Techmeme: Electronics Designers Struggle With Form, Function and Obsolescence (Nick Bilton/Bits)

2:55 PM ET, August 9, 2010

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A joint policy proposal for an open Internet — Posted by Alan Davidson, Google director of public policy and Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president of public affairs, policy, and communications — The original architects of the Internet got the big things right.

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Live Blogging The Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Press Conference — Google and Verizon have announced that they'll be hosting a conference call today at 10:30 AM Pacific Time. Topic? Not said, but probably related to the rumor last week that the two companies have cut a deal …

Discussion: Fortune, Silicon Alley Insider, Digits, Bits, Hillicon Valley, Teens in Tech, Engadget, Internet Evolution and Paul Venezia's blog

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:

Google & Verizon Propose Enforceable Net Neutrality — Google and Verizon are completing a press call right now announcing their joint legislative framework proposal: network transparency and FCC enforcement with up to $2 million fines for network providers that engage in anti-competitive measures that hurt consumers.

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Skype Files for IPO — Skype, the Internet telephony company is looking to raise upto $100 million in an Initial Public Offering, according to a registration statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company will be selling American Depositary Shares (ADSs) and will trade on the NASDAQ Global Market.

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:

Skype Spent $343.8 Million To Acquire Its P2P Software From Founders — Skype, which separated from eBay late last year, filed for a $100 million IPO this morning. — Among the details in its filing: A bunch of information around its huge legal settlement last November with Joltid …

Discussion: GigaOM and Softpedia News

Peter Parkes / About Skype:

Skype Files Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering — LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg, Aug. 9, 2010 — Skype S.A., a global technology leader that enables real-time communications over the Internet, today announced that it has filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the Securities …

Discussion: PC World, New York Times, Telecompetitor, Digital Trends, The Register, VoIP Watch and Phone Scoop

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Big Tech IPO of the Day: Skype Tries to Dial Up $100 Million

Discussion: VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, Boy Genius Report, Gizmodo and Silicon Alley Insider

Boy Genius Report:

Exclusive: Verizon Wireless 2010/2011 roadmap! — One of our Verizon Wireless sources has dropped a whole bunch of info in our laps. We're talking intimate details of Verizon Wireless' plans for the rest of 2010, 2011 and even some 2012 plans. Android tablets, LTE MiFi units, Android 3.0, video conferencing, and a whole lot more.

Sean Hollister / Engadget:

Best Buy pegs Droid 2 at $199 with 2-year activation, $599 without (updated) — It's rather astounding to believe we've come this far without Verizon or Motorola so much as recognizing the Droid 2's existence, but with leaks like this on a weekly basis who needs traditional marketing?

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Another Piece To Google's Social Puzzle: To Acquire Jambool For $70 Million — Google continues to gobble up companies that will form the backbone of it's new social strategy and the upcoming war with Facebook. Last week it was Slide. And they are now buying Jambool and their Social Gold payment product …

Gus Sentementes / BaltTech:

Apple licenses tech of Liquidmetal Technologies — An SEC filing just hit that shows that Apple Inc. struck a deal with Liquidmetal Technologies, a California-based company that holds patents on new metal and alloy designs, for essentially access to all of its intellectual property.

Discussion: AppleInsider, MacRumors, everythingiCafe, TiPb, Gizmodo, BlogsDNA, 9 to 5 Mac and Ubergizmo

Thomas Ricker / Engadget:

RIM BlackPad tablet priced at $499 when it ships in November? — Come on, admit it, you want to believe that RIM is working on a tablet called the BlackPad don't you? You'd better, because Apple Daily is piling on with more unsubstantiated rumor this morning.

Discussion: DigiTimes, PhoneDog.com, CrackBerry.com blogs, GottaBeMobile, Liliputing, Unwired View, CrunchGear, SlashGear, I4U News, Gadgetell, Electronista and Gizmodo

Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:

Former softcore porn actress Jodie Fisher identified in HP CEO sex scandal — Above, while it lasts: the video demo reel on YouTube for actress Jodie Fisher (not Jodie Foster!), who was today identified by the New York Times, USA Today, San Jose Mercury News, AP, Reuters …

Mercury News: Statement: Jodie Fisher's statement on her relationship with ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Papermaster's Departure Linked to ‘Cultural Incompatibility’ Rather Than Antenna Issues — The Wall Street Journal provides some additional color on the departure of Apple's iPhone hardware engineering chief Mark Papermaster, citing “broader cultural incompatibility” rather than a direct link …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The iPhone 4 Antenna Issue Won't Die — Because Apple Won't Let It

Discussion: Computerworld, Daring Fireball, Boy Genius Report, O'Grady's PowerPage, Macsimum News, CNN, Guardian and Inquirer

Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:

Google's count of 130 million books is probably bunk — Google's core Internet search technology famously grew out of a grad school project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to index the world's books, and the modern Google Books Project actually touts itself as the part of Google that carries on the founders' original vision.

Discussion: ResourceShelf and kottke.org

Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:

Steve Nash Drives Into Venture Capital — Each summer, advertising firm Deutsch Inc. has dozens of interns scurrying around its Manhattan offices. Most are in their early 20s, unpaid and (so far) relatively unaccomplished. But two years ago, the group also included a 34 year-old whose bank account …

Discussion: GigaOM, Venture Capital Dispatch, AdAge and Profectio

Nick Bilton / Bits:

Electronics Designers Struggle With Form, Function and Obsolescence — The result of movable object (iPhone) meeting immovable object (pavement) — Sorry, Steve Jobs, I owe you a new iPhone. — For the past few weeks I've been using a loaner iPhone 4 from Apple.

Discussion: GottaBeMobile, Thanks:rawmeet

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