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5:00 PM ET, October 30, 2008

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Reuters:
US appeals court rejects business method patents  —  A U.S. patent appeals court ruled on Thursday that business methods, such as Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) one-click to buy goods on the Internet, cannot be patented.  —  The case was closely watched …
Discussion: Associated Press and BlawgIT
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Court Greatly Limits Software And Business Method Patents  —  from the huge-victory-for-innovation dept  —  I don't say this often, but it looks like the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) — or “the patent court” — got a big one mostly right.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Motorola: No Google Android ‘GPhones’ Til Next Christmas  —  Motorola's (MOT) cellphone business restructuring includes a big bet on Google's (GOOG) Android platform, which Motorola hopes to use for several high-end smartphones and mid-level phones.  So when will we see their first ‘GPhone’?
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The Official Google Blog:
What we learned from 1 million businesses in the cloud  —  The reliability of cloud computing has been a hot topic recently, partly because glitches in the cloud don't happen behind closed doors as with traditional on-premises solutions for businesses.  Instead, when a small number …
Sara Silver / Wall Street Journal:
Some Shed Their Gadgets by Turning to One: iPhone  —  Lower-income households are turning in force to Apple Inc.'s iPhone and may be doing so to save the cost of a separate broadband connection and music devices, according to the media measurement firm comScore Inc.
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Tricia Duryee / mocoNews.net:
Lower Income People Are The iPhone's Fastest Growing Demographic
Discussion: GMSV, iPhone Buzz, Epicenter and atmaspheric
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Revenue Crisis: Here Come The Pro Accounts  —  In his Wired magazine cover story, “Free!  Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business,” Wired editor Chris Anderson wrote: “It's now clear that practically everything Web technology touches starts down the path to gratis, at least as far as we consumers are concerned.”
Discussion: Epicenter and WebProNews
YouTube Blog:
Link To The Best Parts In Your Videos  —  Here at YouTube, we still pride ourselves in listening closely to our community and building what you ask for.  In this spirit, we are pleased to announce the ability to “deep link” to YouTube videos.  This means you can now not only link to a YouTube video itself …
Which? News:
Games firms pursuing innocent file sharers  —  People told to pay up for game they didn't play  —  Innocent people are being accused of illegal file-sharing, which carries the penalty of high fines and court action, according to a Which?  Computing investigation.
Discussion: Slyck and ZDNet Government
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Big Guns Come Out In Effort To Show RIAA's Lawsuits Are Unconstitutional  —  from the this-ought-to-be-worth-watching dept  —  People have been submitting this story nonstop, but I wanted to take some time to read the details before commenting on it.  It's not the first time that folks …
Discussion: Brier Dudley's blog and Inquirer
Mark Larson / Google Chrome Releases:
Beta release: 0.3.154.9  —  Google Chrome version 0.3.154.9 has been released.  You will automatically get updated in the next few days.  You can open About Google Chrome (from the wrench menu) to get the update at any time.  —  This release fixes the top issues we've heard about from people using …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
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Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Third Chrome beta due in days, Google says
Discussion: Download Squad and Maximum PC all
Ben Charny / Wall Street Journal:
H-P Mulls Service Bundles for Netbooks  —  Hewlett-Packard Co. wants to employ a new tactic to market “netbook” computers in the U.S., offering them at a steep discount to customers who sign-up for wireless service contracts.  —  This bundling of cellular service with PCs isn't done in the U.S. …
Apple:
MobileMe: About the Late-September 2008 MobileMe update  —  This article provides more detailed information about some recent improvements and the resolution of known issues that Apple delivered in the Late-September 2008 update to MobileMe services.  —  Apple is always working to improve MobileMe.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Entire Video of John Doerr Giving 10 Tips for Start-ups to Avoid the Econalypse  —  Here's a video of star VC John Doerr reciting his 10 tips for start-ups to follow in the economic downturn.  —  Doerr gave out the advice at VentureBeat's “How to manage your start-up in the downturn” …
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
A tough decision: Grab an iPhone or wait for the Storm?  —  Verizon Wireless and Research in Motion should be thanking one particular customer service rep for stopping at least one customer - me - from defecting to AT&T and the iPhone this week.  I had called in to find out about altering …
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Troy D. Brown / BlackBerryNews.com:
BlackBerry Storm Launch Event With The Foo Fighters In Los Angeles, California
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
The new AOL.com gets all social and stuff  —  Social networks are front and center in the latest redesign of AOL's AOL.com homepage, which the company announced Thursday and says it will start to gradually roll out to users over the next few weeks (unless they choose to opt in earlier).
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Hands on: Windows Media Player 12's surprising new features  —  Though many previously bundled applets are now will ship separately to Windows 7, Windows Media Player remains part of the core OS.  Windows 7 will ship with Windows Media Player 12, which includes some surprising new features.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Silicon Valley Leaders Say No to Proposition 8 With New Group and Ad  —  Today, a panoply of prominent tech and Internet leaders is taking a very public stand against a controversial initiative before California voters, which would eliminate the current legal right of same-sex couples to marry.
Discussion: GMSV and TechCrunch
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Google to AdSense users: Please don't dump us in crap economic times  —  Given the poor state of the global economy, there's a worry that online advertising, a key factor for the survival of many websites, will take a big hit.  That hasn't happened just yet, but Google, the leader in the field …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Ubuntu gets horny: Intrepid Ibex (8.10) officially released  —  The Ubuntu developers have announced the official release of Ubuntu 8.10, codenamed Intrepid Ibex.  This release includes new versions of many popular open source desktop applications and also introduces several important new features.
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Nokia N96 lands at Best Buy  —  Score one more for team Nokia - sort of.  Remember that $800 CompUSA price tag on the Bold that everyone laughed at?  Well, it looks like the condition might be contagious.  The good news for all you Nokia fans out there is that your favorite Finnish phone …
Charles / Channel 9:
Steven Sinofsky at the PDC2008 Open Space … Sign In  — HOME - RECENT - MEDIA  — SHOWS  — FORUMS  — SANDBOX - WIKI - SEARCH - ABOUT  —  Subscribe  —  FEATURED
Discussion: Technology Questions
Erica Sadun / Infinite Loop:
Accept credit card payments from your iPhone  —  Want to bring your business with you wherever you go?  Inner Fence's new Credit Card Terminal accepts payments directly from your iPhone.  According to the company's web page, the system offers just enough features so you don't have to drag …
Discussion: MacBlogz
 
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 More Items: 
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Facebook Using DMCA Notices To Takedown Private Videos?
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft kicks off the era of user-generated console games
Discussion: Xbox Press
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Adobe nukes ‘critical’ Pagemaker flaws
Discussion: Adobe
Lessig Blog:
On the Google Book Search agreement
Discussion: Open Access News and PolicyBeta
Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
New “Get a Mac” ads doing well against “I'm a PC” series
Discussion: Hardware 2.0
 Earlier Items: 
AppleInsider:
Apple more undervalued than others tech heavyweights
Discussion: Seeking Alpha and Edible Apple
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Online Videos — And Our Attention Spans — Get Longer
Discussion: Beet.TV and WatchingTV Online
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Walls Come Down On AOL.com
Discussion: The Open Road
Scott Gilbertson / webmonkey:
Cruz: New Mac Browser Off to an Impressive Start
 

 
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