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New York Times:
Facebook Feels Unfriendly Toward Movie It Inspired — LOS ANGELES — At the New York Film Festival next month, Hollywood will unleash “The Social Network,” a biting tale of the Silicon Valley giant Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. — Now Facebook must decide whether to bite back.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
It's Official: Google Acquires Like.com — It's official. Google has acquired Like.com. In a post on Like.com's homepage, the company's CEO and Founder Munjal Shah writes that the visual search engine has been bought by Google. We originally reported the acquisition last weekend. Updating.
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Redeye VC, eSarcasm, Relevant Results, Google Operating System, Fortune, VentureBeat and The Next Web
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Court OKs Covert iPhone Audio Recording — Using an iPhone to secretly record a conversation is not a violation of the Wiretap Act if done for legitimate purposes, a federal appeals court has ruled. — “The defendant must have the intent to use the illicit recording to commit a tort …
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IntoMobile, Techdirt, Ubergizmo and Digital Media Wire
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Don't Mean To Be Rude, But How In The World Is LG Going To Make A Better iPad Than Apple? — Over the next year, Apple is going to get a slew of iPad competition, from everyone including the cellphone players, the PC players, and maybe even some wildcards. — But if there's anyone Apple must fear …
BBC:
Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks' Assange cancelled — Julian Assange had been cited as saying the release of the allegations was “deeply disturbing” — Sweden has cancelled an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusations of rape and molestation.
Martin Heller / InfoWorld:
Oracle's Android lawsuit: A Pandora's box of serious evils — A deeper look at Oracle's legal claims show how an Oracle win or a Google give-in could destroy Android and even open source — Everyone knows that Oracle is suing Google over claims that Google used Sun's Java technology without …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Kept Thousands Of Check-Ins On Lockdown For Months. Impressive. — As we noted a couple days ago, the video Facebook made to explain their new Places feature was a bit Apple-esque. But something else they pulled off recently was even more Apple-esque: the secrecy surrounding their location launch.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Facebook Places: The Real Target Is Yelp — Most of the attention paid to Facebook Places, the new location feature that the social network launched on Thursday, has focused either on the privacy implications of the service, or on the impact that it could have on location-based startups such as Foursquare …
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TechCrunch, Screenwerk, Between the Lines Blog, WebProNews, VentureBeat and IntoMobile, Thanks:mathewi
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Wilson Rothman / msnbc.com:
Facebook is the new Google — If Facebook keeps acting like Google …
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Kyle VanHemert / Gizmodo:
Sony's Single Wire Interface Will Allow For Crazier Handset Designs — Sony figured out how to replace the 22-wire ribbon inside their mobile devices-the one that carries control signals, video, and audio data-with a single copper cable, capable of 940Mbps transmission.
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CrunchGear and Sony Global
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
An In-Depth Look at the Google TV Interface — Google TV will include a podcast directory, giving users the ability to subscribe to shows and have future episodes show up in the same list as their DVR recordings. That's one of the takeaways of an in-depth look at the Google TV interface …
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VentureBeat, eHomeUpgrade, SimplyGoogleTV and StuffWeLike.com
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
Best Buy To Focus On Tablets For Holidays — Best Buy is known for stocking thousands of electronic gadgets. To date, that assortment has included just one tablet computer-Apple's iPad-but that will change in coming months, Forbes has learned. — “Going into the holidays …
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TeleRead and Technologizer
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
webOS developer spots device with Retina-matching resolution in logs — A few weeks ago, we told you about a foursquare application developer that discovered traces of webOS 2.0 in their application logs. While the information would have been very hard to fake, it would have been technically feasible due …
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Electronista, Gizmodo Australia and netbooknews.com
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
‘Innocent Infringer’ copyright defense for downloaders goes to U.S. Supreme Court — The case of Whitney Harper, the first defendant in a peer-to-peer copyright infringement suit to use the “innocent infringer” defense, was submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in the form of an Amicus brief Thursday …
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Joel Fights Back, MediaPost, Ars Technica, PlagiarismToday and ZeroPaid.com
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
U.S. Customers Are Tablet-Hungry, and Not Just for the iPad — Surveys reveal that a substantial chunk of U.S. customers plan to buy a tablet in the next year, and it's not necessarily going to be an iPad. — Fourteen percent, or 27 million U.S. online consumers, intend to buy some kind …
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PC Magazine, Electronista, Gizmodo Australia, Gizmodo and dailywireless.org
James Farrar / ZDNet:
Nokia Siemens Networks respond to Iran human rights abuses claims — Yesterday I posted on the lawsuit filed by Iranian journalist and activist, Isa Saharkhiz (pictured) and his son Mehdi in US Federal Court against, Nokia Siemens Networks, Siemens and Nokia for human rights abuses.
Peter Jamison / The Snitch:
Zynga in Hot Water with San Francisco City Attorney Over ‘Mafia Wars’ Marketing — The San Francisco City Attorney's office is going after social-gaming company Zynga — maker of such popular Facebook applications as FarmVille and Mafia Wars — for what it calls an “illegal and actionable” …
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, The Social, Computerworld and Switched
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Infoaxe raises $3M to make online bookmarks obsolete — Infoaxe, a startup that helps helps users find better search results based on their Web history, just announced that it has raised $2 million in a first round of funding. — The Sunnyvale, Calif. company's main product is an add-on for Firefox and Internet Explorer.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Creep Executive Officer — In a weekend WSJ interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Schmidt said: … Nick Carr, quoting the above, quips: … But Carr doesn't even mention the oddest part of the WSJ interview: … I've been thinking about this since Saturday.
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Silicon Alley Insider and Computerworld, Thanks:atul
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
ICANN asks Demand Media for answers after report — IDG News Service - The group responsible for managing the Internet's domain name system is asking Demand Media's eNom division for answers following complaints from Internet security groups. — ENom, the world's second-largest domain name registrar …
Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
Tweet Button Bookmarklet: Share links from any page — Last week, we announced an easy-to-install and lightweight Tweet Button that allows publishers to make it easy for users to share a link to their content on Twitter. Thousands of sites have implemented the Tweet Button already.
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