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6:15 PM ET, August 1, 2008

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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Time Warner (TWX) Killed Jon Miller/Yahoo (YHOO) Board Deal  —  The mystery of Jon Miller's disappearing Yahoo board appointment has been gotten a little less mysterious.  He isn't taking the job because Time Warner (TWX), his former employer, won't let him.  What we're not sure about: Whose story to believe.
Discussion: paidContent.org, GMSV and Tech Ticker
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Shareholder Vote: Old Board Stays Put (While AOL Makes Another Boneheaded Move!)  —  After its annual meeting today, as its board members had lunch together, Yahoo released the results of its shareholder vote and it seems we will still have Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang to kick around some more.
Discussion: CNET News.com and Valleywag
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Live blog: Yahoo CEO faces shareholders  —  SAN JOSE, Calif.—The Yahoo shareholders meeting here has commenced and adjourned.  And CEO Jerry Yang and his board did end up getting an earful about the company's share price and its handling of Microsoft's attempted acquisition.  —  I blogged live from the meeting.
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Yahoo Shareholder Meeting: What's Happening  —  1:20 pm EST: Far fewer people showed up to the Yahoo  —  In the Yahoo meeting which started promptly at 1 pm EDT, and I'm struck by the big party the company is hosting.  —  And very few showed up.  —  This is inside the San Jose Fairmont's cavernous Imperial Ballroom.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Time Warner Nixes Jonathan Miller's Appointment To Yahoo Board.
Discussion: Between the Lines
Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:
FCC formally rules Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent was illegal  —  Federal regulators voted 3-2 on Friday to declare that Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent traffic last year was unlawful, marking the first time that any U.S. broadband provider has ever been found to violate Net neutrality rules.
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Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:   Reactions to FCC's Comcast decision come fast and furious
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
FCC Punts on Network Neutrality
Discussion: NewTeeVee and OStatic blogs
DigiTimes:
Nvidia to quit chipset business  —  Nvidia has decided to throw in the towel and quit the chipset business, sources close to the situation at one of Taiwan's top motherboard makers have revealed.  As the story is told, Nvidia called a meeting earlier this week with its motherboard partners …
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Brandon Hill / DailyTech:   NVIDIA Denies Reports That It Will Leave Chipset Business
Egan Orion / Inquirer:
US lawmakers mortified at mobile phones  —  Vote to ban cellphone use inflight  —  SOME SENSITIVE legislators in the US House of Representatives apparently think mobile phones should remain banned on airplanes because their owners are sometimes annoying.  —  Several members …
Discussion: MobileCrunch
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David Chartier / Ars Technica:
House Committee decides to HANG UP on in-flight cell calls
Discussion: Techdirt and Crave
Arn / MacRumors:
NetShare iPhone Tethering App Reappears in App Store  —  After an unusual sequence of events, Nullriver, Inc.'s NetShare app has reappeared on the iTunes App Store.  —  The $9.99 application promises to allow you to share your iPhone's network connection with your computer.
Discussion: The iPhone Blog and Cult of Mac
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Amazon To Acquire AbeBooks, And With It A Stake In LibraryThing  —  Amazon has acquired twelve year old Canadian company Abebooks (formerly the Advanced Book Exchange), the companies just announced.  AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books focusing on used, rare and out of print titles …
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Amazon.com:
Amazon.com to Acquire AbeBooks  —  SEATTLE & VICTORIA, British Columbia—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Aug. 1, 2008—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that, subject to closing conditions, it has reached an agreement to acquire AbeBooks.  AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
We Know How Many Kindles Amazon Has Sold: 240,000  —  Ever since Amazon launched the Kindle last November, we've been wondering about just how successful it's been.  The electronic book initially sold out and supplies have been tight.  The Kindle is such a small part of Amazon's overall business …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Nicole Fabris / ABI Research:
Location-based Mobile Social Networking Will Generate Global Revenues of $3.3 Billion by 2013  —  Location Aware Services Research Service |  Location-Based Mobile Social Networking  —  The recent emergence of location-based mobile social networking services offered by providers such as GyPSii …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Location-Based Mobile Social Networking: A $3.3 Billion Market In 5 Years?
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border  —  No Suspicion Required Under DHS Policies  —  Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies …
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Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:
Homeland Security: We can seize laptops for an indefinite period
Discussion: Lifehacker
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Yelp, Yahoo! Local & LinkedIn SearchMonkey Apps Now Default-On  —  Last month we opened up the Yahoo! Search Gallery to showcase all of the useful SearchMonkey applications that have been built by developers, site owners and Yahoo!.  Today, we're turning on a few of those applications for all users.
Glenn Fleishman / TidBITS:
DNS Clients Have Small Vector of Risk after Patch  —  The SANS Institute installed and tested out Apple's fix for the underlying flaw in the domain name system (DNS) protocol, and found that a patched copy of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (the desktop version, not Leopard Server) …
Discussion: Chuqui 3.0
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Time For Apple To Get Serious About Apple TV (AAPL)  —  Apple executives continue to refer to their Apple TV set-top box business as a “hobby” — which is a polite word for “failure.”  Time for that to change: If Steve Jobs wants to make a serious run at owning our living room's “digital hub …
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Carmack: iPhone more powerful than Nintendo DS, PSP combined  —  Speaking at QuakeCon 2008 in Dallas this week, id Software co-founder Carmack praised Apple's iPhone as an emerging force in mobile gaming industry and revealed his firm to be working on two titles for the handset.
Discussion: Engadget and MobileCrunch
Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:
Apple extends contract with AT&T, forgets about you  —  According to USA Today, AT&T and Apple have agreed to extend their exclusivity relationship through 2009, meaning the next iPhone will be made specifically for AT&T service.  —  The report claims that Apple originally signed the deal …
Discussion: Electronista
 
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
New worm targets Facebook, MySpace
Discussion: TechSpot
JR Raphael / Today @ PC World:
Google Declares: ‘Complete Privacy Does Not Exist’
Discussion: Tech Blog
Leslie Cauley / USA Today:
AT&T: 'We're all about wireless'
Matt Manolides / Google LatLong:
Olympic imagery update
Discussion: VentureBeat and WebProNews
Ben Gomes / The Official Google Blog:
Search quality, continued
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Large Hadron Collider nearly ready
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Keeping The Benevolent Dictators Of Silicon Valley Honest
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 Earlier Items: 
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Firefox 3.1 vs IE8: ‘Alpha, beta testers step forward, please’
Discussion: InformationWeek
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
A photo that can steal your Facebook account
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Online Fantasy Game's Absurd Cancellation Policy Leads To New Law
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
China opens crack in Great Firewall for Olympic press
Chris Pirillo:
PayPal Denies $450 of Unauthorized Charges
Sarah Lacy / Business Week:
Don't Cry for Us, Silicon Valley
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