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9:15 AM ET, July 24, 2007

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Michele Mehl / Twango:
Nokia acquires Twango to offer a comprehensive media sharing experience  —  Share photos, video and other media through virtually any connected device  —  Nokia and Twango today announced that Nokia has acquired substantially all assets of Twango (www.twango.com).
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Nokia buys media-sharing site Twango
Cassell Bryan-Low / Wall Street Journal:
Nokia Extends Web Push With Twango Purchase
Discussion: hypebot, BeyondVC and Mashable!
Carlo Longino / MobHappy:
Nokia Buys Media-Sharing Site Twango
Discussion: All About Symbian
Rafat Ali / mocoNews.net:
Nokia Buys Social Media Site Twango For About $100 Million; Porting To Mobile
Matthew Broersma / PC World:
Acer: PC Industry 'Disappointed' with Vista  —  Acer president Gianfranco Lanci today became the first major PC manufacturer to openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system.  —  Recommend this story?  —  Acer president Gianfranco Lanci today became the first major PC manufacturer …
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Gregg Keizer / PC World:
Vista Use Grows as Mac OS X Stays Flat
Discussion: ParisLemon and Macsimum News
Gregg Keizer / Techworld.com:   Vista retreats as XP sales hold up
Cliff Edwards / Business Week:
TiVo Targets the Mainstream  —  The DVR pioneer hopes to gain customers with its price-slashed TiVo HD, but subscription costs and shrinking market share remain concerns  —  Can a low-cost, high-definition digital video recorder clear up TiVo's blurry picture?
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Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Breaking: $300 TiVo HD Unboxed and Fondled (Verdict: Hell Yes!)  —  If you've been saving up your nickels to get a $800 TiVo Series3, you just got yourself a $500 bonus prize.  Today TiVo releases the TiVo HD, a scaled-back version of the original Series3 that lists for just $299.
Discussion: Gadget Lab and I4U News
Ryan Block / Engadget:
TiVo HD DVR is the newest Series3, TiVoToGo coming back
Erika Brown / Forbes:
There UGO  —  On Tuesday morning, Hearst Corp. was expected to announce the acquisition of UGO Networks, a collection of Web sites targeting young men interested in video games, sports and pictures of hot girls.  UGO claims 11 million unique visitors a month.
Discussion: HipMojo.com and TechCrunch
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Hearst Buys UGO.com; Possibly As Much As $100M-$150M
Discussion: Reuters
Chris Remo / Shacknews:
Developers on Unreal Engine 3 and the Silicon Knights Lawsuit  —  Last week the internet—or at least the video game-related parts of it—exploded when Epic Games quietly announced that it had been sued by developer Silicon Knights.  That quiet announcement quickly turned into a frenzy as the full text of the lawsuit surfaced.
Jeremy Liew / VentureBeat:
Ad Networks: Why it's better than ever to be a targeted content site  —  One of the hallmarks of the last few years on the internet has been the growing length of the "long tail".  Compete released some data last year showing that its panel was visiting 77% more websites than it did five years ago:
Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
Credibility called into question  —  Will SunRocket's failure jeopardize Net phone firms?  —  Internet telephone provider SunRocket's sudden closure last week not only surprised and disappointed subscribers, it also cast a shadow on the future of similar, low-cost Internet phone services.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Surprise: Facebook apps may help grow home sites  —  Slide, Rockyou and HotorNot, three companies with the largest number of users on Facebook, are showing continued traffic growth on their own sites.  —  The finding, reported by Quantcast, a service that tracks traffic trends for Web sites …
Colin Gibbs / RCR Wireless News:
Crown Castle bails from mobile TV effort, Modeo's fate unclear  —  Crown Castle International Corp. is spinning off its Modeo business, agreeing to lease Modeo's nationwide spectrum for a dedicated mobile broadcast network to a pair of venture capital firms.
Discussion: GigaOM, Engadget Mobile and Phone Scoop
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why Feedburner is trouble, day 2  —  Saturday's post about Feedburner was much-discussed, and that's good.  The most common rebuttal was the user's ability to opt out.  If you don't like it you don't have to use Feedburner.  But that's not any kind of a rebuttal.  Let me illustrate.
Troy Unrau / Open Ended:
The unforking of KDE's KHTML and Webkit  —  There is one major web rendering engine that grew entirely out of the open source world: KHTML is KDE's web renderer which was built from the ground up by the open source community with very little original corporate backing.
Stephan Spencer / CNET News.com:
Underscores are now word separators, proclaims Google  —  I got to enjoy Matt Cutts live and in person on Saturday speaking to the WordPress bloggers and fans at WordCamp 2007.  Matt was in top form, witty as ever.  The session was blogged by numerous folks.
John Lam / John Lam on Software:
A first look at IronRuby  —  We've been working very hard over the past couple of months to get our first source code release ready.  I'm happy to announce today the first drop of the IronRuby source code.  IronRuby is licensed under very liberal terms as set out by the Microsoft Permissive License.
 
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Search Engines Tighten Privacy
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
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Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
Xbox 360: Another One Bites the Dust
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Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
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Globe and Mail:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
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 Earlier Items: 
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
MySpace Mexico to exit beta on Tuesday
Discussion: Mashable!
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Curing "sender's remorse" (and screw-ups) with self-destructing e-mail
Reuters:
Bancrofts meet to discuss Murdoch bid for Dow Jones
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
SMX Local & Mobile Comes To Denver; Early-Bird Registration Expiring!
Discussion: Screenwerk
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
Binary America: Split in Two by A Digital Divide
Forbes:
Class War: MySpace Vs. Facebook
Discussion: HipMojo.com and digg
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Inventors And Patent Attorneys Sue USPTO Over Supposedly Unqualified Appointment