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9:00 AM ET, November 14, 2007

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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network  —  Ignore Orkut, OpenSocial, Yahoo Mash and Yahoo 360.  Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail systems …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Yahoo! Says the Future Will be Modeled on Facebook  —  Saul Hansell at the New York Times gets some people talking at Google and Yahoo! for a write up today on the future of the inbox.  It's a good article, based mostly on words from Brad "Peanut Butter" Garlinghouse at Yahoo! …
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usercentric.com:
Direct Comparison of iPhone and Hard-Key QWERTY Phone Owners Indicates Higher  —  Text Entry Error Rate for iPhones  —  User Centric, Inc., a Chicago-based usability consultancy, finished a third and final study examining the user experience of Apple's iPhone.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Surprise: eSnips May Monetize Better Than Digg  —  Israeli digital crafts social network eSnips launched a new feature tonight that could change the social networking game.  Called Social DNA, it's essentially a collection of personality quizzes that can serve to connect like minded users …
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
eSnips Takes Hint from Online Dating, Debuts "Social DNA"
Discussion: Mashable!
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Redefines the Clickable AdSense Area  —  Similar to what Google has been doing with ads in search results, they also now restricted the clickable area in AdSense (the kind of Google ads webmasters can include on their pages).  Instead of allowing a click to be triggered …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Automattic Founders To Take Big Money Off The Table  —  It didn't make a lot of sense when we heard that Automattic, the company that created the Wordpress.com blogging platform and oversees the Wordpress.org open source project, turned down a $200 million buyout offer.
Discussion: Mark Evans and Changing Way
InfoWorld:
China Unicom also open to iPhone talks  —  China Unicom may be open to selling Apple's iPhone in China, giving Apple a second option for bringing its device to the world's most populous market.  —  China Unicom, the second largest mobile telecom network operator in China …
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Oracle offers a peek at social apps and Fusion  —  Oracle showed how it is bringing a social dimension into its software and offered a peek at Fusion applications this afternoon at Oracle OpenWorld.  It demonstrated that Oracle has fully grokked the concepts and technologies of Web 2.0 and that Fusion apps …
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Nokia:
It's what cameras have become - the new Nokia N82  —  Nokia introduces a leading edge connected camera, navigation device and multimedia computer in one  —  Espoo, Finland - Nokia unveils the Nokia N82, the latest multimedia computer optimized for photography, navigation and internet connectivity.
Sandisk:
SanDisk Offers New Flash-Based Accelerator to Speed Up System Performance in Consumer Laptops and PCs  —  SanDisk Vaulter Disk, a PCI Express Module, Wins  —  2008 Best of Innovations Award From Consumer Electronics Association  —  SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today unveiled …
Discussion: The Tablet PC and I4U News
Eric J. Sinrod / CNET News.com:
Going cold turkey off a handheld  —  perspective This column usually seeks to bring you up to date on cutting-edge issues where the law and technology intersect.  But this week I need to write about a serious addiction.  —  Instead of alcohol or drugs, I want to focus on the far …
Discussion: jkOnTheRun
Associated Press:
Singapore's MobileOne phone operator eyeing acquisition targets, Apple's iPhone  —  Singapore's third-largest telecommunications company MobileOne Ltd., or M1, is looking at overseas acquisition targets as its domestic market is already saturated, its chief executive said.
Dembot:
Why Mahalo is Fundamentally Flawed  —  Jason Calacanis has a new videoblog called Mahalo Daily.  The show is starring Veronica Belmont.  [I'm a big fan of Veronica (Hi Veronica!)]  Unfortunately, I think Veronica will not be able to get much support for the show by working for Mahalo.
Discussion: odd time signatures and Mashable!
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Build a Hackintosh Mac for Under $800 [Hack Attack]  —  If the high price tag for Apple hardware has kept you from buying a Mac but you're willing to roll up your sleeves and get adventurous, you can build your own "Hackintosh"—a PC that runs a patched version of OS X Leopard.  What?!, you say.
 
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Liz Eraker / Google Public Policy Blog:
Senate helping make gov't more searchable
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Exclusive: Barack Obama to name a "Chief Technology Officer"
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Wal-Mart's $200 PC - sold out
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Silly Rumor Du Jour: Comcast And Clearwire; Also, Why You Don't …
Victoria Shannon / International Herald Tribune:
Google acquisition of DoubleClick rejected for now
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
NEW YAHOO WIDGET ENGINE COMING SOON
Discussion: Mashable!
USA Today:
E-retailers increase alternate pay options
Discussion: Ted's Take
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 Earlier Items: 
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Intel to launch Shelton'08 low-cost desktop platform next year
Brittany Sauser / Technology Review:
Stopping Cars with Radiation
Discussion: The Register and Slashdot
Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Russia Casts A Selective Net in Piracy Crackdown
Discussion: Techdirt
Janet Morrissey / New York Times:
AT&T to Sell Equipment to Monitor Workplaces
Discussion: Rough Type
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Report: One-third of businesses to begin Vista deployments by mid-2008
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
SIX APART IS FIXING FORUMS
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Joyent Announces Free Hosting For Facebook App Developers
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