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4:55 AM ET, August 1, 2007

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Richard Whitt / Google Public Policy Blog:
Signs of real progress at the FCC  —  The Federal Communications Commission made real, if incomplete, progress for consumers this afternoon, as it set the rules for an upcoming auction of the publicly owned spectrum in the 700 MHz band.  —  None of us like how the current system locks …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FCC sets 700MHz auction rules: limited open access, no wholesale requirement  —  A soft-spoken Kevin Martin brought two phones to today's FCC open meeting at which the agency presented the rules for its upcoming 700MHz auction.  Both phones were made by Nokia, but the European version allowed access …
New York Times:
F.C.C. Hands Google a Partial Victory  —  The Federal Communications Commission moved cautiously Tuesday toward the creation of a new open national wireless broadband network, handing a partial victory to Google, which was pushing for more competition in cellphone services.
Discussion: FurdLog
Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
FCC Gives Google Half a Win  —  Updated.Looks like the vote on the 700 MHz auction rulemaking is finally in, and as expected the commission adopted some of the open-networking proposals championed by Google, but not all.  While Google carefully lauds the FCC for its action in a post …
AppleInsider:
Apple to host Mac event next Tuesday  —  Apple Inc. is gathering analysts and members of the media for a Mac-related press event to be held at the company's headquarters in Cupertino on Tuesday, August 7th, AppleInsider has been told.  —  Unlike past events in which the company drafted …
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Jim Goldman / CNBC.com:
Apple Shares Plunge On Rumors of iPhone, iPod Problems  —  [AAPL Loading...  (%) ] plunged 7% in heavy trading Tuesday after a report—later denied—that cited production problems with the company's popular iPhone and iPod devices.  —  The report first surfaced on TheStreet.com …
Discussion: Gizmodo
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple shares drop—yet again—on rumors  —  I'm starting to wonder how many people are taking advantage of the Internet age, and the volatility around anything to do with Apple, to make some money.  —  Apple's stock fell $9.71, or 6.87 percent, to $131.72 during today's trading on the Nasdaq.
Discussion: Byte of the Apple
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Apple Gets Bitten by the Rumor-Mill
Discussion: Paul Kedrosky's …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple gathering press for Mac event next week
Matt / mdibb:
Did Facebook get hacked today?  —  <Update>:  —  Ok so it would seem that Facebook were fixing a technical issue regarding proxies, and nothing to do with security, according to the Scobleizer blog (which has some sort of access to Facebook's PR team).  Facebook is now alive again …
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John Leyden / The Register:
Facebook security glitch exposes user in-boxes  —  GDP boost expected as users forced to work for a change  —  Office workers logging into Facebook on Tuesday morning were shocked to discover they were being served up other user's private pages.  —  Information going astray included other user's message inboxes.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Facebook outage  —  I did a little Twittergram shortly before noon …
Discussion: Alec Saunders .LOG
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Facebook experiencing 'upgrade' outages
Discussion: All Facebook and Business Week
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Can Murdoch Charge for WSJ.com and Give It Away Too?  —  "On Day 1," a lot of people in the Internet news business imagine Rupert Murdoch saying, "everything is free."  —  The conventional wisdom is that Dow Jones is making a tragic mistake by charging as much as $99 a year for the online edition …
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comScore:
Social Networking Goes Global Major Social Networking Sites Substantially Expanded Their Global Visitor Base during Past Year  —  comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study on the expansion of social networking across the globe …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Social Networking Goes Global - Especially in North American Region
Discussion: Mashable!
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Breaking: iPhone Firmware Update 1.0.1 Now Available, Fixes Bugs  —  Version 1.0.1 of the iPhone Firmware Update is now available, with "bug fixes."  Yes, the JesusPhone is getting it's first update ever and now we will discover if all those hacks are still working or they are battling back.
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Jason Snell / iPhone Central:
iPhone Software 1.0.1 released
Valleywag:
Online Advertising: Facebook doubles its rates in four months  —  Rip up your Facebook revenue estimates and start over, everyone.  Since February, Facebook has doubled the rates it charged for sponsored groups from $150,000 to $300,000.  Since exposing Facebook's supposedly nonexistent rate card …
Discussion: All Facebook
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Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
Time to Update Those Facebook Revenue Estimates
Discussion: Valleywag
Official Google Maps API Blog:
Microformats in Google Maps  —  If you have spent any time in certain corners of the web, you will have heard of Microformats: Clever uses of HTML that add machine-readability to everyday web pages while preserving human-readability.  Microformats allow tools to make more sense of your web pages …
Gordon Finlayson / Download Squad:
Blog pirates on the horizon!  —  The rise and rise of blogging as an online phenomenon has relied heavily on the ability of social nature of blogs - as each blog links into one another or as larger blogs link to and report on stories breaking on smaller specialist blogs.
Discussion: Deep Jive Interests and WinExtra
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple unloads torrent of patches, plus the first iPhone update  —  If you own a Mac or an iPhone, chances are you'll need to download at least one of the security updates issued by Apple late Tuesday.  —  Dozens of vulnerabilities and bugs were covered by a total of six downloads for Mac OS 10.3.9 …
Discussion: Computerworld
 
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Wade Roush / Xconomy:
Upheaval at MERL: Mitsubishi Electric Breaks Up Famous Computer Science Lab
Discussion: Inquirer and Slashdot
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Can My Yahoo Compete With Facebook and iGoogle?
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Panasonic's HDC-SD7 dons title of world's smallest HD camcorder
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Sports leagues accused of deceptive warnings
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
My Damn Channel: video sharing for the pros
Discussion: Mashable!
Seth Goldstein:
Closed is the New Open  —  If there ever were a post where the title …
Discussion: Publishing 2.0
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Hoffman / DailyTech:
Dell Expands Ubuntu Product Offerings
Discussion: OSDir.com and TechSpot News
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google is experimenting with Behavioral AdWords
Discussion: CNET News.com
consumer.state.ny.us:
CPB Calls on Apple to Amend Policies Regarding iPhone Service
Discussion: PC World
Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
Freetards in deep denial
Discussion: Asa Dotzler
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Bug Labs DIY gadgets to turn consumer electronics on its ear?
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook kills Audio for copyright violations (updated)
The Age:
Printers pose health risks: study
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Apple iPhone Out, Blackberry 8800 In At NASA