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3:00 PM ET, September 16, 2008

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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  —  YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley wrote a post this morning about the future of online video and YouTube specifically.  Hurley notes that 13 hours worth of videos are uploaded every minute to YouTube (a figure we've reported before).
Discussion: WebProNews
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.
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TechRadar.com:
Google shows off final Android handset
Discussion: PC Pro, PC World, CrunchGear, Crave and Engadget
Matthew Sparkes / PC Pro:
Will Apple or Android get in my pocket?
Discussion: Gizmodo
Google Watch:
Journal Says Google Android Phones Will Appear This Year After All
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 …
Microsoft:
Zune Brings Powerful New Entertainment Features to Every Zune Portable Media Player With Software Release  —  Internet access provider Wayport enables wireless music downloads for Zune customers in Wi-Fi hot spots at more than 9,800 McDonald's restaurants.  —  Zune, Microsoft Corp.'s end …
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Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
Zune Owners Get Free Wi-Fi at McDonald's  —  Microsoft signs three-year deal with Wayport for old and new Zune owners alike: This is a nice win for Zune users, Wayport, and McDonald's, each in their own way, and it's something Microsoft can simply write off as useful marketing …
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  —  For the first time in the two companies history, Microsoft and Cray have teamed up to offer a powerful mix of what each company does best - - the Cray CX1!  What is the CX1, you ask?
Mike Blumenthal / Understanding Google Maps …:
Google Maps announces Quality Guidelines & Reinclusion Option  —  Today Google Maps has introduced quality guidelines for business listings in the Google Maps.  Google has also now provided a reinclusion option.  Both are available via the Google Maps Help Center.
Discussion: MarketingVOX
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Maps Adds Business Listing Quality Guidelines
Discussion: Screenwerk
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 …
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.
Discussion: Mashable!
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Mark Larson / Google Sites:
Chromium Developer Documentation
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped and CNET News
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Audio Indexing  —  Google's efforts to improve video search by using speech recognition technology started to become visible in July, when Google launched a gadget for searching inside the political speeches from YouTube.  The gadget has been expanded into a new service called GAudi …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:   Google audio search graduates to lab project
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 …
Dell:
Dell Sees Further Softening in Global Information Technology Demand  —  When Dell announced Q2 financial results on Aug. 28, 2008, it reported continued conservatism in IT spending in the U.S., which had extended into Western Europe and several countries in Asia.
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 and metarand
Blaise Alleyne / Techdirt:
Is Firefox Missing The Point In Its Response To Google Chrome?  —  Seth Godin thinks Firefox is missing the point by launching new features in response to Google Chrome.  He says the problem now is that “when your friends switch to Firefox, your life doesn't get better.”
Discussion: The Universal Desktop
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
eBuddy Mobile Adds Facebook Chat  —  This morning I was using the mobile version of eBuddy and I noticed that Facebook Chat was listed on the menu.  This was the first time I saw Facebook listed in the options.  I spoke with eBuddy CEO Jan-Joost Rueb to confirm that the Facebook Chat listing was new.
Jordan Robertson / Associated Press:
HP surprises Wall Street with size of EDS job cuts  —  SAN FRANCISCO — When Hewlett-Packard Co. announced five months ago it was acquiring technology-services firm Electronic Data Systems Corp., Wall Street expected big layoffs from the combined company.  —  But the size of the job cuts _ 24,600 jobs …
 
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Associated Press:
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Brad / Liliputing:
Eltrinex MobilePC: Czech netbook with 320GB HDD
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and Ubergizmo
Pete Kazanjy / Team Fusion:
Windows Gets Even Better on the Mac with VMware Fusion 2 …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google News & Indexing Old Stories As New
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
AT&T to tie iPhones into own Internet television, phone service
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Cognition Announces “World's Largest Semantic Map”
Discussion: The Semantic Web and Profy
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Microsoft becomes high priest of secure software development
Discussion: PC World and InfoWorld
Hal Varian / Google Public Policy Blog:
The SearchIgnite study on ad prices and the Yahoo-Google deal
Discussion: Ars Technica and WebProNews
 Earlier Items: 
BBC:
UK government responds on Phorm
Discussion: Lockergnome
dailymobile.se:
HTC Touch Diamond in new color - White
Discussion: IntoMobile and MobileCrunch
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
LiveBar Adds A Little Strip Of Community To Any Site
Discussion: Web Strategy
BBC:
Warcraft add-on gets release date
Discussion: AppScout
Robin Harding / Financial Times:
Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Pentagon Researcher Conjures Warcraft Terror Plot
Steven Snell / Smashing Magazine:
WordPress Developer's Toolbox
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Flixwagon Offers White Label Mobile Video Broadcasting
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

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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