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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Shocking: Apple Approves BitTorrent App For App Store — Apple is known for the stringent guidelines it applies when deciding which software to allow into their App Store - BitTorrent is one of the things on their ban list. However, one developer who carefully avoided the dirty word …
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The Next Web, Redmond Pie, Startup Meme and Neowin.net
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Adidas Gives Up On Apple's iAds Because Steve Jobs Is Too Much Of A Control Freak — Scuttlebutt — Apple has lost another advertiser for its “iAd” mobile advertising business — this time Adidas, the athletic apparel giant — according to scuttlebutt we have heard from two mobile industry execs.
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MacNN and iClarified
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Mark Zuckerberg's Most Valuable Friend — EVERY Monday a bit before 10 a.m., Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, dashes off a quick e-mail to her boss, Mark Zuckerberg. “We have a routine,” Ms. Sandberg says. “I e-mail, ‘Coming in?’ He replies, ‘On my way.’ ”
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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Psst. Sprint 4G is Lit up in San Francisco — You folks in Silicon Valley who are waiting for Sprint to light up the 4G network are going to like what I have to tell you. I've been in San Francisco for four days and have tested the 4G coverage all over the SOMA (south of Market Street) area.
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Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
Debunking the Myths About Facebook's Stock Split — What is it about a stock split that sets off speculation? It is one of the most mundane and technical developments in the stock market, with little or no impact on a company's fundamental performance, and yet news of a split can set a stock's valuation soaring.
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Inside Facebook, The Next Web and Silicon Alley Insider
Davidw / Joho the Blog:
Gladwell discovers it takes more than 140 characters to overturn a government — It seems to me that Malcolm Gladwell's debunking of the claim that the Net will empower political revolutions is right about one big thing, but wrong about a whole lot more. — Because of Gladwell's often-emulated twisty …
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Leo Mirani / Guardian:
Sorry, Malcolm Gladwell, the revolution may well be tweeted
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Wikinomics
Adam Rifkin / TechCrunch:
How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today — Remember three years ago, when Microsoft paid a quarter-billion dollars for 1.6% of Facebook and the exclusive right to run banner ads across Facebook.com? Tell the truth, how many of you thought that was a killer business decision?
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Microsoft's Secret Acquisition Spree — A weekly look at a story that is defining the news. — Several reports that circulated this week claimed that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) had made zero acquisitions in 2010, a stark contrast to Google's 25. And, while it's true that Microsoft …
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Search Engine Watch, Silicon Alley Insider, Virtual Worlds News and New World Notes
Greg Bensinger / Bloomberg:
AT&T, T-Mobile to Offer Service in NY Subway Stations — Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) — AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA customers will have mobile-phone service on New York City subway stations after the carriers signed 10-year agreements to access an underground network being built by Transit Wireless LLC.
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Phone Scoop, TmoNews, Engadget and Electronista
Peter Beaumont / Guardian:
Iran ‘detains western spies’ after cyber attack on nuclear plant — Iranian government accuses the west of launching an ‘electronic war’ following sophisticated Stuxnet worm attack — Iran has detained several “spies” it claims were behind cyber attacks on its nuclear programme.
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BBC, The Firewall, Agence France Presse, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Voice of America and Sky News
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
“Free Isn't Free”: Microsoft Trying To Make Android More Costly With Patent Suit — News broke yesterday that Microsoft was suing Motorola for Android-related patent infringements. Microsoft said in a blog post that its patents cover a range of software functions used by Android devices …
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Ed Brill, ThinkMobile and TechNet Blogs
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Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Microsoft using anti-Linux tactic against Google's Android
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MobileBurn.com, eWeek, Epicenter and ITworld.com
BBC:
More than 100 arrests, as FBI uncovers cyber crime ring — The investigation kicked off when the FBI noticed a pattern of suspicious bank transactions in Omaha — The FBI says it has cracked a major international cyber crime network after more than 90 suspected members of the ring were arrested in the US.
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Krebs on Security and gHacks Technology News
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Gmail Tests Recent Buzz Section — Gmail experiments with a new sidebar feature that shows a list of recent Buzz messages from the people involved in a conversation. Google.org.cn (English version) says that this feature is currently available for Google Trusted Testers.
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The Next Web
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Early Facebook employee: The Social Network is ‘just wrong’ — The Social Network may be getting insanely good reviews, but early Facebook employee Matt Cohler said the movie's portrayal of the company and its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is “just wrong.” — Cohler spoke on a panel …
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All Facebook, Derek Andersen, GigaOM, L.A. Times Tech Blog and Investor's Business Daily
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Lawrence Lessig / The New Republic:
Sorkin vs. Zuckerberg
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Epeus' epigone, Don Dodge on The Next …, broadstuff, Scripting News, BoomTown and Bits
Mikko / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
Stuxnet Questions and Answers — Stuxnet continues to be a hot topic. Here are answers to some of the questions we've received. — Q: What is Stuxnet? — A: It's a Windows worm, spreading via USB sticks. Once inside an organization, it can also spread by copying itself to network shares if they have weak passwords.
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PC Magazine, The Register and UMBC ebiquity
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