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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
S.F. subway muzzles cell service during protest — The operators of the Bay Area Rapid Transit subway system asked wireless providers to suspend service last night in four downtown San Francisco stations to interfere with a protest over a shooting by a BART Police officer, a spokesman for the system said today.
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Eva Galperin / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
BART Pulls a Mubarak in San Francisco — This week, EFF has seen censorship stories move closer and closer to home — first Iran, then the UK, and now San Francisco, an early locus of the modern free speech movement. Operators of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) …
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Examiner and ZeroPaid.com
Eve Batey / SF Appeal:
BART Defends Decision To Cut Off Cell Service After Civil Rights, FCC Concerns Raised — After rumors of a possible protest intended to disrupt service reached BART officials yesterday, they pursued a number of strategies to ensure that didn't happen. One of those strategies …
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TechCrunch, Washington Post, @jilliancyork, SFGate, SFGate, Digital Trends, @eff, Gawker, Marvin Ammori &, Bits, @evanchill, @ioerror, Hillicon Valley, textually.org, Your Anon News and Electronista, Thanks:violetblue
Sagar Kamdar / Inside Search:
The latest update to Google Social Search: Public Google+ Posts — Back in 2009, we launched Google Social Search, and we've made several improvements since then. And earlier this year we made an update which let you get more information from people you're connected to on other publicly available sites.
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Search Engine Journal, SlashGear, SiliconFilter, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, The Business Insider and TechCrunch
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google+ Public Posts Coming To Google's Social Search Results — Google has added another source to its social search results: public posts from Google Plus. — Social search has been adding annotations to search results when content from your social connections (not to be confused …
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Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Jonathan's Card: Starbucks Shuts Down Social Experiment Over Fraud Concerns — Jonathan Stark's community-giving Starbucks Card is no more. At 7 p.m. PT Friday, Starbucks reluctantly pulled the plug on Stark's pay-it-forward social experiment following allegations of fraud or misuse.
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@jonathanscard and WebProNews
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Sam Odio / Sam Odio's blog:
How to use Jonathan's card to buy yourself an iPad
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Mashable!, TechCrunch, Gizmodo and PE Hub Blog
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk Digital Connection:
Flickr is Dead — Poll: — Which one of these two albums looks better? — Flickr (the same view since 2004) — or — Google+ (with added infinite scrolling this week) — You know what? It doesn't matter. It's totally irrelevant. The Google one looks far better, but that's so beside the point at this point.
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
City of Cupertino posts further details on Apple mega-campus — The City of Cupertino has revealed more details regarding Apple's plans to build a 2.8 million square-foot spaceship-like circular office building in the city. — The city is currently in the midst of its review process of Apple's plans.
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cupertino.org, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, Electronista and The Next Web
Mike Isaac / Gadget Lab:
Google Steps Up to Defend Android Developers From Patent Lawsuit — Google has intervened in an ongoing intellectual property dispute between smartphone application developers and a patent-holding firm, Wired.com has learned, marking the Mountain View company's first public move …
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FOSS Patents and The Next Web, Thanks:mj_isaac
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Study: Google+ winning over suburban parents, losing college kids and cafe dwellers — New data released by Experian Hitwise today gives a snapshot of the types of people who are adopting Google+, and also those abandoning it after giving it a try, based on the research firm's sample of users.
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Hitwise Intelligence, @avinio, ReadWriteWeb, Wired In Blog| BNET, SlashGear, TechFlash and GigaOM
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Firefox 8 to block unapproved add-ons — Puts an end to sneaky add-ons installed by other software — Computerworld - Starting with Firefox 8, Mozilla will automatically block browser add-ons installed by other software until users approve them, a company product manager announced yesterday.
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Mozilla Add-ons Blog, The Register, CNET News, WinBeta, Softpedia News and Slashdot
comScore, Inc.:
14 Million Americans Scanned QR or Bar Codes on their Mobile Phones in June 2011 — Newspapers/Magazines and Product Packaging Most Likely Source of QR Code — QR Code Users Most Likely to Scan Code while at Home or Store — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
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South Korean Government Pushes To Phase Out Online Real-Name Policy — In the wake of the country's worst online security breach that compromised the personal information of over two-thirds of the population, the home affairs ministry said Thursday it will push to repeal in phases the online real-name verification rules.
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The Korea Herald, Electronista, The Register and MSDN Blogs
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Jeff Bezos wants to put an airbag in your smartphone — Many of us have experienced the problem: We get careless with our mobile phones, they slip out of our hands, and all of a sudden we're back at the store replacing a shattered device. — Well, none other than Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos …
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Netflix tests new web UI for kids. First look — Netflix has started to test a separate section for children's content on its website with a UI that is optimized to be used by kids themselves. Select Netflix members have been getting a new tab labeled “Just For Kids” …
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Mashable!, Engadget, ReelSEO Online Video …, Software, Interrupted, VentureBeat, Pulse2, The Consumerist and Gizmodo
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple will not hold iPhone 5 event on Sept. 7 — Reports began to surface yesterday that Apple would hold a special event on September 7 to launch the new iPhone, but that's not happening. — According to my sources, Apple will not have an event or launch the next iPhone on September 7.
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Computerworld, AllThingsD, BGR, MacRumors, Electronista, Fortune, TiPb, Examiner, How To Arena, SlashGear, MobileWhack.com, GottaBeMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, techblog.dallasnews.com, AppleInsider, IntoMobile, Apple Bitch, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, everythingiCafe, Electricpig.co.uk, TechEye, The Business Insider, CNET News and Edible Apple
Zach Epstein / maramine blog:
The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled Was... Disclaimer: The Devil Doesn't Pull Tricks — It looks like Facebook is finally winning a PR battle. Good for them. — Earlier this week, it was brought to light (again) that Facebook uses several of its smartphone apps to take all of your contacts and store them on its server.
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Gizmodo, InfoWorld, Runnin' Scared, TiPb, Android and Me and BGR India
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Facebook Quietly Updates Platform Policies - Developers, No Linking To Competitors! — Facebook made some noteworthy changes to its Platform policies on the 27th of July 2011, adding a couple of new terms developers need to take into account when building apps for the Facebook Platform.
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All Facebook, Inside Facebook and Digital Trends
Electronista:
AT&T filing hints only $3.8b, not T-Mobile, needed for goals — ATT filing hints T-Mobile merger claims inflated — AT&T on Thursday accidentally posted a filing (since pulled, available below) that called into doubt one of the core arguments for its buyout of T-Mobile.
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TmoNews, TechCrunch, SlashGear, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, Android Phone Fans and The Daily Caller
Staska / Unwired View:
Compal to start delivery of Windows Phones to Nokia in September. 2 million units ordered for Q4 2011 — We already told you that first Nokia Windows Phones will be made by Taiwanese Compal. Today we have some more info about them. — This has still to percolate to the English speaking part of the net …
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@dnystedt, MacNN, PhoneArena, The Nokia Blog, SlashGear, WMPoweruser, The Next Web and WPCentral.com, Thanks:unwiredtweets
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft claims Windows Phone 7.5 launch on September 1 is “just a rumor”
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GottaBeMobile, WPCentral.com, BGR, FierceWireless, Know Your Cell, MobileBurn.com and TechCrunch
