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10:05 PM ET, August 23, 2006

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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Microsoft lands Facebook ad deal  —  Microsoft failed to sign MySpace to an advertising deal, so the software giant went out and landed Facebook, the second-largest social networking site.  —  Late Tuesday evening, Microsoft announced that Facebook had agreed to allow the software company …
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Microsoft and Facebook Team Up for Advertising Syndication  —  Combination of Microsoft's and Facebook's consumer assets provides potent offering for advertisers.  —  PALO ALTO, Calif., and REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 22, 2006 — Facebook and Microsoft Corp. today announced a strategic alliance …
Louisa Hearn / Sydney Morning Herald:
Safety first for carry-on Dells  —  Qantas is issuing an advisory to all passengers on its flights on the safe use of Dell notebooks following the recall of 4.1 million batteries announced by the PC manufacturer last week.  —  The airline said that although passengers would be allowed …
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Evan Blass / Engadget:   Qantas to Dell owners: Reveal thyselves!
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Researchers Yearn to Use AOL Logs, but They Hesitate  —  When AOL researchers released three months' worth of users' query logs to a publicly accessible Web site late last month, Jon Kleinberg, a professor of computer science at Cornell, downloaded the data right away.
Steve Dowling / Apple:
Apple & Creative Announce Broad Settlement Ending Legal Disputes Between the Companies  —  Apple® and Creative Technology, Ltd. today announced a broad settlement ending all legal disputes between the two companies.  Apple will pay Creative $100 million for a paid-up license …
Cedric / Peer Pressure:
5...4...3...2...  In a few hours AllPeers is going to be released in the wild after 5 months of private testing.  We did not invite all the testers during that phase but rest assured the remaining one will receive an email when the application is available.  —  We know some people …
CNN:
How Google can make - or break - your company  —  Smart entrepreneurs are learning the best ways to deal with the online Goliath.  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. (FSB Magazine) — Allan Keiter awoke one recent morning to the scary news that his Atlanta company's website was nearly impossible to find on a Google search.
broadbandreports.com:
LA Muni-Fi Filters Smut, P2P  —  Audible Magic gear at the MPAA's request...  Culver City, California was the first Los Angeles municipality to offer the public a free all-access Wi-Fi network.  They're also the first to ban all porn and p2p from that network, according to an announcement made yesterday.
Discussion: dailywireless.org
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Carlo / Techdirt:   When Muni-WiFi Becomes Vehicle For Muni-Censorship
Dan Warne / apc:
Unlock work internet or risk losing staff: Microsoft  —  Jobseekers will think twice about employers who lock down work internet access, a senior Microsoft executive said today.  —  "These kids are saying: forget it!  I don't want to work with you.  I don't want to work at a place …
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Monitor:
Writely Rightly  —  For anyone that missed it, Google reopened the Writely beta late last week.  I signed up for the service over the weekend.  —  Google acquired Writely, which had never left beta, back in March, raising speculation—among news sites, anyway—that Google would release its own productivity suite.
Scott Carney / Wired News:
IPod Gray Market Booms in India  —  CHENNAI, India — It's the same ritual every month.  On the first, my wife sends the rent check to our landlord, a Punjabi cloth merchant with an enormous mustache.  Five days later, he knocks on the door and tells us he never received it.
Tom Yager / InfoWorld:
Is Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X?  —  [the only trolling here is being perpetrated by those sending people here to be outraged]  —  It took an attack on a Windows production server, not devotion to Apple, to put that provocative title on this entry.
Discussion: Gadgetopia and Slashdot
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Free Photo DVD of All of Your Flickr Photos and Tags from Backupr.com  —  Now this is slick.  I just got off the phone with Jeff Bianco over at CustomCD.us and they have a great new service called Backupr.com that will make a back up copy of all of your Flickr photos tags, and other meta data for...
Discussion: TechCrunch and Om Daily
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Has iPod's hit parade stalled?  —  news analysis After years of cranking out hit iPod models, has Apple Computer hit a wall?  —  The company hasn't had a significant update to its product line this year, with the only change being the addition of a smaller-capacity 1GB iPod Nano in February.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Pinger, a pretty cool vmail service  —  Have you ever been in a rush, and wanted to call someone, but just to leave them a message without actually talking with them?  The big problem: If you call them, they might pick up.  Joe Sipher and Greg Woock, former executives at the personal digital …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Sony in Deal to Acquire a Video Site  —  Sony Pictures Entertainment plans to announce on Wednesday that it has acquired Grouper, a Web site featuring videos contributed by users, for $65 million.  —  The deal marries one of the biggest and most powerful movie studios …
 
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Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
DivX Launches Its Own You Tube, Stage6
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Reuters:
Brazilian prosecutors seek lawsuit against Google
Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer:
Plot your Google Earth progress on your UMPC
Michael Paige / MarketWatch:
Salesforce.com unveils Google marketing tool
Dave Caolo / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
.Mac's slow death
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
EchoStar Loses Court Ruling On Some TV Transmissions
Discussion: paidContent.org
Scott Hanselman / Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen:
FinePrint changes the way I print.
Discussion: Geek News Central
Benjamin J. Romano / Seattle Times:
Patent penalty against Microsoft increased $25 million
 Earlier Items: 
Doc Searls Weblog:
Prodded by Dave and Frank, I just tried looking at NYTimesriver …
Discussion: ALLIED, Know It All and Technovia
CNET News.com:
IBM to buy ISS for $1.3 billion
Paul Miller / Engadget:
HiPAD II: Korea's 10.4-inch answer to the cPC
missingkids.com:
GOOGLE JOINS INDUSTRY-WIDE MOVEMENT TO COMBAT CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Discussion: Google Watch
Will O'Brien / Engadget:
How-To: Run your own network wiring
Discussion: Download Squad and Lifehacker
Larry Angell / iLounge:
Dell quietly exits digital music player market
Ben Drawbaugh / HD Beat:
Series 3 TiVo in the wild
razerzone.com:
Game On!  Microsoft and Razer Team Up to Rejuvenate PC Gaming …
 

 
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