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4:35 PM ET, September 26, 2008

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Thom Weidlich / Bloomberg:
Apple Won't Face Lawsuit Over Limited Life of IPhone Batteries  —  Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. won't face a lawsuit claiming it didn't immediately tell customers about the limited life of batteries for its iPhone or their $86 replacement cost, including delivery.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Analyst: Fundamentals are deteriorating at Yahoo  —  An analyst trimmed revenue estimates for Yahoo this morning, noting some of the factors that seems to be bringing the company down with no relief in sight.  Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal said in a research note that he believes Yahoo …
Discussion: WebProNews
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Yahoo: Collins Stewart Says Fundamentals “Deteriorating”
Discussion: Search Engine Watch
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
The RIAA's Playbook: No New Business Models Without RIAA Ownership  —  Mathew Ingram covers the details of Muxtape's run-in with the RIAA.  As you may recall, last month the rather useful site that let people create online “mix tapes” that could be streamed to others was shut down thanks to the RIAA.
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld / Between the Lines:
Wall Street's Pain = Tech's Gain  —  The Dow is down just 28 points, to 10,993, as this gets typed at midday Friday.  Maybe everyone who wanted to head to the exits already has.  In meantime, the dysfunction on Wall Street should redound to New York's advantage — in technology.
Discussion: Careers
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Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Wall Street's Blowup Shrinks The Tech Market By Billions.  Could Be Worse
Discussion: Beet.TV
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
IPhone 2.2: Safari Redesign, Possible Cut and Paste  —  With the iPhone v2.1 software out of the door, Apple is hard at work on v2.2.  From this first glimpse it looks like Apple, now that the major bugs have been squashed, is adding some new features.  —  The screenshot, unearthed by iPhone Atlas, shows a new Safari interface.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
FeedBurner May Not Be Hearing Your Pings  —  Blogging is a fast medium, that's one of its advantages over traditional media.  There are bloggers who specialize in reporting fast about breaking news on a wide variety of topics.  Most of those bloggers use Google's RSS publishing technology FeedBurner …
Discussion: Venture Chronicles
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Apple cuts iPhone 3G build plan; Suppliers to take a hit  —  Apple reportedly plans to build 14 million to 15 million iPhone 3Gs from a previous target of 18 million for 2008, according to a report from Pacific Crest.  —  Citing “supply chain channel checks” Apple's is cutting its iPhone 3G buildout.
Discussion: mocoNews.net and MacNN
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Microsoft may buy Yahoo and AOL if the latter two merge  —  Microsoft is quietly readying a plan to make a purchase of the combined Yahoo-AOL, should Yahoo pull off its plans to acquire the struggling America Online unit, according to sources close to AOL.  —  Microsoft was rebuffed …
Mod Systems:
Our latest announcement: Digital Downloads of Movies and Music Get Faster, More Convenient With Breakthrough Portable Storage Technology  —  Toshiba and NCR Agree to Equity Investment in MOD Systems  —  MOD Systems, an industry-leading provider of digital media delivery systems for retailers …
Ben Worthen / Business Technology:
Larry Ellison's Brilliant Anti-Cloud Computing Rant  —  Maybe Larry Ellison can do what the Business Technology Blog can't.  —  Earlier this week, we wrote that the term “cloud computing” now seems to apply to just about anything even loosely associated with the Internet, making it effectively meaningless.
Ian Lesnet / Hack a Day:
How-To: Web server on a business card (Part 2)  —  This mini web server is slightly smaller than a business card.  There are a lot of tiny one-board servers out there, but this is probably the smallest you can etch and solder at home.  Unlike many embedded web servers …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
“No Walls” Trademark Dispute (Maybe Microsoft Should Bring Back Seinfeld)  —  An unusual Israeli-Palestinian joint venture start-up, which makes a cloud-based Web operating system letting users access their desktops from any computer with an Internet connection, is alleging a trademark violation …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Where Is Microsoft's Smartphone?  Everywhere, Says Redmond  —  The smartphone wars are set for this holiday season: Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 3G versus new BlackBerry gadgets from Research In Motion (RIMM), and now Google's ‘G1’ Android GPhone.  Oh — and dozens of gadgets running Microsoft's Windows Mobile.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
What Is The Deal With This Stupid Lighter iPhone App?  —  Everyone keeps talking about Smule's virtual lighter iPhone application called Sonic Lighter (iTunes link).  —  I wasn't impressed: there are no less than ten different virtual lighter apps in iTunes, which is what I'd call a saturated market.
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Tellme for iPhone due by June  —  SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Microsoft is indeed working on an iPhone application.  —  As I predicted, it is the company's Tellme unit that is actively developing a program for Apple's iPhone.  Tellme offers voice-activated search for a variety of phones, including the BlackBerry.
Discussion: VentureBeat and Apple Gazette
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Report: workers spend 25% of work time goofing around online  —  If you're reading this while your boss thinks you're hammering away on some code or updating that Excel spreadsheet, then you're likely one of the workers that spend about 25 percent of their work time doing personal stuff online.
Discussion: Digital Daily and Switched
Maciej Stachowiak / Surfin' Safari:
Full Pass of Acid3  —  Today we would like to announce that WebKit is the first browser engine to fully pass Acid3.  A while back, we posted that we scored 100/100 and matched the reference rendering.  Now, thanks to recent speedups in JavaScript, DOM and rendering, we have passed the third condition …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google Messes Up AdSense Exchange For Indian Rupee  —  A DigitalPoint Forums thread has a three page thread on the topic of Google messing up yet again with the exchange rate given to publishers.  This time Google equated one US dollar to one Indian Rupee.  The true current exchange rate is $1 US to 46.555 INR.
Jay Alabaster / Associated Press:
Japan's online social scene isn't so social  —  TOKYO - Like a lot of 20-year-olds, Kae Takahashi has a page on U.S.-based MySpace, and there is no mistaking it for anyone else's.  —  It's got pictures of the funky Tokyoite modeling the clothes she designs in her spare time, along with her name …
Discussion: Pulse 2.0
BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Of The People, By The People, For The People  —  Politweets was one of the first to mix Twitter and politics.  Other interesting mash-ups were created by C-SPAN for both the RNC and the DNC.  There's also the amazingly cool Perspctv and of course there's Current TV's plan to Hack The Debate.
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia to unveil touch-screen phone Oct 2: sources  —  HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) will unveil its first touch-screen phone at a media and analyst event in London next week, two industry sources told Reuters on Friday.
Julian Sanchez / Ars Technica:
Larry Page blasts white space FUD on Capitol Hill  —  Google co-founder Larry Page says the time for delays has passed: he wants the Federal Communications Commission to open up fallow “white space” in the TV broadcast spectrum for unlicensed use, and to do it before November's presidential election.
Discussion: GigaOM, nab.org and BetaNews
Toshiba:
Toshiba Launches 256GB Solid State Drives with MLC  —  TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation today announced enhancements to its line-up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) with the addition of an industry-leading 256-gigabyte (GB) SSD and the launch of a series of small-sized Flash Modules …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Can These Startups Beat Paypal?  —  Despite the acceptance of credit cards and services like PayPal, the issue of getting money from one person to another online still offers opportunities for innovation.  Venture firms are continuing to fund startups that hope to offer better ways to pay online …
Reuters:
Russian retailers to start Apple iPhone sales Oct 3  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Major Russian home electronics and cell phone retailers said on Friday they would kick off Apple Inc's (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) iPhone sales in Russia beginning on October 3, and estimated that 150,000 units could be sold by year end.
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Griffin iPod Dock Simplifies Cluttered Desks  —  Look what Griffin did!  It's another iPod dock, but this time it's actually useful.  The Simplifi comes in at $70, but for that you get to toss out your media card reader and your USB hub.  There's also an AC adapter for juice-sucking …
 
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David Meyer / CNET News:
Skype to be integrated into Asterisk PBXs
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Gartner Stays Firm on Positive Facebook, Twitter Use in Enterprises
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Amazon feeling first pinch of holiday economic slump
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Google takes its defense of the Yahoo ad deal to the people
Alex Iskold / ReadWriteWeb:
Patent Crisis and The Age of Open Source Ideas
Discussion: The Open Road
Arne Hess / the::unwired:
BROWSER: Microsoft's Internet Explorer Mobile 6 aka 6 on 6 is real …
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FTTH Councial Wants 100Mbps For All …
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