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8:40 PM ET, November 13, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is Apple Building A Search Engine?  —  We've received multiple (if thin) reports that Apple is working on a search engine of some sort.  —  At first glance, the rumors make sense.  Apple's Safari browser has 6-7% market share, and currently uses Google as the search engine for both the standard …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Collapses, Analysts Get Bearish  —  It's inevitable: When you're banging the drum on a stock and all it does is hit you on the head with a two-by-four day after day you eventually get discouraged.  (Don't we know it.)  No Google bull has truly capitulated yet, as far as we know …
Discussion: Scripting News and Digital Daily
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Paul Boutin / Valleywag:
What just happened at Valleywag?  The FAQ  —  I love Owen, but he has trouble writing in English during a crisis.  So here's the basics on what's happening at Valleywag:  — Some guy named Denton can't figure out how to sell ads on Valleywag.  — So he's going to sneak Valleywag …
Discussion: GMSV, bub.blicio.us and The Blog Herald
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Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
New Mac OS X 10.5.6 test build has over 90 fixes  —  Apple seems to be making a fair bit of progress on the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5.6 update.  This week, the company released a new test build of the package to its update testers.  This time around, Italian site HMBT is defying Apple's customary NDA …
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Robert Vamosi / Webware.com:
Apple updates Safari with 11 security fixes
Discussion: Zero Day and VentureBeat
Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:
October video game hardware sales continue to grow, Nintendo leads  —  Despite a worsening economy, all three current-generation video game consoles had better U.S. sales in October than they did a year ago, according to the latest figures from The NPD Group.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
In an economic storm, U.S. video game sales grew 18 percent in October
Discussion: The Microsoft Blog
Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:
Microsoft Windows Live is open to Facebook, MySpace, other social networks  —  One of the big questions to emerge from the news that Microsoft is partnering with dozens of Web services to position Windows Live as a central point for managing people's online lives: Where's Facebook and MySpace, the two dominant social networks?
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Introduces Updated Windows Live Services
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Where in the World Is Yahoo's Board?  —  With a $10 stock price, the turning down of Microsoft's $31 a share offer, a collapsed search advertising deal with Google (GOOG), fleeing execs and bad news aplenty, it's easy to blame Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and call for his ouster.  —  After all, the buck does stop with him.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft Trumpets Cashback Successes  —  Microsoft Live Search Cashback launched with great expectation in some quarters that it would grow Microsoft's search share dramatically.  That, so far, has failed to happen.  But Microsoft says it is making progress toward its own more realistic goal …
kottke.org:
High quality YouTube video hack  —  You may have noticed that the video of Burn-E I embedded looked a bit better than a normal YouTube video.  YouTube has been quietly offering high-quality versions of some of their videos for quite some time via a “watch in high quality” link just underneath the player.
Tam Vo / VentureBeat:
Live from NewTeeVee Live: CEO Jason Kilar explains why we are so addicted to Hulu  —  Jason Kilar, chief executive of Hulu, the online streaming video site backed by NBC and Fox, delivered a keynote at the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco today.  —  Kilar's talk focused on what drives …
Glenn Derene / Popular Mechanics:
Dust in Your iPhone?  It's Time for a New One  —  The problem with gadgets that “don't have any parts” is that you can't fix even very minor problems.  In his biweekly trends column, PM Senior Technology Editor Glenn Derene buys a new iPhone and destroys his old one—all in the name of a little pocket lint.
Discussion: Gizmodo and techeblog.com
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Online Video: Where's The Money?  —  Here is the stark reality of online video: nobody is making much money and the enthusiastic projections for online video advertising going from $500 million in 2008 to more than $5 billion in five years will undoubtedly be pared back in the coming weeks as analysts revisit their numbers.
George Colony / George F. Colony:
What does Intel's slip mean?  —  In my last post, “Why this tech recession will be different,” I observed that this slowdown will not be as severe for technology as was the 2001-2003 period.  —  But now comes Intel's announcement that it expects revenue for the fourth quarter to be down 10% from its original forecast.
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
Qualcomm halts UMB project, sees no major job cuts  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O), seeking to cut costs in the face of slowing demand for cell phones, has stopped developing a next-generation wireless technology called Ultra Mobile Broadband and is making small-scale layoffs.
Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:
Unsealed docs from Vista Capable class-action suit detail exchanges between Microsoft, Intel  —  U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman unsealed several documents containing internal Microsoft and Intel e-mails, in the ongoing class action lawsuit against Microsoft over marketing of Windows Vista.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Cell phone boarding passes coming to an airline near you  —  The next time you head over to the security line at the airport, you may not have to fish around for your boarding pass in order to get past the TSA agents.  Instead, you'll be able to flash your phone or PDA …
Discussion: Gizmodo
John Cook / TechFlash:
Jobster slashes staff by 38 percent  —  Jobster, the one-time high-flying online recruiting startup, laid off more than a third of its staff today as it grapples with a slowing economy.  About 15 people are losing their jobs.  —  “This is an unbelievable market condition,” said Jobster Chief Executive Jeff Seely.
Discussion: PE Hub Blog
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
ScreenToaster Makes Screencasting Easy  —  As you may have realized by now, we are big fans of screencasts here at ReadWriteWeb, and every time a new tool comes along that makes screencasting easier and more accessible, we can't help but give it a try.  The latest screencasting tool …
Discussion: TechCrunch
Microsoft:
Microsoft Offers 0 Percent Financing to New Microsoft Dynamics ERP and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customers  —  Microsoft Dynamics is committed to helping credit-approved customers gain access to capital and invest in their businesses even in uncertain times.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced …
Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Blog:
The Inside Story (Java, Microsoft and MySQL)  —  As consumer spending slows across the world, a variety of “brick and mortar” retailers are clearly feeling the impact.  Foot traffic is slowing, and it's getting harder to balance debt laden real estate portfolios and fickle consumer trends.
Dan Fost / New York Times:
Keeping It All in the Google Family  —  AS befits a company whose name is a play on words, Google (named for the mathematical term “googol") has come up with playful names for its workers.  Employees are known as Googlers, new employees are Nooglers and gay employees are Gayglers.
Live Search:
The next step in search  —  Today at PubCon we launched a new release of the Live Search API for publishers and web developers.  Now, in one place, we're making available what is essentially a content management system for your site or blog, plus the ability to monetize by selling ads.
Chris Snyder / Epicenter:
I-Card Movement Gets Boost From Equifax  —  Credit rating giant Equifax released an digital information card for verifying age Thursday, a major corporate endorsement of a nascent technology that many top tech companies think could go a long way towards eliminating the potential for fraud or identity theft in online transactions.
Discussion: CNET News and PC World
 
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Mozilla Asks Add-On Developers to Prepare For Firefox 3.1
Discussion: Global and webmonkey
Agam Shah / Computerworld:
AMD jumps into the netbook fray
Discussion: VentureBeat and eWeek
Mike / Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search:
Google Maps + TeleAtlas + TomTom = Powerful map update strategy
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
OpenSocial Turns One: My, How You've Grown!
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
A Closer Look at McColo
Discussion: BBC and TECH.BLORGE.com
Stacey Higginbotham / NewTeeVee:
Canoe Ventures Wants Your Data
Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Best Buy Black Friday ad spotted: Transformers on Blu-ray for $10
Basheera Khan / TechCrunch UK:
3 targets mass market with ‘Facebook phone’ launch
 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
Microsoft to spend $1 bln on R&D in China
Discussion: The Register and Guardian
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla fixes 11 new flaws in Firefox, six critical
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
World's Second-Largest Search Engine Starts Selling Ads
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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