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4:30 PM ET, October 5, 2009

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Mike Chambers:
Building Applications for the iPhone with Flash  —  This morning during the day 1 keynote at Adobe Max 2009, Adobe announced that the next version of Adobe Flash (Flash Professional CS5) will include support for creating stand-alone applications for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
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Tricia Duryee / paidContent:
Adobe Extends Full Flash To Just About Every Phone But The iPhone  —  Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) has secured relationships will Research In Motion, Windows Mobile, Palm (NSDQ: PALM) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to roll out full Flash capabilities to the various smartphone platforms.
New York Times:
Just a Touch Away, the Elusive Tablet PC  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The high-tech industry has been working itself into paroxysms of excitement lately over an idea that is not exactly new: tablet computers.  —  Quietly, several high-tech companies are lining up to deliver versions of these keyboard-free …
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Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials  —  Changes Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity Endorsements  —  The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has approved final revisions to the guidance it gives to advertisers on how to keep …
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Etan Horowitz / Etan on Tech:
FTC says bloggers must disclose payments and freebies when reviewing …
Discussion: Computerworld
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
FTC Cracks Down on Blogger Payola, Celebrity Tweets
Discussion: eWeek
Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Breaking: Thousands of Hotmail passwords leaked online  —  Neowin has received information regarding a possible Windows Live Hotmail “hack” or phishing scheme where password details of thousands of Hotmail accounts have been posted online.  —  An anonymous user posted details of the accounts …
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Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
US Home Mac ownership hits 12 percent - NPD  —  The NPD Group's 2009 Household Penetration Study, reveals that approximately 12 per cent of all US computer owning households own a Mac, up from 9 per cent in 2008.  —  The researchers note to that while Apple ownership is growing, the mix favors mixed system environments.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Amazon Announces Mobile Payments Service  —  Today, Amazon launched a new service which brings the company's payment processing tools to mobile devices.  Called the “Amazon Mobile Payments Service,” the technology includes a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) …
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Tricia Duryee / paidContent:   Amazon Continues Attack on Apple's iTunes By Jumping Into Mobile Payments
Stephanie Clifford / Media Decoder:
Condé Nast's Executive on Why the Company Closed Four Magazines  —  In an interview at Condé Nast headquarters Monday morning, chief executive Charles H. Townsend explained why he had made the cuts he had.  The simple answer: the magazines were losing money.
Discussion: paidContent
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Here Are the Condé Nast Cuts: Modern Bride, Elegant Bride …
Discussion: Media Decoder and VentureBeat
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Marketplace is live on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones  —  Did you pick up an AT&T Pure over the weekend?  Yeah, then you might want to spin up Windows Marketplace on your new Windows Mobile 6.5 handset.  It's live and dancing right now a full day before any of this was supposed to launch — not that we're complaining.
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Vonage Releases Calling Apps for iPhone and BlackBerry  —  While the Google Voice application for the iPhone continues to be hung up in Apple's review process, a similar application from another company has passed with flying colors.  —  On Monday, Vonage, the Internet telephony company …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
AVG launches free antivirus suite as Microsoft crashes its party  —  AVG Technologies has made itself into a familiar name on the Internet by giving users antivirus software at a pretty good price: free.  That's how it got 85 million users.  Today, the company is announcing that the ninth version …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Softpedia News
The Official Google Blog:
Fast, simple and now stylish: Google Chrome with Artist Themes  —  We're always keen to share updates about our browser Google Chrome.  This past month, we launched a new stable release with speed improvements and updates to key features, as well as a little something extra to make your browser pop: themes.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
U.S. Internet ad revenue: Down 5.3 percent; Search rules  —  U.S. Internet advertising revenue checked in at $10.9 billion for the first six months of 2009, down 5.3 percent from a year ago, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Danny Allen / Gizmodo:
Toshiba's Cell-Powered REGZA 55X1 LCD TV Can Record and Display 8 Channels At Once  —  Toshiba's first TV with the PS3 Cell processor it helped develop has seriously kick-ass specs.  For starters: The 55-incher's LED backlighting divides the 240Hz display into 512 individually controlled areas …
Boy Genius Report:
Verizon Wireless, Sam's Club, TARGET: gearing up to launch Motorola Droid, BlackBerry Storm 2, BlackBerry Curve 2, more  —  If you've been wondering whether the Motorola Droid (or Tao, or Sholes — whatever), BlackBerry Storm 2, BlackBerry Curve 2 or LG Chocolate Touch would be hitting Sam's Club stores or even TARGET, you're in luck.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Buys Full Page Front Page Ad In Times Of India  —  India's largest English-language newspaper, the Times of India, has an interesting print edition front page today - a huge yellow advertisement for Yahoo's It's You campaign first announced last month.  You can view the print version here.
Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Thanks:atul
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Googled: Schmidt Wants To Build A “$100 Billion Media Company”  —  If Google were a sitcom, it would open every week with co-founder Sergey Brin arriving late to a meeting “out of breath in a T-shirt, gym shorts, and on Rollerblades.”  This familiar depiction of Brin finds …
Discussion: Digits
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Psystar sells Snow Leopard virtualization to third-parties  —  In spite of an ongoing legal dispute with Apple, clone Mac maker Psystar Monday announced plans to license its virtualization technology for Mac OS X to third-party hardware vendors.  —  The new Psystar OEM Licensing Program …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Rumor: Windows Live Wave 4 beta this week  —  New rumors are saying we'll be seeing a beta of Windows Live Wave 4 this week, and the final release in Spring/Summer 2010.  —  Here's a tweet from user nikhil_j that is sure to get the Microsoft beta community excited: “MS set …
Discussion: The Register and Softpedia News
Ciara Byrne / TechCrunch Europe:
Ready for your close-up?  Jinni goes into public beta  —  Finding a movie to watch on a rainy Friday night can be like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack.Jinni is a content discovery system, or as the makers prefer to call it a “taste engine”, for movies and TV shows which addresses this problem.
Discussion: NewTeeVee and AltSearchEngines
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Foursquare's Impressive Roster Of Angels Continue To Be Revealed.  Latest: Kevin Rose  —  There was a lot of action surrounding the first seed round of funding for Foursquare, the location-based social network.  From what we've heard, there were a number of investors upset …
Discussion: Carsonified
Pierre / The Blog of Cligs:
Cligs Shutting Down  —  It is with great sadness that I have to shut down Cligs.  On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics.  —  The forwarding data will be retained so that forwarding can continue for at least till …
Discussion: /Message, Mashable!, Techgeist and VatorNews
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
New Firefox security technology blocks Web attacks, Mozilla claims  —  Delivers browser preview with ‘Content Security Policy’ spec, hopes rivals follow its lead  —  Computerworld - Mozilla has released a test build of Firefox that adds new technology designed to stymie most Web-based attacks, the browser maker said Sunday.
Discussion: Softpedia News
 
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Los Angeles Times:
Will Hulu make you pay to watch?
Ina Fried / CNET News:
A CNET Conversation with Steve Ballmer
Tim Mullaney / Bloomberg:
Regulators Will Excuse Venture Firms From Rules, Patricof Says
Chris Kanaracus / ITworld.com:
Salesforce.com, Cisco partner on SMB call-center tech
Discussion: Bloomberg
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
Microsoft's Ballmer says Web search buys unlikely
Discussion: paidContent, TechFlash and MediaMemo
Jason Mick / DailyTech:
Apple Looks to Patent Cutting Users Off From Cell Phone Features
 Earlier Items: 
Danielle VanDyke / The Official Google Blog:
AdSense for Mobile optimized for high-end phones
Discussion: AppleInsider and Inside AdSense
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Speed Of Share
Thanks:atul
Erik Qualman / Search Engine Watch:
Is Google a Social Media Company?
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Ad Networks On Edge As Facebook Shuts Down Developers
Discussion: Inside Facebook, Thanks:atul
Mika Salmi / paidContent:
Time To Change The Lens: Media As A Service
Discussion: CloudAve, Thanks:atul