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The counter offers we’ve confirmed are so large that some commenters scoffed, suggesting it wasn’t accurate data. But even former Googler now Facebooker Paul Buchheit has confirmed these counter offers. And worse – he’s confirmed that many Google employees are interviewing with Facebook and Twitter, among others, simply to get a hefty raise. “Many people at Google use Facebook offers in order to get a big raise,” says Buchheit.

While this is completely anecdotal, the man manning the Google TV booth at the Intel Developer Forum is telling passersby that Google TV will launch in the October-November timeframe. Although this timeframe is still a bit vague, it's a bit more specific than the "fall" timeframe that Google and its partners originally gave at the launch. And it's consistent with the Oct. 14 ship date that Engadget has listed for Google TV, but not with the "September" launch date that Intel chief executive Paul Otellini slipped into a Wall Street Journal article.

Really @diiwin? I think relying on a service without a long-term business model is risky. Lesson of the dot-com bomb cf

RT @chrismessina: The dude abides Morpheus. /via @youtube #thebigmatrix

I hope that Twitter as a business can coexist with the need for the world to have a free, open, reliable, and verifiable way for humans to instantly communicate in a one-to-many fashion.

Apple’s iPhone 4 did not give the company the bump in sales it needed to put Android’s momentum in check. Instead, Apple’s smartphone marketshare in the U.S. dropped by 1.3 percent in the three months ended in July while Android’s share grew by an impressive five percentage points, reports ComScore.

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a new free-to-air and Internet-connected television service backed by a line-up of Britain's free-to-air broadcasters and promising to be "the future of television," will launch next year.

Google smugly brushes aside allegations against it, expressing indignation that anyone would deign to question such a hip, warm and fuzzy company. Google's defense seems to be: Trust us, whatever we do will be good for the rest of you. And, we're way smarter than you, so you'd never be able to comprehend what we're doing anyway.

On one hand, this is an insanely impressive technological coup. The idea that YouTube can (with the assistance of the copyright holders) really validate every minute of uploaded video against every minute of every major copyrighted work is unfathomable to me. When YouTube promised to do this to placate copyright owners, I was sure they were delaying for time. But much to my fair-use-loving dismay, they've actually gone and built the damn thing -- and it works. Just, maybe, it works a little too well. I'm still looking for video sharing services that offer some kind of fair use protection.

Intel threatened legal action Friday against anybody who uses its proprietary crypto key — leaked on the internet — to produce hardware that defeats the so-called HDCP technology that limits home recording of digital television and Blu-ray.