd like to give everyone an update on the situation surrounding the new Microsoft Server Message Block Version 2 (SMBv2) vulnerability affecting Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. — Easy way to disable SMBv2
