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“As I stand here before you today, I am genuinely and deeply sorry for the threats that I made,” he said. “To say that I am ashamed of myself is an understatement.” “I had a big mouth and I couldn’t control it,” he continued. As he spoke, he cried and spoke about how his father passed away after his arrest, feeling ashamed how he let his father and family down.

Apple Inc.'s AAPL +0.62% next iPhone will work on the fastest wireless networks around the world—including in the U.S., Europe and Asia—though it is unlikely to be available on every carrier, people familiar with the matter said.

According to our sources, a new iPod shuffle will be announced next week at or around the current $49 price point. We’re currently unsure of capacity. We’re also told that the changes to this new iPod shuffle will not be major changes. We’re also told that the new iPod shuffle will come in eight colors. That is up from the current line of five iPod shuffle colors.

The draft executive order would establish a voluntary program where companies operating critical infrastructure would elect to meet cybersecurity best practices and standards crafted, in part, by the government, according to two people familiar with the document.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has a $1 billion budget for its latest venture: using facial recognition technology to fight crime. Dubbed the Next Generation Identification (NGI) project, it has already been approved in some states (the pilot programme started in February), and is expected to go nationwide by 2014, according to NewScientist.

Our goal is simple: to help keep you safe on the web. And we’ve worked hard to ensure that the services we offer continually improve. But as a small, resource-constrained company, that can sometimes be challenging. So we’re delighted that Google, a long-time partner, has acquired VirusTotal. This is great news for you, and bad news for malware generators, because:

Indeed, the agreement between Google and Kansas City, MO, specifies that the city will "make space available to Google in City facilities for the installation of Google’s Central Office equipment and for additional network facilities," will "provide power necessary for Google’s equipment at City locations," and "will not charge Google for such space, power, or related services."

Adding fuel to the fire, Adobe's Roy Fielding, a co-founder of the Apache HTTP Server Project, submitted a patch for httpd titled "Apache does not tolerate deliberate abuse of open standards," which instructs the Apache web server to ignore tracking preferences for users browsing with IE 10.

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RT @Techmeme: The Royal Nokia Screw-Up That Shouldn't Have Been (@fmanjoo / PandoDaily)

RT @Techmeme: The Royal Nokia Screw-Up That Shouldn't Have Been (@fmanjoo / PandoDaily)

#1 — there’s a massive culture change happening at PayPal right now. If we suck at something, we now face it, and we do something about it. #2 — you have my commitment to make this company GREAT again. We’re reinventing how we work, our products, our platforms, our APIs, and our policies. This WILL change, and we won’t rest until you all see it. The first installments are due very soon. So stay tuned…

When you search for “Bettina Wulff” on Google, the search engine will happily autocomplete this search with terms like “escort” and “prostitute.” That’s obviously not something you would like to be associated with your name, so the wife of former German president Christian Wulff has now, according to Germany’s Süddeutschen Zeitung, decided to sue Google for defamation. The reason why these terms appear in Google’s autocomplete is that there have been persistent rumors that Wulff worked for an escort service before she met her husband. Wulff categorically denies that this is true.

The shift to paid listings on Google Shopping began this summer and will be complete this fall. It is part of Google’s expanding e-commerce playbook, which also includes Wallet for payments, Offers for daily deals and the Google Shopper mobile app for finding items nearby. A search on the main Google site still shows search results from across the Web, which are never paid for, but it also brings up a box with product images, prices and descriptions that are paid for. If someone searches for a product on Google.com/shopping, all listings will be paid ones.

it will also be a key point of differentiation for Amazon in going up against Apple and Google, which don’t have physical distribution capabilities. Amazon said its first partner is Activision, which will be selling toys inside of Skylanders, its very popular children’s game.

Variety, you will recall, used to rule Hollywood. Now, its price has been chopped to less than $30 million, Keith Kelly of the New York Post reports. That's less than AOL paid for a tech blog, TechCrunch, a couple of years ago.

A small Florida publishing company says the million-record database of Apple gadget identifiers released last week by the hacker group Anonymous was stolen from its servers two weeks ago. The admission, delivered by the company’s CEO exclusively to NBC News, contradicts Anonymous' claim that the hacker group stole the data from an FBI agent's laptop in March.

Google should celebrate — if it considers getting ready to spend a few hundred million in capital expenditures reason to celebrate — because as of Sunday night, it has pre-registered enough people in Kansas City to deploy its gigabit fiber to the home network to 180 out of its 202 “fiberhoods.”

French blog Nowhereelse last week posted images from an anonymous source, which displayed the new cord with 8-pin dock connector next to the original 30-pin one.

Several angry responses followed: "Duuude? This attack affects not only corporations but also ppl who support your ideology. whats the rationale?" tweeted Miguel Govea. Kyle Scott, who has a sports blog, said on Twitter, "So you're all about openness and freedom yet you take down thousands of independent websites that help with that cause?"

Cosmo the God falls to earth...

Twitter had moved to quash the government’s 2703 orders, but in July, Judge Sciarrino ordered Twitter to release the tweets and account information, ruling that Harris had no expectation of privacy in tweets that were published. “If you post a tweet, just like if you scream it out the window, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy,” Sciarrino wrote in his decision. “There is no proprietary interest in your tweets, which you have now gifted to the world.”

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Just before Apple debuts its next-gen iPhone, Google announces that people have activated half a billion Android devices. Also, 1.3 million new ones arrive each day.

it appears we have certain postures and gestures that we interpret in certain ways. When we see them, whether it’s a robot or a human, we’re affected by it, because of the pattern it evokes in our brain responses

RT @Forbes: Google's maps war with Apple is over - Google won

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