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6:30 PM ET, October 26, 2007

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Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Student's Ad Gets a Remake, and Makes the Big Time  —  The idea that you do not have to be a professional to create a good commercial is becoming widespread, in a trend known as consumer-generated content.  Leave it to Apple to — paraphrasing the company's old slogan a bit — think differently.
Business Week:
A Cautionary Tale for Old Media  —  Early on, the Mercury News saw the Web threat coming.  It's still struggling to survive  —  On Jan. 19, 1990, Robert D. Ingle, then executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News, wrote a remarkably prescient memo to his bosses at the newspaper chain Knight Ridder.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Future is Cloudy  —  When Google this week announced IMAP support for Gmail, it really got me thinking about finally outsourcing my e-mail.  At $50 per year per address, Google Apps Premier Edition is pretty compelling.  For one thing, there are only three cringely.com addresses …
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Nick / Rough Type:
Google's cloud  —  Google not only wants to hold all our data; it also wants to host all our applications.  That, according to Robert Cringely, is the secret meaning behind the recent announcement that Google would be contributing code to MySQL, the popular open-source database.
Ben Rooney / CNNMoney.com:
Microsoft's 'Halo' effect  —  The software giant reports strong sales and profit increases thanks to healthy sales of new video game 'Halo 3' as well as Vista and Office; stock surges after-hours  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Microsoft Corp. reported quarterly earnings Thursday …
Discussion: Engadget and Gadgetell
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Senate OKs 7 more years of tax-free Net access, e-mail  —  Scarcely a week before an existing ban on Internet access taxes is set to expire, the U.S. Senate late on Thursday voted to let it live on for seven more years.  —  The compromise bill, which was approved by a voice vote …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Senate passes Internet tax moratorium extension: 7 more years tax-free
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Mac OSX Leopard: Worth The Wait  —  The long wait for the latest version of Apple' OSX operating system comes to an end today for millions of Mac fans worldwide.  OSX Leopard goes on sale in retail stores at 6pm, although others will receive it earlier by pre-order and courier delivery.
David Twiddy / Associated Press:
Spring Nextel agrees to unlock phones  —  KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Wireless subscribers of Sprint Nextel Corp. may no longer have to buy a new phone if they jump to a new carrier.  —  As part of a proposed class-action settlement, the Reston, Va.-based provider, with operational headquarters in Overland Park …
Discussion: Engadget and CrunchGear
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:   Sprint unlocking settlement may pressure others to follow
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
SearchMash, Now in Flash  —  SearchMash, Google's experimental site launched last year to test new user interfaces for search results, has a Flash version (requires IE/Firefox and Flash 9).  The site uses tabs to let you seamlessly switch between different search engines: web search …
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Peter Lauria / New York Post:
MYSPACE LOVE$ FACEBOOK VALUE  —  If Facebook is worth $15 billion, then MySpace is worth $65 billion.  —  That's the take of RBC Capital Markets analyst David Bank, who applied the $357 Microsoft ascribed to each of Facebook's 42 million registered users in Wednesday's deal …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay To Bring Back OiNK  —  BOiNK will be a little different from OiNK.  For instance, the tracker will be public and it will start out with a lot less torrents than OiNK had when it was raided.  The success of BOiNK will mainly depend on the former OiNK community, who will be asked to upload their old OiNK torrents.
Discussion: Mashable!, CrunchGear, p2pnet and Digg
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Accused speeder to cops: My GPS proves your radar gun is wrong  —  GPS-based tracking devices don't just help you figure out where you are and where you're going, they might also help you avoid a speeding ticket.  Shaun Malone of California is contesting a speeding ticket in that state …
Nick / Rough Type:
Yahoo!?  —  The exclamation mark at the end of Yahoo's official name is beginning to feel ironic.  As Google and Microsoft roll up property rights across the web, Yahoo, writes the Economist, "now looks really forlorn": … Ouch.  —  Earlier this month, Yahoo announced a modest upward bump …
Discussion: Economist
The Huffington Post:
Bloggingheads Goes Big Time: Little Video Site That Could, Now Adopted By NYT  —  Something else for the NYT's online shopping basket: Bloggingheads!  Like the "Freakonomics" blog before it, lovably wonky political webcam-debate blog Bloggingheads.tv has been adopted by the New York Times …
Discussion: Beet.TV
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Facebook: Committed to the sanctity of the social graph  —  Just 24 hours after Facebook received $240 million from Microsoft for 1.6 percent of the company, Ami Vora, senior platform manager at Facebook, said that investment news (which probably wasn't any surprise to Facebook employees) wasn't a big deal for anyone she talked to.
 
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Jason Lee Miller / WebProNews:
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Jon Healey / Bit Player:
Court to weigh p2p filtering systems
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No, The Blockbuster Movie Isn't Dead
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 Earlier Items: 
Charles / Channel 9:
Inside MultiTouch: Team, Demo, Lab Tour
Discussion: Channel 10 and Neowin.net
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Outsourced Brain  —  The gurus seek bliss amidst mountaintop …
Discussion: 43 Folders
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Internet Cafes Launch in Vietnam
Discussion: Screenwerk
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Richard Parsons set to announce Time Warner exit
Daniel Schuhmann / Tom's Hardware Guide:
Windows Server 2008 Reviewed
Discussion: Slashdot
Vivek Wadhwa / Business Week:
The Science Education Myth
Discussion: Channel 9 and Slashdot
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft now admits to WSUS update error
 

 
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