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12:35 PM ET, July 22, 2008

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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap  —  Amid all the chatter about Apple's fiscal third quarter results, which were strong, most concerns about the future revolve around two words: Gross margins.  The big takeaway for technology buyers: Those lower margins hint …
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Joe Wilcox / Apple Watch:
What Is Apple's Mystery Product?  —  I contacted several analysts, looking for sound or even silly speculation about the product.  Nobody wants to guess wrong about Apple, so what I got was more sheepish speculation.  —  Quick recap: During Apple's fiscal third-quarter conference call this afternoon …
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
First hints of Microsoft's “fight back” ads appear  —  I just noticed this teaser on Microsoft's home page:  —  If this is going to be the overall message of Microsoft's much-vaunted new $300 million ad campaign, it might be money well spent.  According to the folks at LiveSide …
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Microsoft's Vista Mea-Sorta-Culpa  —  Over at ZDNet, Ed Bott has posted an intriguing item on Microsoft's attempt to reintroduce Windows Vista to a world that seems to have its fair share of Vista skeptics.  Ed noticed the image at left, comparing Vista doubters to flat-earth believers, on the Microsoft.com home page.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
TiVo and Amazon Team Up  —  SAN FRANCISCO — TiVo, the Silicon Valley company that introduced millions to the joy of skipping television commercials, is trying to crack a decades-old media dream.  It wants to turn the television remote control into a tool for buying the products being advertised …
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:   TiVo Teams With Amazon On ‘Watch It, Buy It Now’ Option
Dennis Crouch / Patent Law Blog:
The Death of Google's Patents  —  By John F. Duffy* [PDF Version (42 KB)]  —  The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most software patents, including pioneering patent claims to such innovators as Google, Inc.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Maps Walking Directions Now Live  —  Earlier this month, I reported that Google Maps was testing walking directions on a small subset of users.  This morning, I noticed that Google Maps now is offering walking directions for all Google Maps users.  —  For example, conduct a search …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Has/How/Why tech blogging has failed you  —  Oh, what a hoot.  I've been taking a break from blogging just to relax and invest my time in other places.  Like FriendFeed.  Or downloading iPhone apps.  —  Anyway, I've been thinking a lot about Tech blogging and my role in it.  I've increasingly become saddened.
Kit Eaton / Gizmodo:
Sony Pushes Out Three New Walkmen Phones, the W302, W902 and W595  —  It's the third birthday of Sony Ericsson's Walkman phone label, and to celebrate it's launching three new music-based cellphones.  The W302 and W902 (left, center in the image) are both candybar cells, with the 302 having an FM radio …
Discussion: Electronista and IntoMobile
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Sony Ericsson:
Music is reborn as Sony Ericsson announces three new Walkman&trade …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
Sandisk: Windows Vista not optimized for solid state drives  —  SanDisk said Monday that Windows Vista is not optimized for solid state drives, delaying the delivery of optimized drives until next year.  —  Solid state drives (SSDs) are used instead of hard disk drives in select high-end notebook PCs today …
CBC News:
Cellphone market poised for shakeup as spectrum auction ends  —  The government is $4.2 billion richer with the conclusion of the cellphone spectrum auction on Monday, while customers stand to win as five new companies are now well positioned to launch services over the next few years.
Discussion: Engadget Mobile
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
New York Times, LinkedIn Enter Content Partnership  —  In a brilliant move that's sure to make both newspapers and social networks around the web jealous, the New York Times and LinkedIn, the leading US social network for professionals, are announcing a content partnership tonight …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Propeller 2.0 Launches: Ditching The Vote Count, Adding A Mascot  —  Propeller, AOL's Digg-like news site, launches version 2.0 later this morning.  The site sports a new design and logo and now has a mascot - described as “part professor, part citizen journalist” (see image below).
Discussion: Pulse 2.0, Mashable! and 901am
Chris Pendleton / Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog:
Virtual Earth Imagery Release - July 2008  —  14.3 TB of new imagery for Microsoft Virtual Earth.  Save money on gas....use Live Search Maps powered by Virtual Earth.  —  Ortho  —  United States (UltraCam, Microsoft Proprietary)  — Elizabeth, NJ  — West Allis, WI  — Paterson, NJ
Douglas Jackson / e-gold Blog:
A New Beginning  —  November 2008 will mark the 12th anniversary of e-gold's debut as an alternative global payment system enabling Users - individuals or businesses - to receive payment in gold at extremely low cost and without risk of the sort of payment reversals that characterize all credit based systems.
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Grant Gross / IDG News Service:
Internet Currency Firm Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering
Discussion: Mashable!
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
MySpace Music Needs Launch Date, CEO  —  Last spring, MySpace formally unveilled plans to start a new music site, which it will run as a joint venture with (most of) the big music labels.  Close to four months later, two big unanswered questions remain about the proejct:  — When will it launch?
 
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Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
iPhone for WordPress Application Now Live on iPhone App Store
Kelly K. Spors / Wall Street Journal:
Networking Together  —  Firms Join Forces On Social Networks To Raise Profiles
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
AT&T Hints That Usage-Based Billing Is Coming …
Discussion: CNN
Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
Apple extends MobileMe trial following UK billing glitch
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Andrew Cuomo Threatens To Sue Comcast If It Doesn't Sign Up For …
Vishesh Kumar / Wall Street Journal:
Time Warner Cable, Verizon to Duel
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Movie industry eyeing 3D movies for the home theater
Discussion: Portfolio.com and Slashdot
Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
Sybase brings Lotus Notes to iPhone 3G
comScore:
comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for June 2008
Discussion: Screenwerk and NewTeeVee
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ok, We Have Our First DNA-Based Dating Service: GenePartner
Brad Feld / Feld Thoughts:
Glue and Comments  —  Since last summer I've been talking …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Adobe revs media player, signs up Sony
 

 
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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”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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