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7:25 AM ET, July 24, 2007

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Cassell Bryan-Low / Wall Street Journal:
Nokia Extends Web Push With Twango Purchase  —  Nokia Corp. plans to announce today that it has bought an online photo- and video-sharing start-up in the latest of a series of acquisitions to expand beyond cellphones into Internet-related services in search of new sources of revenue.
Discussion: BeyondVC
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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).
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Nokia buys media-sharing site Twango  —  Media-sharing site Twango updated its Web site on Monday to announce that it's been chomped up by cell phone manufacturer Nokia.  With its cool new toy, Nokia hopes to make it easier for handset owners to share multimedia content among desktop, Web, and mobile platforms.
Discussion: The Register and Read/WriteWeb
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 …
Discussion: Incremental Blogger and Channel 9
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David Berlind / Berlind's Testbed:
By 2010, will Windows 'Seven' (or any desktop OS) really matter?  —  There's probably no better example of how Microsoft seems to be sweeping left while the rest of the computing world sweeps right than today's edition of ZDNet Tech Update Today (the newsletter that we send out daily to those who've subscribed to it).
Discussion: Insider Chatter, Widgets Lab and AccMan
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
Zoli Erdos / Zoli's Blog:
Why Would We Need a New Desktop OS?
Discussion: The Universal Desktop
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
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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Scott Gu / ScottGu's Blog:
First Look at IronRuby
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?
Discussion: Digital World
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
TiVo HD DVR is the newest Series3, TiVoToGo coming back
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.
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.
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
Dick Durbin / Open Left:
What should be America's national broadband strategy?  —  (This diary will remain at the top of the page for the next day.  New content will continue to appear below.  For example, check out Mike's piece on Bloggers and Donors, as well as my new piece on Republicans to Blame for World's Major Problems - promoted by Adam Bink)
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.
Discussion: Inquirer, Joystiq, Kotaku and digg
Forbes:
Class War: MySpace Vs. Facebook  —  A flurry of recent articles have observed that young people are leaving MySpace for Facebook in droves, setting off speculation that MySpace is becoming the latest victim of fickle teens following the hot new thing.  —  Not so, says University of California, Berkeley, researcher Danah Boyd.
Discussion: HipMojo.com and digg
Mikko / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
Bulletproof Hosting  —  So Google has these sponsored links in their search results...  Which is all nice and simple when you search for something like "flowers" or "clip art".  —  But try searching for "bulletproof hosting", and you'll get a bunch of Google sponsored links for companies that sell hosting for spammers:
Discussion: WebProNews
 
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Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
Xbox 360: Another One Bites the Dust
Discussion: GigaOM and digg
Jeremy Liew / VentureBeat:
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Globe and Mail:
London trumps Toronto as centre of Facebook universe
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Surprise: Facebook apps may help grow home sites
Tony Wright / Search Engine Watch:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
MySpace Mexico to exit beta on Tuesday
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 Earlier Items: 
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Curing "sender's remorse" (and screw-ups) with self-destructing e-mail
Discussion: Inquirer
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
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
CE-Oh no he didn't! …
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
iPhone vulnerability announced
Rajiv Sud / Inside AdSense:
Can't log in using Firefox?
Discussion: Googlified and WebProNews
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Inventors And Patent Attorneys Sue USPTO Over Supposedly Unqualified Appointment