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5:10 PM ET, December 9, 2011

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HP:
HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source  —  HP to enable creativity of the community to accelerate the next-generation web-centric platform  —  HP today announced it will contribute the webOS software to the open source community.  —  HP plans to continue to be active in the development and support of webOS.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
HP open sources WebOS: The fallout  —  Summary: WebOS' ultimate open source fate remains to be seen, but rest assured there could be some disruption ahead for the smartphone industry.  —  Hewlett-Packard has decided to open source its WebOS in a bet that the mobile operating system …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
HP's Whitman: We'll Make WebOS-Powered Tablets In 2013  —  Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman finally announced the fate of operating system WebOS this morning, after the company previously announced that it was ceasing the development of all smartphones and tablets running Palm's webOS platform.
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Motorola Mobility wins German patent suit against Apple, overcomes FRAND defense  —  At 9 AM today, the Mannheim Regional Court pronounced its ruling on one of the patent infringement lawsuits Motorola Mobility brought against Apple in Germany in April 2011.  This is the first substantive ruling in this dispute.
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple: Motorola Patent Win Won't Keep iPhones From German Holiday Shoppers  —  Motorola Mobility scored a victory in its ongoing intellectual property battle with Apple today, when the Mannheim Regional Court granted it an injunction banning the import of iPhones and 3G-capable iPads into Germany.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Motorola Wins Preliminary Injunction, Could Bar Sales of iPhone and 3G iPad in Europe
Discussion: FOSS Patents
Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Seeks to Delay AT&T Trial  —  In a setback for AT&T Inc., a Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge Friday the agency wants to postpone its antitrust case seeking to block the acquisition of T-Mobile USA.  —  The request, if approved by the judge …
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Washington Post:
How AT&T fumbled its $39 billion bid to acquire T-Mobile  —  The phone call hit like a one-two punch.  —  Days before Thanksgiving, AT&T's heavyweight lobbying team was busy setting up meetings with antitrust authorities scrutinizing the company's $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile.
Bloomberg:
AT&T Judge Will Weigh Shutting Down T-Mobile Antitrust Trial
Discussion: GeekWire
Marc Andreessen / pmarca:
A Clarification With Respect to Yahoo  —  Over the last several weeks, there have been erroneous reports in the press that my partner Jeff Jordan and/or I might become an operating executive of Yahoo in some capacity.  —  To be crystal clear, neither Jeff, nor I, nor any of our partners …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:   Andreessen Says He Has No Plans For “An Operating Role” At Yahoo
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Wall Street Journal:
At Apple's Grand Central Store, iPhones Aren't the Only Draw
Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
Sarah Lacy And Mike Arrington Are Starting TechCrunch 2.0  —  Former managing editor of TechCrunch Sarah Lacy is doing what many people expected her to do after she left TechCrunch last month — building a brand new version of it.  —  Lacy is working on starting a new tech news site, according to multiple sources.
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Sean Parker: There are Too Many Startups and VCs  —  At LeWeb this afternoon, TechCrunch's Alexia Tsotsis and Menlo Ventures Shervin Pishevar were joined by Napster co-founder, Facebook founding president and Spotify investor Sean Parker for a keynote interview.
Discussion: memeburn and TechCrunch
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Google nabs Square Enix and other game developers to do native client Chrome games  —  Google announced today that its three-year effort to create a muscular browser technology that can run heavy duty apps such as console-like games is now ready for prime time.
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Christian Stefansen / Chromium Blog:
Games, apps and runtimes come to Native Client
Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
Hillary Clinton: Hero and Villain of the Internet  —  As Congress sinks its teeth into an alternative to the widely loathed anti-piracy legislation that some fear will lead to Internet censorship, Hillary Clinton is standing up for the ideals of an open web.
Discussion: Salon and US Department of State
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New York Times:
In Hague, Clinton Urges Countries Not to Restrict Internet
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft Lync mobile clients for iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone ready to roll  —  Summary: Microsoft looks to be ready to roll out its Lync unified communications client for Windows Phone, iPhone, Android, Symbian and the iPad on December 12.  —  Microsoft is ready to launch …
YouMail's Blog:
We're Baaaacck!  —  “In aviation, a chain of events, often called the error chain, is a term referring to the concept that many contributing factors typically lead to an accident, rather than one single event” (from Wikipedia) Good news.  YouMail is back in the Android Market, or will be shortly.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer takes charge of retail division as search for Ron Johnson replacement continues  —  The Grand Central Terminal store opening had Steve Cano and Bob Bridger in attendance  —  Until November 1, 2011, Apple's widely successful retail branch was headed by Ron Johnson, J.C. Penny's new CEO.
Discussion: MacRumors and Electronista
Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
YouTube Buys Company That Processes Music Royalties  —  In an effort to streamline its often complex relations with music publishers, YouTube has acquired RightsFlow, an upstart company in New York that processes royalties for the music industry.  —  YouTube, which is owned by Google …
Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
AOL's Patch Gets a Little Less Hyper-Local  —  Consolidates Sites in New Jersey, California  —  At one time, AOL had hoped to reach 1,000 Patch sites by the end of 2011.  But now comes word that Patch is slightly scaling back its efforts in some markets, fueling speculation inside …
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Meet Google's Biggest U.S. Search Advertisers  —  New Kantar Estimate: IAC, Amazon.com, AT&T, Expedia, Experian and Microsoft Top the List  —  Google likes to talk about display and brand advertising these days but the vast majority of its revenue still comes from its revolutionary core product: search.
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Facebook speeds PHP development again with HipHop VM  —  Never content with good enough when it comes to speed, Facebook has taken its open-source, PHP-boosting HipHop technology to the next level for programmers.  With the new HipHop Virtual Machine, Facebook claims it has improved upon …
Haavard / A Blog From Behind the Trenches:
Apple using patents to undermine open standards again  —  A couple of years ago, I reported on how Apple was using patents to block a W3C specification.  —  The end-result was that the patent didn't seem to be relevant to the specification at all, and one or both of them were even rejected by the patent office.
Glyn Moody / Techdirt:
Chinese Internet Users Relish Irony Of SOPA's Great Firewall Of America  —  After being on the receiving end of the West's pointed comments about the Great Firewall of China and the online censorship it helps to enforce, Chinese Internet users are enjoying the deep irony that SOPA …
 
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AppleInsider:
Rare Apple '80s MultiServer, '70s Apple II ROM prototypes appear on eBay
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BlackBerry Owners Want iPads And So Do Android And Windows Phone Owners: Survey
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Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Verizon ends satellite deal, FiOS expansion as it partners with cable
Discussion: DSLreports
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Spotify Radio gets a big makeover, goes truly unlimited
Thomas Ricker / The Verge:
Panasonic's 4.3-inch ultra-thin Android smartphone headed to Europe in March
Koushik Dutta / Google+:
The Unintended Effects of Driverless Cars  —  Google has been …
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The New Twitter (R.I.P. Tweetie)
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