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February 22, 2012, 12:45 PM

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Dave Heiner / Microsoft on the Issues:

Google: Please Don't Kill Video on the Web — Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Standards & Antitrust Group, Microsoft — Earlier today, Microsoft filed a formal competition law complaint with the European Commission (EC) against Motorola Mobility.

More: ReadWriteWeb, PC Magazine, AllThingsD, Computerworld, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, The Verge, The Register, Seattle Times, The Next Web, GeekWire, Between the Lines Blog, CNET, ZDNet, Electronista, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser and SlashGear

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

After Apple, Microsoft also files an EU antitrust complaint against Motorola Mobility over FRAND abuse — Less than a week after Apple's EU antitrust complaint against Motorola Mobility became publicly known, Microsoft has also filed formal competition charges against MMI with the European Commission.

More: Reuters

Nick Bilton / Bits:

Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year's End — People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer's eyeballs in real time.

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Google heads-up display glasses to sell for $250 to $600 this year, NYT says

Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:

What we learned from the ‘Nightline’ report on Foxconn factories — After teasing the story yesterday, Nightline has aired its report from Foxconn's factories on ABC. In the report, host Bill Weir speaks directly to factory workers as well as their managers.

More: Computerworld, Gizmodo, asymco, TUAW, PadGadget, Dwight Silverman's TechBlog, everythingiCafe, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Phones Review, iPhone, The Loop, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, SplatF and 9to5Mac

Tweets: @macrumors and @gruber

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:

Factory workers claim Foxconn hid underage employees before FLA inspection — Workers at Apple partner Foxconn have alleged that their employer transferred underage employees to other departments or did not schedule them to work overtime in order to avoid discovery during recent inspections …

More: Business Insider, VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, App Advice, Gotta Be Mobile, Electronista, Phones Review, Fortune, WebProNews, TUAW, Forbes, Mike Daisey and Softpedia News. Thanks:@beijingdou

Jeff / Amazon Web Services Blog:

Amazon Simple Workflow - Cloud-Based Workflow Management — Simple Workflow — Today we are introducing the Amazon Simple Workflow service, SWF for short. This new service gives you the ability to build and run distributed, fault-tolerant applications that span multiple systems (cloud-based, on-premise, or both).

More: InfoWorld, All Things Distributed, Bits, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, Between the Lines Blog, Amazon.com, WebProNews and CloudAve

Billy Steele / Engadget:

Verizon 4G LTE outage hitting parts of the US (Updated) — Experiencing some issues downloading those expense reports via your Verizon LTE device this morning? You're not alone. We've received reports of data outages in Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

More: VentureBeat, BGR, The Verge, DSLreports, GigaOM, Business Insider, Android Phone Fans, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile, Neowin.net, Electronista, FierceWireless, Android and Me and PhoneArena. Tweets: @vzwnews

Lukas Mathis / ignorethecode.net:

Please Steal These webOS Features — When Apple introduced the first iPad in 2010, I bought one immediately. I didn't know what I'd use it for, but I was sure that I would find some use for it. I never did. I played around with it, wrote some code for it, but eventually stopped using it.

More: Obama Pacman, Edible Apple and Macgasm

Peter Corbett / GigaOM:

Facebook plans to release a new premium ads product Feb. 29 — According to leaked documents, Facebook plans to upgrade its premium ads on February 29. The company expects the new ads to perform 40 to 8o percent better than its previous product. — As the owner of a social creative agency …

More: All Facebook, Betabeat, ClickZ, AdAge, Friending Facebook Blog, Fast Company, Techie Buzz, Telegraph, MarketingVox News & Trends, Marketing Pilgrim, The New Persuaders and SlashGear

Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

San Francisco Or Palo Alto? — When I started TechCrunch in 2005 there was no question that Palo Alto was the center of the tech universe. San Francisco was really pretty and a nice place to see the symphony, but all the startup action was in and around Stanford University in Palo Alto.

More: Venture Capital Dispatch and Adventures in Capitalism

Jim Wolf / Reuters:

CIA to software vendors: A revolution is coming — (Reuters) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency told software vendors on Tuesday that it plans to revolutionize the way it does business with them as part of a race to keep up with the blazing pace of technology advances.

More: TechEye

Dcurtis / Dustin Curtis:

Google's new “bats**t crazy” UX — In a recent update to Gmail and Google+, Google removed the ability to go “home” by clicking the logo. Kevin Fox, who worked at Google as a designer for many years, had this to say: … I am amazed that Google allowed this change, but not really surprised.

More: Business Insider and Kevin Fox

Boris Khvostichenko / Google LatLong:

Street View on Google Maps comes to Russia — Welcome to Russia! You can now virtually travel through the world's largest country to the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg using Google Maps Street View. — Take an online stroll around famous Red Square and Moscow Kremlin …

More: 9to5Google, WebProNews, Softpedia News and Tip Desk

BBC:

Acta: EU court to rule on anti-piracy agreement — The European Union's highest court has been asked to rule on the legality of a controversial anti-piracy agreement. — The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta) has been criticised by rights campaigners who argue it could stifle free expression on the internet.

More: VentureBeat, TorrentFreak, TechCrunch Europe, Reuters, The Register, SlashGear, GamePolitics blogs, WebProNews, Betabeat, Associated Press and Dow Jones Newswires

Joe Pollicino / Engadget:

‘Select’ PS Vita apps hit the US PlayStation Store: Netflix, LiveTweet and Flickr (Update: video hands-on) — Did you just brave the lines of a midnight launch party and snag yourself a PS Vita in the US? Good news ye early adopters, Sony's PlayStation.Blog.US has just announced …

More: Ars Technica, TechCrunch, CNET, WebProNews, The Next Web, Softpedia News, PlayStation Blog, Hacking NetFlix, SlashGear and The Verge

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Adobe releases Flash roadmap, narrows focus to gaming and ‘premium’ video — Adobe swallowed a lot of pride in conceding defeat and abandoning development of Flash Player on mobile devices last year, but that doesn't mean the company is ready to completely give up on its still ubiquitous rich media web format.

More: Adobe, Liliputing, OSNews, 9to5Google, Adobe AIR and Adobe …, Softpedia News, gHacks Technology News, Slashdot and SlashGear

Reuters:

Chinese firm seeks halt of iPad sales in Shanghai — (Reuters) - A Chinese technology firm sought to halt the sale of Apple Inc's iPads across the affluent city of Shanghai, arguing at a local court hearing on Wednesday that the U.S. firm had infringed on its trademark.

More: MacRumors, GigaOM, New York Times, 9to5Mac, Fortune, WebProNews and iClarified

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Strategic Sharing: Zipcar Leads $13.7M Investment In Campus Car-Sharing Startup Wheelz — Well, you have to hand it to the strategy team over at Zipcar. Arguably the largest on-demand car-sharing network, Zipcar went public last year and not long after saw its market cap cross $1 billion.

More: VatorNews, GigaOM, AllThingsD, Xconomy, PR Newswire, Mass High Tech, Investor's Business Daily and the Econsultancy blog. Thanks:@ingridlunden

Mike Swift / Mercury News:

Mozilla to challenge big players in mobile web — Mozilla, the Mountain View nonprofit that took on Microsoft's Internet browser dominance nearly a decade ago and won, now wants to play the same transformative role with the mobile web. — Mozilla is expected on Wednesday to announce plans …

More: BetaNews, Business Wire, TechCrunch, FierceMobileContent, Geeky-Gadgets, MobileBurn.com, Liliputing and eWeek

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Police Raid File-Hosting Site, Arrest Operator and ISP — On June 11th last year Europe witnessed one of the largest piracy-related busts in history. — An international operation shut down the movie streaming portal Kino.to and police made more than a dozen arrests.

More: BGR and SlashGear

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

The Beatles Launch Exclusive Ringtones Through iTunes Store — Continuing their close relationship with the iTunes Store following a landmark deal to launch their music in the store in late 2010, The Beatles today announced the release of their first official ringtones, available exclusively through the iTunes Store.

More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Electronista, TUAW, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint and Edible Apple

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Storify launches a slick iPad app to open its story-building service to a new audience — Storify is today announcing a brand new app for the iPad, bringing its drag and drop curation of Tweets, videos and other web links to the tablet. The experience looks smooth and carries over the core features of the web app.

More: Computerworld, Featured stories, IntoMobile, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Scobleizer and Technically Personal!. See also Mediagazer

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Google Patent Clearly Eying the Desktop Market for Android — A recent patent filing by Google surprisingly indicates that they're seriously eying the desktop and notebook markets for Android. Interestingly, the patent seems to focus on similar capabilities now found in Apple's Multi-Touch Trackpad and Magic Trackpad.

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

How to parse a Microsoft denial — Summary: Microsoft's response to The Daily's latest Office on iPad story provides a lesson in how to interpret Microsoft's official responses to information the company isn't ready to share. — As a long-time Microsoft watcher, I've seen lots of Microsoft denials in my day.

More: CNET, Hardware 2.0 Blog, TechFlash, Inquirer, InfoWorld, Fast Company and Computerworld. Tweets: @msftnews

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G making its way into T-Mobile stores in March for $150 — We heard about Samsung's Galaxy S Blaze 4G — a device that wins second place for longest name behind the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch — last month at CES, but details were incredibly scarce.

More: CNET, The Verge, IntoMobile and Electronista

Peter Svensson / Associated Press:

T-Mobile asks FCC to block Verizon-cable deal — NEW YORK (AP) — T-Mobile USA, which just had its acquisition by AT&T blocked by regulators, is urging the federal government to block another deal in the wireless world: Verizon's planned purchase spectrum from cable companies for $3.9 billion.

More: Bloomberg, DSLreports, Engadget, Electronista, Between the Lines Blog, Wall Street Journal, IntoMobile, The Verge and Phone Scoop

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Now You Need Quora Credits To Ask Questions, But Can Also Use Them To Promote Content — Quora has fiddled around with its Credits system and unveiled some new features today, making two very notable changes. The first one is the elimination of the original “Pay to show to Topics” …

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