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10:50 PM ET, July 23, 2011

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Mike Flacy / Digital Trends:
Firefox and Chrome tools block Murdoch-owned websites  —  Hacking attacks aren't the only headaches for the digital side of Rupert Murdoch's empire.  New Firefox and Chrome additions allow people to avoid Murdoch properties on the Web.  —  It's safe to say Rupert Murdoch is having a bad month.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iOS 5′s Siri-like system navigation is called ‘Assistant’, uses device-info to handle actions  —  Apple's purchase of Siri in early 2010 and their partnership with Nuance in 2011 has many hoping that Apple has something like speech-to-text or voice-navigation up its sleeve for iOS 5.
Bob Warfield / SmoothSpan Blog:
NoSQL is a Premature Optimization  —  There's been a lot of back and forth lately from the NoSQL crowd around Michael Stonebreaker's contention that reliance on relational technology and MySQL has trapped Facebook in a ‘fate worse than death.’ This was reported in a GigaOm post by Derrick Harris.
Electronista:
Apple lands 10-year Grand Central Terminal store deal  —  Apple has already reached a deal for its Grand Central Terminal store.  The Metropolitan Transportation Authority confirmed to the NY Post that Apple will have the location for 10 years and is refurbishing the space.
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / The Business Insider:
Facebook Investor Roger McNamee Explains Why Social Is Over  —  Elevation Partners and Facebook investor Roger McNamee, who is also a rock musician, gave an amazing talk recently where he goes over some of the biggest trends affecting the technology industry.  —  The talk was spotted by our friend Dan Frommer at SplatF.
Jacqueline Wong / Reuters:
China inspects electronics stores after fake Apple shops report  —  Chinese industrial and commercial authorities in Kunming have started to inspect all of the southwestern city's electronics shops after an American blogger wrote about fake Apple stores, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
Discussion: AppleInsider and Electronista
Jake Smith / 9to5Mac:
Did Apple eject Google Books from the App Store for violating terms?  —  For reasons yet undefined, Google Books has been removed from the iTunes App Store.  We noticed the App was gone earlier this week but thought it might have been just a blip.  Now it has been awhile.
Discussion: GottaBeMobile and App Advice
NPR:
Intellectual Ventures And The War Over Software Patents  —  Nathan Myhrvold is a genius and a polymath.  He made hundreds of millions of dollars as Microsoft's chief technology officer, he's discovered dinosaur fossils, and he recently co-authored a six-volume cookbook that …
Discussion: GeekWire
Guardian:
Hugo Chávez uses Twitter to run Venezuela from hospital bed  —  Venezuelan president is using Twitter as a tool to govern remotely while he undergoes cancer treatment in Cuba  —  The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, is using Twitter as a tool to govern remotely while he undergoes cancer treatment in Cuba.
Discussion: Tecca, The Next Web and Gawker
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
How MySpace Tom May Have Inadvertently Triggered The Google/Facebook War  —  Gotta love Tom Anderson.  Newly reinvigorated by the launch of Google+, “MySpace Tom” has become a social power user (and regular TechCrunch contributor!).  As a man at the forefront of the early days of the social wars, he's obviously full of information.
Discussion: TechCrunch
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
On Succeeding Steve Jobs  —  On Wednesday, less than 30 minutes before Apple announced another record-breaking quarter of financial results, the Wall Street Journal published a story by Yukari Iwatani Kane, Joann S. Lublin, and Nick Wingfield regarding the issue of Apple CEO succession.
Discussion: Fortune, I4U News, parislemon and Webomatica
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
A Norwegian National Tragedy That Unfolded on the Web (Updated)  —  What's being described as the most violent day in Norway since the Second World War unfolded today for so many via social media.  —  Having seen early reports concerning an afternoon bombing attack outside government offices in Oslo …
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Nicholas Jackson / The Atlantic Online:
A Bomb in Oslo? What Google Lost by Ending Real-Time Search
Discussion: Technology Review
 
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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Feature: Big Content's latest antipiracy weapon: extradition
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
VideoInbox, Another Google/Slide Production, Brings Viral Videos To Your Inbox
Discussion: Softpedia News
M. Zinoune / Unixmen:
Lightweight Portable Security (LPS)-A Linux distro from the US Department of Defense
Discussion: InformationWeek and Geek.com
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Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
Google+ business profiles to include analytics & more
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Music publishers file copyright suit against Grooveshark
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

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The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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