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5:40 PM ET, February 5, 2008

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Christine Monaghan / Apple:
Apple Adds New iPhone & iPod touch Models  —  Apple® today added new models of the iPhone™ and iPod® touch which have double the memory, doubling the amount of music, photos and videos that customers can carry with them wherever they go.  The revolutionary iPhone now comes …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
16GB iPhone just around the corner? (updated)
Willpark / IntoMobile:
Apple iPhone keeps getting stronger in smartphone segment
Discussion: SMS Text News and MacDailyNews
Nick Miller / Sydney Morning Herald:
Torvalds pans Apple with ‘utter crap’ putdown  —  Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux operating system.  —  Apple's much-touted new operating system, OS X Leopard, is in some ways worse than Windows Vista, says the founder of the Linux open source project, Linus Torvalds.
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Nick Miller / Sydney Morning Herald:
Q and A with Linus Torvalds  —  Q. How's the conference been for you?  —  A It's very relaxed.  I think the students involved are learning things but for me it's the social side.  It's more meeting people, going out for dinner with people.  All the real work (on Linux) is done over email.
Discussion: Digital Daily and The Mac Observer
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Fourth undersea cable cut near UAE, suspicions rise  —  For the fourth time in a week, an undersea communications cable has apparently been cut (or “failed due to a power outage,” as some sources suggest), and while no official reports of subversion have surfaced just yet, things are beginning to get suspicious.
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BBC:   Work begins to repair severed net
Brittany Bohnet / Official Google Blog:
Be part of the Super Tuesday action  —  They don't call it Super Tuesday for nothing!  Today marks an exciting day in the race to the U.S. Presidency: voters in 24 states will choose their party candidates.  This will be the largest number of primaries taking place at one time in the history of the U.S. electoral system.
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Brittany Bohnet / Google LatLong:   Super day for a super map
eWeek:
Google, Yahoo Going After Outlook  —  Google and Yahoo are rolling out Web software on steroids to compete with Outlook, another clue why Microsoft is shelling out $45 billion and going into debt for Yahoo.  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Business software units of Yahoo and Google …
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Opera:
Opera unleashes innovative technology in latest mobile Web browser — Opera Mobile 9.5  —  Faster speed, new interface and Opera Widgets bring users closer to a full desktop experience  —  Exclusive preview at Mobile World Congress 2008 (February 11-14, Barcelona)
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Opera's mobile web browser making another step towards a fully mobile web
Discussion: AppScout, TMCnet and Compiler
BBC:
EBay to ban negative seller views  —  Online auction site eBay has said it plans to overhaul its feedback system and will ban sellers from leaving negative comments about buyers.  —  EBay said problems were occurring, and slowing down trade, when buyers left negative comments about sellers who then retaliated with their own views.
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and Mashable!
Zach Epstein / The Boy Genius Report:
HTC Magnum Video Surfaces; WTF?!?  —  What you can't tell from the video above is that the guy holding the Magnum is actually 11-inches tall... We're honestly not sure exactly what to make of this, but we have to assume that in reality it's is some sort of crazy internal prototype built to test some new hardware.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Vista SP1 will contain undocumented fixes  —  Interesting email in today mailbag: “Will SP1 contain undisclosed or undocumented security fixes?”  —  For some people, counting the number of security flaws that one OS has compared to another is important because it offers a metric upon …
Discussion: InfoWorld
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James Bannan / APC:
Microsoft junks and replaces Vista kernel in SP1
Discussion: The Tech Report
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
A Bad Month For SEO's Reputation  —  We seem to be going through another wave “SEOs are scumbags” incidents, and I find myself with little energy to push back against them with yet another defense of the industry.  It's not that SEO doesn't deserve better treatment.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft reorg could come next week  —  Microsoft is expected to announce organizational changes in the coming days, shaking up some of the leadership in its Windows and Windows Live groups, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.  —  The changes have been in the works for some time …
Jeremy Kirk / IDG News Service:
Dell Suit Reveals Lucrative Domain-Name Trade  —  A civil suit filed by Dell sheds light on typosquatting, creating ad-filled Web pages with URLs that are similar to brand-name sites.  —  Recommend this story?  —  A civil suit filed in Florida by Dell and its Alienware subsidiary …
Ryan / WordPress › Blog Tool and Weblog Platform:
WordPress 2.3.3  —  WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release.  A flaw was found in our XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow any valid user to edit posts of any other user on that blog.  In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs.
David Meyer / CNET News.com:
ICANN turns on next-gen IP addresses  —  The great migration from Internet Protocol version 4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version.
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
AOL buys online marketing network buy.at  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc's AOL said on Tuesday it has purchased buy.at, an online affiliate marketing network, as part of a strategy to bolster its Internet advertising operations.  —  AOL did not disclose financial terms.
 
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Marguerite Reardon / Crave:
AT&T jacks up DSL price $5 per month
Emily / textually.org:
BUILD-TO-ORDER CELL PHONE STORE LAUNCHED
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Microsoft's Yahoo bid raises more congressional eyebrows
Sarah Lacy / Silicon Alley Insider:
Obama Wins The Valley. He's The New iPhone
Discussion: VentureBeat and techPresident
Sarah Lacy / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hey, LinkedIn: Call Your IPO Bankers
Business Wire:
BiTMICRO to Upgrade World's First Ultra320 SCSI Flash Solid State …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Tonight's Big Launch: Aviary Online Image Suite for Artists …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
So Long Flash, and Thanks for the Memory
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
 Earlier Items: 
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
RIAA Wants to Cut Artist Royalties to 9%, Apple Wants Them at 4% …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Open access: everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
‘HiPhone’ looks mighty familiar, almost iPhone-like
Discussion: Ubergizmo and The Raw Feed
Doug Caverly / WebProNews:
Dealipedia Launches
Grant Gross / IDG News Service:
FCC Approves Sale of Nationwide Spectrum to AT&T
Discussion: RSS
Mercury News:
Comcast, eBay may bid for AOL
Discussion: WebProNews and eBay Strategies
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Satellite Spotters Glimpse Secrets, and Tell Them
Wall Street Journal:
Ad Revenue From Social Sites Disappoints
 

 
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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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Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

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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