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3:20 PM ET, October 3, 2009

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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Newspapers & Journalism  —  Is Google a newspaper killer?  Not by a long shot, says Google CEO Eric Schmidt.  Nor does he want it to be.  In a long interview about his company's relationship with newspapers and the print journalism industry, Schmidt made it clear he wants established players to survive.
Discussion: Techdirt, Mark Evans Tech and Beet.TV, Thanks:beet_tv
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Two New Apps Superimpose Wikipedia Over Your iPhone Camera View of the World  —  What is that mountain you're driving past?  Just point your iPhone at it and you can read its Wikipedia entry.  Science fiction?  Not anymore.  Two new apps for viewing Wikipedia entries about physical locations …
Discussion: I4U News and Mashable!
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Why Google Chrome Frame Makes Mozilla Firefox Folks Uneasy  —  Table of Contents:  —  Mozilla's Mitchell Baker and Mike Shaver both lamented Google's release of Chrome Frame in blog posts.  The browser experts, who helped Mozilla's Firefox browser reach 23.8 percent market share largely …
Discussion: TechSpot and Softpedia News
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Palm Ignores USB Group's Warning, Restores iTunes Sync  —  Oh, it's really on now.  This morning Palm (PALM) announced WebOS 1.2.1 another point release to its new WebOS platform that restores media synchronization with the latest version of Apple's (AAPL) iTunes (9.0.1).
Times of India:
Spooks want govt to block Skype  —  NEW DELHI: Intelligence agencies have asked the government to consider blocking Skype as operators of the popular global VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) engine are refusing to share the encryption code that prevents Indian investigators from intercepting conversations of suspected terrorists.
Discussion: Jai Bihar and TECH.BLORGE.com, Thanks:krishnan
John Tomasic / Colorado Independent:
Rocky Mountain Independent, online magazine experiment, folds  —  Weeks-long rumors of the end of the Rocky Mountain Independent journalism experiment have been confirmed.  On Thursday evening the three-month-old website announced to subscribers that it would cease producing content Monday, October 5.
Rupert Neate / Telegraph:
Apple flexes iPhone muscle with mobile networks  —  Apple dictates terms as iPhone price war looms between Vodafone, O2 and Orange.  —  Apple imposed such secrecy on mobile networks negotiating access to the iPhone that one was forced to keep the deal secret for a year …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Google urges Web adoption of vector graphics  —  Some seeds for overhauling Web browser graphics were planted more than a decade ago, and Google believes now is the time for them to bear fruit.  —  The company is hosting the SVG Open 2009 conference that begins Friday to dig …
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
A Partnership Between Old and New Media  —  The offices of Curbed, a blog network start-up, are located in the Village Voice building in New York.  That is perhaps telling, as readers increasingly turn to blogs like Curbed's — which cover real estate, dining and shopping in big cities — instead of print newspapers.
Discussion: A VC
The Macalope / Macworld:
The Macalope Weekly: Who's the boss?  —  PEOPLE WHO READ THIS ALSO READ:  —  Big news on the Apple tablet front this week!  Well, not so much “news” per se.  One supposition and one rumor.  But, please, we're Apple followers.  This is how we roll!  And you'll be charmed …
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Knight Report: Broadband Openness Key To Information-Sharing  —  Foundation President Ibarguen says universal broadband an “essential need”  —  Universal high-speed broadband and an open Internet are essential to information gathering and dissemination in a world where citizen journalists …
 
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Psystar counsel resigns from defense team in Apple suit
Discussion: Macsimum News
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
The ‘Twitter Feed, Netflix Faves’ Mating Game
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Matthew Rivera / Digits:
Could Swine Flu Take the Internet Down?
Discussion: The Awl
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
PSP Go review: Sony is charging you much more for much less
Associated Press:
Craigslist wins preliminary ruling in eBay lawsuit
Discussion: Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires and paidContent, Thanks:atul
 Earlier Items: 
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Kills Xoopit For Gmail
Discussion: Softpedia News and Webware.com
Jennifer Martinez / GigaOM:
Kai-Fu Lee Talks Up His Post-Google Plans
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Chased From Sweden, Pirate Bay Sails To Ukraine
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
New Cloudera Desktop GUI Simplifies Hadoop for Users
 

 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

The New York Times Company:
The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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