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7:30 AM ET, July 30, 2007

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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
NowPublic Gets $10.6 Million For Crowd Sourced News  —  "Crowd sourced" news network NowPublic.com has closed a $10.6 milion series A round of financing led by Rho Ventures with seed investors Brightspark and the Working Opportunity Fund participating.  —  Crowd sourcing is part of the widely expanding …
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
For NowPublic Citizen Journalism Seems to Work  —  NowPublic, a Vancouver-based citizen journalism site has raised $10.6 million in Series A funding from Rho Ventures/Rho Canada, Brightspark, and the Working Opportunity Fund.  —  So first off, that's a boatload of cash in the web news business and we're not saying it's justified.
Halvar Flake / ADD / XOR / ROL:
I've been denied entry to the US essentially for carrying my trainings material.  Wow.  —  It appears I can't attend Blackhat this year.  I was denied entry to the US for carrying trainings materials for the Blackhat trainings, and intending to hold these trainings as a private citizen instead of as a company.
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Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day:
German hacker denied entry into U.S. for Black Hat training
Discussion: Inquirer
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Cisco dives into Web 2.0, buys Five Across  —  What has the world come to?  —  Even Cisco Systems, the stately technology giant best known for delivering the boring pipes (or tubes) of the Internet backbone, has fallen for Web 2.0.  —  The San Jose networking company has just acquired Five Across …
Discussion: TechCrunch
Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:
Shi Tao's case: Yahoo! knew more than they claimed  —  Yahoo! executives say one thing in public, an official Chinese document says something else.  Oops.  —  I just discovered today that the Dui Hua Foundation, which does excellent, low-key work on Chinese human rights issues, has a blog.
Alex / BlueBlog:
Conference Tips for Startups: Where to go and what to do once you get there  —  We have been to quite a few conferences already and quite a few people have asked me what conferences are good.  The problem is not that some conferences are bad, its just that some conferences may not be the right venue for your startup.
Discussion: Web Strategy
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
What Web Conferences to Attend
Discussion: Scobleizer
Reuters:
Match.com expands mobile online dating service  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online dating service Match.com is launching a new application for cell phones, allowing subscribers to keep track of their paramours while on the go.  —  MatchMobile will first be made available in the United States …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
"Attempted infringment" appears in new House intellectual property bill  —  Back in May, the Justice Department issued some proposed legislation to tighten US intellectual property laws and to criminalize some forms of "attempted infringement."  Now, legislation based on the proposals …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Gates Plans His Leave Amid Great Change  —  Microsoft is beset with competition from all sides, unlike any it has seen in decades, and Bill Gates, who co-founded the company 32 years ago, still intends to step away next year as planned.  —  But so far, Mr. Gates, Microsoft's 51-year-old chairman, shows no sign of fading away.
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Battlemodo: Microsoft's Local SUV Armada vs Google's Streetview Fleet  —  Microsoft's Windows Live Local armada is striking back against Google's Streetview fleet with all the technological terror they can find.  Check this Chevy Tahoe's intimidating top: six huge cameras …
Discussion: digg
Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
New Life on the Web for a Killed Newspaper Column  —  "The bug at the bottom of the Calendar front in today's Los Angeles Times says columnist Patrick Goldstein is on assignment," began a July 24 item on the Web site L.A. Observed.  "Not true.  His The Big Picture column for Tuesday was killed."
Discussion: Lost Remote
Dan Kaplan / VentureBeat:
Buzzwire streams mobile media, no downloads attached  —  Buzzwire lets you stream video, audio, and live internet radio to your mobile phone — something other companies do.  —  But Buzzwire does this without requiring a download — setting it apart from the crowd.
Discussion: PodTech.net
PRWeb:
Samsung Launches Next Generation of Award Winning NV Digital Cameras  —  NV8, NV15 and NV20 Join Samsung's Prominent NV Series  —  Secaucus, NJ (PRWEB) July 30, 2007 — Samsung Camera today introduced three new models to its revolutionary NV series of advanced point & shoot digital cameras …
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Court says "no" to changing terms of service without notification  —  Many of us have seen service agreements that specify that the terms could be changed at any time without notifying the user.  Well, a recent court decision could change all that.  Service providers should not be able …
Robin Marantz Henig / New York Times:
The Real Transformers  —  I was introduced to my first sociable robot on a sunny afternoon in June.  The robot, developed by graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was named Mertz.  It had camera sensors behind its eyes, which were programmed to detect faces …
Discussion: digg
 
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Jeremy / KernelTrap:
Linux: Linus On CFS vs SD
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Garett Rogers / ZDNet:
Google set to simultaneously create and dominate a new market?
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 Earlier Items: 
Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone "Hello World" binary released
Discussion: Engadget and digg
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Google YouTube copyright infringement filtering system - How will it work?
Discussion: Technovia and Insider Chatter
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
The TechCrunch MeetUp party: Tonight we're going to party like it's 1999
Discussion: TechCrunch