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8:55 AM ET, September 22, 2008

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Om Malik / GigaOM:
SanDisk SlotMusic Cards Are Destined to Fail  —  SanDisk, a flash memory chip maker that has been fighting off competitor Samsung's bid to acquire the company has launched SlotMusic MicroSD memory cards that will carry full length music albums just like a music CD or a vinyl.
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“slotMusic™”: High Quality, DRM-Free MP3 Music on microSD™ Cards  —  Music, Retail and Tech Leaders to Offer “slotMusic™”: High Quality, DRM-Free MP3 Music on microSD™ Cards  —  (Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Milpitas, CA - September 22, 2008) - Leaders in music …
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.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Music On microSD: I Can't Believe The Labels Fell For This  —  Forget buying an album on a USB stick, SanDisk just convinced the big labels to release (DRM free, thankfully) music on a 1 GB 15mm x 11mm x 1mm microSD card.  And then they convinced Best Buy and Walmart to sell these things.
Discussion: TechNews.LA
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
SanDisk, Record Companies Plan New Music Format  —  In the latest attempt to shore up sales of music on physical media, SanDisk Corp. and the four major music companies plan to announce Monday a new format called slotMusic.  —  SlotMusic is be introduced in mid-October at retail outlets …
Jon Healey / L.A. Times Tech Blog:   SD: the new CD?  —  With CD sales dropping despite …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
What's in the Cards for SanDisk? Music
Discussion: paidContent.org
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
FBI Searches Apartment of Tennessee Student Suspected of Palin Hack  —  FBI agents executed a search warrant Sunday at the apartment of University of Tennessee student David Kernell in connection with the hack of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's private Yahoo account.
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Laura Rich / Portfolio:
Palin Hacker's IP Address Linked to Tennessee College Dorm
Discussion: CrunchGear
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.
Kim Poh Liaw / SlashPhone:
Samsung Introduces M75500 Night Effect with Emporio Armani  —  Unveiled at a press event held in Milan, Italy on Sunday, Samsung and Armani introduces the M75500 candy bar with a nickname called Night Effect.  The Night Effect is the first mobile phone with Emporio Armani branding (it was Giorgio Armani last year) for Samsung.
Discussion: IntoMobile and Cellpassion
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Tony Smith / The Register:
Palm OS II-based smartphones now due H2 2009  —  Palm's next-gen operating system will be finished by the end of the year, the company promised late last week.  —  The company said the Linux-based system software known as Palm OS II and ‘Nova’ is “on track” for completion by the end of calendar 2008.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Gogimon's Search Medium Channels Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Results  —  Gogimon creates Internet Search Channel, a desktop software “medium” that collects data on searches from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft search engines and offers users more refined results.  Because Internet Search Channel …
Discussion: Between the Lines
Fred Vogelstein / Epicenter:
Why Google needs better antitrust advice  —  This is a big week for Google.  It's new mobile phone software called Android is debuting, and there will be much debate about whether this much hyped project is going to get any traction.  But that discussion may get drowned out by another.
Ben Dobbin / Associated Press:
Is the rich-hued Kodachrome era fading to black?  —  ROCHESTER, N.Y. - It is an elaborately crafted photographic film, extolled for its sharpness, vivid colors and archival durability.  Yet die-hard fan Alex Webb is convinced the digital age soon will take his Kodachrome away.
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.
Discussion: Search Engine Journal and Google
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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Adam DuVander / webmonkey:   Another Competing iPhone App Zapped By Apple
 
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Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
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Hal Varian / The Official Google Blog:
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