Apple releases iTunes 10.0.1, gives Ping a boost

Apple has released iTunes 10.0.1,and 86.4MB update that, in addition to bug fixes, brings the new Ping social music network its own sidebar and allows you to start Ping activities right from your library.


iTunes 10.0.1 makes it easier to share your favorite music with your friends on Ping. You can now Like or Post about music right from your iTunes library. You can also easily see the recent activity of selected artists in your library, or of all artists and friends you follow on Ping using the new Ping Sidebar.


Previously users could only access Ping via an gray icon in the gray menu list and in some cases likely just forgot it was there. Will this latest update get you to use it more?


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R2-D2 dummy units arrive ahead of midnight launches next week

As Sept. 30 creeps up on us, it comes as no surprise that Motorola Droid 2 R2-D2 edition launch kits are showing up in some Verizon stores.� Word has it that these are non-functional dummy units, so don't expect to get to play with any of the geeky Star Wars customizations even if you are able to get your hands on one early.� But, wait, there's more. Select stories nationwide will open at midnight on Sept. 30 -- and parties are planned throughout the day. Here's what the manager of one Verizon store has told us: His store's gotten three outdoor tents for its event. The event actually will start around 9:30 p.m.� This store will get about 200 of the special-edition phones. There will be a two-phone-per-person limit. Look for contests at the stores. You could win a free phone. Pricing isn't known yet. You'll get the R2-D2 edition multimedia dock with the phone. Where will special events be taking place? Cities we know of include: Sugar House Salt Lake City; Lone Tree, Colo.; Corte Madera, Calif.; Mountain View, Calif.; Portland, Ore.; Seattle downtown; San Dieo Sports Arena; Santa Monica, Calif.; Tempe (Ariz.) Marketplace; Boca Park Las Vegas [Verizon Insider via Droid Life] That's just a partial list, though. Miami Herald blogger Bridget Carey reported Florida stores will include Colonial Orlando, Hialeah, Orange Park and St. Petersburg. And that matches what we've heard. (Update: Add Lewisville, Texas (outside Dallas) to the list, per BGR.) I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I'm a bit jealous that I won't be getting one of these, so anyone who gets an early peek at the in store promotional materials and dummy units, holler at me.� And may the force be with you. [BGR, Engadget]


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Justice Department orders Apple, Google, others to end ban on cross-hiring

Looks like Apple, Google and others will have to put a stop to their handshake deals over not hiring each others employees, thanks to the US Justice Department:


According to the complaint, the six companies entered into agreements that restrained competition between them for highly skilled employees. The agreements between Apple and Google, Apple and Adobe, Apple and Pixar and Google and Intel prevented the companies from directly soliciting each other?s employees. An agreement between Google and Intuit prevented Google from directly soliciting Intuit employees.

?The agreements challenged here restrained competition for affected employees without any procompetitive justification and distorted the competitive process,? said Molly S. Boast, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice?s Antitrust Division. ?The proposed settlement resolves the department?s antitrust concerns with regard to these no solicitation agreements.?


The government was concerned that the deals prevented employees at the companies involved from getting competitive salary and job offers via ?cold calls? aka poaching or active solicitations.

The proposed settlement between the DOJ and the companies prevents them entering into any no-poaching agreements, or any agreements against cross-hiring, for 5 years.

So we pretty much figure the iOS teams? phones are going to be ringing off the hook from now until 2015, right?

[DOJ, thanks to everyone who sent this in]


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Gadget Lab Podcast: Facebook Phone, Pod Wars and Athletic Robots

In this week?s Gadget Lab podcast, the crew speculates about the rumored Facebook phone, aka Mark Zuckerberg?s plan for world domination. Adding to the rumors, yours truly blurts out a tip from a source about Facebook developing an all-in-one virtual identity that you?ll use not just to connect with friends, but maybe even buy things. How awesome would that be?

Speaking of money: People who have a lot of it tend to get nasty with lawyers. That?s the case for Daniel Kokin, who?s going to trial with Apple to fight over the word ?Pod.? Kokin?s startup Sector Labs is trying to brand a video projector ?VideoPod,? and Apple?s claiming that Kokin?s usage of that magical three-letter word could get people confused about the famous iPod player.
Wrapping up the podcast, Priya Ganapati tells a story about a robot taking on the challenge of walking 300 miles from Tokyo to Kyoto.
Like the show? You can also get the�Gadget Lab video podcast via iTunes, or if you don?t want to be distracted by our unholy on-camera talent, check out the�Gadget Lab audio podcast. Prefer RSS? You can subscribe to the Gadget Lab�video or�audio podcast feeds
Or listen to the audio here:
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Daily Crunch: The Operating Theater Edition

SteelSeries Shift Keyboard Lets You Switch Between Differet KeysetsKindle for Android Update Adds Voice Search, Wikipedia DictionaryThe CitrusSaw: You Know, For CitrusCrunchDeals: Many Drives, Many DiscountsBeautiful ?Naked Radio? Repurposes Parts, Looks Amazing
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Justice Department orders Apple, Google, others to end ban on cross-hiring

Looks like Apple, Google and others will have to put a stop to their handshake deals over not hiring each others employees, thanks to the US Justice Department:


According to the complaint, the six companies entered into agreements that restrained competition between them for highly skilled employees. The agreements between Apple and Google, Apple and Adobe, Apple and Pixar and Google and Intel prevented the companies from directly soliciting each other?s employees. An agreement between Google and Intuit prevented Google from directly soliciting Intuit employees.

?The agreements challenged here restrained competition for affected employees without any procompetitive justification and distorted the competitive process,? said Molly S. Boast, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice?s Antitrust Division. ?The proposed settlement resolves the department?s antitrust concerns with regard to these no solicitation agreements.?


The government was concerned that the deals prevented employees at the companies involved from getting competitive salary and job offers via ?cold calls? aka poaching or active solicitations.

The proposed settlement between the DOJ and the companies prevents them entering into any no-poaching agreements, or any agreements against cross-hiring, for 5 years.

So we pretty much figure the iOS teams? phones are going to be ringing off the hook from now until 2015, right?

[DOJ, thanks to everyone who sent this in]


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Admin templates for Google Chrome make it more enterprise-friendly

Filed under: Google, BrowsersAdmin templates for Google Chrome make it more enterprise-friendlyby Lee Mathews (RSS feed) Sep 25th 2010 at 9:00AM
System admins generally aren't fond of rolling out new software to their users if they don't have a measure of control over what those users can and can't do with the app in question. Google knows that, and they've been working for a while now to add enterprise-friendly policy support to Chrome.
Now, Google has made policy templates available for download which provide a measure of lockdown functionality. As you can see, after importing the .ADM files into the Windows Group Policy Editor you'll be able to manage a handful of Chrome settings via a local machine policy.
A default home page and proxy settings can be configured and Chrome Sync can be blocked, but the bulk of the options are related to background communications with Google (alternate error pages, DNS prefetch, crash reporting, suggestions, etc.). There are a few things missing right now. For example, while I can choose to disable certain plug-ins, there's no switch to disallow extension installs. I'd also like to disable Chrome's autofill feature, but it, too, is missing.

Google has also provided a separate template for managing Google Update options, which provides policy-based control over which Google Apps can install via the updater.
Providing this type of application control was a key step if Google had any hopes of wresting away enterprise market share from Internet Explorer. Now that it's here, it will be interesting to see if Chrome can make inroads in the workplace.



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