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4:05 PM ET, August 7, 2007

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Holly M. Sanders / New York Post:
TIMESSELECT CONTENT FREED  —  The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content, The Post has learned.  —  After much internal debate, Times executives - including publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. - made the decision to end …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
New York Times to ax premium online content, rival says
Discussion: Mashable! and Reuters
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
New York Times To Fold TimesSelect Presaging The Death of Paid Content
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Live from Apple's summer Mac product press conference  —  8:51AM (all times in PST): Well, we're here... And we're a bit early.  Not too many folks waiting around; we'll let you know as they start admitting.  —  9:27AM: Plenty of people here now, the usual suspects — gadgetrati VIPs and, well, little old us.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple unveils new iMacs, updated apps  —  Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced two new iMacs at the start of an event held Tuesday at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.  —  The 20-inch and 24-inch iMacs are the latest editions of Apple's all-in-one iMac design.
Discussion: Computerworld, Ars Technica and WinBeta
Apple:
Apple Introduces iLife '08  —  Major New Versions of iPhoto & iMovie  —  Apple® today introduced iLife® '08, the most significant upgrade ever to Apple's award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications, featuring a major new version of iPhoto® and a completely reinvented …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple's new iMac and keyboard: first hands-on
Darren Murph / Engadget:   Apple refreshes Mac mini, now with Core 2 Duo
VSS:
New VSS Forecast Released  —  Shift to Alternative Media Strategies Will Drive U.S. Communications Spending Growth in 2007-2011 Period; Consumer Media Usage Expected to Level Off Going Forward … While communications spending growth accelerated in 2006, outpacing nominal GDP for the fourth …
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Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
Online ads to overtake US newspapers  —  The rapid growth of online advertising is expected to see the sector overtake US newspaper advertising in terms of size by 2011.  —  The forecast comes against a backdrop of declining advertising sales reported by newspaper groups this year in spite of continued strength in the US economy.
Laurie Petersen / MediaPost Publications:
Internet Ad Spending Set To Overtake All Other Media By 2011: VSS  —  SPENDING ON INTERNET ADVERTISING WILL reach $61.98 billion, and will surpass newspapers to become the nation's leading ad medium in 2011, projects private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson in its 21st Communications Industry Forecast released today.
Los Angeles Times:
Google Maps redraw the realm of privacy  —  As street-level photos are added to the site, fears of intrusion arise.  —  Google Inc. has been watching you, Southern California.  —  A caravan of cars and trucks mounted with cameras has been driving city streets for months …
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Stephen Chau / Google LatLong:
More Street View Cities  —  Since the launch of Street View we've been working hard on extending the service to more cities.  —  We're excited to announce that Street View is now available in San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando.  Like the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego features high-resolution imagery.
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Four more cities added to Google street View
Discussion: CNET News.com
Chris DiBona / Official Google Blog:
Joining OIN  —  You'll often hear members of our open source team say, "Every time you use Google, you're using Linux."  It's absolutely true.  Check a Google engineer's workstation, and you'll probably find it's running Linux.  Do a search on Google.com, and a Linux server will return your results.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Google signs on with Open Invention Network
Discussion: Inquirer and Mashable!
Charles Babcock / InformationWeek:
Google To Join Group To Protect Linux From Possible Patent Challenge
Discussion: Linux-Watch.com and Compiler
BBC:
Microsoft MP3 fine dropped  —  A US district court has overturned a decision ordering Microsoft to pay phone firm Alcatel-Lucent $1.52bn (£777m) for infringing music patents.  —  The federal judge in San Diego reversed a jury's decision which had ruled that Microsoft's Media Player software infringed on two Alcatel patents.
Discussion: Neowin.net and Slashdot
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Arneh / WinBeta:
Windows XP SP3 Released To Small Group (Updated)  —  Forum CP  · Admin CP  —  Add to Favorites  —  Welcome to WinBeta.  —  Your number one source for the latest Windows news and reviews.  We will keep you up to date within the community and beyond!
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Nokia:
The new Nokia Prism collection: progressive design cut with personalized style  —  Espoo, Finland - Nokia today unveiled the Prism collection, its latest range of mobile phones aimed at style-conscious consumers.  The Prism collection consists of the Nokia 7900 Prism and the Nokia 7500 Prism …
Leelefever / Common Craft:
Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English  —  We made this video because we want others to feel the power of social bookmarking and how it works to make web pages easier to remember, organize and share.  —  This video is focused on Del.icio.us, but you could also try social bookmarking sites like Magnolia or Furl.
Steve Ranger / silicon.com:
Q&A: William Gibson, science fiction novelist  —  Science fiction novelist William Gibson has been exploring the relationship between technology and society ever since he burst on to the literary scene with his cyberpunk classic Neuromancer in 1984.  He invented the word 'cyberspace …
Wall Street Journal:
Music Publishers Join YouTube Copyright Suit  —  A trade association representing major music publishers signed on as plaintiffs in an existing lawsuit accusing YouTube of copyright infringement, joining a growing list of parties who argue Google Inc.'s video-sharing service routinely violates intellectual-property rights.
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:
Americans Support Ban On Texting While Driving  —  Eighty-nine percent of American adults believe that sending text messages or emails while driving is dangerous and should be banned according to a new survey commissioned by mobile messaging service Pinger and conducted by Harris Interactive.
 
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
The State of the Net is... not so strong
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Apple's iWeb gets tight Google integration, widgets
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Accoona IPO  —  Accoona, a search engine and, apparently …
Brandon West / Rev2.org:
Skype and Dailymotion Announce Partnership
Discussion: Mashable!
Jessie Scanlon / Business Week:
Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Mozilla's plan for improving Firefox user retention rates
Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Xbox 360 System update
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LogMeIn Adds Remote PC Access Capability to Palm Foleo Mobile Companion
James Sherwood / The Register:
Alcatel unveils mobile phone under £20
Discussion: CrunchGear and IntoMobile
Drew / Dembot:
Twitter Infestation  —  Today I received the following in my email box:
Discussion: broadstuff and Business Week
Read/WriteWeb:
Personalized Search Primer - And Google's Approach
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Sun looses 'world's fastest chip' — the 1.4GHz Niagara 2
Holly M. Sanders / New York Post:
ONLINE AD WAR
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Buy.com launches Garage Sale service on Facebook
 

 
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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