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7:50 PM ET, August 18, 2008

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Android Developers Blog:
Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK  —  I'm pretty happy today, for two reasons.  First, I'm happy because I get to let everyone know that we're releasing a beta SDK.  You can read about the new Android 0.9 SDK beta at the Android Developers' Site, or if you want to get straight to the bits, you can visit the download page.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
HTC Dream FCC approved, Android clear for launch?  —  The long rumored HTC Dream handset — once referred to as “The Googlephone” — just received FCC approval.  The handset is listed as type, “Dream' with a model of “DREA100.  ” The same model also appears with a WiFi Interoperability Certificate touting 802.11b/g WiFi.
Sean Fallon / Gizmodo:
Android 0.9 SDK Beta Now Available: Includes Major UI Update
Discussion: Electronista
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Google releases near-final Android programming tool
Discussion: VentureBeat and MobileCrunch
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
New iPhone Software 2.0.2 Today, New iPhone Shipment for AT&T Tomorrow  —  First things first, we just got word that iPhone owners can look forward to a nice little firmware update coming their way in just over half an hour.  Version 2.0.2 (5C1) is due to hit iTunes at 5:00 pm EST today and will consist mainly of performance tweaks.
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Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone 3G Connectivity Affecting 2% of Customers?  Software Fix Soon?  —  One MacRumors reader claims to have received a response from Steve Jobs after emailing in a complaint about the current iPhone 3G connectivity issues that have been widely reported.  —  According to the email response …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
iPhone 2.0.2 software launches.  Will this be the one to fix the connection issues?
Discussion: MacRumors, Engadget and The iPhone Blog
Minnie Ingersoll / The Official Google Blog:
Time to “Free the Airwaves”  —  For quite some time we've been talking about the potential of the unused airwaves between broadcast TV channels ("white spaces") to provide affordable, high-speed wireless Internet connectivity nationwide.  For this to happen, the Federal Communications Commission …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google Pushes White Space, Says Free The AirWaves  —  Updated: Today, Google is launching a new advocacy campaign, Free The Airwaves, an effort by the company to get some traction around white spaces, the tiny slivers of spectrum that resides in the 700 MHz band spectrum vacated by analog television's switch to digital transmissions.
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Leaked: Dell Inspiron 910 (Mini Note) Specs and Release Date  —  A few weeks ago we ran some rumored specs of Dell's answer to the Eee, the Dell Inspiron 910 (aka Mini Inspiron and Inspiron Mini).  Now we've gotten our hands on the full (internal) 910 web documentation.
Randall Kennedy / Windows Sentinel:
Bursting the Vista sales bubble  —  Our Windows Sentinel tracking data shows that 35 percent of mainly enterprise-class users “downgrade” their Vista systems to XP  —  For weeks now there've been rumors that major PC makers, like Hewlett-Packard, have been quietly selling PCs with a Vista license …
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Video Ad Companies: People Love Watching Video Ads!  —  Everyone knows it, so it must be true: Everyone hates pre-roll video ads — the mini-ads that publishers want you to sit through before you actually watch a clip.  We bail out on them constantly, and everyone we know does the same.
Christine Tsai / Google Mobile Blog:
This is a test — ads on YouTube's mobile site  —  Over the past year, we've focused on creating and delivering a full-featured YouTube mobile user experience.  We think we've made great strides in doing this, allowing you to access YouTube wherever you are, whenever you want it.
Tim Anderson / The Register:
Microsoft Silverlight: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it  —  A year or so ago I wrote a post called Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it.  Here's the same kind of list for Microsoft's Silverlight, based on the forthcoming Silverlight 2.0 rather than the current version.
Discussion: The Universal Desktop
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
FCC approves Microsoft's unreleased 120GB Zune  —  Ever since Samsung had announced their new 120GB 1.8-inch hard drive in April 2007, Zune fansites has been buzzing with anticipation of a new Zune fitted with the higher capacity drives.  Now the wait is nearly over as the FCC publishes a test report …
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web?  —  Last year, Bill Janeway really got my attention (pdf) when he noted that “over time, Wall Street 'firms began to trade against their clients for their own account, such that now, the direct investment activities of a firm like Goldman Sachs dwarf …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Scratch that.  Windows Server 2008 R2 still lives  —  What do you do with a blog post that is so messed up that you can't even go in and edit it in order to fix it?  That's my dilemma with my post from August 15 about Microsoft skipping over Windows Server 2008 R2 and proceeding direct to Windows 7 Server.
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:   Windows 7 Server to be ‘minor release’
SportsBusiness Journal:
NBA shoots for local streaming of live games  —  The NBA is poised to become the first major U.S. sports league to stream live games in local markets, an aggressive offering that will set up a showdown between cable operators and regional sports networks.  —  The move marks the latest evolution …
Chrix Finne / Google Reader:
Read what they read  —  The Reader team has always been interested in politics, and we use Reader (of course) to stay current on all the political happenings.  As we were reading and sharing amongst ourselves, it got us thinking: what would happen if political newsmakers used Reader too?
 
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Pirate Bay Refutes Mygazine Affiliation
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PC World:
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Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
So far, Silverlight is powering the NBC Olympics quite well
HP:
HP Lightens the Load for Business Travelers
Discussion: Gizmodo, I4U News and TechSpot
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
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Discussion: AdAge
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel on what computers ought to be able to do
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Nokia helps port Firefox to Qt
Jeff Smykil / Infinite Loop:
Apple building fire caused $2 million in damages
Discussion: MacUser
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Web Strategy: The Evolution of Brands on Twitter
Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
Bono blamed for unreleased U2 songs on Internet
Discussion: Pulse 2.0
Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
Open Source: An Open Question for Red Hat and Others