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Apple:
Apple Answers the FCC's Questions — Today Apple filed with the FCC the following answers to their questions. — We are pleased to respond to the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's inquiry dated July 31, 2009, requesting information regarding Apple's App Store and its application approval process.
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AT&T:
AT&T Statement on Letter to the FCC Regarding Apple App Store — WASHINGTON, DC - On July 31, 2009, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued letters to Apple, AT&T and Google with a series of questions about the Google Voice app and Apple's App Store approval process.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Truth: What's Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&T And The FCC — Apple has responded to the FCC's request for information around its rejection of various Google and third party iPhone applications for the iPhone. — In short, Apple denies that they rejected the Google Voice application …
John Herrman / Gizmodo:
Apple and AT&T Answer FCC About Google Voice Rejection: It's All Apple — PR speak doesn't usually come this blunt, but the situation warrants it. AT&T's full response to the FCC's investigation into the Google Voice app rejection can be summed up like this: This one's on Apple. As for Apple's?
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Google Voice App Rejection: AT&T Blames Apple; Apple Denies It Happened And Google Hides — Federal regulators wanted to know why Apple rejected Google's innovative Voice app from its iPhone app store and what role AT&T played in the rejection. The rejection drew sharp criticism from around …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Choice Nuggets From Apple's Response to the FCC's Inquiry Regarding the Rejection and Removal of Google Voice Apps From the App Store — Apple's response is worth reading in its entirety; it is written in clear, plain language, and gives straight answers to nearly all questions. A few choice bits, though:
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
AT&T, Apple and Google respond to the FCC over Google Voice and the iPhone App Store — Whoa — we were just sent AT&T response to the FCC's investigation into the rejection of Google Voice apps from the iPhone app store, and Ma Bell isn't pulling any punches: according to the letter, AT&T …
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Marco.org:
Apple's fairly dull FCC response — Apple pulled a Palin this evening by trying to bury this inconvenient news piece on a Friday night: their response to the FCC inquiry about the Google Voice rejection and the approval process at the App Store. Fortunately, even on Friday nights, tech bloggers are always on the internet.
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T to require smartphone data plans starting September 6th — AT&T subscribers, we have good news and bad news. The bad news is that as of September 6th, AT&T will begin requiring that all smartphones sign up for a smartphone data plan. The good news is that customers …
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Andy Rubin / Google Public Policy Blog:
Android and VoIP applications — I wanted to briefly set the record straight about an inaccurate claim in Friday's USA Today. The article stated: — “Consumers who use Android, the Google-developed operating system for wireless devices, can't use Skype, a leading Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Sweden launches criminal probe of Pirate Bay sale — Sweden's Economic Crimes Bureau has begun an investigation into some of the events surrounding the planned acquisition of The Pirate Bay by Global Gaming Factor X. — The Swedish newspaper, SvD reported Saturday that authorities are looking …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:Trading halted in stock of Pirate Bay bidder
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Reddit, Sears, Grills That Cook Babies... And The Streisand Effect — Adam sends in a link to a Reddit story where it comes out that someone (not entirely sure who) decided to push Reddit to take down an earlier story. Apparently Sears.com had some oddity in how content on its e-commerce site …
Kathleen Lau / Computerworld:
Could Google be tricked into talking to botnets? — Cybercriminals could start to take advantage of the popularity of search engines like Google as vehicles for relaying malicious code to botnets every time a particular keyword is searched for, said one security expert.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
DST Still Shopping for Facebook Shares — Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies appears to be hungry for a bigger piece of Facebook. — AFP/Getty Images — The firm just finished spending $100 million to purchase current and former Facebook employees' shares of the company …
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Yahoo wins U.S. court ruling over webcasting fees — NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court in New York ruled that a Yahoo Inc Internet radio service is not required to pay fees to copyright holders of songs it plays, a defeat for Sony Corp's BMG Music.
Gmail Blog:
Email a task list — Sometimes you need to get your tasks out of Tasks. Although you already know how I feel about paper, we decided to add support for printing with Tasks's graduation from Gmail Labs. Today we're offering another export solution which doesn't kill trees: emailing a task list.
Philip Lam / all things Palm Pre:
New Palm Pre Ad from Bell looks identical to the iPhone Ads — I hate to say it, but the latest Bell Palm Pre Ads looks almost identical to the iPhone Ads that Apple had been running for years. It's a dude holding the device in one hand (impossibly good looking hands) …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Advertising And User-Targeting Network Lookery Heads To The Deadpool — Lookery, a startup that focuses on collecting demographic data about users and sites around the web and then selling this information to ad networks to target users, is heading to the deadpool.
