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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.
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aklagare.se, CNET News, Reuters, This Just In, Guardian, The Local and Gawker
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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VentureBeat and The 48th New York Film …, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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
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, MediaPost, Computerworld, VatorNews, WebProNews and Screenwerk, 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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Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
Foursquare's Crowley: The Giants Are “Generic,” We Are Fun. I Wonder Who He's Referring To... Foursquare may have a tenuous partnership with Facebook Places— but don't let the Kumbaya presentation fool you, these frenemies are gunning for the ultimate mayorship and Dennis Crowley is feeling very confident.
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WebProNews and MediaPost
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
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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GottaBeMobile, TeleRead and Technologizer
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, Ars Technica, MediaPost, PlagiarismToday and ZeroPaid.com
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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PreCentral.net, TiPb, MobileCrunch, PhoneDog.com, IntoMobile, I4U News, OnlyGeek, Electronista, Gizmodo Australia and netbooknews.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
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 Engadget
