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10:00 AM ET, August 30, 2006

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PR Newswire:
Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt Joins Apple's Board of Directors  —  CUPERTINO, Calif., Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, was elected to Apple's board of directors at their meeting today.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Apple + Google = Worries For Everyone  —  A few days ago when Google announced what is a precursor to Google Office, many saw it as a big move against the long term nemesis, Microsoft.  We read things differently, and don't really believe that it is going to have much of an impact.
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Google CEO joins Apple board - is there more to this?  —  Google CEO Eric Schmidt is joining the board of Apple Computer.  Om Malik thinks this could lead to closer cooperation between the two, and headaches for Microsoft.  Maybe, but I don't think so.  Eric Schmidt is a great choice …
Associated Press:
Google to allow free downloads of books  —  AUG. 29 8:28 P.M. ET Google Inc. on Wednesday plans to begin letting consumers download and print free of charge classic novels and many other, more obscure books that are in the public domain.  —  Using Google's Book Search service …
Bruce Meyerson / Associated Press:
AT&T aims to build network for Ill. city  —  NEW YORK - AT&T Inc. is the lead candidate to build a citywide wireless network for Springfield, Ill., marking the company's first success in the developing market to blanket municipalities with ubiquitous Internet access.
Discussion: IP Democracy
Stewart Butterfield / FlickrBlog:
Geotagging - one day later  —  The First Day  —  When we were doing our projections for how many photos Flickr members would geotag, we though that we'd hit a million in the first month, maybe even as fast as two weeks.  Instead, 24 hours in, there were 1,234,384 geotagged photos …
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DigiTimes:
Microsoft Taiwan: Xbox 360 external HD-DVD drives will not be available in Asia  —  Yen-ting Chen, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DigiTimes.com [Tuesday 29 August 2006]  —  Microsoft plans to launch external HD-DVD drives for Xbox 360 consoles in North America, around the end of this year …
Discussion: Gizmodo, CrunchGear, New Launches and Kotaku
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Brian Gorman / Motley Fool:
An Odd Buy for New York Times  —  Headlines about the newspaper business have been nothing to cheer about lately, and the news at New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is no exception.  Rising newsprint costs remain a drag on profitability, and revenue growth hasn't exactly been robust …
Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
Comcast blacklists e-mail from online group  —  A decade before Microsoft released the first version of its Internet Explorer browser and nearly a generation before MySpace, The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, otherwise known as The WELL, was the place to be on the Internet.
Discussion: IP Democracy and Jeffrey McManus
CNET News.com:
AT&T hack exposes 19,000 identities  —  AT&T on Tuesday said hackers broke into one of its computer systems and accessed personal data on thousands of customers who used its online store.  —  The information that was illegally accessed includes credit card numbers, AT&T said in a statement.
Gizmodo:
Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS: Widescreen With a FM Transmitter  —  What's the story with this leaked GPS?  Well, I'll tell you.  Garmin is trying to keep pace with TomTom's widescreen models by adding this 4.3-inch, 480 by 272 pixel touchscreen to their latest navigator.
Discussion: InstaGPS and Engadget
Richard Lawler / HD Beat:
Samsung BD-P1000 & 50GB Blu-ray incompatibility rumors continue  —  Ever since the Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray player launched there have been rumors that it did not ship with the ability to read 50GB discs based on a passage in the manual which only cited 25GB compatibility.. Over at The Digital Bits …
Discussion: Engadget, HDBlog.net and Neowin.net
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:   LG's got Blu-ray fever: coughs-up media, player, desktop, and regurgitates writer
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Three Ways to Ride the Long Tail  —  The following is also my column in this week's Advertising Age.  —  Three Ways to Ride the Long Tail  —  What Marketers Should Know About Reach, Niches and Big Media in the New Landscape  —  One of this summer's hottest beach reads is "The Long Tail" by Chris Anderson.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
The mobile Internet: Are we there yet?  —  After years of hype, wireless users in the United States are waiting for all the technology pieces to come together to make surfing the Internet from their handsets as easy as it is on their PCs at home.  —  So how close are we to simple and robust Web surfing from a cell phone?
Discussion: The Wireless Report
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
No End to Features to Win Over Sports Fans  —  ESPN Mobile plans to announce today that it will broadcast full-length college football games on its wireless phones.  —  ESPN, which this year launched its brand of phones on the Sprint Nextel network, plans to carry as many as 25 games a month in the 2006 season.
Discussion: MocoNews.net and Lost Remote
Jenstar / JenSense:
Microsoft adCenter inviting selected advertisers into ContentAds pilot  —  Interested in the Microsoft ContentAds beta?  Selected advertisers just received invitations to participate in the new ContentAds pilot, which begins running this fall.  —  The email invited advertisers received mentioned …
The Age:
Gremlins in the geek goddess IT calendar  —  Organisers of a controversial calendar promoting the IT industry to women have 'fessed up to making a few production errors.  —  The Screen Goddess IT calendar seeks to shake off the male dominated IT industry's geeky image among females …
Discussion: Techdirt
 
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I4U News:
2 Million Already Tapped Into Ninteno DS Wi-Fi. I'm Impressed.
Discussion: CrunchGear
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
SpiralFrog inks music deal with Universal
Mike / Techdirt:
New York Times Tells Brits They Can't Read Article On UK Terror Case
Mike / Techdirt:
As MySpace Looks At Offering Magazines, Teen Magazines Ditch Paper For Online
Discussion: TeleRead
Nwhite / Windows Vista Team Blog:
"Building" Windows Vista: A Podcast Interview with Sven Hallauer …
Discussion: Techlog
John Cook / John Cook's Venture Blog:
YapTA! says welcome to "Web 3.0"
Discussion: Labnotes and Valleywag
Anne Becker / Broadcasting & Cable:
NBC Goes To School To Promote Football Drama
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Vista Priced at $100 to $399 on Amazon.com (Update1)
 Earlier Items: 
Gizmodo:
Sprint Leaks More Treo 700wx Brochures: September 3 Release Date, $649.99 SRP
Discussion: CrunchGear
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Webshots Redesign Launches, Video Coming
Discussion: GigaOM and rev2.org
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Valley VCs are on fire: Lots of deals, including bloated Force10 …
Discussion: MocoNews.net
Valleywag:
These three bloggers want to get you a job
Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:
Interview with Mike Melanson, lead engineer on the Linux Flash Player team
Discussion: Slashdot and digg
Aragoto / dottocomu:
Ricoh's WiFi/Bluetooth Caplios
Tom Zeller Jr / New York Times:
A Watchdog Group Warns Against AOL's Free Software
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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