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A Christian organization that recently had its Apple iPhone app removed from Apple’s App Store has sent a letter to protest the removal, asking CEO Steve Jobs to reconsider the decision. (more)

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak thinks Android will eventually beat the iPhone as a mobile-phone platform in much the same way Windows computers squeezed Apple’s market share in the PC market, he said in an interview with a Dutch newspaper. (more)

Next Issue Media, the “Hulu for Magazines” joint venture, plans to open its digital storefront early next year. But you won’t be able to shop there if you’ve got an iPad. (more)

In an apparent move to stave off defections to competitors, Google announced it is giving all its employees a $1,000 cash bonus and a raise of 10 percent, according to a source familiar with the matter. (more)

YouTube founder Chad Hurley has decided to end his day-to-day involvement in the development of the platform. (more)

Quarterbacks: (more)

NEW YORK—Popular file-sharing website LimeWire has been ordered to permanently shut down six months after a federal judge found it liable for copyright infringement on a “massive scale.” (more)

Print media has changed a lot in the digital age, and Google has contributed to that evolution with innovations like Google News. To help foster new ideas in digital journalism, Google announced Tuesday that it will donate $5 million worth of grants to non-profits that are focused on new media development. (more)

MOSCOW — You may not have noticed, but since late last month, the world supply of Viagra ads and other e-mail spam has dropped by an estimated one-fifth. With 200 billion spam messages in circulation each day, there is still plenty to go around. (more)

TIM NICHOLS measures fun. (more)

The search engine first said in May it had mistakenly collected private information when its Street View cars were gathering up panoramic images, but said at the time the data was only “fragmentary” because the cars were moving. (more)

Gay Googlers have added their voices to the “It Gets Better” campaign against teen suicide. This is a rich and well edited collection of stories, and it’s heartening to realize the participants landed at a company as selective as Google. (more)

Wide Receivers (more)

The newest iteration of Skype’s free communications software, unveiled Thursday, includes many enhancements and additions, including the integration of Facebook News Feed and Phonebook, allowing users to interact with Facebook friends directly from Skype. (more)

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has just finished collecting yet another round of comments in the “net neutrality” debate over proposed regulation of Internet traffic management (you may find CEI’s latest filing by Ryan Radia here). It is important to appreciate the profound significance of the fact that the FCC is unwilling to even affirm that it will leave future managed, specialized Internet services alone. And wireless services? The FCC is chomping at the bit to regulate those. (more)

Forget about Photoshop. This video demonstration is so amazing that it defies belief. It can take any video, identify the people in it, and change their physical attributes automagically. Yes, it even has a breast size slider. (more)

While their parents’ first steps might be recorded in tattered old photo albums and VHS tapes, the lives of the today’s kids are increasingly documented online. (more)

AT&T Inc. is about to lose its lock on the iPhone. (more)

Nobody ever imagined how quickly the Android mobile-phone platform would take off–not even Andy Rubin, the Silicon Valley engineer who created it. Five years ago Rubin was leading a startup that had just been acquired by Google and was trying to develop software that could power a smart phone. Two years ago the first Android phone hit the market and, frankly, it was a bit of a dud. But the software kept getting better, and top handset makers like HTC, Motorola, and Samsung jumped on board, rolling out dozens of Android-based devices. (more)

Skype on Tuesday released Skype for Android, a full client for Android 2.1 Eclair devices that offers VoIP calling over Wi-Fi and 3G (though not in the U.S.). The application is a free download from the Android Market. (more)