Techmeme: Confirmed: No FaceTime in parts of the Middle East (Mike Schramm/TUAW)

5:30 PM ET, September 24, 2010

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The United States Department of Justice:

Justice Department Requires Six High Tech Companies to Stop Entering into Anticompetitive Employee Solicitation Agreements … WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with six high technology companies - Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc. …

Discussion: MacRumors, Google Public Policy Blog and Reuters

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Apple, Google, Others Settle Antitrust Probe Into Their Hiring Practices — Six major technology companies—Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Intel (NSDQ: INTC), Intuit, Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE), and Pixar—will no longer agree not to poach employees from each other …

Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:

Facebook Blames Outage On Database Failure — Programming chief says lengthy downtime was traced to an automated system designed to detect and fix error conditions. — Dell To Launch Second Tablet — Chief Executive Michael Dell showed off a prototype of the 7-inch tablet at Oracle OpenWorld, but did not offer details.

Charles Arthur / Guardian:
How Facebook fixed the site: they turned it off and on again. Literally

Discussion: LaptopMemo, Epicenter, Arbor Networks Security, Guardian, Gizmodo, Computerworld, Mashable!, The Atlantic Online, eWeek and The Register

Robert Johnson / Facebook Engineering:
More Details on Today's Outage

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels [Email] — As we just stated in our previous post, there was clearly an email sent by angel investor Ron Conway to a group of super angels who were likely involved in the Bin 38 “AngelGate” meeting that Mike stumbled into a couple days ago.

Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Dave McClure Says Ron Conway Is Throwing Super Angels Under The Bus

Discussion: TechCrunch, msnbc.com, GMSV and Derek Andersen

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The secret hell of tech industry angel investors

Discussion: Adventures in Capitalism, Silicon Alley Insider, Umair Haque, DailyFinance and TechCrunch, Thanks:atul

Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:

Eric Schmidt: Forget Apple, Facebook, Bing's Our Biggest Problem — Eric Schmidt says Microsoft, not Apple or Facebook, is the biggest rival Google has right now. — “Bing is a well run, highly competitive search engine,” Schmidt tells the WSJ's Alan Murray in a long interview.

Discussion: TechFlash, Microsoft Watch, Digits, LiveSide.net and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim

Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Extends Its Search Deal With Apple

Discussion: Search Engine Land, Business Week, Erictric and Search Engine Journal, more at Mediagazer »

Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:

Startup: Education — Education has always been important to me and my family. Growing up, my parents emphasized the importance of learning and academic success. They both worked to make sure my three sisters and I could all go to good colleges. My grandmother was a teacher …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, BetaNews, Silicon Alley Insider, Computerworld and TechCrunch

Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Zuckerberg Says He Wanted To Donate $100 Million Anonymously

Discussion: Computerworld and The Huffington Post

Ki Mae Heussner / ABCNEWS:
Facebook's Zuckerberg Shows Softer Side to Oprah

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, Salon, CNET News and Bloomberg

Frederic / NewsGrange:

The Microsoft Tanker Has Turned and You Ignore it at Your Own Peril — Whenever I hear people discussing Microsoft, it usually doesn't take long before somebody mentions that the Redmond-based giant is like a huge oil tanker. It takes a while to turn such a huge company around and get it back on track.

Discussion: Technologizer, Thanks:rawmeet

AppleInsider:

Apple issuing refunds for Apple TV rush orders, citing delay — Some customers who paid Apple for expedited shipping on the soon-to-ship Apple TV are receiving emails from the company Thursday informing them that those shipping charges have been waived due to a possible ‘delay.’

Discussion: Computerworld, MacRumors, Silicon Alley Insider, Gadget Lab, CrunchGear, SlashGear, Gizmodo, O'Grady's PowerPage, The Apple Core Blog, MacStories, Electricpig.co.uk, Product Reviews Net, iLounge, Go Rumors, everythingiCafe and TUAW

Mike Schramm / TUAW:

Confirmed: No FaceTime in parts of the Middle East — We just got confirmation on our story earlier this week that FaceTime had gone missing in parts of the world, mostly around the Middle East. @dutweets is the official Twitter account for du, the telecom operator for the iPhone in the United Arab Emirates …

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, SaudiMac, AppleInsider, The Next Web, SlashGear and iLounge

Ben Blumenfeld / Facebook Blog:

Discover Facebook Pages — A couple of months ago I found myself online, browsing for movies to rent. There are lots of tools to find new movies or rediscover old ones. As I poked around, I thought, “People should really be able to do this with Pages on Facebook!”

Discussion: All Facebook, TechCrunch, Inside Facebook, RyanSpoon.com and The Next Web

Tim Carmody / Gadget Lab:

Scrabble Is First Paid Game App for Kindle — Screenshot of My Kindle, Getting Beat By the Computer - Image: Tim Carmody — This might be the happiest chapter in Scrabble's short digital history: Electronic Arts has released an official version of Scrabble for Kindle.

Discussion: CNET News, TechFlash, Kindle Review, SlashGear, Engadget and Electronista

Nick Douglas / The Awl:

The Rise of Reddit: 4chan and Digg Get the Credit While Reddit Booms — Of the three main drivers of internet culture—blogs, social networking sites and forums—most people in the media and in the general Internet-using public only understand two. Blogs work in a very obvious way: they're like magazines or newspapers, but light.

Discussion: CNET News, ReadWriteWeb and Hitwise Intelligence, more at Mediagazer »

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Verizon-Apple iPhone agreement ‘may not ever get resolved’ — Struggles between Verizon and Apple are a sign that a deal to bring the iPhone to Verizon's network may never happen, even once the carrier's high-speed 4G network is established, one Wall Street analyst has said.

Discussion: App Advice, I4U News, Product Reviews Net and GottaBeMobile

Bloomberg:

Oracle May Buy Chipmakers, Industry-Specific Software — Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — Oracle Corp., building on a run of more than 65 acquisitions during the past five years, is looking to purchase semiconductor companies and makers of industry- specific software, Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison said.

Discussion: Tech Trader Daily, Mercury News, eWeek, VentureBeat, Reuters and Digital Daily

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Working on the Next Wave of Digital Camera Technologies — Apple finally introduced a camera system with their latest iPod touch which was released earlier this month and they're already preparing for their next wave of advanced camera technology releases.

Discussion: Bits, PC World, Electricpig.co.uk, Phone Arena, Gizmodo, Gizmodo Australia, 9 to 5 Mac and AppleInsider

Lorraine Twohill / The Official Google Blog:

$10 million for Project 10^100 winners — Two years ago today, we began Project 10^100 by asking you to share your ideas for changing the world by helping as many people as possible. Your spirit and participation surpassed even our most optimistic expectations.

Discussion: O'Reilly Radar, TechCrunch, Techie Buzz and ResourceShelf

Zach Holman:

Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets — Welcoming baby Maren, who was born this Tuesday morning in the front seat of our car.August 31, 2010 via Twitter for iPhone seaofclouds — Todd's family just increased by one a few weeks ago. I found it to be quite a surprising tweet to read that morning, to say the least.

Milo Yiannopoulos / Telegraph:

Loïc Le Meur, Microsoft and the sound of wedding bells — The French entrepreneur is lavishing praise on Microsoft — Loïc Le Meur is charming, and very intense. It can be unnerving at first. But when you start him off on a subject he's passionate about …

Electronista:

Netflix gets deal to stream previous season NBC TV shows — Netflix and NBC today announced a new content deal that will give Netflix members access to a range of previous season cable and broadcast TV series. Starting next week, shows on will include Saturday Night Live as well as prior season …

Discussion: PR Newswire, Tech Trader Daily, MediaMemo, Engadget, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, Thoughts from the Sidelines, NewTeeVee, Switched, The Toybox Blog, Hacking NetFlix and TVbytheNumbers, more at Mediagazer »

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