Techmeme: Italy Censors Proxy That Bypasses BTjunkie and Pirate Bay Block (Ernesto/TorrentFreak)

6:35 AM ET, July 17, 2011

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Charles Arthur / Apps blog:

App developers withdraw from US as patent fears reach ‘tipping point’ — App developers are withdrawing their products for sale from the US versions of Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market for fear of being sued by companies which own software patents - just as a Mumbai-based company …

Discussion: TiPb and Slashdot

David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:

Patents in Apple-HTC case filed in 1994 and 1996, long before smartphones existed — Lost in the clamor over Apple Inc.'s preliminary patent victory over rival phone-maker HTC Corp. is that the two patents in question are so old they predate smartphones. — A judge at the U.S. International …

Discussion: 9to5Mac

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
ITC ruling against HTC may spell trouble for other Android makers

Discussion: developer.android.com and Digital Trends

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
ITC judge finds HTC in infringement of two Apple patents

Chip Cutter / Associated Press:

Behind the hike: Why Netflix is raising prices — NEW YORK — Why is Netflix raising its prices? In part, because the company miscalculated how many people still want to receive DVDs by mail each month, a more expensive service to provide compared to its streamed Internet videos.

Discussion: Felix Salmon and Examiner

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Internet Explorer 9 utterly dominates malware-blocking stats — Internet Explorer 9's dual-pronged approach to blocking access to malicious URLs—SmartScreen Filter to block bad URLs, and Application Reputation to detect untrustworthy executables—provides the best socially engineered malware blocking …

Discussion: PC World, gHacks Technology News, nsslabs.com, Neowin.net and Inquirer

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

Beligian Newspapers Claim Retaliation By Google After Copyright Victory — Perhaps the lesson is: be careful what you sue for. The French and German-language Belgian newspaper consortium that successfully sued Google for copyright infringement got more than it bargained for this week.

Discussion: Associated Press

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Italy Censors Proxy That Bypasses BTjunkie and Pirate Bay Block — After an Italian court ordered all ISPs to block The Pirate Bay in 2008, this year the authorities shifted their focus to making BTjunkie unavailable too. — This week it turned out that not all Internet providers …

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Analysts: iPod sales expected to decline 7.2% year over year — For once, the amateurs and the professionals are in agreement — iPod sales hit 22.7 million in the Christmas quarter of 2008 and have been going downhill, with seasonal spikes, ever since. — The quarter that ended nearly …

Discussion: PC Magazine, The Business Insider, Neowin.net, Gadget Lab, DisplayBlog, Daring Fireball, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac and Fortune

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

The supply of Apple's iPad 2 finally catches up with demand — A week after shipping times were cut to 3-5 business days, they shrank again to 1-3 — Apple's (AAPL) has been having trouble keeping up with demand for the iPad 2 from the day the product launched in early March.

Discussion: Electronista, MacRumors, PC Magazine, Apple Bitch and 9to5Mac

Adam Rawnsley / Danger Room:

Pentagon Wants a Social Media Propaganda Machine — You don't need to have 5,000 friends of Facebook to know that social media can have a notorious mix of rumor, gossip and just plain disinformation. The Pentagon is looking to build a tool to sniff out social media propaganda campaigns and spit some counter-spin right back at it.

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:

Google Maps Removes Driving With Traffic Estimates — I am not sure exactly when this happened, but Google Maps has dropped one of the more useful features. The feature is, estimating how much time it would take to drive somewhere with traffic, either live traffic or predictive traffic based on day/time.

Discussion: PC Magazine, CNET News, Examiner, Softpedia News, The Atlantic Online, Gizmodo and Search Engine Land

Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:

U.S. banks changing out core systems for real-time processing — It has been years since the banking industry made any large investments in core IT systems, but some of the largest financial services firms in the U.S. are now in the midst of rolling out multi-million dollar projects, according to industry experts.

Discussion: Slashdot

Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:

Redesign set to make Firefox more responsive — Mozilla has begun turning the Firefox crank faster with a rapid-release development cycle. So what's in store now that we can expect a new version every six weeks? — A lot, including 64-bit support on Windows and a plan to reduce the open-source browser's memory usage.

Discussion: Slashdot and Softpedia News

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