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Dan Lyons / The Daily Beast:
Facebook Busted in Clumsy Smear on Google — THE DAILY BEAST ON: — The social network secretly hired a PR firm to plant negative stories about the search giant, The Daily Beast's Dan Lyons reveals—a caper that is blowing up in their face, and escalating their war.
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Associated Press:
How bin Laden emailed without being detected by US — WASHINGTON - Despite having no Internet access in his hideout, Osama bin Laden was a prolific email writer who built a painstaking system that kept him one step ahead of the U.S. government's best eavesdroppers.
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The Register, Techdirt, Gizmodo, msnbc.com and Gawker
Wall Street Journal:
Google Near DOJ Settlement Over Online Drug Ads — Google Inc. is close to settling a U.S. criminal investigation into allegations it made hundreds of millions of dollars by accepting ads from online pharmacies that break U.S. laws, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Pamela Parker / Search Engine Land:
Report: Google's $500M DOJ Mystery Revealed — Earlier this week, Google filed a mysterious report with the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying it was setting aside $500 million related to a “potential resolution” of an advertising-related probe being conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Netflix releases Android app for select HTC phones, Samsung Nexus S — Well, it looks like the LG Revolution won't be the first Android phone to get Netflix after all. The app has just hit the Android Market and is apparently available for HTC Incredible, Nexus One, Evo 4G, and G2 …
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Is Google's Chromebook The Death Knell For Antivirus? — Updated and corrected below. — The antivirus industry likely let out a collective groan when Google first made a familiar-sounding boast Wednesday: that the just-launched laptops it's calling Chromebooks have “security built …
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Fortune, PC World, NBC Bay Area, WebProNews, eWeek, TomsTechBlog.com, the Econsultancy blog and This is my next, Thanks:forbestech
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Microsoft could lose billions in sales to Google's Chromebook
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Andrew Song / Facebook:
Introducing Login Approvals — Facebook has always been committed to both protecting our users' account and information, as well as giving them more control over their Facebook experience. From our User Operations team, who work to re-secure compromised accounts, to the Engineering team …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Facebook adds new user security features
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Antony Bruno / Hollywood Reporter:
Why Record Labels and Google Music Couldn't Agree on the Cloud … Google's decision to launch a music locker service was a big topic of discussion on the sidelines of the NARM conference in Los Angeles this week. The reaction from the more veteran music industry attendees is simply anger.
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Fast Company, Digital Trends, Engadget, SlashGear, VentureBeat, techblog.dallasnews.com, Electronista, SAI and Music Ally
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Twitter Updates Mac Client With Multiple Timelines, Cleaner Design, Auto-Complete And More — Twitter for Mac, which launched earlier this year with the rollout of Apple's Mac App Store, is getting its first major update today. — Besides a design update, you can now see multiple timelines …
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This is my next, Computerworld, Twitter Blog, Lifehacker, PC Magazine, The Apple Core Blog, VatorNews, ReadWriteWeb, LaptopMemo, The Next Web, Pulse2 and GigaOM
Reuters:
AT&T, T-Mobile USA break-up is $6 billion: sources — (Reuters) - AT&T Inc (T.N) has promised to give Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) $6 billion in assets, services and cash as a break-up fee if U.S. regulators reject its proposed $39 billion purchase of the German company's T-Mobile USA, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Nilay Patel / This is my next:
How Google controls Android: digging deep into the Skyhook filings — You might remember that a company called Skyhook Wireless sued Google back in September for business interference and patent infringement — the Skyhook XPS WiFi and cell tower positioning system was all set to ship …
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AppleInsider, Daring Fireball, Gizmodo Australia, Electronista, TiPb, Gizmodo and SAI
Nielsen Wire:
Cue the Music: Driven by Digital, Music Sales up in 2011 — Music sales in the U.S. are up 1.6 percent in 2011, according to The Nielsen Company, as digital album and track sales saw dramatic growth through May 8. While physical albums saw a decline in year-over-year sales from the same period in 2010 …
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PC Magazine, Fast Company, TUAW, hypebot, MediaMemo, VentureBeat, 9 to 5 Mac, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, iLounge, RazorianFly, MacStories, Techland, iPodNN and Pulse2
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Introduces us to a Live Chameleon-Like Screen Saver Designed Specifically for iOS Devices & Fashion Accessories — Apple filed for the “Apple” trademark in China this week which we noted as carrying a twist. We noticed that Apple had, for the first time, emphasized fashion accessories …
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9 to 5 Mac, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, RazorianFly, CrunchGear, iPodNN and everythingiCafe
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
RON CONWAY: The Scariest Man In Silicon Valley — Legendary Silicon Valley angel investor Ron Conway is raising a new fund for his investment firm SV Angel, according to an SEC filing. — So far, he's raised $12 million out of $40 million planned. He should have no problem raising the remaining $28 million.
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Peter Delevett / Mercury News:
Cloud computing pioneer Martin Odersky takes wraps off his new company Typesafe — Eight years ago, German programmer Martin Odersky developed a new computer language he hoped would be an alternative to the venerable Java — one that would let applications scale easily to handle huge workloads.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Typesafe raises $3M for cloud and multi-core software development tools
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Remember that iPad Wi-Fi Bug? It's Back...And Affecting iPhones, Too — A little over a year ago, some new iPad owners found they were having issues with the device's Wi-Fi connection. Signals were weak, or worse, dropped altogether. The only solution at the time, before Apple released a fix …
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Cult of Mac, Geek.com, Pulse2, MacStories, GottaBeMobile, Guardian and Gizmodo
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel working on new Atom chip architecture — Intel is working on a new Atom chip architecture that goes beyond the 3D transistors announced last week as the chip giant accelerates development of its most power-efficient chip design. — The new Atom-based “micro-architecture,” codenamed …
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Brad Stone / Business Week:
Why Facebook Needs Sheryl Sandberg — Mark Zuckerberg's No. 2 provides “adult supervision” at the company, trying to keep growth at an optimum level — On a Tuesday afternoon in late April, 30 managers of Facebook's various business units come together to discuss a matter that preoccupies …
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Digital Trends, Pulse2 and SAI
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Comcast Offers Help to The Pirate Bay, Problems Fixed — Starting 24 hours ago, nearly all Comcast subscribers were unable to access The Pirate Bay. Although Comcast is not the only ISP affected by the connectivity issue, the problems appear to be most widespread in their network.
Jillian York / Aljazeera:
Africa's cascade of Internet censorship — As governments fear popular protest movements, filtering has been initiated in Ethiopia, Uganda, Ivory Coast and beyond. — Despite much attention paid to Egypt and Libya's Internet shutdowns, Tunisia's pervasive Internet filtering …
Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
The White House Offers Up A National Data Breach Law — Earlier this week, I asked, “how do we deal with data breaches?” The White House has a response: legislation. It's taken note of the rash of data breaches of late (Perhaps President Obama owns a Sony Playstation?) …
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Howard A. Schmidt / White House.gov Blog:
The Administration Unveils its Cybersecurity Legislative Proposal
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Could BitTorrent Be The Distributed Social Network People Have Been Clamoring For? — One of the key things we've been noting over the past few months is how many more people are beginning to recognize the benefits of having systems and services that really are more distributed and decentralized, rather than very centralized.
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