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4:55 PM ET, November 13, 2007

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PRWeb:
Bebo Launches 'Open Media' A New Vision for Social Media and Entertainment  —  Bebo, the global social network, opens its doors to media brands, deepening user engagement with popular entertainment.  Launch partners include global media brands CBS, MTV Networks, BBC, Turner, ESPN, Yahoo!, Next New Networks, Crackle and more.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:   Bebo's Anti-Hulu Pitch: We Play Your Video, You Keep The $
Dan Kaplan / VentureBeat:
Co-founder of Bebo leaves to join venture firm: Q&A
Associated Press:
Murdoch says WSJ Web site to drop fees  —  ADELAIDE, Australia - News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday he intends to make access to The Wall Street Journal's Web site free, dropping subscription fees in exchange for anticipated ad revenue.  —  "We are studying it and we expect …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Murdoch Serious About Tearing Down WSJ.com's Subscription Wall
europa.eu:
Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into Google's proposed take over of DoubleClick  —  HTML:  —  EN  —  FR  —  DE  —  PDF:  —  EN  —  FR  —  DE  —  DOC:  —  EN  —  FR  —  DE  —  IP/07/1688  —  Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into Google's proposed take over of DoubleClick
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo settles lawsuit with jailed Chinese journalists  —  UPDATE: Includes statement from Yahoo and information from World Organization for Human Rights USA.  —  Yahoo listened.  —  A week after being excoriated by lawmakers over supplying information to the Chinese government that landed …
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Paul Elias / Associated Press:
Yahoo, jailed journalists settle lawsuit
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Bank intern busted by Facebook [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]  —  Who says Facebook is the province of the young?  Increasingly, the 30something bosses of naive recent college grads are proving adept at turning the social network against its earliest adopters.
Stefano Mazzocchi / Stefano's Linotype:
Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME  —  Sun released their "free java" source code under the GPLv2 to both win the free software crowd and capture peripheral innovation and bug fixing from the community.  For the java standard edition (aka …
Discussion: Cloudy Thinking and Wap Review
Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Microsoft exec calls XP hack 'frightening'  —  A Microsoft executive calls the ease with which two British e-crime specialists managed to hack into a Windows XP computer as both "enlightening and frightening."  —  The demonstration took place Monday at an event sponsored by Get Safe Online …
Kevin J. Martin / New York Times:
The Daily Show  —  IN many towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species.  At least 300 daily papers have stopped publishing over the past 30 years.  Those newspapers that have survived are struggling financially.  Newspaper circulation has declined steadily for more than 10 years.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
"Citron" colored 4/8GB Zune discovered  —  The Zune software hasn't been released for very long but I've already thrown my usual arsenal of weapons at it in the hope something undisclosed in the source will waive the white flag.  Fortunately, I won't go to sleep empty handed as I've discovered …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Now the other Google founder is planning a secret wedding  —  (11-12) 23:29 PST San Francisco — Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page is planning to wed his girlfriend, Lucy Southworth, at a ceremony next month that is steeped in secrecy.  —  The event is scheduled for the weekend of Dec. 8 …
Dan Nystedt / Computerworld:
China Mobile in talks with Apple to sell iPhone  —  China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in China, the company's CEO said on Tuesday.  But he's not keen on the type of revenue-sharing model that Apple has insisted on elsewhere in the world.
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
DivX support coming to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 support in the works  —  DivX has announced that the Sony PlayStation 3 will soon support the DivX video codec.  We suspected as much when the PS3 2.0 firmware was released, as it includes the ability to detect both DivX and Xvid files.
Discussion: Engadget and Digg
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPod gets exploded, trapped in resin  —  Sure, your iPod is portable, lightweight, and easy to use — but it's not exactly special is it?  Perhaps you should be thieving a page from a young man named Billy Chasen, who has decided to rip apart his 4G player and encase it in a brick of translucent resin.
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Oracle lifts curtain on Fusion Middleware 11g  —  Fusion, or confusion?  —  For Niranjan Reddy, a technical lead at Office Depot, the answer was Fusion, with less confusion.  —  That was Reddy's assessment, after listening to Thomas Kurian, top executive on Oracle's Fusion middleware efforts …
Discussion: InfoWorld, ZDNet.com.au and Webware.com
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-061 - Critical  —  Vulnerability in Windows URI Handling Could Allow Remote Code Execution (943460)  —  Version: 1.0  —  General Information  —  Executive Summary  —  This update resolves a publicly reported vulnerability.
 
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Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
WiFi Pain Vest Doles Out Punishment for Nearing Hotspots [Questionable Art]
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Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Build a Hackintosh Mac for Under $800 [Hack Attack]
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JKK / jkkmobile:
Wibrain B1 UMPC hands-on
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John Chan / Crave: The gadget blog:
Bus is a roving hot spot in Singapore
Discussion: The Boy Genius Report and PSFK
Ryan Block / Engadget:
The new Zune: better than before, but not quite good enough
Electronista:
Mac claims more Japan OS sales than Windows
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Hyped New Platforms: Explaining the Difference Between One and the Other
Bryan Gardiner / Epicenter:
European iPhone Launch: Flop or Not?
 Earlier Items: 
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Box.net launches OpenBox: One place to save all your stuff, everywhere
alarm:clock:
Vivox: "Never Die While Typing Again!"
Ryan Pearson / Associated Press:
Marvel, other comics go online
Wsus / WSUS Product Team Blog:
Unexpected UI errors in WSUS
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Virtual Palm OS on your Nokia N-Series tablet — hoozah!
Business Wire:
Go Daddy Partners with Google to Offer Customers Web Management Tools
Charlie White / Gizmodo:
Samsung Rolls Out Next-Gen WiMax Toys While We Wait and Wait [See The WiMax Future]
Scott Ferguson / eWEEK.com:
VMware Updates Its Free Offering