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10:25 AM ET, September 22, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Music On microSD: I Can't Believe The Labels Fell For This  —  Forget buying an album on a USB stick, SanDisk just convinced the big labels to release (DRM free, thankfully) music on a 1 GB 15mm x 11mm x 1mm microSD card.  And then they convinced Best Buy and Walmart to sell these things.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
SanDisk SlotMusic Cards Are Destined to Fail  —  SanDisk, a flash memory chip maker that has been fighting off competitor Samsung's bid to acquire the company has launched SlotMusic MicroSD memory cards that will carry full length music albums just like a music CD or a vinyl.
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
SanDisk, Record Companies Plan New Music Format  —  In the latest attempt to shore up sales of music on physical media, SanDisk Corp. and the four major music companies plan to announce Monday a new format called slotMusic.  —  SlotMusic is be introduced in mid-October at retail outlets …
Sandisk:
“slotMusic™”: High Quality, DRM-Free MP3 Music on microSD™ Cards  —  Music, Retail and Tech Leaders to Offer “slotMusic™”: High Quality, DRM-Free MP3 Music on microSD™ Cards  —  (Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Milpitas, CA - September 22, 2008) - Leaders in music …
Jon Healey / L.A. Times Tech Blog:   SD: the new CD?  —  With CD sales dropping despite …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
What's in the Cards for SanDisk? Music
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Microsoft Authorizes A Big $40 Billion Buyback; Ups Dividend  —  Well, that's one thing they can do with all their cash... Rather than buy anyone else, the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) board has authorized the company to spend $40 billion on buying its own shares through September 30, 2013.
Discussion: CNBC
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PR Newswire:
Microsoft Announces Share Repurchase Program and Increases Quarterly Dividend  —  $40 billion authorized for share repurchase; Dividend increased 18 percent  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced that its board of directors approved a new share repurchase program authorizing up to an additional $40 billion …
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Microsoft announces $40 billion stock buyback  —  Microsoft on Monday announced a new stock buyback program of up to $40 billion, sending its stock up more than 5 percent in premarket trading.  —  The software giant said it would repurchase up to $40 billion worth of its shares through September 2013.
Discussion: Techland
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
FBI Searches Apartment of Tennessee Student Suspected of Palin Hack  —  FBI agents executed a search warrant Sunday at the apartment of University of Tennessee student David Kernell in connection with the hack of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's private Yahoo account.
Discussion: The Register, p2pnet, TechCrunch and WBIR-TV
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Laura Rich / Portfolio:
Palin Hacker's IP Address Linked to Tennessee College Dorm
Discussion: CrunchGear
Dan Woods / Forbes:
Why Google Isn't Enough  —  Web 2.0 has annoyed legions of information technology professionals by providing an experience for consumers that, in many ways, is just plain better than what everyone gets at work.  At some point after the year 2000, consumer companies grabbed the ball …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
A New Kind of Venture Capitalist Makes Small Bets on Young Firms  —  From the day he founded Etsy in 2005, Rob Kalin refused to raise money from venture capital firms to expand his company, which hoped to bring the sale of handmade crafts from small local fairs to the international marketplace of the Web.
Kim Poh Liaw / SlashPhone:
Samsung Introduces M75500 Night Effect with Emporio Armani  —  Unveiled at a press event held in Milan, Italy on Sunday, Samsung and Armani introduces the M75500 candy bar with a nickname called Night Effect.  The Night Effect is the first mobile phone with Emporio Armani branding (it was Giorgio Armani last year) for Samsung.
Discussion: IntoMobile and Cellpassion
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Tony Smith / The Register:
Palm OS II-based smartphones now due H2 2009  —  Palm's next-gen operating system will be finished by the end of the year, the company promised late last week.  —  The company said the Linux-based system software known as Palm OS II and ‘Nova’ is “on track” for completion by the end of calendar 2008.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
Ben Dobbin / Associated Press:
Is the rich-hued Kodachrome era fading to black?  —  ROCHESTER, N.Y. - It is an elaborately crafted photographic film, extolled for its sharpness, vivid colors and archival durability.  Yet die-hard fan Alex Webb is convinced the digital age soon will take his Kodachrome away.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Analyst: Apple will sell 5 million iPhones in Q4  —  Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, one of the most bullish — and closely watched — of the more than two dozen analysts who track Apple Inc., has raised his estimates for the company's fourth quarter, which ends next Tuesday, Sept. 30.
Discussion: AppleInsider
Angelo DiNardi:
MailWrangler and the Apple App Store  —  So in July I wrote a small iPhone app called MailWrangler.  Basically this app enabled a user to add their GMail accounts (standard and Google Apps For Your Domain) which they could load and switch between them quickly.
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Adam DuVander / webmonkey:   Another Competing iPhone App Zapped By Apple
 
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Jonathan Skillings / CNET News:
McAfee offers $465 million for Secure Computing
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Drop.io puts blogging, file sharing on a map—literally
Discussion: All Points Blog
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Gogimon's Search Medium Channels Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Results
Discussion: Between the Lines
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Best of the Best: The Hive Five Winners
Discussion: Digg
Fred Vogelstein / Epicenter:
Why Google needs better antitrust advice
Joscelin Cooper / The Official Google Blog:
Now, read us in gadget form
Discussion: Search Engine Journal and Google
Hal Varian / The Official Google Blog:
The democratization of data  —  The Internet has had an enormous impact …
Alan in Belfast:
Apple Store in Belfast's Victoria Square opened this morning
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Tops 15 Million Peers
Discussion: TechCrunch, Pulse 2.0 and Digg
Jon / p2pnet:
New Comcast plan has ‘disconnect user’ option
Discussion: Slashdot
Chicago Tribune:
Social-networking sites viewed by admissions officers
Discussion: Web Strategy and Slashdot
Brad / Liliputing:
Mandriva Mini: Another custom Linux distro for netbooks
Discussion: PC Authority
 

 
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