Techmeme: NSA Gathers 4x the Amount of Info than the Library of Congress, Daily (Curt Hopkins/ReadWriteWeb)

10:15 AM ET, May 11, 2011

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Quentin Hardy / Forbes:

Google To Announce Chrome Laptops-$20/Month — Google tomorrow will announce sales of the new Chrome laptop in a $20 a month “student package” that combines both hardware and online services, according to a senior Google executive. — The product is almost certainly a precursor to an enterprise offering.

Thomas Ricker / Engadget:

Android@Home is the best worst thing that could happen to home automation — As the resident Engadget home automation nerd, Google's Android@Home announcement rocked my little low-powered RF world yesterday. Seeing a brand like Google get behind home automation is the stuff I've been dreaming …

Discussion: BGR

Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:

Android And Chrome: Anywhere And Everywhere — Google is approaching a watershed moment in its internal platform wars. The time is nearly at hand when they will have to decide once and for all what Android is, what Chrome OS is, and where they are both going.

Discussion: GigaOM and Mobilized

Hugo Barra / The Official Google Blog:
Android: momentum, mobile and more at Google I/O

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Android Chief Rubin Hints At A New Nexus Device In Time For The Holidays

Discussion: MobileCrunch and TmoNews

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Confirmed: Qik will become part of Microsoft, too — Hey, for $8.5 billion, you'd expect a little extra as part of a deal, and it turns out that Microsoft's Skype acquisition will include a bonus in the form of Qik, the streaming mobile video company acquired by Skype for $121 million this year.

Discussion: Pulse2, iPhone in Canada Blog and Electronista

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
Skype's Road To $8 Billion

Discussion: ArcticStartup Posts, Microsoft News Tracker and GigaOM

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Microsoft's Skype Deal May Strain Relations With AT&T, Verizon

Discussion: PR Newswire and Bloomberg

Bill Rigby / Reuters:
Analysis: Investors slam Microsoft's Skype deal

Discussion: Reuters, MediaFile, Wireless News, bit-tech.net, USA Today and broadstuff

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft CEO Ballmer's email about Skype acquisition: ‘Exciting times!’

Discussion: Digital Daily, Computerworld, eSarcasm, Windows-Now.com, ben's blog, BoomTown, Hardware 2.0 Blog and TechCrunch

Nishant Doshi / Symantec Blog:

Facebook Applications Accidentally Leaking Access to Third Parties — Third parties, in particular advertisers, have accidentally had access to Facebook users' accounts including profiles, photographs, chat, and also had the ability to post messages and mine personal information.

Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Following Security Problem, Facebook Moves to OAuth 2.0, HTTPS and SSL Certificates

Discussion: Softpedia News, All Facebook, PC World and Redmond Pie

Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:

Google's Music Beta first look: it's miserable — Google's Music Beta is supposed to provide users with a way to access the music anywhere, anytime as easily as physically possible. — But it's just not that easy. — I've spent the past few hours trying to navigate my way through Music Beta …

Discussion: Music Ally, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, The Next Web and eWeek

Darren Murph / Engadget:
Google Music Beta walkthrough: what it is and how it works (video)

Discussion: DialToSave and T3.com News

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud Drive

Discussion: PhoneArena, Redmond Pie, eWeek, Pulse2, SocialTimes.com, SFWeekly, BetaNews, TechCrunch, L.A. Times Tech Blog and blog.chron.com, more at Mediagazer »

OUT-LAW News:

Google infringes copyright when its services link to newspaper sites, Belgian court rules — A Belgian appeals court has upheld an earlier ruling that Google infringes on newspapers' copyright when its services display and link to content from newspaper websites, according to press reports.

Discussion: The Register, Alec Saunders and The Prior Art

Matt Burns / CrunchGear:

Hands-On With Android 3.1 On The Motorola Xoom — Google announced Android 3.1 earlier today at I/O. More surprising than the OS itself (which was expected, really) was that it was rolling out to Verizon Xooms today. Google failed to announce when it was hitting other devices beside Google TV …

Discussion: Phones Review, Liliputing and Electronista

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Revised 'Net censorship bill requires search engines to block sites, too — Surprise! After months in the oven, the soon-to-be-released new version of a major US Internet censorship bill didn't shrink in scope—it got much broader. Under the new proposal, search engines, Internet providers …

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Son Of COICA: PROTECT IP Act Will Allow For Broad Censorship Powers, Even Granted To Copyright Holders

Discussion: TorrentFreak, DSLreports, CrunchGear and Technology Liberation Front

Joe Mullin / paidContent:

Apple, Google Privacy Hearing Marked By Confusion, Distractions — In a hearing marked by odd points and side-tracks, representatives from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) told a Senate committee today that their policies do, in fact, do a lot to protect users' privacy.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Gizmodo, Guardian, Alec Saunders, eWeek, Ars Technica, Between the Lines Blog and Softpedia News

Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
DOJ wants wireless providers to store user info

Discussion: Techdirt, eWeek, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Wall Street Journal, MediaPost, Technologizer, NBC Bay Area, dailywireless.org, Pulse2 and The Next Web

Curt Hopkins / ReadWriteWeb:

NSA Gathers 4x the Amount of Info than the Library of Congress, Daily — The National Security Agency is the geekiest of the spy shops. The NSA is responsible for gathering and parsing information from around the world, usually electronic data. At ReadWriteWeb, we're no strangers to big data, in fact we're fans.

Discussion: Popular Science and Gizmodo

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:

“Wallet of the future” Pageonce raises $15M — Pageonce, which helps manage financial accounts and bills through your smartphone, just announced that it has raised $15 million in a new round of funding. — It seems like the Palo Alto, Calif. company has become more focused over time.

Discussion: TechCrunch, eMoney, Social Markets and VatorNews

Jenna Wortham / Bits:

Visa Advances Toward a Digital Wallet — Visa is taking another big step in its continuing efforts to create a universal digital wallet. — On Wednesday, the company announced plans to introduce a one-click payment system that will allow Visa customers to sign up for a set of credentials …

Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:

Google and Ford Team Up to Make Your Next Car Smarter — At Google's I/O developer conference today, Ford announced a new research project that will use Google's prediction API to help drivers save gas and drive more efficiently. Ford plans to use Google's service to analyze data …

Discussion: Inquirer, Google Code Blog, Engadget, InfoQ, Between the Lines Blog, Electronista, PC World and Autopia, Thanks:newsgrange

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Apple Stops Serving iAds In Apps Targeted To Kids — Since its introduction last year, Apple's iAd advertising network has been off to a somehow rough start: touted as the best way for advertisers to build interactive campaigns to deliver effortlessly to iOS users, the service was repeatedly criticized …

Discussion: AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, Softpedia News, iClarified, Clickable Bliss Blog, RazorianFly, iPhone Download Blog and iPodNN

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Stealth Startup Inporia Raises $1.25 Million From Ron Conway, 500 Startups And More — Add another stealth eCommerce startup attracting pre-launch funding from eager investors to your list. That is, of course, if you have one. Last month, we covered Decide, a Seattle-based company looking …

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Google takes surprise $500M charge over DOJ ad investigation — Google's Form 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, made public this afternoon, contains an unexpected $500 million charge for the first quarter that wasn't reported in the company's quarterly results.

Brooke Crothers / CNET News:

Report: Apple to stick with Intel for MacBooks — A technical Web site posted an article yesterday asserting that Apple will not replace Intel processors with an alternative design anytime in the next two to three years. — This follows a report on a chip rumor site last week that claimed Apple is …

Discussion: Real World Technologies and TechEye

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Photo shows alleged 7th-gen Apple iPod nano with 1.3MP camera, no clip — Yet another piece of evidence shows that the next iPod nano will retain its same small form factor and multi-touch screen, but add a camera to the rear side of the diminutive device and strangely ditch the built-in clip.

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