India: Land of many cell phones, fewer toilets (AP)

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• India: Land of many cell phones, fewer toilets (AP)
• India backs off on Blackberry ban threat (AP)
• The Macalope Weekly: Gates! (Macworld)
• Apple Sues Motorola Over Patents in Mobile Phones (PC World)
• Language no barrier for bilingual rapper Pitbull (Reuters)
• Demonstrators flock to Washington for comics' 'Sanity' rally (AFP)
• Turkey lifts YouTube ban after more than 2 years (AP)
• Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART] (Mashable)
• Lawsuit claims NYC stole 9/11 DNA software secrets (AP)
• Court orders lifting of Turkey YouTube ban: reports (AFP)

India: Land of many cell phones, fewer toilets (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 12:50 PM PDT AP - The Mumbai slum of Rafiq Nagar has no clean water for its shacks made of ripped tarp and bamboo. No garbage pickup along the rocky, pocked earth that serves as a road. No power except from haphazard cables strung overhead illegally.

India backs off on Blackberry ban threat (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 06:23 AM PDT AP - India has followed the United Arab Emirates in backing off from a threat to ban popular services on Blackberry devices, amid growing global concern over access to encrypted information.

The Macalope Weekly: Gates! (Macworld) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 07:00 AM PDT Macworld - [Editors’ Note: Each week the Macalope skewers the worst of the week’s coverage of Apple and other technology companies. In addition to being a mythical beast, the Macalope is not an employee of Macworld. As a result, the Macalope is always free to criticize any media organization. Even ours.]

Apple Sues Motorola Over Patents in Mobile Phones (PC World) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 04:30 PM PDT PC World - Apple filed two lawsuits against Motorola and Motorola Mobility late Friday in a US federal court, claiming violations of its patents in multiple Motorola cell phones, including the Droid line.

Language no barrier for bilingual rapper Pitbull (Reuters) Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:47 PM PDT Reuters - During an early afternoon in Miami in January, over drinks with two local radio program directors, the conversation turned to rapper Pitbull. "He should come over and join us," said one, and impulsively picked up his cell phone and dialed.

Demonstrators flock to Washington for comics' 'Sanity' rally (AFP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 06:45 PM PDT AFP - Tens of thousands of people streamed into the US capital for a rally hosted by liberal comics Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert that provided an antidote to the ugly political mood dividing America.

Turkey lifts YouTube ban after more than 2 years (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 12:37 PM PDT AP - Turkey said Saturday that it was lifting a ban on YouTube more than two years after it blocked access to the site because of videos deemed insulting to the country's founder.

Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART] (Mashable) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 07:49 AM PDT Mashable - Sports and entertainment were top-of-mind for Tweeters this past week as the NBA kicked off its season, the UFC found a new champion, and Taylor Swift released her third record.

Lawsuit claims NYC stole 9/11 DNA software secrets (AP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 01:39 PM PDT AP - A software company that helped identify the remains of 9/11 victims is accusing the New York City Medical Examiner's Office of handing its secrets over to the FBI.

Court orders lifting of Turkey YouTube ban: reports (AFP) Posted: 30 Oct 2010 11:31 AM PDT AFP - A Turkish court on Saturday ordered the lifting of a three-year ban on Internet video website YouTube, media reports said, but thousands of other sites are still blocked.

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