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10:30 PM ET, July 28, 2008

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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple's next-gen Macs to have something special under the hood  —  A new generation of personal computers on the way from Apple Inc. may sport some of the most significant architectural changes since the Mac maker made the jump from PowerPC processors to those manufactured by Intel Corp., AppleInsider has learned.
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Seth Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs:
Rumor: MacBook updates to include glass trackpad, other goodies  —  As I hinted in my “fun” blog, I have been hearing some interesting things about Apple's upcoming line of portable computers.  The talk amongst insiders on the new MacBooks is kind of scattered but here's a summation of what I've heard:
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Cuil shows us how not to launch a search engine  —  Google challenger Cuil launched last night in blaze of glory.  And it went down in a ball of flames.  Immediately after launch, the criticism started to pile on: results were incomplete, weird, and missing.
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Kevin Donovan / Techdirt:
Is Privacy That Cuil?  —  Search engines are no stranger to questions of privacy.  They range from the petty (location of privacy policies), to the questionable (storage of IP addresses), to the disastrous (exposure of personal searches).  Most of the concerns stem from the massive amounts …
Vince Sollitto / Cuil:
Cuil Launches Biggest Search Engine on the Web  —  Technology Company Offers New Look at Search  —  Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy.
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Wow, How Did Cuil Get So Much Publicity on Day 1?!
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine
TDavid / Things That:
Silly Cuil returns PHP array dumps in unrelated queries
Discussion: VentureBeat and Mark Evans
Capen Karr / Apple iPhone Apps:
MagicPad: iPhone Copy / Paste & More (Video)  —  In a follow-up to the story we broke last week, Apple iPhone Apps has new information about an app that will, amongst other things, finally bring copy & paste functionality to the iPhone.  —  MagicPad is a rich-text editor that was recently submitted …
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David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
iPhone, App Store problems causing more than just headaches  —  It has been a couple weeks since Apple deemed iPhone OS 2.0 to be ripe enough for us to pluck from its digital tree.  While third-party software (albeit from a walled garden) is indeed an appetizing treat, widespread reports …
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
iPhone NDA: Doing more harm than good  —  The iPhone software development kit (SDK) is the only sanctioned way to develop applications for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch.  The SDK includes APIs, documentation, and sample code; so far, Apple is treating all of it as confidential information.
Discussion: Chuqui 3.0
Harrison Hoffman / The Web Services Report:
When the ‘wisdom of crowds’ turns on itself: IMDB edition  —  The concept of the “wisdom of crowds” is a fundamental building block of a lot of the Web 2.0 services that we see today.  While not all of them are built on this core concept, major sites like Digg, Wikipedia, and Mahalo rely heavily on crowds being wise.
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and VentureBeat
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Peter Sciretta / /Film:   IMDb Watch: Are Dark Knight Fanboys Burying The Godfather?
Robert M. McDowell / Washington Post:
Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis?  —  The Internet was in crisis.  Its electronic “pipes” were clogged with new bandwidth-hogging software.  Engineers faced a choice: Allow the Net to succumb to fatal gridlock or find a solution.  —  The year was 1987.
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Craig Donato / Oodle Blog:
New MySpace Classifieds Powered by Oodle  —  MySpace users now have a smarter classifieds site - more listings, better search and helpful pricing guides.  The site is also more social: listings are linked to MySpace profiles - not anonymous IDs, and users can enlist their friends to help …
Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
Microsoft Research releases free software for academics  —  At the ninth annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Tony Hey, corporate vice president of Microsoft's External Research Division, unveiled free software to help researchers seamlessly publish, preserve, and share data.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
MPAA Still Clueless; Claims Anti-Piracy Is Why Dark Knight Had A Huge Opening  —  from the are-these-people-serious?  dept  —  Last week, we wrote about how the massively successful opening of The Dark Knight showed (once again) how little an impact “piracy” has on movies.  But don't tell the movie industry that.
Discussion: Portfolio.com and CrunchGear
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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Secrecy cloaked ‘Dark Knight’
Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog and Gizmodo
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo Music Does The Right Thing: Issues Refunds to Customers  —  Last Thursday, we reported that Yahoo Music was going to shut down its store and DRM licensing servers on September 30, which was basically going to leave anybody who ever bought music from the Yahoo Music Store without a license to play their music.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:   EFF applauds Yahoo Music for reimbursing customers
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Hey Hulu, What'cha Tracking?  —  Last night we wrote about the new set of embeddable widgets that video streaming service Hulu has launched.  It sure seems like the widgets load very slowly.  While watching the widget load, I noticed that they are grabbing data and pushing it to Omniture's tracking beacon.
Discussion: WinExtra
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Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Steve Jobs Walks Into the Trap  —  What was Steve thinking?  I don't pretend to understand the pressures he's under, both physically and professionally, but calling New York Times columnist Joe Nocera with an “off the record” health update was a big mistake, completely unnecessary, and serves only to fan the flames.
Discussion: GMSV
Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:
Kevin Rose calls to non-rebut rumors about Digg and Google acquisition talks  —  More amazing scoops at the RDL blog today.  My Skype just buzzed, with a call from a name I didn't recognize, and I picked up and it was Kevin Rose of Digg.  He goes, “This is Kevin Rose.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Hires Mozilla Exec Mike Schroepfer As Director Of Engineering  —  Mike Schroepfer, the extremely well regarded VP Engineering at Mozilla, is now Facebook's Director of Engineering.  —  He'll be heading up Facebook Platform and the main product front end, he said by telephone this morning …
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Jason Calacanis / Silicon Alley Insider:
Is Google A Content Company?  Of Course It Is.  So What Should Publishers Do?  —  For the past week, I've been fielding calls about Google's new content play, called Knol, “killing” Mahalo.  Knol stands for “unit of Knowledge” and it's a very well-designed Wikipedia/Mahalo style content publishing play.
 
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Oracle amends SAP TomorrowNow suit
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Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
Static continues for Apple's iPhone debut
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Microsoft Plays Practical Joke On People To Convince Them They Like Vista
Discussion: Engadget
John Leyden / The Register:
Apple is sorry (again) over MobileMe
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VMware Plans Major Data Center in Wenatchee
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft mashes up multiple natural-user-interface inputs
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