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7:50 PM ET, October 18, 2006

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Touchscreen iPod Comes This December  —  Touchscreen iPod Comes This December  —  The iPod/iPhone rumour mill is something so clouded that as TR News Ed I made the executive decision to circumvent the vast majority of it a long time ago, but yesterday I had a conversation with an extremely well informed exec which I'm going to share.
Robert Tait / Guardian:
Iran bans fast internet to cut west's influence  —  Iran's Islamic government has opened a new front in its drive to stifle domestic political dissent and combat the influence of western culture - by banning high-speed internet links.  —  In a blow to the country's estimated 5 million internet users …
Joshua Chaffin / Financial Times:
Universal sues video-sharing websites  —  Universal Music, the world's largest record company, has launched the established media industry's first legal action against user-generated internet sites in the wake of its distribution deal last week with YouTube, the most popular video-sharing website.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google: Security Mishaps and User Trust  —  Update: Danny Sullivan disagrees with some of my points, and adds a few other security incidents to the list.  —  Google is pushing full steam ahead with their office strategy, and their hope is to convince a lot of individuals and businesses …
Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:
T@lkster: A New Voice 2.0 Company  —  The preferred attack point for cellular VoIP plays today seems to be disintermediating mobile long distance from the handset.  For the last few weeks I've been playing with and alpha release of T@lkster, a new Voice 2.0 offering which does exactly that.
Apple:
Apple Reports Preliminary Fourth Quarter Results  —  Ships Record 1.61 Million Macs  —  Apple® today announced preliminary financial results for its fiscal 2006 fourth quarter ended September 30, 2006.  These preliminary results may be subject to significant adjustment as a result of a likely restatement of historical results.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Ask.com Using Paid Search On Google As Promotion  —  I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Ask.com Advertises on Google.com To Promote Search Quality of Engine.  A search on Raccoon brings up an AdWords ad that is marketing Ask.com's search results.
Philiplinden / Official Linden Blog:
1,000,000 residents = Happy!  Crushing Signup Load = Sad!  —  Congratulations to the whole SL community and all of us at Linden Lab on reaching 1 Million residents signed up!!  Second Life is growing because together we are all building content, welcoming new people, expanding the community, and adding new capabilities to the system.
Discussion: B2Day, theory.isthereason and Infocult
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Zimbra: 4 Million Paid Mailboxes and Counting  —  What do Digg, Mozilla, the University of Bern Switzerland and the Times of India have in common?  According to an announcement today, they are all among the 1000+ customers of web based open source communication and collaboration suite Zimbra.
Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Apple Sells Infected iPods, Blames Microsoft  —  Apple posted a notice that 1% of video iPods shipped after September 12 of this year went out with a little present: the RavMonE.exe worm, which spreads via removable media.  Apparently, one of the computers at the contract manufacturer was infected, and it just spread from there.
Patrick Barnard / TMCnet:
LiveJournal Adds Gizmo, Letting Users Make Free VoIP Calls  —  For months, maybe even years now you've been reading about how click-to-call VoIP services are gradually being integrated into Web sites to facilitate peer-to-peer voice communications between users.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Performancing launches ad network for bloggers  —  Performancing, home of the "jobs for bloggers" board and the much loved Firefox blogging plug-in, has added an ad network to its family of services.  Bloggers drop javascript into their sites, prices are either set by the bloggers themselves …
Wall Street Journal:
Record Labels Turn Piracy Into a Marketing Opportunity  —  A video clip from Jay-Z's live concert in June at Radio City Music Hall is popping up on all sorts of illicit music-sharing hotspots.  But Jay-Z isn't upset.  —  That's because the rapper, at the request of Coca-Cola Co. …
Discussion: Slashdot
Adam Sherwin / Times of London:
Amateur 'video bloggers' under threat from EU broadcast rules  —  THE Government is seeking to prevent an EU directive that could extend broadcasting regulations to the internet, hitting popular video-sharing websites such as YouTube.  —  The European Commission proposal would require websites …
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Dodgeball goes Gauth, reveals GOOG's masterplan to p0wn your ass  —  Don't say I didn't warn you, but now when you try to log into your favorite neighborhood spyware, you'll be greeted by a prompt to login with either your old skool Dodgeball account credentials or your Gauth account …
 
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
AllOfMP3 loses Visa account, switching to ad-supported
BBC:
Bully game banned from UK shops
Discussion: Techdirt and Washington Post
Scott McNulty / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Screenshots of SlingPlayer for the Mac
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Nokia to offer GPS solution for 770 Internet Tablet
Discussion: dailywireless.org
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Turning your laptop into HDTV
Discussion: 1080eye, CrunchGear and digg
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FBI director wants ISPs to track users
BuzzSkyline / Physics Buzz:
Getting a Grip on the World's Smallest Robotic Hand
Discussion: Engadget, CrunchGear and Slashdot
Nicola Pytell / news.cornell.edu:
Cornell University Library announces partnership with Microsoft …
 Earlier Items: 
Robustyoungsoul / Soul Kerfuffle:
The View From the Top
Think Secret:
Briefly: Apple to back HD-DVD and Blu-Ray?
Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters:
Sony to recall own batteries
Discussion: Gizmodo, Gizmodo UK and TechSpot
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Firefox 2.0 Review  —  Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.
Tom Yager / InfoWorld:
Apple's Xserve Xeon: Built to fall apart
Tom Simonite / NewScientistTech:
'DNA computer' is unbeatable at tic-tac-toe
Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Spamhaus appeals possible shutdown ruling
Discussion: Techdirt, Infothought and TechSpot
Sprint:
Sprint Nextel Teams With QUALCOMM and Lucent Technologies …