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"This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America's first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The \"First to Know\" series keeps you in the know on what's happening now in the world of social media and technology.\n\nWelcome to this morning\u2019s edition of \u201CFirst To Know,\u201D a series in which we keep you in the know on what\u2019s happening in the digital world. We\u2019re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.\nTech Companies' Anti-Poaching Agreements Come to an End\nThe Department of Justice has reached a settlement with Adobe, Google, Intel, Intuit, Apple and Pixar that prevents these six leading technology companies from entering into anticompetitive, \"no-poach\" agreements for each other's employees.\nThe settlement marks the end of an investigation by the DoJ to determine whether those agreements violated U.S. antitrust laws which, indeed, they did. All six are now barred from entering into these types of agreements, especially ones that ban \u201Ccold calling.\u201D\nDigg Traffic Declines Sharply Following Release of \"New Digg\"\nNew data from Hitwise reveals that visitor traffic to Digg.com has declined 24% in the U.S. and 34% in the U.K. over the past 11 weeks, dropping off most sharply after the social news network released a new version of its site to users in late August.\nUsers have staged protests against the new version of the site since its public launch. Digg's team has been responsive to many of users' complaints thus far, rolling out changes to its algorithms to give users \u2014 rather than publishers \u2014 more power over front-page content, for instance; however, they have apparently not done enough to prevent a significant percentage from spending their Internet minutes elsewhere.\nSony Ericsson Drops Symbian OS from Smartphone Plans\nDespite Nokia\u2019s best efforts to entice developers, the Symbian mobile operating system continues to lose support from users and vendors. On Friday, Sony Ericsson spokesman Aldo Liguori revealed that the company has no further plans to develop smartphones based on the OS.\nLike competitors Motorola and Samsung, Sony has shifted much of its focus to developing phones based on Google\u2019s Android platform instead.\nFurther News\n\nApple has released iTunes 10.0.1, which, in addition to patching the usual bout of bugs, gives increased visibility to the company's new music-focused social network, Ping [via TiPB].\nFacebook has officially rolled out a new feature for helping you discover Facebook Pages, dubbed \"Page Browser.\"\nFacebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined Oprah on the Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss his $100 million donation to public education in Newark schools on Friday.\nJust in time for the second season of the hit TV show Glee, Smule has upgraded its popular iOS app, Glee Karaoke [iTunes link].\nNine months after Amazon announced the launch of an app store for its Kindle e-reader, the first paid app, Scrabble, has made its way into the store.\n\nSeries supported by HTC EVO 4G\n\n\n\n\nThis series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America's first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The \"First to Know\" series keeps you in the know on what's happening now in the world of social media and technology."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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