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9:50 AM ET, July 29, 2009

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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Yahoo to Lead Ad Sales in Microsoft Search Deal  —  Online Ad Business Braces for Shakeup as Pact Gives Bing Nearly 30% of Market to Rival Google's 65%  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Microsoft and Yahoo tomorrow are expected to announce the search pact earlier reported by Advertising Age …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft, Yahoo! Change Search Landscape  —  Global Deal Creates Better Choice for Consumers and Advertisers  —  Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
It's Finally Official, Microsoft & Yahoo Make A Deal, Yahoo Gives Up On Search  —  As expected, Microsoft and Yahoo have finally struck a deal, one that with regulatory approval, they hope will be in place by early 2010.  Microsoft has issued a press release and created a minisite about the deal.
Discussion: ResourceShelf
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Struck-Will Be Announced Within Next 24 Hours  —  Multiple sources close to the situation said that the online search and advertising deal between Microsoft and Yahoo has been struck and will be announced within the next 24 hours.  —  While it is not clear if the actual papers …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: The Most Important Facts (And Some Opinion)  —  Now that the search deal struck between Microsoft and Yahoo has been officially confirmed by both companies, by means of a press release and a website dubbed ChoiceValueInnovation.com, let's take a step back and analyze …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo To Get 110 Percent of Search Revenue in First Two Years of Deal With Microsoft
Steve Lohr / New York Times:   Microsoft and Yahoo Reach Deal on Search Partnership
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo's Bing Deal Puts Delicious, BOSS & More at Risk
Discussion: BoomTown, LiveSide, TechCrunch, Computerworld and PC World, Thanks:atul
Tiffany Wu / Reuters:
Microsoft and Yahoo in 10-year Web search partnership
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:   MicroHoo Deal Finally Official in a 10-Year Landmark Partnership …
Carol Bartz / Yodel Anecdotal:
What our Microsoft deal means to you
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
With Microsoft search deal Yahoo risks becoming AOL
Discussion: eWeek
Business Week:
Yahoo Gives In to Microsoft, Gives Up on Search
Discussion: Gadgetopia and digg.com
Biz / Twitter Blog:
New Front Page!  —  Today we're trying a redesigned front page for folks who are new to Twitter.com.  If you're a regular around these parts, then you won't notice the new look unless you sign out of your account.  Helping people access Twitter in more relevant and useful ways upon …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:   New Twitter Homepage Goes Live With Search Front And Center
The Official Palm Blog:
Get on-the-go restaurant reservations without any reservations  —  OpenTable for Palm webOS is the latest addition to the Palm Pre's beta App Catalog.  The popular restaurant reservation service adds a few new goodies to the menu thanks to the unique capabilities of Palm webOS.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Palm's webOS gets a couple more apps — are the floodgates opening?
Discussion: IntoMobile
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Sale Dead in the Water  —  Last month the BitTorrent community was shaken up when GGF publicly announced that it would take over The Pirate Bay and turn it into a legal outfit.  They said they would harvest computing resources from some of its users, money from others …
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Sarah McBride / Wall Street Journal:
Studios Sue to Stop Pirate Bay
Discussion: Digits and CNET News
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
How To Hijack ‘Every iPhone In The World’  —  On Thursday, two researchers plan to reveal an unpatched iPhone bug that could virally infect phones via SMS.  —  If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off.
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Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
iPhone SMS attack to be unleashed at Black Hat
Thanks:atul
David Kravets / Threat Level:
iPhone Jailbreaking Could Crash Cellphone Towers, Apple Claims  —  The nation's cellphone networks could suffer “potentially catastrophic” cyberattacks by iPhone-wielding hackers at home and abroad if iPhone owners are permitted to legally jailbreak their shiny wireless devices — that's what Apple claims.
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
SugarSync extends backup/sync/share service to Android, eyes netbook market  —  We've written before about Sharpcast and its creation, the SugarSync system that let users backup, sync, and share files from their computers and smartphones.  VentureBeat writer Anthony Ha called it “the simplest and most usable sync service I'd seen.”
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Has Wikipedia Created a Rorschach Cheat Sheet?  —  There are tests that have right answers, which are returned with a number on top in a red circle, and there are tests with open-ended questions, which provide insight into the test taker's mind.  —  The Rorschach test, a series …
Discussion: Softpedia News
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
What if...Microsoft Had a Windows App Store?  —  I continue to think of my iPhone not as a phone but as a personal computer.  Which is why I continue to be so nonplussed about Apple's barring of some applications on the grounds that they compete with its own apps, and others at (reportedly) …
Dan Frommer / The Business Insider:
AT&T Suffers Massive Mobile Data Outage In Northeast, Midwest (T)  —  Update: Some users are reporting that service is back up.  It is working for us in Brooklyn, for instance.  —  Earlier: AT&T (T) appears to be suffering a massive outage in its data network in the Northeast …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Pigs Fly As Facebook And Google Work Together On An Android App  —  Well, we never thought it would happen because of its intense rivalry with Google, but Facebook is almost ready to launch an official app for Android phones.  Hints are already popping up here and there, but I've been able to confirm it.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry 8530 headed to Verizon, totes Wi-Fi  —  It's no secret (well, maybe you just haven't heard yet) that the freshly announced BlackBerry 8520 will come in a CDMA flavor as well.  It also doesn't take a rocket scientist to put together a full spec list for the BlackBerry 8530 variation …
 
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John P. Falcone / CNET News:
Vudu streaming video service to be embedded in select LG TVs
Discussion: Bits
Stuart Jeffries / Guardian:
Welcome to the app economy
internetnews.com:
Securing Wi-Fi for Hackers
Scott Karp / Publish2 Blog:
Social Journalism: Curate the Real-Time Web
Thanks:mathewi
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
AMD spinoff lands top chip company as customer
Discussion: internetnews.com and PC World
Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:
U.S. supercomputing lead rings Sputnik-like alarm for Russia
Discussion: kremlin.ru
 Earlier Items: 
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
EU Vista, XP users will also get to vote IE off the island
Discussion: Engadget and Maximum PC all
Larry Magid / CNET News:
Netgear & OpenDNS to block porn from the cloud
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Former MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe Raising Money For New Venture
Discussion: TechFlash
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The Case Against the Case Against Google