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12:55 AM ET, September 12, 2006

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Rachel Rosmarin / Forbes:
Open Facebook  —  They'll let anyone in to Facebook these days.  —  Once the exclusive online stomping grounds of college students, social networking site Facebook.com is throwing open the doors to rest of the world.  The site is slated to announce in coming weeks that anyone can gain access to the site …
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Gavin O'Malley / AdAge:
Facebook to Adopt Open-Admissions Policy  —  As It Becomes Less Exclusive, Privacy Issues Remain After Member Protest  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Social network Facebook plans to completely ditch its admissions policy, welcoming anyone with internet access.
Fred Stutzman / Unit Structures:
Facebook No Longer Exclusive » Facebook No Longer Exclusive
Discussion: GigaOM and TechCrunch
Microsoft:
Windows Live Services Reach Key Milestones  —  Live Search, Live.com and Live Local Search released from beta; Live Search to power search on MSN.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced the release from beta of Live Search and of Live.com in 47 markets worldwide, and final availability …
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MSN Search's WebLog:
Live Search is Live  —  The best day to work on a large scale service like Live Search is the day when you launch new improvements.  By that measure, today is one of the best days our team has had in a long time J .  —  Some folks have had a sneak peak, but for the most part we've kept …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:   Live.com leaving beta, replacing MSN search
Tom's Hardware Guide:
Intel's Core 2 Quadro Kentsfield: Four Cores on a Rampage  —  Four On The Floor: Intel's Core 2 Quadro  —  There is a fascinating element to this combination of multiple processing cores, a fast architecture and even more performance: The new Core 2 Quadro processors are out to beat …
Discussion: George Ou and Download Squad
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Isabelle Kassam / Independent:
Insurers get in tune with the iPod generation  —  Come loss or theft, you'll soon be able to claim for the music downloaded on to your gadgets  —  For millions of consumers, music downloads are replacing CDs and - for those dinosaurs who just can't let go - vinyl as the way they like to listen to tracks by their favourite bands.
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Joe / Techdirt:   How Good Is Your Insurance Policy On iTunes Downloads?
Valleywag:
What News Corp doesn't want you to know about MySpace: Condensed edition  —  After News Corp. threatened to sue his publisher if they published his exposé on MySpace and its poster boy Tom Anderson (pictured), journalism student Trent Lapinski sold his story to Valleywag.
Discussion: Mathew Ingram and digg
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Nisan Gabbay / Startup Review:
MySpace Case Study: Not a purely viral start
New York Times:
Group Nears Record Deal for Chip Maker  —  A consortium of investment firms was near a deal late last night to acquire Freescale Semiconductor, a former unit of Motorola, for more than $16 billion, according to people briefed on the negotiations.  The deal, if completed …
Samsung:
SAMSUNG Introduces the Next Generation of Nonvolatile Memory - PRAM  —  Seoul , Korea - September 11, 2006 : Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology solutions, announced that it has completed the first working prototype of what is expected …
Michael Totty / Wall Street Journal:
The Winners Are...  Computer systems are notoriously finicky.  They'll hum along just fine and then unaccountably slow down, freeze up or stop working altogether.  Finding the cause of some unexplained problem is difficult and time-consuming, especially with complicated systems in real-life settings.
Business 2.0:
Suddenly everything's coming up widgets  —  Breaking down the Web into small, portable pieces is the smart trend that everyone from Nokia to Google is betting on.  —  (Business 2.0) — Ed Anuff spent nearly eight years building portals for large corporations.
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
NBC aims at surge in digital activities  —  NBC Universal is planning a rapid acceleration of its digital activities in the hope of increasing online revenues five-fold by 2009.  —  The plans will centre on a redesign of iVillage, the women's website bought for $600m in March …
Fred Bierman / New York Times:
Are You Breaking Up?  A Cellphone Original Comedy Is Calling  —  Television viewers may not know Donick Cary's name, but they've probably laughed at his jokes.  —  As a writer for "Late Show With David Letterman" from 1992 to 1997 and as a writer and producer for "The Simpsons," …
Discussion: IP Democracy
Business Week:
Helping Big Brother Go High Tech  —  Cisco, Oracle, and other U.S. companies are supplying China's police with software and gear that can be used to keep tabs on criminals and dissidents  —  Google, (GOOG ) Yahoo!, (YHOO ) and Microsoft (MSFT ) endured a wave of public disapproval earlier …
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks:
Yahoo Finance Now Carries All Seeking Alpha Articles  —  Yahoo Finance Now Carries Seeking Alpha Articles  —  Today is a big day for Seeking Alpha and its contributors.  Yahoo! Finance now carries Seeking Alpha stock market content, accessible from Yahoo!'s stock quote pages and other areas of its site.
 
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Top Web Apps in Brazil
Valleywag:
Google's Coke Habit: Exclusive photos of Pepsi-less Googleplex fridges …
The Digg Crew / Digg Blog:
More on Digg Friends
Discussion: Neothoughts
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
3Jam launches group SMS, nice
Discussion: Treonauts
Ryansingel / 27B Stroke 6:
German Tor Network Just Fine, Tor Director Says
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
New DVR patent helps advertisers get their pitch across during fast-forwarding
Discussion: Techdirt and PVR Wire
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Marketing Services Is the Future of Media
Discussion: pc4media
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Study: Wikipedia Dominates Brand Search Results
Discussion: Small Initiatives
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Toshiba Creates Three-Layered Disc
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
EU takes over German antitrust inquiry into Intel
Discussion: Neowin.net and The Tech Report
USA Today:
Gas-line broadband a pipe dream?
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Amazon Kindle: meet Amazon's e-book reader
Gizmodo:
Brando Mini Bluetooth Keyboard: Slightly Larger than Tiny
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Like Shopping? Social Networking? Try Social Shopping
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The Fall VoN is On  —  In a few hours from now …
 

 
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Liam Scott / Voice of America:
RSF says 23 journalists were jailed in Syria and 10 others were missing as of December 9; press freedom groups call for accountability for Assad's government

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Warner Bros. Discovery has decided not to renew its deal for new episodes of Sesame Street, though it will continue licensing library episodes through 2027

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Sources: Patrick Soon-Shiong told LA Times opinion leaders not to publish an editorial critical of Trump's cabinet picks without publishing an opposing view

 
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