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Police Seize Jason Chen's Computers — Last Friday night, California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered editor Jason Chen's home without him present, seizing four computers and two servers. — They did so using a warrant by Judge of Superior Court of San Mateo.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
iPhone Leak Investigation Pauses As DA Ponders Gizmodo Shield Law Defense — Earlier today news broke that police had raided Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's home in connection with the iPhone leak last week. Authorities got a search warrant and removed four computers, two servers, and more.
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CNET News:
Police poised to expand iPhone prototype probe — Gizmodo editor Jason Chen in a video embedded in his April 19 post titled “This is Apple's next iPhone.” — The criminal probe into Apple's errant iPhone prototype is expected to broaden, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation told CNET.
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Expert: Invalid Warrant Used in Raid on iPhone Reporter's Home — Police raided the house of an editor for Gizmodo on Friday and seized computers and other equipment. The raid was part of an investigation into the leak of a prototype iPhone that the site obtained for a blockbuster story last week.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Good Luck With the Shield Law Argument — Henry Blodget: … Journalist shield laws are about journalists being able to protect sources who may have committed crimes. They're not a license for journalists to commit crimes themselves. Gawker is making an argument that is beside the point.
Alexia Tsotsis / SFWeekly Tech:
Nick Denton in 2009: Journalism Not Gawker's “Institutional Intention.”
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Next Question: Are The Police After Gawker Or The Person Who Took The iPhone?
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Gagan Biyani / MobileCrunch:
AdMob: The Original iPhone is Dead, Android Becoming Increasingly Diversified — Here at MobileCrunch, we love numbers. We especially love numbers that make good stories. And we more especially love numbers that make good stories about phones. And so we love it when AdMob packages together data …
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Music Ally:
Spotify Goes Social — On the back of the Facebook Connect platform Spotify has begun the integration of social media into its music service, and the implications are huge. — In its newest app update, and the biggest since launch in 2008, Spotify users will now be able to connect …
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Gizmodo:
Nokia N8 Official, With 12MP Camera and 720p Video Recording — Well now, this is awkward. Only yesterday Mobile-Review was calling the N8 an unpolished turd, and now Nokia's gone and announced it to the world. As leaks foretold, it's got a 12MP camera with Xenon flash, and runs Symbian^3.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Mobile Blogger “Boy Genius” Unmasked, Acquired — You probably haven't heard of Jonathan Geller. But you may have read his site. Geller's Boy Genius Report is avidly followed by those obsessed with mobile phones and the companies who make them. — Among those paying attention …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google acquires entertainment company LabPixies — Google loves to build platforms on which programs run—Android, App Engine, iGoogle, and in the biggest picture, the Web itself. But platforms are of no use, and aren't much fun, without applications on top, so Google often also kick-starts development with applications of its own.
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint — WASHINGTON — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy, but looked more like a bowl of spaghetti.
Google Nexus One:
An update on Nexus One partnerships — When we launched Nexus One in January, we announced partnerships with Vodafone in Europe and Verizon Wireless in the US. We have news on both fronts. — Today, Vodafone begins accepting pre-orders for Nexus One from customers in the United Kingdom …
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Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
Amazon Wins Keyword Advertising Suit—Video Professor v. Amazon — Video Professor, Inc. v . Amazon.com, Inc., 1:09-cv-00636-REB-KLM (D. Colo. April 21, 2010) — Video Professor has been involved in a few interesting legal scrapes. For example, you may recall that in 2007 they launched …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zong Emerges: Facebook Deal And $15 Million In Funding — We've been tracking mobile payments provider Zong since 2008 - in a nutshell, it lets you pay for things, particularly virtual goods online, via direct billing to your mobile phone. Despite heavy competition from well-backed boku …
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Agam Shah / Computerworld:
AMD launches six-core desktop chip price war with Intel — IDG News Service - Advanced Micro Devices is trying to beat Intel on price with its latest six-core desktop Phenom II X6 processors that were unveiled today. — AMD is shipping two X6 processors that are substantially less pricey …
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Melanie Lee / Reuters:
Former rivals eBay, Alibaba tie-up on new platform — (Reuters) - China's largest e-commerce firm Alibaba.com said it will offer e-payment services on its new online commerce platform from eBay's PayPal, in the first such tie-up between the former arch-rivals.
Dave Berkowitz / The Windows Blog:
Wanna Peek at the Next Version of Windows Home Server? Check out the new public beta for Windows Home Server, Code Name “Vail” — Many of you may already know that Microsoft has been hard at work on the next version of Windows Home Server. We are excited to announce today that the beta …
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Faster, better, Opera 10.52 for Mac is available now — Buoyed by the welcome reception of its alternative iPhone browser, Opera Software's sure to hope for some kind of bump-up in the number of users choosing to download the latest version of its Mac browser, Opera 10.52.
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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
TomTom Go Live 1000 to offer capacitive touchscreen, WebKit-based UI — TomTom has just outed its new flagship PND, the Go Live 1000, and wouldn't you know it, it's the first of the company's stable to offer a capacitive touchscreen. This comes mere days after Garmin updated its lineup with capacitive options.
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Burn Blu-ray Disks on Regular DVDs With x264 — The developers of the open source h.264 codec x264 have just released an update that makes it possible to burn Blu-ray discs on regular DVD-9 or even DVD-5 DVD-Rs. x264 uses advanced compression to fit Blu-ray movies on much cheaper DVD-Rs …
Jin Hyun-joo / The Korea Herald:
Samsung eyes Google TV — Samsung Electronics, the world's top TV maker, is considering developing “Google TVs” which run Google's Android operating system, its executive told The Korea Herald yesterday. — The move came as Samsung's rival, Sony, is reportedly working with Google and Intel …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunchIT:
Salesforce And VMware Partner To Launch Enterprise Java Cloud Platform VMforce — Java developers may have good news to celebrate today. Salesforce.com and virtualization giant VMware are partnering to launch VMforce, a enterprise Java Cloud platform to enable Java developers to build apps off of Force.com.
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