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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Airbnb's Rental Nightmare Ends in Arrest and One Still Very Unlucky Customer — The San Francisco Police department confirmed that it has made an arrest in the incident involving an Airbnb host who had her entire life turned upside down when renters ransacked her apartment and ultimately stole her property and identity.
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CNET News, Betabeat, The Business Insider, CenterNetworks and San Francisco Chronicle
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James Temple / SFGate:
Exclusive: Victim in Airbnb-related ransacking speaks outs
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@mathewi, VatorNews, Between the Lines Blog and Fast Company, Thanks:cryogenxx
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Report: Nortel portfolio buyers facing DOJ scrutiny — Despite last month's $4.5 billion sale of Nortel's patent portfolio wrapping up this week, government scrutiny over what its buyers intend to do with the patents continues, a new report says. — The Wall Street Journal reports …
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AppleInsider, Wall Street Journal, SEO by the Sea, Nortel, Electronista, The Digital Home and iPhone in Canada Blog
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Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
Nortel completes patent liquidation to Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Sony: now what?
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MacRumors and moneywatch.bnet.com
Anjali Mullany / NY Daily News:
President Barack Obama takes debt battle to Twitter, loses more than 33,000 followers in one day — President Obama brought his debt battle to Twitter and he lost - more than 33,000 Twitter followers. — Obama asked Americans Friday to call, email, and tweet Congressional leaders to …
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The Atlantic Wire and The Bivings Report
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Adam Holisky / Tecca:
Obama spams Republican Twitter handles to urge debt compromise
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@barackobama, VatorNews, Mashable!, TechCrunch, LAUNCH, The Business Insider and Pulse2
John Marzulli / NY Daily News:
Fugitive taunts cops on Facebook “catch me if you can” before they find him in Brooklyn apartment — A fugitive fool who taunted cops on his Facebook page, “Catch me if you can, I'm in Brooklyn” - has been captured by U.S. marshals. — And guess where. — Victor Burgos was sitting …
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Examiner, Inquirer, WebProNews, Technically Incorrect, Geek.com and NBC Bay Area
Corey Goldfeder / Gmail Blog:
Gmail Snooze with Apps Script — Editor's Note: For a more technical description, see the Google Apps Developer Blog — At Google, we all use email very heavily — for communicating with other Googlers, for task management, and to mail around funny pictures of kittens.
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PC Magazine and WebProNews
Dan Frakes / Macworld:
Buy a new Mac, get iLife for all your Macs — As with every Mac in recent memory, Apple's latest hardware releases, the MacBook Air (Mid 2011) and Mac mini (Mid 2011), include the current versions of Mac OS X and iLife—in this case, Lion (OS X 10.7) and iLife '11.
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MacNN, TechnoBuffalo, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, MacStories, MacRumors, iClarified and GigaOM
Xiaorui Gan / Google Mobile Blog:
New Google Search experience for tablets — (Cross-posted on the Inside Search blog) — As part of our effort to evolve the Google design and experience, we've improved the www.google.com search experience on tablets. We've simplified the layout of search results pages and increased …
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Engadget, SlashGear, TechCrunch, SocialTimes.com, PC World, TiPb, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Mashable!, VentureBeat, Tablets Planet, Redmond Pie, Marketing Pilgrim, TUAW, Droid Life, Android Community, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, iLounge, DroidMatters.com, App Advice, IntoMobile, MacRumors, Android Phone Fans, AndroidGuys, Google Operating System, MobileBurn.com, Gizmodo, Lifehacker and WebProNews
Horace Dediu / asymco:
Apple captured two thirds of available mobile phone profits in Q2 — The major publicly traded phone vendors have all reported results for the second quarter. Based on the data available so far we can begin putting together a picture of the market. — The first picture I'll draw is usually the last: profitability.
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AppleInsider, Shiny Objects, FierceWireless, iPhone in Canada Blog, GigaOM, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, TiPb, Electronista, VentureBeat, SplatF, MacDailyNews and MediaPost
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
New iPhone 5 cases indicate a thinner but half inch wider and longer frame — Following our post with images of a purported iPhone 5 case, other sources have followed up with us with their own cases. This time we not only have a silicone case, but a hard case, too. The image above shows a top view of both of our cases.
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
AT&T verifies data throttling for top 5% of users officially for October 1st — As we reported yesterday: October 1st, top 5% of AT&T users will see reduced speeds. … Today AT&T made it official. Full statement below the fold: — An Update for Our Smartphone Customers With Unlimited Data Plans
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Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Foursquare & Groupon Hook Up for Real-Time Deals [EXCLUSIVE] — Foursquare users in the U.S. and Canada will start to see Groupon's daily deals in the Explore tab of the application and on Foursquare.com beginning Friday, Mashable has learned. — Groupon has become Foursquare's sixth and latest daily deals partner.
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Groublogpon, About Foursquare, VentureBeat, Internet Evolution, The Business Insider, Betabeat, ReadWriteWeb, Webware.com, Appolicious Advisor, Digits, The MGH Modern Marketing Blog, Pulse2, FierceMobileContent, GigaOM Pro, MarketingVox News & Trends, mocoNews, MediaPost, Profectio and Electronista
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Microsoft's Web map exposes phone, PC locations — caption: Examples of HTC device locations that CNET extracted from Microsoft's Live.com location database. — Microsoft has collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices around the world and makes …
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Examiner, From Information …, Gizmodo, LiveSide.net, Electronista and Neowin.net
Bill Callahan / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Must Pay Alcatel $70 Million in Patent Damages, U.S. Jury Says — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) must pay $70 million for infringing an Alcatel-Lucent patent used in versions of Microsoft's Outlook program and two other applications, a federal jury in San Diego said today.
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InfoWorld, CNET News, The Microsoft Blog, GeekWire and Electronista
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Facebook launches bug bounty program — Facebook is set to announce today a bug bounty program in which researchers will be paid for reporting security holes on the popular social-networking Web site. — Compensation, which starts at $500 and has no maximum set, will be paid only to researchers …
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Digital Trends, The Next Web, The Register, Inside Facebook, ReadWriteWeb, Neowin.net, Computerworld and WebProNews
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Samsung Goes Mum With Phone And Tablet Sales Stats — Anybody notice something missing from Samsung's Q2 results? Hint: it was the phone/tablet sales data. But why? Well, according to Samsung's “new information policy,” phones and tablets data will heretofore remain a secret.
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Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, CNET News, TUAW, Tablets Planet, MacRumors and MacDailyNews
The H Open Source:
Emacs has been violating the GPL since 2009 — An embarrassing mishap at the Free Software Foundation has seen the Emacs editor become GPL-violating software. In the process of merging CEDET into Emacs 24, it was noted that a number of compiled CEDET parsers were missing their associated grammar files and parser generators.
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lists.gnu.org and Network World
Patrick May / Mercury News:
Online marketers hit hard by California's new online-sales tax — It wasn't the Great Recession that killed Nick Loper's business. It was a flick of Jerry Brown's wrist. — When the governor signed the state's new online-sales tax law last month, Seattle-based Amazon …
Mike Swift / SiliconValley.com:
Local business site challenges Google ranking — With federal regulators pursuing an antitrust probe over whether Google (GOOG) is abusing its dominance in search to favor its own online products, a company that owns several Bay Area websites promoting local small businesses is taking …
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The Precursor Blog and Marketing Pilgrim
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
Anonymous says hacked U.S. government cyber supplier — (Reuters) - Hackers with the loose-knit group Anonymous said on Friday they had broken into the network of U.S. government contractor Mantech International Corp and posted some NATO-related correspondence online.
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The Pirate Bay, The Firewall, @anonymousirc, @anonymousirc and Naked Security
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
FaceTime 3G for Verizon iPhone may be restricted to tiered data plans — In June we reported that the fifth-generation iPhone had reached its final testing stage, and within that report we noted that Apple and Verizon Wireless were yet to strike a deal for FaceTime video calling over 3G networks.
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iDownloadBlog.com, MacGazette.net, Electronista, Gizmodo and App Advice
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft patents reveal touch+pen plans, Windows 8 tablet future? — Several new patent filings have revealed what appears to be Microsoft's pen and touch plans, hinting at future Windows 8 use. — Microsoft filed for a variety of picture related gestures in January, 2010.
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WinBeta and Techie Buzz, Thanks:tomwarren
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Apple Now Has More Cash Than the U.S. Government — When Apple reported last week that it had $76 billion in cash, we speculated that it might be enough to buy Goldman Sachs or Facebook. Today, Steve Jobs' reserves match up with the world's largest sovereign entity. — That's right.
