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11:55 AM ET, November 12, 2007

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Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils Device Customization via New Zune Originals Store, New Zune Players Available Tomorrow  —  Microsoft partners with 18 renowned artists to fuse high style with portable entertainment.  —  Tomorrow, consumers ready for a richer, more connected and more personal entertainment experience …
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Ami Kealoha / Cool Hunting:
Zune Originals: Interview with Chris Stephenson  —  Zune's next move takes their support of emerging artists and literally puts it on their sleeve.  Zune Originals is a collection of 27 original works by 18 international artists designed to be engraved onto the back of the device.  (Click images for detail.)
PC World:
Zune 80GB Media Player - Black  —  Specs Pricing User Reviews Add Your Review  —  Zune 80GB Media Player - Black  —  Wireless syncing, good sound quality, and a nice touch control make this affordable player a good choice.  —  Recommend this story?  —  Though the old 30GB Zune …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Gadget Lab
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Microsoft's Zune Originals customizations: free, starting tomorrow
Discussion: CyberNet and Gadgetell
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Cellphone Straitjacket Is Inspiring a Rebellion  —  First come the grumblings, then the torches and pitchforks.  —  Consumers have never been happy about their cellphone carriers and the services they provide — or refuse to provide.  But they also have hardly the means to do anything, except switch from one carrier to the next.
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Google Options Make Masseuse a Multimillionaire  —  Bonnie Brown was fresh from a nasty divorce in 1999, living with her sister and uncertain of her future.  On a lark, she answered an ad for an in-house masseuse at Google, then a Silicon Valley start-up with 40 employees.
Discussion: CrunchGear, PDA and Slashdot
Business Wire:
IBM to Acquire Cognos to Accelerate Information on Demand Business Initiative  —  ARMONK, N.Y. & OTTAWA, Ontario—(BUSINESS WIRE)—IBM (NYSE: IBM - News) and Cognos® (NASDAQ: COGN - News) (TSX: CSN - News) today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
IBM takes out Cognos for $5 billion  —  Remember that last independent business intelligence company, Cognos?  It's now a part of IBM's software unit.  —  IBM said Monday in a statement that it has acquired Cognos for $5 billion, or $58 a share.  In just a month the two leading business intelligence players have been acquired.
Discussion: New York Times and Reuters
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Should Sprint Send Silicon Valley a Super Poke?  —  Sprint Nextel's (S) rough patch is turning into a highway from hell.  The exit of CEO Gary Forsee, questions about its plans for a WiMAX network and its aborted partnership with Clearwire (CLWR) have provided fertile ground for all sorts of rumors.
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James Robinson / Guardian:
Google turns to X Factor's Fuller for push into TV  —  Internet giant Google is in secret talks with Simon Fuller, the British entrepreneur behind the Spice Girls, about a joint venture that could change the way TV is watched over the internet.  —  News of the collaboration will prompt speculation …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft to ship Windows Server 2008, over time, in eight flavors  —  Microsoft is readying eight SKUs of Windows Server 2008, only some of which will include Hyper-V (the new name for Microsoft's hypervisor that was code-named "Viridian").  —  According to ActiveWin.com …
Discussion: eWEEK.com and ActiveWin.com
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InfoWorld:
Microsoft reveals Server 2008 pricing, Hyper-V brand  —  Microsoft gave further details Monday of a group of server and virtualization products due next year that will set the tone for how well the company will compete in the enterprise software market.  —  It announced pricing and licensing details …
Discussion: All about Microsoft and eWEEK.com
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InfoWorld:   Hardware vendors quickly adopting Penryn
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Discussion: Mobility Site and Gadget Lab
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Wibrain's B1 UMPC gets showcased on video
Discussion: CNET News.com
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why Are Founders and Execs Leaving Second Tier Social Networks?  —  Employees generally don't leave hot startups.  They lose some or all of their stock options, and they also lose the resume value of being associated with a startup brand.  And that's doubly true for executive level employees.
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Barry Diller to Time Warner: Name Your Price for AOL  —  Q&A With IAC Chief in Wake of Spinoffs of Ticketmaster, HSN  —  Barry Diller is staking his future on the fast-growing, ever-changing online-advertising space.  —  His company, IAC, is spinning off four divisions into separate …
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
Rebuilding Hollywood in Silicon Valley's image  —  Last week I posted a rather pointed polemic titled "Suicide by strike" in which I argued that the big entertainment companies were acting suicidally in picking a fight with the writers at precisely the wrong time.
Discussion: Virtual Economics
 
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Dori Salcido / AOL:
AOL Acquires Questions and Answer Service Yedda, Inc.
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Accelerate your startup this Friday
Discussion: AccMan Pro
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Publicis chief warns on internet ad revenues
Jemima Kiss / PDA:
The iPhone - a confession
Discussion: The Register and paidContent
Fortune:
Al Gore's next act: Planet-saving VC
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Coming Soon, Free Hosting for Facebook Apps
Steven Zeitchik / Hollywood Reporter:
Hulu checks out WBTV library
Charlie White / Gizmodo:
PC is Stark Naked, But Safe For Work [All Nude]
 Earlier Items: 
Wily Ferret / Inquirer:
Vodafone improvises response in battle with Iphone
Discussion: Engadget and Gadget Lab
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
O2 on iPhone: 8,000 activations on day one, 5-year contract
Discussion: mocoNews.net and Apple Gazette
Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
FCC Moves to Place Restrictions on Cable TV
Discussion: Things That and Digital Trends
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Eyealike Launches - Find Your Dream Date on Looks Alone
Discussion: GigaOM, Read/WriteWeb and Mashable!
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
SocialAds Implications: Facebook will Acquire iLike and Flixster
Cate Doty / New York Times:
Game News in a Duel of Print and Online
Joanne Kaufman / New York Times:
A Cookbook of One's Own From the Internet
Discussion: TeleRead
 

 
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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”

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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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