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11:45 PM ET, November 12, 2007

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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Google's Android OS early look SDK now available  —  Just like the good folks promised, the early look software development kit for Google's soon-to-be huge phone OS has hit the streets... er, internet.  From what we can tell, the OS is as comfortable on larger, VGA devices as it is on more traditional smartphone layouts.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google Releases Android SDK, $10M for Developers  —  The Google-led Open Handset Alliance has released the Android Software Development Kit (SDK).  The Android SDK needs an x86-based computer running Windows XP or Vista; Mac OS 10.4.8 or later; or Linux Ubuntu Dapper Drake or later …
Steve Horowitz / Official Google Blog:
Calling all developers: $10M Android challenge
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
The Web in Google's Mobile Browser
Discussion: Googlified
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Windows 7 "top feature request list" leaked to the public  —  With Windows still managing to find its way to over 95 percent of the desktop computers sold each year, it's not surprising that one can find plenty of people interested in giving their feedback about what future versions of Windows should be able to do.
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Adobe:
Adobe Names Shantanu Narayen Chief Executive Officer  —  For immediate release  —  Company Expects Q4 Fiscal 2007 Revenue Near High End of Targeted Range; Targets 13 Percent Revenue Growth in Fiscal 2008  —  Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced its Board of Directors …
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Executive profiles  —  Shantanu Narayen  —  President and Chief Operating Officer
Discussion: paidContent.org and MacUser
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Ultra-portable Apple notebook to splash down at Macworld Expo  —  Exclusive — Unlike last year, the annual Macworld Expo and Conference that rolls around in January will actually serve as a launch pad for some new Macs, including a chic and ultra-compact notebook design long under development by Apple Inc.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils Device Customization via New Zune Originals Store, New Zune Players Available Tomorrow  —  Microsoft partners with 18 renowned artists to fuse high style with portable entertainment.  —  Tomorrow, consumers ready for a richer, more connected and more personal entertainment experience …
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:   Complete Guide to Zune 2's Software and Firmware [Complete Zune Guide]
Jason / Laughing Squid Web Hosting:
Massive Power Outage At Rackspace'S Dallas Data Center  —  Summary: Rackspace's Dallas (DFW) data center, where our servers are located, suffered a major power outage tonight lasting approximately two hours.  A truck hit one of their transformers, causing damage, which compromised the power …
Discussion: TechCrunch
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Jordan Golson / Valleywag:
Truck driver in Texas kills all the websites you really use [Breakdowns]  —  Remember the power mishap in July that brought down 365 Main, the San Francisco datacenter?  A similar incident took place today at the Dallas datacenter of Rackspace, a San Antonio, Texas-based firm which serves several local Web outfits.
Discussion: GigaOM
Dave Rigotti / Search Engine Journal:
Why You Need to Make a Facebook Fan Page for Your Website NOW!  —  When Facebook announced the Fan pages, there were a number of mixed reviews.  Some where hailing it and its integration to the new advertising platform and some hated it - claiming it was turning Facebook into Myspace.
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David A. Utter / WebProNews:   It's Time To Fan Facebook's Potential
Waxy.org Links:
What next?  —  In case you haven't noticed, Waxy.org went into cryogenic sleep shortly after we were acquired as all my energy went into building and growing Upcoming.  I've missed writing and coding here badly, so I'm thrilled to make a second announcement:
Charles Knight / Alt Search Engines:
Face Off: Facial Recognition Search Engines  —  Mondays on AltSearchEngines we examine a particular Vertical, and this week the hottest Vertical category is Image Search, and especially the sub-category of facial recognition search engines.  —  Today was the partial launch of EyeAlike, which matches up faces with similar faces.
Discussion: GigaOM and Read/WriteWeb
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Dan Kaplan / VentureBeat:
Eyealike image search lets you find people that look like your ex
Discussion: Profy.Com and Download Squad
Christopher Blizzard:
memory usage in firefox and gecko  —  For a long time there have been a lot of complaints about the memory usage in Firefox and anything else that used the Gecko engine.  And looking at the numbers for what Firefox would use for memory, they seemed valid.  But on the other side of the story …
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Google Options Make Masseuse a Multimillionaire  —  Bonnie Brown was fresh from a nasty divorce in 1999, living with her sister and uncertain of her future.  On a lark, she answered an ad for an in-house masseuse at Google, then a Silicon Valley start-up with 40 employees.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Intends to Acquire Musiwave  —  Acquisition of Musiwave would build on Microsoft's commitment to deliver Connected Entertainment vision to consumers.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced it has entered into an exclusivity agreement around its intention to acquire Musiwave SA …
Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
DoubleClick Serves Up Vast Malware Blitz  —  Updated: The third-party ad network says it now has monitoring capabilities in place to catch the problem malware.  —  Rogue anti-spyware software that pushes fraudulent PC scans has found its way onto DoubleClick and legitimate sites, including CNN …
Discussion: The Register and Mashable!
 
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John McBride / One Microsoft Way:
Supercomputer researcher joins Microsoft
Discussion: Computerworld and Neowin.net
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
HP's Mark Hurd: Thoughts on consolidation
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Android UI Screenshots [Android Screenshots]
Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
Attackers Snatch Member Data from 92 Nonprofits
Online Journalism Blog:
Five W's and a H that should come *after* every story (A model …
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
$45 Million for "HD AmeriTV" Sounds Awfully Familiar
Gears / CoolSmartPhone.com:
HTC Touch Cruise Announced - Hands on video and pics!
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Next Up for Verizon FiOS: Invading Manhattan, Japan-Like Uber-Bandwidth [Fat Pipes]
Discussion: DSLreports and The Tech Report
 Earlier Items: 
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
YouTube Premium? 11% Say They'd Pay, Could Yield $100m
Ian Ayres / Freakonomics:
Poker Bots on the Rise: A Guest Blog
Discussion: WebProNews and Boing Boing
Om Malik / GigaOM:
It's Time for Skype to Spring for Its Own Infrastructure
Alertbox:
Long vs. Short Articles as Content Strategy
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Seeding the Google Phone With Apps
Discussion: mocoNews.net and Phone Scoop
Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Launches New Program to Advance Open-Source Software for Internet Computing
Fortune:
Al Gore's next act: Planet-saving VC
 

 
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Tubi launches Scenes, a mobile feature that lets viewers watch 60-to-90-second trailer-style clips from its library to help with content discovery

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
James Harding says the Tortoise-Observer deal could create a profitable media group and there isn't a guaranteed future for the Observer with the Guardian

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Analyzing Comcast's spinoff of cable networks, purposefully structured with low debt: the move might be a signal to the industry that it's time to consolidate

 
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