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2:50 PM ET, September 26, 2007

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David Gainer / Microsoft Excel:
Calculation Issue Update  —  Yesterday we were alerted to an issue in Excel 2007 (and Excel Services 2007) involving calculation of numbers around 65,535.  The Excel team would like to provide a description of the issue and explain what we're doing about it.  —  Background
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Christopher Null:
Excel 2007 Stricken with Bizarre Calculation Bug
Discussion: eWEEK.com
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Up next for Apple: the return of the Newton  —  Apple Inc, which helped spawn the PDA market with its Newton MessagePad line in the early '90s, plans to give the concept another go with a modern day reincarnation of the old fan favorite based on the company's new mutli-touch technology, AppleInsider has learned.
Mike Schramm / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Apple sends takedown notice to iPod hacker's ISP  —  Yesterday, Erica posted in her state of the iPod touch jailbreak that a hacker named "Martyn" had obtained a broken iPod touch, and was planning to dive in and download every bit of code on it in the increasingly complicated effort to put 3rd party applications on the iPod touch.
Erica Ogg / Webware.com:
MEETING UP MADE EASIER  —  This morning at DemoFall, we jump right in with applications to schedule and conduct meetings.  —  Tungle (previous coverage) is a plug-in that works with Outlook, and soon, Lotus Notes, Google Calendar and iCal.  It's basically and IM client, a download that's preloaded with Outlook contacts.
Discussion: InfoWorld
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Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
DEMOfall 07: Tungle plug-in allows you to share calendars …
Discussion: Between the Lines
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Vonage: How Low Can You Go?  —  Vonage (VG), the Holmdel, NJ-based VoIP service provider has been on the ropes for so long that you think it can't get any worse.  But it does!  Earlier this year the company lost a patent infringement case to Verizon, and was asked by the courts to pay Verizon …
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
DreamScenes RTM dated July 19  —  First off, I want to congratulate Barry and the Windows Ultimate team for finally stepping in the right direction after months of stalling and silence.  The release of the final version of DreamScenes plus the content pack yesterday might not rejuvenate …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
More on the Amazon MP3 Store  —  So why Amazon is even bothering with a music download store, given that "everyone knows" the iTunes Store is a loss-leader that Apple offers just to sell more iPods?  —  Because that's bulls**t.  Apple is making good money from the iTunes Store.
Robert A. Guth / Wall Street Journal:
Inside Microsoft's Plan To Bring In Outside Talent  —  Before Brian McAndrews agreed to take charge of a crucial piece of Microsoft Corp.'s online advertising business, he insisted on a key condition: that he be granted certain power over the engineering part of the operation.
Official Google Blog:
A new caffeine-free way to stay alert  —  Since new videos are constantly appearing all over the web, it's difficult to keep tabs on all of them.  But now Google Alerts will make it easy for you to add video to your other Alerts: News, Web, Blog and Groups.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
When wireless > DSL: Sprint, Motorola show off WiMAX on the Chicago River  —  On a muggy early-autumn evening, I set sail down the Chicago River with a group of Motorola and Sprint executives, marketing people, analysts, and journalists.  Everyone was there to see one thing: Mobile WiMAX …
Caroline McCarthy / Crave:
MIT students turn famed Harvard statue into 'Halo' chief  —  It goes without saying that in addition to a stellar reputation for academic innovation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is renowned for its geeky pranks.  The best-known of these was perhaps the time when students decorated …
Discussion: CNET News.com
Andrew Lavallee / Wall Street Journal:
A New Short Story Imagines Google as a Bad Big Brother  —  In science-fiction author Cory Doctorow's short story "Scroogled," a woman shrugs when she sees "Immigration—Powered by Google" on an airport sign, but that's just the beginning of the search giant's presence in a not-too-distant future.
Miguel Helft / Bits:
What's in Google's Name?  —  A year ago, my colleague Katie Hafner wrote a story about the growing number of lawsuits facing Google.  The cases ranged from copyright claims, to challenges to Google's use of other companies' trademarks in its advertising system, to complaints about how some Web sites …
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Halo 3 Arrives, Rewarding Gamers, and Microsoft  —  Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, is the richest man on earth.  R. J. Bollard, a freshman at the University of Washington, said he would have 73 cents in his bank account as of midnight.  And that's one reason Mr. Gates is likely to be the richest man on earth for quite a while.
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.
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 Capital, Greycroft Partners, CEO and co-founder Ken Lerer and Bob Pittman's Pilot Group.
 
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Daniel Terdiman / Webware.com:
KOINUP, A NEW (VIRTUAL) SOCIAL NETWORK
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Intel, Nokia team up on WiMax
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Details Charges Against Media Companies
Discussion: Digg
Paul Foster / BloggingStocks:
Option update: Sherwin-Williams up on buyout chatter
Core Security:
REMOTE COMMAND EXECUTION, HTML AND JAVASCRIPT INJECTION VULNERA …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Supreme Court To Determine If Patent Holders Can Shake Down Entire Supply Chain
Discussion: Patent Law Blog
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Linksys shows off two new Media Center Extenders
Discussion: Ubergizmo
Darryl K. Taft / eWEEK.com:
IBM CoScripter Simplifies Web Experience
Discussion: Mashable!
 Earlier Items: 
Tim Donnelly Smith / Truphone press office:
Truphone to demonstrate first VoIP-over-WiFi call on Apple's iPhone
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:
MSN Video Gets Update
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb and Mashable!
Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
Social Bookmarking Faceoff Reloaded
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sling Media, EchoStar & Ma Bell: The Buyout Game
Will Knight / New Scientist:
Robot dogs race to be soldier's best friend
Discussion: The Register
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Ranking Changes : Domain Name Importance & 301 Redirects
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Midnight Madness: Benjamins for iPhones in Manhattan
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Global Grind: Ajax, Finally, For The Hip Hop Demographic