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5:25 AM ET, July 29, 2011

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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft's latest Google-compete weapon: The Gmail man  —  Microsoft managed to keep its 12,000 or so attendees of its annual Microsoft Global Exchange sales conference from tweeting and blogging company secrets last week.  But at least one enterprising attendee managed to grab …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
That Didn't Take Long: Spotify Sued For Patent Infringement Just Weeks After Entering US Market  —  Hello Spotify.  Welcome to America, where if you do anything even remotely innovative, you get sued for patent infringement.  Indeed, just a couple weeks after entering the US market (finally) …
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Reinvents How 3D Displays Could One Day Deliver Content  —  When I think of quality 3D content, one of the first companies that comes to mind is Pixar whose wondrous works have dazzled millions worldwide and made us laugh.  It was Steve Jobs who acquired a low key 3D software tool developer company …
Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
STUDY: Internet Explorer Users Are Dumber  —  A research firm posted an IQ test on its Web site and then compiled the results from more than 100,000 users.  —  It found that there was no substantial difference between users of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera.  —  But Internet Explorer users had IQs below average.
Zach Epstein / BGR:
New iPad 3 contract goes to Pegatron, not Foxconn [updated]  —  Pegatron has been awarded a new contract to build Apple's next-generation iPad tablets, Taiwan Economic News reports.  According to the report, Pegatron underbid Hon Hai for a new contract to manufacture the iPad 3 …
Around The World and Back Again:
Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight  —  Somewhere around 1:00 am yesterday, my Airbnb.com horror story was picked up by Hacker News; to say this story has gone viral in the past two days would be the understatement of my life.  I sit here now, taken aback and utterly astounded as I witness …
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Airbnb Confirms Insurance for “in Case Your Pad Gets Trashed”
Discussion: TechCrunch, Thanks:mathieuramage
Jan Ozer / Streaming Media:
WebM Patent Fight Ahead for Google?  —  MPEG LA says that 12 patent holders have stepped forward with patents they believe are essential to the VP8 standard.  A patent pool license could be next.  —  In February, MPEG LA announced a call for patents essential to the VP8 video codec specification as outlined in Google's WebM release.
Discussion: paidContent, GigaOM and FOSS Patents
Cleve Nettles / 9to5Mac:
AT&T to implement data throttling in early October, just in time for iPhone 5  —  A new change for AT&T Wireless' Unlimited Data subscribers will soon be taking place.  Rumored to be starting in the first week of October, we've heard that AT&T will start throttling the data speeds of the network's top data hogs.
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Google Buys Inventions From IBM as It Aims to Build Patent Hoard  —  Google Inc., facing a growing threat of intellectual-property lawsuits, acquired a batch of patents this month from International Business Machines Corp. to bolster its portfolio.  —  “Like many tech companies …
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Google+ Gets a Feature Update Center  —  In response to user feedback, Google has launched a new section of the Google+ center dedicated to Google+ feature updates.  —  The “What's new in Google+” section is essentially a list of release notes for the Google+ Project.
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple's $76B in cash reserves surpasses US government operating balance  —  New figures from the U.S. Treasury Department indicate that the government has a total operating cash balance of $73.768 billion, less than Apple's own war chest of $75.876 billion.  —  As noted by Matt Hartley …
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
First Windows Phone 7 ‘Mango’ handsets rumored to challenge iPhone 5 in Sept.  —  On the heels of news that Microsoft's “Mango” update for Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturing, industry sources claim HTC, Samsung and LG will launch the first Mango-based smartphones in September …
Jun Yang / Bloomberg:
Samsung Profit Beats Estimates as Mobile Phone Sales Outweigh Panel Glut  —  Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of televisions and flat-screen panels, reported a greater-than-estimated second-quarter profit after sales of mobile phones masked a drop in panel demand.
Timothy B. Lee / Disruptive Economics:
The Supreme Court Should Invalidate Software Patents  —  Last weekend I was thrilled to hear one of my favorite radio programs, This American Life, take up the issue of software patents.  Computer programmers have been sounding the alarm about this problem for two decades …
Manan / I'm Just Being Manan:
[Video] Microsoft's SkyDrive Starts Streaming Music On WP7  —  Let's file this one under - “Holy sweet Microsoft, why don't you talk about this stuff?!”  —  Last month I wrote about how Microsoft could use Azure as a paid expansion to SkyDrive.  The idea behind it was the consumer cloud offering …
Dan Howley / LAPTOP Magazine:
Hands-On: Skyfire's Flash-Friendly VideoQ App Brings Flash to iOS  —  Skyfire, the people who brought you the flash-capable iOS web browser of the same name, have released Skyfire VideoQ, an app that lets users view flash videos from any iOS browser including Safari.
Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Fusion Garage Grid 10: the JooJoo lives on  —  They're back!  Oh yes, you read that headline correctly — the infamous creators of the JooJoo tablet (née CrunchPad) are back at it again, according to the FCC.  There aren't many details to be had, but according to the documents …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill  —  Internet providers will be forced to keep logs of their customers' activities for one year in case police want to review them in the future, according to legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives committee approved today.
Discussion: Digital Trends, eWeek and The Raw Story
Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Logitech: More people are returning Google TV boxes than buying them  —  No surprise, but it sounds like Google's entry into the TV software market isn't going very well.  From Logitech's fiscal Q1/calendar Q2 remarks to shareholders: (PDF via GigaOM) … I doubt this thing is going to be successful, even at $99.
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Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Logitech CEO steps down after money losing Q1, Revue price slashed to $99
 
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Virgin Will Price Spotify ‘Significantly Less’ Than Spotify Does
Discussion: thinq_ and Music Ally
Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
Bandwidth caps are rate hikes
John Cook / GeekWire:
RealNetworks giving back $136M to shareholders in major overhaul
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Adds “Possibly Sensitive” Designation To Tweets With NSFW Content
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google's Two-Factor Authentication Now Live In 150 Countries And 40 Languages
Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog:
Motorola Mobility: 440K Xoom tablets shipped in Q2, but earnings outlook weak
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Accused AT&T-iPad hacker Andrew Auernheimer in plea talks
Discussion: 9to5Google, CNET News and TechEye
Jeremy Stoppelman / Yelp Official Blog:
Yelp Names Rob Krolik CFO
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
The inside scoop on Apple's new giant Los Angeles “Apple Store 2.0″ location
Discussion: TUAW and MacNN, Thanks:jakeosmith
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it's an optical drive
Discussion: TechSpot and GigaOM
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Feds Approve $44K Doctor Reimbursement for Using Drchrono's iPad App
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, eWeek and GigaOM
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Google launches ‘Hotel Finder’, a new experimental search tool