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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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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, Threat Level, Digital Trends, broadstuff and TechSpot
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Calls Oracle Patent Suit Baseless And An Attack On The …
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CNET News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Android Phone Fans, Pulse2 and Computerworld
New York Magazine:
Google Is Having a Pretty Crappy Friday the 13th
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VentureBeat and p2pnet, more at Mediagazer »
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft could be a winner in Oracle's patent attack over Java
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Law Blog, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Dana Gardner's …, mocoNews, Between the Lines Blog, Irregular Enterprise Blog and CNET News
Joan Marsh / AT&T Public Policy Blog:
Wireless is Different — It's now day four of the aftermath of the Verizon-Google net neutrality announcement and the number of voices weighing in on the matter continues to grow. Monday's news fanned what was already a passionate discussion. And it also brought into focus a critical aspect …
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
No Shock: AT&T Backs Different Rules for Wireless in Net Neutrality
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TechCrunch and Techdirt
Sara Inés Calderón / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Live Launches, Broadcasting Celebrities, Product Launches and More from Company Headquarters — Facebook debuted its official live video stream channel today, Facebook Live, at the company's Palo Alto, Calif. headquarters. Starting now, it is beginning to feature celebrity guests …
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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 …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Out Of 500 Million Users, Looks Like 360 Tuned In To Facebook Live — Just what you've always wanted to do, “glimpse inside Facebook's headquarters”! Except that does sound kind of cool when you imagine Facebook bringing in top engineering talent and talking about new product development.
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The Next Web and The Huffington Post
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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CNET News and Mobile Marketing Watch
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Rachel Metz / Associated Press:
PayPal hopes to make micropayments easier online
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ReadWriteWeb, CrunchGear, Fast Company, WebProNews and Pulse2
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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PC World, swns.com, Redmond Pie, The Register, Techmamas and CNET News, Thanks:gizmodo
Garett Rogers / Googling Google Blog:
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
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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MediaMemo, Inside Social Games, WebProNews, Pulse2, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, The Social, paidContent, Silicon Alley Insider and silicontap.com
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, The Next Web, ArabCrunch English, Techie Buzz and JasonPollock.TV
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
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.
Dawn Kawamoto / DailyFinance:
Protesters at Google HQ Demand End to Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal — Mr. Schmidt, where are you? — Protesters outside Google's (GOOG) headquarters in Silicon Valley called out to CEO Eric Schmidt today, demanding that he come out and meet with them to receive their gift …
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CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, Epicenter, SFWeekly Tech and Ubergizmo
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google, Just Cut The BS And Give The Gordon Gekko Speech Already
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Future Tense, Open Source Blog, BoomTown, Epicenter, DailyFinance, Pulse2, Digital Trends, Internet Evolution, A VC and GigaOM
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Microsoft's lost eight years online: More than $6 billion down the tubes — Microsoft has recently touted its success with Bing — and with good reason. The search engine is gaining share and will continue to as Microsoft's partnership with Yahoo kicks in.
Thanks:srikardhanakoti
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Company behind magicJack to banish calling costs — NEW YORK — The company behind the magicJack, the Internet phone gadget heavily advertised on television, has another trick up its sleeve: free phone calls from computers, smart phones and iPads. — The cost of phone calls routed over the Internet has been on a long slide.
Social Gold:
Social Gold Joins Google - A Letter From Our Founders — We are excited to announce that Jambool is becoming a part of the Google family today. — Jambool started as a social collaboration platform in 2006. In 2007, we shifted our — focus to build applications on social networks.
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Social Gold, VentureBeat, Inside Social Games, TechCrunch, SocialTimes.com, Erictric and Voices on All Things Digital
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 …
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
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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