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12:45 AM ET, September 13, 2007

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Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Office Ultimate 2007: Just $60! (for students)  —  Starting in 59 minutes, 35 seconds, Microsoft will begin offering Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for students for the amazing price of just sixty dollars.  This special offer for students only represents a $620 discount off the retail price of $680, a 91% savings.
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Microsoft:
Student Promotion Provides Steal of a Deal for Office Ultimate 2007  —  Q&A: Alan Yates, Microsoft general manager of Worldwide Education, highlights how Microsoft is providing college students with easier access to tools for academic success.  —  Microsoft today announced The Ultimate Steal …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft says college students can 'steal' Office
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
San Francisco Chronicle:
Google founders pay NASA $1.3 million to land at Moffett Airfield  —  (09-12) 12:31 PDT MOUNTAIN VIEW — Google Inc.'s founders will carry scientific equipment for NASA on their private Boeing 767 as part of a deal that grants them landing rights at Moffett Federal Airfield, near Mountain View, NASA and local officials said.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
For Google's Founders, a Coveted Landing Strip  —  In the annals of perks enjoyed by America's corporate executives, the founders of Google may have set a new standard: an uncrowded, federally managed runway for their private jet that is only a few minutes' drive from their offices.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
News flash: Digg headlines not "real" news  —  If there's one thing that really drives me around the bend, it's when people misinterpret academic or quasi-academic studies and draw all kinds of ludicrous and sweeping conclusions.  It's something the traditional media love to do with opinion surveys …
Discussion: Insider Chatter, MarketingVOX and Digg
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:   Does Social Media Make You Dumb?
Nick / Rough Type:
The people formerly known as informed
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Journalism.org:
THE LATEST NEWS HEADLINES—YOUR VOTE COUNTS
Microsoft Help and Support:
Overview of Windows Vista desktop search Changes in Windows Vista Service Pack 1  —  View products that this article applies to. … Beta Information  —  This article discusses a beta release of a Microsoft product.  The information in this article is provided as-is and is subject to change without notice.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft details search changes coming in Vista Service Pack 1
Discussion: Windows Connected
Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
Are Technology Limits In MP3s and iPods Ruining Pop Music?  —  If it seems like you are listening to music more but enjoying it less, some people in the recording industry say they know why.  They blame that iPod that you can't live without, along with all the compressed MP3 music files you've loaded on it.
Mariko Sanchanta / Financial Times:
Nintendo's Wii takes console lead  —  Cumulative sales of Nintendo's Wii have overtaken those of the Xbox 360, making it the world's best-selling next-generation games console in spite of having been on the market a year less than Microsoft's machine.  —  The move puts Nintendo …
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
New York Times Launches Facebook App  —  The New York Times takes a step into the social networking realm today by launching a Facebook application called the New York Times News Quiz.  The simple application presents users with a daily (Monday-Friday) 5 question, multiple choice quiz …
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Facebook Apps Are Pointless If They Don't Work
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
The Internet Ad Spending Not-So-Recession  —  The latest data from TNS Media Intelligence shows how U.S. advertising spending in the first half is heading into a downturn — except for online spending, which remains up remarkably.  —  Note, of course, that these results do not include search ads …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Will The Ad Slowdown Reach The Web?
Discussion: MarketingVOX
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Breaking: False Hacker Poses as iPhone Dev Team Unlock Author, Tries to Grab $41,560 Donation  —  A false hacker going by the alias of haRRo has tried to trick everyone by posing as the "sole developer" of a graphical tool to unlock the iPhone.  The GUI application is really the work of Erica Sadun …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Hack Days spawn new Yahoo travel, shopping features  —  Yahoo may be outwardly struggling to redefine itself after being eclipsed by Google in search and online ads, but internally the coding and innovation continues apace, according to Bradley Horowitz, vice president of Yahoo's advanced development division.
Bryan Gardiner / Epicenter:
Sun and Microsoft Team on Windows Server, Virtualization  —  Microsoft and Sun Microsystems announced a new agreement this morning whereby Sun will serve as an official Windows Server manufacturer.  That's not too earth shattering, considering Sun customers can already run Windows on the company's x64 servers.
Discussion: CNET News.com
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Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Sun turns Microsoft Windows server OEM
Discussion: eWEEK.com
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Yahoo's Open Invitation  —  Like counterparts at Facebook, CEO Jerry Yang plans to give developers more leeway in building tools designed to keep users on its pages longer  —  Last year it was the so-called Peanut Butter Manifesto, a sharply worded internal memo from a Yahoo! (YHOO) …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FCC to cable: You must support analog TVs until 2012  —  Cue the scary music.  According to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, "If the cable companies had their way, you, your mother and father, or your next door neighbor could go to sleep one night after watching their favorite channel and wake up the next morning to a dark fuzzy screen."
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hulu Makes First Acquisition; Chinese Video Startup To Form Backbone Of New Service  —  We haven't heard much about Bejing-based startup Mojiti before this week.  They popped up in the TechCrunch Forums in January and are notable because the founder, Eric Feng, was previously at Microsoft Research Asia.
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Revver Pays $1 Million to Independent Video Content Producers  —  OK, it might not be time to quit the day job, but cash is starting to flow to independent content creators through advertising splits with video sharing sites.  —  Revver, one of the first sites to share revenue …
Discussion: NewTeeVee
 
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PR Newswire:
Pure Digital Technologies Introduces the Flip Video Ultra Series …
Discussion: Gadgetell, CrunchGear and Engadget
Austin Modine / The Register:
Cisco and VMware buddy up for VFrame Data Center
Discussion: eWEEK.com
Bernard Lunn / Read/WriteWeb:
Social Network Types, Motivations, and the Future
Antony Bruno / Billboard.Biz:
Amazon To Launch Music Service Next Week?
Discussion: paidContent.org and Mashable!
Edward Cody / Washington Post:
Chinese Official Accuses Nations of Hacking
Discussion: Techdirt
Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
Steinway to debut its $150,000 stereo
Discussion: Gizmodo
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
IBM finds a way to translate spoken words to sign language via virtual characters
Discussion: Inquirer
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
MS Mobile Memory Mouse 8000 Has Something Under The Hood
Discussion: One Microsoft Way
 Earlier Items: 
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft changes Windows files on user PCs without permission, researchers say
Discussion: Hardware 2.0
Liam Tung / CNET News.com:
Google denies ownership of users' words
Discussion: ZDNet.com.au and Mashable!
Pdp / GNUCITIZEN:
0DAY: QuickTime pwns Firefox
David Meyer / CNET News.com:
Microsoft swipes at Google Apps
Discussion: TechSpot News
louisgray.com:
Internal Linking On Some Tech Blogs Is Out of Control
The Boy Genius Report:
HTC Juno? Yes!
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google secures GoogleDrive.com and updates name servers
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

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

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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