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Wikileaks Responds to 'Bovine' Closing Rumor, Apple Suit Goes Class Action

by Warren Riddle on July 12, 2010 at 11:50 AM

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Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
  • A Wikileaks spokesperson has responded to a rumor that the site may soon close its proverbial doors, saying in a typically tactful fashion that "the "bull#### campaign" will soon be addressed because, "[there] is no substance to the allegation." [From: The Next Web]
  • The lawsuit concerning Apple and AT&T exclusivity has just attained class action status, so anyone who has purchased an iPhone and signed an AT&T contract -- beginning June 29th, 2007 -- can now join the plaintiff party. [From: CNET]
  • Facebook is apologizing for its frequently overzealous porn cops, as the site admits its reviewers made a "mistake" in recently removing a picture of a topless, anatomically correct doll (which -- artsy or not -- is dang creepy-looking, by the way). [From: CNET]
  • Zynga rakes in hundreds of millions (soon to be billions) of dollars from its enormous user base, and the gaming firm has also reportedly accumulated almost $500 million from various investors, including as much as $200 million from Google for a possible Google Games service. [From: TechCrunch]
  • Apparently, U.K. residents are abysmally out of touch (or perhaps Cisco just surveyed a laughably aberrational survey sample). A recent study indicated that -- even though a significant number of responders believed existing technologies like video conferencing and smart appliances to be futuristic notions -- a full 31-percent thought that teleporting could commercially arrive within 10 years. [From: The Telegraph]
  • Often, links to a Google Maps awkwardly extend for multiple lines, but the search engine is finally easing the directions-sharing process by implementing its own URL-shortener. [From: Mashable]

Tags: apple, att, cisco, ClassAction, facebook, GoogleGames, GoogleMaps, morningxtra, teleporting, top, url-shortener, videogames, wikileaks, zynga

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