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10:45 PM ET, August 19, 2008

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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Steve Jobs vows iPhone app crash fix for September  —  iPhone owners suddenly locked out of their third-party apps by a crash bug on startup will have a solution next month, Apple chief Steve Jobs has revealed.  —  An AppleInsider reader has received one of Steve Jobs' characteristically brief …
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
LEAKED: First Shots of iPhone Nike+ Interface  —  We've long known that Nike+ has been in development for the iPhone.  Now we're finally getting a peek at the first shots of the interface.  From what we can skim, Nike+ users will get all of the nifty performance graphs right on the phone …
Portfolio:
RIAA Says Muxtape Hosting “Illegal Content”  —  Sam Gustin has learned that Muxtape, the music sharing site that went down yesterday citing “a problem” with the RIAA, has received numerous requests to take down content the industry group deems “illegal.”  —  Those requests apparently went unheeded — until yesterday.
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Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Microsoft sees tailored search as way to pierce Google's armor  —  SAN JOSE, Calif.—Microsoft believes it's found a way to gain an edge against Google's dominant search engine: a deeper understanding of what people are searching for and what's on Web pages.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Microsoft sees Powerset-powered search ad revolution
Discussion: Mashable!
InfoWorld:
Judge dissolves gag order against MIT students  —  A U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday dissolved a gag order against a trio of MIT students who said they found flaws in the Massachusetts transit authority's ticketing system.  —  Zack Anderson, Russell “RJ” Ryan, and Alessandro Chiesa …
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Rebecca / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Judge Lifts Unconstitutional Gag Order Against MIT Students
Discussion: Techdirt
Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Apple willing to replace any smoking first-gen iPod Nanos  —  If you're still hanging on to your first-generation iPod Nano, and you've noticed it has a tendency to smoke too much, Apple is willing to replace the unit.  —  The company issued a statement Tuesday after reports out of Japan …
Fred / A VC:
The Human Piece Of The Venture Equation  —  We've been attending a lot of “demo days” in the past month and I am attending one more this week, TechStars in Boulder tomorrow.  These startup accelerator programs, inspired by the success of Y Combinator, are launching something like 100 new web startups a year, possibly more.
Discussion: Texas Startup Blog
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
IE 8 to get ‘porn mode’?  —  The countdown to Internet Explorer (IE) 8 Beta 2 is on.  Microsoft said the consumer-focused IE 8 test release would be available in August.  There are just 11 days left....  No doubt, Microsoft has been holding back some features that will be added to the new test build.
Discussion: istartedsomething and Gizmodo
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
Google Will Offer Services for Bloggers at the Conventions  —  WASHINGTON — Google Inc. will help set up a two-story, 8,000 square-foot headquarters for hundreds of bloggers descending on the Democratic convention in Denver next week, and it will offer similar services at the Republican convention …
Matt Peckham / Game On:
Emily is Not Real: The End of “Real” Actors?  —  I have seen the future of computer-generated video game animation, her name is Emily, and Emily is not real — or is she?  See for yourself in the following clip just released from 3D facial animation company Image Metrics, and which I read about in The Times Online this morning.
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Hope you didn't plan to actually make calls on iPhone 2.0.2  —  Yesterday's release of iPhone 2.0.2 has been mostly welcomed by the ever-critical iPhone-using contingency, but as usual, the firmware is not without its problems.  We were able to confirm that the update addresses a few 3G-related issues …
Pew Research Center:
Key News Audiences Now Blend Online and Traditional Sources  —  Audience Segments in a Changing News Environment  —  For more than a decade, the audiences for most traditional news sources have steadily declined, as the number of people getting news online has surged.
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Takes 60% Of Search Market, While MSN Loses Share  —  Tough to be anyone but Google (GOOG) in search.  Google gained a share point from June to July, moving from 59% to 60% of all search queries, according to Nielsen Online.  —  It came at the expense of MSN, which lost …
Discussion: HipMojo.com and CNET News.com
Jim Goldman / CNBC.com:
Analyst: Apple's iPhone Devours Market Share  —  Over the past few weeks, several Wall Street kernels have popped when it comes to Apple.  Another this morning, courtesy of Pacific Crest Securities, and investors might be wondering when the whole bowl of kernels finally, suddenly, becomes popcorn.
Discussion: TUAW and Cult of Mac
Sahala Swenson / Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Make your 404 pages more useful  —  Your visitors may stumble into a 404 “Not found” page on your website for a variety of reasons:  — A mistyped URL, or a copy-and-paste mistake  — Broken or truncated links on web pages or in an email message  — Moved or deleted content
Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:
Verizon exec: Some Net neutrality fans suffer from ‘paranoia’  —  Verizon CTO Richard Lynch tells conference attendees that engineers, not lobbyists or interest groups, should be making decisions on how to manage broadband networks.  He says some Net neutrality advocates hear of a 22-millisecond delay and get a case of ‘paranoia.’
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
IDF: Intel thumps its chest on everything from Atom to Nehalem  —  Now the commercial starts.  If the morning keynote here at the Intel Developer Forum conference by Intel Chairman Craig Barrett was light on the Intel hard sell, the afternoon is full of it.
 
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Garbage In...  A late-stage venture funding outfit is foisting …
Joshua Karp / Boy Genius Report:
New silver Motorola Q9h with Windows Mobile 6.1 hits AT&T stores
Discussion: Gizmodo, WMExperts and MobileCrunch
Stephen Lawson / PC World:
HP Results Gain on Laptop, Blade Sales
Discussion: Electronista
Kim Martin / voxeo.com:
Over 30,000 Companies Rely on Voxeo
John Ribeiro / PC World:
Vodafone to Offer Pricey IPhone 3G in India
Merlin Mann / 43 Folders:
What Makes for a Good Blog?  —  My friends at Six Apart recently asked …
Brittany Petersen / AppScout:
29 Percent of Internet Users Admit Purchasing from Spam
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:
Is Cox the Next Major Cell Phone Provider?
 Earlier Items: 
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Mac OS X 10.5.5 build 9F17 now in developers' hands
Discussion: Infinite Loop
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
My Windows 7 wish list
PC World:
Watching the Olympics on Your Mac
Arden Pennell / Palo Alto Online:
Facebook to move to Stanford Research Park
Discussion: VentureBeat and WebProNews
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Mapping Facebook's Growth Over Time
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Mobile handset sales down in 2Q: Market share race has three horses
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Verizon's FiOS: A Smart Bet or a Big Mistake?