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1:45 PM ET, November 13, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It's A Social Network!  —  Microsoft's Live.com portal will change significantly this evening.  No longer will it be a simple search engine with a few other services bolted on.  It's now a social network, too, pulling in activity information and content from around the web.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Introduces Updated Windows Live Services  —  Leading Web companies work with Microsoft to simplify life online with e-mail, messaging, photo and file sharing, and more.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced the next generation of Windows Live, an integrated set of online services …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Windows Live Wave 3: Microsoft's kinder and simpler consumer services strategy?
Discussion: Teching It Easy
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 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Analyst: “Worst Economic Environment In Our Collective Lifetimes”  —  Google's stock price closed yesterday at $291, the first time it has dropped below $300 since 2005.  It's 44% off of its 52-week high of $725.  Most analysts think its cheap and getting cheaper - the average price target is still over $500.
Fred / A VC:
A Slightly Different Perspective  —  I've been reading a bunch of posts recently suggesting that the VC model is broken.  But guess what?  It's always been broken.  As Jeff Nolan points out in a short and sweet post: … Jeff's truth has been the story with the venture capital asset class …
Discussion: metarand
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
The VC model is broken
Jeff / Venture Chronicles:   The VC Model is Broken (Again)
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon announces BlackBerry Storm release date, November 21st, $199  —  At least y'all will have to wait less, not longer, right?  We're finally allowed to publish what the BlackBerry world has been waiting for — the official release date for the BlackBerry Storm.  November 21st is the date that shall live in infamy.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Zynga's Live Poker brings live social gaming to the iPhone  —  At first, the social gaming startup Zynga's new iPhone game “Live Poker” seems pretty run-of-the-mill.  The interface is intuitive, the visuals make good use of the iPhone's widescreen, but there are dozens of other poker applications available.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Your school chum's not asking about you: Classmates.com sued  —  “Your former classmates are trying to contact you!  Upgrade now to see their messages!”  That's the pitch many of us have seen from Classmates.com as a lure to pony up for a subscription.  At least one former customer …
Discussion: Inquirer
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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 …
Discussion: TechCrunch and CostPerNews
Jennifer L. Schenker / Business Week:
Google's Chrome: The Danish Magic Inside  —  Danish JavaScript expert Lars Bak is the wizard behind Google's new Web browser, Chrome, which aims to change the way we use computers  —  A Danish farm nestled just a bike ride away from Aarhus—a small city founded 1,000 years ago by Vikings …
PC Magazine:
EA Debuts Fitness Videogame for Wii  — NEW YORK - Electronic Arts Inc unveiled its first personal training product on Thursday, tapping into the growing appeal of video games as fitness systems as seen with Nintendo Co Ltd's hit title “Wii Fit” earlier this year.
Discussion: Inquirer, Opposable Thumbs and Gizmodo
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Digitalsmiths raises $12 million for video search and analytics  —  Digitalsmiths is announcing today it has raised $12 million in a second round of funding for its video search and analytics business.  It's not a huge amount of money, but given the current economic climate, it's significant.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
3 Flat-Screen Makers Plead Guilty to Trying to Keep Prices High  —  Prices for the flat screens in televisions, personal computers and cellphones have plummeted in recent years — but the decline would have been even faster if it hadn't been for an international price-fixing cartel, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla fixes 11 new flaws in Firefox, six critical  —  It also patches Firefox 2.0; just one more update coming for older browser  —  Computerworld) Mozilla Corp. on Wednesday patched 11 vulnerabilities in Firefox 3.0 — and 12 bugs in the older Firefox 2.0 — that could be used to compromise computers and steal information.
Discussion: Mozilla.org
Sony Corporation:
Sony Commercializes World's First(*1), Industry Leading Resolution(*1) 12.25 Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor “Exmor(TM)” for Mobile Phones  —  Also announces 8.11/5.15 effective megapixel CMOS image sensor and lens modules realizing image quality equivalent to compact-type digital still cameras
Electronista:
IBM lawsuit over “racetrack” memory secrets, iPod  —  Recent filings in the Apple-IBM-Papermaster case reveal that IBM is potentially raising a flag due to an upcoming technology that the company fears could be compromised by Mark Papermaster's employ at Apple.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
World's Second-Largest Search Engine Starts Selling Ads  —  Google makes its billions selling ads against its text search results, charging marketers per click.  Now its trying the same thing with YouTube, reports the Times:  —  An advertiser - or a video maker who wants to promote a work …
Electronista:
Dell Inspiron Mini 12 reaches US  —  Dell today officially launched the Inspiron Mini 12 for the US after its initial run in Japan.  The 12-inch crossover between a netbook and ultraportable now starts at $549 and is partly slower than the smaller Mini 9.  A lesser 1.33GHz Atom is compensated …
Discussion: Liliputing, SlashGear, Engadget and Gizmodo
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
RED's Digital Still and Motion Camera System now official  —  After a morning of drip-fed images, RED just went official with DSMC (Digital Stills and Motion Camera) System.  The system starts with your choice of the professional Scarlet or “master professional” EPIC brains which can then be configured …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Obsessable and Slashdot
 
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Where in the World Is Yahoo's Board?
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
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Get your ticket for TechCrunch/LeWeb Party
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Dell CTO Kevin Kettler to step down
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
AMD launches video conversion software, opens new fronts against Nvidia
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
Napster Judge Calls for Major Copyright Reform
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