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6:00 PM ET, January 30, 2008

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MarketingWeek:
Google and Dell tipped to reveal iPhone rival plans  —  Speculation is mounting that Google is plotting the launch of a mobile phone in partnership with computer giant Dell.  —  Senior industry sources claim the two companies will reveal their plans at next month's 3GSM telecoms conference in Barcelona …
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Rumor: Dell to reveal Android-based handset next month?  —  Dell has long been rumored to be working on a handset, and the latest speculation is that Google will be part of those plans.  —  MarketingWeek reported Wednesday that the two companies are teaming up on a handset based …
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:   Google and Dell making sweet, tender phone love?
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Dell — out of the kiosks, into ... the phone biz?
Discussion: Digital Daily and Engadget
Lynn Fox / Apple:
MacBook Air Now Shipping  —  Apple TV Update Coming Soon  —  Apple® today announced that MacBook Air™, the world's thinnest notebook, is now shipping.  MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76-inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks.
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Apple: Apple TV rental update “not quite finished”  —  It has been a couple of weeks since the Macworld 2008 keynote, so where the heck are all those updates that Mr. Jobs promised us?  Namely, where's the Apple TV update that will bring us early adopters direct movie rental capabilities?
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Verizon: We don't want to play copyright cop on our network  —  WASHINGTON—AT&T may be flirting with filters designed to ferret out pirated material on its network, but Verizon Communications isn't interested.  —  That's the message that company Executive Vice President Tom Tauke delivered during …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:   RIAA: No need to force ISPs by law to monitor piracy
Rokali / The Storque:
Etsy's First Five Years  —  In early April of 2005, I sat in an orange chair facing an open window.  It was nighttime and the lights were off.  I was back in Brooklyn after a brief residence in Paris, and I was about to sketch the initial ideas that would become Etsy.
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek announces Eee family product lines  —  With Eee PC becoming a focus of the PC market, Asustek Computer has announced it is planning to launch a family of Eee products including: E-DT (desktop PC), E-TV and E-Monitor.  All the products while have low-cost as their major selling point …
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Asus hopes upcoming Eee desktops are Eeequally Eeenticing
Discussion: LWN.net
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Yahoo's Vision-Goes-Here Strategy  —  Listening to the droning, jargon-filled Yahoo conference call on Tuesday night, you could only think that Jerry Yang and Sue Decker were aiming their conversation only at analysts who needed to fill out their 2008 spreadsheets.  —  That strategy didn't work.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Amazon Q4 In Line; Q1, '08 Outlook Beats; But Shrs Fall  —  Amazon.com (AMZN) this afternoon reported fourth quarter revenue of $5.67 billion and EPS of 48 cents, compared with Street estimates of $5.37 billion and 48 cents.  The revenue figure included a $200 million bump from foreign exchange factors.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Let's Trash Yahoo During Happy Hour  —  Yesterday I was scheduled to appear live on the Happy Hour show on the Fox Business Channel.  The show is held at the Bull and Bear bar at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, with customers milling around and drinking.  I can't believe no one has rushed the set as a prank yet.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
It's a done deal: Dell puts an end to all 140 US mall kiosks  —  Just as we feared, Dell will indeed be axing 100-percent of its US mall kiosks — 140 in total.  Unsurprisingly, the official word attributes the move to Dell's shift into big box retail stores, but we're sure that's …
comScore:
comScore Releases 2007 U.S. Internet Year in Review  —  Google and Facebook among Biggest Winners in 2007  —  comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a report highlighting the major trends in U.S. Internet activity in 2007 …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Universal Search: 2008 Edition  —  It's just over a half-year since Google launched Universal Search, its method of blending results from its own various topically-focused or “vertical” search engines.  Since that time, the system has evolved.  In particular, Google Universal Search …
Discussion: Redeye VC
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Copy a CD, owe $1.5 million under “gluttonous” PRO-IP Act  —  Not content with the current (and already massive) statutory damages allowed under copyright law, the RIAA is pushing to expand the provision.  The issue is compilations, which now are treated as a single work.
Discussion: Gizmodo, DSLreports, Orbitcast and Digg
Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
Intro to Social Design Podcast  —  For those of you who listen to podcasts and are interested in social design, here's an option: Alex Barnett and Ted Haeger (the Bungee Connect folks) recently interviewed me about my take on social design.  Long-time Bokardoans might remember me doing …
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
How Many Facebook Users Actually Read the Wall Street Journal?  —  The fact that the WSJ and Facebook have just partnered on a new initiative to let Facebook users share their favorite news stories, surely demonstrates one of the following:  — Facebook is now dominated by 30+ -year old WSJ reading types.
 
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Electronista:
Sprint to reinvigorate iDEN network
Discussion: Computerworld
Trymaine Lee / New York Times:
Bill Would Bar Sex Offenders From Facebook and MySpace
Jon Oltsik / CNET News.com:
Countering the naysayers on Juniper
Discussion: eWeek
Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
New Policy Aims to Curb Web Site Name Abuse
USA Today:
Where's your Domino's pizza? Track it online
Terrence Russell / Epicenter:
NBC Exec Applaudes ‘Video-Snacking’ After YouTube Snub
Jeremy Pepper / POP! PR Jots:
The Question of Community  —  Back in October, I wrote a piece …
Carl Howe / Blackfriars' Marketing:
News flash to reporters and analysts: Apple doesn't do loss leader products
Discussion: The Mac Observer
 Earlier Items: 
John Oates / The Register:
Submarine cable cut torpedoes Middle East access
Discussion: Computerworld and Tech_Space
Yahoo! Developer Network blog:
Yahoo! OpenID Provider service now available as a public beta
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Six Apart Gets Into Microblogging with Activity Streams
Discussion: Profy.Com and Six Apart News
Alaa Shahine / Reuters:
Internet disrupted in Egypt and India
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and PDA
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Ray Ozzie at Mix08
Jason / Signal vs. Noise:
Launch: Campfire for iPhone
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
TV Showman, Once Exiled, Returns With Video Site
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Scientologists Google Bombed Or Not?