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September 15, 2012, 8:30 PM

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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Google Objects to Acer Smartphone — Google Inc. said late Friday that it objected to Taiwanese PC maker Acer Inc.'s development of a smartphone that is powered by a rival mobile operating system, the launch of which was delayed this week. — Acer postponed the launch of the phone …

More: Computerworld, CNET, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, GigaOM, Marketing Land, Liliputing, Engadget and Android News, Rumours …. Tweets: @parislemon

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Google just dropped an Android-shaped bomb in China [Updated] — Google has dropped an Android-shaped bomb on China's mobile market, after comments from the company potentially affected some of the country's most powerful Internet firms and their strategy of modifying its Android operating system to develop platforms of their own.

More: Tech in Asia, Google+, Marketing Land, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Web 2.0 Asia Blog, CNET and Slashdot. Thanks:@jonrussell

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

What Is The One True Android & How “Open” Is It? — Ironically on iPhone 5 day, Google finds itself about to be embroiled in a fresh debate over how much it controls “open” Android as well as what Android actually is. It's well past time for “Android” to mean the mobile operating system …

More: Neowin, MobileBurn.com, Official Android Blog, Gizmodo and 9to5Google

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead — When Apple announced the iPhone 5, Phil Schiller officially announced what had leaked several days earlier: the phone is powered by Apple's new A6 SoC. — As always, Apple didn't announce clock speeds, CPU microarchitecture, memory bandwidth or GPU details.

More: MacRumors, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac and iPhone in Canada Blog

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

In New Ad Campaign, Samsung Tries to Win on the Merits — For many, the iPhone 5 is the talk of the weekend — and that includes Samsung. — The Korean phone maker will tomorrow start running a print ad campaign in national and regional papers that compares the features of its Galaxy S III with those of Apple's iPhone 5.

More: The Verge, Business Insider, The Next Web, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, MobileSyrup.com, Business Insider, CNET, Softpedia News and Tech-SHIZZLE. Tweets: @reneritchie

Chris Oldroyd / iMore:

iPhone 5 fully dimensioned design drawing available for all to see — If you are a case maker then Apple usually provides you with a detailed design drawing of its iPhone models. This time however the link to the design drawing has been made available to all and it reveals some interesting information on the iPhone 5 design.

More: VentureBeat, Electronista, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog and AppleInsider. Tweets: @joeljohnson

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

LEAKED! Here's The White House's Draft Cybersecurity Executive Order — Earlier this week, we wrote about how the White House was working on an executive order to act as a “stand in” for cybersecurity legislation that has so far failed to pass Congress (CISPA passed in the House …

More: VentureBeat, The Next Web and Wall Street Journal

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

BuzzFeed Hires Web Video Pioneer Ze Frank — Here's a good chocolate/peanut butter combination: Buzzfeed, the click-factory that has figured out Facebook and Twitter, plus Ze Frank, the guy who figured out Web video back in its infancy. — Together they're going to try to figure out modern-day YouTube.

More: Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Fast Company, Pulse2 Technology …, ReadWriteWeb, The New York Observer and PandoDaily

Tweets: @zefrank and @pkafka

Paul Krill / InfoWorld:

Google's Java translator eases path to iPad, iPhone apps — The company also moves forward on Python client library for Google APIs — h(f)){c=a.createElement('script'); c.type='text/javascript';c.src='http:// ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/'+ g+'/jquery.min.js';c.onload=c.onreadyst atechange= function …

More: Google Open Source Blog, The Register, Softpedia News, WebProNews and The H Open Source

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Google Fiber Adds Turner Channels, Including Cartoon Network, CNN, TBS, And TNT — When Google first announced the details of its Kansas City fiber rollout, one of the knocks against it was that its channel lineup was a little thin. While it had struck deals to bring video subscribers …

More: The Verge and Google Fiber Blog

Kimber Streams / The Verge:

T-Mobile to offer nano-SIM cards for iPhone 5 in mid-October — T-Mobile will begin carrying nano-SIMs in mid-October according to a tweet from the carrier's support account and confirmation from a T-Mobile spokesperson. We've already noted T-Mobile's desire to attract customers …

More: CNET, iMore.com, BGR, GigaOM and Engadget

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Apple's timid new iPod nano sidesteps a smartwatch revolution — By all accounts, Apple's new iPhone 5 is a fine product, a line drive down the middle. It will easily sell millions and likely even break some records — the massive iPhone ecosystem alone will guarantee that.

More: Cult of Mac, Mashable! and Daring Fireball

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