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5:50 PM ET, August 14, 2007

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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Ask Jumps, Google Slips and Yahoo Leads American Customer Satisfaction Index for Search  —  For the first time, Yahoo has beaten Google in the annual University of Michigan American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).  The survey measures U.S. consumer satisfaction across a broad range …
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Jason Roth / Apple:
John Lennon Solo Catalog Debuts on iTunes Store  —  Apple® today announced the debut of the John Lennon solo catalog on the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com).  Sixteen of Lennon's solo works from EMI Music are available for the first time on iTunes starting today, with the "Lennon Legend" …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Still no Beatles, but Apple adds Lennon
Nokia:
Nokia announces product advisory for BL-5C battery  —  Espoo, Finland - Nokia today issued a product advisory for the Nokia-branded BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006.  This product advisory does not apply to any other Nokia-branded battery.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Sun/Google and Adobe now gunning for Microsoft Office  —  Whether Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a full-fledged Microsoft Office competitor is up for debate.  But StarOffice, Sun's desktop-productivity suite, is definitely a head-to-head Office rival.  And StarOffice distributed by Google?
Discussion: Techdirt, Macsimum News and Gadgetell
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Matt Asay / CNET News.com:
Adobe mulling a move into the Office market?
Discussion: InfoWorld and Wired News
Market Wire:
Lime Wire to Enter Music Download Market With New Digital Store and Inks Deals With Music Companies  —  Lime Wire LLC, maker of the popular LimeWire file-sharing software, announced today that it will open a digital music store.  —  Initially the store will be a stand-alone website …
Dan Warne / APC:
Google launches YouTube-style embeddable maps … First up, if you know how to embed a YouTube video in your blog, you'll be able to embed Google Maps in your website, Google promises.  —  It'll be as simple as cutting and pasting a bit of HTML code into your website, just like a YouTube video.
John Tierney / New York Times:
Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy's Couch  —  Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else's hobby.  I hadn't imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version …
Discussion: Boing Boing and IP Democracy
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
First Google Health Screenshots  —  Google Health, codename "Weaver", is Google's planned health information storage program.  Google's Vice President of Engineering Adam Bosworth lobbies for the program for quite a while now.  Adam said the current US health care system is challenged when it comes to …
Jeff Bennett / Market Wire:
Gay Ad Network Launches With Exclusive Publisher Partners  —  Vertical Ad Network Offers Wide Range of Advertiser Solutions  —  Gay Ad Network, an online vertical advertising network, launched today with support from an influential group of gay and lesbian publishers.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
AOL Launches Mobile Search  —  Google may have won the fixed line search sweepstakes, but mobile search remains an open territory, for anyone to conquer — countless start-ups, Yahoo, Nokia.  Add AOL to the list, which is launching a revamped (beta) version of its mobile search service today.
John Borland / Wired News:
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign  —  On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines.  While anonymous, such changes typically …
Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
Oracle announces price list for 11g  —  Oracle on Tuesday announced the general availability of its flagship database 11g for Linux and outlined its price list.  —  Oracle's 11g launched a few weeks ago, but the big question mark at the time was the pricing scheme for the database.
BBC:
Paper battery offers future power  —  Flexible paper batteries could meet the energy demands of the next generation of gadgets, says a team of researchers.  —  They have produced a sample slightly larger than a postage stamp that can release about 2.3 volts, enough to illuminate a small light.
Discussion: Associated Press and Engadget
MrJolly / MCV:
Nod given to HDD-only 360 titles  —  GAMEFEST: MMO developers permitted to require Xbox hard drive for future titles  —  Owners of Microsoft's basic Core Xbox 360 may soon find themselves unable to play the latest titles following Microsoft's announcement that developers of online MMO games …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
VMware: EMC Has No Plans To Sell More; Did They Price Too Low?  —  EMC (EMC) today generated a massive return on its investment in VMware (VMW).  —  EMC bought the company in 2004 for $625 million.  At the time, as EMC CFO Dave Goulden noted in an interview with Tech Trader Dailythis morning …
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Matt Martin / GamesIndustry.biz:
EIF: Home abusers can be turned off and banned, warns Sony
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
iPod v. The Insulin Pump: Adaptive Path Rises To The Challenge
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
New Study Shows that Online Creativity and E-learning Popular with Kids
Discussion: NSBA
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Battle over attorneys fees' brewing between RIAA, ex-defendant
Dave Rosenberg / InfoWorld:
Q&A: MuleSource adopting CPAL
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
PSP download store held up by DRM
Discussion: Technovia
Jessie Scanlon / Business Week:
Getting Serious About Gaming
Discussion: Valleywag
Chris Reidy / Boston Globe:
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New funding takes Inxstor past £1m
CNN:
Apple's Issue With HD Cameras Puts Jobs' Influence In Focus
Discussion: ZDNet and Macsimum News
CNN:
UPDATE: Microsoft's Bach Sold Additional Stock Before Xbox News
John Leyden / The Register:
Many Facebook users expose all to strangers
Chris Williams / The Register:
Free software campaigners stonewalled at BBC
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
VMware's IPO - Insanity turns Silicon Valley back to normal
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
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