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6:00 PM ET, September 16, 2008

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TechRadar.com:
Google shows off final Android handset  —  Masked phone looks distinctly HTC-like  —  In a session at its Google Developer day in London this morning, Google executives demonstrated a working Android mobile phone for “the first time in Europe.”  —  The new handset, shown off …
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Wall Street Journal:
T-Mobile's Google-Based Phone Nears  —  T-Mobile USA plans to begin selling the first smart phone powered by Google Inc.'s new mobile software late next month, according to people familiar with the matter, facing off against Apple Inc.'s iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry with a device that blends aspects of both.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Hype builds for Android phone launch  —  The launch of the new Google Android phone on T-Mobile USA's network is fast approaching, but will the phone live up to its hype?  —  T-Mobile USA is expected to announce the new phone, called the Dream, on September 23.
Matthew Sparkes / PC Pro:
Will Apple or Android get in my pocket?
Discussion: Gizmodo and jkOnTheRun
Google Watch:
Journal Says Google Android Phones Will Appear This Year After All
Chad Hurley / The Official Google Blog:
The future of online video  —  The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding.  It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Chad Hurley On The Future Of YouTube: We Will Conquer Every Screen
Discussion: WebProNews
Ian Lamont / Industry Standard:   The future of the Web is 3D, not video
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer  —  Microsoft and Cray are set to unveil on September 16 the Cray CX1, a compact supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008.  —  The pair is expected to tout the new offering as “the most affordable supercomputer Cray has ever offered …
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WindowsServer / Windows Server Division WebLog:
MICROSOFT AND CRAY TEAM UP TO BRING HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING MAINSTREAM
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Meraki teams with San Francisco for free Wi-Fi  —  Meraki, the San Francisco company that is providing free Wi-Fi to San Franciscans, is teaming up with the city to bring free Internet access to low-income housing projects as part of its plan to unwire every neighborhood in San Francisco.
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Microsoft:
Zune Brings Powerful New Entertainment Features to Every Zune …
Siobhan Chapman / Computerworld:
Lehman Brothers invested in IT despite credit crunch  —  It spent $309M on technology and communications in the past quarter  —  Computerworld UK) Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was boosting its investment in IT even as it headed toward bankruptcy.  —  In the quarter ended Aug. 31 …
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Adobe AIR launches on Linux  —  Adobe announced today that Adobe AIR now runs on Linux.  AIR is a cool cross-platform runtime that enables developers to create Rich Internet Applications that merge the desktop with the web.  Bringing it to Linux removes yet another roadblock to bringing disruptive applications to Linux.
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Ashutosh Sharma:
Adobe AIR for Linux Beta is out!
Discussion: VentureBeat and webmonkey
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
AT&T to tie iPhones into own Internet television, phone service  —  AT&T said this week that it plans to eventually integrate the iPhone into its U-verse suite of Internet television and VoIP services, while also adding new features that will allow the handset act as a remote control.
Discussion: O'Grady's PowerPage
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Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Google offers cutting-edge Chrome, first update  —  The Google Chrome Channel Chooser lets people get the latest updates to Google's Web browser.  —  (Credit: CNET News)  —  Through a new developer program, Google is letting people try the latest versions of its Chrome Web browser, and the first update is available.
Jason Hiner / Between the Lines:
VMware wants to trump Windows and Linux servers with its Virtual Datacenter OS  —  VMware's new CEO Paul Maritz used his first VMworld keynote on Tuesday to introduce the company's Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS) to an audience of IT professionals and technology industry insiders …
Discussion: PC World, eWeek and Virtually Speaking
Belinda Goldsmith / Reuters:
Porn passed over as Web users become social: author  —  CANBERRA (Reuters) - Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people communicate, according to a web guru.  —  Bill Tancer, a self-described …
Associated Press:
McCain Invented Blackberry?  Adviser Says He Helped  —  MIAMI — Move over, Al Gore.  You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry.  —  At least that's the contention of a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
GigaOM Interview: Bill Hambrecht, Legendary Silicon Valley Banker  —  Last night I watched with morbid fascination as a group of talking heads on CNBC discussed the fall (and subsequent bankruptcy) of Lehman Brothers, the 158-year-old firm that survived the Great Depression, two world wars …
Discussion: Guardian, HipMojo.com and metarand
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Apple's Capricious Rules for iPhone Apps  —  Alex Sokirynsky spent two months, working nights and weekends to write an application for the Apple iPhone called Podcaster, which allows people to listen to and watch Podcasts on their phones.  —  He was encouraged because he had written …
Discussion: PC World and The iPhone Blog
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Android Phone, the G1, to Ship Mid-October  —  A little birdy just dropped by CrunchGear HQ, bringing tidings of HTC Dream release dates in his little bird-sized satchel.  They further confirmed the September 23rd announcement, cemented the rumors that there will be 3 different colors …
Discussion: Cheezhead
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Adobe allays worries; Sets up for CS4 launch  —  Adobe's third quarter earnings handily topped Wall Street estimates and the company projected fourth quarter results that are in line to better than what analysts were expecting.  —  Adobe on Tuesday reported third quarter earnings of $191.6 million …
 
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Matt Asay / The Open Road:
In acquiring Merrill Lynch, must Bank of America open source its software?
Discussion: PC World and Bank of America
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Congress's copyright fight puts open access science in peril
Discussion: Slashdot
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld / Between the Lines:
Now Debuting: One-Click Payment For Illegal Downloads
Discussion: DSLreports
N. Evan Van Zelfden / VentureBeat:
Austin game event: Lively by Google could be expanded to include games
Fred / A VC:
Leave Wall Street, Join A Startup
Discussion: Redeye VC, CNN and CNNMoney.com
Luke Plunkett / Kotaku:
How Much Has WoW Cost Blizzard Since 2004?
Discussion: PC Magazine and Game|Life
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
MySpace Music Launch Delayed?
Discussion: CNET News
Ars Technica:
Ars puts Spore DRM to the test—with a surprising result
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Gray / Graywolf SEO Blog:
Google News is Getting the Date Wrong on Old News Stories
Discussion: Search Engine Land
internetnews.com:
Mozilla Rethinking Firefox EULA
Discussion: Hardware 2.0 and Valleywag
Thord Daniel Hedengren / GigaOM:
Apple to Sony & Nintendo: Let the Games Begin
Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
Is There Any Reason for Desktop Apps Anymore?
Pete Kazanjy / Team Fusion:
Windows Gets Even Better on the Mac with VMware Fusion 2 …
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Cognition Announces “World's Largest Semantic Map”
Discussion: Profy and The Semantic Web
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Microsoft becomes high priest of secure software development
Discussion: PC World and InfoWorld
Robin Harding / Financial Times:
Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
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Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals

 
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