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5:00 PM ET, August 24, 2006

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Associated Press:
Apple to recall 1.8 million notebook batteries  —  Recall is second-biggest in U.S. history involving electronics or computers … SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Computer Inc. on Thursday recalled 1.8 million Sony-built laptop batteries that could overheat and catch fire.
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CNET News.com:
YouTube could be a steal at $1 billion  —  news analysis By agreeing to pay $65 million for Grouper—a profitless video-sharing company with negligible market share—Sony has helped establish a benchmark for other companies in the space and sent industry insiders speculating wildly about what market leader YouTube may be worth.
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Online Video: Tasty Takeover Targets?  —  Sony's deal for Grouper signals that big outfits are looking to buy in.  Which video-sharing sites might be next?  —  Online video sites are a bit like fish in the sea.  Though they are plentiful, the tastiest ones are difficult to catch.
Carlo / Techdirt:
Grouper Buy Sends YouTube Billion-Dollar Buyout Plan Into Overdrive
Discussion: Valleywag and VC Ratings
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Vista will not support Blu-ray or HD DVD playback out-of-the-box or on most PCs
Discussion: eHomeUpgrade and Gadgetell
Mark Goldberg / Telecom Trends:
Blocking content  —  The news will be breaking shortly, so you might as well read about it here first.  Late in the day on Tuesday afternoon, I helped in filing the first application requesting the CRTC to authorize Canadian carriers to block internet content.
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Sean Patrick Sullivan / Yahoo! News:
Ottawa lawyer asks CRTC to block access to US-based hate websites  —  TORONTO (CP) - One of two U.S.-based hate websites was taken offline Wednesday as an Ottawa lawyer and a Jewish lobby group asked Canada's telecommunications regulator to take the unprecedented step of blocking access to the sites from north of the border.
Discussion: Telecom Trends
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Amazon Readies Utility Computing Service  —  Amazon Web Services are readying their latest service called EC2 which will allow users to setup and run servers and computing capacity in the cloud.  Users of the service can setup a server instance which is hosted with Amazon …
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Google Blogoscoped:   Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud
IEBlog:
Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate Now Available  —  This morning we released our first public release candidate, IE7 RC1, for Windows XP.  You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie.  —  The RC1 build includes improvements in performance, stability, security, and application compatibility.
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Yahoo! Search blog:
It's a Flickr Moment!  —  We've all had moments in our lives when we wished we had our cameras around to capture a perfect sunset, an amusing cloud shape in the sky, or a candid shot of our friends, family or pets.  That's why Flickr is so great.  It is full of these moments - as seen through the eyes of the world.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Announcing TechCrunch UK  —  I am pleased to announce our latest Crunch Network blog - TechCrunch UK - which launched moments ago.  —  TechCrunch UK is obviously not a translated blog like TechCrunch France and TechCrunch Japan (although both of these blogs have lots of original content as well).
Discussion: cruel to be kind
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Sam Sethi / TechCrunch UK:
Welcome to TechCrunch UK!
Business Wire:
AOL Video Launches Digital Movie Downloads  —  New Partnerships with 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures Home  —  Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros.  Home Entertainment  —  Group Bring Full-Length Movies to All-In-One Online Video Destination  —  New On-Demand Channels Featuring Television Content Will
Discussion: TechCrunch and GigaOM
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Can German engineering fix Wikipedia?  —  An experimental feature planned for the German version of Wikipedia could eventually improve the quality of editing for the online encyclopedia and open its front page to public edits for the first time in years.  —  In an interview with CNET News.com …
Nintendo:
NINTENDO LAUNCHES NEW DS LITE COLORS AMID RECORD-BREAKING GAME SALES  —  Onyx and Coral Pink Follow Sale of 1 Millionth New Super Mario Bros.  —  The only thing more fun than new Nintendo® DS Lite hardware colors is trying to keep up with the breakneck sales of the software to play on the popular little portable!
Mikek / Hacking NetFlix:
Netflix Launches Mobile Site for Cell & PDA Users  —  Netflix has a launched a special version of the Netflix website for cellphone and PDA users at www.Netflix.com/Mobile.  You don't need a cellphone to try it, just click on the link.  Netflix Mobile lets you view your queue, search for movies, and even add movies to your queue.
Discussion: Download Squad and jkOnTheRun
USA Today:
Verizon, Cablevision skirmish as war nears  —  NEW YORK — Nobody would mistake the lush, trimmed lawns of suburban New York City for the OK Corral.  But you can almost hear the jingling spurs and blasting revolvers of a corporate gunfight erupting that could affect virtually all consumers.
Discussion: GigaOM and IP Democracy
Doc Searls Weblog:
I'm looking at some of the skepticism and pushback on the River of News concept. … Several folks source Josh Bancroft, who says, … Interesting... You coulda said the same thing to Steve Jobs when he came out with the iPod.  —  Anyway, that's not my point here.
Discussion: Scripting News and The Bb Gun
 
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Jemima / paidContent.org:
Social Media Roundup: Former MySpace CEO Looks To Asia …
Discussion: DealBook and E-consultancy
Ryan Block / media.engadget.com:
Apple, Dell, Lenovo, HP working on battery manufacturing standards
Discussion: digg
Rachel Metz / Wired News:
IWoz Logs Leap From Geek to Icon
Guy Kawasaki / Signum sine tinnitu:
Ten Questions with Marten Mikos, CEO of MySQL
Discussion: Open Sources
Carlo Longino / MobHappy:
What's .mobi Playing At Now?
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Another win for TiVo: Cox partnership pans out
Greg / IBM Eye:
Internet Security Systems falls prey to IBM acquisition fervor
 Earlier Items: 
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Better mousetrap or a new form of lock-in?
Associated Press:
Hui makes pitch for Gateway retail unit
Russell Buckley / MobHappy:
User Generated Short Codes
Discussion: SMS Text News and mopocket
Reuters:
Google gives open access to Japan version of GMail
Peter Rip / EarlyStageVC:
Venture 2.0 - Preamble
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Call users from inside your Gmail
Graeme Wearden / silicon.com:
Redmond red-faced over Gervais video leak