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8:30 PM ET, August 26, 2008

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Erica Ogg / CNET News - Apple:
Psystar responds to Apple suit, will countersue  —  PALO ALTO, Calif.—Mac clone maker Psystar plans to file its answer to Apple's copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday as well as a countersuit of its own, alleging that Apple engages in anticompetitive business practices.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Even without an enterprise strategy, Apple quadruples share
Discussion: TUAW
Aza Raskin / Mozilla Labs:
Introducing Ubiquity  —  An experiment into connecting the Web with language.  —  It Doesn't Have to be This Way  —  You're writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to.  You'd like to include a map.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
If You Want To Create a Mashup, Just Ask Your Browser. …
Discussion: eWeek
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
DMCA takedown notice forces Twitter to blacklist Mad Men characters  —  The micro-messaging service Twitter tonight suspended the accounts of users don_draper and peggyolson.  If those names sound familiar, you're probably a fan of the hit AMC show Mad Men.
Alex Vogenthaler / Inside AdSense:
Ad serving for everyone  —  Back in March, we announced the beta release of Google Ad Manager, our hosted ad serving and management solution for publishers with smaller direct sales teams.  Today, we are pleased to announce general availability of the product — no invitation required!
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Google is neither buying nor running many online display ads …
Discussion: CNET News.com
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Now Searching For Synonyms  —  Blink, and you might have missed it.  Google's now doing synonym searching.  It's something they quietly noted in a past Google blog post and one that comes up again today in a post that covers how Google uses experiments to improve the search interface.
Discussion: Computerworld
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Ben Gomes / The Official Google Blog:
Search experiments, large and small
Discussion: CNET News.com
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Adium Releases Major Upgrade to Popular IM Service  —  Adium, the popular Mac IM client that lets users chat across multiple services at once, issued a major new release last night that is sure to please users old and new.  Highlights include the addition of Facebook chat to the list of options …
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David Smith / Adium Blog:
Adium 1.3: What is the air speed velocity of a flying duck?
Discussion: Infinite Loop and Adium X - Trac
Alexkoc / Windows Genuine Advantage:
Update to WGA Notifications for Windows XP Professional  —  Starting this week, we will begin deployment of the latest version of WGA Notifications for Windows XP.  In addition to the usual updates to validation that improve WGA's ability to detect the latest stolen or fake product keys …
Discussion: Technologizer and Hardware 2.0
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
iPhone 3Gs Now Outnumber First Generation iPhones  —  Despite a weak battery and questions about how fast it connects to 3G networks, some time in the next week more than 6 million iPhone 3Gs will be in people's hands around the world.  What that means is that the second generation device …
Jan Norman / Boston Herald:
Zune player forum makes teen a fortune  —  SANTA ANA, Calif. - Young entrepreneur Hansup Yoon, 15, recently sold his creation ZuneBoards, an Internet forum devoted to Microsoft's Zune media player, for $62,000.  —  The teenager, who lives in Fullerton, Calif., created the site months …
Discussion: paidContent.org and Pulse 2.0
Edmund Lee / Wired News:
Amazon Relies on Customers to Pimp the Kindle  —  News from Portfolio.com  —  Also on Portfolio  —  Singapore Fund Flies on Through Economic Maelstrom  —  Not for Sale: Massive Media Conglomerate  —  Partying With the Dems on Hot Denver Nights  —  Mike Pfeffer, a 26-year-old IT professional …
Discussion: TeleRead
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Jack Davis / Docu-Drama:
Immersion settles Microsoft litigation for $21 million  —  Immersion will pay a $20.75 million one-time payment to Microsoft to settle breach-of-contract charges the software giant brought against the San Jose developer and licensor of touch feedback technology in June 2007.
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Settlement: Immersion paying Microsoft $20.75m
Discussion: Associated Press
reddit:
now you can restyle and host your reddits wherever you'd like (with contest!)  —  redditors have created lots of new reddits in the last few months (and subscribers and subscriptions are up 300% since the redesign) but allowing user-created reddits was just the first step.
Discussion: Ars Technica, Webware.com and webmonkey
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Reddit Now Fully Customizable: Bring Your Own Design and Domain
Discussion: VentureBeat
TeleGeography Research:
Google's subsea ambitions expand  —  On the heels of its investment in the Unity trans-Pacific submarine cable, Google is working with a consortium of carriers planning to build an intra-Asian submarine cable system.  The new cable, dubbed the Southeast Asia Japan Cable (SJC) …
TweakGuides.com:
Vista Annoyances Resolved  —  Author: Koroush Ghazi  —  Introduction  —  “Oh lord, not another Vista article!”  Like me, I'm sure many of you might be thinking something along those lines whenever you see an article with the word ‘Vista’ in the title these days.
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited
Josh Catone / SitePoint Blogs:
Opentape Sticks It to RIAA with Open Source Muxtape  —  With web music fan favorite Muxtape currently out of commission due to “a problem with the RIAA,” an open source — if no more legal — alternative has appeared: Opentape.  Opentape describes itself as “a free, open-source package …
Hal Goldstein / Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine:
Final Issue of Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine  —  I have sad news.  After 11 years, we will be publishing a final 2008 issue of Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine and then suspend publication!  We are working hard to make it the best Windows Mobile issue ever, a keeper, a reference guide.
AndroidGuys:
No More Speculation - This is the G1 from T-Mobile  —  Update: Since we published this article, we've received some specs from a few people/places.  Click here to see a compiled list of the inner beauty.  —  It's time to put this rumor to bed once and for all.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Visual Voicemail Inventor Strikes Again, Sues Google, Verizon, Others  —  After coaxing a settlement out of Apple, AT&T, and Skype owner eBay, “visual voicemail” inventor Judah Klausner is at it again: His Klausner Technologies is suing Google, Verizon, LG, and a host of other companies in U.S. district court in Texas, Reuters reports.
Infuriouscomics:
Murderdrome - KILLER APP  —  By now, you might have heard that Murderdrome has been banned by Apple.  This is due to the part of the sdk that suggests content must NOT offend anyone in 'apple's reasonable' opinion.  Here at infurious, we would love to work with Apple to ensure a content rating system …
Discussion: TeleRead, MacMegasite and The Register
 
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA wins P2P case after defendant reformats hard drive
Electronista:
BlueAnt intros first voice-controlled headset
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HP:
HP Completes $13.9 Billion Acquisition of EDS
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Expand Your Brain with Evernote
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Virus Infects Space Station Laptops (Again)
Discussion: Zero Day and The Register
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Road to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: 64-Bits
Corvida / ReadWriteWeb:
Adobe To Launch Mobile Storage Service
TechCrunch UK:
Collaboration web apps to beat the Credit Crunch
 Earlier Items: 
Ethan Bronner / New York Times:
Israel to Show Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Should It Be Illegal To Get Hacked?
Discussion: Technology Live
Lisa Katayama / Boing Boing:
Japanese with common last name Yoda denied Facebook account
Discussion: AppScout
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
ProofHQ streamlines the creative development process online
Beltzner / Mozilla Developer News:
Firefox 2 about to get a major update
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Technorati Acquires BlogCritics, Gets Into Content Game
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
AT&T expands iPhone international data plans
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
VoIP Goes Mobile
 

 
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