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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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9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, TiPb, Fortune, Gizmodo, Erictric, TUAW, The Loop, Softpedia News, MacNN and Engadget
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Is this the burger joint of the future? — NEW YORK—The team behind 4food, a burger shop opening next month on Madison Avenue and East 40th Street in midtown Manhattan, might have put forth the most idealistic concept that the fast-food industry has yet seen.
Giorgio / Invisible to the eye:
Google never removed Oracle from its index — Some folks have been reporting a strange behavior assumed by Google after the lawsuit filed by Oracle against Android and Google: it supposedly removed oracle.com pages, and all the pages that talk about Oracle, from its search index.
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Gene Quinn / IPWatchdog.com:
Google Briefly Punishes Oracle by Removal from Google Search
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Daring Fireball
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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eWeek and TechCrunch
David Dahlquist / Computerworld:
Myspace Music Romeo is like Pandora for music videos — Pandora is a wonderful service for discovering new music that matches your tastes, but it does little to capitalize on the iPad's glorious 9-inch display. Enter MySpace Music Romeo, an iPad app that lets you easily play, discover …
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WebProNews, Associated Press, Go Rumors, AppScout and Mashable!
Keith / BIT-101:
Kindle and iPad Displays: Up close and personal. — This really isn't meant to be a contentious post. It really only came about because I got a new toy, something I've been wanting to get for a while - a USB microsope! Here's the model I got: — Veho VMS004 DELUXE USB Powered Microscope
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TeleRead, Kindle Review, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, Snarkmarket and Geek.com
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Liquidmetal May Be Used For New iPhone Antenna Says Inventor [Exclusive] — Apple may be planning to use Liquidmetal for a new iPhone antenna, says the co-inventor of the sci-fi metal alloy. — Interviewed exclusively by CultofMac.com, Dr. Atakan Peker says Liquidmetal might be a good material for building a next-generation antenna.
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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.
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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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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Out Of 500 Million Users, Looks Like 360 Tuned In To Facebook Live
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WebProNews, CNET News and VentureBeat
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Bike Nerds To Create a Low Cost Bike Sharing System For New York — A group of charming fellows have created something they're calling “Social Bicycles,” a bike-sharing system that allows you to drop bikes off almost anywhere there is a bike rack, locate them, and access them with an iPhone app.
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Gadget Lab, Ars Technica, TreeHugger, Mashable!, Gizmodo, dailywireless.org, Ubergizmo and Engadget
Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL “Head Of Technology” Jeff Reynar Already Bails For Startup After Half A Year — AOL's Jeff Reynar, hired in January as “head of technology for engineering and products in New York,” and later also “engineering lead for AOL's Content business” has already left the company, we hear.
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Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Cyberwar Against Wikileaks? Good Luck With That — View WikiLeaks insurance seeders in a larger map — Should the U.S. government declare a cyberwar against WikiLeaks? — On Thursday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a gathering in London that the secret-spilling website …
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Voice of America:
Citizen Scientists Discover Rare Pulsar Using Home Computers — Three citizen-scientists volunteering their personal computer time to a giant U.S. radio observatory have discovered a rare pulsar - an energetic young star that rotates dozens of times per second.
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Brave New World, BBC, Ars Technica, Network World and Wired Science
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
BBC: HTML5 ‘Starting to Sail Off-Course’ — Many see HTML5 as the future for the delivery of web-based video, as well as a standards-based replacement for proprietary formats — like Adobe Flash — that dominate video delivery today. But Erik Huggers, director of Future Media & Technology at the BBC …
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Electricpig.co.uk, paidContent, Broadband TV News and BBC
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Seeds First Developer Build of Mac OS X 10.6.5 — Apple today seeded the first developer build of Mac OS X 10.6.5, the fifth maintenance release to the company's Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system. According to those familiar with the release, which is termed Build 10H525 …
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AppleInsider, Softpedia News and I4U News
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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