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11:45 AM ET, July 22, 2008

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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
First hints of Microsoft's “fight back” ads appear  —  I just noticed this teaser on Microsoft's home page:  —  If this is going to be the overall message of Microsoft's much-vaunted new $300 million ad campaign, it might be money well spent.  According to the folks at LiveSide …
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
Sandisk: Windows Vista not optimized for solid state drives  —  SanDisk said Monday that Windows Vista is not optimized for solid state drives, delaying the delivery of optimized drives until next year.  —  Solid state drives (SSDs) are used instead of hard disk drives in select high-end notebook PCs today …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Microsoft's Vista Mea-Sorta-Culpa  —  Over at ZDNet, Ed Bott has posted an intriguing item on Microsoft's attempt to reintroduce Windows Vista to a world that seems to have its fair share of Vista skeptics.  Ed noticed the image at left, comparing Vista doubters to flat-earth believers, on the Microsoft.com home page.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap  —  Amid all the chatter about Apple's fiscal third quarter results, which were strong, most concerns about the future revolve around two words: Gross margins.  The big takeaway for technology buyers: Those lower margins hint …
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Joe Wilcox / Apple Watch:
What Is Apple's Mystery Product?  —  I contacted several analysts, looking for sound or even silly speculation about the product.  Nobody wants to guess wrong about Apple, so what I got was more sheepish speculation.  —  Quick recap: During Apple's fiscal third-quarter conference call this afternoon …
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Apple Reports Record Third Quarter Results
Brad Stone / New York Times:
TiVo and Amazon Team Up  —  SAN FRANCISCO — TiVo, the Silicon Valley company that introduced millions to the joy of skipping television commercials, is trying to crack a decades-old media dream.  It wants to turn the television remote control into a tool for buying the products being advertised …
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:   TiVo Teams With Amazon On ‘Watch It, Buy It Now’ Option
Dennis Crouch / Patent Law Blog:
The Death of Google's Patents  —  By John F. Duffy* [PDF Version (42 KB)]  —  The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most software patents, including pioneering patent claims to such innovators as Google, Inc.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200.  Help Us Build It.  —  I'm tired of waiting - I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web.  Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT, which costs $2,500.  Just a Macbook Air-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox …
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You're a blog  —  Gapingvoid tweeted this earlier this morning.
Discussion: broadstuff
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Forget Crowd-Sourced T-shirts: Print Objects In 3D
Discussion: #comments, The Next Web and CrunchGear
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
New York Times, LinkedIn Enter Content Partnership  —  In a brilliant move that's sure to make both newspapers and social networks around the web jealous, the New York Times and LinkedIn, the leading US social network for professionals, are announcing a content partnership tonight …
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Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:   Targeted ‘Times’ articles coming to LinkedIn
Kit Eaton / Gizmodo:
Sony Pushes Out Three New Walkmen Phones, the W302, W902 and W595  —  It's the third birthday of Sony Ericsson's Walkman phone label, and to celebrate it's launching three new music-based cellphones.  The W302 and W902 (left, center in the image) are both candybar cells, with the 302 having an FM radio …
Discussion: Electronista and IntoMobile
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Sony Ericsson:
Music is reborn as Sony Ericsson announces three new Walkman&trade …
Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:
BSkyB, Universal Form JV To Launch Subscription Music Service  —  Pretty soon, everybody will be offering a subscription music service.  Latest is UK satcaster and ISP BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), 39 percent owned by News Corp (NYSE: NWS). it's secured Universal's Total Music repertoire …
Discussion: last100, WebProNews and mocoNews.net
CBC News:
Cellphone market poised for shakeup as spectrum auction ends  —  The government is $4.2 billion richer with the conclusion of the cellphone spectrum auction on Monday, while customers stand to win as five new companies are now well positioned to launch services over the next few years.
Discussion: Engadget Mobile
Chris Pendleton / Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog:
Virtual Earth Imagery Release - July 2008  —  14.3 TB of new imagery for Microsoft Virtual Earth.  Save money on gas....use Live Search Maps powered by Virtual Earth.  —  Ortho  —  United States (UltraCam, Microsoft Proprietary)  — Elizabeth, NJ  — West Allis, WI  — Paterson, NJ
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Maps Walking Directions Now Live  —  Earlier this month, I reported that Google Maps was testing walking directions on a small subset of users.  This morning, I noticed that Google Maps now is offering walking directions for all Google Maps users.  —  For example, conduct a search …
Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
Apple extends MobileMe trial following UK billing glitch  —  So far, Apple's rollout of the new MobileMe hasn't been going particularly smoothly.  As a result of outages, slow “push” functionality, and lots of glitches, Apple gave everyone an extra month of MobileMe service.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Propeller 2.0 Launches: Ditching The Vote Count, Adding A Mascot  —  Propeller, AOL's Digg-like news site, launches version 2.0 later this morning.  The site sports a new design and logo and now has a mascot - described as “part professor, part citizen journalist” (see image below).
Discussion: Mashable! and 901am
Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
Sybase brings Lotus Notes to iPhone 3G  —  Yet more movement in the enterprise with news today of the Sybase iAnywhere, an enterprise class solution that now lets iPhone 3G users access wireless email from Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange email systems.  —  Sybase iAnywhere provided iPhone users …
Discussion: Macsimum News
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:   Sybase extends Lotus Notes, Exchange support to iPhone 3G
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Movie industry eyeing 3D movies for the home theater  —  3-D display technology has had an on-again/off-again relationship with the film industry for decades, but has never established itself on the small screen.  Modern technology has made 3-D broadcasting a more realistic proposition …
Discussion: Portfolio.com and Slashdot
Thomas Ptacek / Matasano Chargen:
Regarding The Post On Chargen Earlier Today  —  Earlier today, a security researcher posted their hypothesis regarding Dan Kaminsky's DNS finding.  Shortly afterwards, when the story began getting traction, a post appeared on our blog about that hypothesis.  It was posted in error.  We regret that it ran.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Andrew Cuomo Threatens To Sue Comcast If It Doesn't Sign Up For …
David Jolly / New York Times:
Vodafone Cuts Revenue Forecast
Vishesh Kumar / Wall Street Journal:
Time Warner Cable, Verizon to Duel
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Has/How/Why tech blogging has failed you
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InfoWorld:
Symbian: R&D wants motivated open sourcing
Mark Slee / Facebook Blog:
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Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Unit Cuts Web Deals
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
As Travel Costs Rise, More Meetings Go Virtual
 Earlier Items: 
comScore:
comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for June 2008
Discussion: Screenwerk and NewTeeVee
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ok, We Have Our First DNA-Based Dating Service: GenePartner
Brad Feld / Feld Thoughts:
Glue and Comments  —  Since last summer I've been talking …
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
WordPress Tips + Things You Can Do After Installing Wordpress
Ewan / SMS Text News:
Nokia N96 from 3 arrives in September
Pixel Bits:
The art of reciprocation and my ultimate “Like” FAIL'age
Grant Gross / IDG News Service:
Internet Currency Firm Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering
Discussion: e-gold Blog, Mashable! and CIO.com
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Adobe revs media player, signs up Sony
 

 
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Liam Scott / Voice of America:
RSF says 23 journalists were jailed in Syria and 10 others were missing as of December 9; press freedom groups call for accountability for Assad's government

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Sources: Patrick Soon-Shiong told LA Times opinion leaders not to publish an editorial critical of Trump's cabinet picks without publishing an opposing view

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
The WGA demands studios take “immediate legal action” against companies that used writers' work to train AI, in a letter to CEOs of Disney, Netflix, and others

 
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