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1:25 PM ET, October 3, 2006

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Paul Thurrott / windowsitpro.com:
Exclusive: Here Comes Windows Vista RC2  —  Microsoft this Friday will ship the final pre-release version of Windows Vista and, unexpectedly, will name the release as Release Candidate 2 (RC2).  Previously, Microsoft had publicly asserted that it would not ship an RC2 milestone release of Windows Vista.
Jeremy Caplan / Time:
Google's Chief Looks Ahead  —  In an interview with TIME, CEO Eric Schmidt explains what's behind the company's new push for partnerships  —  Google wants new friends.  After signing a series of new partners, CEO Eric Schmidt says the Web giant's spate of recent deals is just a start.
Discussion: SYNTAGMA and Joe Duck
Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
Hidden Labels in Gmail  —  If you enable saving your chat history in Gmail, your conversations from Google Talk are saved as standard emails.  To make them stand out from the rest of messages, Gmail adds two labels: chat and chats.  —  If you want to search your chats, you just have to add label:chat to your query.
Discussion: Lifehacker and digg
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
More info on PageRank  —  Every few months we update the PageRank data that we show in the toolbar, and every few months I see a few repeated questions, so let me take a pass at some of them.  Note: I wrote this kinda quickly, so I think this is pretty good, but if I spot something incorrect later, I'll change it.
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Who Killed TiVoToGo?  —  Digital Cable and Satellite DRM Harms TV Fans and Innovators  —  It's the latest digital media murder mystery: TiVo Series2's TiVoToGo1 enabled limited portability of recorded content to PCs and other devices, but the TiVo Series3 HD did not include this feature …
Allison Linn / Associated Press:
Amazon.com Drops Search Engine Features  —  Amazon.com's A9 Search Engine Drops Highly Touted Features  —  SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon.com Inc.'s A9 search engine has dropped some of its most widely touted features, including the ability to remember everything a user has ever searched for and a service …
Discussion: B2Day
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Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Deep 6 for A9 Features
Discussion: WebProNews
R. Craig Endicott / AdAge:
100 Leading Media Companies Report; Revenue Hits $268 Billion  —  Also: Download the 2006 Media Family Trees Poster  —  CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Internet and cable were the growth locomotives behind the 6.6% increase in 2005 U.S. media revenue, reaching $268.48 billion for the 100 Leading Media Companies.
Discussion: IP Democracy and paidContent.org
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE RUNNING SEARCHMASH  —  Google is running an alternate search engine called SearchMash, which includes some useful and "out there" features that might not be right for Google.com, but could make a really interesting search engine.  Of course, if any of the features turn out to be huge hits, who knows?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch 8: Party In New York  —  Our seventh TechCrunch party, held at August Capital two months ago, was a blast.  Over 800 attendees sipped wine, checked out some new companies and watched a nearly naked man streak through the more fully dressed attendees.
Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog:
One Small Step for the Blogosphere...  I've been an officer of a public company for a while, and I've had access to confidential information for a good while longer.  And I'm used to holding my tongue on issues that'd be deemed material to Sun's financial performance.
Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
New Conductors Speed Global Flows of Money  —  Cellphones Make Transfers Faster, Cheaper  —  MANILA — It was 10:33 p.m. when Dulce Amor Bandoy's cellphone beeped with her favorite kind of message.  —  "You have received 1,321.00 of G-Cash," read the text on her phone's glowing screen.
Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:
Calculating the ROI of blogging  —  One issue that keeps coming up over and over again is how to measure the ROI of blogs.  I've written about this in the past and have been stewing over how to go beyond the intangible "blogging is good for your business" exhortations to quantify blogging's benefit to organizations.
Discussion: ClickZ News Blog
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Panasonic's Word Gear e-book reader in the wild  —  Now that Sony has run out of its PRS-500 Portable Readers (online, at least), it seems like we'll have to look elsewhere to feed our e-reading jones, and since we're not quite ready to shell out the big bucks for iRex's iLiad, we have may have to resort to a little import action.
Mike / Techdirt:
To Protect Our Ports, We've Now Banned Online Gambling  —  from the say-what?  dept  —  A bunch of politicians have been pushing for this for quite some time, but this weekend, it surprised many people when the Senate was able to squeeze in an anti-gambling bill with an unrelated bill on port security.
 
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Ross Miller / Joystiq:
The King is in your Xbox 360  —  Whereas some games, we predict …
Fred Stutzman / Unit Structures:
Selling Social Networks
Discussion: Message and Valleywag
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Goes Prime Time
Discussion: Random Culture and PVR Wire
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Logitech launches diNovo Edge
Discussion: Ubergizmo and CrunchGear
Kassia / Medialoper:
YouTube and Orphaned Art
Gizmodo:
GPS Fails, Police Give Away a Car
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Pentax X-Change interchangeable lens concept
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Wendy Boswell / Lifehacker:
Technophilia: Craigslist for power users
Discussion: digg
Ben Yoskovitz / Instigator Blog:
5 Things You Shouldn't Spend Money On When Starting a Business
Discussion: Texas Startup Blog and digg
Dave Sifry / The Technorati Weblog:
Technorati Spam? Actually, we just messed up. Sorry!
Discussion: seattleduck and Epeus' epigone
Dana Hanna / An App A Day:
Day 17 - WPM Tray  —  Tonights application is a Words Per Minute meter in your systray.
Discussion: Download Squad, Lifehacker and digg
BBC:
Video games have 'role in school'
Discussion: Techdirt
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Court puts stop on online check firm
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Google takes a bigger bite of Big Apple
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Analysts don't like YouTube's chances