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11:45 PM ET, August 24, 2006

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Nwhite / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Clarifying Windows Vista Support of Protected HD Content in 32-bit Systems  —  The community is buzzing with reactions to APC Magazine's article regarding playback of protected High Definition content in 32-bit versions of Windows Vista.  However, the information shared was incorrect …
IEBlog:
Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate Now Available  —  This morning we released our first public release candidate, IE7 RC1, for Windows XP.  You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie.  —  The RC1 build includes improvements in performance, stability, security, and application compatibility.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
AOL to offer video from all the big guys  —  that it has finalized deals to offer download to own deals with 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros.  Home Entertainment Group through Video.AOL.com.  AOL will now distribute content from all 6 …
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Business Wire:
AOL Video Launches Digital Movie Downloads
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Rachel Konrad / Associated Press:
Apple recalls 1.8 million Sony batteries
Discussion: Techdirt
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Online Video: Tasty Takeover Targets?  —  Sony's deal for Grouper signals that big outfits are looking to buy in.  Which video-sharing sites might be next?  —  Online video sites are a bit like fish in the sea.  Though they are plentiful, the tastiest ones are difficult to catch.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Windows Live testing video search  —  Windows Live.com is working on some interesting new features in their beta search service, most notably video search.  It's not on the front page yet, but on the section of the site ironically missing the word beta on its logo: beta.search.live.com.
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Brady / O'Reilly Radar:
Live's New Video Search and UI (Beta)
Discussion: TechCrunch
AdAge:
MySpace: The Magazine  —  Social-Networking Site in Talks With 'Nylon' to Create Title  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Hey MySpace kids: Want to read a magazine?  If you answered yes, you may be in luck.  MySpace is actively considering whether to launch an ink-on-paper magazine to complement …
Discussion: paidContent.org and Mashable!
Yahoo! Search blog:
It's a Flickr Moment!  —  We've all had moments in our lives when we wished we had our cameras around to capture a perfect sunset, an amusing cloud shape in the sky, or a candid shot of our friends, family or pets.  That's why Flickr is so great.  It is full of these moments - as seen through the eyes of the world.
BBC:
Experts make robotic welly wanger  —  The eccentric British sport of hurling wellington boots has been given a mechanical makeover by scientists at Aberystwyth University.  —  More commonly known as welly wanging, experts have built a machine capable of propelling a welly up to 262ft (80m).
Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget and Slashdot
enthusiast.hardocp.com:
ATI Radeon X1950 XTX / CrossFire Evaluation  —  ATI is today launching new video cards into several market segments along with the world's first video card using GDDR4 memory.  We cover real world gameplay with the high-end single- and multiple-GPU video cards from ATI.  —  Introduction
Discussion: Gear Live, digg and Slashdot
Marc Weber Tobias / Engadget:
The Lockdown: Locked, but not secure (Part I)  —  Noted security expert Marc Weber Tobias contributes a new column, The Lockdown, exposing the shoddy security you may depend on.  —  The Bump Key: A new old threat to the security of mechanical locks  —  The most popular locking mechanism …
Discussion: Slashdot
Rachel Metz / Wired News:
IWoz Logs Leap From Geek to Icon  —  Steve Wozniak has been teasing his fans with the promise of an autobiography for nearly two decades.  Finally, he's releasing one in September: IWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It …
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Amazon Readies Utility Computing Service  —  Amazon Web Services are readying their latest service called EC2 which will allow users to setup and run servers and computing capacity in the cloud.  Users of the service can setup a server instance which is hosted with Amazon …
 
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Martin LaMonica / ZDNet:
Mass. to use Microsoft Office in ODF plan
Discussion: InsideMicrosoft and Slashdot
Mike / Techdirt:
Dutch Court Says ISP Needs To Hand Over Names, Despite Privacy Laws
Discussion: Digital Music News
Jeff / Digital Destiny:
PBS to Run Commercials Online, including at PBS Kids site.
Discussion: paidContent.org
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Gmail adds .mp3 playback
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Let's Share Some Files - Four Services Compared
CNET News.com:
Apple settles with Creative for $100 million
Valleywag:
Pop goes the weasel: When Web 2.0 bombs, these blogs could die
Discussion: TechEffect
PR Newswire:
Cox Communications and TiVo Announce Deployment Agreement
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Ryan Block / media.engadget.com:
Apple, Dell, Lenovo, HP working on battery manufacturing standards
Carlo Longino / MobHappy:
What's .mobi Playing At Now?
Mikek / Hacking NetFlix:
Netflix Launches Mobile Site for Cell & PDA Users
Discussion: Download Squad and jkOnTheRun
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Better mousetrap or a new form of lock-in?
Associated Press:
Hui makes pitch for Gateway retail unit
Nintendo:
NINTENDO LAUNCHES NEW DS LITE COLORS AMID RECORD-BREAKING GAME SALES
USA Today:
Verizon, Cablevision skirmish as war nears
Discussion: GigaOM and IP Democracy
 

 
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Tubi launches Scenes, a mobile feature that lets viewers watch 60-to-90-second trailer-style clips from its library to help with content discovery

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
James Harding says the Tortoise-Observer deal could create a profitable media group and there isn't a guaranteed future for the Observer with the Guardian

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Analyzing Comcast's spinoff of cable networks, purposefully structured with low debt: the move might be a signal to the industry that it's time to consolidate

 
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