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8:15 PM ET, October 9, 2008

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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple “notebook” event is on, October 14th!  —  The rumors were true folks.  Apple is staging an invitation-only Town Hall event in Cupertino next Tuesday, October 14th at 10AM PST.  It's absolutely safe to say they'll be showing off new laptops... and you know we'll be there live!
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Sources: latest MacBook Pro photo is the real deal  —  A photo of a mysterious notebook leaked on the Internet Wednesday is indeed one taken of Apple's next-generation MacBook Pro casing, AppleInsider can confirm.  Meanwhile, some additional photos of a similar, but still unauthenticated 13-inch notebook have since surfaced.
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Apple announces October 14 notebook event in Cupertino
Ryan Block:
Is right now really the moment for Apple to launch new laptops?
Discussion: VentureBeat
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Inside Details of Sequoia Capital's Doomsday Meeting With its Companies  —  Last night I reported on a special meeting held by Sequoia Capital for its portfolio companies, warning them about the fiscal hurricane that was going to hit them, and how they'd better figure out ways to survive what could be a big downturn.
Amazon Web Services Blog:
Amazon S3 - Busier Than Ever  —  Amazon S3 usage has grown very nicely in the last quarter and now stands at 29 billion objects, up from 22 billion just a quarter ago.  As one of the S3 engineers told me last week, that's over 4 objects for every person now on Earth!  —  Our customers are keeping S3 pretty busy too.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Amazon Cuts Prices on S3
Discussion: Storage Station and Webware.com
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Zuckerberg: Facebook Will Have A Business Plan In Three Years  —  If you've had a nagging suspicion that Mark Zuckerberg really doesn't know how he'll turn Facebook into a business, wonder no more.  You're right.  Here he is talking to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
Discussion: Valleywag and metarand
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Netzökonom:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Our focus is growth, not revenue  —  FAZ: “The web 2.0 architecture is not necessarily a revenue opportunity.  This is not where the money is”, said Eric Schmidt from Google.  Do you agree with him?  —  Mark Zuckerberg: I disagree.  He has a clear incentive for saying what he is saying...
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Turns On Text Ads In Google Maps  —  With Google's stock down $100 in the past two weeks, the company all of a sudden isn't so shy about pulling every advertising lever it can reach.  So far this week, we've seen new click-to-buy buttons on YouTube (YouTubevertorials), AdSense for Flash games …
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Amit / Digital Inspiration:
Google AdSense Ads in Google Maps
Gene Johnson / Associated Press:
40 laid off at software company as execs arrested  —  SEATTLE (AP) — Two former software executives grossly overstated their company's revenue to attract more than $50 million in private investment, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding that the fraud was uncovered late last month when a worker found …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for October 2008  —  Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: October 9, 2008  —  Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: October 14, 2008  —  This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on October 14, 2008.
Shishka / Bungie.net:
Meet Our Next Game  —  Bungie has several projects underway within the studio, one of which is a brand new campaign experience for Halo 3 that we teased two weeks ago.  Now, at long last, we can lift the shroud of secrecy and shed a little more light on what we've been working on.
Walaika Haskins / E-Commerce Times:
Microsoft Aims for an Experience, Sony Just Wants a Home  —  Microsoft and Sony both talked up their consoles' proprietary virtual worlds at the Tokyo Game Show Wednesday.  Sony said that its long-delayed Home will arrive before 2009, and Microsoft offered some details on the New Xbox Experience, which will arrive in November.
Discussion: TG Daily
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Don't stop believing — Silicon Valley lip-synchs while market burns  —  Tech stocks are plunging and venture capitalists are telling their startups to hunker down for an extended downturn, but a group of Silicon Valley techies still found time for a nice little retreat to Cyprus.
Slobodan Simic / Fudzilla:
MSI's new Wind U120 pixellized  —  Exclusive: In all its glory  —  We've managed to get our hands on some pictures of MSI's upcoming Wind U120 netbook, or as some like to call it, the Wind 2.  Still featuring a 10-inch screen, the new U120 will also be less “cute” than the previous generation as it is oriented at business users.
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Digg's Kevin Rose: We've got to be more than a fanboy hub  —  LONDON—Digg founder Kevin Rose had a message for the audience at the Future of Web Apps conference on Thursday: It's time to grow up.  —  “We have to do better,” he said in his talk, called “The Future of News,” …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo Below $13  —  We got a tip yesterday that bludgeoned Carl Icahn was orchestrating a Yahoo palace coup.  We haven't been able to confirm and assume it's hogwash, but at this point we imagine Jerry might even go willingly, just to let someone else take the drubbing for a while.
Discussion: Valleywag
Sarah Kershaw / New York Times:
The Sum of Your Facial Parts  —  IS the woman pictured on the right more attractive than the woman on the left?  Do her wider-set eyes, the longer distance between her hairline and the bridge of the nose, and the rounder shape of her face make her more beautiful?
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Adzilla, a Would-Be I.S.P. Snoop, Quits U.S. Market  —  Another company is giving up on the idea that American Internet providers should be able to watch where their customers surf and sell that information to advertisers.  This time it is Adzilla, a startup in Brisbane, Calif., that is closing its North American operations.
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple releases Security Update 2008-007 for Mac OS X  —  Apple on Thursday afternoon released its seventh distinct security fix of the year for Mac OS X to tackle a number flaws, including one introduced with its 10.5.5 update.  —  Available for both Mac OS X Leopard (Client, Server) …
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Will Google's Android Be the Tipping Point for Smart Phones?  —  Table of Contents:  —  ABI Research analyst Kevin Burden says smart phones such as the T-Mobile G1 that are based on Google's Android operating system for mobile and wireless devices could push smart phones into standardization.
Discussion: Engadget and Electronista
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Internet Companies Hammered by Economic Concerns  —  It was another awful day in the stock market with the Dow dropping more than 7 percent and the Nasdaq more than 5 percent.  Internet companies were not immune, as a growing chorus of analysts are now saying that the financial crisis …
Discussion: GigaOM and Furrier.org
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Mobile Speed Trap App, Trapster, Now Available For iPhone  —  Trapster is a new mobile application that lets you see and share the location of speed traps right on your mobile phone or GPS device.  Once installed, the app uses a combination of your device's internal GPS capabilities …
Discussion: Josh Bancroft's …
Crave at CNET UK:
12-year-old finds iPhone flaw while texting girlfriend  —  A 12-year-old boy who uses his iPhone mostly for texting with his girlfriend has discovered what looks like a new vulnerability with the device.  —  The unnamed boy, son of blogger Karl Kraft, turns on the passcode lock …
Discussion: CrunchGear and Valleywag
 
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Yi-Wyn Yen / Fortune:
Losing faith in Yahoo (again)
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