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10:10 AM ET, August 4, 2007

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George Ou:
Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007  —  Undercover reporter Michelle Madigan (Associate Producer of NBC Dateline) got a little more than she bargained for when she tried to sneak in to DEFCON 2007 with hidden cameras to get someone to confess to a felony.
Discussion: Deep Jive Interests
Robert McMillan / PC World:
Hacking Conference Infiltrated by 'Media Mole'  —  DefCon organizers are worried that Dateline NBC has sent an undercover producer with a hidden camera to cover the show.  —  Recommend this story?  —  Trust nobody.  —  That's what organizers of the 15th annual DefCon hacking conference …
Discussion: Inquirer, The Register and eWEEK.com
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Breaking: First Third-party Native iPhone Application  —  Google Code has the first third-party native application ever for the iPhone.  A real full-fledged iPhone application with a graphic user interface and its own icon in the iPhone home screen.  Yes, this is not a Web 2.0 app but the real thing …
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Journeys inside the iPhone's SDK
Discussion: Download Squad and digg
Darla Mack:
iTheme for S60 3rd Edition  —  Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have the interface of the iPhone?  Maybe some have and maybe some haven't, but seeing an app like this even I became a bit interested.  This form of customization goes way beyond basic theme creation.
Discussion: IntoMobile and All About Symbian
Xbox-Scene News:
Raid casualty comes forward to tell his story  —  >> HSD - Hours before the raids were news and broadcast across the net and the mass media, an XS member (FallsInc) tried to warn those of us in the inner circle that the noose was about to tighten around US Modchip shops.
Discussion: Engadget, GamePolitics.com and digg
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Blogging Ethics: When And What Should Bloggers Disclose?  —  Is there a new blogger scandal brewing?  Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks seems to think so.  Allen takes issue with the new video blog Webb Alert (which mentioned Read/WriteWeb today), saying that the blog doesn't disclose …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bear Stearns: Yahoo Must Form A Social Networking Strategy  —  There is a bit of buzz around the presentation Bear Stearns Internet analyst Robert Peck gave a couple of days ago.  It recommends a broad strategy for Yahoo to get their act together in the social networking space …
Discussion: HipMojo.com and Web Strategy
Kyle Pott / Lifehacker:
Featured Windows Download: Log your workday from the system tray with Life Logger  —  Log your workday from the system tray with Life Logger  —  Windows only: Freeware app Life Logger is a small system tray application to help log your daily activities.  Inspired by Gina's quick log script …
Business Wire:
Apple iPhones Will Be Sold for 99¢; Only to the First Nine Customers at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the First 99¢ Only Stores® on Thursday, August 9th, 2007  —  COMMERCE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—99¢ Only Stores® invites all to join in celebrating our 25th anniversary!
Dylan Jobe / PlayStation.Blog:
Warhawk Goes Gold  —  Hi Everyone - It's been a while since I've made a post, but since some of you guys posted comments wanting me to jump back on, *and* the very interesting pricing debate/discussion that has been going on recently, well ... here I am with a couple of important updates!?
Sabena Suri / CNET News.com:
E-book site for students promises to save trees, money  —  Every June, I am as elated as the next student to have a three-month respite from the confines of school.  But, come August, you can find me on Amazon.com, frantically buying an inordinate number of books for every class—in many cases, more than two books per class.
Discussion: Mashable!
Direct2Dell:
XPS M1330: What's Going On?  —  Since my last post, many of you made it clear that you want us to share more details about what's going on with the XPS M1330.  I want to apologize for the frustration that these delays are causing you.  I understand that no amount of explanation is a substitute …
Discussion: CNET News.com and Engadget
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Reconfirmation: Flickr To Add Video  —  In May Flickr cofounder Stewart Butterfield casually mentioned to me that they would be allowing users to upload video "soon" (see last sentence in this post).  Yesterday Yahoo Video GM Mike Folgner reconfirmed this: "Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing site will also be adding video," he said.
Foster Klug / Associated Press:
Lawmaker wants Yahoo probe  —  WASHINGTON - Congressional investigators plan to look into whether Yahoo officials misrepresented the Internet company's role in the arrest of a Chinese journalist sentenced to a decade in jail.  —  House Foreign Affairs Chairman Tom Lantos ordered the investigation …
Discussion: CNET News.com
 
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I am Nokia NSeries commercial
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Amazon vs. Paypal vs. Google Checkout
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PolarRose beta - Discover people in your browser
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x64 Driver Signing Update
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First TechStars Company Launches: MadKast
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Lock-in and the web, day 2  —  Every day I dish up a number of topics …
Discussion: Valleywag
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Average PC is a smorgasboard for a new MP3-eating trojan
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Pirate Bay's 'brokep' details new SuprNova.org
Discussion: Inquirer
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Twitter Is Now An Extension Of My Blogging
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3rd party Microsoft Exchange service for iPhone now shipping
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