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5:10 AM ET, August 9, 2008

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Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
State Supreme Court rejects noncompete clauses  —  (08-07) 12:04 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Californians have the right to move from one company to another or start their own business and can't be prohibited by their employer from working for a competitor in their next job, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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Robert Buderi / Xconomy:
CA Reaffirms that Non-Competes are Non-Starters—Will MA and WA Listen?
Discussion: Techdirt and CNET News.com
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Perks Of Being The MySpace CEO Include, Apparently, Paris Hilton  —  Facebook may be the king of the Silicon Valley crowd, but Paris Hilton apparently prefers MySpace. 42 year old MySpace cofounder and CEO Chris DeWolfe has been dating 27 year old Paris Hilton for at least a few weeks, sources close to the company confirm.
Discussion: Celebuzz and Valleywag
Bob Rudis / The Apple Blog:
My Holy Grail Of iPhone Apps Arrives: pTerm  —  Just this week I was posing the question of where are all the (no-jailbreak-required) ssh/terminal apps for the iPhone?  While not the best platform for such a tool (the keyboard would - and does, as you will see - eat up some serious real estate) …
Discussion: Russell Beattie's Weblog and TUAW
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Tech Company Goes Public but Its Shares Dive 20%  —  Rackspace Hosting, a San Antonio company that provides Web hosting to corporate clients, went public Friday, ending a six-month market drought in initial public offerings of shares in technology companies.
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Apple Reviews NetShare; Permanent Ban Likely  —  Nullriver's short-lived iPhone application NetShare, which turns your iPhone into a wireless modem for your laptop, might not be returning to the App Store after all.  —  Earlier in the week, Nullriver received a response from Apple saying …
Discussion: MacRumors, iPhone Savior and Gizmodo
John Markoff / New York Times:
Patch for Web Security Hole Has Leaks of Its Own  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Faced with the discovery of a serious flaw in the Internet's workings, computer network administrators around the world have been rushing to fix their systems with a cobbled-together patch.  Now it appears that the patch has some gaping holes.
Discussion: E-Commerce Times
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tservice.net.ru:   Successfully poisoned the latest BIND with fully randomized ports!
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Airline Plans To Cancel All Flights Booked Through 3rd Party Websites  —  from the piss-off-your-customers-much?  dept  —  And people wonder why airlines have so much trouble staying in business?  We were already confused enough by American Airlines' desire not to be listed on the sites …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Defcon: Excuse me while I turn off your pacemaker  —  The Defcon conference is the wild and woolly version of Black Hat for the unwashed masses of hackers.  It always has its share of unusual hacks.  The oddest so far is a collaborative academic effort where medical device security researchers …
Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Announces New Privacy Choice for Consumers  —  Will Expand Its Opt-Out Policy to Customized Advertising on  —  Yahoo.com  —  Today Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced that it will offer users greater choice in how they manage their privacy online by enabling them to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com.
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Alana Semuels / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Yahoo lets consumers opt out of targeted advertising.  Everyone rejoice?
Discussion: paidContent.org
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
How To Demo Your Startup  —  Jason Calacanis' most recent post to his email mailing list is particularly relevant to our audience.  He's spoken with 200 companies in ten minute increments as they give their pitch to be a part of the upcoming TechCrunch50 conference.
Jeremy Toeman / LIVEdigitally:
Home Renovation: What Tech Do I Need?  —  My wife and I bought a house a few months ago, and it needs some renovation work (read: holy crap, we're practically gutting the place, what the heck were we thinking???).  One aspect of said work is redoing the entire electrical system …
Discussion: Ryan Block
Allen Hutchison / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Translate now for iPhone  —  A few months ago I was planning a vacation to Austria and Italy.  I knew a few words and phrases in German and Italian, but that was about it.  So I looked around for some portable language dictionaries.  I thought Google Translate was great, but the web page didn't work that well on the iPhone.
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews.net:
Updated: T-Mobile USA Will Ditch The Traditional Deck To Mirror Apple's App Store  —  Starting this fall, T-Mobile USA will take the extraordinary step of ditching its traditional deck on the phone and replacing it with a platform that's open to almost any developer, multiple sources have told us.
Discussion: Gizmodo and paidContent.org
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Bloglines: Now With Advertising  —  Today, Bloglines has unveiled a new skin for its public beta site and has announced that it will start displaying ads on its start page.  The new skin for the beta is is quite well done and definitely an improvement over the regular Bloglines interface, as well as the last version of the beta skin.
Discussion: Profy
Mike Rogoway / Oregonian:
Wi-Fi's dead; antennas live on  —  City worries that taxpayers could get stuck with the bill for removal -  —  S omeday, perhaps, they'll be ashtrays, vases or the crowning touch of Conehead costumes at Halloween.  —  For now, though, the 600 cylindrical Wi-Fi antennas atop Portland streetlights …
 
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
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Intel to release new midrange chips Monday
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Richard Whitt / Google Public Policy Blog:
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Opening Olympics ceremony video online, but not on NBC
Discussion: Gizmodo and paidContent.org
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
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