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3:55 PM ET, January 25, 2008

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
The case of the 1.4 million missing iPhones  —  The talk among Apple (AAPL) watchers today is Toni Sacconaghi's dogged pursuit of the 4 million iPhones Steve Jobs claimed to have sold as of Jan. 15, the date of his Macworld keynote speech.  —  AT&T (T), the iPhone's exclusive U.S. carrier …
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Are one in three iPhones sold being unlocked?
Discussion: PC World and CyberNet
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Scoble Sells Out  —  Robert Scoble, who has long been proud of the fact that his popular blog remains free of advertisements or sponsorships, will soon put ads on his site, he told me yesterday.  —  The change comes as part of his move to Fast Company, who will sell the ads on his behalf and will also be redesigning the site.
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Latest Test for DMCA Safe Harbors: Warner Sues SeeqPod  —  Warner Music Group has sued SeeqPod (complaint, 500k PDF), a “Web 2.0” music search engine (combined with embedable playlists, etc, etc) that has been gaining in popularity in recent months.  —  This is the latest in a string of lawsuits against Web 2.0 companies.
Discussion: Ars Technica and Techdirt
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Warner Music Sues Seeqpod  —  Warner Music has filed suit against music search engine Seeqpod for copyright infringement.  —  Seeqpod offers a music search engine that allows users to play music they find directly on the site.  According to comScore the service had over 6 million page views in December 2007.
Discussion: Listening Post and p2pnet
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:
Warner Bros. Sues SeeqPod For Infringement
Discussion: Electronista and Mashable!
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Gates' “creative capitalism": profits plus philanthropy  —  At a high-profile speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday, Bill Gates urged business leaders to focus on finding new ways to turn a profit while benefiting the world's poorest residents.
Discussion: CNET News.com
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Barry Neild / CNN:
Bill Gates' new project: Farming
Matt Asay / The Open Road:   “Kinder capitalism"?  It's called open source, Mr. Gates.  You should try it
Larry Shaughnessy / CNN:
Double amputee walks again due to Bluetooth  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill lost both his legs above the knees when a bomb exploded under his Humvee while on patrol in Iraq on October 15, 2006.  He has 32 pins in his hip and a 6-inch screw holding his pelvis together.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget and Joe Duck
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Palm Realizes It's Not Apple; Closes Retail Shops  —  Over the last decade, plenty of technology hardware companies thought it would make sense to open their own retail shops.  Sony, Gateway, Palm and Apple all went down that path.  Of that list, only Apple has been able to turn those retail stores into something valuable.
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CNET News.com:
Palm closing retail stores, paying out Treo owners  —  Two pieces of bad news for Palm this week: it's going to have to pay out cash rebates on some Treos, and it's closing its retail stores.  (From News.com's One More Thing blog.)  —  Microsoft updates Vista SP1 test build
Charles Spirakis / Google LatLong:
Making changes  —  At Google, we're encouraged to move to different groups and learn new skills.  I recently transitioned to the Maps team — specifically, to the group that empowers local experts like you to improve your virtual neighborhood on Google Maps.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Spectrum auction starts, draws over $2.7 billion in first-day bids  —  Auction 73, the long-awaited 700MHz spectrum sell-off, got under way yesterday as the Federal Communications Commission conducted two rounds of bidding by the 214 qualified bidders.  Action was brisk, although none …
Artur Bergman / O'Reilly Radar:
Books that make you dumb  —  Wikiscanner hacker Virgil Griffth told me a while ago about his latest data mining project, to visualise the relationship between books and SAT scores.  Today he released his findings at Booksthatmakeyoudumb.  —  He does this by cross referencing the 10 …
Discussion: Boing Boing and Virtual Economics
Miguel de Icaza:
Usability Disaster Story  —  In December, someone asked me about how many Mono downloads we had per month to estimate the size of Mono users.  With software like Mono the download numbers do not mean much, because most of our users get their software through their distribution, package channels or as a bundled executable.
Discussion: Jeffrey McManus
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Adding insult to injury: USB 3G modems won't fit in the MacBook Air  —  Ouch, we just tested and confirmed that one of the smallest (and thus likeliest to fit) USB EV-DO modems around, the Sprint / Novatel U727, won't even come close to fitting in the cramped, foldaway USB port on the MacBook Air.
Francois / The Data Platform Insider:
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Roadmap Clarification  —  The past few months have been an amazing time for the SQL Server team as we gear up for the start of the global launch wave on February 27.  The response to SQL Server 2008 has been overwhelmingly positive - in fact, we now have more 100,000 downloads of our CTPs.
 
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Nielsen Debuts VOD Service With Comcast; Picks TWC's Haymes …
Discussion: Podcasting News
Elsa Wenzel / CNET News.com:
Online stores to flaunt green electronics ratings
Stephen Totilo / MTV Multiplayer:
‘Mass Effect’ ‘Sexbox’ …
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Windows 7 M1, now playing in a theater near you
Eric Lai / Computerworld:
Software ‘tweaks,’ Chinese new year delay Everex CloudBook
Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget and jkOnTheRun
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Wall St. Journal to Continue Its Charges for Web Content
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Install OS X on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required [How To]
Discussion: Gizmodo and Digg
Japan Today:
Graduate student arrested over creation of computer virus despite …
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The lucky 200  —  Behind a tightly guarded barbed-wire fence …
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Peter Lauria / New York Post:
DIGITAL DREAMERS  —  EISNER AND COOK LOOKING TO MAKE MAGIC
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
OLPC angering donors: “Give 1 Get 1... some day... probably”
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Sun Microsystems: Can it grow?
Discussion: Seeking Alpha
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
All this online sharing has to stop
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Toshiba Sez NPD Blu-ray Victory Numbers May Be Fluke
Discussion: Electronista and Computerworld
Romeo Wahed / Download Squad:
Oops, sorry - 14,000 e-mail accounts get deleted
Discussion: WebProNews
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