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Nick Pinto / Runnin' Scared:
Your Phone Numbers and Facebook: What You Should Actually Worry About — If you're on Facebook, you've likely seen the panicky message that's been circulating, warning that the social networking behemoth has started publishing all your phone contacts for everybody to see:
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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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App Advice, Gizmodo, InfoWorld, TiPb and Android and Me
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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PC World, The Bay Citizen Blog, BART, SFGate, ACLU of Northern California, The Register, Boing Boing, Infocult, Digital Trends, @percival, GigaOM, @ioerror, Engadget, @digiphile, @dannysullivan, @jilliancyork, The Daily What, @mcclure_sf, @sherieffarouk, Christian Science Monitor, @csoghoian, SFGate, IntoMobile, L.A. NOW, The Snitch, Crave and CBS San Francisco
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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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Softpedia News, AllThingsD, ZeroPaid.com and Examiner
Eve Batey / SF Appeal:
BART Defends Decision To Cut Off Cell Service After Civil Rights, FCC Concerns Raised
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SFGate, Washington Post, @jilliancyork, @eff, Marvin Ammori &, Digital Trends, Bits, TechCrunch, @ioerror, @evanchill, Gawker, SFGate, Hillicon Valley, textually.org, Your Anon News and Electronista, Thanks:violetblue
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, 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 — Wired.com just reported that Google filed reexamination requests with the USPTO late on Friday, seeking the invalidation (or at least narrowing) two of Lodsys's four patents: the '078 patent and the '565 patent …
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The Next Web
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, Fortune, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Electronista, iPhone in Canada Blog and The Next Web
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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Sagar Kamdar / Inside Search:
The latest update to Google Social Search: Public Google+ Posts
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TechCrunch, Softpedia News, CNET News, SlashGear, The Business Insider, Search Engine Journal, ReadWriteWeb and SiliconFilter
Rich Jaroslovsky / Bloomberg:
Hacker Mitnick Duped Corporate Cyber-Cops, Cracked Wiretaps — Genius comes in many forms. Kevin Mitnick has at least two, neither particularly admirable. — As he portrays himself in “Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker,” Mitnick possesses a rare ability to penetrate sophisticated computer systems.
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Wall Street Journal, SC Magazine Australia, New York Times and Laughing Squid
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, TechCrunch, Gizmodo and Sam Odio's 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.
Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
UK riots: teenager charged with BlackBerry incitement — A teenager from Essex has been charged with using the instant messaging service BlackBerry Messenger to encourage others to take part in riots. — The 18-year-old, from Clacton, was accused of intentionally encouraging or assisting …
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Engadget, Electronista, Inquirer and The Next Web
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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Search Engine Land, Hitwise Intelligence, Softpedia News, @avinio, ReadWriteWeb, Wired In Blog| BNET, SlashGear, TechFlash and GigaOM
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Mozilla Brings The Sign In Button To The Browser Level — If you're on a website that uses accounts, the sign in button can be anywhere. Sure, there are some common best practices, but I can think of dozens of sites that put them all over the place. Mozilla is looking to fix that, by bringing the sign in to the browser level.
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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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Computerworld, Mozilla Add-ons Blog, Softpedia News, The Register, CNET News, WinBeta, Softpedia News and Slashdot
David Streitfeld / Bits:
Amazon Cracks Down on Some E-Book ‘Publishers’ — Amazon makes it extremely easy to take a bunch of words and publish them as a book for the Kindle e-reader. And longtime professional writers like Edward Jay Epstein, the author of books on Hollywood, diamonds and the assassination of John F. Kennedy Jr. …
