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Google Given Weeks to Resolve EU Antitrust Probe

The EC gives Google a chance to settle an antitrust investigation without facing formal charges.


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FTC Adds Privacy Expert to Help Shape Public Policy

The Federal Trade Commission will soon have a new adviser to shape its thinking on Internet and mobile market issues. Paul Ohm, a University of Colorado law professor and former federal computer-crimes prosecutor, will join the agency in late August, taking over for Columbia University professor Tim Wu. At the FTC, Ohm, who has been at the forefront of a lot of debates about how best to apply Fourth Amendment privacy rights in the 21st century, will advise commissioners and staff on policy and enforcement cases.

Carriers Willing to Live With High iPhone Subsidies for Now

If there’s a handset subsidy battle to be fought, it probably won’t happen until after the debut of the LTE iPhone.
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The Price Is Right: Facebook Closes Near Opening Price

Not the big opening day investors were expecting.
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Oh, Snap: Kodak Says Apple Is Just Playing Spoiler With Patent Claim

Kodak to Apple: Waaaaaagh!
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RIM Corners the “You’ll Use BlackBerry 7 and That’s an Order” Market

Well, at least one part of RIM’s business is on the upswing.
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Judge Orders Apple and HTC to Talk It Out

With their patent war raging on, Apple and HTC have been ordered into face-to-face mediation talks to settle their legal differences. Issued by the U.S. District Court of Delaware on Thursday, the order requires counsel and key decision makers from both companies to attend a session on August 28, 2012. It follows by a single day the enforcement of an International Trade Commission import ban on two HTC smartphones won by Apple in December of 2011.

Plastic Logic Exits E-Reader Business It Never Really Managed to Enter

Wait. Wasn’t Plastic Logic out of the e-reader business already?
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First White House Cyber-Security Coordinator to Retire

Howard Schmidt, the first-ever White House cyber-security coordinator, is leaving the post he’s held since 2009. Schmidt, who has spent the past two-and-a-half years working on protections for the country’s critical infrastructure, will step down at the end of this month; he’ll be succeeded by Michael Daniel, chief of the White House budget office’s intelligence branch.

Facebook IPO Halo Boosts Social Media Stocks

Facebook’s imminent IPO might mint a mess of millionaires in Silicon Valley come Friday — but in the meantime, it seems to be driving wealth in a few newly public Internet companies, as well.
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Samsung Rides Android Past Nokia to Take Sales Lead

A two percent decline in mobile phone shipments during the first quarter of 2012 may have hurt some handset vendors, but it did little to slow Samsung.
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New Terahertz Wireless Connection Faster Than Your Microwave Oven

Sprint’s Hesse: We’ll Make Money on the iPhone … Eventually

RIM’s Freefall: Stock Drops to Eight-Year Low

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Apple Says Samsung’s Email Purges Destroyed Potential Patent Evidence

Apple’s Coming Map App Will “Blow Your Head Off”

MetroPCS and T-Mobile: Oh My, What an Ugly Baby

Foxconn Chief Says Apple Will Share Cost of Improving Factory Conditions

Google Results Protected by First Amendment, Says Google-Commissioned Report

BlackBerry 7 Approved for Pentagon Use

U.S. Sales Are Bright Spot for Nokia’s Lumia

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While it’s tempting to see the Huffington Post’s Pulitzer as a “big win for new media,” or something like that, the real story is that these organizations — the Huffington Post, the New York Times, the Washington Post — are becoming more like each other. Old media and new media are increasingly antiquated terms.

— Journalism professor Jay Rosen to HuffPo media writer Michael Calderone (via GigaOM)