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Lost iPhone prototype spurs police probe — Silicon Valley police are investigating what appears to be a lost Apple iPhone prototype purchased by a gadget blog, a transaction that may have violated criminal laws, a law enforcement official told CNET on Friday.
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Two prototype iPod touches with cameras show up on eBay — Update: Shocker...they've been pulled from Ebay. — Well looky what we have here. Someone has put up two semi-working iPod touches WITH cameras and a development version of the iPod OS on Ebay.
David Recordon / O'Reilly Radar:
Why f8 was good for the open web — It's easy as a technologist to think about openness solely in terms of technology, but openness is broader than that. Openness of technology means that others can build using the same tools that you do. Openness of data means that developers …
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
More open than thou: Blogger battle rages over new Facebook tools — Facebook has reignited the openness debate by launching tools this week that may reshape the web and hand the company a big advantage over its competitors. — The word “open” — like “green” or “eco-conscious” …
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Shenaz Zack / Google Public Policy Blog:
Content ID and Fair Use — (Cross-posted from the Official YouTube Blog) — Over the past decade, the evolution of the Internet has altered the landscape for both traditional media companies and the doctrine of fair use, and the media industry has tried to keep up.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Updated Windows Phone 7 videos show Office doing awesome things — As much as Microsoft has revealed about Windows Phone 7 thus far in the past two months, one critical, differentiating element that it's going to be able to lord over its competitors — true Office support — has been a bit of a black box.
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Reading on iPad before bed can affect sleep habits — Apple's iPad can do movies, music, e-mail, apps and rich Web browsing. And of course, e-books. Should Amazon just put its comparably basic e-reader, the Kindle, to sleep? — Not so fast. Sleep experts say using the iPad before bed …
Alex Ahlund / TechCrunch:
How The iPad Will Change The iPhone Game Industry — This guest post was written by Alex Ahlund, the CEO of AppVee and AndroidApps, which was recently acquired by mobile app directory Appolicious. He is currently an advisor to Appolicious. — Apple is hailing the iPad as a “magical” and “revolutionary” device.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Palm Shake-Up Imminent, Rubinstein May Be Out — Palm right now is a disaster. Its sales are going nowhere, its market share is plummeting, and try as it might, it can't even find a buyer. Industry sources tell us that a major restructuring and management shakeup is imminent and CEO Jon Rubinstein may be replaced.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple TV Will Remain A Hobby Until Someone Shows Apple The Money (Or Apps) — During the Q&A session of their earnings call this week, Apple COO Tim Cook fielded a question that he gets seemingly every earnings call: what's the deal with Apple TV? — The question is a good one.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Gizmodo Caught In Copyright Crossfire — At TorrentFreak we keep a close eye on the DMCA takedown requests that are received by search engines such as Google and Yahoo. These are usually sent out by music and film companies but last week we saw them being joined by the Gawker Media-owned weblog Gizmodo.
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Privacy issues? Google engineers leaving Facebook in droves — Well I bet they didn't quite expect that. In the wake of Facebook's F8 conference this week, where it apparently bid to become the new Sheriff of the Internet, Facebook's plans to effectively put ‘social’ into the very structure …
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BBC:
Phone home — Martin Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone, said manufacturers are cramming too much into new handsets — Martin Cooper may not be a household name, but his invention is familiar to more than half the planet's population who own a mobile phone.
Greg / yardley.ca:
The tech press isn't either — Blippy, a service that lets you share your purchases with others, was just called out by Mashable for exposing its users' credit card numbers to a search engine. Since Mashable is widely-read, I start hearing from all over that Blippy released …
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UM Newsdesk:
Students Addicted to Social Media - New UM Study — COLLEGE PARK, Md. - American college students today are addicted to media, describing their feelings when they have to abstain from using media in literally the same terms associated with drug and alcohol addictions: In withdrawal …
