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7:40 AM ET, August 24, 2009

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Lacy Kemp / The Real Story:
Introducing Rhapsody on the iPhone  —  Every day I watch Twitter to see what people are talking about with regards to our brands.  I see lots of suggestions and lots of feedback, but the one thing that keeps on coming is this question: When will Rhapsody be on the iPhone?  Or, when will Rhapsody be on Android?
Discussion: Technologizer, Music Ally and SlashGear
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Peter / gdgt:
Subscription music comes to the iPhone: Rhapsody app exclusive screenshots and details  —  Yep, Rhapsody is coming out with an iPhone app.  Or at least they want to.  Real just submitted it to the App Store for approval, so it may be a few weeks before it's actually available (assuming Apple doesn't get all fussy and block it).
Discussion: Gizmodo and 9 to 5 Mac
Rafat Ali / mocoNews:
Rhapsody Music Service Launched on iPhone  —  Finally.  RealNetworks' has launched is Rhapsody music service on iPhone tonight.  The app is free, but it is a paid service, at $14.99-a-month Rhapsody To Go service.  Like its online version, on demand streaming for every song …
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Facebook's Zuckerberg Plans to Increase Staff 50% Amid Engineer Surplus  —  Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. plans to expand its staff by as much as 50 percent this year as it benefits from a surplus of engineers amid the recession, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said.
Boy Genius Report:
Upcoming Verizon handsets: Motorola Sholes, BlackBerry Curve 2, BlackBerry Storm 2, more  —  We just got hit with a nice outline of some of Verizon Wireless' upcoming handset release dates, and boy do they look appetizing.  First up is the Motorola Sholes, a phone most of us assumed wouldn't be launching until very late in the year.
Richard Koman / ZDNet Government:
‘Skank’ blogger talks, sues Google for $15m  —  Now the world knows: the “skanks of NYC” blogger is one Rosemary Port, a 27-year-old student at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and she is one pissed-off young lady.  She not only has strong words for model Liskula Cohen …
Discussion: NY Daily News and NEWS.com.au
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
NYT Starts Serving Up Intrusive Ads in Its iPhone App  —  The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) has thrown down the gauntlet when it comes to ads on mobile apps, specifically its iPhone app.  Over the weekend, it has started running roadblock interactive ads on its iPhone app, possibly the first such by a big publisher.
Alex Wright / New York Times:
Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts  —  Computers may be good at crunching numbers, but can they crunch feelings?  —  The rise of blogs and social networks has fueled a bull market in personal opinion: reviews, ratings, recommendations and other forms of online expression.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Barnes & Noble Lands Irex, Another Would-be Kindle Killer  —  Here's another company choosing a side in the coming e-book war: Irex Technologies, a Dutch company that plans on selling a Kindle-like reader in the U.S. this fall, has allied itself with Barnes & Noble's online bookstore.
Discussion: CNET News
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
How I Got the Google Voice/App Store Story Wrong  —  As I mentioned in my piece Friday on Apple's response to the FCC's Google Voice App Store inquiry, I got an important aspect of the story wrong in my initial coverage.  On 28 July, in a piece in which I initially speculated that Apple's decision might …
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Can AT&T Meet iPhone Network Demands?  —  As AT&T struggles to keep up with iPhone-delivered videos and apps, its leadership in the market for smartphone Web access is at stake  —  When AT&T (T) cut the deal that made it the exclusive U.S. distributor of Apple's iPhone …
Discussion: Sidecut Reports
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
ISP Friendly BitTorrent Tracker Doubles Download Speeds  —  Since it was first released by Bram Cohen back in 2001, very few changes have been made to the way BitTorrent works.  It was a revolutionary invention and to date it is by far the most effective way to transfer large files online.
Discussion: Pulse2
 
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
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Randall Stross / New York Times:
Where Yahoo Leaves Google in the Dust
Discussion: Beyond Search, Thanks:dtunkelang
San Francisco Chronicle:
Judge tosses much of S.F. computer-hijack case
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Foreigners Attending US Grad Schools Way Down: Wake Up, Xenophobes
Discussion: Helloform and Texas Startup Blog