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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
SanDisk Launches Preloaded ‘slotMusic’ Cards — In the digital download age, the memory chip maker and the four major music labels will sell albums loaded onto microSD cards — Once again, memory chip maker SanDisk is making a push into the digital music market.
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Jon Healey / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
SD: the new CD? — With CD sales dropping despite a demonstrable increase in music consumption, you might think that music fans just aren't as interested as they used to be in paying for tunes. Or you could believe in the spirit of hope springing eternal, and that the problem is with the CD itself.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
What's in the Cards for SanDisk? Music — Do you remember when cereal boxes sometimes had phonograph records imprinted in some sort of waxy stuff on the back? (Do you remember phonographs?) — I wouldn't be surprised if some desperate record label executive were talking with Kellogg's …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
A New Kind of Venture Capitalist Makes Small Bets on Young Firms — From the day he founded Etsy in 2005, Rob Kalin refused to raise money from venture capital firms to expand his company, which hoped to bring the sale of handmade crafts from small local fairs to the international marketplace of the Web.
Angelo DiNardi:
MailWrangler and the Apple App Store — So in July I wrote a small iPhone app called MailWrangler. Basically this app enabled a user to add their GMail accounts (standard and Google Apps For Your Domain) which they could load and switch between them quickly.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Tops 15 Million Peers — Today, The Pirate Bay reached a new milestone, as they now have more than 3 million registered users. On top of that, they track close to 15 million unique peers. The largest BitTorrent tracker just keeps growing and growing, and there is no sign that this will be put to a halt anytime soon.
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Windows 7 Starts to Come Into Focus. Slowly. — Okay, enough about Windows ads. Let's talk about a far more important topic: Windows itself. Windows 7-the working name for the next version-to be exact. According to no less an authority than Steve Ballmer, it's supposed to ship …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo's Poor Ad Targeting & Thoughts On Google-Yahoo — Previously, I wrote of how Yahoo's recent press day proved disappointing to me. Time for part two of that: how the Google-Yahoo ad deal is supposed to help Yahoo. Oh, it might, but not for the reasons Yahoo put out — the idea it would somehow get advertisers it was missing.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Something to Fear
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Jon / p2pnet:
New Comcast plan has ‘disconnect user’ option — P2P:- “Comcast Submits Plans to Manage Broadband,” says a Wall Street Journal headline on Comcast's just-released response to Federal Communications Commission demands that it explain in detail how its traffic throttling scheme works.
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Joscelin Cooper / The Official Google Blog:
Now, read us in gadget form — Our corporate blog network is more than four years old now. We offer blogs about Google products and initiatives, local blogs (for 11 countries), blogs for advertisers and publishers, and a stable of blogs for developers. We hope you find the contents to be informative, timely, and, on occasion, fun.
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Laura Rich / Portfolio:
Palin Hacker's IP Address Linked to Tennessee College Dorm — Sam Gustin reports: The hacker who broke into G.O.P. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's email account used the internet service provider of a Knoxville, Tennessee student housing complex under federal investigation.
Hal Varian / The Official Google Blog:
The democratization of data — The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of.
