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Tom Neumayr / Apple:
iTunes Store Tops Three Billion Songs — Apple® today announced that more than three billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). iTunes is the world's most popular online music, TV and movie store featuring a catalog of over five million songs …
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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.
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Engadget, last100, Mashable!, Contentinople, Silicon Alley Insider, PSFK and mocoNews.net
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
iTunes Store rings up 3 billionth song — The iTunes Store is on a roll and not slowing down any time soon. Apple announced this morning that over 3 billion songs have been sold through its online music store. The milestone not only marks a major feat for Apple, but also for the digital music industry as a whole.
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
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Download Squad, DailyTech, Ryan Naraine's Zero Day, The Register, CyberNet Technology News and BetaNews
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Mozilla.org:
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-26 — Privilege escalation through chrome-loaded about:blank windows — Impact: — Moderate — Announced: — Reporter: — moz_bug_r_a4 — Products: — Firefox 2.0.0.5, Thunderbird 2.0.0.5, SeaMonkey 1.1.3 — Fixed in: — Firefox 2.0.0.6
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.
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Fred / A VC:
Bug - Slowly Coming Out Of Stealth — Bug Labs is certainly our most "out there" investment. Some of our investors have a hard time getting their head around it. Brad, who led this investment for us, is always very careful to explain that this is really a software/services bet, not a hardware bet.
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 …
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Bits, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Compiler, Zoli's Blog, PC World: Techlog, Download Squad and One Microsoft Way
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Offers Works For Free — Microsoft has released the new version of Microsoft Works as a free, ad supported office package that will compete directly with Open Office and Google Docs & Spreadsheets. — The Works package offers word processing, spreadsheet and slide (powerpoint) …
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IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
Karl / dslreports.com:
Amp'd Dies At Midnight - Assets being auctioned off... att=1195795,r According to the company FAQ, today is the last day of service for the hipster-focused MVNO Amp'd Mobile, who recently filed for bankruptcy after nearly half of their very hip customers failed to pay their bills.
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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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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:Google Launches Campaign Optimizer For Automated AdWords Tips
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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.
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Suzanne Allen / Verizon:Verizon Wireless To Acquire Rural Cellular Corporation, Expand …
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Fractals of Change, DailyTech, Public Knowledge, Investor's Business Daily, Silicon Alley Insider and Phone Scoop
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.
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BBC:
The long hard road to open source — Will Microsoft's new licenses change the way we think about open source? Regular columnist Bill Thompson believes they could. — Microsoft has stirred up debate in the open source community by announcing that it will be submitting two licenses to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for approval.
InterActiveCorp:
IAC Reports Q2 Results — IAC (Nasdaq: IACI) released second quarter 2007 results today, reporting $1.5 billion in revenue, a 6% rate of growth over the prior year, and $136 million in Operating Income Before Amortization, compared to $165 million in the year ago period.
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 …
