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5:55 PM ET, August 18, 2008

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Minnie Ingersoll / The Official Google Blog:
Time to “Free the Airwaves”  —  For quite some time we've been talking about the potential of the unused airwaves between broadcast TV channels ("white spaces") to provide affordable, high-speed wireless Internet connectivity nationwide.  For this to happen, the Federal Communications Commission …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google Pushes White Space, Says Free The AirWaves  —  Updated: Today, Google is launching a new advocacy campaign, Free The Airwaves, an effort by the company to get some traction around white spaces, the tiny slivers of spectrum that resides in the 700 MHz band spectrum vacated by analog television's switch to digital transmissions.
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
FCC to Decide in Battle for TV Spectrum  —  As Google, Others Push for Sharing, Broadcasters Fret  —  Landover, Md. — After eight months of testing, a plan to employ unused TV channels to provide cheap, high-speed wireless Internet networks still faces determined opposition and an uncertain future.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
HTC Dream FCC approved, Android clear for launch?  —  The long rumored HTC Dream handset — once referred to as “The Googlephone” — just received FCC approval.  The handset is listed as type, “Dream' with a model of “DREA100.  ” The same model also appears with a WiFi Interoperability Certificate touting 802.11b/g WiFi.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Google's Android phone, the HTC Dream, is apparently approved by FCC — Nov. 10 is the latest release date  —  The Federal Communications Commission has approved the much anticipated Google Android phone, and documents suggest a release date of about Nov. 10 at the latest.
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Leaked: Dell Inspiron 910 (Mini Note) Specs and Release Date  —  A few weeks ago we ran some rumored specs of Dell's answer to the Eee, the Dell Inspiron 910 (aka Mini Inspiron and Inspiron Mini).  Now we've gotten our hands on the full (internal) 910 web documentation.
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone 3G Connectivity Affecting 2% of Customers?  Software Fix Soon?  —  One MacRumors reader claims to have received a response from Steve Jobs after emailing in a complaint about the current iPhone 3G connectivity issues that have been widely reported.  —  According to the email response …
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Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:   New iPhone Software 2.0.2 Today, New iPhone Shipment for AT&T Tomorrow
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
iPhone 2.0.2 software launch imminent. …
Discussion: Engadget and The iPhone Blog
Randall Kennedy / Windows Sentinel:
Bursting the Vista sales bubble  —  Our Windows Sentinel tracking data shows that 35 percent of mainly enterprise-class users “downgrade” their Vista systems to XP  —  For weeks now there've been rumors that major PC makers, like Hewlett-Packard, have been quietly selling PCs with a Vista license …
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Christine Tsai / Google Mobile Blog:
This is a test — ads on YouTube's mobile site  —  Over the past year, we've focused on creating and delivering a full-featured YouTube mobile user experience.  We think we've made great strides in doing this, allowing you to access YouTube wherever you are, whenever you want it.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
This is a test of the YouTube monetization system...this is only a test.
Discussion: AppScout
Android Developers Blog:
Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK  —  I'm pretty happy today, for two reasons.  First, I'm happy because I get to let everyone know that we're releasing a beta SDK.  You can read about the new Android 0.9 SDK beta at the Android Developers' Site, or if you want to get straight to the bits, you can visit the download page.
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Video Ad Companies: People Love Watching Video Ads!  —  Everyone knows it, so it must be true: Everyone hates pre-roll video ads — the mini-ads that publishers want you to sit through before you actually watch a clip.  We bail out on them constantly, and everyone we know does the same.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
FCC approves Microsoft's unreleased 120GB Zune  —  Ever since Samsung had announced their new 120GB 1.8-inch hard drive in April 2007, Zune fansites has been buzzing with anticipation of a new Zune fitted with the higher capacity drives.  Now the wait is nearly over as the FCC publishes a test report …
Tim Anderson / The Register:
Microsoft Silverlight: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it  —  A year or so ago I wrote a post called Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it.  Here's the same kind of list for Microsoft's Silverlight, based on the forthcoming Silverlight 2.0 rather than the current version.
Discussion: The Universal Desktop
Chrix Finne / Google Reader:
Read what they read  —  The Reader team has always been interested in politics, and we use Reader (of course) to stay current on all the political happenings.  As we were reading and sharing amongst ourselves, it got us thinking: what would happen if political newsmakers used Reader too?
Discussion: Mashable!
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Scratch that.  Windows Server 2008 R2 still lives  —  What do you do with a blog post that is so messed up that you can't even go in and edit it in order to fix it?  That's my dilemma with my post from August 15 about Microsoft skipping over Windows Server 2008 R2 and proceeding direct to Windows 7 Server.
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:   Windows 7 Server to be ‘minor release’
Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
So far, Silverlight is powering the NBC Olympics quite well  —  Last week, I talked about what Microsoft was doing for the Olympics and questioned whether it would all pay off.  According to NBC, loads of viewers are tuning in; it's as if the users participating in the video explosion on the Internet have simply said “Olympics?
 
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Michael Shorrock / PlayStation.Blog:
PS3 Music Peripheral Compatibility Update
PC World:
Are You Being Played in the SOA Game Plan?
HP:
HP Lightens the Load for Business Travelers
Discussion: Gizmodo, TechSpot and I4U News
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Not The Typical Quarter: Newspaper Websites' Revenue Growth …
Discussion: AdAge
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Where Are We In The Hype Cycle?
Discussion: PSFK
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple Enterprise sending thousands of Macs into hotels, cruise ships
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel on what computers ought to be able to do
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Nokia helps port Firefox to Qt
 Earlier Items: 
Jeff Smykil / Infinite Loop:
Apple building fire caused $2 million in damages
Discussion: MacUser and Apple Gazette
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Web Strategy: The Evolution of Brands on Twitter
Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
Bono blamed for unreleased U2 songs on Internet
Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
Open Source: An Open Question for Red Hat and Others
BBC:
Clipboards hijacked in web attack
Discussion: Technologizer
Wall Street Journal:
AC/DC to Sell New Album Only Through Wal-Mart