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4:00 PM ET, September 17, 2007

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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch 40 Session 1: Search & Discovery  —  Session one as follows, including our live notes.  —  Powerset  —  Powerset is a natural language search engine that can use everyday phrases and grammer to conduct more accruate web searches by understanding the search query and the pages it indexes.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:   TC40: Mobile and Communications
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch 40 Session 2: Mobile & Communications
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
TechCrunch40: Search and Discovery
Discussion: Digital Daily and Webware.com
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Follow the TechCrunch40 Conference Online  —  Couldn't snag a ticket to this year's TechCrunch40 conference?  Head on over to techcrunch40.com to follow the action online.  —  We've put together a fully-featured website for the event, which starts this morning and continues through Tuesday evening.
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Paul Boutin / paulboutin.weblogger.com:
TechCrunch40 List 2007  —  There are 39 companies in the TC40 so far.  I've got 38 of them (they're on banners at the Palace Hotel) and hopefully correct URLs for most.  But before you click through, be aware that the actual product launches aren't live yet.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Yahoo Acquires Zimbra For $350 million in Cash  —  Yahoo will announce the acquisition of open source online/offline office suite Zimbra this evening, we just heard through a very solid source.  The price: $350 million, in cash, confirmed.  —  Our coverage of Zimbra goes back to 2005.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Buys Zimbra  —  Yahoo is set to make yet another acquisition-this time of white-label open-source email provider Zimbra.  Sources close to the deal said that the Internet portal will pay $350 million, considerably upwards of its most recent valuation, for the email and calendar provider.
BBC:
Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal  —  Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute.  —  The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
EU court comes down hard on Microsoft in antitrust appeal
Discussion: MSFTextrememakeover
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Washington Post:
AOL Moving Headquarters to New York  —  AOL is moving its corporate headquarters from Dulles to New York, the company announced today, ending a saga that helped cement Washington as a center of the technology boom but also gave rise to corporate scandal and ill-fated dealmaking.
Sprint:
Sprint Customers in Select Areas of Denver and Indianapolis Get AIRAVE for Enhanced In-Home Coverage and Unlimited Calling  —  Sprint introduces industry-first femtocell that works with any Sprint phone for convenient, reliable wireless use at home  —  Media Contacts:  —  Emmy Anderson, Sprint, 913-707-0618
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Karl / dslreports.com:
Sprint Offers Airave Femtocell Service - Unlimited calling while at home: $15/month
Discussion: Ars Technica
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:   Sprint Airave signal booster goes on sale today — in Denver and Indy
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Vista attacked by 13-year-old virus  —  A batch of laptops pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium was found to have been infected with a 13-year-old boot sector virus.  —  Those of you with a long memory will vividly recall the year 1994: Nirvana's lead singer Kurt Cobain died …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Has smart money abandoned U.S. Web 2.0 companies?  —  Venture capitalists invested about six percent more into Web 2.0 companies in the first half of 2007, but the increase was attributable to more deals in Europe and Israel.  —  Notably, early investors in Web 2.0 slowed their pace.
Yahoo! News:
China man dies after three-day Internet session  — China man dies after three-day Internet session  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man dropped dead after playing Internet games for three consecutive days, state media said on Monday as China seeks to wean Internet addicts offline.
NEWS.com.au:
Iran blocks and then unblocks Google  —  Decrease Increase -  —  From correspondents in Tehran  —  IRAN has unblocked access to the Google search engine and its Gmail email service after briefly filtering them owing to an "error", the Fars news agency reported.
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Agence France Presse:
Iran blocks access to Google
Discussion: Online Media Cultist and 901am
Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
Free online music service launches  —  LOS ANGELES - SpiralFrog.com, an ad-supported Web site that allows visitors to download music and videos free of charge, was scheduled to launch Monday in the U.S. and Canada after months of "beta" testing.  —  The music service, which has arranged …
Discussion: CrunchGear, Profy.Com, DailyTech and 901am
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
SpiralFrog's "free" music download service goes live
Discussion: Ars Technica
Andrew / Treonauts:
Treo 500 Unboxed  —  As promised Palm has sent me a brand new Treo 500 to review and I have to admit that I have not had the opportunity to be this excited about a new Treo in quite a while - it's a very slick, slim and light smartphone that feels absolutely great in your hands …
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and IntoMobile
Steve Guttenberg / Crave: The gadget blog:
A simple plan to slash the price of tunes for your iPod  —  I'm back at my favorite record store and I see a guy approach the owner with a proposition: "I want to buy music to put it on my iPod and then resell the disc to you."  Intrigued, I jumped into the conversation, egging the guy on.
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
 
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Reuters:
UPDATE 1-InfoSpace to sell online directory business to Idearc
Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
Olympics mascot gets its own phone
BBC:
Hi-tech crime 'is big business'
Discussion: Inquirer
Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:
Some new iPod nanos afflicted with tilted screens
Discussion: DailyTech and Zatz Not Funny!
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Dreamforce 07: Salesforce rolls out Visualforce
Discussion: CRM FYI and ProgrammableWeb
Bill Ray / The Register:
Nokia gets into mobile advertising
Carolyn Y. Johnson / Boston Globe:
Social networking sites breaking free from the PC
Discussion: VentureBeat
Business Wire:
T-Mobile Agrees to Acquire SunCom Wireless to Expand Network …
 Earlier Items: 
Ian Monroe:
iPod Classic Will Be Supported
James Rivington / Tech.co.uk:
Blu-ray and HD DVD formats set to co-exist
Discussion: Digital Media Wire
Jason Fry / Wall Street Journal:
Readers Endorse Switch to Apple
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google's Roald Dahl Logo Was Pulled
Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
EMusic, a Song-Download Site, to Offer Audiobooks
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Leaked Media Defender e-mails reveal secret government project