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10:55 AM ET, August 5, 2008

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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Steve Jobs: MobileMe “not up to Apple's standards”  —  In an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees this evening, Steve Jobs admitted that MobileMe was launched too early and “not up to Apple's standards.”  The e-mail, seen by Ars Technica, acknowledges MobileMe's flaws and what could have been done to better handle the launch.
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Kit Eaton / Gizmodo:
MobileMe “Not up to Apple's Standards,” Says Steve Jobs
Discussion: Digg
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AT&T joins the cloud computing game  —  AT&T said Tuesday that it will offer cloud computing services via a new service dubbed AT&T Synaptic Hosting.  —  The telecom giant described Synaptic as a “next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses.”
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PR Newswire:
AT&T Launches Global ‘Next-Generation’ Utility Computing Service
Discussion: GigaOM
Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:
Company says trademark was applied for a year ago and no one opposed it
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:   As IPO Nears, Rackspace Eyes the Cloud
Andrew Lavallee / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T to Be Provider Of ‘Cloud Computing’
Discussion: CNET News.com
Kaspersky Lab Weblog:
Social engineering on Twitter  —  This week it's Twitter's turn to host an attack - one that is targeting both Twitter users and the Internet community at large.  In this case it's a malicious Twitter profile twitter.com/[skip]/ with a name that is Portuguese for ‘pretty rabbit’ which has a photo advertising a video with girls posted.
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David Lenoe / PSIRT:
Verifying Installers  —  We have seen coverage from the security community of a worm on popular social networking sites that is using social engineering lures to get users to install a piece of malware.  According to the reports, the worm posts comments on these sites that include links to a fake site.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft launching two security initiatives at Black Hat conference  —  [D.T. note: I'll be leaving today for the Black Hat and Defcon conferences in Las Vegas.  Be sure to check for a variety of security stories during the week.]  —  Microsoft is launching two initiatives aimed at improving …
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Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Microsoft makes daring vulnerability sharing move  —  LAS VEGAS — Starting in October, Microsoft will start sharing details on software vulnerabilities with security vendors ahead of Patch Tuesday under a daring new program aimed at reducing the window of exposure to hacker attacks.
Discussion: Between the Lines
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
Black Hat 2008 promises to be big
Discussion: eWeek
Delta Newsroom:
Delta to Become Only Major U.S. Airline to Offer Broadband Wi-Fi Access on Entire Domestic Mainline Fleet  —  Aircell's Gogo inflight Internet service to be available in first and economy classes on more than 330 Delta aircraft in 2009, the most expansive inflight broadband offering of any U.S. air carrier
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Harry R. Weber / Associated Press:
Delta to offer Wi-Fi on mainline domestic fleet  —  ATLANTA - Delta Air Lines Inc. said Tuesday it will offer broadband wireless Internet access on its entire domestic mainline fleet by the middle of next year.  —  The Atlanta-based company said Wi-Fi service will be offered for a fee …
Discussion: CNET News.com and Phone Scoop
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Delta to roll out Aircell's GoGo service across entire fleet
Discussion: Gizmodo and WebProNews
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
A Ruling May Pave the Way for Broader Use of DVR  —  RECORDING TV shows — and skipping the commercials that come with them — may become more pervasive in the wake of a new court ruling that blesses a new networked form of digital video recorder.  —  The United States Court of Appeals …
Discussion: broadstuff and Lost Remote
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
How Image-to-Text Could Be Used in Google Street View  —  Google Street View's photo data could be used for more than just plain showing it to users.  Internally, Google could do some image analysis - like OCR, optical character recognition, to convert text contained in the images of the houses, shops and so on to text.
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Friendster Lives: New Cash, New C.E.O. and a New Strategy?  —  Don't count Friendster out yet.  —  The pioneering social network, surpassed by MySpace and Facebook in most of the world, is still going strong in Asia, and now it plans to build on its success there.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Adaptive Path Releases Aurora To “Inspire And Engage” Community  —  Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.  —  Adaptive Path, a product development and consulting service in San Francisco, is releasing a new web interface concept called Aurora this evening.
Motorola:
Motorola Expands ROKR™ Roster with Three New Additions  —  MOTOROKRTM EM30, EM28 and EM25 give mobile music fans new styles for their songs  —  Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today expands its ROKR portfolio with the introduction of three new music-optimized devices that provide a range …
Discussion: Engadget and Phone Scoop
AppleInsider:
Apple releases iPhone, iPod touch 2.0.1 Software Updates  —  Apple on Monday evening released iPhone 2.0.1 Software Update, the first maintenance and security update for iPhone 3Gs and first-generation iPhones running iPhone Software 2.0. iPod touch 2.0.1 has also been released.
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Larrabee: Intel's biggest leap since the Pentium Pro  —  Since the primitive 4004 chip first designed for a line of calculators, Intel has been a processor company.  And in all of the company's decades of processor design and fabrication, Intel has seen only one truly disruptive change …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Yahoo Shareholder Vote: Like Florida, Except More Confusing!  —  All Yahoo needs now is for former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris to show up and start recounting votes.  —  It could happen, given all the crazy characters that have been drawn to the much-beleaguered Internet company like a magnet in 2008.
 
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PR Newswire:
Memorex(R) Covers the ‘Essentials’ with its New Line of Portable Hard Drives
Discussion: Gadgetell, CrunchGear and Engadget
Bill Ray / The Register:
iPhone security and battery life are crap
Discussion: Computerworld
Electronista:
Olympus, Panasonic prep Micro Four Thirds
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Use ‘iPhone 3G’ From Minimum ¥2,990 a month!
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Google Sued For Infringing Patent With AdSense
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Colored Highlighter Pens for Marking Web Pages in Firefox
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and GottaBeMobile
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
BlackBerry Bold now available — in Chile
Kelsey Blodget / Beet.TV:
Kaltura Will Bring Collaborative Video to Wikipedia
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 Earlier Items: 
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Sony Buys Bertelsmann's 50 Percent Stake In Sony BMG For $1.2 Billion
BBC:
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Charles Cooper / Coop's Corner:
Is the world ready for Flash for dummies? Absolutely
Discussion: TechCrunch and VentureBeat
David Griner / The Social Path:
Is Google's PG-13 virtual world doomed to be NC-17?
Tenzin Pema / Reuters:
Internet companies agree on China code of conduct: report
Discussion: Startup Meme
Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
Micron preps 256GB solid-state drive
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
LinkedIn, like Facebook, is letting employees sell some stock early
 

 
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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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