Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Facebook Blocked API Access to Ping After Failure to Strike Agreement, So Apple Removed Feature After Launch — It’s not as mysterious as it seems, this mini-controversy about finding friends on Facebook for Apple’s new social music network. — According to sources familiar …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
If Apple Can’t Deal With Facebook’s “Onerous” Terms For Ping, Why Was It Using Facebook? — Update: We’re hearing reports of people who had access to a Facebook Connect feature in Ping earlier, which didn’t work, and has since been removed. So it looks like Apple really did pull Facebook support for Ping very late in the game.
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Apple and Google to clash in music space by Christmas — (Reuters) - Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.
Peter Parkes / The Big Blog:
Make group video calls with up to 10 people with the new beta version of Skype for Windows — Today we’ve released an update to Skype for Windows. The second beta of Skype 5.0 brings a number of changes both outside and in - most importantly, you can now make group video calls with up to 10 people.
Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:
Facebook Adds Remote Log-Out Security Feature — Facebook on Thursday added a remote log-out feature that will allow users who accidentally left themselves logged in on a particular device to end those sessions from another location. — “Have you ever borrowed a friend’s phone to use Facebook …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Ping Averts Its Gaze: Apple’s New Social Network Doesn’t Really Want to Know Much About You — Steve Jobs says Ping is supposed to be a “social music discovery” service: You share your musical taste with friends and vice versa. But if you really want to share, you’re going to find it harder than you think.
Craig Newmark / Tech Life:
What I Should Have Said to CNN’s Amber Lyon When She Ambushed Me — CNN’s Amber Lyon has been crowing for weeks about scoring an ambush interview against me. Boy, if she only knew that successfully ambushing me is about as big an accomplishment as stealing nuts from one of the birds or squirrels I like to Tweet about.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
iTunes Ping And Facebook Were Friends Yesterday. And I’m Still Connected. — There seems to be some confusion out there right now about iTunes Ping, Apple’s new music social network, and Facebook. Some people seem to think it was never a part of iTunes, that Apple decided against connecting …
Juliana Gruenwald / Tech Daily Dose:
Video Mocks Google’s Privacy Practices — Consumer Watchdog has launched a rather unique effort in its bid to highlight its concerns over Google’s privacy policies and to push Congress to allow consumers to opt out of having their Web activities tracked by online firms.
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
Toshiba recalls overheating and melting Satellite T-series notebooks — Thursday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada announced a recall of three Toshiba Satellite T-series notebook computers: T135, T135D and ProT130, for reports that the units’ AC adaptors cause them to overheat and melt.
Agence France Presse:
Walkman outsells iPod in Japan for first time — TOKYO — In a rare victory for Sony over arch-rival Apple, the Walkman portable music player outsold the iPod in Japan in monthly sales for the first time in August, a survey showed Thursday. — Sony’s share of the Japanese market …
Nick O’Neill / All Facebook:
HUGE: Facebook Testing New “Subscribe To” User Feature — Facebook is in the process of testing a new feature which lets you subscribe to all the actions of a specific user. In other words, you can receive notifications anytime a specific user takes an action on Facebook.
David Pogue / Pogue’s Posts:
Laptops Look Like Racecars — and Not in a Good Way — At a meeting with Advanced Micro Devices the other day, representatives talked to me about chip sets and clock speeds, of discrete graphics and die sizes. But in passing, they mentioned an additional company initiative that really perked me up: laptop stickers.
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Apple-Facebook Friction Erupts Over Ping — If it is true that the enemy of your enemy is your friend, then Apple and Facebook ought to be friends. Their common enemy, of course, is Google. — But Apple’s entry into social networking with the iTunes music social network Ping on Wednesday, has made them frenemies.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy Tab preview — After a week of painful teasing, Samsung has come clean about its Galaxy Tab 7-inch Android tablet. We got the nitty gritty specs, along with some quality time with the device, and we like what we’re seeing on both fronts. Follow along after the break …
