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12:25 PM ET, July 13, 2006

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Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Podcasts popular in the holodeck  —  To whom should you be targeting your podcasts?  Apple Computer users, Trekkies and maybe Nike lovers, according to a new survey.  —  Macworld is the No. 1 most-visited content site by people who download audio podcasts, according to media research group …
Discussion: Digital Micro-Markets and digg
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Nielsen blows it on podcasting
Discussion: BizPodcasting
Jon Watson / BizPodcasting:   Nielsen Survey Nonsense
Frank Barnako / Barnako.com:
Nielsen podcast survey: p.r. screw up
Discussion: BizPodcasting
Microsoft:
Yahoo! and Microsoft Bridge Global Instant Messaging Communities  —  Beta testing of unprecedented interoperability between Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger with Voice lets users communicate across IM services.  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif., and REDMOND, Wash. — July 12, 2006 — Yahoo! …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Microsoft, Yahoo connect IM services  —  Nine months after announcing they would make their instant messaging services interoperate, Yahoo and Microsoft have done it.  —  The companies are set to release on Thursday a limited beta test of a service that will enable users of Windows Live Messenger …
Jen Brown / MSNBC:
Internet star tries to make it on her own  —  Congdon hopes to translate Rocketboom popularity to mainstream … MSNBC TV  —  No, that's not Amanda Congdon on today's episode of the video blog Rocketboom.  (Although if you turn down the volume on new host Joanne Colan's British accent it's easy to confuse the two).
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Mikekol / Virtually Vista:
Good News Everyone: VPC and licensing goodness ensue!  —  We've got some great news for you today, guys and gals.  —  Robert McLaws recently made a post on LonghornBlogs asking us to be a little bit more transparent with out plans for Virtual PC.  Ask and ye shall receive, Robert :)
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Nate Mook / BetaNews:
VMware Releases Free Server Software
John Biggs / New York Times:
Courting a Hot Market With Cool Phone Service  —  Nik Lulla, a high school senior in Eagleville, Pa., near Philadelphia, swaps out his cellphones on a whim.  He carries a Motorola Razr, an ultrathin metal phone that is so popular he considers it almost passé, and a T-Mobile Sidekick 2 …
Discussion: MocoNews.net
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
The Internet is old news and boring.. Deal with it  —  The Internet is Boring.  Its old news.  —  THe biggest compliment I can pay to the net and to all those pioneers who got it to this point is that its boring.  It works.  It's not perfect, but it works and has absolutely become a utility.
PR Newswire:
Sony on Top in Annual 'Best Brands' Harris Poll for Seventh Consecutive Year  —  Next Three Places Taken by Dell (No. 2), Coca Cola (No. 3), and Toyota (No. 4)  —  ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 12 /PRNewswire/ — Sony tops the list in the annual Harris Poll of "best brands" for an impressive seventh consecutive year.
Reuters:
Toshiba delays HD DVD recorder launch  —  Toshiba said on Thursday it is delaying the launch of the world's first high-definition optical disc recorder based on the HD DVD format until the end of the month as it hasn't built up enough prelaunch inventory.  —  Slower procurement …
Discussion: Engadget, HDBlog.net and HD Beat
Business Wire:
Puzzle/Strategy and Retro/Arcade Mobile Games Are the Most Popular Among U.K. 3G Subscribers, According to Telephia  —  Seventy-One Percent of 3G Mobile Game Players Prefer Games Downloaded to Their Mobile Phone for Offline Play as Opposed to Online Game Play
Tim / TechToolBlog:
Google to start selling Radio Ads  —  In January 06 Google bought DMarc Broadcasting to help jumpstart themselves into the radio advertisement game.  Since then there has not been much news from this side of the business.  Today, I received a Google survey for some free adwords dollars.
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Google's antisocial downside  —  news analysis In the social-networking party sweeping the Web, search titan Google is playing the wallflower.  Is it being smart or just plain nerdy?  —  MySpace.com, Facebook.com and others have turned heads for their skyrocketing traffic …
Lifehacker:
Video Clip: Google - Behind the Screen  —  A little birdie sent me a copy of Google - Behind the Screen, an Australian documentary about everyone's favorite search engine that aired this month Down Under.  —  My favorite parts are when the documentary makers dig in their heels …
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Last-minute goal by Sky in battle for mobile rights  —  BSkyB has secured the last package of Premier League football rights, beating a consortium backed by the UK's five mobile phone networks for the right to show games on mobile phones.  —  The Premier League is understood to have informed TWI …
biosmagazine.co.uk:
ASUS' Blistering Multimedia Gaming Monitor  —  ASUSTeK Computer (ASUS) today announced the PG191 LCD monitor, which sports an innovative Super Bass System and speedy 2ms response time to deliver the audio and video performance demanded by hardcore gamers.  —  Gaming in the 21st is more than just entertainment.
Discussion: Engadget, Gizmodo and digg
Sybarites.org:
Official Lamborghini Mouse Pad  —  Even though mouse pads are no longer necessary due to optical mice they are still widely used and many varieties are being made.  We have seen a F1 carbon fiber mouse pad in the past but this one is made by Lamborghini and is an official Lamborghini product.
Discussion: Ubergizmo and Gizmodo
Tim Lee / The Technology Liberation Front:
Keep the Internet Out of the Iron Triangle  —  Bill Herman has a response to Ed Felten's paper over on the Public Knowledge blog.  It's a long and thoughtful response, so I thought it would be worth quoting in detail before I respectfully disagree with his conclusion: … So far so good...
 
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Chartreuse / BETA:
The Takeover (or The Death Of The Geek or Who Will Be Running The Internet Next)
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StartUps Embracing Amazon S3
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Empressr, A Flash PowerPoint Competitor
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MINOX DMP-3 Media Player
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Pamela Parker / ClickZ:
Yahoo Expands Reach to U.S. Hispanics with Search Distribution Deal
Jason Dobson / gamasutra.com:
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macnn.com:
Apple, Google tops in loyalty survey
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Liszewski / OhGizmo!:
Buffalo USB Drive with Fingerprint Reader
Discussion: Gizmodo and Ubergizmo
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
EU knocks Microsoft with $357 million fine
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google joins open document group
Discussion: Download Squad
Ryan Saghir / Orbitcast:
SIRIUS Sportster 4 Universal Boombox Found
Discussion: Gadgetell, Engadget and Gizmodo
Beltzner / Mozilla Developer News:
Firefox 2 Beta 1 milestone released
Colin Campbell / next-gen.biz:
Rein Pours Scorn on Episodic
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid:
Geek Entertainment TV Sells Out To PodTech