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May 15, 2014, 11:15 AM

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Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal:

Live: Tom Wheeler's ‘Net Neutrality’ Proposal at the FCC — After months of wrangling, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler will present his proposal for new broadband rules today. The draft of the proposal would prohibit broadband providers from blocking or slowing …

More: Re/code, The Verge, Daily Dot, Glass, NY Daily News and Tech Policy Daily

Tweets: @byersalex, @gnagesh, @techmss, @adrjeffries, @amy_schatz, @b_fung, @eff, @ceciliakang, @digiphile and @wsjd

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

Awaiting the F.C.C.'s Road Map to Net Neutrality

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Washington Post, DSLreports and Reuters. Tweets: @digiphile

FRONTLINE:

“United States of Secrets”: How the Government Came to Spy on Millions of Americans — United States of Secrets — How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans? — In United States of Secrets, a two-part series airing May 13 and 20, FRONTLINE goes behind …

More: Currency, Boing Boing, Guardian, Yahoo! Finance, Techdirt and PBS

Tweets: @xeni, @frontlinepbs, @matthew_d_green and @rafat

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PRI:

Orwellian threats caused the New York Times to spike a story on NSA spying way back in 2004

Tweets: @saharhghazi

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

The Three Big Lies: How The Federal Government Kept Its Post-9/11 Spying On Americans A Secret

More: National Security. Tweets: @rafat

Jane Wakefield / BBC:

Politician and paedophile ask Google to ‘be forgotten’ — The right-to-be-forgotten ruling set a precedent for the removal of search results in Europe — Google has received fresh takedown requests after a European court ruled that an individual could force it to remove “irrelevant and outdated” search results, the BBC has learned.

More: TechCrunch, PC Magazine, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Electronista, ITProPortal and Expert Reviews

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

German Regulator Says Google Promises ‘Right to be Forgotten’ Mechanism in Two Weeks — Google Inc. will create a mechanism for German users to request the removal of links to information about them from the company's popular search engine within the next two weeks, German privacy officials said Thursday …

More: Search Engine Land, The Verge and WebProNews

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Photos of an NSA “upgrade” factory show Cisco router getting implant — Servers, routers get “beacons” implanted at secret locations by NSA's TAO team. — A document included in the trove of National Security Agency files released with Glenn Greenwald's book No Place to Hide details …

More: ZDNet, Washington Post, Business Insider, Gizmodo UK and SlashGear

Tweets: @burnettedmond, @kashhill and @dangillmor

Mark Chandler / Cisco Blog:

Cisco general counsel: US Government has overreached, and should not interfere with the lawful delivery of our products — Internet Security Necessary for Global Technology Economy — Today's security challenges are real and significant. We want governments to detect and disrupt terrorist networks …

Tweets: @csoghoian, @padmasree, @om and @arrington

Larry Page / Google:

2013 Founders' Letter — Sergey and I started Google because we wanted “to develop services that significantly improve the lives of as many people as possible” (Founders' IPO Letter, 2004). We've stayed true to that mission, placing long-term bets on new technologies that users truly love …

More: ZDNet, Business Insider, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, Beyond Search, WebProNews, The Next Web and Wall Street Journal

Tweets: @allenpenn, @om, @om, @fmanjoo and @sfiegerman

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

Google's Schmidt Says Europe Court Struck Wrong Balance in Privacy Case

More: New York Times, 9to5Google, Softpedia News and CNET News. See also Mediagazer

Brandon Bailey / Mercury News:

Google promises to release minority hiring figures, as activists protest outside shareholder meeting

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Apple's Beats Deal May Not Be Finalized Until Next Week — More time for people to speculate about what it all means: Apple's planned deal to buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion may not be finalized until next week, according to people familiar with the transaction.

More: USA Today, iMore, BGR, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Geeky Gadgets, Electronista, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, App Advice, hypebot and iPhone in Canada Blog

Aloysius Low / CNET News:

Xiaomi Mi Pad is a $240 plastic iPad Mini lookalike — Xiaomi's first slate sports a 7.9-inch display with resolution equal to Apple's Retina Display of 2,048x1,536-pixels and is powered by Nvidia's Tegra K1 processor. — Aloysius Low/CNET — BEIJING, China—If you ever wondered …

More: The Next Web, Engadget, AppleInsider, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, The Next Web, The Verge, Reuters, Android Central, TIME, AnandTech, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wall Street Journal, Softpedia News, Liliputing, TechCrunch and Ubergizmo

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

HTC's One Mini 2 is an awkwardly named, cut-down version of the excellent One M8 — There's a lot riding on today's announcement. A smaller, cheaper, perhaps more mainstream version of the lovely (but long) HTC One M8 could be a good thing not only for phone buyers, but also for HTC itself …

Wall Street Journal:

Samsung says Galaxy S5 sales reached 11M since launch in early April, outpacing S4 sales — Samsung Says New Galaxy S5 Is Off to Strong Start — Early Sales Suggest Samsung's Smartphone Business Is Regaining Momentum — SUWON, South Korea—In a sign that Samsung Electronics Co.'s smartphone business …

More: 9to5Google, BGR, ZDNet, Gigaom, CNET News, Computerworld, Inquirer, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, Geeky Gadgets, Business Insider, Softpedia News, AndroidOS.in, MobileSyrup.com, SamMobile, Android Central, Pocketnow, Unwired View, CNET News, Ubergizmo, Ubergizmo, SamMobile and SammyToday

Tweets: @yunheekim22 and @wsjd

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Comcast plans data caps for all customers in 5 years, could be 500GB — A Comcast executive said he expects the company will roll out “usage-based billing”—what most people call “data caps”—to all of its customers within five years. — Speaking with investors today (transcript) …

More: TechHive, HotHardware.com News, blog.chron.com, DSLreports, The Verge, Gizmodo, FierceCable, TechCrunch, CNET News, DSLreports, The Register, Electronista, SlashGear, GamePolitics blogs and multichannel.com

Tweets: @craigmod and @laurenweinstein

Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat:

OpenDNS raises $35M for its security and content-filtering servers — How can big data and smart analytics ignite growth for your company? Find out at DataBeat, May 19-20 in San Francisco, from top data scientists, analysts, investors, and entrepreneurs. There are less than 50 tickets left!

More: OpenDNS Blog, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, SecurityWeek, PE Hub Blog, DomainIncite, Wall Street Journal and Business Cloud News

Gareth Beavis / TechRadar:

OnePlus One is only $299 because it's sold at cost, says CEO Peter Lau — Revealed: the reason the OnePlus One is so cheap — EXCLUSIVE New brand relying on word of mouth over marketing … OnePlus CEO Peter Lau has revealed to TechRadar how the company is able to offer its flagship handset …

More: Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, Neowin and Gizchina.com

Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:

Warner, Universal, Sony Buy Stakes in Music App Shazam — Shazam Entertainment, the music-identification app, landed small investments from the world's biggest record companies, according to people familiar with the matter. — Warner Music Group owner Access Industries …

More: The Register, Inc.com, hypebot, Digital Media Wire and Reuters. See also Mediagazer

Cabel Sasser / Panic Blog:

Panic to offer developer tool Coda 2.5 only from their website, to bypass sandboxing hurdles imposed by the Mac App Store — Coda 2.5 and the Mac App Store — Over a year ago, I wrote a blog post about Coda and Sandboxing. — It detailed a thorough list of changes we'd be making to Coda …

More: TUAW, MacStories, iMore and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @chartier

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Creative Commons Picks Former Mozilla COO Ryan Merkley as CEO — Creative Commons, the nonprofit organization that helps enable online content usage, has named a new CEO: Ryan Merkley, who was formerly COO of the Mozilla Foundation and managing director of market research firm Vision Critical.

More: New York Times, Creative Commons and LJ INFOdocket. Tweets: @paul_keller

Dara Kerr / CNET News:

Google Glass handed out to all medical students at UC Irvine — Becoming the first medical school to fully incorporate the wearable tech into its curriculum, the California school thinks the device will help students with anatomy, clinical skills, and hospital rotations.

More: UCIrvine News, 9to5Google, PC Magazine, Google Glass Fans, Techie News, GadgeTell, Glass Almanac, ResearchBuzz, Android Central and SlashGear

Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal:

Happy to Be in U.S., PeopleDoc Raises $17.5M Led by Accel for HR Software — PeopleDoc Inc. is expanding its human resources software service worldwide and has raised a $17.5 million Series B round led by Accel Partners to do it. — Although the cash is important-it will bankroll …

More: Fortune, StrictlyVC, TechCrunch and VentureBeat

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Facebook opens FbStart registration to all mobile developers with an app available for at least 30 days — Facebook today opened up registration for FbStart, a program that helps app developers by providing free tools and services “to get your app up and running fast.”

More: Facebook Developers, WebProNews, AllFacebook and Inside Facebook

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Research project Cider brings iOS apps to Android devices — Six PhD students at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science have developed Cider, an OS compatibility architecture capable of running iOS apps on Android. Rather than using a strict virtual machine …

More: Engadget, NEWS.com.au and AppleTell. Tweets: @elanazak

Zach Miners / PC World:

Target, The Gap and others form group to share cyberthreat data — Some of the biggest U.S. retailers have banded together to share information about cyberthreats, in a bid to avert breaches like that suffered by Target last holiday season. — Target, The Gap, Walgreens and J.C. Penney …

More: SecurityWeek, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Softpedia News

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

A profile of federaj judge Lucy Koh, who oversees the patent battle between Apple and Samsung — Apple, Google Shaped by Silicon Valley Judge Koh's Gavel — Lucy H. Koh's fingerprints are on your Gmail account, your smartphone, and, if you're a Silicon Valley engineer, possibly your prospects for changing jobs.

Tweets: @bloombergtech, @satariano, @stanfordlaw and @emilychangtv

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

AT&T's GigaPower plans cost double the advertised rate if you include TV and retain privacy — AT&T's GigaPower plans turn privacy into a luxury that few would choose — If you sign up for AT&T's GigaPower fiber-to-the-home internet service in Austin, Texas, you can expect to pay …

More: DSLreports. Tweets: @counternotions and @ashk4n

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