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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 …
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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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Gagan Biyani / MobileCrunch:
Cheating the App Store: PR firm has interns post positive reviews for clients — When it comes to winning in the App Store, one PR firm has discovered a dynamite strategy: throw ethics out the window. Reverb Communications, a PR firm that represents dozens of game publishers and developers …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Five Pirate Bay BitTorrent Alternatives — The Pirate Bay we know and love, though still harboring torrents for now, is going away. But that doesn't mean BitTorrent is dead. Far from it. Here are five places to get your torrent on after it closes for good. — Demonoid
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Cable Vs. Wireless: Guess Which Is Growing Faster? — It's almost impossible believe, but there it is: the cable industry is actually outgrowing the wireless sector. — This stunning factoid comes courtesy of the latest Weekend Media Blast piece from Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett.
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Agence France Presse:
Smartphones drive language learning innovation — The boom in “smartphones”, led by Apple's iPhone, has inspired language learning tools that would have been inconceivable just months ago — and a Hong Kong firm is leading the charge. — Tens of thousands of “apps” …
Griffin McElroy / Joystiq:
Rumor: Walmart catalog lists $100 price cut for Xbox 360 Elite — Oh, man. This ish just got real, son. Last week, a supposedly leaked Meijer's catalog revealed a $100 price cut for the Xbox 360 Elite SKU — we weren't sure what to make of it, but a recent Walmart catalog …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
The Odd Tale of Facebook, TipJoy, the Deal that Didn't Happen and the Hire that Did — What's next for the team behind Tipjoy, a micropayments service that closed its doors this week? For one of the company's founders, it's a job at Facebook-the social network that offered to buy the start-up this summer …
New York Times:
Europe Divided on Google Book Deal — BERLIN — The proposed U.S. legal settlement giving Google the right to sell digital copies of millions of books is dividing publishers and authors in Europe, which has struggled to develop viable alternatives to Google's ambitious book digitization project.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Would-Be FFugees Shouldn't Pack Up And Find A New Home Just Yet — Following Facebook's acquisition of FriendFeed, a lot of users in that community were up in arms. Basically, everyone was quick to jump to the conclusion that FriendFeed, as we knew it, was dead.
Zee / TheNextWeb.com:
(updated) 4Chan launches embarrassing attack on devout Christians on Facebook — *Updates at the foot of the post* — We posted a relatively amusing screenshot earlier today which saw a highly embarrassing photo posted to someones Facebook profile. The photo initially seemed similar …
Edo Segal / TechCrunch:
For Twitter, Sharing Data WIth Google Would Be Suicide — Guest author Edo Segal (@edosegal) has launched and sold several companies. In 2000 he founded eNow, a search engine for the Real-time Internet in an age that predated RSS as a popular medium. As such he has had a decade to think about its implications.
