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8:40 PM ET, August 29, 2008

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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Memo To Comcast: Show Us the Meter for Metered Broadband  —  Comcast is out defending its bandwidth caps and how they are not bad.  And how 250 GB transfer is plenty and enough to do whatever we want to do.  Of course, in today's terms that is more than enough, but what happens in the future?
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Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
More tidbits on the new Comcast cap  —  Thursday's news about the upcoming 250 GB monthly cap for Comcast data subscribers left some questions unanswered.  I shot a few of my own, as well as some from readers over to Comcast to get them answered.  These are mostly items that did not appear …
Olga Kharif / Tech Beat:
Comcast's Usage Cap: What Does It Mean?
Discussion: GigaOM and Imaging Insider
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
Goodbye, BitTorrent. Hello, Streaming.
Hakon Lie / The Register:
Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise  —  Microsoft said the right things, then blew it  —  Comment In March, Microsoft announced that their upcoming Internet Explorer 8 would: “use its most standards compliant mode, IE8 Standards, as the default.”  —  Note the last word: default.
Discussion: webmonkey and Brandon Live!
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism  —  Let me say from the outset that I was not a fan of Opera Software's antitrust sabre-rattling a few months back over Microsoft's lack of standards compliancy with its browser.  But Opera's latest complaints about Internet Explorer (IE) …
Dancho Danchev / Zero Day:
Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy  —  No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of “data processing” while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's …
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
8+ Hour iPhone Sync Timelapse Video (AKA Be Thankful For Your “Short” Two Hour Sync)  —  When I complained on Twitter about a 2 hour iPhone sync, Giz reader Brandon Lusk told me I was lucky.  He had a much longer sync, sometimes over 6 hours.  I called bulls**t.
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, PalmAddicts and Tech Blog
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Google to buy GeoEye satellite imagery  —  Google has signed a deal under which GeoEye will supply the search giant with imagery from a satellite due to launch in coming days, the companies said.  —  Under the deal, Google is the exclusive online mapping site that may use the imagery …
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Rumor: Apple and AT&T Developing iPhone Tethering Plan  —  According to a pretty legitimate-looking email thread from one of our readers, Steve Jobs may have responded to complaints that, since the pulling of NetShare from the App Store, iPhone-to-laptop tethering is impossible without jailbreaking one's phone.
Greg Atwan / 02138mag.com:
Aaron Sorkin and Ben Mezrich Are Now Friends.  —  It turns out the Aaron Sorkin Facebook movie is also the Ben Mezrich Facebook movie.  —  The Sorkin project (with producer Scott Rudin and Sony Pictures Entertainment) has created a media buzz since its recent disclosure on Facebook.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Report: Facebook screenplay based on book
Discussion: Valleywag and Texas Startup Blog
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ashton Kutcher Is Pretty Excited To Launch Blah Girls At TechCrunch50  —  TechCrunch50 is just a week and a half away.  The list of presenting companies is kept strictly confidential until the day of the event to ensure maximum audience attention.  But we're making one exception this year.
Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Study: spammers mind their Ps, forget about the Qs  —  E-mail addresses with common names—and addresses that begin with common letters—are much more likely to receive spam than those with uncommon names and letters.  That's what Cambridge University researcher Richard Clayton has detailed in his new paper …
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Richard Clayton / Light Blue Touchpaper:
An A to Z of confusion  —  A few days ago I blogged about my paper …
Discussion: The Register and Macworld
Gavin Shearer / Mac Mojo:
Solver For Excel 2008 Is Available!  —  What's that?  —  What's that you say?  —  You said you want to spend your Labor Day weekend creating exotic, elaborate optimization models with Excel 2008?  —  You said, “If only Solver was available for Excel 2008, I could get the jump …
Lewis Page / The Register:
Psychologist invents new uber-wiki  —  ‘Mememoir’ tech to make Wikipedia obsolete?  —  An American psychologist has invented a new form of wiki in which every word is directly linked to its author.  He believes the so-called “mememoir"* project will “revolutionize publishing in all of science”.
Discussion: Valleywag
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
With ‘followers,’ Blogger gets—surprise!—more social  —  With blog platforms Movable Type and WordPress adding social-networking features to their software, it was only a matter of time before Google's Blogger did the same.  A post on the official Blogger blog earlier this week announced …
Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
EFF: Veoh Decision Could Save Muxtape and Friends  —  When a Northern California judge Howard R. Lloyd handed down a decision on Wednesday in favor of the video sharing site Veoh, after it had been accused by IO Group of hosting ten of that company's pornographic movies without permission …
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Windows Live Search Tricks You May Not Know About  —  When it comes to web search, Windows Live stands a distant third behind Google and Yahoo!.  —  There are however are some lesser-known features in Live Search that aren't just useful, you won't find them in any of the other popular search engines.
 
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Jemima Kiss / PDA:
The death of the album  —  Good thoughts from Mashable's Steven Hodson …
Discussion: WinExtra and Mashable!
Paul Boutin / Valleywag:
VPILF.com is already live
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Psystar: Apple Illegally ‘Destroys’ Competition, Bricks Mac Clones
Discussion: Hardware 2.0 and MacDailyNews
Reuters:
Qualcomm found in contempt on Broadcom patent fight
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Could governments effectively subsidize open-source development?
Discussion: OStatic blogs and Techdirt
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Copyright Office, EFF wrestle with Kafkaesque royalty issue
Robert Hodges / The Scale-Out Blog:
Answering Monty's Challenge: Advanced Replication for MySQL
Discussion: PC World and 451 CAOS Theory
1001 Noisy Cameras:
Photokina 2008: Unfinished Business
Discussion: Imaging Insider
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Coke testing fountain that dispenses 100 beverages
Discussion: Engadget, MarketingShift and PSFK
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Yahoo! Mash is shutting down
Cade Metz / The Register:
Engineer accidentally deletes cloud
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Five Years of Wow
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The Google Android Challenge Winners
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