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8:15 AM ET, July 31, 2007

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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Amp'd Mobile asset list full of porn  —  Amp'd Mobile, the mobile entertainment company that burned through $350 million in venture backing before imploding and auctioning off its assets last week, continues to baffle.  —  As mentioned, the chief executive flew around a black helicopter on company expense …
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Rafat Ali / mocoNews.net:
Audio Interview: Peter Adderton, Former CEO, Amp'd Mobile
Discussion: contentSutra.com and hypebot
Mozilla.org:
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-27  —  Unescaped URIs passed to external programs  —  Impact:  —  Critical  —  Announced:  —  Reporter:  —  Jesper Johansson  —  Products:  —  Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey  —  Fixed in:  —  Firefox 2.0.0.6  —  Thunderbird 2.0.0.6
Robert Levine / New York Times:
Music From Independent Labels to Be Sold via Cellphones  —  EMusic, the nation's second-largest online music seller after Apple's iTunes, plans to announce a deal with AT&T today that will allow people to buy songs from independent labels through their cellphones, without the need to go through a personal computer.
Associated Press:
Voting machine makers criticize review  —  Firms dispute a state study that found security problems.  One study author defended the conclusions.  —  SACRAMENTO — Representatives of three voting machine companies criticized a state study Monday that found that their machines could be breached by hackers …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Computer scientists hack Calif. e-voting machines
Discussion: The Register and eWEEK.com
Molly Peterson / Bloomberg:
FCC to Set Airwaves Auction Rules as Google, AT&T Take Sides  —  U.S. regulators today set the rules for the government's biggest auction of wireless airwaves, with Google Inc. fighting against carriers such as AT&T Inc. to force the winning bidders to open up the spectrum to more users.
Discussion: WebProNews
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Google's battle for wireless spectrum
Discussion: ZDNet and digg
Bill Ray / The Register:
Half of European calls to be mobile by 2008  —  Mobile calls are replacing fixed-line usage across Europe, according to a new report from Analysys, but people aren't talking more, they're just using fixed-lines less.  —  The change has been most stark in Finland, where 2006 saw another 10 per cent …
Discussion: SMS Text News
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft Works to become a free, ad-funded product  —  Microsoft's next version of its small-business/home productivity suite, due imminently, will be free and ad-funded.  —  Microsoft Works 9.0 — which will be the new product's name, if Microsoft opts to stick with its current nomenclature …
Valleywag:
Online Advertising: Facebook's secret rate card  —  Here's a new Facebook revenue estimate to think about: $90 million a year — from sponsorships alone.  Sure, I've poked fun at Facebook's fanciful figures.  The social network's board members, after all, can't get their stories straight …
Benjamin Edelman / Ben Edelman:
Zango Practices Violating Zango's Recent Settlement with the FTC … In my hands-on testing, Zango continues numerous practices likely to confuse, deceive, or otherwise harm typical users as well as practices specifically contrary to Zango's obligations under its November 2006 settlement with the FTC.
Discussion: Vitalsecurity.org
Microsoft:
Software Assurance Brings Value to Customers Beyond Upgrades  —  Q&A: Joe Matz, corporate vice president of Worldwide Licensing and Pricing at Microsoft, discusses the role of enterprise programs in ensuring and supporting customer technology road maps.  —  Two weeks ago Microsoft released …
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
YouTube to filter out copyrighted videos  —  Google plans to start checking videos on YouTube for copyright infringement within the next two months  —  Google has said that it hopes to have technology in place by September that would prevent copyright-infringing videos being posted on YouTube, its video-sharing site.
Discussion: Inquirer
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Phenom 3.0 demo surrounded by FUD  —  Let's dispel some of it  —  THERE HAS BEEN a great deal of speculation, FUD and outright whoppers about the AMD 3.0Ghz Barcelona/Phenom demo last week.  Let's try to dispel some of it, and toss in a little more insight as well.
Discussion: George Ou
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Bug Labs (initial review)  —  I went to a real interesting dinner tonight in San Francisco, to get introduced to a New York-based startup, Bug Labs, along with Ryan Block of Engadget, Robert Scoble and Jerry Michalski.  —  We met with their CEO, Peter Semmelhack, and their San Francisco-based consultant, Jeremy Toemann.
Discussion: A VC and Mashable!
DigiTimes:
Intel 45nm notebook CPUs to account for 50% of total shipments in 2Q08  —  In reports similar to those for server platforms, Intel plans to ramp up its 45nm mobile processors (Penryn) and related platforms to account for over 50% of the company's total notebook shipments in the second quarter of 2008 …
Neil Cavuto / Fox News:
Some Free Advice for Apple  —  This might shock some of you — some of you maybe not so much — but when I was a kid, I wasn't the greatest student.  —  Truth be told, I was an awful student and my poor mom and dad wondered each report card, just how awful it'd be.
Discussion: MacUser and MacDailyNews
Vivian / Inside AdWords:
Campaign Optimizer now available  —  Today, we're happy to announce the launch of a new ad performance tool called Campaign Optimizer.  It's an on-demand AdWords tool that provides personalized campaign ideas in just minutes.  We're always looking for ways to help you improve your account performance …
 
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DesktopLinux.com:
MEPIS to switch from Ubuntu to Debian
Discussion: digg
Ben Bland / Telegraph:
Illegal music downloads hit record high
David Kender / CamcorderInfo.com Blog:
Panasonic Unveils Two AVCHD Camcorders: HDC-SD5 and HDC-SX5
Discussion: I4U News
Phil Butler / Read/WriteWeb:
Software Runs Into Iceberg
Discussion: ProgrammableWeb and digg
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
What the iCrossing Acquisition of Proxicom Says About the State of the SEM Industry
Discussion: Arizona Republic
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Samba Exploit Leaves Mac Users Vulnerable To Hackers
Discussion: The Apple Blog
Natalie O'Brien / NEWS.com.au:
Spies watch rise of virtual terrorists
Discussion: RealityPrime and TechCrunch
Patrick Seitz / Investor's Business Daily:
Game Cycle Making GameStop A Winner
 Earlier Items: 
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Nvidia gaining ground on Intel, AMD in graphics
Discussion: eWEEK.com
Wendy Boswell / Lifehacker:
Technophilia: Get productive with the best Facebook Apps
Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day:
Google hires browser hacking guru
Dan Primack / PE HUB:
Qualcomm Backs iPhone Competitor
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitLet: A Cute Web-Based BitTorrent Client
Discussion: Mashable! and digg
Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq:
Rumor: Best Buy done with Xbox 360 core model
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
A-List Technology Bloggers: What Are They Good For?
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Web 2.0 Inefficiency: Crossposting On Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Etc.
Discussion: AttentionMax, /Message and WinExtra