Techmeme: Setting the record straight on iPhone and Android (Carl Howe/Yankee Group Blog)

8:05 AM ET, July 27, 2010

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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:

Apple's Official Response To DMCA Jailbreak Exemption: It Voids Your Warranty — I just got a call from Apple's PR department to discuss today's historical DMCA exception ruling that makes iPhone jailbreaking legal. — Unfortunately, because of the legal issues involved …

Discussion: CNET News, App Advice, SlashGear, I4U News, Gizmodo, TiPb, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac and Ubergizmo

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 …

Jared Newman / PC World:

Govt.-Approved iPhone Jailbreaking Won't Help Users — The U.S. Copyright Office slapped Apple in the face by declaring iPhone jailbreaking legal, but that won't change anything for iPhone users. — Every three years, the copyright office considers exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act …

Discussion: Electronista, Softpedia News, GigaOM and Gizmodo

John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
Jailbreaking Your iPhone Is Now Legal

The Ask.com Blog:

The New Ask.com is Here: What's Your Question? — Back in November, Doug Leeds, President of Ask.com, shared this post providing a glimpse into the future of Ask.com. At the risk of sounding like a bad sci-fi movie, we're excited to say the future starts now.

Discussion: CNNMoney.com, New York Times, Search Engine Land, Fast Company, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Softpedia News, ResourceShelf and V3.co.uk

Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:

Ask.com Gets Back to Its Roots: Launches Q&A Service — Ask.com launched in 1996 and even though the site went through a number of changes through the years (remember Jeeves?), it is still one of the first services many Internet users think of when looking for a site where they can get their questions answered.

Discussion: Computerworld, The Ask.com Blog, paidContent, GigaOM, WebProNews, VentureBeat and Epicenter

Peter Nowak / CBC News:

Apple to sell iPhone 4 unlocked in Canada — When the iPhone 4 goes on sale in Canada on Friday, it will bring with it something relatively new for Canadian wireless customers — the ability to pit the big three service providers against each other. — Apple on Monday said it will sell …

Discussion: App Advice, ZDNet, Boy Genius Report, 9 to 5 Mac, Engadget, everythingiCafe, Geek.com, SlashGear, IntoMobile, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fone Arena and Phones Review

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Googzilla! Yahoo Japan Confirms Google Switch from Yahoo for Both Paid and Algo Search — Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — As BoomTown reported earlier today, Yahoo Japan confirmed it would switch its search technology and paid search provider to Google from Yahoo.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Associated Press, Inquirer, The Register, Technologizer, Bloomberg, Computerworld, CNET News, ZDNet, Yahoo! News, Reuters, Softpedia News and All Things Digital

Michael Siliski / Google Mobile Blog:

An Even Better Way to Find Places Nearby — With six updates in six months, Google Maps for Android has been getting plenty of new features, both big and small. A continued focus with each update has been on giving you better ways to find places nearby. In the most recent updates …

Discussion: MobileContentToday, Google Android News …, IntoMobile, AndroidSPIN, Erictric, ReadWriteWeb, Android Phone Fans, Search Engine Land, EuroDroid, The Next Web, Droid Life, Wired.co.uk, WebProNews, Phone Scoop, Internet2Go, dailywireless.org and TechCrunch, Thanks:atul

Carl Howe / Yankee Group Blog:

Setting the record straight on iPhone and Android — From our July Report “Why iPhones Matter” analyzing Yankee Group's Link Data: 2010 U.S. Survey Suite, Wave 1-3 — “There's lies, damned lies, and statistics.” — Mark Twain — A number of reports over the weekend surfaced referencing …

Discussion: TUAW, Internet2Go, Android Police and Silicon Alley Insider

Ben Parr / Mashable!:

Twitter to Show Photos and Videos in the Stream [UPDATED] — A new Twitter setting called “Tweet Media” has rolled out to some of Twitter's users, strongly suggesting that the company will soon embed videos and photos in the stream. — Tweet Media, which the Mashable team and others …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Fast Company, ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News and The Next Web

Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:

There will be blood: why Apple and Intel are destined to clash — A long time ago, in what seems like a galaxy far, far away, Apple and Google were the Brad and Jennifer of the tech world. Google had the cloud, Apple had the clients, and both companies were such industry darlings …

Thanks:atul

Scott Thurm / Wall Street Journal:

Oracle's Ellison: Pay King — Leads WSJ List of Top-Paid CEOs of the Decade; Diller, Irani, Jobs Rank High — Larry Ellison, founder and chief executive of software maker Oracle Corp., topped the list of best-paid executives of public companies during the past decade …

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, Tech Eye and DealBook

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

Google, Content Farms & Why This May Be Blekko's Moment — At the beginning of Google's “Searchology” event in early 2007 original Google employee Craig Silverstein opined, “If Google had started a year or two earlier, it wouldn't have worked.” That's because prior to that time (1998) …

Thanks:atul

Christopher Mims / Technology Review:
The Search Engine Backlash Against ‘Content Mills’

Discussion: Daily Patricia

Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:

Google Punch — A video posted by Google shows the name of a new Google Docs feature: Google Punch. A “punch” is a Google Docs filetype, just like a document, a spreadsheet or a presentation. — Here's the video: — One of the definitions of the word “punch” is “an iced mixed drink …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and TechCrunch, Thanks:atul

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:

WikiLeaks Rolled Dice to Raise Its Profile — Website Collaborated With Mainstream Media on Afghan Leaks After Previous Scoops Failed to Win Enough Attention — WikiLeaks, frustrated at the lack of splash of recent leaks on its whistle-blowing website, has rolled the dice to try to raise …

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:

Facebook Testing “Delete Account” Option. — Updated at foot of post. — This is still developing, as we're seeing mixed reports around the Internet. However, it appears that Facebook has released a Delete Account option, in addition to the previous Deactivate Account.

Discussion: Telegraph, Boy Genius Report, All Facebook, FM Blog, Technologizer, Yahoo! News, Slashdot, Erictric and WebProNews, Thanks:zee

Taylor Buley / Forbes:

New Questions Emerge In Facebook Lawsuit — A transcript of Facebook's court appearance raises new questions about Paul Ceglia's suit claiming a stake in the company. — SAN FRANCISCO — It's been two weeks since Web designer Paul Ceglia made news by suing Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, claiming he owns 84% of Facebook.

John Biggs / CrunchGear:

Snapgoods: Like Zipcar for Gadgets — Let's pretend that you don't have very many geeky or sporty friends. It could happen. Say you wanted to try and iPad or a bike or a Kubb set. What would you do? Walk up to complete strangers? Ask them for theirs? Well, in a way, Snapgoods hopes you will.

Discussion: Inc.com and Ubergizmo

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.

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Launches ‘Apps For Government’, With Servers On US Soil

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Digits and Google Enterprise Blog

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