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1:25 PM ET, October 23, 2010

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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Ballmer: Riskiest product bet by Microsoft is the ‘next release of Windows’  —  When you're in the on-stage interview hot seat, sometimes you may say things you regret.  And sometimes you speak the truth.  —  My ZDNet colleague Larry Dignan covered Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer's hot-seat appearance …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Starbucks CIO shows why next version of Windows is “risky business” for Microsoft  —  Starbucks CIO, Stephen Gillett, and I had breakfast on Wednesday.  He showed me Starbucks new Digital Network, which will pop up on the screen if you sign in on wifi at any of Starbucks US stores. 30 million people a month do that.
Discussion: Scripting News and Pulse2, Thanks:scobleizer
Reuters:
Italy orders Google to mark Street View cars: report  —  (Reuters) - Italy's privacy regulator has told Google Inc it will have to make sure its “Street View” photo-collecting cars are clearly marked and their itinerary is publicized, a daily newspaper reported on Saturday.
Discussion: PC Magazine
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The Official Google Blog:
Creating stronger privacy controls inside Google
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Wikileaks Hacked By “Very Skilled” Attackers Prior To Iraq Doc Release  —  Update: Ahead of schedule, Wikileaks has published its latest leak: nearly 400,000 Iraq War documents.  —  Someone is trying to spring a leak in Wikileaks.  —  As the whistle-blower organization prepared earlier …
Tara Siegel Bernard / New York Times:
Credit Cards Soon to Get a Makeover  —  The simple credit card is about to get a makeover.  —  Next month, Citibank will begin testing a card that has two buttons and tiny lights that allow users to choose at the register whether they want to pay with rewards points or credit, at most any merchant they please.
Paul McNamara / Network World:
Why IPv6?  Vint Cerf keeps blaming himself  —  Impending exhaustion of IPv4 addresses ‘my fault,’ he says ... regularly  —  Are you struggling with or dreading the thought of IPv6?  —  If so, Vint Cerf, much-decorated “Father of the Internet,” wants you to know that it's OK to blame him.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X  —  The gist of the “Back to the Mac” theme of Apple's press event this week is that the iPhone was derived from Mac OS X, the iPad from the iPhone, and now some of the good ideas from iOS are going back to the Mac.
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Where Does Adobe Go From Here?  —  Its been a bit of a rough year for Adobe Systems.  —  The company was pummeled in a very public fight over its software with Apple and its chief executive, Steven P. Jobs.  —  After a number of attempts to sway Apple's opinion, Adobe seemed to give …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Is Twitter Going Back to the Funding Well for a Giant New Round?  —  Twitter, which has raised $160 million in its four-year history, may end up more than doubling that total: The messaging service is mulling yet another funding round that could see it raise more than $200 million.
Phil Nickinson / Android Central:
Will Gingerbread be Android 2.3?  —  We've been talking about the next version of Android — (still) unofficially dubbed Gingerbread — as far back as a year ago — months before Froyo was ever announced.  But what we haven't really known was what version number it will be.
Anne Ward Ernst / Mercury News:
Mozilla pays 12-year-old San Jose boy for hunting bugs in system  —  It's safe to say a typical Willow Glen 12-year-old doesn't earn $3,000 for a couple of weeks' worth of work.  Then again, Alex Miller is no typical 12-year-old.  —  Alex is a bug hunter, but the bugs he's uncovering …
Kent German / CNET News:
Call centers connected to Verizon staff up  —  The January release of a Verizon iPhone remains unconfirmed, but we may have still more grist for the ever-churning rumor mill.  Call centers connected to the wireless carrier and Apple are hiring hundred of new positions over the next three months …
Wall Street Journal:
MySpace, Apps Leak User Data  —  Site Sends Personal IDs When Ads Are Clicked, a Journal Investigation Finds  —  MySpace and some popular applications on the social-networking site have been transmitting information to outside advertising companies that could be used to identify users, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.
Discussion: TechCrunch and Softpedia News
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
WSJ: ‘Ridiculous’ to Say We Killed Tough MySpace Story
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Wall Street Journal Investigation Into MySpace Was Quietly Killed
Dion Almaer / techno.blog:
Setting our own Direction; Ben and I to move on from Palm  —  When we joined Palm, we were excited to join the intersection of mobile and Web.  It has been fascinating to see how that seam has grown over a very short period of time.  The device landscape has exploded and developers have amazing …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Talent Bleed At Palm Continues As Dev Leads Leave To Battle Closed …
Discussion: Electronista
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Is Zynga Trying To Patent Virtual Currency?  —  If we're reading correctly, this patent filed in March is multiplayer gaming network Zynga's application for the control of non-redeemable virtual currency and/or poker chips bought with real currency in virtual games, a.k.a US Patent Application #20100227675 …
Discussion: Techdirt and TechCrunch Europe, Thanks:evelynrusli
Serkan Toto / CrunchGear:
End Of An Era: Sony Stops Manufacturing Cassette Walkmans  —  Truth be told, I wasn't aware Sony was still producing cassette Walkmans.  But the company today announced it will stop manufacturing and selling these devices in Japan - after 30 years.  Sony says the final lot was shipped …
 
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Did Facebook Just Move to Kill Off Orkut?
Discussion: Technolicious and TechCrunch
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
CoverPad For The iPad Makes Your Blog Feel Like Flipboard
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
BlackBerry App World Becomes Surfable Online
Discussion: Fone Arena, CNET News and GigaOM
 Earlier Items: 
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Piracy domain seizure bill gains support
Discussion: Slyck
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
The iPhone is the worst...  In my line of work, cell phones come …
Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Report: China hijacked U.S. Internet data
Discussion: The Local and Bloomberg
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Texas slaps Amazon with $269M bill for uncollected sales taxes
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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