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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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Exclusive: Victim in Airbnb-related ransacking speaks outs — In today's Chronicle, this column covered the case of EJ, the anonymous woman who blogged that her San Francisco home was burglarized and vandalized by a guest who arranged to stay there through the service Airbnb.
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Saeed Goraya / @sgoraya:
“The story Arrington wrote yesterday about Airbnb not offering to help was bulls**t.” - Paul Graham @ HN http://t.co/YUldolA #airbnb
“The story Arrington wrote yesterday about Airbnb not offering to help was bulls**t.” - Paul Graham @ HN http://t.co/YUldolA #airbnb
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Hacker News, TechCrunch and @airbnbhorror
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Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged — Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net's most popular sites are using a tracking service that can't be evaded — even when users block cookies, turn off storage in Flash, or use browsers' “incognito” functions.
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@mathewi, socalTECH.com and @tomsinger
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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.
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Why game developers hate the Facebook-Zynga marriage, and how Google+ can benefit — Facebook game developers were furious when they found out about the tight relationship between Facebook and Zynga. — If Google properly channels that anger, it could find considerable support for the idea …
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Inside Social Games
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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, Network World and Slashdot
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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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Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
Nortel completes patent liquidation to Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Sony: now what?
Nortel completes patent liquidation to Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Sony: now what?
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MacRumors and moneywatch.bnet.com
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President Barack Obama takes debt battle to Twitter, loses more than 40,000 followers in one day — President Obama brought his debt battle to Twitter and he lost - more than 40,000 Twitter followers. — Obama asked Americans Friday to call, email, and tweet Congressional leaders to …
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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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Techie Buzz and WinBeta, Thanks:tomwarren
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Extends iTunes Previews to 90 Seconds Internationally — Apple seems to have extended iTunes song previews to 90 seconds internationally. Apple first rolled out 90 second previews in the U.S. back in December, 2010. International song previews had been stuck at 30 seconds.
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Nanette Byrnes / Reuters:
Senator supports online sales tax reform — (Reuters) - Cash-strapped states seeking to collect billions in taxes from online transactions gained an ally in Washington on Friday when a senator introduced a bill for a federal solution to the problem. — Struggling with weak economies …
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Hillicon Valley
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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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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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A Brief History of Apple Not Buying Things — And so it begins again. BGR has an exclusive scoop from an “unproven” (ooh!) source: Apple is in talks to buy Barnes & Noble, the country's last remaining national bookseller. As BGR points out, the acquisition would get Apple B&N's digital books …
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iPhone, App Advice, TeleRead, Gizmodo, Good E-Reader Blog and The Next Web
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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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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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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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AT&T's sleek Samsung slider isn't the Galaxy S II after all — Last week, we exclusively reported that AT&T was planning to launch a variant of Samsung's Galaxy S II with a full QWERTY keyboard. Well, we have good news and bad news: BGR learned on Friday from a trusted source that this handset …
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