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9:35 AM ET, September 3, 2009

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Graham Cluley / Graham Cluley's blog:
Apple ships a known vulnerable version of Flash with Snow Leopard  —  The last thing you expect when you upgrade your operating system, is that you will have some of your security silently downgraded.  —  But that's precisely what seems to have happened with Mac OS X Snow Leopard …
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Do minor UI changes mean Snow Leopard is tablet-ready?  —  Among Snow Leopard's many refinements are some changes to how Mac OS X displays windows in Exposé—with a regular grid arrangement—and Stacks, which are much easier to scroll through when they become large enough.
David Lenoe / PSIRT:
Flash Player update and Snow Leopard
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Customers Angered as iPhones Overload AT&T  —  Slim and sleek as it is, the iPhone is really the Hummer of cellphones.  —  It's a data guzzler.  Owners use them like minicomputers, which they are, and use them a lot.  Not only do iPhone owners download applications, stream music and videos …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Endless Summer: AT&T Has Three Weeks To Fulfill Its MMS Promise
Discussion: DSLreports and The iPhone Blog
Om Malik / GigaOM:
How the iPhone Is Driving a Wireless Bandwidth Boom
Discussion: Seeking Alpha, Thanks:atul
Wall Street Journal:
YouTube in Talks to Stream Rental Movies  —  Google Inc.'s YouTube is in discussions with major movie studios about allowing users to stream movies on a rental basis, according to people familiar with the company's plans, marking one of the video giant's first moves towards charging …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Oh, RSS Is Definitely Dead Now: Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo To Become Twitter COO  —  Former Google exec and the cofounder/CEO of RSS service Feedburner Dick Costolo is Twitter's new chief operating officer, we've heard from multiple sources.  Costolo, who sold Feedburner to Google for $100 million in 2007, left Google in July.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
FeedBurner Is Google's Biggest Screw-Up To Date  —  No wonder FeedBurner cofounder Dick Costolo left Google.  After the search giant bought his RSS startup FeedBurner in 2007 — for a reported $100 million — it has since squandered it.  —  The idea was that by merging FeedBurner's neat RSS tools …
Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:
RSS Is Dead, So Is The RSS Fund  —  Three months ago, Steve Gillmor wrote that “it's time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter.”  Sam Diaz piled on last week, calling RSS a Web 1.0 application whose time has passed.  And things got even worse today, when news leaked …
Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg:
Sony's Walkman Outsells Apple's IPod for First Time in Four Years in Japan  —  Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) — Sony Corp.'s Walkman digital music player outsold Apple Inc.'s iPod in Japan last week for the first time in more than 4 years, according to researcher BCN Inc.
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac
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Agence France Presse:
Walkman outsells iPod in Japan: survey
Discussion: Electronista
McKinsey Quarterly:
How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0: McKinsey Global Survey Results  —  The heaviest users of Web 2.0 applications are also enjoying benefits such as increased knowledge sharing and more effective marketing.  These benefits often have a measurable effect on the business.
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft calling on thousands to host their own Windows 7 parties  —  Microsoft is putting a Tupperware-style twist on the upcoming Windows 7 rollout — launching a new initiative to encourage thousands of employees, partners and technology enthusiasts to throw parties in their homes …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
This Is How You Steal 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPods In 31 Seconds  —  Quick: How can you get 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPods in 31 seconds, for free?  Tip: According to this security video, you need four friends, a brick, and a visit to the Apple Store in Marlton, NJ.
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Want 5,000 More Facebook Friends?  That'll Be $654.30  —  USocial Will Sell You Followers and Friends  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — If you're a Gmail user who also happens to use Twitter, it's probably been about five minutes since you've seen an ad promising to boost your follower count.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Google Patents World's Simplest Home Page  —  After a five-and-a-half-year fight, Google and its attorneys have managed to convince federal bureaucrats to bestow a patent on the company's iconic home page.  We always thought the page was brain-dead simple, but apparently it's an innovative “graphical user interface.”
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU opens in-depth probe into Oracle, Sun deal  —  * EU Commission cites concerns over database market  —  * Deadline of Jan. 19, 2010 for Commission decision  —  * Lawyer: too early to say whether probe is bad news for deal  —  European Union antitrust regulators launched an in-depth probe …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Who Invested How Much To Buy Skype  —  Earlier this week, a group of investors led by Silverlake Partners, a Silicon Valley-based private equity group acquired 65 percent ownership in Internet Telephony company, Skype for about $1.9 billion in cash and $125 million in debt.
Erin Pettigrew / Gawker Advertising:
Then and Now, Seven Years of Blogging as Business  —  When Nick Denton launched the proto gadget blog Gizmodo in August 2002, it arrived on scene to a milieu of early web confusion.  Until then, blogs were low traffic outlets for personal thought-flinging to be visited by friends …
Discussion: Shooting at Bubbles
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Palm: Pre Sales To Whiff Targets?  —  Is the Palm (PALM) Pre a bust?  —  Town Hall Investment Research analyst David Eller asserted in a research note this morning that sales of the Pre “are continuing to slow,” and “likely will come in dramatically below” Sprint's (S) reputed target of 1 million to 1.5 million customers for the year.
Discussion: Softpedia News and IntoMobile
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Real-time search engine CrowdEye revamps results, adds personalized news  —  Real-time search engine CrowdEye is retooling its results, adding personalized news and deepening its Twitter integration in an effort to beat about a dozen other startups in the space.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yelp Is Growing 80 Percent A Year, While Citysearch Remains Flat  —  Say what you will about the quality of the reviews on Yelp or the lengths it will go to get verboten features into its iPhone app, it has made the jump from Web 2.0 darling to a mainstream service.
Discussion: Screenwerk, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Apple to offer ready-made ringtones  —  Apple has obtained the rights to offer ready-made ringtones for the iPhone and managers are trying to have them available in time for next week's press conference, music industry sources told CNET News.  —  Owners of Apple's iPhone have long had the ability …
Discussion: AppleInsider, MacRumors and MacNN
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Review: Duracell Instant Chargers Are...Pretty Perfect?  —  We've all seen those mini cellphone rechargers at airports, but Duracell has released a line of rechargeable pocket chargers that can refill any USB-compatible device (like iPhones) through compatibility with your own adapters.
Steve Perlman / OnLive Blog:
OnLive Opens the Beta Program  —  Hey there...  It's been a very busy and productive few months for OnLive.  We've been focused on evolving the OnLive technology, installing lots of servers in our data centers and tuning the OnLive® Game Service based on feedback from our internal Beta testers.
Mikael Ricknäs / InfoWorld:
Samsung brings Windows 7 to netbooks  —  Users will still be able to pick Windows XP as an option on the two new netbooks  —  Samsung will use Windows 7 Starter Edition on two new netbooks, it announced on Thursday.  —  Both the N130 and N140 will come with the Starter Edition …
Discussion: Engadget
John P. Falcone / Crave: The gadget blog:
Logitech launches Squeezebox Touch, but the design disappoints  —  Logitech is adding a touch-screen model to its line of Squeezebox streaming audio products.  Unfortunately, the upcoming Squeezebox Touch has a design flaw (in my opinion) that will likely relegate it to the periphery of the burgeoning home digital audio market.
Discussion: Gearlog
VentureBeat:
Facebook Connect expands beyond iPhone to mobile web  —  Facebook Connect is continuing its march across multiple mobile platforms as the company endeavors to make itself the primary identification system for the web.  —  The company announced Facebook Connect for the mobile web today …
Discussion: Forbes
MacDailyNews:
MyService offers 750GB MacBook Pro hard drive upgrade service  —  MyService today announced a new 750GB hard drive upgrade for Apple's MacBook Pro.  These new Scorpio Blue drives by Western Digital are the largest mobile drives available.  MyService has these drives in stock and the complete upgrade service is $375.
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac
 
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
HMV buys 50pc of 7Digital for £7.7m, VCs get a ‘positive’ exit
Discussion: Bloomberg, paidContent and The Register
Rick Klau / The Official Google Blog:
Happy 10th birthday, Blogger
Discussion: WebProNews and internetnews.com
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Tapulous Taps User-Generated Content To Hype New Fox Flick
Discussion: VentureBeat
Pui-Wing Tam / Digits:
Khosla Ventures's Take on Tech
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Bing Leads in Successful Canadian Searches
Jason F. / Signal vs. Noise:
The bar for success in our industry is too low
Discussion: The Equity Kicker and @vanelsas, Thanks:javurek
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Taking The Plunge: How Newspaper Sites That Charge Are Faring
Discussion: Bend Bulletin
 Earlier Items: 
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
YouTube U.K. Settles Royalty Fight, Turns Music Videos Back On Again
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
After ‘Obama Joker’ debacle, Flickr changes takedown policy
Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
More Chrome OS clues - and it's sure sounding like a bootable browser
Discussion: Search Engine Journal, Thanks:downloadsquad