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Miguel de Icaza:
Initial Thoughts on Oracle vs Google Patent Lawsuit — Today Oracle sued Google over Java patents and copyrights that they claim Google's Android OS infringes. The lawsuit claims that Google knowingly infringed on those patents, and that the continued distribution of Google's Android is harming Oracle's Java Business.
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FOSS Patents, Computerworld, InformationWeek, Quoderat, Network World, SiliconANGLE, Open Source Blog, GigaOM, V3.co.uk, Daring Fireball and rc3.org
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Calls Oracle Patent Suit Baseless And An Attack On The Open-Source Java Community — Last night, Oracle filed suit against Google over its Android operating system, alleging that Google was infringing on seven Java patents with Android and its Dalvik virtual machine.
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CNET News, Computerworld, Android Phone Fans and Electronista
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Oracle sues Google over Android and Java — Two Silicon Valley heavyweights are about to reenact the Java wars: this time, in a court room. — Oracle issued a press release late Thursday saying it has filed suit against Google for infringing on copyrights and patents related to Java …
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Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
Java Creator Gosling: Oracle's Android Lawsuit Is No Surprise — While the Oracle lawsuit against Google over Java may have come as a surprise to some, it was not unexpected by others, including Java creator James Gosling. — In what some characterize as a battle in the making ever since …
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Computerworld, broadstuff, Digital Trends and TechSpot
New York Magazine:
Google Is Having a Pretty Crappy Friday the 13th
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Digital Trends and Inquirer, more at Mediagazer »
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft could be a winner in Oracle's patent attack over Java
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mocoNews, Gizmodo and The Register
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Oracle vs. Google over Java: Android lawsuits may begin to pile up
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Law Blog, Computerworld, Market Wire, GMSV, Mashable! and silicontap.com
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Launching Official Live Streaming Channel: Facebook Live — Today at 3 PM PST (6 EST), Facebook will unveil its new official live video streaming channel, Facebook Live. To kick off the launch, actress America Ferrera will stop by Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto …
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NewTeeVee, Fast Company, Inside Facebook, ArabCrunch English, The Next Web, All Facebook, MarketingVOX, Voices on All Things Digital and Pulse2
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John Boitnott / VentureBeat:
Amateurish Facebook Live will suck up your time
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Bloomberg:
PayPal Talking With Google About Handling Android Payments — EBay Inc.'s PayPal business is in talks to add its payment service to Google Inc.'s Android smartphone software, making it easier for users to pay for applications, three people familiar with the matter said.
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Mobile Marketing Watch
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Rachel Metz / Associated Press:
PayPal hopes to make micropayments easier online — SAN FRANCISCO — PayPal wants to make it easier to buy low-cost digital goods online, whether it's a single article on a news website or virtual items in a video game. — Scott Thompson, the online payment service's president …
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Fast Company, ReadWriteWeb and Pulse2
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Axon Logic Hackintosh Tablet May Just Out-iPad The iPad — Back in April we heard word of an affordable hackintosh tablet called the Axon Haptic. We were skeptical, since all we had was an anonymous tip and a render — something any 3D concept artist could have cooked up in an hour or two.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
How a 16-yo Kid Made His First Million Dollars Following His Hero, Steve Jobs — His name: Christian Owens. His age: 16. He made his first million dollars in two years, “inspired by Apple's CEO Steve Jobs”. This is how he did it. — The British teen—who lives in Corby, Northamptonshire—got his first computer age seven.
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swns.com, CNET News, Techmamas, Redmond Pie and The Register, Thanks:gizmodo
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zynga Hires Former Facebook, MySpace Exec Owen Van Natta — Zynga has hired former Facebook Chief Revenue Officer and MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta as EVP Business, reporting to CEO Mark Pincus. Van Natta was most recently in the news in February, when he stepped down as CEO of MySpace after just less than a year on the job.
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Inside Social Games, CNET News, MediaMemo, VentureBeat, paidContent, Silicon Alley Insider, Pulse2, SiliconANGLE and silicontap.com
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
How Starbucks Plans to Capitalize on Free Wi-Fi — Starbucks stores nationwide now have free Wi-Fi, but details around the second piece to the coffee retailer's digital strategy — the Starbucks Digital Network — have been slim. Here's how Starbucks plans to cater to digital consumers …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google, Just Cut The BS And Give The Gordon Gekko Speech Already — The past few days I've been bookmarking posts about Google, Verizon, and net neutrality to read later. For the past few hours I've been doing that — and I've barely made a dent. It seems that everyone who has ever written …
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Techdirt, Future Tense, Open Source Blog, BoomTown, Pulse2, Epicenter, GigaOM and p2pnet
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Fred / A VC:
Regulation Strangulation — I've written a bit about net neutrality …
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TNL.net, broadstuff, CNNMoney.com, FM Blog and BoomTown, Thanks:chirag_mehta
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The $99 Kindle - Why e-readers will soon cost less than $100. — Late last month, Amazon unveiled a new version of its Kindle e-book reader that, like every new Kindle, is thinner, lighter, and smaller than the previous one. It's also the cheapest Kindle ever—the new Wi-Fi version sells for just $139.
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TeleRead, CrunchGear and Kindle Review
Garett Rogers / ZDNet:
The problem with Google Voice Actions for Android — Google Voice actions is a “cool” new feature for Android (Froyo 2.2). With this new feature you are able to tell your phone what to do, with just your voice. How about some of these examples: — 1) “send text to bob hey are you coming for lunch or what?”
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Scott Webster / AndroidGuys:
Vlingo Sets $10 App Free After Google Voice Actions Announcement
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Android Tapp, AndroidSPIN and Vlingo
David Crawford / Wall Street Journal:
Probe of Bribery at H-P Heats Up — The U.S. Department of Justice has asked Hewlett-Packard Co. to provide a trove of internal records as part of an international investigation into allegations that H-P executives paid bribes in Russia, according to people familiar with the investigations.
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ZDNet, Hillicon Valley, Law Blog, The Register, GMSV and Voices on All Things Digital
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Survey Says: 34 Percent Of AT&T iPhone Owners Are Waiting To Switch To Verizon — When AT&T's monopoly on the iPhone ends in the U.S., it is not going to be pretty. With increasing evidence that Verizon is preparing to offer the iPhone 4 early next year, many people are waiting before buying one or upgrading.
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Fortune, Macsimum News and Electronista
Kris Colvin / Fresh from the Arboretum:
Breaking: New Features from Twitter Just Appeared: TLists & Also Followed By — I'm a bit befuddled but wanted to share some mysterious features that just showed up on my Twitter.com screen. — The first is TLists - a similar feature to Listorious, TList appeared on my page to show others the lists I am on.
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Search Engine Watch, JasonPollock.TV and The Next Web
Wall Street Journal:
India Official Says RIM Plans to Cooperate — NEW DELHI—Research In Motion Ltd. has assured India it will meet the Aug. 31 deadline to provide technical solutions that will allow security agencies to monitor the company's BlackBerry corporate email and messenger services, a senior government official said Friday.
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Electronista, Pulse2, Ars Technica, Reuters and Gizmodo
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Reuters:
India says Google, Skype, RIM must meet security needs
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