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Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch — Last night, within minutes of Apple approving the Instapaper 4.2.3 update, I was deluged by support email and Twitter messages from customers saying that it crashed immediately on launch, even with a clean install.

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Apple Says it Has Fixed Server Bug Led to Crashing Apps — Apple said late Thursday that it has resolved a glitch that was causing some apps downloaded from its online store to crash upon launch. — “We had a temporary issue that began yesterday with a server that generated DRM code …

More: CNET, Computerworld, The Next Web, msnbc.com and everythingiCafe

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Apple Responds To And Fixes App Crashing Issues, DRM Software To Blame — Just a quick update on the issues plaguing Apple's iOS and Mac App Stores: Apple has now informed developers that it's aware of the problem and is working on a resolution. For background, a serious problem …

More: TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, CNET, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Next Web, iPhone, MacRumors, Gadgetsteria, iDownloadBlog.com and PadGadget. Thanks:@anthonyha

Kelly Faircloth / Betabeat:

Developers: Don't Push Any Updates to the App Store Right Now, Cause It's Apparently Kinda Busted

More: BetaNews. Tweets: @marcoarment

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Judge who shelved Apple trial says patent system out of sync — (Reuters) - The U.S. judge who tossed out one of the biggest court cases in Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) smartphone technology battle is questioning whether patents should cover software or most other industries at all.

More: Business Insider, Groklaw, Ars Technica, BGR, The Tech Trade, App Advice, The Register, Jailbreak | iOS, Android News, Rumours …, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com, Droid Life, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Coyote Tracks, Hillicon Valley, GamePolitics blogs and MacRumors

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft confirms enthusiasts' fears: No more versions of Windows Home Server — Summary: Windows Home Server 2011 is the last version of Microsoft's home-server operating system, company officials have finally confirmed. — Follow @maryjofoley — After a year-plus of hints and rumors …

More: The Seattle Times

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft goes public with Windows Server 2012 versions, licensing

More: The Register, We Got Served, Ars Technica, ReadWriteWeb, NoGeekLeftBehind.com, LiveSide.net, PC World, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, CNET, Engadget, Software Ruminations and Neowin

Joanna Stern / ABC News:

Google Confirms Galaxy Nexus Sales Stopped in Apple-Samsung Case, Fix Coming Next Week — While Apple and Samsung's phones and tablets battle it out on store shelves, the companies (and Google) have been battling it out in the courtroom in ongoing patent disputes.

More: Ars Technica, Droid Life, WebProNews, Pocketables, 9to5Google, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena, Redmond Pie, The Verge, Gadgetsteria, Engadget, IntoMobile, DroidMatters.com and Phone Scoop

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo CEO Search in Final Stages, With Levinsohn and Kilar in Lead — According to sources close to the situation, the search for a new CEO for troubled Internet giant Yahoo is closing in on several key candidates in the mix, in what appears to be coming down to a contest between interim CEO Ross Levinsohn and Hulu CEO Jason Kilar.

More: Reuters, Business Insider, VentureBeat, bizjournals and socalTECH.com

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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:

Researchers Say iPhone Users Hit With App Store's First Ever Spam-Sending App — A screenshot from Find and Call's website. — Just as antivirus researchers congratulated Apple for keeping the iPhone free of nasty apps five full years after its release, spammers seem to have finally tarnished that spotless record.

More: PC Magazine, Ars Technica, Macworld Australia, SC Magazine, Android Phone Fans, Redmond Pie, Computerworld, PadGadget, Help Net Security, Softpedia News, SecurityWeek and everythingiCafe

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Pulls Russian SMS Spam App from App Store [Updated]

More: digitaltrends.com, CNET, Los Angeles Times, ibtimes.co.uk, The Verge, Engadget, The Loop and iDownloadBlog.com

Tony Chan / CommsDay:

Facebook becomes a telco: invests in Asia subsea cable — Facebook has made its first investment in a subsea cable system: the Asia Pacific Gateway. According to a Malaysian stock exchange filing by Malaysia's Time dotCom, the latest member to join the APG cable consortium …

More: Wired, TIME dotCom, The Register, WebProNews and dailywireless.org. Tweets: @qthrul

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:

The Pauls' New Crusade: “Internet Freedom” — Defending the Internet — and the corporations that invest in it — from government regulation is the new “End the Fed,” Paul advisors tell BuzzFeed exclusively. A new Paul manifesto: “This is our revolution.”

More: Techdirt and Ars Technica

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Patent troll stalks travel site Hipmunk — Hipmunk's quest to “take the agony out of travel planning” has won plaudits from users and the media and earned the start-up a new $15 million investment. Now, a patent troll wants Hipmunk to give it a piece of the action.

More: Daring Fireball, Business Insider, VentureBeat, the Econsultancy blog and PandoDaily

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Opera Web Browser Unblocks The Pirate Bay — Back in 2006 Opera was the first major browser to include BitTorrent support. Today, however, it has another interesting feature for BitTorrent users. The browser offers a “Turbo” service which makes websites load faster for users on a slow connection.

More: GigaOM, Geek.com, Geekosystem and The Next Web

Carl Bildt / New York Times:

A Victory for the Internet — In a ground-breaking vote on an issue that affects all of us, the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday endorsed a resolution upholding the principle of freedom of expression and information on the Internet. — The broad support for the resolution demonstrated …

More: US Mission Geneva, Tech Daily Dose, Hillicon Valley, The Next Web, Washington Post and Susan Crawford blog

Zack Whittaker / CNET:

WikiLeaks starts publishing two million ‘Syria Files’ emails — The whistle-blowing group is to publish more than two million emails that will “embarrass” Syria, but also Western nations that are dealing with the oppressive Assad regime. WikiLeaks, the highly controversial whistleblowing group …

More: VentureBeat, VatorNews, Neowin, The Firewall, PC World, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Examiner and Associated Press. See also Mediagazer

Bloomberg:

RIM Cutting Carrier Fee Shows ‘Spiral’ Concern — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), the BlackBerry maker whose stock has dropped 95 percent since 2008, is under pressure from mobile phone companies to reduce carrier fees that generate $4.09 billion in annual revenue.

More: parislemon, TechnoBuffalo, FierceWireless, AllThingsD, Gotta Be Mobile and Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Louis Goddard / The Verge:

Olympus announces Project Glass-style wearable display prototype — Just over a week after Google's spectacular demonstration of its Project Glass headset at Google I/O, Japanese camera maker Olympus is jumping back into the wearable computing game, announcing a new prototype of a glasses-mounted heads-up display.

More: Wired, TechCrunch, Akihabara News, Bits, Examiner, Engadget, Gizmodo UK, Gotta Be Mobile, VentureBeat, WebProNews, Betabeat and 1001 Noisy Cameras

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Traffic App Waze Doubles From 10 To 20 Million Users In 6 Months — Waze, a traffic and navigation app, has been growing rapidly. — In the past six months, Waze says its users have jumped from 10 million to more than 20 million. Last month, 1.8 million new users joined Waze.

More: By the Waze, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, everythingiCafe, VatorNews and The Next Web

Joseph Walker / Wall Street Journal:

Google Revamps Its Workforce Education Programs — Google Inc. Chief Executive Larry Page has spent the past year trying to bring a renewed sense of urgency and focus to the search company, in what he calls putting “more wood behind fewer arrows.” Playing a big part in that effort …

More: Betabeat, Forbes, ZDNet, 9to5Google and Business Insider

Eunice Lee / New Jersey Online:

N.J. ACLU unveils ‘stealth’ app allowing citizens to secretly record police — For years, the American Civil Liberties Union has aggressively tried to police the police, filing suit after suit against law enforcement agencies it believed crossed the line. — Now, the ACLU's New Jersey chapter …

More: PC Magazine, msnbc.com, CNET, Examiner, WHP-TV, Daily Mail, The Moderate Voice and Business Insider

iFixit:

Nexus Q Teardown — Did it come from outer space? Did it rise up from the depths of the lost city of Atlantis? How much of it was really made in the United States? When Google announced the Nexus Q at the I/O keynote on June 27, 2012, we decided to take one apart and see what we could uncover.

More: Android Phone Fans, TechnoBuffalo, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, Computerworld, Ubergizmo, Wired, Pulse2 Technology …, Mashable!, 9to5Google and VentureBeat

BBC:

Android smartphones ‘used for botnet’, researchers say — Android devices are believed to be sending out spam messages similar to this example — Smartphones running Google's Android software have been hijacked by an illegal botnet, according to a Microsoft researcher.

More: CNET, msnbc.com, The Register, Digits, Computerworld, MSDN Blogs, DailyTech, Geek.com, eWeek, WebProNews, PhoneArena, SiliconANGLE, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, Inquirer and TechEye

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