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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple to Offer Free MobileMe Service to Some iOS Users? — Earlier this month, we noted that the original golden master version of iOS 4.2 appeared to be preparing to allow users to sign in to MobileMe using their Apple IDs and even offer users the ability create a free Apple ID right from the MobileMe settings page in iOS.
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App Advice, AppleInsider, MacStories, Electronista, I4U News, The Next Web, Newlaunches.com, 9 to 5 Mac, Covering Web and iClarified
Stephen C. Webster / Raw Story:
Oregon Senator Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill — It's too early to say for sure, but Oregon Senator Ron Wyden could very well go down in the history books as the man who saved the Internet. — A bill that critics say would have given the government power to censor …
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Ars Technica, ZeroPaid.com, ITworld.com and Techdirt
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet — This is hardly a surprise but, this morning (as previously announced), the lame duck Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to move forward with censoring the internet via the COICA bill — despite a bunch of law professors explaining …
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Technology Liberation Front and DSLreports
Rob Pegoraro / Faster Forward:
Congress's latest awful tech-policy idea: the Net-censorship bill
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PlagiarismToday, Pulse2 and Music Ally
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Accel Sold Big Chunk Of Facebook Stock At $35 Billion Valuation — Sometime in the last week or so, we've heard from multiple sources, Accel Partners has sold very significant chunks of Facebook stock. So significant, in fact, that their ownership percentage has dropped to a point …
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Softpedia News, VentureBeat and SAI
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Where Are the Android Killer Apps? — Every few weeks or so, I reiterate my wish for an Android analog to the iPod Touch — something more or less comparable to state-of-the-art Android phones in terms of performance, software, and quality, but costing, say, $250 (or less) with no contract.
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Gizmodo, displayblog, Joystiq and EngageDigital, Thanks:rawmeet
Heather Dougherty / Hitwise Intelligence:
Facebook.com generates nearly 1 in 4 page views in the US — In March, we reported an important milestone when the market share of visits to Facebook.com* surpassed Google.com*. Since then, we have continued to watch the growth of Facebook.com, which increased 60% from the same week last year …
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Softpedia News, Techie Buzz, TechCrunch, All Facebook, ReadWriteWeb and Search Engine Land
Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
‘The Office’ Spoofs Silicon Valley — While the fictional desk jockeys of Dunder Mifflin are usually pushing pencils and selling paper, Thursday night's episode of the The Office was unexpectedly technology-focused. (Warning: mild spoilers below.) — In the episode, titled “WUPHF.com …
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New York Observer, SAI, Venture Capital Dispatch and The Huffington Post
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
The Landscape Around Google's Hiring Binge — After a year or two of stagnancy, the Google employee count is growing rapidly again. But the growth spurt and retention efforts seem forced, and unlikely to be the perfect formula to keep the company at the top of the Web heap, despite its clout, market share and massive revenue.
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SAI, Softpedia News, Virtualeconomics, Don Dodge on The Next …, WebProNews, Geek.com, SiliconANGLE, Search Engine Land and Reuters
Anand Srinivasan / Go Rumors:
Palm Mansion To Come With 5″ Touchscreen Display; Launching In Q1 2011? — Palm is known to be working on at least two new devices - Palm Mansion and PalmPad - that are likely to be launched early next year. While not much information is available about these devices as yet …
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PhoneArena, Erictric, BlogsDNA, BGR, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Computerworld, IntoMobile, PhoneDog.com and Everything webOS
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
webOS 2.0 will be released to “all devices” in coming months (Update: Video online) — We just heard a confirmation from Palm's Josh Marinacci that HP / Palm intends to get webOS 2.0 on all existing webOS devices in “the coming months.” That timeline is still vaguer that we'd like …
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SlashGear, GottaBeMobile, SAI, Gadgetell, PhoneDog.com, PhoneArena, TechSpot, BGR, Phones Review, Engadget, Electronista, MobileBurn.com, PhoneNews.com, Download Squad and Phone Scoop
Ben Rooney / Wall Street Journal:
High-Tech Buzz: All of a Sudden Everyone Wants to Love a Eurogeek — Europe may be having a hard time of it at the moment, but there is one bright light on the horizon. — Across the continent there is a huge buzz in the tech sector. From the F.ounders conference in Dublin last month …
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Facebook Warns Debt Collectors About Using Its Service — A Florida debt collector contacted a St. Petersburg woman's Facebook friends in an effort to get her to repay a $362 car loan. The woman, Melanie Beacham, promptly hit the collector, MarkOne Financial, with a civil suit in Pinellas County circuit court.
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Inside Facebook, The Next Web, PC World and Switched
James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
China's 18-Minute Mystery — When the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission released its report to Congress this week, something slightly unusual happened: people read it. And there, buried on pages 236-247, a mystery was revealed, and the media have greedily amplified it.
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Challenging Complexity and Computerworld
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
China Hijacks 15% Of Internet Traffic? More Like .015%
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Softpedia News, Security Watch, eWeek, ReadWriteWeb and dailywireless.org, Thanks:forbestech
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
What's New At Tumblr: Funding, Hires, Office, Board Member, And A Focus On Fashion — For the past several weeks, there's been a lot of talk about a large new round of funding that the social startup Tumblr was raising. That culminated today with a report in Fortune with numbers on the round.
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Tumblr dives into a boatload of money
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