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9:50 AM ET, October 16, 2008

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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Google Answers the iPhone  —  In the exciting new category of modern hand-held computers — devices that fit in your pocket but are used more like a laptop than a traditional phone — there has so far been only one serious option.  But that will all change on Oct. 22, when T-Mobile …
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Nancy Gohring / Computerworld:
The Android fine print: kill switch and other tidbits  —  An uproar erupted when iPhone users discovered a so-called remote kill switch on their phones — will it spur the same reaction in users of the G1, the first Android phone?  —  In the Android Market terms of service …
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
T-Mobile G1 Google Android Phone Review  —  There is a lot riding on the shoulders of T-Mobile's G1 Android phone.  In some ways, it carries the collective hopes of Linux, open source and Google fans everywhere.  It's open, collaborative and community-based, in other words, everything the iPhone and Windows Mobile aren't.
Michelle Maltais / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
How iView the G1: An iPhone owner's take on the Google phone  —  I've very intentionally kept myself in the dark about Google's entry into the smartphone market — until today.  —  It was mostly out of fear that I might find my iPhone in some way deficient by comparison and, as a result, develop a raging case of tech envy.
Michael Krigsman / IT Project Failures:
Android kill switch: Is Google evil?  —  Google's new Android phone includes a “kill switch,” allowing the company to delete applications users purchase from the Android Market.  Frankly, I don't trust Google's intentions.  —  Computer World describes the situation:
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
What Android Can Learn From the iPhone: It's the Software, Stupid.  —  or my initial impressions of the G1 in an earlier post.  And there are plenty of other places where you can (re)read about the specs, the slide-out keyboard, and the $179 price.  —  But I did get my Android loaner …
David Pogue / New York Times:
A Look at Google's First Phone
Discussion: CrunchGear, Memex 1.1 and Big in Japan
Bill Ray / The Register:   Android comes with a kill-switch
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Details Released On The Radiohead Experiment Results: A Tremendous Success  —  While Trent Reznor has been very open in discussing the results of his various business model experiments, Radiohead has been notoriously quiet about it — leading some to falsely assume that the experiment was a failure.
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Casey / FriendFeed Blog:
View your FriendFeed in real-time  —  Recently we asked some users what they liked about FriendFeed, and one said because “procrastination is only a refresh away.”  It sounded nice, but then we started wondering why anyone should have to refresh at all.  Well now you don't:
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louisgray.com:
Twitter Still Beats FriendFeed On Real-Time Topic Tracking
Discussion: Scobleizer and Webware.com
Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Free Broadband for the Masses  —  Backed by VC cash, a former FCC official's startup is out to provide no-fee, ad-supported wireless service  —  There's little debate whether the U.S. is a laggard in high-speed Internet access.  About 40% of U.S. households surf the Net over so-called broadband connections.
Discussion: Industry Standard
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Kim Hart / Washington Post:
FCC Chair Wants to Go Forward With Use of White Spaces
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo Cracks $12, Valuation Now Officially Ridiculous  —  We've been peeing on Yahoo all the way down, so we hope you won't take this as us talking our book (unfortunately, we've owned the stock forever) or blowing smoke up our employer's rear (we co-anchor TechTicker).  But...  YAHOO'S VALUATION IS NOW RIDICULOUS
Discussion: Beyond Search
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
YouTube Founder Compares Online Video To Nascent TV Market  —  YouTube Cofounder Chad Hurley spoke at the MIPCOM Conference in Cannes, France yesterday.  —  In the talk, which is transcribed below, Hurley compares the current state of online video to the nascent years of television.
Discussion: paidContent.org
Rick Turoczy / ReadWriteWeb:
Everything Old Is New Again: Google AdWords Launches Display Ads  —  Back in the day, online display advertisements used to be all the rage.  And then Google AdWords came along and blew the lid off of online advertising with its simple text-based ads and its cost-per-click model.
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Indy partners with HubDub for news prediction market  —  The UK startups that aims largely at the US news market has, rather contrarily, signed a deal with a UK newspaper.  Prediction market HubDub, which lets users turn news articles into an attention-drawing gaming market …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
ESPN comes to the iPhone — with an addictive bar game  —  Frequenters of any good sports bar will know the game Cameraman.  Basically, you see two versions of the same picture side-by-side and you point out the differences on a touchscreen monitor that is usually placed up at a bar.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Listen to Tim Cook  —  One thing Apple knows is what it does.  Apple designs and produces very nice things.  All this hubbub over low-cost laptops is outside the realm of what makes Apple Apple.  —  There has long been, especially in the business press, a strong bias towards encouraging Apple to act like a “normal” computer company.
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac and Macsimum News
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Why I Blog  —  THE WORD blog is a conflation of two words: Web and log.  It contains in its four letters a concise and accurate self-description: it is a log of thoughts and writing posted publicly on the World Wide Web.  In the monosyllabic vernacular of the Internet, Web log soon became the word blog.
Discussion: bytes|genes and Voices
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Google's third quarter: What to expect  —  Google will report its third quarter earnings after the bell Thursday and all eyes will be on the search giant to see if it can weather an economic storm.  —  Google has been facing these questions repeatedly in recent quarters-so much that the company put …
Discussion: BoomTown
Matt Mullenweg:
PollDaddy Goes Automattic  —  It's another exciting day here at Automattic.  Today we finally get to announce that we've acquired the market-leading poll and survey service PollDaddy.  —  For a year or two now, I've been minorly obsessed with polls and surveys as a method of lightweight interaction …
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
WordPress Acquires Irish Startup Polldaddy
Discussion: VentureBeat
 
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Michael Kahn / Reuters:
Doctors warn of rash from mobile phone use
Discussion: Inquirer
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
SpringSource makes OSGi components pledge
Discussion: InfoWorld
BBC:
Faster forward  —  Hakan Eriksson is chief technology officer …
Tom Abate / San Francisco Chronicle:
Tech sector predicted to slow but not collapse
Joey Seiler / Virtual Worlds News:
$148.5M Invested in 12 Virtual Worlds-Related Companies in Q3 2008
Discussion: paidContent.org and GigaOM
Thomas Mennecke / Slyck:
Newzbin Prepares for Litigation
Scott Bradner / PC World:
How Bad Is US Broadband Deployment?
 Earlier Items: 
Robert Lemos / Technology Review:
Probe Sees Unused Internet
Discussion: CircleID and Slashdot
Austin Modine / The Register:
iPhone beer maker sues Carling over virtual suds
Discussion: RCR Wireless News
Joab Jackson / Linux.com:
Python 3.0 makes a big break
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Windows Mobile Is In Trouble