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RT @TheNextWeb: Facebook details Home privacy: It won’t collect info from inside apps & can be shut off completely ...

RT @laurenweinstein: This 1998 Paul Krugman Column Perfectly Explains The Design Flaw At The Heart Of Bitcoin -

ITC says Samsung infringed Apple patent via @Circa

Verizon says it's willing to go contract-free via @Circa

Forecast: Tablets will replace computers for most users via @Circa

Bill Gates and Paul Allen reunite, recreate classic Microsoft photo via @Circa

YouTube Won't Put Your Video Back Up, Even If It's Fair Use, If It Contains Content From Universal Music | Techd...

"Wow, this is really wrong and crazy," Henkel told me, since it suggested that companies felt free to operate as a "man in the middle," one free to inject code of their own choosing into webpage requests that were—so users believed—simply between themselves and the websites they were trying to reach.

Paul Thurrott revealed recently that Microsoft is planning an Xbox event for May 21st, and we understand this date is accurate.

“If we can’t have our rights properly protected through legal and governmental solutions, we will pursue business solutions. One solution would be to take the network and make it a subscription service. We’re not going to sit idly by and let people steal our content.”

Based on a newly published office action from the USPTO, dated last Wednesday, the issue has in fact mostly been resolved without Apple having had to address the examiner's objections. Presumably responding to the publicity surrounding the initial decision, the USPTO has preemptively withdrawn its two main objections to Apple's objections.

Google Babel as a product is a collaboration of work by the Google+, Android, Chrome and Apps teams. Through their combined efforts, as was previously reported by us, we’ll see this unified service launch in Gmail and as Android, iOS, and Chrome apps. What’s particularly interesting, is that Google is talking about the iOS app as being the first time they have built a “first class iOS experience” when it comes to a messaging service. I can’t say that I’m familiar with their current iOS offerings, so I’ll leave the iOS experts to weigh in on the quality of Talk (if there even is an app) and G+ Messenger.

RT @Techmeme: Review: Panic's Status Board - the ultimate information dashboard for your iPad (@apollozac… http:/ ...

Newly disclosed documents prepared by IRS lawyers say that Americans enjoy "generally no privacy" in their e-mail, Facebook chats, Twitter direct messages, and similar online communications -- meaning that they can be perused without obtaining a search warrant signed by a judge.

Apple is preparing to soon release new Mac computers that support super-fast 802.11ac Gigabit wireless, according to code-findings inside of Apple’s latest OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 beta seed to developers. The code was located by a tipster inside of the operating system’s WiFi-frameworks folder. As you can see in the image directly below, the 802.11ac code is not found in OS X 10.8.3, which is the latest public release of Apple’s Mac operating system.

Yahoo, Apple Discuss Deeper iPhone Partnership - | |

What if journalists became like your doctor, dentist, or teacher — people who provide a valuable service to you, and whose name, voice, and personality are more intimate? The question then becomes how to create a social presentation layer that wraps around news — preserving the integrity of the product but updating its interface to fit with human behavior in the digital age.

Google says it will soon start notifying the first batch of users who will be eligible to purchase the Glass Explorer Edition for $1,500 by email. With the first devices ready to go, this means the first devices could start shipping within the next few days.

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Historically, once the consumer decides, it doesn’t matter what stakeholders want. They can’t stop what’s coming. The advent of the Internet presented an existential challenge to bundles. Once consumers got their hands on the mouse and a programmable remote, they began to attack the inefficiencies of the system. When seeking information, they sought relevant links, not media brands. And DVRs put them in the control room of their own viewing universe.

RT @Techmeme: Microsoft's Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop…

RT @Techmeme: Microsoft's Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop…

Google Mobile Search made faster with two newly added features

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Samsung Galaxy S4 launches on seven U.S. carriers in April [updated] | BGR | |

Apple sets earnings call for Tuesday

RT @Techmeme: Apple Shares Are Dirt Cheap; So What? (@srussolillo / MoneyBeat)

RT @Techmeme: Apple Shares Are Dirt Cheap; So What? (@srussolillo / MoneyBeat)

RT @Techmeme: Twitter sets a May 7th kill date for TweetDeck Android, iPhone, AIR and Facebook... …

RT @Techmeme: Twitter sets a May 7th kill date for TweetDeck Android, iPhone, AIR and Facebook... …