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5:55 AM ET, August 9, 2006

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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Leaving Microsoft  —  I am leaving Microsoft to start my own company.  My last day at Microsoft is next Friday, August 18.  It's uncertain whether Microsoft will continue the feed platform work I started, but it's some good stuff so I hope they do. … I joined Microsoft in April excited …
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New York Times:
A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749  —  Buried in a list of 20 million Web search queries collected by AOL and recently released on the Internet is user No. 4417749.  The number was assigned by the company to protect the searcher's anonymity, but it was not much of a shield.
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Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
Technorati's Numbers are Wrong  —  Dave posts another state of the blogosphere with some interesting stats.  The one I found shocking was the claim that there are 50 million blogs.  —  These numbers are overly optimistic and dangerous.  There are not 50 million blogs.
Gina Trapani / Lifehacker: Top:
Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista side by side  —  The more things change, the more they stay the same.  That's what I thought watching coverage of Apple's Worldwide Developer's conference opening yesterday, where banners that read things like "Hasta la vista, Vista" and "Redmond has a cat, too.
Robert Manetta / Sprint:
Sprint Nextel Announces 4G Wireless Broadband Initiative with Intel, Motorola and Samsung  —  Media Contacts  —  Sprint: John Polivka - 972 405-5139  —  Intel: Amy Martin - 408 391-5194  —  Motorola: Jennifer Weyrauch - 847 435-5320  —  Samsung: Brett White - 817 992-6770  —  Investor Contact
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Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:   Sprint Details Mobile WiMAX Plans
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
CDs Find Their Way Into Papers  —  A Santa Monica company is packaging movie previews, music samples, interviews and ads with Sunday editions.  —  Most newspapers have built their long-term growth strategies around the Internet.  But a Santa Monica company is betting that an old piece of new technology …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Rather Than Embrace The Internet, Newspapers Look To Embrace …
Discussion: @rgumente
Cshields / OSU Open Source Lab:
Rackathon 2006  —  Greetings!  We are looking for individuals to help sponsor the OSL in our new fundraising campaign.  However, this is a campaign like no other.  When you make a donation to the OSL, we will stick your name on one of our racks as our own way of saying "Thanks!".
Discussion: Niall Kennedy's Weblog and digg
Om Malik / GigaOM:
News Corp, Google Deal Deconstructed  —  The $900 million deal between News Corp. and Google might seem to be all about MySpace, but in reality its all about other Fox Interactive properties, such as IGN.  It is also a tactical admission by News Corp., that when it comes to running big ad networks …
Quinn Norton / Wired News:
Giant Robot Imprisons Parked Cars  —  The robot that parks cars at the Garden Street Garage in Hoboken, New Jersey, trapped hundreds of its wards last week for several days.  But it wasn't the technology car owners had to curse, it was the terms of a software license.
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Britain's digital tribes revealed  —  Households in Britain can be classified into 23 "e-types" depending on their access to technology, say researchers.  —  E-types include mobile explorers, the e-committed and rational utilitarians.  —  The researchers, from University College London …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
e-learning 2.0 - how Web technologies are shaping education  —  Written by Steve O'Hear and edited by Richard MacManus.  This is a two-part series in which Steve will explore how Web technologies are being used in education.  In Part 2 he will profile Elgg, social network software for education, and interview its founders.
John Leyden / The Register:
Mobile internet is still a turn-off  —  Most punters still find mobile internet usage to be a frustrating experience they'd rather avoid.  —  Despite investment by operators in services such as i-mode and Vodafone Live, 73 per cent of respondents to a new survey said don't access the net from their mobile.
casio.com:
Features Wide-Aspect Movie Recording and Data Storage Function  —  Casio, Inc. and its parent company, Casio Computer Co., Ltd., announced today the release of the EXILIM ® Card EX-S770 .  This latest addition to the stylish EXILIM digital camera series is a powerful digital camera packed with advanced functions.
Discussion: Ubergizmo, I4U News and Neowin.net
Msrcteam / the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog:
Hey everyone - Adrian Stone here again, stepping in for Craig Gehre to provide a quick overview of the security updates we've released Today.  The full list of the updates released today are below, and, as always, additional information on the specific vulnerabilities resolved with this release are included within each security bulletin.
Discussion: Security Fix and IEBlog
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Actors seek new scale for new media  —  As advertisers shift their television focus to include more Internet and mobile forms of video advertising, what's an actor worth?  —  That's exactly what actors and advertisers are trying to determine.  —  The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists …
Discussion: paidContent.org and Lost Remote
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft to Pay Reparations for Vista, Office Delays  —  Microsoft is working on a new reparations strategy, known internally as a customer incentive program, for those customers with volume licensing programs who will be negatively affected by the delay in the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007.
Discussion: M-Dollar and Teching It Easy
 
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PC Pro:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
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F.E.A.R. Multiplayer to be made available for free.
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft: No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
AOL's disturbing glimpse into users' lives
Nick / Rough Type:
Open source as metaphor
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sony Bets on WiFi With Mylo
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Sony Mylo: Media Player With WiFi, Skype, Browser, and Messaging
 

 
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