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6:20 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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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:   All clicks are not equal, says Microsoft
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Tells Advertisers “Engagement” …
Discussion: Advertising Lab
AppleInsider:
New MacBook Pro part numbers surface in inventory systems  —  The seemingly endless wait for a new line of professional notebooks from Mac maker Apple Inc. appears to be nearing an end, with part numbers and pricing for new MacBook Pro models cropping up in inventory systems worldwide over the weekend.
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Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop:
Rumor: New MacBook Pros are imminent.  Yep, still  —  MacRumors' handy “Buyer's Guide” has listed the MacBook Pro at “Don't Buy” for several months now.  The guide compares the number of days since the release of the last update and the average number of days between updates.
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 …
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Corey Boles / Wall Street Journal:
FCC Ready to Act on Net Neutrality
Discussion: VoIP Blog
CNN:
Questions over extent of YouTube blockade  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Conflicting reports emerged out of Pakistan on Tuesday over the duration of a Pakistani government block on the video-sharing Web site YouTube for showing a “highly blasphemous Dutch” video.
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:   Pakistan causes worldwide YouTube outage
Lessig Blog:
On why I am not running  —  With lots of mixed feelings, I have decided a run for Congress would not help the Change Congress movement.  I explain the thinking in this 5 minute video (a new record for me!).  First question: What happens to the contributions to Lessig08?
Hal Varian / Official Google Blog:
Our secret sauce  —  I was recently a guest columnist on the Freakonomics Blog.  There were several interesting questions from the readers, but one was quite striking: … It seems that a lot of people are trying to figure out why Google has done so well.
Kristopher Kubicki / DailyTech:
Sun Leaks 6-core Intel Xeon, Nehalem Details  —  Sun confirms what Intel has been dying to tell us, at least off the record  —  Late last month in Austria, Intel presented Sun with roadmaps discussing details of its upcoming server platforms, including the fairly secret Xeon Dunnington and Nehalem architectures.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Intel Nehalem Processor Details Leaked
Discussion: The Register
Yi-Wyn Yen / Techland:
Yang breaks silence on Microsoft takeover  —  PHOENIX — Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang knew exactly what was on everyone's minds at the Interactive Advertising Bureau conference on Monday.  —  In their first public appearance since Microsoft's hostile $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo …
Discussion: HipMojo.com and BetaNews
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Saul Hansell / Bits:   Yang: Microsoft Bid Was a “Galvanizing Event” for Yahoo
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.
Dan Goodin / The Register:
VMware vuln exposes the perils of virtualization  —  Security researchers have discovered a bug in VMware desktop virtualization applications that allows attackers to take complete control of the underlying PC, including the execution or modification of files on the host operating system.
Discussion: eWeek
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
6 Adobe AIR Apps to Check Out  —  Adobe's AIR platform allows developers to create web applications that run on your desktop without the need of a web browser.  Now that AIR has dropped the beta tag (see our previous coverage), it's time to look at some of the AIR apps you can use today.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Dear ABC, You Don't Compete With TiVo By Making A Product Worse  —  About a year and a half ago, an executive at Disney-owned ABC-TV talked about how the network was experimenting with ways to block people from fast forwarding through commercials.  The exec in question even claimed …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Blog Recommendation Startup Outbrain Raises $5 Million  —  Funding Monday continues.  NY/Israeli startup Outbrain is announcing a $5 million series A financing, led by Gemini Israeli Funds and Lightspeed Venture Partners.  GlenRock Israel also put money into the round.
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google2Go for Windows Mobile  —  Bryan Burkholder released a software for Windows Mobile (note: it requested newer files of the .NET framework on my phone...) called Google2Go, used to quickly access different Google services.  Bryan says, “the reason I wrote this app was I really like the Yahoo! …
Discussion: Download Squad
 
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 More Items: 
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Jon Stewart, Bored With Oscars, Pulls Out iPhone
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Acer set to launch Blu-ray-equipped 16-, 18.4-inch laptops
Discussion: DigiTimes, Electronista and Gearlog
Charles Forelle / Wall Street Journal:
Europe's Antitrust Chief Defies Critics, and Microsoft
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Xbox 360 HD DVD drive now officially $49.99
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
eBay shrugs off strike by sellers, 13% drop in new listings
Discussion: USA Today
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Voting is now open for the 2008 Webware 100!
Discussion: CenterNetworks
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
eBay's latest buy: New CEOs for Skype, Shopping.com
Discussion: 901am, Reuters and Gadgetell
New York Times:
The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 - 2007
Discussion: Boing Boing and Gawker
 Earlier Items: 
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:
Leaked screenshots of Tumblr's new front page
Reuters:
Director of Warner's Digital Strategy Quits
Sony:
Tough love: Titanium coated Cyber-shot W300 shrugs off scratches beautifully
Dion Almaer / Ajaxian:
Adobe AIR v1.0 & Flex 3.0 Released; New Adobe Open Source Site Launched
Electronista:
DivX shuts down Stage6 video site...
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Blogger, Sans Pajamas, Rakes Muck and a Prize
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fox Said To Be Exploring Termination Of Google Advertising Deal
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Mixx, social news competitor to Digg, raises another $2 million