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The Official Google Blog:
WiFi data collection: An update — Nine days ago the data protection authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany asked to audit the WiFi data that our Street View cars collect for use in location-based products like Google Maps for mobile, which enables people to find local restaurants or get directions.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Google Admits to Inadvertent Data-Collecting — SAN FRANCISCO — Google said on Friday that for more than three years it had inadvertently collected snippets of private information that people send over unencrypted wireless networks. — The admission, made in an official blog post by Alan Eustace …
Brad Stone / Bits:
Google Says It Inadvertently Collected Personal Data — On Friday, Google made a stunning admission: for over three years, it has inadvertently collected snippets of private information that people send over unencrypted wireless networks. — The admission, made in an official blog post by Alan Eustace …
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Roommate's Tip Led Cops to iPhone Finder — Police closed in on the man who found and sold a prototype 4G iPhone after his roommate called an Apple security official and turned him in, according to a newly unsealed document in the ongoing police investigation.
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CNET News:
Apple spurred police in iPhone probe
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Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac, Threat Level, The Register, PC World, Erictric, The Snitch, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, DailyTech, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, TUAW, Edible Apple, MacDailyNews, MacNN, IntoMobile, Fast Company, VentureBeat, Mashable!, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Bloomberg, Digits, MediaMemo, TNW Apple, paidContent, MacRumors, The Loop, The Huffington Post, Velocity, AppleInsider and EverythingiCafe, Thanks:atul
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Skype Screen Sharing Is A Huge (And Free) Productivity Tool — Over the years we've been pitched many thousands of times by startups. Sometimes those pitches are in person. Sometimes it's over the phone, which works if you have a live website to play with.
Matt Hickey / CNET News:
God help us all, here comes 4chan 2 — The above image shows what the new 4chan likely will look like. (Beta tester names blurred to protect them from other /b/-tards.) — When I write about imageboard Web site 4chan, I always worry that a reader unfamiliar with the site will check it out.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
4chan Founder ‘Moot’ Raises $625K For Stealth Startup Canvas Networks
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Andy Rubin / The Official Google Blog:
Nexus One changes in availability — We launched Nexus One in January with two goals in mind: to introduce a beacon of innovation among Android handsets, and to make it quick and easy for people to buy an Android phone. We're very happy with the adoption of Android in general, and the innovation delivered through Nexus One.
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I4U News, eWeek, TNW Google, Softpedia News, Mobile Entertainment, Go Rumors, PC World, MediaPost, Pocket-lint, Obsessable, Phones Review, Mobile Industry Review, internetnews.com, Geek.com, Fast Company, BlogsDNA, Pulse2, DailyTech, Geekword, SlashGear, Light Reading, Silicon Alley Insider, DSLreports, the Econsultancy blog, 901am, Fone Arena, InfoWorld, techeblog.com, CNN, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Internet Evolution, WebProNews, TechSpot, Search Engine Journal, Ars Technica, Yahoo! News, Android and Me, Technologizer, The Microsoft Blog, Unwired View, silicontap.com, Digital Daily, Electronista, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Computerworld, Epicenter, Engadget, Mashable!, Android Phone Fans, Gizmodo, Google Android Blog, Maximum PC, PhoneNews.com, Bits, Gearlog, FierceWireless, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, GottaBeMobile, The Register, mocoNews, Gadgetell, MobileTechWorld, Fortune, Digital Trends, Lockergnome Blog Network, OSNews, AndroidGuys, GeekSugar, Switched, TmoNews, BetaNews, Neowin.net, bizjournals, Relevant Results, Edible Apple, Erictric, Tnooz, Webomatica, Techland, EuroDroid, Search Engine Land, Android Central and Phone Scoop
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Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Adobe and Google Sitting in a Tree? Or Did Adobe Just Pwn Google? — There's something really fishy going on with Adobe's “I ♥ Apple” Ad campaign. You might have noticed it yesterday as you were browsing websites such as TechCrunch and Google Reader.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
AT&T to cover about 250M people with HSPA+ by year's end — AT&T has changed its story on its 3.5G / 3.75G strategy prior to rolling out LTE seemingly countless times in the past couple years, but the good news is that the latest policy shift is a decidedly positive one …
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Erictric, GottaBeMobile, Phone Arena, Electronista, Boy Genius Report, Phones Review, Gizmodo and Phone Scoop
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Twitter Improves Trending Topic Algorithm: Bye Bye, Bieber! — Twitter has updated the algorithm behind its popular Trending Topics feature, changing the focus from the most discussed items to what is “most breaking” and “immediately popular.” — Twitter confirmed to Mashable that on Wednesday …
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Ed Bott / ZDNet:
How secure is Flash? Here's what Adobe won't tell you — Yesterday, I called Adobe's Flash “the new Vista” and asked the company to start talking seriously about how they're addressing problems with their products instead of pretending those problems don't exist.
Danah Boyd / apophenia:
Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant) — At SXSW, I decided to talk about privacy because I thought that it would be the most important issue of the year. I was more accurate than my wildest dreams. For the last month, I've watched as conversations about privacy went from being the topic …
Wall Street Journal:
New York Times to Begin Website Charges in January — The New York Times will begin charging for access to articles on its website in January, Bill Keller, executive editor of the newspaper, said at a dinner for the Foreign Press Association Thursday evening.
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MediaPost, Fast Company, ResourceShelf, AppScout, Technologizer, Zero Percent Idle, Lost Remote and NYConvergence
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Joe Strupp / Strupp:
Keller: Pay Model Will Affect Few Non-Subscribers
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VentureBeat, Mashable!, Maximum PC, Erictric, Gadgetell, the Econsultancy blog and Silicon Alley Insider
