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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, Network World, Quoderat, SiliconANGLE, Open Source Blog, Daring Fireball, GigaOM, V3.co.uk and rc3.org
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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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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
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, Yahoo! News and TechSpot
New York Magazine:
Google Is Having a Pretty Crappy Friday the 13th
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p2pnet and Digital Trends, 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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Computerworld, Law Blog, Market Wire, GMSV and Mashable!
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, Pulse2, MarketingVOX, The Next Web, All Facebook and Voices on All Things Digital
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John Boitnott / VentureBeat:
Amateurish Facebook Live will suck up your time
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The Huffington Post
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
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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
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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CNET News, swns.com, Techmamas, The Register and Redmond Pie, Thanks:gizmodo
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.
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 …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Seattle Times, Silicon Alley Insider, MarketingVOX, VatorNews, dailywireless.org, Switched and VentureBeat
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, Pulse2, Epicenter, BoomTown, Inquirer and GigaOM
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Fred / A VC:
Regulation Strangulation — I've written a bit about net neutrality …
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TNL.net, CNNMoney.com and broadstuff, Thanks:chirag_mehta
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, paidContent, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, Pulse2, SiliconANGLE and silicontap.com
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Nvidia CEO: We have a CPU strategy — Nvidia's chief executive officer is emphatic that his company has a strategy for building processors beyond its mainstay graphics chips. — During an interview with CNET, Jen-Hsun Huang addressed a longstanding issue with the company's chips that has become …
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Bloomberg, TechSpot, TG Daily, The Register, Tech Trader Daily, Inquirer, Softpedia News and Fudzilla
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvdia and Rambus sign patent-license agreement
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PC World, Softpedia News, Tech Eye, Electronista and Tech Trader Daily
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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CrunchGear and Kindle Review
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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Hillicon Valley, ZDNet, Law Blog, The Register and GMSV
Royal Pingdom:
The top countries on Facebook (chart) — Facebook recently passed an incredible milestone, 500 million active users. And it keeps growing. — Although Facebook initially focused on the United States, it soon turned its eyes towards the horizon and the rest of the world.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Geek.com, The Huffington Post, WebProNews and ResourceShelf
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Gowalla CEO: Sorry Mobile Web: Users Prefer Apps — In the ongoing debate over apps versus the web on smartphones, apps are clearly winning. There's hope from companies like Opera and Google that the web will surge ahead as HTML 5 becomes more widespread, and access to native phone hardware …
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SmoothSpan Blog
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
ASUS prices 10-inch Android Eee Pad under $399, 8-inch Eee Tablet at $300, other tablets too — ASUS just dumped Windows Embedded Compact 7 for Android for its lower-end tablet devices, and CEO Jerry Shen is passing along the savings. He's pledging that the 10-inch Eee Pad EP101TC …
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VentureBeat, PC World, Electronista, CrunchGear, CNET News, Liliputing, MobileWhack.com, The Tech Report, Neowin.net, DailyTech, TG Daily, GottaBeMobile, Techie Buzz, Softpedia News and SlashGear
iFixit:
Motorola Droid 2 Teardown — Is this the Droid we're looking for? Why yes! Yes it is! We've acquired the latest smartphone on the market, the Motorola Droid 2. Join us as we break down this Droid into its most basic components.
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Ars Technica, SlashGear, AndroidSPIN, Android Phone Fans, Droid Life, Computerworld, Gadgetell, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Engadget, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, Phones Review and Erictric
