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4:25 PM ET, August 28, 2007

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PR Newswire:
Earthlink Announces Corporate Restructuring  —  First Step in Ongoing Efforts to Optimize Cost Structure and Boost Growth  —  Company also Authorizes Additional $200 Million to Repurchase Shares  —  ATLANTA, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — EarthLink, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELNK - News) today announced a corporate restructuring plan.
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Jon Van / Chicago Tribune:
City disconnecting from Wi-Fi vision
Discussion: Wi-Fi Networking News
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Why Apple Can't Stop iPhone Hackers  —  AT&T and Apple may face an uphill battle prosecuting hackers who untether the iPhone from the AT&T wireless network  —  It sure sounds like a steal.  On Aug. 31, George Hotz plans to trade in his iPhone for a metallic blue Nissan (NSANY) 350Z sports car and three brand-new iPhones.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
$100,000 offered to freely release iPhone unlocking software  —  Hey, that's what they claim: $100,000 in cold hard cash for the right to freely distribute the iPhone unlocking software onto the Nets.  Full credit given to the creator(s) of course with a proposed release date of Wed night at 12:00am (in some unspecified time zone).
BBC:
Legal threats halt iPhone crack
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited
Facebook Developers News Feed:
Change is Coming.  —  At Facebook we're focused on making Facebook Platform a better experience for both developers and users.  To that end, we're working on some changes that we're planning to roll out within the coming weeks that we wanted to be sure you know about beforehand.
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Chris Gilmer / Download Squad:
NewsGator launches new Facebook app, NewsFriends
Discussion: Valleywag
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:
NewsFriends? Facebook Anti Social Utility: Real Friends DON'T Share
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb and Scobleizer
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Takes Further Steps To Curb User Abuse; Change In How …
Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing:
Welcome to the new Boing Boing!  —  I'm writing this from Boulder, Colorado, which seems like a good place to make this announcement — it was in this town that Carla Sinclair and I launched bOING bOING as a print zine in 1988.  During the past 19 years we've gone through many changes — from zine to webzine to directory to blog.
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Matt Hickey / CrunchGear:
Boing Boing Launches Gadget Blog with Joel J at the Helm
Discussion: Valleywag
Brett Smith / FSF:
Microsoft cannot declare itself exempt from the requirements of GPLv3  —  "Microsoft has engaged in anticompetitive conduct in the software industry for many years, and has sought to attack free software for almost as long," Free Software Foundation says  —  The Free Software Foundation …
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Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Free Software Foundation to Microsoft: You are not above the law
Discussion: InfoWorld
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple faces new class-action suit over locked iPhones  —  Apple Inc. is facing yet another class-action lawsuit over its iPhone, this time from a New York State resident who claims the company failed to adequately disclose to consumers that the handset is locked to AT&T's network and that using …
Discussion: Engadget, Apple 2.0 and MacSlash
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
What's Up With Apple?  —  The market is punk today, so I wouldn't get too worked up about this, but Apple (AAPL) is taking it on the chin, with a loss nearly twice that of the Nasdaq Composite.  —  I can't find any single explanation for the slide; however, there is news that the company …
Discussion: Infinite Loop
Jennifer Martin / Google:
CNN.com Inks Multi-Year Advertising Agreement with Google  —  Exclusive advertising deal connects CNN.com with hundreds of thousands of advertisers  —  CNN.com and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced an agreement today that enlists Google's AdSense™ advertising program to deliver site targeted advertising to CNN.com.
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Social Networking Goes Professional  —  Doctors, Salesmen, Executives Turn to New Sites to Consult,  —  Commiserate With Peers; Weeding Out Impostors  —  When radiation oncologist Michael Tomblyn recently saw a 21-year-old patient whose eye was protruding from its socket, he turned to his fellow physicians for help.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Akamai Gets Ready for HD Video  —  Akamai (AKAM), under pricing pressure from upstart rivals such as Limelight Networks (LLNW), is upping the ante in the content delivery network wars.  The company yesterday announced a new distributed delivery mechanism optimized for the delivery of high definition-quality content online.
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Jeff Young / Akamai:
August 27, 2007 - Akamai Brings High Definition To The Internet
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
BabyCenter Acquires Mom-Focused Social Network Maya's Mom; Launching Online Ad Network  —  You're reading it here first: The baby and mom-focused BabyCenter, owned by J&J, has made its first acquisition in its 10 years of existence: it has bought Maya's Mom, a Palo Alto-based social networking site for mothers.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Google is working on a mobile OS, and it's due out shortly  —  Can it be true?  Is the Googlephone nigh at hand?  Not that we haven't been hearing this time after time (after time after time, etc.), but we've actually got some hot news from a number of very trustworthy sources about Google's plans for the mobile space.
Daniel Burka / Digg the Blog:
New Digg Home Page Live Today  —  Following up on Kevin's post from last week, we've gone live with improvements to our home page that allow you to see both news and videos on a single page.  We've gotten a lot of feedback that the videos are entertaining but people miss them because they're isolated.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
More BitTorrent Trackers Shut Down, Owner's Cover Blown  —  Following a decision in the Amsterdam court which stated the Dutch torrent site Everlasting.nu facilitated copyright infringement, the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has been using this momentum to make life difficult for other torrent sites.
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
 
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Microsoft buys the Swedish vote on OOXML
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Will Podcasting Survive?  —  Part of the Digestion Phase …
Richard K / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Yahoo moves for dismissal of dissidents' case
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / eWEEK.com:
Vista Beta SP1 Leaked
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Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
RHD Does Distribution Deal with Yahoo!
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
CG Exclusive: HTC Insider Confirms Existence of the Google Phone
Nicole Martin / Telegraph:
TV is dying, says Google expert
Discussion: Digg
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Sony Caught In Yet Another Rootkit Mess?
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Chris James / Sony PSP, Nintendo DS …:
GC: Sony Ericsson says definitely maybe to PlayStation phone
Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Some Open XML Standardization Headlines
Discussion: Computerworld
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Videohybrid 3.0: I Can't Believe This Hasn't Been Banned Yet
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
TorrentSpy judge decides RAM is stored information
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MySpace's New Chic Clique
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Favoriting Ads (continued)
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The Common System Interface: Intel's Future Interconnect
 

 
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