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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
New Apple iPad Designs Surface with Landscape Docking & More — A new series of iPad designs have surfaced this past week in China that illustrate a number of very interesting possibilities that could be coming to future iPads. The first is the ability to dock in landscape mode as well as portrait.
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MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, Gizmodo and Erictric, Thanks:atul
Richard Silverstein / Tikun Olam:
Iran Confirms Stuxnet Damage to Nuclear Facilities — The AP is reporting confirmation from Iranian sources that Stuxnet, which I've posted about here, has caused extensive damage with the country's computer and industrial system: … Until now, western security experts were the only ones reporting on and analyzing Stuxnet.
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Associated Press, The Age, Guardian and The Earth Times Online …
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Agence France Presse:
US does not know source, purpose of Stuxnet worm: official — ARLINGTON, Virginia (AFP) - The United States is analyzing the “Stuxnet” computer worm but does not know who is behind it or its purpose, a top US cybersecurity official said Friday. — “One of our hardest jobs is attribution and intent …
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The United States Department of Justice:
Justice Department Requires Six High Tech Companies to Stop Entering into Anticompetitive Employee Solicitation Agreements … WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with six high technology companies - Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc. …
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Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
DOJ strikes down no-poaching agreements between Apple, Intel, Google, Adobe, and others — The U.S. Justice Department has struck down agreements that prevented some of the largest tech companies in the world from poaching employees from each other in a settlement today that included heavy hitters like Google, Intel and Apple.
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The Atlantic Online and Mercury News
Andrew Hough / Telegraph:
Social Network writer backs Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg over ‘stolen ideas’ claims — Aaron Sorkin, the creative brains behind the new Facebook movie “The Social Network”, has offered his support to Mark Zuckerberg, after the tech boss was accused of stealing the idea for the social networking site.
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Salon, webpronews.com, Electricpig.co.uk and Time
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Movie Gets Overwhelmingly Positive Reviews, But Will People Go See It? — Premiering at New York Film Festival yesterday and coming to theaters October 1st, the world's first Hollywood movie about the founding of a social network can now also claim the bragging rights …
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Reuters, Computerworld, AceShowBiz.com, webpronews.com and SEO and Tech Daily
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Massive crowds greet iPhone 4 in China — More than 50,000 pre-orders and a queue more than 1,000 customers long — The scene Saturday morning outside Apple's new Joy City store. Photo: AFP — What a difference a year makes. — Last November, when Apple (AAPL) …
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Network World, Computerworld, Fone Arena, IntoMobile, Cult of Mac, China Real Time Report, The Next Web and Electronista
Spiegel Online:
Internal Strife at WikiLeaks — German Spokesman Says He Will Leave Website — A dispute has broken out within the leadership of WikiLeaks, the website known for publishing classified documents including the Afghanistan war logs. In an interview with SPIEGEL, WikiLeaks' German spokesman …
Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
How to be successful on YouTube [what I learned after 2 million views] — I have always been a big fan of video as a communication tool and YouTube is an amazing platform if you use it right. —it's human —it's you, your voice, your gesture, your feelings, much more than text
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
European Union ends antitrust investigations of Apple — The European Union has ended two antitrust investigations into Apple's iPhone policies after Apple relaxed developer restrictions and introduced cross-border warranty repair service. — According to a statement released Saturday by the EU …
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Engadget, EU Press Room, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Electronista and Reuters
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
iTunes 10.0.1 Goes Live with Ping Sidebar by Federico Viticci — Tweet — Apple released a minor update to iTunes last night, which reaches version 10.0.1 and introduces a new feature for Ping users: the Ping sidebar. The Ping sidebar allows you to always have the updates from the people …
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Macworld, MediaMemo, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, TUAW, Thoughts from the Sidelines and Cult of Mac, Thanks:jailbreaki4
Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
Twitter Founder Also Involved In Mark Zuckerberg's $100M Donation To Newark — Image by Twitter / Twitter via CrunchBase — Facebook is not the only social network Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker is getting help from for the city's public schools. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has also donated …
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TechStartups.com, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, ITworld.com, BetaNews and Facebook, Thanks:ojchiang
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Zuckerberg Says He Wanted To Donate $100 Million Anonymously
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SelectStart, Velocity, The Huffington Post, New York Times and ABCNEWS
