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7:35 AM ET, September 17, 2010

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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Windows Phone 7 will be GSM-only in 2010  —  When Windows Phone 7 arrives later this year, it will be sold globally, but only for GSM networks.  Microsoft has opted to delay until next year the CDMA version as it works to finish work on its major rewrite of its phone operating system.
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Bloomberg:
Verizon Won't Sell Microsoft Windows Phone 7 at Start  —  Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) — Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, won't sell handsets with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone 7 operating system when it debuts this year, a blow to the software maker's efforts to reach a broad market.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Fraudulent Groupon Photography Deal Calls Attention To Service Drawbacks  —  A photography deal offered on Groupon in Atlanta yesterday turned messy when it was revealed that the photographer had promoted her work with stolen images and was far from equipped to carry out the terms of the Groupon.
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Andrew / Groublogpon:
Too much of a good thing?  —  Traditionally, the biggest problem for most small businesses is getting customers in the door.  Now, Groupon has presented some businesses with an entirely new problem: what happens when you have too many customers?  —  There have been a handful …
Jessie Burke / Posies Cafe:
Groupon in Retrospect
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's Internal Three Year Plan: 1 Billion Users And $10 Billion In Revenue  —  Yahoo unveiled a bevy of new product features today at a press event, and Yahoo product chief Blake Irving told the crowd “You're going to see things over the next few years that will feel a little bit different.”
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Kakul Srivastava / Yahoo! Mail Blog:
Get Ready... Yahoo! Mail Beta Is Coming  —  Don't blink.  Some big changes are happening to your Yahoo! Mail.  —  In the next few weeks, you'll be able to experience Yahoo! Mail Beta, a faster, cleaner, and safer way for you to communicate and share with the people you care about most.
Blake Irving / Yodel Anecdotal:
Looking Ahead: The Future of Yahoo! Products
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Yahoo unveils three-year plan to become cool again
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Details Of The Google Social Layer Emerge  —  Facebook may have known all the details about Google's new social product for months, but we're just now getting our sources to talk.  —  On Tuesday Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave additional details on the plan.  We posted the entire press conference video …
Discussion: All Facebook and InformationWeek
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Fred / A VC:   Social Layers and Social Intention
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple's 27" LED Cinema Display Now On Sale  —  As anticipated, Apple has started selling the 27" Apple LED Cinema Display on their online store.  —  Connect the 27-inch Apple LED Cinema Display to your Mac and supersize your view with an incredible 2560-by-1440 resolution …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Tech Probe Nears End  —  Several of the U.S.'s largest technology companies are in advanced talks with the Justice Department to avoid a court battle over whether they colluded to hold down wages by agreeing not to poach each other's employees.  —  The companies, which include Google Inc. …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:   Apple, Google, et al, Trying To Settle No-Poaching Probe Before Going To Court
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Best Buy CEO: iPad Cannibalizing Up To 50 Percent Of Laptop Sales  —  One line buried in a Wall Street Journal story is making the rounds as the latest evidence of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad power: Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn “said internal estimates showed that the iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs by as much as 50 percent.”
Wall Street Journal:
VMware Is in Talks to Acquire Novell's Linux Software Unit  —  Novell Inc. is in advanced talks with at least two buyers, including VMware Inc., to sell the software company in separate pieces, people familiar with the matter said.  —  VMware is pursuing Novell's SUSE Linux operating system business, these people said.
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Matt Asay / GigaOM:
Novell's Patents Are Complicating Its Sale
semmyfun:
Get that 4 letter domain you've always wanted: include one digit  —  In our last experiment we attempted attempted to estimate the proportion of pronounceable 5, 6 and 7-letter domains that are already registered.  —  But what about 4 letter domains?  —  I wrote a series of random domain generators …
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Facebook: $50 Million A Year on Data Centers  —  A look at the fully-packed racks inside a Facebook data center facility.  —  An analysis of Facebook's spending with data center developers indicates that the company is now paying about $50 million a year to lease data center space …
Discussion: All Facebook
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Intel: Leaked HDCP copy protection code is legit  —  Intel has confirmed that code posted to the Internet earlier this week is the master key that is part of an Intel-created standard used to make sure only authorized devices are playing copyright-protected movies.
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Code for open-source Facebook littered with landmines  —  Diaspora release not for noobs  —  Four New York University students who raised a bundle of cash to build a privacy-preserving alternative to Facebook sure have their work cut out for them.  —  The release of pre-alpha source code …
Cris Castello / Google LatLong:
View Near Real-time Flights over the U.S. in Google Earth  —  Thanks to our friends at Flightwise.com, we've published a new, dynamically updating KML file of commercial flights over the U.S. Turn on the layer to see the current location and altitude of thousands of flights, in near real-time.
Discussion: The Next Web
Lauren Goode / Digits:
Samsung is Latest to Push Mobile Media and Apps for TVs  —  As Samsung Electronics promotes its version of Apple's iPad Thursday, the company is also revealing its answer to the iTunes store — or at least the video portion of it.  —  As part of the U.S. unveiling of the Galaxy Tab …
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Netflix works over AirPlay  —  We tested Netflix on our iPad and it works with Apple's AirPlay service.  We connected some speakers to an Airport Express and the audio from the Netflix film wirelessly streamed and played perfectly with absolutely no hiccups.
Discussion: Erictric, TiPb and Go Rumors, Thanks:markgurman
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Logitech Revue with Google TV coming 9/29 for $299, Dish Network offering discounts?  —  Google TV is coming, and Logitech's Revue is gonna bring it to ya first.  But, if you're a Dish Network subscriber, it looks like you might be able to get yours for cheaper — a lot cheaper.
Serge Lachapelle / Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Video chat enhancements  —  If you use video chat in Gmail, you might be interested in a new Labs feature we just rolled out that allows you to preview new video chat features before they're turned on for everyone.  Visit the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, turn on …
Discussion: The Next Web and Ubergizmo
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Facebook Places goes live for the UK  —  Launching only a month ago in the US, Facebook Places has finally shown its face to the UK audience.  According to our UK staff members, they are seeing the service already on their mobile devices.  —  In London, Facebook held an 8am breakfast briefing to co-inicide with the launch.
AppleInsider:
iOS 4.2 packs new, improved YouTube, FaceTime features and more  —  Apple's forthcoming iOS 4.2 update for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch includes a number of subtle improvements that have not yet been publicized, including expanded features for YouTube and FaceTime.  AppleInsider offers a closer look.
 
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David Kravets / Threat Level:
Lawsuit Targets Mobile Advertiser Over Sneaky HTML5 Pseudo-Cookies
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Bloomberg:
Hewlett-Packard Said to Be Near Decision on Hurd's Successor
Discussion: VentureBeat
Adrianne Jeffries / ReadWriteWeb:
Geofence Your Friends With Footprint Feed
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
News Sites Study Social Media
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Founder Resigns, Joins Google Ventures As EIR
Discussion: Bits, PE Hub Blog and GigaOM
Fred / A VC:
There Are Two Venture Capital Industries
Sam Gustin / DailyFinance:
Cha-Cha CEO: We'll Drop T-Mobile over New Text ‘Tax’
 Earlier Items: 
Sean Percival / lalawag:
Goodbye from lalawag  —  So long and thanks for all the pageviews!
Discussion: socalTECH.com
MSDN Blogs:
User Experiences: Evolving the blue “e”
Wayne Rash / eWeek:
Verizon Wireless to Launch 4G LTE Service in 30 U.S. Cities
Brandon Watson / Windows Phone Developer Blog:
Windows Phone Developer Tools Are Final