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9:15 PM ET, August 25, 2008

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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Wired.com's iPhone 3G Survey Reveals Network Weaknesses  —  Wired.com's survey of iPhone 3G users suggests that widespread data speed problems have more to do with carriers' networks than with Apple's handsets.  —  Recently Wired.com asked iPhone 3G users all around the world to participate in a study …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Apple's iPhone 3G connection problems don't appear to be Apple's problems  —  For those still thinking Apple is going to have to recall the iPhone 3G over faulty chip issues hampering its connections, there are two reports today suggesting that will not happen.
Kit Eaton / Gizmodo:
Leaked Document Shows Verizon's Psyops Anti-iPhone Propaganda  —  Oh, deary deary me... Verizon's tactics to combat the JesusPhone 3G now include briefing its employees about the iPhone's failings, so they can answer customer questions about why it doesn't carry the device.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
No Matter How NBC Spins It, Olympics Web Strategy Comes Up A Loser  —  Despite its special Silverlight-powered Website and more than 2,000 hours of online video, it looks like NBC flubbed its opportunity to make its Olympics Web revenues more than a rounding error.
IEBlog:
IE8 and Privacy  —  As others have written here before, users should be in control of their information.  That's at the core of privacy.  Privacy has two aspects: disclosure and choice.  Disclosure means informing users in plain language about the data collected about them and how it's used.
Discussion: Today @ PC World and Channel 9
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Daniel / Disqus:
Reblog: Comments Can Be Blog Posts  —  New feature: Add your blogs and start reblogging comments on Disqus.  —  Watch a quick introduction to reblogging comments:  —  Get the Flash Player to see this player. … Originally posted as a comment by Devin on A VC using Disqus.
Discussion: A VC
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Disqus Lets You Profit From Comments on Other Blogs and Grabs …
Discussion: Blog World Expo Blog
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Amazon may enter college textbook market with new Kindle  —  The student textbook market will soon welcome another newcomer to the market in the form of a revamped Amazon Kindle, according to McAdams Wright Ragen analyst Tim Bueneman.  If true, it will have to compete with a number …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Kindle Sales To Get A Boost? Chase, Amazon Push $100-Off Deal
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Open Tech Mac Clone Company Wants To Sell Itself For $50,000  —  It's only been three weeks since the Mac “clone” company Open Tech made its debut, but it's already putting itself up for sale for $50,000.  In an email on July 20, their Vice President Elijah Samaroo said that they were going to …
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MacNN:   Mac clone maker goes up for sale
Electronista:
Nokia unveils N79, N85 smartphones [U]  —  (Update: official release due tomorrow) Nokia today fulfilled a promise from earlier this month with two new Nseries devices both aimed at driving down the cost of getting into full smartphones.  The N85 as flagship appears set to replace the N81 …
Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
Introducing Digg Dialogg  —  Hey Everyone -  —  We want to give the Digg community an opportunity to pose questions to some of the individuals and leaders of the moment (sans editors), who are taking action to change the world in cool ways.  To do this, we're launching a new program called “Digg Dialogg.”
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Microsoft invests in Net video company Move Networks  —  Microsoft has invested in Internet TV company Move Networks for an undisclosed sum, in a move to broaden the reach of its video streaming technology.  —  The investment comes roughly five months after the two companies struck a strategic partnership.
Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC NEWS:
Scrabulous users - stunned, bemused,baffled.  —  My inbox is filling up with the grief-stricken, the angry, the lost and the desperate.  Who are they?  Sad obsessives who played Scrabulous on Facebook.  They had been through a spasm of anxiety a few weeks back when the word game …
Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:
Why Apple should release a touch-screen Mac  —  Apple is one of the major leaders in the multitouch space and yet, the company's desire to bring a full-fledged touch-screen device to store shelves has stopped with the iPhone.  In fact, the most it has done in bringing multitouch to its computers …
Discussion: The Mac Observer and MacDailyNews
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
EA: We Might Be Talking To Take-Two, We Might Not.  But We're Not Talking About It Publicly Anymore (ERTS, TTWO)  —  Electronic Arts' increasingly murky bid for Take-Two is now turning opaque: The company just told the SEC that it has filed a confidentiality agreement with Take-Two (TTWO) …
Discussion: Docu-Drama, EA.com, Kotaku and Blue's News
Mahalis / Two Finger Play:
Over, for now  —  Well — I've received notice from Apple that they've been contacted by The Tetris® Company about Tris.  That, I'm afraid, is essentially game over.  Do they have a case?  No. Not really.  I am convinced that if it went to court, the “copyright” claim would get thrown out completely.
 
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Charles Jade / Infinite Loop:
Rumor: Apple Event for September 9th
Jennifer Liu / The Official Google Blog:
At a loss for words?  —  Have you ever been stumped in finding …
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Dusty Horwitt / Washington Post:
If Everyone's Talking, Who Will Listen?
Discussion: Digital Daily and Techdirt
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
The strengthening dollar may weaken Internet giants
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Tells CNBC That Dinner's Still On
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
What We Need Is A Digital Bill Of Rights
Discussion: WinExtra
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
Fox to stream premieres for dorms
Discussion: NewTeeVee and paidContent.org
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
OpenClip, she is dead
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Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
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