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Joe Nocera / New York Times:
Real Reason for Ousting H.P.'s Chief — The resignation of Mark V. Hurd last week from his seemingly secure post as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard has got to be one of the great head-scratchers in recent times. — Here's a guy who walked into a very troubled situation, replacing Carleton S.
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GottaBeMobile and VentureBeat
Pete Carey / Mercury News:
Apple manager arrested in kickback scheme — A midlevel Apple manager was arrested and accused of accepting more than $1 million in kickbacks from half a dozen Asian suppliers of iPhone and iPod accessories, according to a federal indictment unsealed Friday and a separate civil suit.
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Wall Street Journal, NBC Bay Area, iPhone Savior, CNET News, New York Times, TiPb, Techie Buzz, Gizmodo, Fortune, AppleInsider, TUAW, App Advice, Erictric, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Engadget, MacNN and The Loop
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple iPod Operations Manager Paul Shin Devine held in supplier kickback scheme — Paul Shin Devine, 37, of Sunnyvale, California is being held on accusations that he accepted more than $1 million in kickbacks from Asian suppliers of iPhone and iPod accessories.
Sogrady / tecosystems:
Oracle v Google: Why? — When Android debuted in 2007, I couldn't figure out how Google had managed to apply an Apache license to the project. Java, like Linux, was governed by the GPL and thus incompatible with the more permissive license Android was sporting.
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Buleyean String, Fone Arena, WebProNews, ConsortiumInfo.org … and TechCrunch
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Groklaw:
The Oracle-Google Mess: A Question - Are Any of the Patents Tied to a Specific Machine? - Updated 3Xs: Google Speaks — On the Oracle v. Google litigation announcement, here's something that I don't see anyone else mentioning yet. — On the Oracle patents, in a post-Bilski world, the right question would seem to be:
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Roughly Drafted and CNET News, Thanks:atul
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Google and the Search for the Future — The Web icon's CEO on the mobile computing revolution, the future of newspapers, and privacy in the digital age. — To some, Google has been looking a bit sallow lately. The stock is down. Where once everything seemed to go the company's way …
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Rough Type, Technology Liberation Front, Tech Eye and Stowe Boyd
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
I Love The Smell Of OAuth In The Morning. OAuthpocalypse Now! — Some of you may recall back in 2009 when there was not one, but two Twitpocalypses. As a quick refresher, it was an issue with the unique identity number for tweets and the 32-bit signed and unsigned integer limits.
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Andy Beard
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
iPadversaries! 32 Tablets, Slates, Pads, and More — Why are iPads selling as fast as Apple's Chinese subcontractors can crank them out? In part, it's because the iPad has a suddenly-hot product category pretty much to itself. Before scuttlebutt that Apple was working on a tablet started to heat up …
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Liliputing, GottaBeMobile, blogs.chron.com, techblog.dallasnews.com, Gizmodo, PalmAddicts, New York Times, VentureBeat and Engadget
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Suit alleges Disney, other top sites spied on users — A lawsuit filed in federal court last week alleges that a group of well-known Web sites, including those owned by Disney, Warner Bros. Records, and Demand Media, broke the law by covertly tracking the Web movements of their users, including children.
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VentureBeat
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
Man Scrawls World's Biggest Message With GPS ‘Pen’ — One man drove 12,238 miles across 30 states to scrawl a message that can only be viewed using Google Earth. His big shoutout: “Read Ayn Rand.” — Nick Newcomen did a road trip over 30 days that covered stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Kotaku, Switched and Voices on All Things Digital
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Groupon + Foursquare = GroupTabs, Group Deals for Check-Ins — GroupTabs, a new New York City-based startup, is offering yet another twist on location-based social networking services. Like media darling Foursquare, the mobile application incorporates the idea of checking in to a local business or venue …
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Yahoo! News and Mobile Marketing Watch, Thanks:rawmeet
Felix Salmon:
The huge obstacles facing Murdoch's new tablet newspaper — Rupert Murdoch is launching a new national newspaper, which will be “distributed exclusively as paid content for tablet computers such as Apple's iPad and mobile phones”. — The interesting thing here is the “paid content” part …
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