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11:40 AM ET, October 12, 2009

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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Genentech's (And Apple Board Member) Arthur Levinson Leaves Google Board  —  Genentech chairman Arthur D. Levinson is resigning from Google's Board of Directors, the Mountain View company announced earlier this morning.  His departure comes shortly after Google Chairman and CEOEricSchmidt resigned …
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Arthur Levinson Resigns from Google's Board of Directors  —  Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that Dr. Arthur Levinson has resigned as a member of the company's Board of Directors, effective immediately.  Levinson has been on the Google Board since April 2004.
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Why Email No Longer Rules...  And what that means for the way we communicate  —  Services like Twitter, Facebook and Google Wave create a constant stream of interaction among users—for better or worse.  —  Email has had a good run as king of communications.  But its reign is over.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Only 17 venture capital firms raise money in Q3 — fewest in 15 years  —  Venture capitalists are a breed in decline.  —  Just 17 venture capital firms raised new funds in the third quarter of 2009, the smallest number of number of firms in any quarter since the third quarter of 1994 …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch Europe:
Spotify competitor Deezer raises €6.5 million Series B round  —  [France] - Music search and discovery engine Deezer has raised €6.5 million in a second round of financing, bringing the total amount invested in the French upstart to approx. €12.2 million.
Joe Fay / The Register:
‘Amateur’ IBM brings down Air New Zealand  —  Mainframe power failure strands thousands  —  The boss of Air New Zealand has launched an astonishing attack on IBM after a catastrophic system crash crippled the airline and left passengers stranded.  —  The massive IBM letdown …
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough.  But that is exactly the complaint from some of the largest technology companies and the federal government.
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Amanda Andrews / Telegraph:
Sky Songs service ‘will rival iTunes’  —  BSKYB will next week launch its digital music service, Sky Songs, in a move designed to challenge the domination of iTunes and Spotify in the music downloads business.  —  After lengthy delays, the satellite broadcaster has signed deals with music suppliers EMI …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Windows Vista: A Review Recap  —  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer isn't so sure about how folks are going to respond to Windows 7.  As Mary-Jo Foley says in a ZDNet blog post, Ballmer told Bloomberg that “The test feedback (on Windows 7) has been good, but the test feedback on Vista was good.
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Google Expected to Beat Q3 Estimates as Online Ads Look Up  —  Google is expected to beat consensus estimates when its announces third-quarter financial results after the bell Oct. 15.  Bernstein Research said it expects Google to beat consensus expectations modestly, raking in earnings per share …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words  —  It's almost a truism in the tech world that copyright owners reflexively oppose new inventions that do (or might) disrupt existing business models.  But how many techies actually know what rightsholders have said and written for the last hundred years on the subject?
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The Steve Rubel Lifestream:
Posterous Catches Friendfeed  —  Since it was acquired, I have basically abandoned Friendfeed.  I love the service, but I am waiting to see how the team integrates it into Facebook.  —  Unsurprisingly, traffic to the Friendfeed site has plummeted since the acquisition in August.
 
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Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
International Kindle Crippled at Launch: No Web Access Outside US
Seth Rosenblatt / The Download Blog:
New Ad-Aware offers behavioral detection
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Microsoft wants multicore boost from Windows 7
Ed Sperling / Forbes:
What IBM Knows About CIOs
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
In defense of fanboys  —  I'm on the take.  Microsoft pays my salary.
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Jen Gordon / Smashing Magazine:
iPhone App Design Trends
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John Cook / Gawker:
The Federal Trade Commission's Coming War on Bloggers
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Facebook ensnared in two social networking patent disputes
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The Underutilized Power Of The Video Demo To Explain What The Hell You Actually Do
Sharon Gaudin / Epicenter:
Study: 54 Percent of Companies Ban Facebook, Twitter at Work
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and AppScout
Joelle Tessler / Associated Press:
Tough choices for feds giving out broadband money
Tom Simonite / New Scientist:
Innovation: The psychology of Google Wave
 

 
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