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12:45 PM ET, August 15, 2007

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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Why Wi-Fi Networks Are Floundering  —  Faced with weak user demand, AT&T and other telecoms are vowing to tear up their muni Wi-Fi contracts if cities don't foot more of the bill  —  The static crackling around municipal wireless networks is getting worse.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
DIRECTV plugs into broadband over power line
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
DirecTV to Partner with Current on BPL
Discussion: dslreports.com
Citrix Systems:
Citrix to Enter Server and Desktop Virtualization Markets with Acquisition of XenSource  —  Combination of Citrix and XenSource Accelerates the Mainstreaming of Virtualization and Strengthens End-to-End Application Delivery Strategy  —  Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) …
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:   Citrix to buy virtualization company XenSource for $500 million
Marketing Week:
NATMAGS AXES ONLINE TEEN TITLE JELLYFISH  —  The National Magazine Company (Natmags) has axed plans to launch Jellyfish, its digital teen title, after failing to overcome "distribution challenges".  The publisher of titles including Cosmopolitan and Harper's Bazaar ended a 20-week online trial this week.
Discussion: Inquirer
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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent.org:
Hearst's UK Jellyfish Goes Belly Up
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
HDMI-equipped Xbox 360 Premiums still carry 90nm chips  —  Well it appears that despite all of our wishing, hoping, and positive-thinking exercises, Microsoft has failed to deliver on a small dream of ours, namely, 65nm chips for the new HDMI-rocking Xbox 360 Premiums.
Discussion: Inquirer
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Marcus Yam / DailyTech:
New HDMI Xbox 360 Premiums Still Use 90nm Chips
Discussion: DigitalBattle
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook + iPhone = UltraCool  —  A pairing of the two most hyped tech products of the year: Facebook released what is arguably the single best iPhone-customized website to date at iphone.facebook.com.  Like the Netvibes iPhone site which launched late yesterday, it isn't much to look at in a normal browser.
Associated Press:
Book excerpts to be viewed on iPhone  —  NEW YORK - The publishing world is linking up to the iPhone.  —  HarperCollins announced Wednesday that it had set up a special link, http://mobile.harpercollins.com, that will allow browsers to view excerpts from more than a dozen new releases …
Scott Karp / Publish2 Blog:
Introducing Publish2: Networked News  —  It's time to pull the curtain up on our new venture, Publish2, Inc.  —  Publish2 is a social media company, on the eve of launching in Beta — the purpose of this announcement is to explain our vision, what we're building, who's involved …
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Major copyright case to test First Sale Doctrine, possibly shrinkwrap EULAs  —  The Electronic Frontier Foundation has taken up the case of a California man who has been sued by Universal Music Group for selling promotional CDs.  Like other record labels, UMG distributes free CDs to radio stations …
Riva Richmond / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Banks on SmartAds To Lift Display Business  —  In the middle of Yahoo Inc.'s plan to reinvigorate its big, sluggish display-advertising business lies a new breed of diminutive, chameleon-like advertisements.  —  The ads, which the Internet giant began offering to travel-industry advertisers …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Report: Cable companies facing big bandwidth crunch  —  If you're starting to become frustrated with the download speed of your cable ISP or the relatively low number of HD channels available, you ain't seen nothin' yet.  Your local cable provider will soon be faced with a serious bandwidth crunch …
Villu Arak / Skype Blogs:
Skype 2.7 for Mac beta is out  —  We've now released Skype 2.7 for Mac beta.  With "beta" on the label, there may be some wrinkles, kinks and unsprayed bugs which we'll remove in time for a public release.  With that in mind, feel free to download and play with it.  —  Here's what's new:
Discussion: Infinite Loop, GigaOM and Macworld
Scott Duke Harris / Mercury News:
VMware IPO: Silicon Valley giant is born  —  AS SHARES ZOOM 76%, VMWARE JOINS RANKS OF ORACLE, ADOBE  —  VMware, a company recently known only to hard-core technologists, debuted as the darling of Wall Street on Tuesday, with an opening-day surge that exceeded even Google's historic 2004 launch.
Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
How JavaScript is Slowing Down the Web (And What To Do About It)  —  A single line of JavaScript is what powers a lot of blogging technologies these days.  Widgets, sharing tools, visitors tracking, advertisers.  In many cases a single line of JavaScript is all that a blogger needs to add a new technology to their blog.
Discussion: BlueBlog
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
C4[1] in a Nut … Here's some of what you missed:  —  JONATHAN RENTZSCH ON THE INDIE ETHOS  —  What exactly does it mean to be an "indie developer"?  Wolf's definition: working for a non-large company, writing commercial software.  But it's more than that, clearly …
Discussion: Adium News
USA Today:
How many trees did your iPhone bill kill?  —  LOS ANGELES — Early adopters of Apple's iPhone are getting their first service bills from AT&T (ATT) — and some customers say they are so detailed they belong in libraries.  —  Justine Ezarik, a Pittsburgh graphic designer and active Internet blogger, got her first bill on Saturday.
Lewis Page / The Register:
Tesla electric supercar may be delayed  —  'Not yet fully within our grasp', says ex-CEO  —  Tesla Motors, the widely-lauded California company behind the Roadster high-performance electric car, may have run into problems.  —  The Tesla Roadster is planned to be one of the world's first true …
 
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Utility evades Vista kernel defenses
Discussion: InfoWorld
Reuters:
Russian court acquits music site owner
Microsoft:
Microsoft and Xandros Expand Collaboration
Stephan Spencer / CNET News.com:
Google browser rumors surface again
BBC:
Tiny wind engines cool computers
Discussion: Gizmodo
Anh Huynh / DailyTech:
Intel Sets "Penryn" Launch Date
Sophos:
Sophos Facebook ID probe shows 41% of users happy to reveal …
John Leyden / The Register:
Intel and Symantec team up on 'bare metal' security
Discussion: Reuters
 Earlier Items: 
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Entrepreneur.com launches "Entrepreneur Assist" - it's a My
Discussion: Zoho Blogs
Nick / Rough Type:
ERP's troubled legacy
Associated Press:
Classmates Media Files for IPO
Inquirer:
Channel grumbles over further AMD Barcelona delays
Discussion: 24/7 Wall St.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sprint's mobile WiMAX service called XOHM?
Discussion: Gizmodo
Anil Dash / Movable Type:
Presenting Movable Type 4.0
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Local Gets A Sophisticated Makeover
Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
They've Just Got to Get a Message to You  —  As a teenage rock fan …
Discussion: mocoNews.net and textually.org