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7:40 PM ET, September 28, 2006

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Microsoft:
Microsoft to Put Zune Experience in Consumers' Hands on Nov. 14  —  Zune device to retail for $249.99.  —  Microsoft Corp. is putting the social into digital music, starting this holiday.  Today the company announced that the Zune™ digital media player and online service will be available …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Zune price and date: $249, November 14th
Discussion: PVR Wire and SCI FI Tech
Reuters:
MySpace could be worth $15 bln in 3 years-analyst  —Text+SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - MySpace, the social networking Web site, could be worth around $15 billion within three years, measured in terms of the value created for shareholders of parent company News Corp. (NWSa.N: Quote …
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Ken Belson / New York Times:
Rural Areas Left in Slow Lane of High-Speed Data Highway  —  CANAAN, Vt. — For most businesses, the goal is to attract as many customers as possible.  But in the fast-changing telephone industry, companies are increasingly trying to get rid of many of theirs.  —  Bill and Ursula Johnson are among the unwanted.
James / MocoNews.net:
It's Official: Mobile ESPN To Cease MVNO Ops Dec. 31; Will Seek Licensing  —  The announcement we told you last night was on the way just came out ... Mobile ESPN will cease operations as an MVNO Dec. 31 and will refund the purchase price of all Mobile ESPN handsets.  Sales are discontinued effective immediately.
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Paul Roberts / InfoWorld Tech Watch:
MS antisphishing tool wins MS bakeoff  —  Microsoft sponsored a study comparing the effectiveness of antiphishing technologies and, surprise surprise, the company's IE 7 anti-phishing technology came out on top, according to a post on the IE Blog.  —  The study, which was conducted by 3Sharp …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
PodShow raises $15M more for....podcasting.  Yikes!  —  Podshow, a company that promotes podcasts and finds sponsors for them, has raised $15 million more in a second round of venture capital from its big-name investors, following up on $8.85 million in a first round last summer.  —  Dan Primack has the scoop.
Daniel Gross / Slate:
$1 Billion for Facebook?  LOL!  —  IS THE SOCIAL-NETWORKING BOOM A REPLAY OF THE '90S DOTCOM BUBBLE?  —  The "social-networking" gold rush continues.  Last year, MySpace was acquired by News Corp. for $580 million in cash.  Now the other big social-networking sites are the subject of rumors, deals, and transactions.
Discussion: SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog
PR Newswire:
Local Search Continues to Gain Momentum, According to comScore  —  Google and Yahoo! Sites Lead in Local Search Market Share in the U.S.  —  RESTON, Va., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ — comScore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age, today released the results of an analysis revealing …
Luke Smith / 1up.com:
X06: Marvel MMO Coming to Xbox 360 and PC  —  Marvel, Cryptic and Microsoft bury the hatchet.  —  Marvel and Cryptic — whose well-documented legal rivalry regarding City of Heroes alleged infringement on Marvel's characters — in conjunction with Microsoft Game Studios announced their intention …
Discussion: Wonderland, Slashdot and digg
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New York Times:
H.P. Counsel Resigns as Hearings Open  —  Hewlett-Packard's general counsel, Ann O. Baskins, has resigned from the company, and her lawyer said she will not answer questions at the Congressional hearing scheduled for today.  —  As Hewlett-Packard's chief in-house lawyer …
www-307.ibm.com:
Battery recall  —  Select your preferred language from the list below:  —  Dear Lenovo Customer,  —  Lenovo and IBM Corporation, in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and other regulatory agencies, have announced the voluntary recall of certain lithium-ion batteries manufactured by Sony Corporation.
Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
ID Thieves Turn Sights on Smaller E-Businesses  —  For Online Shoppers, Security Seals No Guarantee That Hackers Aren't Watching  —  Schuyler Cole needed an accessory for his Palm Treo 600 smartphone, so the Haleiwa, Hawaii, resident fired up his Web browser last month and ran a Google search.
Discussion: Techdirt and Slashdot
Esther Schindler / devsource.com:
What Gartner Is Telling Your Boss  —  In some ways, the themes expressed at Gartner's Application Development Summit, held this week in Phoenix, are nothing new.  The analysts who are speaking to the audience of CIOs and managers are sincerely trying to help these people create …
AUBlog:
10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website  —  These are the top 10 things I learned from attending the Future of Web Apps Conference 2006 in San Francisco earlier this month.  The summit was hosted by Carson Systems and included speakers like Kevin Rose, Mike Arrington, Mike Davidson, and more.
Discussion: Dan Blank, Web Strategy, engtech and digg
LinuxDevices.com:
Mini Linux PC breaks $100 barrier  —  Taiwanese integrator E-Way Technology Systems is shipping a tiny, 200MHz x86-compatible mini PC for $99, in single quantities.  The TU-40 is passively cooled, comes with 128MB of RAM, and can run lightweight versions of Linux, such as Puppy, the company says.
Discussion: TechSpot and digg
Gizmodo:
Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Watch  —  Sony Ericsson liked Fossil's idea for a caller ID wristwatch so much that they took the technology and re-designed it as the MBW-100 — adding the ability to control their cellphone's music player from the buttons on the side (play, pause, next track).
Discussion: CrunchGear, Ubergizmo and jkOnTheRun
James Ransom-Wiley / Joystiq:
Dissecting Rockstar's formula: Joystiq previews Vice City Stories (PSP) & Bully (PS2)  —  The headquarters of Rockstar Games, a thin 6-story building squeezed between Best Buy and Adidas, stands just north of where Broadway cuts through Houston Street flowing downward into a mecca of trend — or shopping for trends — known as SoHo.
 
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Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:
iTunes 7.0.1 points to the iPhone, life moves on
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Apple finally revamps .Mac webmail, but does anyone care?
Michael Gartenberg:
Zune Pricing - First Take  —  Final Zune pricing is out …
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VC Pain 2.0  —  I'm wrapping up a term sheet with a US VC …
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A New Wave of Web Addresses
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Two years ago I became a journalist blogger . . . and discovered a terrible thing
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BBC:
Intel offers prize for sexiest PC
John Biggs / New York Times:
Dressing Smartphones for Success
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James Moore / Jim Moore's cybernetics …:
IBM's Open Source Conspiracy: Patent "reform" …
New York Times:
Super Bowl Glory for Amateurs With Video Cameras
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Associated Press:
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