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5:25 PM ET, August 9, 2007

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Windows Live SkyDrive Team Blog:
Introducing Windows Live SkyDrive!  —  Thanks for your help testing Windows Live Folders.  It's been a month and a half since our first release, and today we're making three major announcements!  —  First, we're happy to announce our new name:  —  Second, we've been listening intently …
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Experience Blog:
Store your files in "the cloud" with Windows Live SkyDrive  —  Today Microsoft is announcing the final product name for what was previously known as Windows Live Folders.  Windows Live SkyDrive gets not only its final product name but also a few new features and enhanced UI reflecting changes coming across …
Chris / LiveSide:
Windows Live Folders renamed to Skydrive - Gets update too  —  Today sees the somewhat expected renaming of Windows Live Folders to its final name, Windows Live Skydrive.  There is also a significant update to the service, extending the basic functionality that was criticised somewhat at the start of the initial beta.
Discussion: Webware.com and Channel 9
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for August 2007  —  Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: August 9, 2007  —  Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: August 14, 2007  —  This is an advance notification of nine security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on August 14, 2007.
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TechNet Blogs:   August 2007 Bulletin Release Advance Notification
Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
Update: Porn company Perfect 10 sues Microsoft  —  (InfoWorld) - A publisher of nude model photography is suing Microsoft for putting links and images of the company's content in search results taken from other Web sites that are illegally reproducing the material.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
After Striking Out With Google, Perfect 10 Bats Against Microsoft Over Image Search
Discussion: PRWeb and PC World
PR Newswire:
Vonage Holdings Corp. Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results  —  HOLMDEL, N.J., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG - News), a leading provider of broadband telephone service, today announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2007.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hey, Maybe Vonage Isn't Dead Yet
Discussion: uncov, GigaOM and Epicenter
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Vonage flounders amid slowed subscriber growth
Discussion: TechSpot News
Ricky Cadden / Symbian-Guru.com:
US 3G Nokia N95 Getting Battery Upgrade!  —  I received this in my inbox recently, and had to wait a few days to share.  This is the official sales flyer for the US 3G Nokia N95.  There's several really HOT parts about it that I'm really excited about.  —  The first is that the thing finally has US 3G - HSDPA even.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Coming Soon, Nokia N95 with US 3G Support  —  After a long morning at Cupertino on Tuesday, I spent much of the afternoon taping The GigaOM Show for this week.  We invited Blake Krikorian, CEO and co-founder of Sling Media, to come on and talk about all things newteevee.
thepomoblog.com:
FOUNDATIONS ARE CRUMBLING BUT NEW ONES ARE BEING FORMED (Terry)  —  The first story in this morning's MediaDailyNews jolts like a cold splash of water on a hot face.  Nielsen has released new data from its "engagement panels," and it's not good for the status quo.
Discussion: TeleRead
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Doc Searls Weblog:
Looking toward life beyond advertising
Discussion: Copyblogger and CostPerNews
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Apple makes iMovie HD 6 available for download  —  Are you an iMovie user who misses what you once knew and loved after installing iLife '08?  I know that there are more than just a few of you (and a few of us at the Orbiting HQ) who have a strong disdain for the newest version of iMovie.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Dell To Pay Ex-CEO Rollins $48.5 Million For Unexercised Optons  —  Well, isn't this nice.  Dell (DELL) disclosed in an SEC filing yesterday that it will pay Kevin Rollins, its former president and CEO, $48,462,495 as part of a previously disclosed program to provide cash payments …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Equity Firm Invests in NBC Universal-News Corp. Online Venture  —  The joint venture between NBC Universal and the News Corporation to bring their television shows and movies onto the Internet still lacks a Web site.  It still has no name.  It also has yet to announce a clear mission …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Pearl Jam censored by AT&T, calls for a neutral 'Net  —  A bit of heavy-handed censorship of a Pearl Jam concert by AT&T this weekend led the band to fire off an open letter to fans—a letter in which Pearl Jam railed against media and ISP consolidation and called for readers to support network neutrality.
Discussion: Gizmodo, PC World, Computerworld and digg
Susan Landau / Washington Post:
A Gateway for Hackers  —  The Security Threat in the New Wiretapping Law  —  Current administration policy is replete with examples of quickly enacted efforts whose consequences led to the opposite effect.  (Beware of what you wish for . . . .) With Congress caving last week …
Nik Fletcher / Download Squad:
iPhone set to get games?  —  There's talk all over the web of the U.K. getting iTunes Movies and T.V. shows "by the end of the month" - something us Brits are long overdue.  Here at Download Squad we decided to see whether it truly is a matter of "flipping the switches" on this rumoured store …
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Tech: Is Google Rolling Out a Gmail Storage Upgrade?  —  I have complained here many times that Google won't let me buy a storage upgrade to Gmail without going to Gmail apps.  This morning, however, I have had two people email to say that they woke today to discover that Google has …
Discussion: Zoli's Blog
 
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Veoh Sues Universal Music
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Meetup Launches Facebook Application
Discussion: TreeHugger
Carlos Grande / Financial Times:
Facebook enables advertisers to opt out
Tom Liston / SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON:
Cisco is back, so you can go read up on their new advisories (
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
"Can I have your badge number and the source code to your breathalyzer?"
Discussion: CNET News.com, CrunchGear and digg
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Email Attachments Are So Uncool
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
AMD's September launch party could bring Barcelona
Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
Honda's FCX Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle to Receive $12K IRS Tax Credit
 Earlier Items: 
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
EPOS Technologies' digital pen records your writing
Discussion: Crave
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Great strides made in search engine privacy, says report
Business Wire:
Limelight Networks Reports Second-Quarter 2007 Results
Natasha Lomas / CNET News.com:
HSPA to dominate mobile broadband?
Discussion: dailywireless.org
Matthew Rothenberg / Flickr Blog:
Improved Web Uploading
Discussion: Download Squad and Compiler
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
What's Behind Apple's iWork?
Discussion: Macsimum News and MacDailyNews
Peter Wayner / New York Times:
An Entire Bookshelf, in Your Hands
Cisco PR / The Platform:
FINAL UPDATE: Cisco.com Outage
 

 
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A US appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, finding the trial judge let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case

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Interviews with 24 people reveal the tense relationship between President Biden and the New York Times, beset by misunderstandings, grudges, and a lack of trust

Laura Kukkonen / Columbia Journalism Review:
After a reporter for Aamulehti, Finland's second-largest daily, acknowledged in his autobiography that he fabricated stories, the paper removes 551 articles

 
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