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8:15 PM ET, August 5, 2010

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New Images of 4th Generation iPod Touch LCD with FaceTime Camera — An iPhone parts supplier sent us these photos of what are claimed to be the front LCD and bezel of the upcoming 4th generation iPod Touch. The new part clearly shows a front-sided hole that would leave room for a front-facing FaceTime camera.

Discussion: AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, Crave, Redmond Pie, Erictric, Teens in Tech, TUAW, MacStories, everythingiCafe, TiPb, Engadget and Gizmodo Australia

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 …

Discussion: eWeek, Ars Technica, Fortune, GeekSmack, Edible Apple, App Advice, Computerworld, GeekSugar, Pocket-lint and MacStories

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 …

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 …

Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:

FCC stops closed-door Internet policy meetings as Google, Verizon strike side deal — Under criticism for its handing of closed-door discussions with certain companies on broadband policy, the Federal Communications Commission announced Thursday the meetings with Verizon, AT&T …

Discussion: CNET News, BetaNews, GamePolitics News, IntoMobile and Techdirt

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

Genachowski, Man Up! And Silicon Valley, Wake Up! — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just called off the “closed door” network neutrality negotiations it was conducting between major ISPs, Google, Skype and the Open Internet Coalition, after news broke Wednesday afternoon …

Discussion: Tech Trader Daily, Network World, CircleID and Silicon Alley Insider

Electronista:
FCC chair: neutrality would trump any Google/Verizon pact

Discussion: Reuters, Ubergizmo, Digital Daily, Gizmodo and Gizmodo Australia

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Evil? — UPDATE: It's looking more and more to me as if the …

Discussion: Engadget, DailyFinance, The Next Web, Technology News, Computerworld, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, CrunchGear and Fortune, Thanks:rawmeet

Alex Williams / ReadWriteCloud:

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.

Discussion: blogs.ft.com, internetnews.com, Yahoo! News, ReadWriteWeb and Irregular Enterprise Blog

Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:

Once Upon A Time, Google Wave Was The Next Big Thing — Google finally put Wave out of its misery yesterday, but the communication/collaboration tool had been a punchline for months. — So it's easy to forget just how excited people were about Wave before it launched.

Discussion: PC World

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Let's Celebrate Google's Biggest Failures!

Discussion: PC World, Smarterware and Scripting News

Oleoleolson / AlterNet Blogs:

Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered — A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and The Next Web

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

Here's What Everybody Made From The Slide Sale — Further to our post yesterday on the sale of Slide to Google, we've spoken to a source with knowledge of the terms to understand what everybody made from the deal. — As we speculated yesterday, founder Max Levchin did the best out of the sale …

Discussion: V3.co.uk, Xconomy and Softpedia News

Om Malik / GigaOM:
Slide, Vic Gundotra & The Un-Social Reality of Google

Discussion: The Social, Black Web 2.0, TechCrunch, eWeek, VatorNews, Stowe Boyd, Guardian, FM Blog, louisgray.com, MTV Multiplayer, Pitos Blog and Tom Foremski, Thanks:sachbalag

Leonid Taycher / Google Book Search Blog:

Books of the world, stand up and be counted! All 129,864,880 of you. — When you are part of a company that is trying to digitize all the books in the world, the first question you often get is: “Just how many books are out there?” — Well, it all depends on what exactly you mean by a “book.”

Discussion: CrunchGear, TechCrunch, ResourceShelf, The Official Google Blog and The Atlantic Online, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:atul

Viola Gienger / Bloomberg:

Pentagon Demands Wikileaks Return All Documents Leaked to Them — Aug. 5 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Defense Department demanded that WikiLeaks return all classified military documents leaked to them and expunge all copies from their records. — “We want whatever documents they have returned …

Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
U.S. Military Bans Personnel From Visiting Wikileaks; Pentagon …

Discussion: CNET News and Boing Boing

Gmail Blog:

Access two Gmail accounts at once in the same browser — I have a couple different Gmail addresses that I use for different purposes. Historically, Google Accounts - including Gmail accounts — have only let people access one account at a time per browser, so using both accounts has been a bit inconvenient.

Discussion: Lifehacker, Boy Genius Report, The Next Web and Google Enterprise Blog, Thanks:tonyskn

Wall Street Journal:

Clinton Voices Support for RIM — Citing Right of ‘Free Use,’ Secretary of State Enters Fight Over U.A.E. Plan to Curb BlackBerry Access — By PHRED DVORAK in New York and MARGARET COKER in Abu Dhabi — The Obama administration stepped into the spat over some foreign governments' plans …

Discussion: Gizmodo and Electronic Frontier Foundation

Reuters:
Lebanon Is Latest Country With BlackBerry Concerns

Discussion: Gizmodo, Electronista, Appolicious Advisor, Agence France Presse, Computerworld, Security and Risk and USA Today

Paul Graham:

The Future of Startup Funding — Two years ago I wrote about what I called “a huge, unexploited opportunity in startup funding:” the growing disconnect between VCs, whose current business model requires them to invest large amounts, and a large class of startups that need less than they used to.

Thanks:atul

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Redbeacon Raises $7.4 Million To Help You Book Local Services Online — Redbeacon, which won the TechCrunch50 launch conference in 2009, has raised a $7.4 million round of financing. The round was led by Mayfield Fund and Venrock. — Raj Kapoor, Managing Director at Mayfield …

Discussion: VentureBeat, VatorNews, Local Onliner, Silicon Alley Insider and silicontap.com

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

Apple Stores Raking In Revenue — How's this for a data point: Apple's (AAPL) retail store revenue increased 72.8 percent year over year to $2.58 billion in the June quarter. That means, according to Needham analyst Charlie Wolf, Apple Store revenue for that period was greater …

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.

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.

Discussion: Fast Company, Startup Meme, ReadWriteWeb and louisgray.com

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.

Discussion: Go Rumors, The Next Web, Geek.com and Technologizer, Thanks:rawmeet

Nilay Patel / Engadget:

The HP eStation Zeen, the Zeus printer, and everything we know about them — We've been flooded with a deluge of tips about the HP Zeen ever since we posted those first FCC images of the tablet device this morning, and it's actually a little surprising at how perfectly everything aligns.

Discussion: GottaBeMobile, PreCentral.net, SlashGear and I4U News

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