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New York Times' Story is Mistaken — The NYT article regarding conversations between Google and Verizon is mistaken. It fundamentally misunderstands our purpose. As we said in our earlier FCC filing, our goal is an Internet policy framework that ensures openness and accountability …
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Google denies deal with Verizon to end net neutrality — Search giant says there is no agreement allowing telecoms company Verizon to prioritise the order and speed in which it delivers content to users — Google has dismissed reports that the company is in talks with US telecoms operator Verizon …
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Evil? — The report that Google is making a devil's pact with Verizon for tiered internet service is disturbing because I wonder whether people inside Google are still asking that vital question: “Is this evil?” I wonder whether Google is still Google. — I don't mean to come off like a high priest of the net neutrality church.
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Macworld, Computerworld, The Next Web and Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, Thanks:rawmeet
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Google and Verizon in Talks on Web Priority — WASHINGTON — Google and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content's creators are willing to pay for the privilege.
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Machmeter / HardMac.com:
Pictures of the iPod Touch 4... well, almost — As you may know, Apple provides some case manufacturers with the size and shape of the new iPhones and iPods so they can start making the new cases before the devices come out. This doesn't allow us to know what materials Apple will use …
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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Twitter's ShoutOut is an internal service for employees. Read the awesome official statement. — Okay, so a bit of back story. Louis Gray found a mysterious Twitter account called ShoutOut that hinted at some kind of new Twitter service. We later spotted a DM Fail from Twitter's Sean Garrett that seemed to confirm it was real.
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Shoutout! Twitter Looks to be Readying New Feature
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Alex Williams / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Developers Did Not Adopt Google Wave — Google Wave entered the Google Apps family earlier this year with what looked like some momentum. — Novell had integrated Google Wave into its Pulse project. SAP had developed a collaborative business process modeling tool within Google Wave.
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Eric Schmidt on the demise of Google Wave
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Wave Goodbye To Google Wave
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Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Microsoft's mystery hardware? Arc Touch Mouse, launching in September — Microsoft has been teasing a new mystery hardware device over the past week. According to company insiders the software giant plans to unveil a new Arc Touch Mouse in September. — Details of the Arc Touch Mouse …
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Wall Street Journal:
BlackBerry Chief Fires Back — Research In Motion Ltd. co-CEO Michael Lazaridis lashed out at governments seeking to ban his company's BlackBerry phones, saying they risk undermining the growth of electronic commerce by demanding access to secure communications and transactions.
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John Ribeiro / PC World:
Indonesia Presses RIM Over Its BlackBerry Service
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Schmidt: Google Now Activating 200,000 Android Units A Day [Video] — Remember back in the day when Google was only activating 100,000 Android units a day? You should — it was May. By June, that number had jumped to 160,000 units a day. And today it now stands at 200,000 Android units activated a day.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Deep Inside Xbox 360 Kinect: The Interface of Microsoft's Dreams — Kinect is more than an Xbox 360 peripheral, it's the future of Microsoft, or at least a very possible one. It's the beginning of Microsoft's plans for natural user interfaces, the step beyond the thing you're staring at right now.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Slide, Vic Gundotra & The Un-Social Reality of Google — It was a nearly a decade and a half ago that I fell in love with America's pastime, baseball. I loved the sound of the ball hitting the bat. I loved the juxtaposition of green grass and red clay on the baseball diamond.
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John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein structures — Today's issue of Nature contains a paper with a rather unusual author list. Read past the standard collection of academics, and the final author credited is... an online gaming community. — Scientists have turned to games for a variety …
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Nature, Computerworld and New York Times, Thanks:atul
Matthew Humphries / Geek.com:
Google offer Nexus One as unlocked Android developer phone — As a way of supporting Android development Google has always offered an unlocked handset directly to developers. To begin with it used to be a G1, but as the hardware iterations have passed so has the onus on Google to update the phone it offered.
Erica Ogg / CNET News:
Apple readies fix for iPhone browser security hole — Apple says that it has a fix for the browser security flaw discovered earlier this week on its iOS-powered devices. — After the iPhone Dev Team released the latest jailbreak software hack for the iPhone over the weekend …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google CEO Schmidt: “People Aren't Ready for the Technology Revolution” — Eric Schmidt spoke at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe today and dropped some serious rhetorical bombs. “There was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003,” Schmidt said …
Dean Hachamovitch / MSDN Blogs:
HTML5, Modernized: Fourth IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers — IE9 started from the premise that the modern web will deliver HTML5 experiences that feel more like native applications than sites. Building on hardware-accelerated SVG, canvas, video, audio, and text …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Hunch Relaunches as Internet Personalization Service — Hunch was never a social Q&A service, though many press outlets have confused it for one. The service, founded by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and super-hot angel investor Chris Dixon, has relaunched its home page …
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
BlackBerry's New Torch Makes a Leap From Drab — Millions of people love the BlackBerry, relying on it especially for email and text messaging. But this classic smartphone, while still dominant in the U.S., has been slipping in popularity as consumers, and even some corporations …
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