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6:30 AM ET, January 10, 2008

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Fred Vogelstein / Wired News:
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry  —  The demo was not going well.  —  Again.  —  It was a late morning in the fall of 2006.  Almost a year earlier, Steve Jobs had tasked about 200 of Apple's top engineers with creating the iPhone.
Greg Reinacker / Greg Reinacker's Weblog:
NewsGator's RSS clients are now free!  —  We've got a lot of big news today at NewsGator.  —  First, we've got new releases of our most popular applications: FeedDemon 2.6, NetNewsWire 3.1, Inbox 3.0 (beta), and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0.  Each of these is a pretty major release on its own …
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Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
Ten Reasons We're Doomed: CES Edition  —  Oh, CES.  You are a disgusting, bloated beast oozing everything that makes this industry horrible.  Nay, everything that makes our culture horrible.  Sure, to you fine readers it might look like it's all product announcements and good times, but that's far from the truth.
Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget:
Sources say Universal and Paramount are both going Blu  —  Rumors just won't stop about the future of HD DVD, and while we try not to post all of them, some seem too believable to pass up.  Our friend Bill Hunt, at the Digital Bits, — still waiting on those permalinks, Bill — is reporting that his …
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Variety:
Blu-ray could win high-def battle
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Wizzard Media: 1 Billion Downloads in 2007, Podcasting Far from Dead  —  Wizzard Media, owners of the Libsyn, Switchpod and Blast Podcast networks, will announce tomorrow that it passed the 1 billion download mark in 2007.  While online media consumption numbers are notoriously hard to verify, Wizzard's have some serious merit.
Discussion: Podcasting News
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Google Maps Making Inroads Against Leader, Mapquest  —  I took a look at traffic to Maps websites after hearing repeatedly over the holidays that people didn't need directions as they would use Mapquest, Google Maps or GPS.  With the rise of GPS, I wondered if traffic to Maps websites …
Lee Rainie / Pew Internet:
Increased use of video-sharing sites  —  48% of internet users have been to video-sharing sites such as YouTube and the daily traffic to such sites on a typical day has doubled in the past year.  The basic findings in a national phone survey that ended in December show:
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Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Number of Women at Video Sites Doubles
Discussion: paidContent.org
Agam Shah / New York Times:
Former OLPC C.T.O. Aims to Create $75 Laptop  —  A laptop under US$100 could reach desks if a new venture formed by former chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child, Mary Lou Jepsen, can deliver on its promises.  —  A “spin-out” from OLPC, the company, Pixel Qi is looking to create …
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Microsoft dealmaker Bruce Jaffe going startup  —  While Microsoft has yet to come up with a search engine that wows consumers, it has successfully wooed Wall Street with its push into online advertising.  Alas for Microsoft, it's losing a key dealmaker.  Bruce Jaffe, a top corporate-development executive …
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John Letzing / MarketWatch:
Microsoft's acquisitions point man is departing
Discussion: VentureBeat and CNET News.com
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Analysis: Plaxo and Friendfeed, pushing the “feed”  —  Facebook news feed has been a hit with users because it automatically displays the latest photos, newest friends, and other updates from your Facebook friends.  —  The problem, though, is that most people use any number of other sites as well …
LinuxDevices.com:
Penguinistas hack Android onto real hardware  —  Several actual hardware devices have been hacked to run Google's Java-based Android software stack, according to blogs and forum posts around the Internet.  Although Google's preview release last fall included a software emulator based on Qemu …
Discussion: Engadget and Slashdot
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Urban Mapping Gives Us Free Neighborhoods  —  For those of us who dwell in cities neighborhoods are an incredibly useful convention that is usually only known by locals.  They break a city up geographically or architecturally or socially.  Until now there has been no freely available source of neighborhood data for geohackers.
Discussion: ProgrammableWeb and Screenwerk
Christopher Grant / Engadget:
NEC has its own 2880x900 curved gaming display  —  We feel sorry for poor NEC.  While everyone at CES is busy buzzing about Alienware's gorgeous curved DLP display (including us), NEC is quietly showing off its CRVD-42DWX+ display that's more or less identical: a 2880x900 (double WXGA+) panel with a contrast ratio of 10000:1.
Discussion: Kotaku, TechSpot News and Digg
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Tech Ticker: More Details And A Screenshot  —  Yahoo's new technology business video show, TechTicker, is set to go live soon (officially, in the next few weeks, but I'm hearing that some early stuff may come out as soon as next week).  —  The show will be hosted by Henry Blodget …
Discussion: Dembot, Valleywag and Epicenter
Otto Z. Stern / The Register:
Beware the populist mash oozing out of Facebook and YouTube  —  Watch online now - The findings of The Register's Virtualization Study  —  And Ninthly Yep.  It felt just like that, didn't it?  —  For scenario one, place your tongue between teeth.  Let your tongue relax and give …
Discussion: SYNTAGMA
 
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PC Pro:
Mobile phone projectors “will launch this year”
Discussion: Slashdot
Dallas / DreamHost Blog:
How Ruby on Rails Could Be Much Better
Discussion: Loud Thinking
Between the Lines:
All roads lead to the social Web
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Citi Media: Neil Ashe, CEO, CNET; Investors' Timing ‘Impeccable’
Discussion: Pulse 2.0
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Xbox Live account takeovers put users at risk
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Is AT&T Siding With NBC To Get Rid Of Neutrality?
Elisabeth / Podcasting News:
CES: Podcasting Coming To TiVo
Discussion: Mashable! and Dembot
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft releases another Vista SP1 refresh to 15,000 testers
 Earlier Items: 
Vishen / MindValleyLabs Internet Marketing Blog:
Using ASCII Art on Google Adwords - Brilliantly Innovative!
Discussion: WebProNews
Google LatLong:
The next generation of Google Sky
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
Could P2P Networks Enable a Google Killer?
Bojan Zdrnja / isc.incidents.org:
Mass exploits with SQL Injection
David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
The Vanishing Numeric Keypad
Discussion: Infinite Loop and MacUser
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Social Network Stats: Facebook, MySpace, Reunion (Jan, 2008)
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Monitoring Tools Help Cut Home Energy Use, Study Finds
Discussion: CNET News.com
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Jaiku users flee to Twitter as a result of Google's neglect (updated)