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2:35 PM ET, July 25, 2008

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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank  —  Though a distant third place to Google, Microsoft thinks it can teach its rival a thing or two about searching the Internet.  —  A big part of Google's rise to search engine leadership was an algorithm called PageRank that assesses …
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Android Is For The Masses, iPhone For The Rich  —  Our network blog last100 has an interesting interview with Nicolas Gramlich, founder of anddev.org - an online community for Android developers.  As editor Steve O'Hear notes in his intro, there have been issues with Google's mobile OS of late …
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Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek:
Android, Symbian Expected To Become One OS  —  Analyst J. Gold Associates said the merger of the two mobile operating systems will begin within three to six months.  —  Nokia-owned Symbian and Google-created Android are destined to be combined to provide a single open source operating system …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:   Symbian open-source strategy explained at OSCON
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Full Text Of AOL Email: XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile And Bluestring To Shut Down  —  Below is the full text of the email AOL EVP Kevin Conroy sent out to staff on July 14, outlining the reorganization of his product groups and announcing the “sunsetting” of XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile and Bluestring.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Bomb Blasts Hit India's IT City Bangalore  —  Updated at the bottom: Over the past few years, the quaint and sleepy town of Bangalore has been transformed into a highly compressed version of Silicon Valley, only with worse housing and transportation problems.
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Neha Singh / Reuters:
Eight small blasts hit Indian IT city of Bangalore
Discussion: Between the Lines
Wired News:
Celebrity Meter  —  Are You Internet Famous?  Use the Wired Celebrity Meter to find out how big a deal you really are.  Our algorithm will dig through your personal pages to find out how many fans are following your online exploits.  —  How it Works (short version) The Celebrity Meter scans URLs and scores internet fame based on:
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Connect Will Be Game-Changing...and Dangerous  —  With the news coming out of F8 this week, it was hard to not get caught up in the enthusiasm for Facebook Connect, the new authentication methodology which will allow you to login to third-party web sites using your Facebook ID and port your friend graph from Facebook with you.
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Dick / Identity 2.0:   Passport vs OpenID vs Facebook Connect
Chris Morris / Forbes:
Doom'ing The iPhone  —  While he's best known for creating graphics engines that push systems to their limits, game designer John Carmack is spending a lot of time with mobile gaming these days.  —  The co-founder of id Software is considered one of the creators of the first-person shooter genre …
Dianne See Morrison / paidContent.org:
Italian Prosecutors To Charge Google Execs Over Third-Party Content  —  Four Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives may be standing trial over failing to adequately monitor third-party content posted to their Italian language site.  Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charges in a two-year old case …
Discussion: eWeek, Beyond Search and Startup Meme
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Alessandra Galloni / Wall Street Journal:
Italy Is to File Charges Against Google Executives
Discussion: Techdirt
Andru Edwards / Gear Live:
Apple beta testing iPhone 2.1 firmware, adding more GPS features  —  We just got word that Apple has released a beta version of iPhone OS 2.1 to developers.  Along with the 2.1 firmware, a new version of the iPhone SDK has been seeded as well, but the new SDK can't be used for submitting applications to the App Store at the moment.
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Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop:
Apple releases iPhone 2.1 beta to registered developers only
Discussion: Gizmodo, The iPhone Blog and MacBlogz
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Redlasso Sued By NBC Universal And Fox For Making It Easy For People To Promote NBC Universal And Fox  —  from the you-must-pay-us-to-promote-us dept  —  Redlasso is an interesting company.  Something of an online “clipping” service for television content, it has a nice web feature …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Redlasso Shuts Down In Response To Fox/NBC Lawsuit
Discussion: paidContent.org and MarketingVOX
Jeremy Kirk / IDG News Service:
Yahoo: Burn Your DRMed Tracks to CD Now  —  Yahoo has become the latest company to abandon customers who bought tracks from its music store encoded with DRM (digital rights management), drawing fire from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).  —  On Sept. 30, Yahoo will shut down the servers …
Discussion: Homotron.net and The Tech Report
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Denver Post:
Missing ‘spam king’ kills self, family  —  BENNETT — Just four days after escaping a federal minimum-security work camp, “Spam King” Eddie Davidson shot his wife and child and wounded a teen-age girl before turning the gun on himself.  —  Sheriff's deputies responded to a report of gunfire …
Daniel AJ Sokolov / heise Security UK:
Speculation over back door in Skype  —  According to reports, there may be a back door built into Skype, which allows connections to be bugged.  The company has declined to expressly deny the allegations.  At a meeting with representatives of ISPs and the Austrian regulator on lawful interception …
Discussion: Memex 1.1, open and Zero Day
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Bold browser video walk through  —  Apparently the BlackBerry Bold browser walk through wasn't enough to hold you guys over... we've been getting a flood of emails from y'all wanting some video hotness, and who are we to disappoint?  We have to warn you though, it's not organized that well, but you should get the jist of it.
PR Newswire:
Netflix Announces Q2 2008 Financial Results  —  Subscribers - 8.4 million Revenue - $337.6 million GAAP Net Income - $26.6 million GAAP EPS - $0.42 per diluted share  —  Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX - News) today reported results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008.
Dan Goodin / The Register:
World's biggest ISPs drag feet on critical DNS patch  —  BT, AT&T among those putting subscribers at risk  —  More than two weeks after security researchers warned of a critical defect in the net's address lookup system, some of the world's biggest internet service providers - including AT&T …
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Users can automatically encrypt Gmail traffic  —  Gmail now can be set to encrypt communications e-mail by default, an option that makes the e-mail service harder to snoop on but also potentially slower.  —  Users already could encrypt communications with Gmail servers (by going to https …
Svetlana Gladkova / Profy.Com:
Google's Begun Growing Very Fast  —  I have just seen a press release (in Russian) issued by Begun, the Russian contextual advertising company recently acquired by Google from Rambler.  The ad company reports on the revenue it has received in the first 6 months of 2008 …
Discussion: Mashable! and WebProNews
 
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Who is to blame for MobileMe?  —  Steve Jobs is not a manager …
Nate Westheimer / innonate:
Open Sourcing BricaBox
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Netflix Call: CEO Hastings: No Plans For PPV Or Ad-Supported Service
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Dionne Searcey / Wall Street Journal:
Generation Text: Emailing on the Go Sends Some Users Into Harm's Way
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Ozzie foreshadows ‘Zurich,’ Microsoft's elastic cloud
Industry Standard:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Amazon To Power Upcoming MySpace Music Downloads
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Users OK with ads in streaming TV, not on YouTube uploads
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Would Ray Ozzie Take On(line) for the Microsoft Team?
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Musical Chairs: How Bloggers, Mainstream Press, and Analysts Start to Look Alike
BBC:
Prisons to ban adult-rated games
Discussion: Joystiq and GamesIndustry.biz
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Loopt strikes a deal to make massive use of GPS data cost effective
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
High-Stakes Race to Unlock a Wider Web
Discussion: dailywireless.org and Digg