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3:35 PM ET, August 23, 2006

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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Sony in Deal to Acquire a Video Site  —  Sony Pictures Entertainment plans to announce on Wednesday that it has acquired Grouper, a Web site featuring videos contributed by users, for $65 million.  —  The deal marries one of the biggest and most powerful movie studios …
Discussion: The Kelsey Group Blog and B2Day
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grouper.com:
Sony Pictures Entertainment Acquires Grouper  —  Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has acquired Grouper, the fast growing user-generated video site on the Internet, it was announced today by Michael Lynton, SPE Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.  —  Grouper.com, which is the second largest …
Om Malik / GigaOM:   Sony Hooks Up With Grouper
Umair / BGSL:   How Not to Think Strategically About the Edge, pt 1733 …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft and Facebook Team Up for Advertising Syndication  —  Combination of Microsoft's and Facebook's consumer assets provides potent offering for advertisers.  —  PALO ALTO, Calif., and REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 22, 2006 — Facebook and Microsoft Corp. today announced a strategic alliance …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Microsoft lands Facebook ad deal  —  Microsoft failed to sign MySpace to an advertising deal, so the software giant went out and landed Facebook, the second-largest social networking site.  —  Late Tuesday evening, Microsoft announced that Facebook had agreed to allow the software company …
Discussion: Blogging Stocks and TechEffect
Carlo / Techdirt:
When Muni-WiFi Becomes Vehicle For Muni-Censorship  —  Broadband Reports points out a press release which says the Culver City, California, will install filters on its muni-Wifi network — which covers all of one square mile — to weed out porn and P2P traffic.
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broadbandreports.com:
LA Muni-Fi Filters Smut, P2P  —  Audible Magic gear at the MPAA's request...  Culver City, California was the first Los Angeles municipality to offer the public a free all-access Wi-Fi network.  They're also the first to ban all porn and p2p from that network, according to an announcement made yesterday.
CNN:
How Google can make - or break - your company  —  Smart entrepreneurs are learning the best ways to deal with the online Goliath.  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. (FSB Magazine) — Allan Keiter awoke one recent morning to the scary news that his Atlanta company's website was nearly impossible to find on a Google search.
Mark Glaser / pbs.org:
Mark Cuban's Sharesleuth Takes Business Reporting to Ethical Edge  —  Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has one of the best named weblogs, Blog Maverick, because he is nothing if not a maverick in the technology, sports and online worlds.  He shepherded his Broadcast.com streaming multimedia company through …
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
My Wiki is your wiki  —  I got this email this afternoon …
Discussion: DealBreaker.com
vanderwal.net Off the Top:
Net Neutrality Faces Biased FTC  —  FTC to the Rescue?  —  Monday the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC Chairman, Deborah Platt Majoras, stated the FTC was going to look into the Net Neutrality issue.  Her statement already shows the outcome based on her language and the tools they are going to use to investigate.
Scott Duke Harris / siliconvalley.com:
Quattrone makes deal of lifetime  —  WELCOME BACK TO VALLEY LIKELY WITH CASE DISMISSED  —  Silicon Valley's storied financier, Frank Quattrone, stepped out of a federal courthouse in Manhattan on Tuesday with a broad smile and a deal that will allow him to rebuild a career that once made him a technology power broker.
Larry Angell / iLounge:
Dell quietly exits digital music player market  —  Several iLoungers note that Dell's last remaining digital music player, the DJ Ditty, has quietly disappeared from the company's online store.  The DJ Ditty, a flash memory-based player that competed with the iPod shuffle …
Cedric / Peer Pressure:
5...4...3...2...  In a few hours AllPeers is going to be released in the wild after 5 months of private testing.  We did not invite all the testers during that phase but rest assured the remaining one will receive an email when the application is available.  —  We know some people …
Discussion: GigaOM and Torrentfreak
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (923762)  —  Microsoft Security Advisory (923762): Long URLs to sites using HTTP 1.1 and compression Could Cause Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 to Unexpectedly Exit  —  On August 15, 2006 Microsoft announced that it would be re-releasing MS06-042 Tuesday …
razerzone.com:
Game On!  Microsoft and Razer Team Up to Rejuvenate PC Gaming Experience With New Peripherals  —  Microsoft Hardware and Razer meet growing demand for PC gaming devices.  —  Today at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, Microsoft Hardware and Razer USA Ltd. are turning up the heat …
missingkids.com:
GOOGLE JOINS INDUSTRY-WIDE MOVEMENT TO COMBAT CHILD PORNOGRAPHY  —  The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and its sister agency, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), have announced that Google has joined the Technology Coalition …
Discussion: Google Watch
Gizmodo:
Creative Zen Vision W Unofficially Unveiled  —  A shiny picture of the Creative Zen Vision W found its way into the latest issue of Popular Mechanics, marking yet another time that a Create portable media player had its premature unveiling in the print press (we're looking at you, Maxim).
Discussion: Engadget, Shop Talk and CrunchGear
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Xbox 360 and the game market, nine months later  —  Today is the nine-month anniversary of the Xbox 360's U.S. launch.  So how is Microsoft doing so far?  The simplest and most common measure is the number of consoles sold — about 5 million Xbox 360s worldwide as of June 30 …
Will O'Brien / Engadget:
How-To: Run your own network wiring  —  Wherever you call home, it probably didn't come wired up for that most precious of home utilities: internet access.  Sometimes wireless networking can only take you so far.  Guerrilla network wiring might sound a little strong, but sometimes it ends …
Discussion: Download Squad and Lifehacker
 
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Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
4INFO Adds TV Guide
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Rafat / paidContent.org:
Political Dollars Moving Online; Newspaper Sites Up There
Benjamin J. Romano / Seattle Times:
Patent penalty against Microsoft increased $25 million
Scott Carney / Wired News:
IPod Gray Market Booms in India
Doc Searls Weblog:
Prodded by Dave and Frank, I just tried looking at NYTimesriver …
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CNET News.com:
IBM to buy ISS for $1.3 billion
 Earlier Items: 
Paul Miller / Engadget:
HiPAD II: Korea's 10.4-inch answer to the cPC
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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Pinger, a pretty cool vmail service
Richard Ozerman / CrunchGear:
Verizon Treo 700w vs. Sprint 700wx Compared, With Video
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Base API Released
Kevin Hale / Particletree RSS Digest:
Getting IE 6 on your Mac
Sony:
SONY MERGES QUALITY LCD TV WITH DESKTOP PC FOR A SLEEK COMBO