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it's Thursday July twelfth 2012 i'm ross miller let's take a 90-second stroll together on the verge after a brief delay samsung's galaxy s3 today launched on verizon wireless with that the phone is now available in all four the major US carriers now if you have a galaxy s three from AT&T or Sprint or infer rather nasty surprise and over the air update this week restricts the universal search bar to just Google search results that bar previously included on device results such as apps and contacts no word yet on exactly why but we strongly suspect it has something to do with that whole apple samsung patent dispute in addition to pull in 26 of the channels from directv including MTV and Comedy Central Viacom has yanked a number its full length shows offline and their plays Viacom is running ads urging viewers to call DirecTV and essentially give into Viacom's demands does the company can't really tell who does and doesn't have a direct TV streaming videos wouldn't pull from just about everybody you can still find a number of the episodes online via hulu or at amazon but that doesn't exactly wash away the dirty feeling of being a pawn in a large corporate feud the once-mighty dig Empire has fallen the school today for reported five hundred thousand dollars at one point is history the company was valued somewhere between 80 and two hundred million dollars the company became best known as a cautionary tale and punch line for reddit the wall street journal also reports beta works intends to fold dig into its news mecom property congratulations myspace that is one more piece of internet history you have managed to outlive and that's it for today's top stories tune in tomorrow for a special report on sharing your memories in the cloud who retains the music rights