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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Google denies deal with Verizon to end net neutrality — Search giant denies deal with US telco Verizon allowing the telecoms company 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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Verizon:
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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Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Google and Verizon in Talks on Web Priority
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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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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Eric Schmidt on the demise of Google Wave — LAKE TAHOE, Calif.—Eric Schmidt tried to paint the failure of Google Wave as a sign that the company's innovative culture continues to take risks and aim big. — “Our policy is we try things,” the Google CEO said, hours after the company announced …
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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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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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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. We later spotted a DM Fail from Twitter's Sean Garrett that seemed to confirm it was real.
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Louis Gray:
Shoutout! Twitter Looks to be Readying New Feature
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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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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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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 …
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple close to acquiring Chinese game maker for $148M - report — Apple is rumored to be in talks to buy a Chinese mobile Internet service provider and game developer for $148 million, with a final agreement said to be “close.” — Chinese business news organization SinoCast reported Thursday …
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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 …
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.
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.
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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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Facebook Buys Friendster Patents for $40M — Facebook bought the entire Friendster portfolio of social networking patents earlier this year. The seven patents and eleven patent applications had been transferred to MOL Global when it bought Friendster for about $39.5 million late last year.
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