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3:26 AM ET, September 26, 2007

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Amazon.com:
Amazon.com Launches Public Beta of Amazon MP3, a Digital Music Store Offering Customers Earth's Biggest Selection of a la Carte DRM-Free MP3 Music Downloads  —  Amazon MP3 Offers Over 2 Million Songs From More Than 180,000  —  Artists and Over 20,000 Labels, Including EMI Music and Universal
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Game On: A Real Alternative To iTunes  —  It may have taken Amazon a few years, but they got it right: their new music store is DRM free and songs, starting at $0.89/track, are cheaper than at Apple's iTunes.  The top 100 best-selling albums are priced no higher than $8.99.
Amazon.com:
Amazon MP3 Open for Public Beta
Discussion: Bits, Engadget and Mobility Site
Sam Sethi / blognation UK:
Facebook IM Client Coming Soon  —  I have just been given a sneek preview of a new Facebook IM client that is going into beta this Friday.  What I like about this Facebook app is there is nothing to download or install, no registration and best of all, all of your friends in Facebook can use it instantly.
Pdp / GNUCITIZEN:
Google GMail E-mail Hijack Technique  —  I feel a bit dirty now.  First of all, I would like to say that I am a huge Google fan, so don't take this post personally.  Here I am going to show you how someone can install a persistent backdoor within your GMail account and snoop onto all your conversations.
Discussion: The Register and Jeremiah Grossman
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Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day:
Bullseye on Google: Hackers expose holes in GMail, Blogspot, Search Appliance
Discussion: Mashable!
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA  —  As of now it is still unsure what exactly happened, but the popular Dutch news site nu.nl reports that the CRIA is responsible for the downtime.  —  TorrentFreak contacted some of the Demonoid administrators, but they are not sure what happened either.
Discussion: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Neowin.net and Digg
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
"iPhone Dev Team" issues statement  —  A spokesman for the iPhone Dev Team, the group that developed the iPhone unlock has issued a statement condemning Apple and promising a tool in the next week which will restore your iPhone to a factory-fresh state.  The unlock, he writes …
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Barryg / windowsultimate.com:
Windows DreamScene released!  —  In early July, I wrote about The Ultimate Team's intention to ship the remaining promised Ultimate Extras (DreamScene and the remaining Language Packs) by the end of the summer.  Unfortunately summer never really came to Seattle this year—so we missed our cue.
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Changing Hats  —  Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik is a hard man to please.  —  Szulik said Tuesday the company will push its Jboss software harder, even as the open-source software vendor reported a 64.4% rise in net income thanks to strong sales of Linux software.
Discussion: InfoWorld and Reuters
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Red Hat's second quarter on target
Discussion: InfoWorld
Business Wire:
Red Hat Reports Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily
Dan Goodin / The Register:
eBay forum mysteriously leaks account details on 1,200 users  —  'Trust and safety' board in emergency shutdown  —  Exclusive Hackers brazenly posted sensitive information including home addresses and phone numbers for 1,200 eBay users to an official online forum dedicated to fraud prevention on the auction site.
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eBay Chatter / The Chatter:
Trust & Safety forums issue this morning
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Kara Swisher Deconstructs Facebook  —  Kara Swisher of AllThingsD takes a contrarian point of view on Facebook and does a pretty good job of deconstructing the social-networking company, its potential and all the hype around it.  What set her off: Facebook has apparently indicated …
Discussion: blognation
Louise Story / New York Times:
Microsoft Takes Aim at Google's Ad Supremacy  —  MICROSOFT has used its might, clout and smarts to take on any number of products and services — the browser, the operating system, the portable music player, to name just three — with varying degrees of success.
Discussion: paidContent.org and BetaNews
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Time Warner (TWX): How AOL Blew Q2  —  Based on further research, this is our current understanding of what happened last quarter, when AOL missed its advertising targets.  As with our previous piece on the coming AOL layoffs, none of this has been confirmed by the company:
Discussion: innonate and Clickety Clack
Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:
Is Apple in danger of losing its following?  —  When the iPhone first hit store shelves, Apple was on top of the world.  Not only did the company enjoy the biggest product release of the year, its stock price was on the rise, Mac sales were soaring and for the first time …
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
Sprint Wins Patent Case Against Vonage  —  Reston Firm Awarded $69.5 Million in Second Blow to Internet Phone Company  —  A federal jury yesterday ordered Vonage Holdings to pay Sprint Nextel $69.5 million in damages for violating six of its patents, prompting analysts to question whether …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Vonage ordered to pay Sprint $69.5 million in patent case
Discussion: Techdirt
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
WHAT THE KIDS ARE BUILDING: BRAIN RETRACTORS AND THROAT MICS  —  I'm sitting in the audience at DemoFall listening to organizer Chris Shipley interview three young entrepreneurs (Emile Petrone, 22; Michale Callahan, 24; Arash Sabet, 25) about their innovations.
Discussion: Compiler
 
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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Sugar Publishing Acquires Social Shopping Site ShopStyle
Jeff Gray / Globe and Mail:
I admit it: I bikeBerried  —  Here's a new word: bikeBerry.
Discussion: Techdirt
Rick Aristotle Munarriz / Motley Fool:
Google Can't Be Sirius … It's a silly rumor.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
FeedEachother Releases Smart, Social RSS Reader
Dan Primack / PE HUB:
Demand Media Adds $100 Million
Sarah McBride / Wall Street Journal:
Blu-ray or HD DVD: Which Side Are You On?
Thoughtfix / TabletBlog.com:
Third Nokia Internet Tablet hits the FCC
Discussion: Engadget, IntoMobile and jkOnTheRun
Oliver Starr / blognation USA:
BN Exclusive: TruPhone to Launch VoIP Client on iPhone
Discussion: Profy.Com, Roam4free and VoIP Watch
 Earlier Items: 
Neil Rubenking / AppScout:
Excel Can't Multiply
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
AT&T To Boost 3G Upload Speeds In Weeks
Tom Millitzer / theWHIR.com Blogs:
Mozy on Back to the 90's  —  EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) …
Discussion: Computerworld
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Desktop deliverance: an overview of GNOME 2.20
Discussion: Digg
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Google, Yahoo Sued For Stealing Names From Tanzanian Tribes
Discussion: Profy.Com and Mashable!
Shimon Sandler / SEO Consultant:
Google Building Blocks Toolkit
Brian Chin / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Even Bill Gates and Master Chief showed up
 

 
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