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6:30 PM ET, February 4, 2008

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Mike Nash / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Announcing the RTM of Windows Vista SP1  —  Hi, Mike Nash here from the Windows Product Management group at Microsoft.  Today we are excited to announce that we have released Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing (RTM) for our first set of languages (English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese).
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Microsoft:
Media Alert: Microsoft Releases Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 to Manufacturing  —  Client and server operating systems help provide customers with increased efficiency, performance and security.  —  What: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released to manufacturing today …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
What you all are missing about Google  —  I'm surprised that even Kara Swisher has missed this.  The bloggers are going nuts, once again, over the email that a Google lawyer sent to Microsoft regarding Microsoft's proposed purchase of Yahoo.  —  Here's what's really going on:
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Fred / A VC:
How Yahoo! Can Get Out Of The Microsoft Bear Hug  —  Let me start this post by saying that I don't think Microsoft will achieve its goal of obtaining some sort of balance and scale in the search market with an acquisition of Yahoo! If you look at the share of search that Google …
Ian C Rogers / Yodel Anecdotal:
Music for the masses  —  Last year, shortly after I assumed the role of Yahoo! Music's General Manager, we started saying publicly that we were “de-emphasizing” our premium music offering, Yahoo! Music Unlimited.  The fact of the matter is that building a great premium music service takes …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Yahoo axes music service, strikes deal with Rhapsody  —  It's been a tumultuous few days for Yahoo—you know, with that takeover bid from Microsoft—but the company continues to shake things up internally, too.  —  On Monday, the company announced that it will discontinue …
Nick / Rough Type:
Who cut the cables?  —  Curiouser and curiouser.  Last Wednesday two undersea communication cables carrying Internet traffic were severed near Alexandria, Egypt, causing widespread outages in Egypt and India that left a reported 100 million people without Net access.
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Simon Lauder / ABC News:
Conspiracy theories emerge after internet cables cut
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Yang e-mail reaches out to Yahoo employees  —  Wonder what Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang and the company's nonexecutive chairman, Roy Bostock, said to the troops on Friday, after Microsoft launched its unsolicited $44.6 billion bid?  —  Here's the text of the e-mail they sent to employees …
Matt Hickey / CrunchGear:
Intel debuts Silverthorne processor; Dragonfire Ring, Dwarfsbane Sword and Elven Might Sling to follow  —  As subnotebooks like the Eee PC and the XO become more and more common (they will), a new market will develop around them and copycat machines.  Intel hopes to be a player in this new market …
Discussion: PC World
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Rick Merritt / InformationWeek:
Intel To Unveil ‘Sliverthorne’ Processor At Heart Of Ultramobile PCs
Discussion: ExtremeTech and IntoMobile
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
CFO: Microsoft likely to go into debt for Yahoo deal  —  Microsoft has historically been renowned for its huge cash holdings, and its ability to avoid going into debt, but the company will probably need to borrow for the first time to help cover the cash portion of its giant Yahoo bid.
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Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
The danger of social markers made public (more on the Social Graph API)  —  Thomas Vander Wal makes a good point in response to my post: Why I'm excited about Google's Social Graph API.  He's concerned that by exposing social relationship information (social graphs), we're inviting hackers …
Discussion: apophenia
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Is Google's Social Graph API a Creeping Privacy Violation?
Discussion: Web Worker Daily and Compiler
Lance Davis / Reg Developer:
Google Android - a sneak preview  —  What's in it for developers?  —  Google invited developers to its London office for one of three workshops - the others being in Munich and Tel Aviv to spread the word and teach developers how to write for their new OS.
Discussion: Compiler and Alec Saunders .LOG
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google's Android Is Already Delayed
Discussion: Crave, Gizmodo and mocoNews.net
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Google: Like A Rock (That Is, Falling Like One)  —  Google has thus far today dropped another 5% of its stock price to drop below the $500 mark for the first time since last August.  Remember, up until the final days in December the stock was still over $700 a share, and it was near the $750 a share level …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft wants to bring Surface home sooner  —  When people get a chance to try out Microsoft's Surface touch-screen tabletop computer, they often wish they could take one home.  —  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday that the company is trying to speed up that process after getting a lot of demand for a consumer version.
Wall Street Journal:
Google Reaches Out to Yahoo  —  Google CEO Eric Schmidt offered Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang help in any effort to thwart Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6 billion bid.  Though regulatory concerns make a bid by Google unlikely, it could play a role in bids by others.
AlexB / yourminis:
Goowy acquired by AOL!  —  We have been working closely in partnership with AOL since early 2007.  During this time, we've had an opportunity to see AOL grow and evolve as a company.  For this reason, among others, we're thrilled to announce that AOL has acquired Goowy.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Rumor: New MacBook Pros on the way?  —  With Apple's MacBook Air having reached store shelves, it might not be too much longer before the company updates the rest of its notebook lineup.  —  MacRumors notes fresh evidence—of sorts—that Apple is getting ready to launch revamped MacBook Pros in February.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Dynamic Bookmarking with Iterasi  —  Iterasi is a new browser-based tool for saving web pages.  Unlike other bookmarking services, which simply save a link to a page's location, Iterasi captures the content of a page as it appears at that particular moment in time and saves it in an accessible HTML format with just one click.
 
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Brian Heater / AppScout:
Is News Corp. Looking to Buy Yahoo?
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Website Grader Gives Out Free SEO Tips
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Samsung's G810 smartphone does Symbian, HSDPA, the dishes
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Prepare for Super Tuesday by watching YouTube videos
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Police Extend OiNK's Bail Date Once Again
Reuters:
Dutch unveil robot to fill car gas tank
Discussion: Gizmodo
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Xbox 360 Elite Laptop
Discussion: Engadget, DVICE and Gadget Lab
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
A Lesson in Apple Economics
 Earlier Items: 
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft plans new Windows Live, Live search releases
Discussion: LiveSide
InfoWorld:
Yahoo started small and grew fast
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
Facebook, MySpace image uploaders vulnerable to attack
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Major Microsoft counterfeiter sentenced to 4 years in prison
Business Wire:
Kodak Revolutionizes Image Capture with New High-Resolution CMOS Image Sensor
Paul Miller / Engadget:
EA bets PS3 will best Xbox 360 sales in 2008
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
ESPN to Offer Sports Events on the Web Free to Some
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?
 

 
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Sam Wolfson / The Guardian:
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