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6:00 PM ET, August 2, 2007

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Wall Street Journal:
Google Pushes Tailored Phones To Win Lucrative Ad Market  —  Companies Featured in This Article: Google, Apple, AT&T, Verizon Communications, Vodafone Group, Deutsche Telekom, Sprint Nextel, Nokia, Walt Disney  —  Google Inc. is searching for growth in cellphones.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
HandHeld To Acquire eBaum's World For $17 Million  —  Another deal from HandHeld Entertainment, which continues to roll up traffic and content.  This time the company is picking up user-gen site eBaum'sWorld for $15 million in cash at closing and a possible total of $52.5 million in cash and stock over three years.
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Business Wire:
HandHeld Entertainment to Acquire eBaum's World, a Premier Online Entertainment Site
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Sony offers repair on 416,000 Cyber-shot cameras  —  Sony announced plans today to offer repairs on the casings of 416,000 Cyber-shot DSC-T5 digital cameras the company has sold, as the bottom plating can warp and create a sharp edge which can cut or scratch user's hands.
Discussion: Crave and TECH.BLORGE.com
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sony.net:
Public Notice to Owners of Sony "Cyber-shot" DSC-T5 Digital Still Cameras  —  Thank you for your continued interest in Sony Products.  —  Sony has recently discovered that, with certain units of its Digital Still Camera "Cyber-shot" DSC-T5 released on the market in September 2005 …
Discussion: Digital Trends and BetaNews
CraigE / Mac Mojo:
Office 2008 Coming January 2008  —  We announced today that Office 2008 for Mac will be released to manufacturing ("RTM") this December, which will allow for retail availability in the US in mid-January (planning for Macworld), and allow us to deliver Office 2008 to our volume license customers …
BBC:
Microsoft tries free office suite  —  Free copies of some of Microsoft's office software will soon be available.  —  The software giant said it would make ad-supported copies of the Works package available within "months".  —  The programs will not run in a web browser but will be installed …
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Microsoft preps first ad-supported client software pilot
Discussion: Inquirer
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
MySpace Nabs Lonelygirl15 Finale  —  In a deal that signals the ascendance of the independent video creator, MySpace will host and feature the Lonelygirl15 season finale this Friday.  The finale, a culmination of the series to date, with 12 episodes released every hour over starting at 8 a.m. Pacific …
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Business Wire:
LonelyGirl15 Finds Friends on MySpace — Season One Finale '12 …
Eric Norlin / Defrag blog:
Because I'm a sucker  —  My oh my, turn on the blogosphere this morning and what do I find?  A serious brouhaha brewing and boiling because Dvorak went and wrote the tiresome, "Bubble 2.0″ ("we're in one and it'll end badly").  Go read all of the techmeme links if you want the full skinny …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick:
John Dvorak isn't just cranky, he's cranky and wrong
Adario Strange / Epicenter:
Google/YouTube Slammed By Japanese Coalition  —  A new report claims that a group of Japanese music, film and television representatives held a press conference in Tokyo yesterday to complain about copyright violations on YouTube.  One composer, Hideki Matsutake (pictured right ) …
Discussion: WebProNews
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Hiroko Tabuchi / Associated Press:
Japanese Companies Slam YouTube
Discussion: Inquirer
Chris Hansen / MSNBC:
Hot iPods: Is there a way to stop thieves cold?  A Dateline hidden camera investigation. … Frustrated iPod owners are angry, their music taken from them by thieves Dateline caught on hidden camera.  —  Story continues below ↓  —  advertisement  —  On Dateline Wednesday …
Charlie White / Gizmodo:
Two Worlds Collide: Oops, iPhone Display Needs to Reboot, Runs Windows XP  —  Oops, iPhone Display Needs to Reboot, Runs Windows XP  —  Hey PC fanboys, now you can use this shot of a Windows XP display at an AT&T store when those smug Mac worshipers tell you about how such-and-such Zune commercial …
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com, Forever Geek and digg
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
WebbAlert: A Lot Like Rocketboom, Except It's Interesting  —  WebbAlert, a new daily (Monday - Thursday) video news show hosted by X-Play's Morgan Webb, launches this morning at 2 am PST.  The focus of the show will be the major breaking technology and gaming news of the day.
Keynote Systems:
Press Room: 2007  —  Keynote Systems Releases Study Examining Leading Electronic Retailer Web Sites  —  Keynote Competitive Research, the industry analysis group of Keynote Systems (Nasdaq: KEYN), today announced the release of a new competitive research study examining leading online electronics retailers.
Discussion: PC World
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Out of the Theater, Into the Courtroom  —  Jhannet Sejas and her boyfriend were celebrating her 19th birthday by taking in a matinee showing of the hit movie "Transformers" at the theater at Ballston Common mall.  —  Sejas was enjoying the movie so much that she decided to film a short clip …
MikeG / Mike Grehan says:
A guaranteed number one listing at Google!  —  I've been burning up my keyboard for the past two weeks none stop writing.  So I've had little time to read any of the latest news around the various other blogs, forums etc.  So, maybe this has been covered in great detail elsewhere.
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Uses Crowdsourcing To Create Maps In India  —  Google has been sending GPS kits to India that enable locals to make more detailed maps of their area.  After the data has been uploaded and then verified against other participant's data it becomes a part of the map.
Discussion: Startup Dunia
Scott Ferguson / eWEEK.com:
VMware Fusion for Mac Due Aug. 6  —  VMware's Fusion software for Apple's Macintosh will hit the market Aug. 6, after months of testing and beta releases.  —  The software, which allows a number of operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Linux and Sun Microsystems' Solaris to run on the Mac …
 
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Microsoft:
Microsoft and Apple Extend Font Licensing Agreement
Discussion: BetaNews
Reuters:
Take-Two delays "Grand Theft Auto IV"
Discussion: GamePro.com
Andrew Pipes / Read/WriteWeb:
Yahoo! Buzzlist versus Google Trends
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Oh Wow: Online Video Have a "Second Life" …
Discussion: Joseph Laszlo and VC Ratings
Anton Shilov / X-bit labs:
Intel to Launch 45nm Desktop Chips in Q4 - Documents
Discussion: Engadget
John Loiacono / JohnnyL's Blogic:
Adobe and FedEx Kinko's Update
Discussion: CNET News.com and Wired News
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Netvibes Launches Facebook Widget
Discussion: Widgets Lab
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The latest "shiny social object": an open/controllable social network?
Discussion: Krishwords
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Man nabbed in hacking of Dane's e-mails
Discussion: The Register
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Nokia Dials N-Series For Profits
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yelp API Released
Discussion: Mashable!
PC JOINT:
How Apple will implement Multi-Touch in Macbook, iMac and other devices
Media Stocks on Seeking Alpha:
Time Warner Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
New News Site: The Newsier Newser
Alexander Wolfe / InformationWeek:
DRM Scorecard: Hackers Batting 1000, Industry Zero
Discussion: Podcasting News and Tech_Space
Steven Schwankert / Computerworld:
D'oh! Homer 'photo' exposes Chinese media piracy