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5:40 PM ET, September 20, 2007

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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Shared Stuff  —  Google's social side is more visible every day.  A new service called "Shared Stuff" lets you share interesting links with your friends and the entire world.  You need to drag a bookmarklet to your browser's link bar or to click on the "Share" button from a web page …
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Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Shared Stuff  —  Google has just quietly launched a new social link sharing service called Google Shared Stuff.  —  According to this help file, you can add links to your "shared stuff page" by adding a bookmarklet to your web browser's "Links" or "Bookmarks" bar or by clicking this button …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google Wants You To Share Stuff
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:   The Best and Worst Things About Google's Shared Stuff
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Google Shared Stuff is Delicious
Discussion: WebProNews
Bloomberg:
Apple's Jobs Subpoenaed for Deposition, People Say  —  Sept. 20 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs was subpoenaed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to give a deposition in a backdating lawsuit against the company's former general counsel, two people familiar with the matter said.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Is That a Nancy Heinen Windsock Twisting Over Apple HQ?
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Steve Jobs subpoenaed over stock option backdating
Discussion: Computerworld and Inquirer
Rebecca Dana / Wall Street Journal:
ABC's AOL Pact Marks Web's Growing TV Allure  —  Walt Disney Co.'s ABC became the latest major network to strike a deal with AOL allowing its full-length prime-time shows to be available free on the Time Warner Inc.-owned portal.  —  ABC shows will be available on AOL starting today …
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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
We're thrilled about this NBC download service  —  If you haven't heard about it, see here.  NBC is going to launch its own download service where you can get NBC shows.  This is their new initiative in the wake of severing their relationship with us.  Why are we psyched?
PR Newswire:
Oracle Reports Q1 GAAP EPS Up 28% to 16 Cents, Non-GAAP EPS Up 27% to 22 Cents  —  Applications New License Revenues Up 65%, Database and Middleware New License Revenues Up 23%  —  REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) …
Discussion: Between the Lines
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Oracle: FY Q1 Revs, EPS Top Estimates
Discussion: InfoWorld
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Hitwise: August 2007 Search Share Favors Google, Yahoo - Microsoft Drops  —  Yes, it's that time of the month again — search popularity stats time.  Several ratings services are out with figures for August 2007, and I'm starting off with a look at those from Hitwise.
Discussion: HipMojo.com and WebProNews
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Hitwise:
Google Receives 64 Percent Of All U.S. Searches In August 2007
Discussion: Mashable! and Search Engine Guide
Paul Miller / Engadget:
New York's subway stations to be wired for cellphones  —  After holding out for years, MTA has finally caved to the public's demand for cellphones in New York subways.  New York City Transit has announced a deal with Transit Wireless, who's forking out $46.8 million over 10 years for the privilege …
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Walt Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Apple's iPod Touch Is a Beauty of a Player Short on Battery Life  —  In the hyper-competitive world of consumer electronics, it's highly unusual for one branded product to dominate its market for years on end.  Yet, that's what Apple's iPod media player, now approaching its sixth anniversary, has managed to do.
Belinda Goldsmith / Reuters:
Americans giving up friends, sex for Web life  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Surfing the net has become an obsession for many Americans with the majority of U.S. adults feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one in three giving up friends and sex for the Web.
Wil Shipley / Call Me Fishmeal:
iPhone & iPod: contain or disengage?  —  Back when we had commies to worry about, someone came up with the concept of "engage and contain": eg, rather than avoid them as we'd been doing, we should trade and talk and travel there, and by doing so be able to contain their evil.
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:
Zillow Gains VC and Google SEO Goodness  —  Zillow.com has secured a fresh round of money, the venture capital kind: $87 million to date in VC backing.  —  Meanwhile, new hire Vanessa Fox has undoubetdly been showing Zillow some SEO gains, Google style.  —  Fox is Product team Lead at Zillow …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Zimbra: Why Did Yahoo Buy Them?  —  This week Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! for a staggering $350M.  It seems like only yesterday that Zimbra was the buzz of the 2005 Web Conference.  But in two years, Zimbra has grown from a small 'cool features' startup to a company worth $350M.
Stephen Shankland / Underexposed:
Intel hopes open-source effort will lower Linux power  —  Intel plans to launch an effort called LessWatts.org on Thursday, a combination of open-source software and helpful hints to reduce power consumption of Linux servers, PCs and gadgets.  —  LessWatts, to be detailed during …
USA Today:
Cities turning off plans for Wi-Fi  —  CHICAGO — Plans to blanket cities across the nation with low-cost or free wireless Internet access are being delayed or abandoned because they are proving to be too costly and complicated.  —  Houston, San Francisco, Chicago and other cities are putting proposed Wi-Fi networks on hold.
Anne Trafton / web.mit.edu:
21st-century pack mule: MIT's 'exoskeleton' lightens the load  —  Researchers in the MIT Media Lab's Biomechatronics Group have created a device to lighten the burden for soldiers and others who carry heavy packs and equipment.  —  Their invention, known as an exoskeleton …
 
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Paul Glazowski / Profy.Com:
MTV Announces New Social(ly Conscious) Network
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David Recordon / Six Apart News:
We Are Opening the Social Graph
AdAge:
NBC's Silverman Grabs Digital Expert From MSN
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
NBC U: Just Because We Acknowledge Viewers Want Control …
Discussion: The Register
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Slacker Rounds Up The Troops
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Ryan Singel / Wired News:
U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Comcast: The Street Gets Skittish, The Stock Gets Cheap
Leo King / Computerworld:
Caution urged as gadgets enter the workplace
Discussion: WSJ.com
vnunet:
Amazon launches configurable widgets
Peter Pachal / SCI FI Tech:
Pinnacle's PCTV HD Ultimate: Laptop to HDTV in 5 seconds
Discussion: Computerworld and Engadget
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Hulu is Screwed, Part 1 (GE, NWS)
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PC World:
Folding@Home Protein Project Hits a Petaflop
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MediaDefender Anti-Piracy Tools Leaked
 

 
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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

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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