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August 22, 2012, 12:40 PM
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Bob Quinn / AT&T Public Policy Blog:
Enabling FaceTime Over Our Mobile Broadband Network  —  Last week, we confirmed plans to make FaceTime available over our mobile broadband network for our AT&T Mobile Share data plan customers.  —  FaceTime is a video chat application that has been pre-loaded onto every AT&T iPhone since the introduction of iPhone 4.
Rob Wong / Hulu Blog:
Launching a New Hulu: A Fresh Look for the Shows You Love  —  In 1992, the great comedian Phil Hartman threw on his Arkansas sweatshirt and walked into a McDonald's.  He was on the set of “Saturday Night Live” and doing his best Bill Clinton impression, continuing the show's grand tradition of Presidential lampoons.
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
PayPal Trumps Square's Deal With Starbucks by Partnering With Discover  —  Under a new partnership being announced with Discover, PayPal is super-sizing the number of merchant locations it will accepted at in the U.S. to more than seven million.  —  “The whole industry has been looking for a landmark …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Verizon Is Said To Offer Nokia Windows 8 Phone This Year  —  Verizon Wireless plans to sell a new Nokia (NOK1V) Oyj phone with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows 8 software this year, marking the first time it has released a Windows device since May 2011, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
T-Mobile adding unlimited data plans with no throttling on September 5th  —  Among US national carriers, T-Mobile and Sprint have long been the champions of unlimited data even as Verizon and AT&T have clamped down in recent years — but for T-Mobile customers, there's always been a catch …
Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits:
YouTube Will Now Let Mobile Users Choose Whether to Watch Ads  —  People often visit Web sites on their mobile phones as much or more than they do on computers.  But that leaves Web companies with a challenge: how to make money on phones, where there is less space for advertisements and people have less patience for them?
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch's Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator's S12 Demo Day  —  75 startups pitched their hearts out today at Y Combinator's 15th Demo Day.  We saw surefire small businesses to risky big bets but after collecting opinions from their YCS12 classmates and top VCs, these are TechCrunch's top 10 picks.
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
How ‘Call Me Maybe’ and Social Media Are Upending Music  —  For decades, the song of the summer would emerge each year following a pattern as predictable as the beach tides.  —  Pop radio would get it rolling before school let out, and soon the song — inevitably one with a big …
More: Tech Daily Dose.  Tweets: @pkafka
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Current BlackBerry Enterprise Servers incompatible with BlackBerry 10 devices; RIM to cease development  —  Research In Motion (RIMM) has had an incredibly difficult time getting QNX-based devices to work with the company's existing systems.  The reason the BlackBerry PlayBook shipped without email …
More: ZDNet and IntoMobile
Christina Farr / VentureBeat:
CouchSurfing, now a ‘social travel network’, gets a $15M boost  —  CouchSurfing, a website that connects travelers with friendly, foreign strangers willing to share their home, is proving to be profitable business.  Today, the company raised an additional $15 million, bringing its total funds raised in the past year to $22.6 million.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Opera Q2: Sales Up 32% To $52.1M; Mobile Surges, Desktop Flat, Google Deal Stays Put  —  Opera Software, the Norway-based Internet browser company, today reported Q2 2012 earnings that solidified the company's strength in mobile, and ongoing weakness in desktop usage in the face of competition …
YouTube Blog:
The U.S. election, live on YouTube  —  Today we're introducing the YouTube Elections Hub, a one-stop channel for key political moments from now through the upcoming U.S. election day on November 6.  You can watch all of the live speeches from the floor of the upcoming Republican …
David Meyer / GigaOM:
Google lashes out at German copyright ‘threat’  —  Google has launched a broadside against a proposed law in Germany that would see search engines forced to pay license fees for linking people to news stories.  —  Well, actually that's slightly inaccurate: the draft law would make search engines pay …
More: PC World and Daily Dot
Klint Finley / Wired:
Is There a Landmine Hidden in Amazon's Glacier?  —  On Tuesday, Amazon unveiled a new online storage service known as Glacier.  It's called Glacier because it deals in “cold storage” — i.e., the long-term storage of things like medical records or financial documents that you may need to archive for regulatory services.
More: .net
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Nikon's Coolpix S800c: an Android-powered point-and-shoot camera for $350  —  It's here: the first Android-powered camera, and it's one that you'd actually consider buying.  Nikon's $349.95 Coolpix S800c is nearly as slim as a smartphone from the middle of last decade, boasting inbuilt GPS …
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
City of Oakland, FCC identify source of police radio interference: AT&T  —  Since its installation in July 2011, the City of Oakland has had massive problems with its radio system.  —  Timothy Wells  —  On Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that local officials …
Alex Williams / TechCrunch:
Storage Provider Nutanix Raises $33 Million And Shows Signs Of Readying For An IPO  —  Nutanix has raised $33 million in a Series C funding round.  The investment comes from investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures along with new investors Battery Ventures and Goldman Sachs.
Michael Carney / PandoDaily:
Typesafe Nets $14M to Deliver Development Tools for the Cloud and Multi-Core Computing Environment of the Future  —  Five or ten years ago, developers rode their fixie bikes uphill to work, both ways, in the snow, then used simple and familiar programming languages to ply their trade.
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Verizon Vacation Blackout Reveals The New iPhone Will Launch On Friday, September 21  —  A trusted Verizon employee has just confirmed to TechCrunch that the carrier is having an all-staff vacation blackout from the dates of Friday, September 21 to September 30.  You know what that means, right?
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
An LTE iPhone could be the most disruptive thing in the UK mobile market since the original  —  Today's been rather a momentous day in the UK mobile arena, following local regulator Ofcom's approval of Everything Everywhere's plans to use existing spectrum to roll out LTE service early.
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
PopCap Confirms Layoffs as the Billion-Dollar Payoff From EA Becomes Less Likely  —  EA-owned PopCap, responsible for creating such games as Bejeweled and Plants vs. Zombies, is laying off 50 employees from its Seattle studios and is re-evaluating the need for an office in Dublin.
Lucian Constantin / Computerworld:
Crisis malware infects VMware virtual machines, researchers say  —  The Windows version of Crisis also infects Windows Mobile devices and USB drives  —  The Windows version of Crisis, a piece of malware discovered in July, is capable of infecting VMware virtual machine images …

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Bloomberg:
Paramount reaches a settlement with the US states suing to block its WBD acquisition, after four states that opposed a deal conceded over the weekend

Kaitlan Collins / @kaitlancollins:
Email: TV pool chair Bryan Boughton says the pool is suspending pooled coverage of President Trump's events; ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, and NBC are the pool members

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