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7:25 AM ET, September 26, 2007

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Sam Sethi / blognation UK:
Facebook IM Client Coming Soon  —  I have just been given a sneek preview of a new Facebook IM client that is going into beta this Friday.  What I like about this Facebook app is there is nothing to download or install, no registration and best of all, all of your friends in Facebook can use it instantly.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Game On: A Real Alternative To iTunes  —  It may have taken Amazon a few years, but they got it right: their new music store is DRM free and songs, starting at $0.89/track, are cheaper than at Apple's iTunes.  The top 100 best-selling albums are priced no higher than $8.99.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Amazon MP3 vs. Apple iTunes: Where Should You Shop?
Pdp / GNUCITIZEN:
Google GMail E-mail Hijack Technique  —  I feel a bit dirty now.  First of all, I would like to say that I am a huge Google fan, so don't take this post personally.  Here I am going to show you how someone can install a persistent backdoor within your GMail account and snoop onto all your conversations.
Louise Story / New York Times:
Microsoft Takes Aim at Google's Ad Supremacy  —  MICROSOFT has used its might, clout and smarts to take on any number of products and services — the browser, the operating system, the portable music player, to name just three — with varying degrees of success.
Discussion: paidContent.org
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
RealNetworks To Buy Online Casual Games Site GameTrust; Price Less Than $50 Million  —  RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) is making a smallish online gaming acquisition, paidContent.org has learned: NYC-based online casual gaming site Gametrust.  While we don't know the exact price, we do know it is less than $50 million.
Discussion: TechCrunch, alarm:clock and Mashable!
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA?  —  As of now it is still unsure what exactly happened, but the popular Dutch news site nu.nl reports that the CRIA is responsible for the downtime.  —  TorrentFreak contacted some of the Demonoid administrators, but they are not sure what happened either.
Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Neowin.net and Digg
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Kara Swisher Deconstructs Facebook  —  Kara Swisher of AllThingsD takes a contrarian point of view on Facebook and does a pretty good job of deconstructing the social-networking company, its potential and all the hype around it.  What set her off: Facebook has apparently indicated …
Discussion: Anshu's Blog, blognation and WebProNews
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
T-Mobile announces Sidekick LX and Sidekick Slide  —  Capping off months of rumor and speculation, T-Mobile and Danger have announced two new Sidekicks today targeting decidedly different segments of the market.  The Sidekick LX takes over as the new king of the Hiptop hill …
Discussion: CrunchGear, Tech Blog and Switched
Dan Goodin / The Register:
eBay forum mysteriously leaks account details on 1,200 users  —  'Trust and safety' board in emergency shutdown  —  Exclusive Hackers brazenly posted sensitive information including home addresses and phone numbers for 1,200 eBay users to an official online forum dedicated to fraud prevention on the auction site.
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eBay Chatter / The Chatter:
Trust & Safety forums issue this morning
Sydney Morning Herald:
No space for non-Optus Aussie mobile users  —  MySpace has blocked Australians from accessing the new mobile phone version of its site in order to protect its exclusive and probably lucrative partnership deal with Optus.  —  The social network yesterday launched a free …
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
Sprint Wins Patent Case Against Vonage  —  Reston Firm Awarded $69.5 Million in Second Blow to Internet Phone Company  —  A federal jury yesterday ordered Vonage Holdings to pay Sprint Nextel $69.5 million in damages for violating six of its patents, prompting analysts to question whether …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Vonage ordered to pay Sprint $69.5 million in patent case
Discussion: GigaOM and Techdirt
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
HuffingtonPost Raises Another $5 Million; Same Investors Including Pittman  —  HuffingtonPost, the uber-blog, has quietly raised another $5 million in a second institutional round of funding.  The round included all previous investors: Softbank (TYO: 9984) Capital, Greycroft Partners …
Barryg / windowsultimate.com:
Windows DreamScene released!  —  In early July, I wrote about The Ultimate Team's intention to ship the remaining promised Ultimate Extras (DreamScene and the remaining Language Packs) by the end of the summer.  Unfortunately summer never really came to Seattle this year—so we missed our cue.
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
WHAT THE KIDS ARE BUILDING: BRAIN RETRACTORS AND THROAT MICS  —  I'm sitting in the audience at DemoFall listening to organizer Chris Shipley interview three young entrepreneurs (Emile Petrone, 22; Michale Callahan, 24; Arash Sabet, 25) about their innovations.
Discussion: Compiler
Seth Porges / CrunchGear:
EchoStar To Buy Sling Media  —  I love me a SlingBox.  And so will millions of Dish Network subscribers if this works out like I hope it will.  The satellite TV provider is buying the privately-held place-shifting wonders to the tune of a cool $380 million.
Discussion: Business Week
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Sugar Publishing Acquires Social Shopping Site ShopStyle  —  Sugar Publishing, the company behind PopSugar and a network of other sites, has acquired ShopStyle, a social shopping site targeted at women.  The company, which is also renaming itself Sugar, Inc, plans to integrate ShopStyle across …
Discussion: GigaOM, TechCrunch and paidContent.org
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
"iPhone Dev Team" issues statement  —  A spokesman for the iPhone Dev Team, the group that developed the iPhone unlock has issued a statement condemning Apple and promising a tool in the next week which will restore your iPhone to a factory-fresh state.  The unlock, he writes …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
KDDI's Infobar 2 announced for Japan
Discussion: Gadget Lab and IntoMobile
Official Google Blog:
A new caffeine-free way to stay alert
Justin McElroy / Joystiq:
The best thing you'll see today: John P. Harvard goes Halo
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
AOL's Mobile Ambitions
Valleywag:
Nicholas Negroponte: Oh, no laptops per child?
Business Wire:
Dynamic Internet Technology Inc. Alleges Skype Redirects Users …
zimki blog of Zimki:
Zimki Service Announcement
Discussion: blognation UK and The Register
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Changing Hats  —  Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik is a hard man to please.
Discussion: InfoWorld and Reuters
 Earlier Items: 
Jeff Gray / Globe and Mail:
I admit it: I bikeBerried  —  Here's a new word: bikeBerry.
Discussion: Techdirt
Rick Aristotle Munarriz / Motley Fool:
Google Can't Be Sirius … It's a silly rumor.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
FeedEachother Releases Smart, Social RSS Reader
Dan Primack / PE HUB:
Demand Media Adds $100 Million
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Time Warner (TWX): How AOL Blew Q2
Discussion: Clickety Clack and innonate
Thoughtfix / TabletBlog.com:
Third Nokia Internet Tablet hits the FCC
Discussion: Engadget, IntoMobile and jkOnTheRun
Neil Rubenking / AppScout:
Excel Can't Multiply
Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:
Is Apple in danger of losing its following?