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May 31, 2013, 11:00 AM

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Declan McCullagh / CNET:
Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands  —  San Francisco federal judge tells Mountain View company to comply with FBI's warrantless National Security Letter requests for user details, despite ongoing concerns about law's constitutionality.
More: ZDNet and The Verge
Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo:
Nokia Lumia 928 Review: Flawed Beauty, Best Camera  —  The nicest thing you can say about any gadget is that it changed the way you use that type of gear for the better.  The 928 did that for me with smartphone cameras.  It will for you, too, probably.  It's just a shame that the phone …
Cade Metz / Wired:
Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet  —  At Google, Chris Zacharias spent his “20 percent time” building a new version of YouTube just for places with slow internet connections.  It was called Feather, and the basic idea was to build a YouTube page that contained …
Charlie / GreatFire.org:
Sina testing subtle censorship ahead of Tiananmen anniversary  —  What happened?  —  On May 31, 2013 at 7am, we observed that searching for keywords that are normally blocked, for example, "" (June 4th incident), surprisingly returned some results and no censorship notice.
More: Digits
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Microsoft to settle Vringo lawsuit over search-related patents  —  (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp(MSFT.O) has agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing it of infringing patents that enable Internet search engines to place advertisements most effectively.  —  Vringo Inc(VRNG.O), whose …
James Niccolai / PC World:
Computer scientists oppose Oracle's bid to copyright Java APIs  —  Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users.
Joshua Green / Businessweek:
Google's Eric Schmidt Invests in Obama's Big Data Brains  —  During the 2012 campaign, Barack Obama's reelection team had an underappreciated asset: Google's (GOOG) executive chairman, Eric Schmidt.  He helped recruit talent, choose technology, and coach the campaign manager, Jim Messina …
Clare Jim / Reuters:
Hon Hai sets up display R&D company in Japan  —  (Reuters) - Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, said it set up a research and development company in Japan for displays and touch panels, its latest effort to strengthen its display business.  —  The world's largest contract electronics manufacturer …
More: CNET and ZDNet
Sayantani Ghosh / Reuters:
Dell urges shareholders to vote for CEO's offer  —  (Reuters) - Dell Inc urged shareholders on Friday to vote for the $24.4 billion buyout offer led by founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell at a special meeting on July 18, saying the bid was superior to other strategic options.
More: CNET, PC World and ValueWalk
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:
Global deal to eliminate tech product duty fast approaching  —  Summary: According to U.S. tech firms, a deal between nations worldwide to eliminate duty on new tech products is on the horizon.  —  Charlie Osborne  —  A deal between China, Europe, the U.S. and a dozen other countries …
More: Reuters
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Fan TV revealed: is this the set-top box we've been waiting for?  —  Built in secret, Fanhattan is finally showing off its Yves Behar-designed device to the world.  —  In June 2011, a Silicon Valley startup released a well received iOS app named Fanhattan to serve as a central place for finding streaming video.

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