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12:00 AM ET, March 28, 2008

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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple developing full-fledged digital lifestyle fitness companion  —  Electronics maker Apple Inc. is developing a digital fitness companion system based around its iPhone and iPod touch players aimed a helping americans, and folks in general, live a healthier and more fit lifestyle.
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Staska / Unwired View:
iPhone.  Your Lifestyle Companion  —  Now that iPhone has almost become an open platform for third party software development, we can expect tons of new exciting applications that will make it into a much more useful thing, then a fancy phone and media player.
InfoWorld:
Gone in 2 minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contest  —  It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned.  —  He took the first of three laptop computers — and a $10,000 cash prize — Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN hacking contest.
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Robert Lemos / SecurityFocus:
Mac OS X first to fall
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter:
Can Google Stop the Brain Drain?  —  It takes more than an army of trained chefs and free lunch to keep Googlers happy.  As a new wave of web darlings (such as Facebook) beef up recruiting efforts, high-level Googlers are blowing the joint.  Sheryl Sandberg, Ethan Beard (right) …
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
M'SOFT NOT YET ON BOARD  —  NO NAMES LINED UP YET FOR YAHOO!  —  Microsoft has been so cagey about the candidates it plans to nominate to Yahoo!'s board that speculation is mounting that the software giant actually doesn't have anyone lined up.  —  The word on Wall Street and in technology circles …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The New York Post Got It Wrong—Microsoft's Alternate Board Slate For Yahoo Is All Sewn Up  —  This morning, the New York Post ran a story with this headline: … The article goes on to suggest that nobody in Silicon Valley wants to be on Microsoft's alternate board for Yahoo for fear of …
Discussion: Brier Dudley's blog
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
The Next Phase Of Our Company: Scaling From The Inside Out  —  Some time around late summer last year, about six months after we moved into our (first-ever) office in Santa Monica, I realized we needed to start asking the “BIG S” question for our growing B2B media company: How Do You Scale?
Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview  —  To search for files on my PCs, I use Windows Search - Windows Vista's desktop search feature.  I use Windows Search specifically to find photos that I've tagged in Windows Live Photo Gallery or important emails and Word documents.
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Ryan Naraine / eWeek:
Hacker Pours Cold Water on Windows Server 2008 Security Design
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
“If the news is important, it will find me”  —  Brian Stelter has a great piece in the New York Times that I urge anyone interested in the media business to go and read right now — I'll wait — and that includes reporters, editors and (most of all) managers, and probably IT departments and designers as well.
Portfolio:
Fee for All  —  Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Warner Music Group has tapped industry veteran Jim Griffin to spearhead a controversial plan to bundle a monthly fee into consumers' internet-service bills for unlimited access to music.  —  The plan—the boldest move yet to keep the wounded entertainment …
Chester Yung / MarketWatch:
Hong Kong tycoon Li raises personal Facebook investment above $100 mln  —  HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing said Thursday he has increased his personal investment in social networking site Facebook to more than US$100 million, and might invest even more.
Verne Kopytoff / The Technology Chronicles:
Craigslist gets heat for prostitution ads  —  Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today threatened legal action against Craigslist if it does not curb prostitutes from advertising their services on its Web site.  —  In a letter to Craigslist today, he took the San Francisco Web site …
Discussion: Mark Evans
Jody Rosen / New York Times:
Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison  —  For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound.  But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Watch Out - Adobe Is Slowly Building an Online Empire  —  The blogosphere was abuzz today with the launch of Adobe's online photo-editing and storage platform, Adobe Photoshop Express.  The new tool isn't so much of a web-based version of Photoshop as people had hoped, but more of a simple online photo editor …
 
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Handipoints Thinks a Virtual World Could Make Kids Do Chores in the Real One
Discussion: Massively and Vincent Maher
Matt Asay / CNET News.com:
Open source's “superficial impact” on the database market
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Comcast Adjusts Way It Manages Internet Traffic
InfoWorld:
Spring to get upgraded with REST
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Zemanta Brings a Semantic Layer to Your Blog
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
CBS Testing HD Streaming
Discussion: CNET News.com
Grace Won / AVING:
Thinkware to launch its real 3D navigation ‘iNAVI K2’
Jared A. Favole / MarketWatch:
Apple COO Cook sells $41 mln in company stock
 Earlier Items: 
Scott Moritz / Fortune:
Cisco reins in costs, braces for downturn
Discussion: Valleywag and CNNMoney.com
Austin Modine / The Register:
Red Hat cheerleading purges Q4 profits
Discussion: Bits
Dave McClure / Master of 500 Hats:
Business Models for Social Networks: Monetizing Social Capital …
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Wikipedia - Where do People Go After Visiting Wikipedia?
Discussion: WebProNews
InfoWorld:
Google: Web sites slow to fix serious Flash flaws
Discussion: Beet.TV and The Register
InfoWorld:
Apple releases iPhone SDK beta 2
James McGill / Official Google Maps API Blog:
Street View in the API (or, How I Spent My Summer “Vacation")
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
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