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9:15 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
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
News flash: Digg headlines not "real" news
Discussion: Digg
Scott Karp / Publish2 Blog:   PEJ Social News Report Demonstrates Only That Digg and Reddit Are Highly Niche Sites
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.
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Bryan Gardiner / Epicenter:   Google's New Parking Lot: Moffett Federal Airfield
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
New York Times Launches Facebook App  —  The New York Times takes a step into the social networking realm today by launching a Facebook application called the New York Times News Quiz.  The simple application presents users with a daily (Monday-Friday) 5 question, multiple choice quiz …
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Facebook Apps Are Pointless If They Don't Work
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) …
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Jordan McCollum / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Yahoo to Break Open
Discussion: ResourceShelf
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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Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
The Internet Ad Spending Not-So-Recession  —  The latest data from TNS Media Intelligence shows how U.S. advertising spending in the first half is heading into a downturn — except for online spending, which remains up remarkably.  —  Note, of course, that these results do not include search ads …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Will The Ad Slowdown Reach The Web?
Discussion: tns-mi.com
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.
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.
Mariko Sanchanta / Financial Times:
Nintendo's Wii takes console lead  —  Cumulative sales of Nintendo's Wii have overtaken those of the Xbox 360, making it the world's best-selling next-generation games console in spite of having been on the market a year less than Microsoft's machine.  —  The move puts Nintendo …
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.
Edward Cody / Washington Post:
Official: 'Massive' Damage to China From Hacking  —  Charge Seen as Response to Reports of Chinese Hacking in Western Countries  —  A senior Chinese official said foreign intelligence agencies have caused "massive and shocking" damage to China by hacking into computers to ferret out political, military and scientific secrets.
Discussion: Techdirt
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) …
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 …
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: ZDNet.com.au and Mashable!
 
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Chris Preimesberger / eWEEK.com:
Meet Xsigo and I/O Virtualization
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Antony Bruno / Billboard.Biz:
Amazon To Launch Music Service Next Week?
Discussion: paidContent.org and Mashable!
Microsoft:
LifeCams Built for Sharing: Microsoft Hardware Keeps Consumers …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Tom Freston's New Company: Firefly3
Discussion: HipMojo.com
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
 Earlier Items: 
David Meyer / CNET News.com:
Microsoft swipes at Google Apps
Discussion: TechSpot News
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
journalist.org:
2007 Online Journalism Awards - Finalists
The Boy Genius Report:
HTC Juno? Yes!
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google secures GoogleDrive.com and updates name servers
 

 
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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