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3:15 PM ET, August 29, 2007

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Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Announcing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta  —  Now is the time and the time is now: let's talk about Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1).  Much has been made of what will or will not be included in SP1 and when it will be released (some accurate, some otherwise).
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Brandon LeBlanc / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta White Paper  —  Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta Whitepaper  —  Introduction  —  When developing Windows Vista, Microsoft set out to provide higher levels of productivity, mobility, and security, with lower costs.  After more than six months …
WindowsServer / Windows Server Division WebLog:
WINDOWS SERVER 2008 TIMING UPDATE  —  With over 300,000 downloads of Beta 3 already under our belt, there is a lot of excitement here in Redmond as we get closer to our release candidate milestone for Windows Server 2008.  Customers and partners are very impressed with what they see …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
The shroud of secrecy is lifted: Vista SP1 beta due in two weeks  —  After almost a year of hemming and hawing over how and when to acknowledge publicly its plans for Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1, Microsoft finally went public on August 29 with its official schedule and feature set for the awaited update.
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Windows Vista Service Pack 1: It's alive
Discussion: Salon: Machinist and CNET News.com
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:   Windows Server 2008 release to manufacturing delayed to Q1 2008
Elizabeth Montalbano / InfoWorld:
Update: Vista SP1 due in Q1 2008, beta in September
Discussion: Engadget and InfoWorld
Om Malik / NewTeeVee:
NewCo finally gets a name: Hulu  —  News Corp. and NBC Universal have finally announced the name for their much talked about NewCo online video effort: Hulu.  CEO Jason Kilar explains the reasons why they picked the name. … The company is going to go into a private beta in October 2007[8].
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Breaking: News Corp. and NBC Universal Unveil Official Name for Online Video Venture  —  This just in... the un-named online video venture from News Corp. and NBC Universal now has a name: Hulu.  Details are just coming in but here is the release:  —  News Corp. and NBC Universal today announced that …
Reuters:
News Corp and NBC Universal name video site Hulu  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp. and NBC Universal said on Wednesday they have named their new online video joint venture Hulu, taking a page from the Internet company tradition of creating meaningless corporate monikers.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia's iPhone — no, seriously  —  Oh come on, what the hell is that?  A Nokia branded iPhone?  It was presented during Nokia's GoPlay event this morning as a glimpse of what's coming with Nokia interface design.  Oh, and it's due out next year.  When pressed during the Q …
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NokNok:
NokNok - Tap into your Nokia's hidden talents
Discussion: Gizmodo and PalmAddicts
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Valleywag:
Rumormonger: Yahoo sales chief may be out of the picture  —  On AllThingsD, Kara Swisher has the scoop on some minor personnel moves at Yahoo.  But surprisingly, the reporter who's normally so plugged into the mess at Yahoo may have missed the big news.  One tipster claims that Gregory Coleman …
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Zoho Launches Application Start Page  —  Online office tools provider Zoho today released a beta version of Zoho Start, a launch pad for Zoho's suite of office applications.  Zoho currently offers a suite of 16 separate apps and utilities, and while they have a common login …
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
10 Must Have Online Office Apps
Discussion: Zoho Blogs
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
The Next iPod  —  Don't even think about buying an iPod between now and Sept. 5.  Apple has invited the press to a "special event" next week in San Francisco.  And as usual, Apple won't say what it plans to announce.  Or much of anything.  —  But it doesn't take one of Hewlett-Packard's …
Discussion: paidContent.org
Hadley Stern / Apple Matters:
The Coming Leopard Letdown  —  John Gruber has branched out from his usually excellent blog, Daring Fireball and has started writing for Macworld.  I say good for him (yes, I'm a little jealous, I always thought my words would be good there!).  Although I hope the contract doesn't include doing nothing but heaping praise on Apple.
Discussion: Hardware 2.0 and Channel 9
Blaine Harden / Washington Post:
Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future  —  TOKYO — Americans invented the Internet, but the Japanese are running away with it.  —  Broadband service here is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States — and considerably cheaper.  Japan has the world's fastest Internet connections …
 
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Robin Linden / Official Linden Blog:
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David Lazarus / Los Angeles Times:
Time of day calling it quits at AT&T  —  It's the end of time …
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Introducing the Hardy Heron
Discussion: CNET News.com and Slashdot
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Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:
Farecast Launches Hotels Search
Discussion: Reuters
Kevin Kelleher / TheStreet.com:
Tech IPOs Shut Out the Little Guy
Discussion: Techdirt
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Dot-com names get dottier
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Inside DCSNet, the FBI's Nationwide Eavesdropping Network
Alexkoc / Windows Genuine Advantage:
So what happened?
Chris Gilmer / Download Squad:
Google Web Toolkit jumps out of beta
Discussion: WebProNews
Matt Asay / CNET News.com:
Does Google own your content?
Ken Norton / Official Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog:
How Docs & Spreadsheets grew at Google
Discussion: WebProNews
Antonis Kaladis / AutoPatcher.com:
Sad day  —  Today we received an e-mail from Microsoft …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Adobe Hires Co-Inventor of Image Resizer Technology
Discussion: JD on EP, TiVo Lovers Blog and Digg
IDC Home:
Some Social Networks May Never Support Brand Advertising, IDC Finds
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