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Links

• Kate Bush makes a valiant stand in the battle of transcendence v smartphones
• Chrome Extension Turns Amazon Into a Pirate eBook Site
• Online Store Can Sell ‘Used’ Ebooks, Court Rules
• Adam Carolla Settles With Podcasting Patent Troll: Even With A Strong Case And $500k In The Bank, It’s Too Expensive To Fight
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Adam Carolla’s Settlement with the Podcasting Troll
• Munich considers dumping Linux for … GULP … Windows!
• Money And Power: The Real Reason For The NSA Spying On Everyone
• Retailers look to Bitcoin as currency for life’s basics

Tunes

1. Answer my Call by The Way I Am
2. Late In The Game by 20lb Sounds

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Discussions

• The differences between traditional media advertising and online advertising.
• Uber innovating a manual trade via an online service.
• Why London’s black cab drivers are protesting over Uber
• The future of crypto currencies.

Tunes

1. Who Cares by Sam Brown
2. Guilty by Helen Robertson

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Links

• Samsung launches first Tizen phone
• ISPs should quarantine infected computers, researchers say
• Deluge of net neutrality comments floods FCC website after Oliver rallies audience
• UK Gov’t Tries And Fails To Hide Details Of GHCQ/Telecoms Tapping Fiber Lines
• British Recording Industry Thinks ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Proves Google Can Stop Piracy
• Indie Labels Complain to European Commission About YouTube’s Pushy Tactics
• uTorrent Makes Advertisement Unremovable in Latest Release
• MPAA Strikes Anti-Piracy Deal With Torrent Client Creato
• Pentagon Gets Busy Trademarking After Seeing Disney Try To Cash In On SEAL Team 6
• Pirate Bay fugitive Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden

Also Worth A Read

• The Post-Snowden Surveillance World: Network Effects, Low Marginal Costs, And Technical Lock-in
• Apple’s history of smack-talk and corporate trolling

Tunes

1. I’ll Be There by Chasing Eidolon
2. I Never Knew by Mercury in Summer

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Links

• Microsoft’s ‘Star Trek’ voice translator available before the end 2014
• Ubuntu Devs Work on Porting Android Apps to Ubuntu Linux
• Pre-orders start today for Flame, the Firefox OS developer phone
• Apple Pulls Popular Weed-Growing Game From App Store, Ignores All The Unpopular Ones
• Schneier: Snowden’s Leaks Have Actually Made It Easier To Crack Terrorists’ Encrypted Messages
• Do Personal Computers Come With NSA Surveillance Devices Built-In As Standard?
• China’s Shanzhai Companies Moving On From Counterfeit Imitation To Collaborative Innovation
• Europe On The Verge Of Destroying Online Comments And Free Speech

Also Worth A read

• Accepting Amazon’s DRM Makes It Impossible To Challenge Its Monopoly
• Where’s the value in open source?

Tunes

1. Kisses from Texas by Dom The Bear
2. Gather Up The Flowers by Young Fox

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Links

• Goodbye Canonical, Hello XPRIZE
• Privacy-Focused Search Engine DuckDuckGo Gets A New Look, Smarter Search With “Instant Answers”
• Germany Plans To Ban Computer Companies That Work With NSA From Sensitive Public Contracts
• China bans the installation of Windows 8 on government computers
• Student Wins Pirate Bay Domain To Protest Website Blockades
• LG Will Take The ‘Smart’ Out Of Your Smart TV If You Don’t Agree To Share Your Viewing And Search Data With Third Parties | Techdirt
• The future of Razor and LXDE-Qt

Also Worth A Read

• Secrets, lies and Snowden’s email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
• The End Of Maximalist Copyright?
• How Spammers Spoof Your Email Address (and How to Protect Yourself)

Tunes

1. Twenty Fifth // Third by Ben K Adams
2. Whole Snowflake by Kristian Vuljar

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