Top Items:
John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
Jailbreaking Your iPhone Is Now Legal — Many of the most vocal critics of jailbreaking — a group which includes Apple itself — have been quick in the past to cite the fact that hacking your smartphone is a violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and thus illegal.
RELATED:
Richard / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers — San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections …
Discussion:
ReadWriteWeb, Yahoo! News, BetaNews, CNET News, Boy Genius Report, 9 to 5 Mac, Silicon Alley Insider, Engadget, The Huffington Post, TUAW, SlashGear, Tech-Ex, TheAppleBlog, Open Culture, everythingiCafe, Techland, Gawker, Electronista, Neowin.net, Boing Boing, Daring Fireball and MacStories
Joelle Tessler / Associated Press:
New gov't rules allow unapproved iPhone apps — WASHINGTON - Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally break electronic locks on their devices in order to download software applications that haven't been approved by Apple Inc., according to new government rules announced Monday.
Discussion:
Threat Level, CrunchGear, DSLreports, MacRumors, Switched, Mashable!, Gizmodo, Erictric, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, GamePolitics News, iLounge and RazorianFly
Apple:
iPhone 4 Arrives in 17 More Countries This Friday — Apple's iPhone® 4 will be available in 17 more countries this Friday, July 30. iPhone 4 features FaceTime®, which makes video calling as easy as one tap, Apple's new Retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone …
Discussion:
VentureBeat, Internet2Go, Computerworld, Boy Genius Report, App Advice, Tech Trader Daily, Geek.com, CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, Fast Company, Softpedia News, Wall Street Journal, Pulse2, Gadget Lab, Appolicious Advisor, I4U News, TechCrunch, MacRumors, IntoMobile, Digital Daily, The Next Web and Tech-Ex
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Google Music takes a step closer to reality — Google's plan to challenge Apple's dominance in the music marketplace is advancing more rapidly than expected, say music industry sources. — The search giant's Android whiz, VP Andy Rubin, is said to be having “accelerated” …
Discussion:
paidContent, Fortune, Erictric, The Next Web, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories and Edible Apple
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
HTC makes Super LCD screens for Desire and Nexus One official — Welcome back to our “worst kept secrets” hour, where HTC has seen fit to release a PR blast informing the world of what it already knew: the Desire and Nexus One are getting Super (duper) LCD displays to fill demand that Samsung's AMOLED division cannot.
RELATED:
Sam Diaz / ZDNet:
Google launches Apps for Government, announces federal security certification — Google today announced Google Apps for Government, a new offering that has the look and feel of the Google Apps enterprise offering but now with some enhancements intended to address security concerns specific to government agencies.
Discussion:
The Official Google Blog, Digital Daily, Technologizer, ReadWriteWeb and Google Enterprise Blog
RELATED:
Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
Citi Admits Security Flaw in Its iPhone App — Citigroup Inc. told its U.S. mobile banking customers they should upgrade to a new application designed for Apple Inc.'s iPhone after the bank's original version was found to have a security flaw. — In an incident that highlights …
Discussion:
MacRumors iPhone Blog, Fast Company, The Next Web, Neowin.net, Smallbiztechnology.com and The Loop
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Mystery HTC Windows Phone 7 device: in the wild and lacking any Sense — A candybar slate from HTC with a 3.7-inch SLCD and 1GHz Snapdragon processor — sounds about right for the Desire, but this little puppy is actually running Windows Phone 7 (presumably a developer build, given the apps catalog).
Discussion:
eWeek, Tech Eye, Yahoo! News, PC World, Phone Arena, Fonehome.co.uk, WMPoweruser.com, Softpedia News, MobileTechWorld, SlashGear, Crave, Fast Company, Geek.com, Gadgetell, IntoMobile, Electronista, WMExperts, Phones Review, Fone Arena, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, pocketnow.com and MobileCrunch, Thanks:rawmeet
Electronista:
Ruling on DMCA could allow breaking DRM for fair use — A new court ruling on Friday could set a legal precedent that allows bypassing digital rights management (DRM) for fair use purposes. New Orleans circuit Judge Emilio Garza found that GE hadn't violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act …
Discussion:
App Advice, IntoMobile, Boing Boing, Technologizer, Android Phone Fans, TmoNews, Gizmodo, p2pnet, TeleRead, VentureBeat, WebProNews, The Next Web and AllGov
AppleInsider:
Limited iMac retail inventory precedes anticipated update — Some Apple retail stores have run out of stock of both 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac models, ahead of an expected refresh to the desktop Mac hardware. — An AppleInsider reader sent word Sunday that the 21.5-inch iMac …
Discussion:
CNET News, MacRumors, Electricpig, Electronista, SlashGear, I4U News, Silicon Alley Insider, Softpedia News, Obsessable and technabob
New York Times:
BlackBerry's Era May Be Ending — Research In Motion's future looks bleak. R.I.M., which makes the popular BlackBerry devices, has had a traditional stronghold in sales to American companies. But that has been cracked open. — Apple said last week that more than 80 percent …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google May Not Have Bought Yelp, But They Sure Are Trying To Own Them With Places — Perhaps you recall that late last year, Google was in discussions to buy Yelp. Despite a supposed offer of $550 million plus earn-outs, Yelp walked away from the deal. But that isn't stopping Google for entering Yelp's business.
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
HTC Vision headed to T-Mobile in new spy shot, dubbed G1 Blaze? — While high-end QWERTY sliders loaded with Android aren't nearly as uncommon now as when HTC's Vision first leaked onto the scene, it appears this particular handset may be destined for T-Mobile with its (alleged) 1GHz processor …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Intel Close to Buying Infineon's Wireless Chip Biz — Intel has a contract to acquire the wireless division of German chip maker, Infineon, according to brokerage Rodman & Renshaw's Ashok Kumar, who said so in a note to his clients today. Intel has been long rumored to be in talks with Infineon …
Discussion:
VentureBeat
Angus / Project Gus:
The Sad State of Open Source in Android tablets — This year a slew of companies have launched competing Android tablet devices. A lot of rhetoric has been spun about how Android's open source ecosystem gives manufacturers and consumers an advantage.
Discussion:
ZDNet
Greg Bensinger / Bloomberg:
AT&T Begins Fix for Glitch That Slowed Some IPhones — AT&T Inc. said it began a fix for a glitch in software supplied by Alcatel-Lucent SA that was causing slower download speeds in some areas of the U.S. for customers using Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4 and other devices.
John Ribeiro / Computerworld:
Yahoo may fund hackers with good ideas — IDG News Service - Yahoo is considering investing in hackers with good ideas and technologies, a company executive said on Saturday. — “We are open to many ways of having a stake in creative young companies,” said Jeff Kinder …
Simon Rogers / Guardian:
Wikileaks Afghanistan files: download the key incidents as a spreadsheet — Key incidents from the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs selected by Guardian writers. As a spreadsheet, with co-ordinates — • Get this data — • INTERACTIVE: These key incidents mapped — • Glossary of military terms
RELATED:
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks ‘Transparency’
Discussion:
Spiegel Online, wikileaks.org, Mashable!, CNET News, Memex 1.1, Threat Level, Computerworld, Guardian, Danger Room and VentureBeat, more at Mediagazer »
