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9:30 AM ET, October 9, 2009

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Sergey Brin / New York Times:
A Library to Last Forever  —  “THE fundamental reasons why the electric car has not attained the popularity it deserves are (1) The failure of the manufacturers to properly educate the general public regarding the wonderful utility of the electric; (2) The failure of [power companies] …
Richard Koman / ZDNet Government:
Exclusive!  Yahoo provided Iran with names of 200,000 users  —  This post is going to make some major allegations.  I realize this is not completely buttoned down, but I believe there is sufficient veracity in what I have right now to publish.  I am expecting to be able to provide further proof as the story unfolds.
John Herrman / Gizmodo:
Barnes & Noble's eReader Will Run Android  —  It's not certain, but I'll be damned if it isn't the best idea I've heard in a while: Barnes & Noble's rapidly-approaching eReader will be an Android piece, according to our source.  And it should be, according to me.
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Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering:
New Ways to Try and Buy Microsoft Office 2010  —  We're thrilled about the growing number of people who are using Microsoft Office every day to get things done at work, at home, at school and on the go.  For instance:  — 500 million people worldwide use Microsoft Office
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Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Microsoft to replace Works with ad-supported ‘Office Starter 2010’  —  In a bold new experiment for distributing Office that, quite surprisingly, does not involve Office Web Apps, Microsoft announced this afternoon its plans to let OEMs pre-install the full Office 2010 on new PCs …
Miguel Helft / Bits:
YouTube: We're Bigger Than You Thought  —  Pretty much everyone knows that YouTube is the king of online video.  Indeed, comScore recently said that in August, YouTube surpassed 10 billion views in a single month in the United States for the first time.  That made YouTube nearly 20 times …
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
The “WiFi At Conferences” Problem  —  Why does WiFi work so poorly at tech conferences?  —  Marcus GriepI assume that WiFi wasn't really designed to handle a big ballroom with 2000 people, all trying to connect with their laptops and cell phones at the same time.  Sometimes I feel like I'm lucky if it works in my apartment.
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
A Central Place for All Your Google Files  —  Google Sites added some new features: integration with Picasa Web Albums, feeds, custom templates.  —  The “insert” dialog from Google Sites is Google's first attempt to aggregate the user generated data from the most important Google services …
Discussion: Docs Blog and Regular Geek
Harro Ten Wolde / Reuters:
PCs are best for e-reading, Microsoft's Ballmer says  —  ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) - Microsoft has no plans to develop a digital book reader to compete with the fast-growing popularity of Amazon's Kindle or a device that rival Apple is reportedly developing.
Alex Dobuzinskis / Fan Fare:
Miley Cyrus quits Twitter  —  On television, Disney star Miley Cyrus can flip between her normal self and her Hannah Montana alter ego, just by putting on a blond wig.  —  On the Internet, the 16 year-old Cyrus also can switch off unwanted public attention, just by deleting her Twitter page …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
StumbleUpon Recasts Itself As A Social Search Engine “Between Google And Twitter.”  —  Ever since StumbleUpon spun itself off from eBay last April, it's been reinventing itself at a rapid pace.  In June, it launched Su.pr, its own URL shortening service, but that was just an interesting new product.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
WebGL slips into Chrome, too, for 3D Web  —  When it comes to built-in support for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, WebGL is being built into Firefox and the browser project behind Safari, and now Chrome is following suit.  —  “Preliminary WebGL support is now being compiled into Chrome …
Discussion: Softpedia News
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft plans monster Patch Tuesday next week  —  Unlucky 13 sets record as biggest-ever patch day, includes first-ever for Windows 7 RTM  —  Computerworld - Microsoft today said it will deliver its largest-ever number of security updates on Tuesday to fix flaws in every version of Windows …
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hearst Launches Web Aggregation Site, Too: “Let Me Know”  —  Hearst is launching a new aggregation site today, LMK.com (Let Me Know), which aims to be a comprehensive source of information for a number of topics.  —  The first focus is college football.  Next up is reality television, then dozens more.
Discussion: paidContent and TechCrunch
Dan Nystedt / Computerworld:
Wikileaks plans to make the Web a leakier place  —  IDG News Service - Wikileaks.org, the online clearinghouse for leaked documents, is working on a plan to make the Web leakier by enabling newspapers, human rights organizations, criminal investigators and others to embed an …
Nokia:
Nokia announces official Qt port to Maemo 5  —  Developers will be able to target the Nokia N900 and upcoming Maemo and Symbian devices.  —  Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced the creation of the official Qt port to Maemo 5 and published an initial Technology Preview release.
Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Verizon-iPhone deal less likely after Google move, IDC says  —  Google and Verizon plan to bring more Android smartphones to market  —  Computerworld - SAN DIEGO — This week's announcement by Verizon Wireless and Google that they plan to bring more Android smartphones to market means Verizon …
Discussion: Macworld, jkOnTheRun, Gearlog and PR News
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Another Day, Another Lawsuit Against Facebook (Well, Two)  —  It's an inevitable fact of business life: if you get big, you get sued.  —  Facebook is getting hit by that simple truth yet again: Phoenix Media/Communications, publisher of the Boston Phoenix newspaper among other publications …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Mass High Tech
Gady Epstein / Forbes:
China's Web 2.0 Nightmare  —  A Chinese microblogger discusses why the government is vexed by Twitter.  —  The 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China on Oct. 1 took on symbolic importance not only for the Communist Party, but also for connoisseurs of China's Internet controls.
Discussion: Network World
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Snow Leopard bug threatens user data, reports claim  —  Warning, warning: The latest Snow Leopard bug seems to threaten all your data, and it seems back-up has become essential, while Apple explores if the bug is just an isolated outbreak or a more serious matter.
Rocco Parascandola / NY Daily News:
NYPD tracking cell phone owners, but foes aren't sure practice is legal  —  The NYPD is amassing a database of cell phone users, instructing cops to log serial numbers from suspects' phones in hopes of connecting them to past or future crimes.  —  In the era of disposable, anonymous cell phones …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Phone Arena and Pulse2
Chas Edwards / Digg the Blog:
Testing Digg-fed “Content Ads”  —  In the spirit of testing different ways to make ads on Digg better (similar to what we're doing with Digg Ads), we're launching some new ads today called Digg Content Ads and we'd love your feedback.  These ads are in limited release so only a small percentage of folks on Digg will currently see them.
Discussion: Softpedia News, TechCrunch, ChasNote and Mashable!, Thanks:atul
Biz / Twitter Blog:
Coming Soon: Twitter in More Languages  —  Twitter is currently available only in English and Japanese.  With some help, we will soon be rolling out support for French, Italian, German, and Spanish.  These languages are commonly referred to using the acronym FIGS and are often the starting point …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Anti-Pirates Try to Nail The Pirate Bay with Faked Evidence  —  In an attempt to take The Pirate Bay offline, BREIN took three of the tracker's ‘founders’ to court.  BREIN won the case and Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter were ordered to block Dutch users within 10 days or face thousands of euros each day in penalties.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
J.D. Power: iPhone is No. 1, again  —  Consumers and business users alike prefer it over the BlackBerry  —  Here's a bullet point you can expect to see at Steve Jobs' next keynote.  —  Apple's (AAPL) iPhone has once again come in first in J.D. Power's semi-annual customer satisfaction study …
 
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Timothy Prickett Morgan / The Register:
IBM throws DB2 Power cluster at Ellison's Exadata
Discussion: Between the Lines
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Hulu Labs Cooks Up Linux Support For Hulu Desktop, New Publisher Tools
Discussion: Lifehacker and AppScout
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
Touchscreen PCs Prompt Interface Innovations
Discussion: digg.com, Thanks:cye
Claire Atkinson / Broadcasting & Cable:
Nielsen Calls Elite Client Pow-Wow To Pitch Online Measurement Wares
Discussion: paidContent
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Comcast Employs New Botnet Alert System …
Discussion: blogs.chron.com and CNET News
 Earlier Items: 
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Facebook's mounting customer service crisis
Thanks:blogfisher
Brad Stone / Bits:
Craigslist Expands Legal Battle Against Spammers
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Fight For Skype
Discussion: Computerworld and Seeking Alpha
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.1.2 [Updated]
Daniel Ek / Spotify:
Overnight success takes a long time...
Discussion: Music Ally and Pocket-lint.com, Thanks:mgcreed