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Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked to Block Competitors — A former iTunes engineer testified in a federal antitrust case against Apple Friday that he worked on a project “intended to block 100% of non-iTunes clients” and “keep out third-party players” that competed with Apple's iPod.
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| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Facebook no longer showing results from Bing when searching on its site — Facebook dumps Microsoft Web search results — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) has stopped including results from Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) Bing search engine on its social networking site.
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GeekWire, VentureBeat, Business Insider, WinBeta, CNET, Search Engine Land, Windows Phone Central, The Verge and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Stolen Sony emails reveal scheming by MPAA, movie studios against Google in “Project Goliath” and their fight against piracy at the expense of the open web — Project Goliath: Inside Hollywood's secret war against Google — What is “Goliath” and why are Hollywood's most powerful lawyers working to kill it?
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TorrentFreak, Techdirt, Digital Music News, 9to5Google, The Register, SlashGear, Business Insider and TIME
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Google to turn off Google Earth API on December 12, 2015 — Announcing deprecation of the Google Earth API — Over six years ago we introduced the Google Earth API, enabling developers to build rich 3D mapping applications in the browser, using JavaScript.
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The Register, Maps Mania, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, The Next Web and Android Central
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
After rejecting the game Papers, Please over pornography concerns, Apple suggests to developer that app be resubmitted with nudity option — Apple's censorship of immigration game was a ‘misunderstanding,’ says creator — ‘They suggested I resubmit with the nudity option.’
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Wired, iMore, AppleInsider, gameinformer.com, GameSpot, The Verge, TUAW, Ars Technica and Geek.com. Tweets: @dukope
| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams says he doesn't “give a s**t” about Instagram's greater MAUs, stresses Twitter's impact on world — Twitter co-founder Evan Williams: 'I don't give a s**t' if Instagram has more users — Yesterday, Instagram announced it has 300 million monthly active users.
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AllTwitter, Telegraph, PC Magazine, StrictlyVC, Marketing Land, Wired, Upstart Business Journal, Tech Times, WebProNews, Business Insider, SiliconBeat and The Verge
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
A quick look at Snapdragon 810, 2015's first flagship mobile chip — CES is almost here, and while most of the industry's biggest names (Apple, Google, and Microsoft, among others) either hold their biggest announcements for separate events or decline to show up at all, there's still plenty that happens there.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users To “Upgrade” To Firefox — If you're visiting any Yahoo property today, chances are you'll see an “Upgrade to the new Firefox” link in the top-right corner of your browser window. The prompt also appears if you're using Internet Explorer, Opera and even the new Yandex browser.| Christine Dobby / Globe and Mail: |
Canadian Competition Bureau says Apple's contracts with Canadian wireless carriers may have hiked prices on cellphones, wireless service in general — Apple contracts may have hiked Canadian prices for cellphones, wireless services — After close to nine months of investigation …
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Sony Pictures Knew of Gaps in Computer Network Before Hack Attack — A security audit of Sony Pictures Entertainment's computer network conducted just months before hackers unveiled a devastating cyberattack against the company showed gaps in the way the company monitored its systems.
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Reuters and Wall Street Journal
| Jonathan Feist / Android Authority: |
Google Fit update includes 100 new activities that can be entered manually, offline step tracking for Android Wear — Google Fit supports 100 new activities with latest update — With Android 5.0.1 Lollipop and a mass of app updates rolling out this week, Google is also pushing out a new version of Google Fit.
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Gigaom, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo, PhoneDog.com, Droid Life, Geeky Gadgets and Android Central
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