Techmeme: Google: 244,000 Germans say ‘no’ to Street View (Associated Press)

3:20 PM ET, October 21, 2010

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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:

Celebrating Windows 7 at 1 Year - More than 240 Million Licenses Sold — Today's an exciting day! We are announcing that more than 240 million licenses of Windows 7 have been sold. Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history. As of September, Windows 7 was running …

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KPCB:

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Launches $250 Million sFund Initiative for Social Web Entrepreneurs — Amazon.com, Facebook, Zynga, Comcast and Liberty Media to Invest and Help Accelerate a New Wave of Social Web Innovations — Palo Alto, Calif. - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) …

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Stealth Social Startup Cafebots Scores The First Money From Kleiner Perkins' New sFund — You've likely heard of CRM, customer relationship management. But have you heard of FRM — friend relationship management? Probably not. But Cafebots hopes to change that shortly.

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MACNOTES.NET:

FaceTime for Mac - a serious threat for your Apple ID — While many users are happy about having FaceTime on their Mac, we are a little anxious about some security glitches present in the current beta of the software. With a few clicks others can make use of the user's Apple ID and reset the password with ease.

Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:

Microsoft's New Windows Phone 7: Novel But Lacking — Nearly four years after Apple unveiled the iPhone, and more than two years after Google introduced its first Android smartphone, Microsoft is launching its effort to catch up. On Nov. 8, AT&T and T-Mobile will begin selling …

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Windows Phone 7 review

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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
A Windows Phone 7 ‘review’ from a non-reviewer

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Yep, Apple Killed The CD Today — Stop. Take a deep breath. Before my headline gets you all worked up, consider what I'm saying here. The CD and other optical discs, like DVDs and Blu-rays, are obviously going to live on for a while as a way to transport media.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, eWeek, Digits, Royal Pingdom, Ben Metcalfe Blog, Inquirer, MacRumors, GottaBeMobile and TUAW

Cade Metz / The Register:

Mozilla man accuses Jobs of ‘bypass the web’ scheme — Apple.com busts Firefox 4 — On Wednesday, as Steve Jobs went “Back to the Mac,” the fanbois of the world enjoyed their usual collective orgasm. But for Mozilla director of Firefox development Mike Beltzner, the reaction was decidedly different.

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Nicole Kobie / PC Pro:

Apple looking to ditch Java? — An Apple developer has leaked the rules document governing the new Mac App Store - and it's not good news for Java. — One line in the App Store Review Guidelines says any apps using “deprecated or optionally-installed technologies”, such as Java, will be rejected from the store.

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AppleInsider:
Apple issues review guidelines for Mac App Store

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James Kelly / The Official Google Blog:

Bringing ultra high-speed broadband to Stanford homes — Earlier this year we announced our plans to build and test ultra-high speed broadband networks in a small number of American communities. Since then, a team of Google engineers has been hard at work experimenting with new fiber optic technologies.

Discussion: Fast Company, Post Tech, TechEye, DSLreports, GigaOM, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Erictric, Boy Genius Report, Softpedia News, dailywireless.org, Electronista and The Next Web

Andreas Türk / European Public Policy Blog:

How many German households have opted-out of Street View? — Cross posted from Der Google Produkt-Kompass — Since April 2009, people in Germany have been able to ask for their house to be blurred on Street View ahead of the product being launched. At first they could ‘opt-out’ by writing us …

Discussion: Gizmodo, New York Times, CNET News, Search Engine Watch, Tech Daily Dose, Tech Report, Reuters, Softpedia News, The Next Web, The Register, Agence France Presse, PC Pro, TechEye and Inquirer

Associated Press: Google: 244,000 Germans say ‘no’ to Street View

Jesse Drucker / Business Week:

The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions — Google uses a complicated structure to send most of its overseas profits to tax havens, keeping its corporate rate at a super-low 2.4 percent — The heart of Google's (GOOG) international operations is a silvery glass office building in central Dublin …

Discussion: Relevant Results, The Atlantic Online, CJR, Bloomberg and MediaPost Raw

Mike Vernal / Facebook Developer Blog:

Encrypting Facebook UIDs — Over the past few days, we have been investigating a technical solution to the issue of sharing Facebook User IDs (UIDs). While initial press reports greatly exaggerated the implications of sharing a UID, we take this issue seriously.

Discussion: Inside Facebook

Winamp Blog:

Winamp for Android: Now in Beta — Winamp for AndroidTM is now in Beta! — Winamp, the Ultimate Media Player, is now available in beta on AndroidTM (Android 2.1 OS and above). It offers a complete media management solution by seamlessly syncing with the Winamp desktop library.

Discussion: Android Phone Fans, Android Police, Download Squad, The Toybox Blog, Gizmodo, Electronista, Android Community, Androinica, Eurodroid, Droid Life, Electricpig.co.uk and Engadget

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

One in three iPad owners has never downloaded a single app — The rest are young, 65% male, well-connected early adopters, according to Nielsen — Click to enlarge. Source: Nielsen Co. — Reading between the lines of “The Connected Devices Playbook,” a survey of 5,000 owners of iPads …

Discussion: Nielsen Wire, App Advice, PadGadget, MacNN, FierceMobileContent, iClarified and MacStories, more at Mediagazer »

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Unsubscribe.com Raises $2.1 Million To Help People Get To InBox Zero — How many mailing lists are you on that fill your email inbox every day? Figuring out how to unsubscribe from all of them can be a pain. From that frustration was born Unsubscribe.com, an LA-based startup that just closed a $2.1 million Series A financing.

Discussion: VatorNews, alarm:clock and SiliconANGLE

David Kaplan / paidContent:

AT&T Profits Triple, But New iPhone Subs Fall To All-Time Low — AT&T's Q3 profits rose on a favorable tax settlement and the sale of its Sterling Commerce business-software unit to IBM, but cracks are starting to show in its exclusive hold on Apple's iPhone.

Discussion: SiliconANGLE

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
AT&T third quarter on target: 5.2 million iPhone activations

Ross Anderson / Light Blue Touchpaper:

Resumption of the crypto wars? — The Telegraph and Guardian reported yesterday that the government plans to install deep packet inspection kit at ISPs, a move considered and then apparently rejected by the previous government (our Database State report last year found their Interception …

Tom Whitehead / Telegraph: Every email and website to be stored

Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:

Mark Zuckerberg On The Biggest Difference Between “The Social Network” And Reality — In The Social Network, a movie about the founding of Facebook, a fictional Mark Zuckerberg builds the site in order to impress a girl and gain social notoriety. — Speaking at Y-combinator event over the weekend …

Discussion: VentureBeat, TechEye and Hollywood Reporter

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

Nokia cuts workers, consolidates dev platforms, posts profit — Nokia on Thursday made a bevy of moves it hopes will make it more competitive in the smartphone market. The changes mark the first efforts of new CEO Stephen Elop to revamp the company. — The first item covers the technical area.

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