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September 9, 2012, 5:55 PM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Spotify Will Launch A Browser-Based Version — If you're wondering why the Spotify desktop software has hardly been updated in a year, it's because the company is preparing to launch a completely overhauled browser-based version of its streaming music service, multiple sources confirm.

More: PC Magazine, PC World, CNET, GadgeTell, paidContent, Pulse2 Technology …, digitaltrends.com, Business Insider, The Verge, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, PC World and Cult of Mac

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Yes, Spotify Is Headed to the Web. No, Spotify Isn't Cutting Its Prices. — Waiting to use Spotify on the Web? Hang on a few weeks. — Waiting to pay $8 a month for Spotify's premium service? Don't hold your breath. — Yes, as TechCrunch reported yesterday, the streaming music company …

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Wall Street Journal:

Do Our Gadgets Really Threaten Planes? — The ban on electronic devices rests on anecdotes, not on hard evidence—because there isn't any — WAS ALEC BALDWIN RIGHT? When the actor tussled with American Airlines personnel last December over his desire to continue playing a game …

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Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Teaching the F.A.A. That Dogs Don't Buckle Up — If you've ever flown Virgin America, you will have seen the cartoonlike safety video that plays before the flight takes off. — In one scene, about a minute into the video, a man is shown sitting next to a large bull as he fumbles with his seat belt.

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Nick Wingfield / New York Times:

Valve, a Video Game Maker With Few Rules — THIS is no Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. — Every way I look, the scene shifts, the battle unfolds. I have a crazy contraption strapped to my head: a boxy set of goggles that looks like a 22nd-century version of a View-Master. It immerses me in a virtual world.

More: PC Magazine, Forbes, Pulse2 Technology …, The Verge, Joystiq, Blue's News, Kotaku and rc3.org

Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily:

The Royal Nokia Screw-Up That Shouldn't Have Been — Anyone who cares about fostering a dynamic, competitive tech industry should be rooting for Nokia. Even if you're not as gaga for Windows Phone as I am—I think it's the best-designed mobile OS on the market—you've got to concede …

More: Pulse2 Technology …, eWeek and Engadget

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Exclusive photos: We put Nokia's controversial Lumia 920 PureView camera to the test

More: PC World, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, CNET, PetaPixel, 1001 Noisy Cameras, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser, PandoDaily, My Nokia Blog and NYT Bits. Tweets: @benedictevans

John Biggs / TechCrunch:

Amazon Kindle HD Will Allow Users To Opt-Out Of “Special Offers” For $15 — If you've been put off by the (arguably obtrusive) Special Offers on the Kindle Fire HD, Amazon has just announced that they will allow users to pay $15 to opt-out of the ads for the life of the device. — An Amazon spokesperson wrote:

More: CNET, Ars Technica, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, Engadget, Pulse2 Technology …, PC Magazine, Techland, The Verge, Business Insider, Examiner and Geek News Central

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Amazon's Kindle Fire won't be a threat to the iPad until it remembers the rest of the world

More: iMore.com, 9to5Google and Kindle Review

Zee / The Next Web:

This letter from PayPal's President might just make you believe in the company again — It began in May with a frustrated customer, Andy McMillan, discovering his PayPal had been locked. Nothing new. Frustrating, but usually remediable with a phone call or a couple of emails.

More: Gizmodo, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Storify, The Loop and PandoDaily. Tweets: @davidmarcus

Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

The Truth About Convertible Debt at Startups and The Hidden Terms You Didn't Understand — This article initially appeared on TechCrunch - with a minor update highlighted in red below. — Ah. We're back to discussing convertible debt again. This time by the efforts of Adeo Ressi …

More: A VC, Storify and A VC

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

FCC backpedals from Internet tax — The Federal Communications Commission is rapidly backpedalling from a proposal to tax broadband Internet service after a public outcry over the issue. — Democrats and Republicans at the agency are now blaming each other for pushing the idea in the first place.

Lisa Jucca / Reuters:

EU says Microsoft pledged to meet antitrust requests on browsers — (Reuters) - Software giant Microsoft is ready to introduce measures that would address the European Union's antitrust concerns about users' ability to chose between different browsers, European Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said on Saturday.

More: CNET and Slashdot

Geeta Dayal / Wired:

The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video's Robotic Overlords — As live streaming video surges in popularity, so are copyright “bots” — automated systems that match content against a database of reference files of copyrighted material. These systems can block streaming video in real time …

More: io9, Boing Boing and Electronic Frontier Foundation

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