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2:10 PM ET, November 8, 2007

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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Screenshots of first Googlephone app [Exclusive]  —  Screenshots of first Googlephone app  —  Remember WhatsOpen.com, the stealth search startup that piqued Google cofounder Sergey Brin's interest last month?  Brin was so intrigued he told the founders to keep the company hush-hush.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
First screenshots of application running on Google's Android platform?
Discussion: textually.org
Reuters:
Vonage loss widens, but settlement boosts shares  —  update Internet calling company Vonage Holdings on Thursday reported a bigger quarterly loss on litigation costs, but a legal settlement with AT&T raised hopes that such problems were coming to an end.  —  Vonage shares rose more than 21 percent …
Discussion: GigaOM, DSLreports and TechSpot News
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InfoWorld:
Vonage tentatively settles AT&T patent lawsuit, reports loss
Discussion: Digital Daily
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Vonage seeks $39M settlement with AT&T
Discussion: Engadget
Umair / Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab:
Research Note: Evil is in the DNA, Special Facebook Edition  —  "..."There are these small bands of people who are trying to take over the world," Yu said. "  This is so much more fun than working at a hedge fund or an investment bank.  ie, Gideon Yu, Facebook's CFO.  —  That's a really (really) important quote.
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Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds  —  Hushmail, a longtime provider of encrypted web-based email, markets itself by saying that "not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail, since each message is uniquely encoded before it leaves your computer."
Ryan Block / Engadget:
TiVo temporarily reinstates $400 lifetime subscription for Series3, HD  —  Call it a quick holiday cash-in targeted at current TiVo owners if you must, but you're not about to kill our buzz about the fact that TiVo's resurrecting the greatly missed Product Lifetime Service (aka lifetime subscription) …
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John P. Falcone / CNET News.com:
TiVo offers a temporary price break on its service fees
Discussion: CrunchGear and Gizmodo
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
I Know Why Digg Hasn't Sold Until Now  —  So the chatter last night is about whether Digg will sell soon.  Valleywag calls it a rumor, Techcrunch says they should just sell, and the good Doctor yawns.  I believe that Digg will sell soon because they have reached their goal.  —  What was their goal?
Discussion: Valleywag and BoomTown
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Just Sell Digg Already, Jay
Rachel Rosmarin / Forbes:
Fear Among Facebook Developers  —  LOS ANGELES -  —  Travel back in time six months to Facebook's last big event, at a warehouse in an artsy part of San Francisco, where scrappy independent developers were the apple of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's eye.  —  How things have changed.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
LookSmart (LOOK) Bombs: Bad News for GOOG/YHOO?  —  LookSmart had a terrible quarter, with advertising revenue growing only 4% year over year (this is Internet, remember, not TV).  It also stopped providing guidance (presumably because it doesn't have anything good to say).
Erica Ogg / ZDNet:
'Internet van' helped drive evolution of the Web  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—If not for this nondescript, gray van with the letters "SRI" painted on the side, you might not be reading this article right now.  —  Parked feet from the entrance of the Computer History Museum here in the heart of Silicon Valley …
Amy-Mae Elliott / Pocket-lint.co.uk:
Apple confirms international 1.1.2 iPhone update to Pocket-lint  —  In a meeting this morning with the UK Apple press team, it was confirmed to Pocket-lint that version 1.1.2 will be an international update on Friday 9th November for iPhone owners.  —  Although the time could not be confirmed …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
The Blu-ray Phaser defends dorks from the HD DVD borg  —  If the intersection of 1st and 1st in the East Village is the nexus of the universe, then this Blu-ray Laser Phaser is easily the nerdom equivalent.  Kipkay — already Internet-famous for his phone line and remote control hacks …
Chris Williams / The Register:
Surge in encrypted torrents blindsides record biz  —  BPI claims losing is winning in P2P arms race  —  Exclusive The legal crackdown and publicity blitz aimed at people who share music, videos and software online is having an unintended consequence for the troubled record industry.
Discussion: p2pnet
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
"Set the Data Free"  —  Is OpenSocial open enough?  The problem with OpenSocial, Google's new platform for social-networking apps, notes Tim O'Reilly, is that it doesn't go quite far enough.  It lets applications out from the confines of any one Website, but it does not let the data out.
Charlie White / Gizmodo:
Pen Phone Design is Smallest Yet [Cellphones]  —  There have been pen phone concepts before, even a few working products, but none as slim and small as this one sent us by an anonymous tipster.  He told us this "design A" is not a finished product yet, and added that the undisclosed company he's working …
 
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John Leyden / The Register:
Security researcher cuffed in Telecom Italia spying probe
Melissa Lafsky / Freakonomics:
Is Web Video Really Hurting TV?
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Jenn K. Lee / Pocketables:
Asus Eee PC in pink, green, blue, and black
PC World:
HP Zooms Out of Camera Business
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
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 Earlier Items: 
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Time Warner (TWX) Should Sell AOL To Yahoo (YHOO)
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Ryan / Skype for Linux:
Skype 2.0 beta for Linux: the Great Revolution
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and Skype Journal
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Army's Robotic, Armed Combat Vehicle Rolls Out
Discussion: DailyTech and Gizmodo
Amit / Digital Inspiration:
Adobe Buzzword Word Processor Now Available To All
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Images: Microsoft plans Xbox campus ... with a bar?
David L. Margulius / InfoWorld:
My Google phone hangup
Associated Press:
Microsoft CEO plays down Google threat in online business
Michelle Slatalla / New York Times:
These Naughty Gifts Don't Clutter a Closet
Discussion: CrunchGear
 

 
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt quits as a contributing columnist at WaPo, after abruptly leaving a Post live video event hosted by Jonathan Capehart

CNBC:
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Athena Stavrou / The Independent:
More than 230 media industry professionals, including anonymous BBC staff, sign a letter accusing the BBC of bias favoring Israel in coverage of Gaza

 
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