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4:35 PM ET, October 15, 2007

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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
AOL Layoffs Letter From CEO Randy Falco  —  More to come on this story, but AOL will lay off 2,000 employees.  Here is the letter to AOL employees that went out at 11 a.m. EDT today from CEO Randy Falco:  —  Dear AOL colleague,  —  Just over a year ago, AOL embarked on an incredibly complex …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Confirmed: AOL Laying Off 2,000: Randy Falco Email  —  AOL has confirmed the mass layoffs we have been writing about for the last month.  In a company-wide email sent at 11am this morning, AOL president Randy Falco said the "realignment" would include a reduction in force of 2,000 AOLers.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AOL to cut 2,000 jobs
Discussion: Bloomberg and PDA
Reuters:
Led Zeppelin to sell music online  —  LONDON (Reuters) - British rockers Led Zeppelin will offer their music online for the first time next month, they said on Monday.  —  The band, whose reunion gig in London in November prompted more than a million fans to apply for 10,000 available tickets …
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Led Zeppelin to Make Its Songs Available Digitally  —  It's been a long time, but Led Zeppelin, one of the last superstar acts to refrain from selling its music online, is finally offering its catalog to digital-music fans.  —  The shift by Led Zeppelin, whose reunion concert in London next month …
Nick / Rough Type:
What is and what should never be  —  It's over, rock fans.  Led Zeppelin, having already sold its wretched soul to Cadillac, has now thrown in the last shreds of the towel, agreeing to allow its monstrous headstomping slabs of metalwork to be shrunk down to tiny-whiny ringtones and MP3 files.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Zeppelin: This Interweb thing is cool
Discussion: The Globe and Mail
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Tops Feed Reader and Social Bookmark Rankings  —  Some interesting audience-engagement data just came out from AddThis.com, which ranks the top feed readers and bookmarking services by how actively they are used.  These rankings are based on how many times people across the Web add …
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Google Reader Stats are Bulls**t (With Proof)  —  Google Reader stats, in case you don't know, are bulls**t.  In fact, all Feedburner stats for most top blogs are bulls**t due to the effect of default feeds.  Want 80,000 free subscribers?  How about 200K or more?  Read on.
Nick / Rough Type:
Caterpillar: Web 2.0 giant  —  There may well be a time when Facebook, YouTube, Digg, and the other Web 2.0 fashion plates make some real money, but for the moment their results pale in comparison to those of the most unexpected beneficiary of the web's recent evolution, the industrial-age stalwart Caterpillar.
USA Today:
Google's GPhone strategy could keep user costs low  —  SEATTLE - Google's (GOOG)widely anticipated - and top secret - GPhone mobile phone project could trump Apple's (APPL) glitzy iPhone - by going low cost and low tech, tech analysts say.  —  That scenario gained credence last week …
Discussion: textually.org and Gizmodo
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Broadcom introduces 3G on chip  —  Chipmaker Broadcom said Monday that it has developed a new processor that integrates all key 3G cellular and mobile technologies onto a single chip.  —  The processor that operates at extremely low powers will enable cell phone makers to build new 3G phones …
Discussion: eWEEK.com
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Rob Mead / Tech.co.uk:
Pirates take over anti-piracy website  —  The Pirate Bay scores another victory over the music biz  —  Software pirates have launched an astonishing smash 'n' grab raid on the music biz, stealing the domain name of one of its foremost anti-piracy bodies.  —  The Pirate Bay has now taken …
John Markoff / Bits:
Bill Gates Presents the One (Really Big) Ringy Dingy  —  For Cisco, Nortel, Avaya and the other companies that make telecommunications equipment, this Tuesday is a sort of D-Day.  —  That day, Bill Gates plans to introduce Microsoft's invasion into their business, with a new line of software …
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Telegraph:
Microsoft's Ballmer and his 'brother' Bill Gates
Discussion: DailyTech and Gizmodo
Aaron Smith / Pew Internet:
Teens and Online Stranger Contact  —  Fully 32% of online teens have been contacted by someone with no connection to them or any of their friends, and 7% of online teens say they have felt scared or uncomfortable as a result of contact by an online stranger.
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb
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Jason Lee Miller / WebProNews:
Strangers A 'Cost of Doing Business' On MySpace
Discussion: Ars Technica
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Attention - NewsGator and Bloglines Join APML Workgroup  —  Web users interested in personalization, privacy and increasing sophistication in their applications take note: the Attention Data spec APML (Attention Profiling Markup Language) gained substantial momentum today with the announcement …
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Nick Bradbury:   FeedDemon, NetNewsWire and NewsGator Inbox to Support APML
Matthew Karnitschnig / Wall Street Journal:
Discovery Plans to Buy Web Site  —  Discovery Communications Inc., looking to jump-start a stalled Internet strategy, plans to acquire the HowStuffWorks.com Web site for $250 million.  —  Discovery, owner of cable channels such as Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, said it will use the site …
Greenpeace News:
iPhone's hazardous chemicals  —  When will promises of a greener Apple bear fruit?  —  International — Scientific tests, arranged by Greenpeace, reveal that Apple's iPhone contains hazardous chemicals.  The tests uncovered two types of hazardous substances, some of which have already been eliminated by other mobile phone makers.
Oliver Starr / blognation:
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
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Charles Cooper / ZDNet:
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PC World:
Agito System Juggles VoIP, Mobile Telephony
Charlie White / Gizmodo:
Cellphones: Hyundai W-100 Wrist Phone Most Feature-Rich Yet, and Now It's Real
Discussion: Crave and Boing Boing Gadgets
Mike Sakal / East Valley Tribune:
P.V. man sentenced in porn spam case
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Kevin Anderson / PDA:
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Business Wire:
Syntax-Brillian Announces New Large-Screen 1080p Olevia™ HDTVs
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
False starts in race to future of DVDs
Discussion: Macsimum News
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Supreme Court dumps Microsoft, Best Buy appeal
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
1,200 Marketers Can't Be Wrong: The Future Is in Consumer Behavior
Discussion: Channel 9 and cgm
AMD:
AMD Introduces New Tuner Products to Deliver Exceptional HDTV on PCs
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Celebrities Off Guard? 'TMZ' Is a Hit
Discussion: Ted's Take
Larry Larsen / Channel 10:
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