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8:10 PM ET, July 24, 2008

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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft looks to ‘Mojave’ to revive Vista's image  —  REDMOND, Wash.—After months of searching for ways to defend its oft-maligned Windows operating system, Microsoft may just have found its best weapon: Vista's skeptics.  —  Spurred by an e-mail from someone deep in the marketing ranks …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending  —  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer played online-services pitch man duirng his opening keynote at Microsoft's annual Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM), explaining why Micorsoft believes it must continue to invest heavily in search …
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Reuters:
Microsoft CEO backs Web spending, “done” with Yahoo
Discussion: PC World
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft confirms IE 8 will ship this year
Discussion: One Microsoft Way
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft to show off spherical Surface next week
Discussion: Gizmodo
Microsoft Research Home:   Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2008
Steve Ballmer / Microsoft:
Financial Analyst Meeting 2008
Discussion: Digital Noise
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
Ballmer Soars into the Server Cloud
Discussion: eWeek and OakLeaf Systems
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft Live Search Coming To Facebook  —  When Microsoft made its investment in Facebook I always had thought that Live Search would come to the site, together with search monetization.  Later it appeared that search wasn't part of the deal.  Facebook's competitors all have web search …
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Apple's MobileMess  —  Two weeks ago, Apple launched MobileMe, the successor to its.Mac service, which costs $100 a year.  Among other benefits, it can keep multiple Macs, PCs and iPhones in sync.  E-mail, calendars and address books are wirelessly kept up to date.  Very cool idea.
Brad Stone / Bits:
Hasbro Notches Triple-Word Score Against Scrabulous With ‘Lawsuit’  —  UPDATED  —  Looking to cut down its main competition and most high profile copycat in the growing market for social gaming, Hasbro has sued the two Indian brothers behind the popular Web game Scrabulous …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Facebook Connect Matters & Why It Will Win  —  Facebook kicked off their second annual developer conference in San Francisco this afternoon with a keynote by founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg.  The overproduced keynote, with too many words repeatedly incessantly, seemed like a lullaby sung by a nanny in a language alien to yours.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Takes The Fast Lane To Boring
Discussion: Tech Ticker
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zimbra Releases Version 3 Of Open Source Email Client, And It's Awesome  —  Yahoo's Zimbra launches version 3 of its open source desktop email client this morning that is designed to compete with Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mac Mail, etc.  This is a new iteration of their browser-based offline product announced in March 2007.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The Day After: Looking At How Well Knol Pages Rank On Google  —  We've been assured that just because content sits on Google's Knol site, it won't gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain.  OK, so a day after Knol has launched, how's that holding up?
Discussion: WebProNews
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Steve Ballmer: Killing Apple and Google With Kindness?  —  BoomTown is flatly fascinated by the rather incredible memo Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer penned to his troops yesterday, with news of the reorganization of its massive Platforms and Services Division and the departure of its president, Kevin Johnson.
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
New Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Causes Chaos  —  Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Punishes Community Managers and Causes Follower Counts to Drop  —  Did you notice a big drop in your Twitter follower numbers yesterday?  It seems that the Twitter team recently decided to step up their Twitter spammer detection …
Microsoft:
Microsoft to Acquire DATAllegro  —  Leaders in data warehousing team to provide large-scale business intelligence solutions.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced that it intends to acquire DATAllegro Inc., a provider of breakthrough data warehouse appliances.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
The Final Days of DRM: Yahoo Music Store Closing, Will Eat Your Purchased Music  —  Digital Rights Management technology is dying, it's becoming understood that hobbling tunes to enforce scarcity isn't the best way to monetize the music business online.  What about all the suckers who bought DRM laden music in recent years, though?
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up  —  Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens outlined strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was strong and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to scale.
Discussion: Techland and Business Wire
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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Zune phone really in the works at Microsoft?  —  The success of the iPhone, both the original and the recently released 3G model, has fueled rumors that Microsoft is working internally on a similar phone built on the Zune audio player.  The Zune player has failed to compete against the iPod family …
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google creates a new market and wreaks havoc on another  —  When they first announced it, I was certain Knol was simply a way for Google steal some of the attention away from Wikia search — and I'm still sure that's what was actually happening.  Google doesn't normally pre-announce applications months in advance.
Discussion: LinuxInsider and Salon
Gmail Blog:
Making security easier  —  From the day we launched, Gmail has supported something called https.  Https keeps your mail encrypted as it travels between your web browser and our servers, so someone sharing your favorite coffee shop's public wifi can't read it.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
If Microsoft Opens the Xbox Is an App Store for Apple TV Next?  —  The open season on openness has reached that most closed of societies: the video game console.  Microsoft is now creating a method for almost anyone to write and sell games for its Xbox 360 machines.
 
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Austin Modine / The Register:
Cancer doctor cites ‘early’ data on cell phone danger
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
MobileBeat 2008: Nielsen data on mobile Internet
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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Web Video Coming to FiOS TV
Discussion: DSLreports and last100
Jon Healey / Bit Player:
UK ISPs to warn file-sharers, but then what?
Discussion: p2pnet and Reuters
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft demos robotic receptionist
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Waiting For Android  —  Developers for Google's mobile platform …
Discussion: Between the Lines
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
What the Dark Knight tells us about game rating laws
Discussion: Game|Life
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
Kaminsky (finally) provides DNS flaw details
Discussion: Hack a Day and VentureBeat
 Earlier Items: 
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget Mobile:
Palm Treo 800w review
Discussion: IntoMobile
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Makes Big Budget Cuts Across Blogs (Updated)
Discussion: The Blog Herald
Greg / Pinch Media:
Yes, we now do advertising  —  I'm happy to report that Pinch Media …
Discussion: CenterNetworks
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Windows Live Photo Gallery will Soon Recognize Faces in Pictures
Discussion: LiveSide and CyberNet
Michael Gartenberg / JupiterResearch:
Steve Jobs Health is a Private Matter.
Discussion: Chuqui 3.0
Michelle Leder / footnoted.org:
Apple says economy is “depressed”...
Jeff Smykil / Infinite Loop:
iPhone Developers scratch heads at new Stanford CS offering (Updated)
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Open Web Foundation Officially Launches