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5:35 PM ET, September 19, 2007

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John Spooner / ChipLand:
Intel wants you to put the Internet in your pocket  —  San Francisco—The next big thing for Intel is little.  The company has used its Developer Forum, here, to extol the virtues of its forthcoming handheld device platforms for allowing consumers to connect to the Internet.
Discussion: Computerworld
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InfoWorld:
Laptop vendors to offer Centrino with WiMax next year  —  San Francisco (IDGNS) - Several laptop vendors plan to announce support for an upcoming version of Intel's Centrino platform that uses WiMax wide-area networking technology — but Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Apple are not expected to be among them.
Discussion: Computerworld
Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek:
Intel To Compete In High-End Graphics Market  —  In addition to graphics, Intel is positioning the chip for scientific research, data mining, visualization, analytics, and other highly computing-intensive applications.  —  Intel's Larrabee processor, which the company plans to demonstrate next year …
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
InfoWorld:
Intel adds WiMax, 3G support to Linux device plans
Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
Intel Details Next Generation "Menlow" MID, UMPC Platform
Discussion: IntoMobile
Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Google Gphone still on the way, say sources  —  Google will definitely launch its own-brand handset but has yet to finalize the handset's specifications, OS, production contractor and operating partners, according to sources at Taiwan handset makers.  —  Although market rumors previously stated …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
DigiTimes: Google will definitely launch its own branded handset
Discussion: Download Squad, PalmAddicts and Digg
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Who's Afraid of Online Advertising?  —  A new McKinsey & Co. report called " How Companies Are Marketing Online" draws the astonishing conclusion that many advertisers are reluctant to shift dollars online — despite the massive shift of consumer attention online — because of the …
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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Google breeders cross widget with ad, create gadget
Discussion: Computerworld and Snipperoo
Louise Story / New York Times:
Google Program Enlists Mini-Sites as Selling Tool for Advertisers
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Digg Goes Deeper with Social Networking  —  With its audience expanding and interests diversifying, the popular site is launching new features to help users find like-minded friends  —  When Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose launched Digg three years ago, the Web site attracted a community of like-minded people.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Does Digg Want To Be Facebook?
Discussion: Digg the Blog
Sarah Ellison / Wall Street Journal:
Murdoch's Choice: Paid or Free for WSJ.com?  —  News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch hasn't completed his purchase of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, but already Mr. Murdoch and Dow Jones executives are debating a key strategic question: Should the Journal fall in line …
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Doc Searls Weblog:
Earth to Newspapers: Abandon Fort Business.
Discussion: CCUCEO
Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:
Free is Not a Business Model
Discussion: BoomTown and Content Bridges
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Uses Outdoor Billboards To Promote Goog411  —  Photo by Mike Blumenthal.  Used with permission.  —  Mike Blumenthal took a picture of a billboard ad in upstate New York for Google's free directory assistance alternative, Goog411.  This is interesting and amusing for a number of reasons.
Michael Krigsman / IT Project Failures:
SAP Business ByDesign: first analysis  —  SAP's new A1S offering, formally called Business ByDesign, is intended for companies between 100-500 employees, which do not have deep vertical market software requirements.  SAP believes this $15 billion market will help SAP dramatically expand its business over the coming years.
Discussion: Computerworld and WSJ.com
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Dawn Kawamoto / ZDNet:
ByDesign, SAP introduces on-demand business
Discussion: Business Week and Reuters
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Zune 2 "source" leaks launch date and specs  —  Heads up, Zune fans — some new product is heading your way sooner rather than later, and we suspect there's more than a couple of things to get jazzed about.  According to reports from a "source" inside Microsoft, a new batch of Zunes …
Apple:
Apple and T-Mobile Announce Exclusive Partnership for iPhone in Germany  —  Apple® and T-Mobile today announced that T-Mobile, the leading network operator in Germany, will be the exclusive German carrier of Apple's revolutionary iPhone™ when it makes its debut in Germany …
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
iPod games must be repurchased for new iPods  —  It looks like those hoping to port their collection of iPod games over to their shiny new iPod nano or iPod classic are going to be out of luck, unless they fork over the cash for new "reformatted" versions of the games.
Discussion: iLounge and Mobility Site
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The Death Of Moore's Law Is Greatly Exaggerated  —  Every so often, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore shows up for an interview, and it's only a matter of time before someone asks him about Moore's Law, and he says something along the lines of how shrinking chips is going to reach its physical limits at some point.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
P2P sites ridicule MediaDefender takedown notices in wake of e-mail leak  —  Peer-to-peer (P2P) poisoning company MediaDefender has sent a flurry of takedown notices and legal threats to P2P web sites that are facilitating the propagation of a 700MB archive of internal MediaDefender e-mail that was leaked onto the Internet this week.
 
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
Web host breach may have exposed passwords for 6,000 clients
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
CBS More Focused On Keeping Fans Happy
Discussion: Reuters
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
NBC Launching VOD Service — What about Hulu?
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Techcrunch40: Conference Review, How did Mint win? and many Thank You's!
Tom Drapeau / The Netscape Blog:
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Navneet Kaushal / WebProNews:
Explore The Connections Between Related Websites
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Apple's fight against iPhone unlocks may result in expensive bricks
Discussion: CNET News.com
Peter / The Local Onliner:
Yahoo's Kay Skeptical about Local Verticals
 Earlier Items: 
Theo Valich / Inquirer:
Secret of Intel's name revealed
Discussion: WinBeta
The Macalope / An Apple blog:
Always wait for something better. ALWAYS.
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Live.com Usability Case Study
Brad Stone / Bits:
The Gated Social Network
Anoop Gantayat / IGN:
TGS 2007: Rumble Confirmed
Dan Nystedt / InfoWorld:
HP plans solid-state drives in future business laptops
Discussion: eWEEK.com and DailyTech
Eric Lai / Computerworld:
Mac OS X version of OpenOffice slated for next September
Discussion: Compiler and Macsimum News
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
AT&T Brings Out The BlackBerry 8820  —  Look at what the cat dragged in.
 

 
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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”

Sam Wolfson / The Guardian:
A look at the rise of celebrity-hosted interview podcasts, whose long running times mean guests delve into deep and personal topics, resembling therapy sessions

 
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