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1:35 PM ET, February 25, 2008

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Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces New Reporting Standard for Digital Campaign Performance: Engagement Mapping  —  New approach allows advertisers to map and assign value to various touch points, gaining a more complete picture of a campaign.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced Engagement Mapping …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft unveils new proposed advertising metric and tool  —  Last year, after Microsoft bought aQuantive (and after it lost its first alleged bid for Yahoo), Microsoft officials were hot to explain why Web search results should not be viewed as the only or best way to measure online-advertising success.
Discussion: IDG News Service and WinBeta
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Nokia demos bendable cell phone  —  Nokia and the University of Cambridge are showing off a new stretchable and flexible mobile device of the future called Morph.  —  The new concept phone is on display at the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City from February 24 to May 12, 2008.
Discussion: eWeek, Electronista and Techland
John Markoff / New York Times:
Adobe Blurs Line Between PC and Web  —  SAN FRANCISCO — On sabbatical in 2001 from Macromedia, Kevin Lynch, a software developer, was frustrated that he could not get to his Web data when he was off the Internet and annoyed that he could not get to his PC data when he was traveling.
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Dion Almaer / Ajaxian:
Adobe AIR v1.0 & Flex 3.0 Released; New Adobe Open Source Site Launched
Electronista:
DivX shuts down Stage6 video site...  DivX on Monday said it would shut down Stage6, its web video hosting service.  The decision was made to focus on the company's self-titled video format and encourage its use on other platforms, such as the PS3, Xbox 360, and alternative websites.
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
DivX Shutting Down Stage6 Video Service; To Migrate Content To Alternate Platforms
Discussion: Business Wire and Digital Trends
Sony:
Tough love: Titanium coated Cyber-shot W300 shrugs off scratches beautifully  — 13.6 effective megapixels for superb picture quality  — BIONZ processor powers Smile Shutter, improved Face Detection and D-Range Optimiser  — Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens with 3x optical zoom
Discussion: DailyTech and All News Feeds
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Electronista:
Sony intros 13.6MP compact cam, 15X hi-zoom
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
PR Newswire:
New Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-H50 Digital Camera Ideal for Fast-Action Shooting
Discussion: Engadget
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fox Said To Be Exploring Termination Of Google Advertising Deal  —  Even while parent company News Corp. continues to try to disrupt the Microsoft/Yahoo merger, Fox Interactive Media (FIM) is rumored to be in negotiations with Microsoft take Google's place as the MySpace advertising partner.
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Dissecting Rumors: MSFT vs. Google on Fox Interactive Media and MySpace
Discussion: Insider Chatter
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple Tuesday: super special MacBook Pro, iPhone SDK... or nothing at all?  —  As you may or may not know, Apple has made some sort of announcement — however minor — every Tuesday since the beginning of 2008.  The internet is currently stacked floor-to-ceiling with guesses of what this last Tuesday in February will bring.
Discussion: AppleInsider and Gearlog
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Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop:
Rumor: New MacBook Pros are imminent. Yep, still
Discussion: MacRumors and Digg
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Mixx, social news competitor to Digg, raises another $2 million  —  Many startups have tried to take on social news site Digg.  Mixx is one of them, but it has a few additional features that lets users fine-tune what stories they see on the site — and it's made some deals with big newspapers.
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Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:
Yahoo's Digg clone gets three months to prove its worth
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
F.C.C. to Act on Delaying of Broadband Traffic  —  CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The head of the Federal Communications Commission and other senior officials said on Monday that they were considering taking steps to discourage cable and telephone companies from discriminating against content providers …
Discussion: Ars Technica
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:   Rep. Markey: Don't turn BitTorrent into ‘BitTrickle’
Richard Stiennon / Threat Chaos:
Pakistan removed from the Internet  —  4:30 PM Eastern (US).  —  The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan's traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier today.
IDG News Service:
Fujitsu Shows 500GB Laptop Drive  —  The latest entry in high-capacity notebooks is Fujitsu, which will release a laptop with a 500GB drive in May.  —  Recommend this story?  —  Laptop computer storage is racing fast towards the 500G-byte level with Fujitsu becoming the third hard-disk drive maker …
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Blogger, Sans Pajamas, Rakes Muck and a Prize  —  Of the many landmarks along a journalist's career, two are among those that stand out: winning an award and making the government back down.  Last week, Joshua Micah Marshall achieved both.  —  On Tuesday, it was announced that he had won …
Michael Mace / Mobile Opportunity:
Mobile applications, RIP  —  Summary: The business of making native apps for mobile devices is dying, crushed by a fragmented market and restrictive business practices.  The problems are so bad that the mobile web, despite its many technical drawbacks, is now a better way to deliver new functionality to mobiles.
Jeff Jarvis / Guardian:
Why short is tweet for the blogging community  —  When I first used the microblogging platform Twitter - which enables users to publish 140-character-long messages via the web and mobile phones - I thought it was silly.  Or rather, the uses to which it was being put were silly …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPhone, Wii guests on stage at this year's Oscars  —  We keep on telling people that the iPhone and Wii are like totally going to be huge, but maybe they'll finally believe us now that Jon Stewart trotted both out on stage during the Oscars this year.  Oh, and perhaps now would be a good …
Randall Kennedy / InfoWorld:
Comparing Windows Versions: Apples to Oranges to Grapefruit  —  One of the arguments I hear in defense of Windows Vista's bloated footprint is that it's simply a repeat of the situation faced by users when Windows XP first shipped.  Back then, the logic goes, users were complaining …
 
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Jeremy Kirk / IDG News Service:
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Discussion: Electronista and Gearlog
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
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Discussion: CNET News.com
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Discussion: Gizmodo
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
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Phillip Torrone / MAKE Magazine:
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
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Jemima Kiss / PDA:
Is UGC viable for news sites?
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