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Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey (UPDATED) — ANALYSIS — In 2007, when the Android OS was still vaporware, Google made a gutsy $4.6 billion bet on mobile net neutrality. While they never had to pay out the money, that all-in move forced the FCC …
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broadstuff, BuzzMachine, New York Times, MediaPost, FM Blog, Guardian, The Atlantic Online, BoomTown and Boing Boing, Thanks:rawmeet
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Cindy Cohn / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
A Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal — Efforts to protect net neutrality that involve government regulation have always faced one fundamental obstacle: the substantial danger that the regulators will cause more harm than good for the Internet.
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GamePolitics News, Technology Liberation Front, Computerworld, Electronista and PC World
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
How Google & Apple Sold Out The Cell Phone Revolution
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New York Times, Silicon Valley Watcher, Fortune and The Register
Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
Google, Verizon are right to push out the wireless net neutrality talk
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eWeek and Computerworld
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Twitter Launching Official Tweet Buttons This Week [EXCLUSIVE] — Twitter is launching an official Tweet Button for sharing articles on websites and counting how many times a URL has been shared, according to documents Mashable has obtained. The Tweet Button could launch as soon as this Thursday.
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The Blog Herald, Techie Buzz, Covering Web, Switched, Softpedia News and NewsGrange
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Gmail Blog:
Updates to Contacts and a (slightly) new look for Gmail — We're constantly reviewing user feedback about Gmail, and for a while now the number one request has been for a better contacts experience. You've asked us to generally make Contacts easier to use, as well as for specific improvements …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Dell Streak Pricing: $300 With Two-Year AT&T Contract, $550 Without — That's almost twice as much as a good iPod Touch, and if you wait a few weeks to buy the Touch, you'll get one with a Retina Display and dual cameras. If Dell can't make an iPod Touch competitor, who can?
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Leland Rechis / Twitter Blog:
Introducing Fast Follow, and other SMS tips — We've always been big fans of trusty SMS messaging. In fact, sending a text was originally the only way users could tweet. This is why Tweets are 140 characters — they need to fit into a text message. — We value SMS because it's simple, instant and universal.
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The Blog Herald, V3.co.uk, MediaPost, Softpedia News, ReadWriteWeb, ArabCrunch English, VentureBeat, Erictric, The Next Web and Gizmodo
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Amazon Is Said to Look at Hardware Beyond Kindle — If you look at the job board for Lab 126, the division of Amazon responsible for the Kindle e-reader, you will see a flurry of listings related to electronics hardware, with titles like Supply Chain Project Program Manager, Hardware Engineer and RF Systems Engineer.
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Inquirer, Kindle Review, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Electronista, WebProNews and Engadget
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: HOPA Dry Erase Girl Is A Hoax, Identity Revealed — “Girl quits her job on dry erase board, emails entire office (33 Photos)” is indeed a hoax, say its creators John and Leo Resig. — I'd love to pull out some well-worn meta-media analysis about how memes are increasingly …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
What New Features Will Google Reveal at Mobile Event Thursday? Some Think It Should Be Integrated Video Calling. — Today, Google sent out a notice that it would be holding a press event Thursday morning at its San Francisco offices, where the search giant would be “unveiling a couple of cool new mobile features.”
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Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Electronista, VentureBeat, Fortune, AndroidSPIN, Googling Google Blog, Technologizer, Android Phone Fans, Neowin.net and Ubergizmo
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Mark Hurd Had The Lowest Employee Approval Rating (34%) Of Any Major Tech CEO — Softcore-porn-actress-turned- marketing-consultant Jodie Fisher wasn't the only person who failed to be enamored by HP CEO Mark Hurd, who was forced to resign as a result of an investigation into his relationship with Ms. Fisher.
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HP Phenomenon, Silicon Alley Insider, Techie Buzz, TG Daily, Gawker, Geek.com and Fortune, Thanks:rawmeet
Kim Hyung-eun / JoongAng Daily:
Samsung tablet to be unveiled in Berlin — Speculation has been swirling for months around a tablet PC from Samsung Electronics, and the waiting may finally be over next month. — Korea's top mobile phone maker will unveil the device at the IFA consumer electronics show …
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Inquirer, CrunchGear, Samsung Hub, Electricpig.co.uk, Engadget, Erictric, Pocket-lint, AndroidGuys, Phone Arena, The Next Web and Android and Me
Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:
What Happened To Demand Media's Traffic? — Take a look at the Quantcast traffic data for Demand Media, the VC-backed online content creator that on Friday filed for a $125 million IPO: — The massive drop-off occured a few days prior to the IPO filing, and has stayed consistent over the past two days of Quantcast reports.
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GigaOM, Slate, Bronte Media and Andy Beard
Theodoric Meyer / The Dalles Chronicle:
On Google's Terms — The Dalles' Internet giant calls the shots on information despite government rules — Two data centers present a study in contrasts — PRINEVILLE, Ore.— High on a plateau above this struggling city's downtown, Facebook is busy building its first data center.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
HP tells employees webOS tablet coming Q1 2011 — We've been trying to find out when HP would launch a webOS tablet since the company first bought Palm, and we're now hearing from several trusted sources that it'll be calendar Q1 2011. We're told Personal Systems Group VP Todd Bradley mentioned …
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Unwired View, Softpedia News, I4U News, The Tech Report, MobileContentToday, Between the Lines Blog, Phone Arena, GottaBeMobile, VentureBeat, Electronista, PhoneDog.com, Thoughts from the Sidelines, CNET News, SlashGear, Everything webOS, The Toybox Blog, The Next Web, CrunchGear, PreCentral.net and Gizmodo
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Facebook's Foursquare competitor is imminent — The long-rumored geolocation “check-in” feature at Facebook is slated to debut within weeks, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNET. — It's going to take the form of an application program interface (API) for third-party companies …
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
How Black People Use Twitter — As far as I can tell, the Twitter hashtag #wordsthatleadtotrouble got started at about 11 a.m. Pacific Time on Sunday morning, when a user named Kookeyy posted this short message: “#wordsthatleadtotrouble 'Don't Worry I gotchu.”
Thibault Imbert / ByteArray.org:
H.264 GPU Decoding in Flash Player on Mac OS X is live — We just pushed a few minutes ago a new version of the Flash Player 10.1.82.76 containing a nice feature that was in beta until now called “Gala”. Yes, H.264 GPU decoding in Mac OSX is now officially enabled in the Flash Player.
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Inquirer, AppleInsider, MacRumors, InsideRIA, 9 to 5 Mac, John Nack on Adobe, Ryan Stewart, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and MacStories
Mark Ward / BBC:
Smartphone security put on test — How the stolen data was sent to an e-mail inbox set up to receive it — BBC News has shown how straightforward it is to create a malicious application for a smartphone. — Over a few weeks, the BBC put together a crude game for a smartphone that also spied on the owner of the handset.
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Securelist, The Register, Fast Company, Gizmodo, T3.com News, Graham Cluley's blog, Go Rumors, Phones Review, Tech Eye, gHacks Technology News and Computing
Chris Morrison / Inside Social Games:
Zynga Pulls FarmVille Off MSN Games — Zynga has removed its hit game FarmVille from MSN Games, one of the bigger game portals around, we've learned. Zynga first added FarmVille to MSN in February. — This is not the first time that Zynga has pulled a game from a platform.
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TechFlash and VentureBeat
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
‘John Doe’ Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order After 6 Years — The owner of an internet service provider who mounted a high-profile court challenge to a secret FBI records demand has finally been partially released from a 6-year-old gag order that forced him to keep his role in the case …
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Techdirt and Washington Post
