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Kimi Yoshino / L.A. NOW:
Twitter timeline of The Game's ‘telephone flash mob’ — Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials are continuing their investigation into rapper The Game and the tweets that sparked a “telephone flash mob” Friday night that jammed emergency phone lines. — Authorities say the rapper sent …
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Dale W. Eisinger / NBC New York:
The Game Tweets up a Telephone Flash Mob — Phone tag is no game to the Los Angeles Police Department. — A police investigation has been opened in LA concerning the source of Twitter messages sent from the account of the LA-based rapper The Game. The LA Times reports that Friday around 5 p.m …
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Examiner, Associated Press, ktla.com, CNN, New York Magazine and L.A. NOW
Jason Cross / PC World:
Windows Laptop Makers Can't Catch Up to the MacBook Air — The PC world is buzzing lately about how laptop manufacturers are struggling to compete with Apple's MacBook Air, which has exploded in popularity since the introduction of the third-gen model in 2010.
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ZDNet and TechPinions
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Glorious Images Of Apple's New Spaceship Headquarters — As we noted in June, Apple is building what is sure to be the coolest office building ever in Cuptertino, CA. The building is so important to the company that no less than Steve Jobs went to a Cupertino City Council meeting a couple months ago to seal the deal.
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Quick Online Tips, NBC Bay Area, Neowin.net, Gizmodo, AppleInsider and techeblog.com
Wolfgang Gruener / ConceivablyTech:
Apple To Eliminate Printer Drivers — Apple has filed two patent applications that describe an approach as well as file formats and APIs to eliminate the printer driver as a requirement for users to access a printer and print documents. Software drivers have been one of the big inconveniences in mainstream computing.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
2005 Zuckerberg Didn't Want To Take Over The World — The Huffington Post has come across this fascinating five-minute interview of Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook's Palo Alto office in June 2005. The clip is apparently part of a longer 40-minute-interview from a documentary about millennials shot by Ray Hafner and Derek Franzese.
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The Huffington Post and Gawker
Evgeny Morozov / Wall Street Journal:
Repressing the Internet, Western-Style — As politicians call for more online controls after London and Norway, authoritarian states are watching — Did the youthful rioters who roamed the streets of London, Manchester and other British cities expect to see their photos scrutinized …
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Felix Salmon / Reuters:
How the NYT paywall is working — When I wrote about the success of the NYT paywall last month, I got a lot of pushback in the comments and on Twitter. Here's a sample: … But of course the paywall is working — with the emphasis very much on the “pay” rather than on the “wall”.
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A VC and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »
California Beat:
BART BACKLASH GROWS | “Anonymous” group plans commute hour protest, website attack — (8/13) — 2241 PDT UPDATE — An online group of international hackers said Saturday that they would hold a protest against the Bay Area Rapid Transit District's recent decision to temporarily cut underground …
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San Francisco Chronicle, Your Anon News, SF Appeal, Associated Press, Yahoo! News, Your Anon News and ZeroPaid.com
Chris Chang / M.I.C. Gadget:
Kunming Fake Apple Store Changes Its Name to “Smart Store” (updated) — We know the “legendary” fake Apple store in Kunming is trying their best to look similar to an Apple Store, and at the same time, they are trying to pass themselves off as an Apple Store. Recently, we see something different at the store.
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iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, TechCrunch and Gizmodo
Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog:
Windows Security wrap-up: praise for Vista and a historic first — Summary: At last week's Black Hat conference, a security expert who spent time “beating up Vista” talks about Microsoft's approach to security. Microsoft falls off a top 10 list. And you should visit Windows Update now to get a new Critical update for IE.
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Global Security Mag Online and Computerworld
David Weinberger / Joho the Blog:
Reddit and community journalism — I've come to love Reddit. What started as a better Digg (and is yet another happy outcome of the remarkable Y Combinator) has turned into a way of sharing and interrogating news. Reddit as it stands is not the future of news. It is, however, a hope for news.
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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The Next Web, TiPb, Electronista and CNET News, Thanks:mj_isaac
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Google's reexamination requests against two Lodsys patents don't stand on their own
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