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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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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Facebook at Odds With Google, Verizon on Net Neutrality
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CNET News, Tom Foremski, Tech Eye and The Huffington Post, Thanks:rawmeet
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
A paper trail of betrayal: Google's net neutrality collapse
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Nelson's Weblog and Digital Trends
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Google, Verizon are right to push out the wireless net neutrality talk
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BetaNews, InformationWeek, broadstuff and Epicenter
Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
The Dell Streak Shows The CE World How To Be Relevant In An iDevice World — Someone at Dell deserves a raise. Actually, a bunch of people probably deserve a monetary reward for the Dell Streak as it takes many people to get a product to market. It's the fact that the Dell Streak actually …
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internetnews.com, GottaBeMobile, Gadget Lab, Ubergizmo and Unwired View
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Lionel Menchaca / Direct2Dell:
Official Dell Streak Pricing, Carrier and Order Details for US Customers
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PC World, The Seattle Times, Yahoo! News, eWeek, Liliputing, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Between the Lines Blog, Daring Fireball, Computerworld, Digital Trends, Appolicious Advisor, content.dell.com, Technologizer, AndroidGuys, MobileContentToday, Phones Review, PhoneDog.com, Boy Genius Report, jkOnTheRun, SlashGear, Phone Scoop and MobileBurn.com
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Waiting for Godot: Apple's Fall Event Is Definitely Happening, but Exactly When and What? — Oh, it's coming. — According to several sources and as has been widely expected, Apple will once again be holding its annual special event, possibly closer to mid-September this time.
James Hawkins / Google Chrome Blog:
Syncing, simplifying, and speeding up with Chrome's new beta — In today's new Google Chrome beta release, we're introducing a host of new beta features which will further improve Chrome's ease of use and speed. — One of my favorite features, Autofill, helps you fill in web forms automatically …
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VentureBeat, Download Squad, The Next Web, thechromesource and Neowin.net
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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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Twitter introduces the Tweet Button. Is TweetMeme being left in the cold?
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Benjamin Grol / 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 …
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors — The tire pressure monitors built into modern cars have been shown to be insecure by researchers from Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina. The wireless sensors, compulsory in new automobiles in the US since 2008 …
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Lockergnome Blog Network, dailywireless.org and Geek.com
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
First Look At TweetDeck For Android — TweetDeck is preparing to release its first Android app in beta tomorrow. I got a hold of the beta build and some screenshots. The app adds some new elements which go beyond TweetDeck's popular iPhone app, and even introduces some new elements not yet found in its desktop app.
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jkOnTheRun, T3.com News, Google Android News …, Black Web 2.0, Download Squad and Gadgetell
Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
Apple Releases iOS 4.0.2 for iPhone, iOS 3.2.2 for iPad to Patch JailbreakMe PDF Exploit — Apple has just released iOS 4.0.2 for all iPhones, iPod touches, and iOS 3.2.2 for iPad to patch the PDF exploit which was used by JailbreakMe to jailbreak all iOS devices on iOS 4.0.1.
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Apple, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, iPhone Download Blog and Boy Genius Report, Thanks:taimurasad
Mike Steib / Traditional Media:
DIRECTV Partners with Google TV Ads — Today, we're announcing a strategic partnership with DIRECTV through which Google TV Ads will offer inventory on a broad selection of television networks available on DIRECTV. — DIRECTV's national satellite inventory on Bloomberg Television, Centric …
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Fortune, MediaPost, CNET News, paidContent, L.A. Times Tech Blog, BetaNews, TechCrunch, Erictric, 901am and Voices on All Things Digital, more at Mediagazer »
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.”
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MediaPost, techPresident and The Atlantic Online
Reuters:
Setback for BlackBerry in India — (Reuters) - India may temporarily shut down BlackBerry services if New Delhi's concerns about security are not addressed in a meeting between the government and mobile phone operators on Thursday, government sources said. — The latest ultimatum …
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Techie Buzz, The Register, PC World, Fast Company, Inquirer and Voices on All Things Digital
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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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Computerworld, Between the Lines Blog, Silicon Alley Insider, HP Phenomenon, Techie Buzz, Gawker, TG Daily, DealBook, Geek.com and New York Times, Thanks:rawmeet
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 …
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CNET News, Computerworld, NevilleHobson.com, theCHIVE, Boing Boing, Gawker, Switched, Mashable!, Gizmodo, The Social Path, PE Hub Blog, Geek.com, All Facebook and MediaMemo, more at Mediagazer »
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Qualcomm's E-Ink killer: How do you mass produce Mirasol? — Qualcomm's Mirasol, a color screen that has the battery life of E-Ink and can play video, is a likely candidate for a future version of Amazon's Kindle. Now all Qualcomm has to do is manufacture it profitably.
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Obsessable and Kindle Review
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Susie Pan / DigiTimes:
Global e-book reader shipments to be 2-3 times higher in 2H10, says E Ink chairman
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Kindle Review and Tech Eye
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Exclusive: Upcoming Apple TV loses 1080p playback, gains apps... and will be renamed iTV — You might remember that we broke news of an updated Apple TV headed to market just a few months ago. If your brain isn't working right, let us jog it: a trusted Engadget source asserted that the gang …
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Gizmodo
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Facebook bug spills name and pic for all 500 million users — Just add email address — A bug in Facebook's login system allows attackers to match unknown email addresses with users' first and last names, even when they've configured their accounts to make that information private.
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ZDNet, All Facebook and InformationWeek
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Playboy's iPad App: Same Price As Newsstand, But No Digital Gatefold — One of the old jokes people used to make about buying Playboy magazine was that they “just read it for the articles.” Well, when someone buys its new $4.99 iPad app in the iTunes Store, they just might be serious when they say that.
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
You've got friends: Facebook, AOL quietly talking online ad hookup — Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong are quietly discussing a strategic alliance aimed at boosting their online ad businesses, The Post has learned. — The two companies have been talking …
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MediaPost, GigaOM and Reuters, more at Mediagazer »
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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CNET News, CrunchGear, Samsung Hub, Techland, Electricpig.co.uk, Inquirer, I4U News, Pocket-lint, Android and Me, Engadget, AndroidGuys, Erictric, Phone Arena and The Next Web
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
MySpace Launches a Revamped User Homepage [EXCLUSIVE] — MySpace is rolling out a complete redesign of the user homepage (the page users see when they log in), with a focus on content discovery through the stream and more prominent sharing tools. — The revamp, which will roll out as a …
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