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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet — Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. — They're not much happier …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Rumor: Apple May Be Working on XL Tablets Running Full Mac OS X — This one caught us by surprise, but it comes from a source that has always been 100% reliable: Not only Apple may be working on a 10-inch tablet, but also in 13" and 15" models, one running Mac OS X.
Sam Gustin / DailyFinance:
Microsoft's secret ‘screw Google’ meetings in D.C. — Microsoft's chief Washington lobbyist has been convening regular meetings attended by the company's outside consultants that have become known by some beltway insiders as “screw Google” meetings, DailyFinance has learned.
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Heather Smith / Bloomberg:
IPhone Cracks, Explosions in France Caused By External Force, Apple Says — Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. said iPhones turned in by customers in France and elsewhere in Europe with shattered screens showed outside pressure caused the cracking. — Apple is investigating reports …
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BBC:Apple denies ‘exploding’ iPhones
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Wall Street Journal:
China Unicom Strikes iPhone Deal — Apple Device Set to Enter World's Largest Mobile Market — China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. announced a deal with Apple Inc. to sell iPhones in China starting later this year, bringing the popular device to the world's largest mobile market for the first time.
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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
The App Store Goes To China — A deal with China Unicom is good news for Apple—and better news for developers. — BURLINGAME, Calif. — The iPhone is going to China, which means more than 100,000 developers will have a chance to hitch a ride along with it.
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
How To Beat the Kindle — Study everything the iPod's rivals did. Then do the exact opposite. — You might argue that Sony was visionary. In the fall of 2006, it introduced the first eBook with an E Ink screen—long before Amazon's Kindle rolled out with the same technology.
Glenn Fleishman / Macworld:
Wake on Demand lets Snow Leopard sleep with one eye open — A new networking option in OS X 10.6 lets you access files on a slumbering Mac — To conserve power and reduce your electrical bill, you should shut down your computer or put it to sleep when not in use.
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Dancho Danchev / Zero Day:Snow Leopard's malware protection only scans for two Trojans
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Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Kurt Cobain returns, for “Guitar Hero” debut with “Teen Spirit” — Tragic Seattle rock star Kurt Cobain is headlining a new version of the hit video game “Guitar Hero” featuring an eerIE, animated Cobain resurrected on screen. — His appearance in “Guitar Hero 5” should balance out …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Hulu Has More Viewers Than Time Warner Cable — Hulu's reach as a video platform keeps growing, now reaching more video viewers than the second biggest U.S. cable company. — In July, some 38 million people watched a video on Hulu, according to comScore.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Investor Group Makes Play For Skype — A group of well known venture capital and large private equity firms are pooling resources to make a bid to acquire eBay-owned Skype, according to a source close to the deal. — Investors in the proposed purchase may include newly-formed Andreesen Horowitz …
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Pete Wylie / FierceVoIP:Report: Mark Andressen, others aim to purchase Skype
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Ronen Halevy / BerryReview.com:
HOT! BIS 2.8 Features - Two Way Google Contacts Sync & More — Its good to be back! Just got back from a weeks vacation in Switzerland and what a day. One of our secret agents sent me the change log for the upcoming BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) 2.8 upgrade that is scheduled for September.
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Developers Call BS On $2.4B iPhone App Store Number — Estimates that the iPhone App Store is worth $2.4 billion a year are utterly ridiculous, iPhone developers say. — Mobile advertising firm AdMob on Thursday got a ton of press for estimating that the iPhone App Store earns billions.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Citizen Sports' iPhone App Is Better Than ESPN's, But They're Not Named ESPN — As a startup in the sports sphere, Citizen Sports has a simple, but annoying problem: They're not ESPN. And it's simply hard to compete with the name that has basically become synonymous with sports.
Bloomberg:
Comcast Wins Appeal of FCC Rule Limiting Cable Companies to 30% of Market — Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) — Comcast Corp., the biggest U.S. cable-television provider, won a legal victory as a court threw out a rule limiting cable companies to 30 percent of the market.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Sources: Current iPod SKUs discontinued, hinting at refresh — The current line of iPods is on its last legs, lending more evidence that an iPod refresh is just around the corner. Sources from Apple Authorized Resellers have confirmed to Ars that current stock is dwindling …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Expanding Access To Wave Soon, First “Hands-On” Impressions — At the end of next month, September 30, Google will expand the current “developer preview” of Google Wave to roughly 100,000 consumer users. According to Google, “included in this group of early testers will be some of the businesses using Google Apps.”
WM Professional / Phone Arena:
Storm 2, Touch Pro2, Omnia II and possibly the Pre - all in Verizon's inventory database — Published on: Today by PhoneArena Team — One of our most loyal tipsters has just shared some quite spicy info with us. Hi-end handset lovers will be delighted to know that the RIM BlackBerry Storm 2 …
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