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7:30 PM ET, September 12, 2007

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Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Office Ultimate 2007: Just $60! (for students)  —  Starting in 59 minutes, 35 seconds, Microsoft will begin offering Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for students for the amazing price of just sixty dollars.  This special offer for students only represents a $620 discount off the retail price of $680, a 91% savings.
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Microsoft:
Student Promotion Provides Steal of a Deal for Office Ultimate 2007  —  Q&A: Alan Yates, Microsoft general manager of Worldwide Education, highlights how Microsoft is providing college students with easier access to tools for academic success.  —  Microsoft today announced The Ultimate Steal …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft says college students can 'steal' Office
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
Journalism.org:
THE LATEST NEWS HEADLINES—YOUR VOTE COUNTS  —  If someday we have a world without journalists, or at least without editors, what would the news agenda look like?  How would citizens make up a front page differently than professional news people?  —  If a new crop of user-news sites …
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Nick / Rough Type:
The people formerly known as informed  —  So what happens when "the people formally known as the audience," as the citizen journalism hypesters like to say, take charge of the dissemination of news?  A study released today by the Project for Excellence in Journalism provides a hint, and it's not exactly encouraging.
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Yahoo's Open Invitation  —  Like counterparts at Facebook, CEO Jerry Yang plans to give developers more leeway in building tools designed to keep users on its pages longer  —  Last year it was the so-called Peanut Butter Manifesto, a sharply worded internal memo from a Yahoo! (YHOO) …
Discussion: Download Squad and Mashable!
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Jordan McCollum / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Yahoo to Break Open
Discussion: ResourceShelf
Microsoft Help and Support:
Overview of Windows Vista desktop search Changes in Windows Vista Service Pack 1  —  View products that this article applies to. … Beta Information  —  This article discusses a beta release of a Microsoft product.  The information in this article is provided as-is and is subject to change without notice.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft details search changes coming in Vista Service Pack 1
Discussion: Windows Connected
San Francisco Chronicle:
Google founders pay NASA $1.3 million to land at Moffett Airfield  —  (09-12) 12:31 PDT MOUNTAIN VIEW — Google Inc.'s founders will carry scientific equipment for NASA on their private Boeing 767 as part of a deal that grants them landing rights at Moffett Federal Airfield, near Mountain View, NASA and local officials said.
Discussion: CNET News.com and VentureBeat
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Bryan Gardiner / Epicenter:   Google's New Parking Lot: Moffett Federal Airfield
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hulu Makes First Acquisition; Chinese Video Startup To Form Backbone Of New Service  —  We haven't heard much about Bejing-based startup Mojiti before this week.  They popped up in the TechCrunch Forums in January and are notable because the founder, Eric Feng, was previously at Microsoft Research Asia.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google secures GoogleDrive.com and updates name servers  —  Google already owns GDrive.com, but it's unlikely that will be the final name of the service.  Like Gmail is technically "Google Mail", the real name for GDrive will likely be "Google Drive".  So that got me wondering about the domain "GoogleDrive.com".
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Breaking: False Hacker Poses as iPhone Dev Team Unlock Author, Tries to Grab $41,560 Donation  —  A false hacker going by the alias of haRRo has tried to trick everyone by posing as the "sole developer" of a graphical tool to unlock the iPhone.  The GUI application is really the work of Erica Sadun …
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Dan Ackerman / Crave: The gadget blog:
Microsoft sneaks 1GB of memory into new laptop mouse  —  Microsoft has a handful of new laptop mice the company wants you to know about this morning.  And while Microsoft isn't usually the first brand name that springs to mind when you think of computer hardware (software's another story) …
Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
Are Technology Limits In MP3s and iPods Ruining Pop Music?  —  If it seems like you are listening to music more but enjoying it less, some people in the recording industry say they know why.  They blame that iPod that you can't live without, along with all the compressed MP3 music files you've loaded on it.
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Sun to ship Microsoft Windows Server on its hardware  —  Longtime rivals and occasional collaborators Sun Microsystems and Microsoft announced on Wednesday that Sun will ship 64-bit servers with Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 operating system.  —  Within 90 days, Sun will offer Windows Server 2003 …
journalist.org:
2007 Online Journalism Awards - Finalists  —  Finalists for the 8th annual Online Journalism Awards, honoring excellence in digital journalism, have been announced by the Online News Association and the USC Annenberg School for Communication.  —  A total of 70 finalists ranging …
Liam Tung / CNET News.com:
Google denies ownership of users' words  —  Google has denied suggestions that the terms and conditions for its Google Docs & Spreadsheets service mean that it owns any user's content published in the application.  —  Google Docs is part of the Google Apps platform, which offers a Web-based calendar …
Discussion: Mashable! and ZDNet.com.au
 
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Tom Freston's New Company: Firefly3
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The Internet Ad Spending Not-So-Recession
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
IBM finds a way to translate spoken words to sign language via virtual characters
Discussion: Inquirer
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft changes Windows files on user PCs without permission, researchers say
Discussion: Hardware 2.0
ClickZ:
Ad Exchange Right Media Is Used to Spread a Virus
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FCC to cable: You must support analog TVs until 2012
Pdp / GNUCITIZEN:
0DAY: QuickTime pwns Firefox
David Meyer / CNET News.com:
Microsoft swipes at Google Apps
Discussion: TechSpot News
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Maile Ohye / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Google, duplicate content caused by URL parameters, and you
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Social networking: Should Web giants buy, build or integrate features?
louisgray.com:
Internal Linking On Some Tech Blogs Is Out of Control
Peter Moon / PC World:
Stallman: If you want freedom don't follow Linus Torvalds
Discussion: Boycott Novell and Slashdot
The Boy Genius Report:
HTC Juno? Yes!
Business Wire:
Lenovo Raises Energy-Efficiency Bar with Its Smallest, Quietest Desktop PC
gryphondwb's Xanga:
iPhone Ringtones - What Did iTunes 7.4.1 really do?
BBC:
Phone cancer doubts remain