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11:30 AM ET, September 4, 2009

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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Google China President Kai-Fu Lee to Resign  —  Kai-Fu Lee, president of Google Inc.'s China operations, is resigning from the company, according to two people familiar with the matter.  —  He will be succeeded internally by another Google executive, according to one of the people familiar with the matter …
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Alastair Goldfisher / PE Hub Blog:
Head of Google China to Leave as Speculation Abounds About his Next Project
Discussion: Tech Beat, MediaMemo, Telegraph and PC World
Brian Mastenbrook:
How I cross-site scripted Twitter in 15 minutes, and why you shouldn't store important data on 37signals' applications  —  Today the Ruby on Rails security team released a patch for a cross-site scripting issue which affected multiple high-profile applications, including Twitter and Basecamp.
Discussion: Softpedia News and TechCrunchIT, Thanks:atul
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt On The Future Of Search: “Connect It Straight To Your Brain”  —  This is Part 2 of my series of posts summarizing a fascinating recent hour-long one on one interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt.  —  Early in the interview I asked Schmidt about the future of search.
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
The Social Benefits of the Google Books Settlement  —  Google's settlement with authors and publishers to gain copyright licenses over millions of books will expand the underprivileged's access to information, a group of professors and civil rights advocates argued Thursday.
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Economist:
Google's big book case
Thanks:atul
Android Developers Blog:
Some News from Android Market  —  I'm pleased to let you know about several updates to Android Market.  First, we will soon introduce new features in Android Market for Android 1.6 that will improve the overall experience for users.  As part of this change, developers will be able to provide screenshots …
AT&T:
An Update on iPhone MMS for our Mobility Customers  —  We know many of our iPhone customers are eager for an update on our rollout schedule for Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS).  We've been working for the past several months to prepare our systems and network to ensure the best possible experience …
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Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
Amazon Offers Redelivery or $30 to People Who Lost '1984′  —  Amazon took a lot of heat in July when it wirelessly deleted copies of two George Orwell titles from the Kindle e-readers of some customers.  CEO Jeff Bezos eventually apologized for the incident, calling it “stupid …
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Smule's new T-Pain app provides the Auto-Tuned voice you've always wanted  —  There are lots of music fans out there who aren't happy about the frequent use of Auto-Tune technology in songs — a viewpoint expressed in Jay-Z's song “Death to Auto-Tune.”  But if Auto-Tune haters were unhappy …
Jane Horvath / Google Public Policy Blog:
An update on Google Books and privacy  —  We're excited about the wide range of support that the Google Books settlement has received.  Some people have asked how Google's privacy practices apply to Books and the settlement, and, last month, we published an extensive FAQ.
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Feds force Googlebooks privacy promise
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Court grants Microsoft's motion to stay Word injunction  —  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has granted Microsoft's motion to stay an injunction that would prohibit the software giant from selling Word.  —  Microsoft filed the motion Aug. 18 while preparing to appeal …
Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade  —  PALO ALTO, Calif. — From a Silicon Valley office strewn with bean-bag chairs, a group of twenty-something software engineers is building an unlikely following of terrorist hunters at U.S. spy agencies.  —  One of the latest entrants …
Thanks:blogfisher
Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker:
Browser Speed Tests: Chrome 4.0 and Opera 10 Take On All Challengers  —  Opera 10 final is out, Chrome just turned one year old, and Firefox 3.5 has settled into stability.  It's time once again to break out the timers and speed test today's web browsers.  —  Like all our previous speed tests, this one is unscientific, but thorough.
Discussion: Maximum PC all and digg.com
Fred / A VC:
RSS Is Alive And Well  —  Somehow the comments on my “10 Characteristics of Great Companies” post yesterday drifted into the topic of the future of RSS.  I was debating whether to wade into this silly debate about whether “RSS is dead” or not and was leaning toward ignoring it.
Alex Brooks / World of Apple:
First Snow Leopard Update Hits Developers [Seed Notes]  —  Just six days after the release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard to the general public, Apple has begun extensive testing of the first update amongst the developer community.  —  Build 10B503 (a significant step from the shipping 10A403) …
Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Techie-Conference Smackdown  —  An upcoming New York arts and technology event, dubbed the Audience Conference, is scheduled for Nov. 5 and 6, but it's managed to ruffle some techie feathers well in advance. … Several of its speakers, including TechCrunch's Michael Arrington …
Justin Sullivan / Business Week:
Why Europe Won't Stop Oracle from Taking Over Sun  —  Sun's open-source software is at the heart of an EU antitrust probe into Oracle's proposed deal, but it likely won't block the takeover  —  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison delivers a keynote address San Francisco, Calif.
Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Nokia to develop Maemo platform-based handheld devices for high-end segment  —  Nokia will focus on the development of Maemo platform-based mobile Internet devices (MIDs) for the high-end mobile computing segment in addition to Symbian-based devices for the mass market, according to Jonas Geust, vice president, Nokia N-series players.
Discussion: GigaOM and Phone Scoop
Gmail Blog:
Four new themes  —  Posted by Jake Knapp, UI Designer and Manu Cornet, Software Engineer  —  Manu: Hey Jake, you still using that same old theme?  —  Jake: Well, yeah.  I mean, I like it — but I don't know... I guess it just doesn't feel as new as it used to.  —  Manu: I hear ya.  Well, good news!
Tim Schulz / TrendSlate:
Former MySpace Exec Allen Hurff to Launch SoCal-based Incubator  —  Allen Hurff, former SVP of Engineering at MySpace, will be launching a startup incubator based in Southern California.  The news comes from his recently-updated LinkedIn page (image below).  —  Details on the incubator are cloudy.
Discussion: TechCrunch, Thanks:trendslate
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Diebold impeaches e-voting unit, sells it off for $5 million  —  Diebold announced on Thursday that it has sold its voting machine division to Election Systems & Software (ES&S), a former competitor.  Diebold's unceremonious departure from the electronic voting machine business will be welcomed …
Christian / OkTrends:
How To Get People To Reply To Your Messages In Online Dating, Part I  —  Picture this online dating scenario:  — You see someone you like.  — You read their profile, and wow.  — You send them a long message.  — You hang tight and...  - ...you never get a reply.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Mashable!
TechCrunch:
Gov 2.0: It's All About The Platform  —  Editor's note: The following guest post is by Tim O'Reilly, the founder and CEO of computer book publisher O'Reilly Media and a conference organizer.  O'Reilly coined the term Web 2.0 five years ago.  Now he is arguing it is time for Gov 2.0 …
Discussion: Gov 2.0 Summit
Paul Willen / MobilityMinded:
TomTom GO 950 Live, GO 750 Live and GO 550 Live screenshots of userinterface!  —  Today TomTom announced its new flagship personal navigation devices in the TomTom GO series: TomTom GO 950 Live, TomTom GO 750 Live and the TomTom GO 550 Live.  —  The main new unique features for these devices consist …
Discussion: GPS Obsessed and Engadget
Ayan Mandal / Finance Blog:
Google Search Volumes and Economic Activity  —  We are really excited to launch Google Domestic Trends on Google Finance.  This launch was inspired by Hal Varian, our chief economist's research on using Google Trends data to predict economic indicators.  —  Google Domestic Trends tracks …
 
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Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Will Windows 7 Reboot PC Sales?
Moon Ihlwan / Business Week:
Samsung's Market Value Approaches Intel's
David Worthington / Technologizer:
Microsoft's Patent Pipedream
Discussion: CNET News and Maximum PC all
Wall Street Journal:
Samsung Drops SanDisk Bid
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Label That Embraces BitTorrent Upset About Lawsuits Against Useful Services
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Get ready for virtualization to affect you, too
 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
China's Shanda plans $800 mln US IPO for games unit
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily and paidContent, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Cade Metz / The Register:
iPhone taught to edit Office 2007 docs, sheets
Discussion: Pocket-lint.com
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Economist Replaces Your Newsstand Guy With a Cellphone
Discussion: mocoNews
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
1&1 Goes ‘Unlimited’ With Hosting Bandwidth
Discussion: Slashdot
 

 
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Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”
 
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