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Steve Jobs personally blocks Tawkon iPhone 4 radiation app

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Apple TV Update Boasts Full MLB, NBA Streaming

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Jonathan Ive Leaving Apple?

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iPad 2: The 12 things you need to know

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Timeline: Apple milestones and product launches

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The Real Reason Glenn Beck Hates Google

It's getting harder and harder to keep up with Glenn Beck's conspiracy delusions. If it isn't health care reform being a backdoor to reparations for slavery, it's Cash-for-Clunkers being a plot to let the government take control of your computer. Or food safety regulations being an excuse to raise prices so that people starve. Or that chemical trails from airplanes are actually missiles from a Chinese submarine off the coast of Santa Monica.
Lately Beck has taken to accusing Google of somehow being in cahoots with the federal government to foment unrest around the world or recruit our youth into socialist conclaves or ... who knows what. He is certain that whatever it is, it is evil. On Monday's program Beck gave this ominous warning to his legion of disciples:
"May I recommend, if you're doing your own homework, don't do a Google search. Seems to me that Google is pretty deeply in bed with the government. Maybe this is explaining why Google is being kicked out of all the other countries? Are they just a shill now for the United States government?"
Beck continued his assault on Google today, accusing it of being a hard-left enterprise with ties to many of his favorite enemies. These include FreePress.net, the Tides Foundation, MoveOn.org, Van Jones, and (gasp) George Soros

So what got Beck's panties in a bunch over Google? Is he really disturbed by its size and lack of respect for privacy? He never really cared that much about those issues if it were Koch Industries or Microsoft. In fact he ordinarily celebrates large, successful, intrusive business like banks or insurance companies as representative of America's opportunity. Is it his innate distrust of technology and youth culture? He clearly has an
animosity toward young people

and an affinity for an analog past that favors blackboards over digital displays.
These things may tell a part of the story, but there is something more fundamental that may explain Beck's Google bashing. His boss, Rupert Murdoch, has had it in for Google for about a year now. Murdoch believes that Google is appropriating his content and failing to compensate him for it, and he has
taken this battle to extremes asking,

"Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights?"

Of course, Google is doing no such thing. They are simply aggregating news from many sites across the web. They are providing links to Murdoch's web sites, and others, that actually increase traffic and revenue. And this is something he could stop easily at any time with one line of code that would block Google from including his sites. What's more, Murdoch does the very same sort of news aggregation on many of his own sites like Fox Nation. But the issue is that Murdoch wants to force Google to pay him for the extra business they send his way and Google had the audacity to decline.

Another wrinkle involves Murdoch's brand new iPad-only application, The Daily. Murdoch has high hopes for this fee-based news product. He has said that it is the future of news and that it will be the cornerstone of his news empire going forward. He launched it in conjunction with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who will also share in the earnings. Apple also announced that it is offering a new service that will provide access to other news and magazine publications on a subscription basis. That service will be competing with a similar service recently announced by Google.
Google is also competing with Apple on cell phones and cell phone operating systems, Internet browsers, advertising, and even computer tablets. So Murdoch's partner and publisher, Apple, will be going up against Google in numerous businesses, including his cherished iPad appIt's getting harder and harder to keep up with Glenn Beck's conspiracy... more

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I'm So Meme: News Memes

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National Enquirer: Steve Jobs Photos: Jobs (w/pancreatic cancer) Only A Weeks to Live !

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Cancer Ill Steve Jobs Has Only 6 Weeks Dying Reports National Enquirer

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Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg to Meet With President Obama Thursday in San Francisco

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National Enquirer Complete Story

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Will Apple release a smaller, cheaper 'iPhone Nano' this summer?

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Chris Martin: happy Canada Day

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Chris Martin: get in your DeLorean

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Steve Jobs Takes Medical Leave Of Absence From Apple

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Steve Jobs Takes Medical Leave From Apple

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Apple boss Steve Jobs takes another medical leave

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Verizon confirms: iPhone 4 to arrive in Feb

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