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John Poirier / Reuters:
FTC to press on with Apple-Google board probe — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it will continue to investigate the relationship between the boards of Apple Inc and Google Inc, after Google's chief quit Apple's board on Monday.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Why Schmidt Had To Go — What happens when the enemy of your enemy is no longer your friend? You cast him out, as Steve Jobs seems to have done to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who today resigned his seat from Apple's board. An alliance which began with a mutual distrust of Microsoft …
Gagan Biyani / MobileCrunch:
Apple bans App Store's 3rd-most prolific developer — Over the past few weeks, Apple has been much-maligned for keeping apps such as Google Voice off the App Store. These weren't some random garbage apps; there was no farting, or baby shaking. Google Voice apps are utilities which many have come …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Another Startup Falls Prey To The iPhone/Google Voice Crossfire — If you've been paying attention to the tech news at all over the last week, you're already very familiar with the outrage that Apple has sparked over its rejection of Google Voice for the App Store, and its ban of all third-party applications that tap into the service.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, eWeek, FierceDeveloper, VoIP Watch, Internet Evolution and FierceMobileContent
Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
White House Cybersecurity Chief Quits — WASHINGTON — The White House's acting cybersecurity czar announced her resignation Monday, in a setback to the Obama administration's efforts to better protect the computer networks critical to national security and the global economy.
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Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
‘Moving newspaper’ on flexible screen to be launched within months — It is the norm in the fictional world of Harry Potter: the magical daily newspaper where words and pictures come to life in the reader's hands. — Now a revolutionary technology means that the moving imagery in The Daily Prophet is set to become a reality.
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Ancestry.com Files For $75 Million IPO — Genealogy company Ancestry.com has filed for an IPO and plans to raise about $75 million in the offering, according to an SEC filing. It plans to list on Nasdaq or NYSE under the symbol ACOM, and Morgan Stanley and BofA Merrill Lynch are the lead underwriters.
Richard Wray / Guardian:
INQ handsets turn to Twitter and iTunes — Mobile phone maker INQ is releasing two new handsets boasting support for Twitter and iTunes compatibility, thanks to a deal with one of the internet's best-known hackers — Mobile phone maker INQ is to follow its first award-winning eponymous mobile phone …
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Mashable!, VentureBeat, Engadget, mocoNews, last100, IntoMobile, The Really Mobile Project and Open Gardens
Om Malik / GigaOM:
The GigaOM Interview: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on Mobile, Broadband, iPhone & Innovation — Late last week, a day before the Federal Communications Commission started to investigate the Google Voice App fiasco, I spoke with the new FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
AP Will Sell You A License To Words It Has No Right To Sell — Last year, you may recall, we pointed out that the Associated Press had a laughable sliding scale price if you wanted to copy and use more than 4 words (the first 4 free!). After that, it cost $12.50 for 5 to 25 words.
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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Rivalry Between Apple and Palm Intensifies — The Palm Pre has a large touch screen, slide-out keyboard and fast Web browsing. Palm also likes to point out that another selling point is the smartphone's ability to link to iTunes, Apple's music and media store.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Facebook app lets Intel PCs donate processor power — Can't donate your personal time to a good cause? Intel is providing what may be the next best option. — Intel teamed up with GridRepublic on Monday to launch a Facebook application that allows the spare processing power in a PC …
Fred / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Defends Wikipedian's Right to the Public Domain — As has been widely reported, the National Portrait Gallery of London (NPG) recently sent a legal threat to an American Wikipedian, Derrick Coetzee, over his posting approximately 3,000 photos of public domain paintings to Wikipedia.
Markcuban / blog maverick:
Why TV Networks Should Support Net Neutrality — If you run a TV network, broadcast or cable, you should be spending a lot of money to support Net Neutrality. You should have every lobbyist you own getting on the Net Neutrality train. Why ? Because in a net neutrality environment no bits get priority over any other bits.
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Adam Strong / Domain Name News:
BREAKING: First Ever Criminal Prosecution for Domain Name Theft Underway — Over the years hundreds of stories of domain name theft have been reported, most famous among them of course is the theft of Sex.com. Even as recent as last week, reports of stolen domains sent a chilling reminder through …
Mike / CrunchNotes:
Enterprise Hacks Opining On The Law, And Other Blogging Tragedies — Ok, the reasoned low key approach didn't work. Now it's time for some more truth. — The ridiculous Sam Sethi dispute has gone on for far too long, and far too many have continued to be sucked into his web of confidence …
Financial Times:
Music service Spotify wins high-profile backing — By Tim Bradshaw in London, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York and Tom Mitchell in Hong Kong — Spotify, the digital music service widely tipped as a potential challenger to the dominance of iTunes, is close to securing new investment …
Bill Ray / The Register:
T-Mobile UK starts shifting iPhones on the quiet — Exclusive, what exclusive? — Migrate from Solaris to Red Hat on IBM — T-Mobile UK has started supplying iPhone 3G handsets to selected customers, while O2 UK continues to believe it has a UK exclusive on Apple's last-generation handset.
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It? — We heard rumblings that IZEA's Sponsored Tweets was about to debut back in June. Today, IZEA's platform launched, and it is what we all expected: a pay per tweet service. — Sponsored Tweets, now live …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
PayFail: PayPal And Its APIs Go Down, Online Shopping Grinds To A Halt — There's a mad rush of tips coming into us right now that PayPal's online purchasing service is down for the count. While the site itself appears to be loading (though very slowly), numerous buyers and venders are reporting that sales are not going through.
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The Official Google Blog:
“Going Google” with Google Apps — Every morning, millions of people wake up to a very refreshing experience at work. They don't see “mailbox is full” errors in their email. They don't worry about backing up their data. They can get to any file they need from any computer, anywhere with Internet access and a browser.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
TeleNav GPS Navigator comes to T-Mobile's myTouch 3G — TeleNav has already launched its subscription turn-by-turn navigation service for the G1, so it stands to reason that official myTouch 3G support would be close behind — and sure enough, the company has announced that its GPS Navigator app …
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Twitter augmented reality search: Tweetmondo and Layar team up — A still from Twittaround, the original augmented reality Twitter search app — Less than a month ago, a fascinating, if slightly creepy, mobile app called Twittaround launched — overlaying nearby tweets onto a smartphone camera.
Jason Palmer / BBC:
Call for debate on killer robots — An international debate is needed on the use of autonomous military robots, a leading academic has said. — Noel Sharkey of the University of Sheffield said that a push toward more robotic technology used in warfare would put civilian life at grave risk.
Marc Preel / Agence France Presse:
Swedish crackdown on piracy pays off — STOCKHOLM — Sweden's tough new anti-piracy law has led to a sharp drop in illegal downloading but critics say the effects will be short-lived and argue it is an excessive breach of personal privacy. — Sweden's legislation, based …
