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<title>What Does the Slow-Down Mean for Gadget Lovers?</title>
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With news of doom and gloom coming at us from every side I would like to take a moment to look at the market as it stands and asses what a slow-down/recession will mean for us, the gadget obsessed.

To recap, we are in this mess because of what amounts to a credit freeze. Companies that once could request "cash" to cover overnight expenses - we're talking millions and billions of dollars worth of cash - are now told they can only withdraw a significant percentage less than they were previously allowed to access. This, in turn, reduces capital expenditures and slows hiring - if you can't get a quick loan you can't cover a new factory or a make a bigger payroll. This, in turn, slows large purchases and raises unemployment which, in turn, makes us all freak out. 
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<title>Apple Met Goal of 10 million iPhones Sold in 2008</title>
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By using some fairly interesting IMEI collection, the folks at Mac Observer have found that Apple sold 10 million iPhones in 2008, reaching and potentially surpassing Steve's original stated goal. By looking at phones sold over the last few months, Mac Observer's "Apple Finance Board" found that the phone has gone through nine 1 million unit runs. Adding this to the known sales they found the total number was far above analyst expectations.]]></description>
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Attention all TechCrunch readers in Munich: here's your chance to meet Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.  (Hmm, I wonder if he'll be making some sort of announcement).  He will be giving a speech at a closed, invite-only event on Tuesday evening, October 7 at Amiando headquarters.  Amiando CEO Felix Haas is offering to give admission to one lucky TechCrunch reader.  (That's right, only one). Explains Haas in an e-mail:

Mark will give a speech to the selected guests about Facebook’s plans for Europe and Germany. After the speeches and an extensive Q&#038;A session with Mark Zuckerberg there will be plenty of time to get-together with Mark at dinner &#038; drink.  I want to offer admission for one of your readers.

All you have to do to apply is explain why you want to meet Zuckerberg in comments.  The person with the best reason gets a ticket.  (Put in your real e-mail address so Felix can contact you in case you win).  ]]></description>
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<title>SimplyBox: Drag-And-Drop Clips Of The Web For Research, Sharing</title>
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Web bookmarks are badly in need of an overhaul.  Sure, they're fine for jumping to the dozen or so sites you visit on a daily basis, but they quickly become unwieldy whenever they're used for research purposes.  Folders of bookmarked job listings or apartment openings on Craigslists become practically useless as you frequently need to revisit them to remind yourself why you bookmarked them in the first place.

Tonight sees the launch of SimplyBox, a San Francisco-based startup that allows users to clip portions of websites in a visual way, overcoming some of the shortcomings of traditional bookmarks.  SimplyBox is currently available as plugins for Internet Explorer and Firefox, with a Safari version on the way.  The site will go live at 6 PM PST tonight.

To use SimplyBox, you hit the "Box and Save" button in the browser toolbar, which turns your mouse arrow into a targeting cursor and displays a series of "boxes" at the bottom of the screen.  After highlighting the portion of the page you'd like to save for later, you drag it into the box you'd like to store it in.  The whole process is very intuitive and only takes a few seconds.
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GameFly, which is perhaps most easily explained as the NetFlix of the gaming world, today launched a new version of their site specifically optimized for mobile handsets. 
Through the magic of user agent detection, getting to the mobile site is a one step process: just type  the standard GameFly.com address into the browser of any mobile handset. Once there, users can search through the GameFly library, order games, switch up their "GameQ" queue, read reviews, and manage their account.]]></description>
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<title>Granting Credit On The Fly.  Is Bill Me Later Part Of the Problem Or Part Of The Solution?</title>
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On the same day the public markets are tanking because of the spreading credit crisis, we see one of the biggest M&#38;A exits of the year with eBay acquiring Bill Me Later for $945 million ($820 million in cash, plus an extra $125 million in options).  The only other tech exits of this size in 2008 were Sun buying MYSQL for $1 billion (which involved less cash and more options), AOL buying Bebo for $850 million.  This is for a company that lets consumers defer payment when they buy things online.  Remember, loose credit is part of the reason we are in the current economic mess.

So is Bill Me Later part of the problem or part of the solution? I put that question to Michael Kwatinetz, the former Wall Street tech analyst who is now a partner at Azure Capital, the biggest shareholder in Bill Me Later.  He explained to me how Bill Me Later works, and how it actually has more stringent credit controls than most credit cards:

The problem is people who can’t afford to pay for things are financing things. If you have the proper controls, you don’t allow that to happen. 

We don’t grant credit limits. We grant credit on a transaction basis. If you are somebody who is not paying us, or running up your bills in other places, we don’t grant credit.

Traditional credit cards, in contrast, let you run up your bill up to a pre-determined credit limit.  With each transaction, BillMeLater check your credit score, credit outsanding, status with credit agencies, and a few other criteria.  And it either approves your credit or it doesn't for each purchase in less than three seconds.  Kwatinetz says that the company tightened its lending policies about a year ago, and claims that the nonpayment rate is "probably the lowest of anyone on the Web."
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<title>SearchMe Calls Out Yahoo On BOSS Screenshot</title>
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<description><![CDATA[SearchMe, a new Sequoia-backed search engine that launched in March, isn't happy with some of the screen shots that have been seen around the Internet promoting Yahoo's new BOSS (“Build Your Own Search Service”) product.

In particular, this shot, which was included in a CNET article, shows what appears to be SearchMe's search interface (itself borrowed from Apple's iTunes album browser) with the logo cut off (compare it to this). CNET describes the screen shot as "One idea Yahoo showed for BOSS: show miniature versions of the Web pages returned by search results."

To be fair to Yahoo, the screen shot was included in a press briefing document (the slide, which I also received, is shown below) and Yahoo was using it only as an example to show how the service worked. Yahoo has also said that they reached out to SearchMe to discuss a partnership, as they've done with scores of other companies. In the briefing, Yahoo didn't specifically call attention to the slide, and it was made clear to journalists (or at least me) that the product wasn't made for front end design, just as a search web service.]]></description>
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<title>RIM to Launch BlackBerry &#x201C;Application Center&#x201D;</title>
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You're looking at the BlackBerry Application Center, RIM's answer to Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market. Same basic concept as the other two&#8212;you browse and buy applications that enhance your BlackBerry experience. 

The Application Center&#8212;we're running out of variants of the term “application store!”&#8212;is set to debut with the BlackBerry Storm software version 4.7. All application data will be stored at the carriers' locale; RIM is totally out of the loop as far as that goes. It's supposed to differentiate the Application Center from the App Store in that regard&#8212;carriers can put the applications they want on their own little store.]]></description>
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<title>AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yahoo is continuing its marathon merger discussions with AOL, sources close to the negotiations have whispered to us, and a deal could happen as early as this month. Is this just a rehash of the reported discussions in February and then again in April? 

Yes and no.  It's clear that AOL's parent company, Time Warner, wants this deal more than ever. What isn't clear is whether AOL's assets will fix any of Yahoo's problems.

The deal structure that is currently being discussed is Yahoo's acquisition of AOL (content, services and advertising), minus their subscription dial up business. That plus a couple of billion dollars in cash from Time Warner gets them approximately a third of the combined entity. Time Warner's AOL headache is gone, and they have a stake in the world's most valuable chess piece in the Google/Microsoft search and advertising war.]]></description>
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<title>Tech Stocks Take It On The Chin As Market Continues To Freefall</title>
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It's a blood bath out there this morning.  The S&#038;P 500 is at a four-year low as the credit crisis keeps getting worse, despite the passage of the government's $700 billion bailout plan.  The market is taking tech stocks down with it.  Google is down 4 percent to $368, its lowest point since 2006.  Apple is down 6 percent to $91.  Microsoft is down nearly 5 percent to $25.  Amazon, Yahoo, eBay—all down.

Already as I write this, there seems to be somewhat of a rally going on in some of these stocks (particularly Google).  But if the economy falters, tech stocks won't be a safe haven for investors, even if they are cash-rich and not as exposed to the credit debacle as companies in other sectors.]]></description>
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<title>Ebay Spends More Than $1.2 Billion To Buy Bill Me Later And DBA.dk, And Lays Off 10% Of Employees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's a big day for eBay and CEO Jon Donahoe. The company is laying off 10% of its workforce, or about 1,000 employees plus several hundred temporary positions.  They will take a $70 million to $80 million restructuring charge around the layoffs, they said.

And they've made two acquisitions: Denmark's DBA for $380 million and Amazon-funded Bill Me Later for $820 million in cash and approximately $125 million in outstanding options.

Regarding the two acquisitions: We covered dba.dk, Denmarks' leading classifieds site, earlier this morning. Bill Me Later, the larger acquisition, is a service that let's ecommerce partners issue instant credit to buyers. You enter your birth date and last four digits of your social security number online, and it does a credit check on you in three seconds to determine whether you are worth the risk. Bill Me Later pays the merchant, and sends you a bill. The company has raised a ton of cash - at least $272 million - from Amazon, Azure Capital Partners, Chase Paymentech, Crosspoint Venture Partners, First Data Corp., and others.

eBay stock is at a 52 week low, we'll see how it does in the market today.]]></description>
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<title>GigaOm Ignores My Advice, Raises Another $4.5 Million</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Om Malik's GigaOm has raised another round of financing - $4.5 million - bringing the total amount the blog network has raised to $5.3 million. This round was led by Alloy Ventures. Previous investor True Ventures joined the round as well.

GigaOm, one of the first blog networks to raise money, has joined b5Media, Silicon Alley Insider, VentureBeat and Paid Content (acquired), among others, in raising capital. Holdout ReadWriteWeb is said to be testing the waters and looking for a round of funding as well. This is something I've recommended against, and we are one of the last large blog networks to remain independent.
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<title>Semantic Search Engine Hakia Now Says It Can Filter Results By How Credible They Are</title>
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On the Internet, nobody knows your site is a dog (to paraphrase the famous New Yorker cartoon).  At least not yet.  Semantic search engine Hakia wants to change that.  Ask.com is not the only search engine rolling out a redesign today.  So is Hakia, which is introducing tabs to its search interface.  One of the tabs is "credible sites."  These are results from sites that have been vetted by librarians and information specialists (although anyone can suggest credible sites).  So far, Hakia has built out a directory of credible sites around health, medical, and environmental issues.The "credible" results tend to come from government, university, medical, and news sites.

The "credible" results tend to come from government, university, medical, and news sites.  For instance, here are the credible results for "green buildings" and "common cold."

The idea is if your site is a dog, it won't get on the list.  While this white-list approach could improve the quality of results, it also seems way too easy to game.  Any spammer can try to get their site on the truthful and authoritative list. And they will.]]></description>
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<title>Review of True Enough by Slate&#x2019;s Farhad Manjoo</title>
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Friend of CrunchGear Scott McKenzie wrote a review of Farhad Manjoo's book True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society

Writing a book review after reading True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo is quite a fatalistic endeavor. You’re either going to like the book or you’ll despise it. But these comments won’t change your mind. They’ll enable you to feel good buying a book you already want or you’ll ridicule them for examining a book you already know sucks.

In True Enough, Manjoo, former manager of the Machinist blog at Salon.com now at Slate.com, examines how recent developments in technology have exacerbated the fractured nature of our antagonistic, skeptical, partisan, believe-whatever-outlandishness-you-want-to-believe-without-regard-for-proof society. He launches the book with the compelling case of three-year-old Eliza Jane Scovil.]]></description>
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<title>eBay Buys Denmark&#x2019;s DBA for $380 million</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reports are coming out of Denmark that eBay has acquired the company that runs DBA, the "eBay of Denmark" for 2.1 billion Kroner, or about $383 million (here's an article in Danish).

DBA, founded in 1995, attracts around a million visitors a month, and is a top ten Danish website. 275,000 new listings are added each month, according to its website.

The site is owned by Blue Avis, founded in 1981, which is a free newspaper with a circulation of around 500,000 per week. The company has 225 employees.]]></description>
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<title>A friendly reminder from CrunchGear to all iPhone users</title>
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Dear iPhone Users:

If you have jailbroken your first-gen or 3G iPhone, change your root password. If you have jailbroken your iPhone, your default root password is "alpine." This puts you at a distinct security disadvantage when connected to open networks as it allows the nefarious to browse your entire iPhone with impunity. This is pretty old news but I was just reminded how dangerous this is this morning when an iPhone showed up on my open wireless network and made itself "available" to my ministrations. If you have not jailbroken your iPhone, rest easy. You're not at risk.
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<title>Alert Thingy Looks To Be All-In-One Social Desktop Tool</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For those nuts out there like us that use just about every social website there is, the upcoming version 2 of Alert Thingy's AIR desktop application may be just what you need. The current version of the service supports Twitter, Flickr and Friendfeed. But version 2, which will be released this month, adds support for Digg, YouTube, Facebook, Jaiku, Pownce and Tumblr as well. Creator Jeremy Baines hasn't let us test the new version yet, but he did send us the teaser screen shot below. Can't wait to try it out.

Alert Thingy 2.0 should be released sometime this month. Get the current version here.
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<title>Get Yourself A Ticket To LeWeb</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you live in Europe or want an excuse to visit, join me at the upcoming LeWeb conference in Paris, produced by Geraldine and Loic Le Meur, on December 9-10. The conference program is up and the speakers list is top notch (although, oddly, mostly American). Tickets are here.

TechCrunch is a media partner (which means we'll be covering the event extensively), and we will be holding a party on the last night of the event as well.

They expect 1,500 or so attendees from 40 countries. See the video below, as well as Geraldine's attempt to explain the theme of the conference this year: Love. (meh)]]></description>
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<title>World Golf Tour Hits Hole-In-One With Rich Multiplayer Flash Game</title>
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Despite the fact that males have long accounted for the majority of online gamers, there is a surprising shortage of casual online games directed at men aged 25-45.  Beyond fantasy football and online poker there is little variety, with nearly every game failing to take advantage of advanced graphics or any interactivity beyond clicking "all-in".

World Golf Tour is looking to fill this gap.  The site has launched a free, full-featured Flash game that offers 3D graphics, an advanced physics engine, and user-customizable characters - it's not as good as EA's Tiger Woods series, but it's going to be close enough for most people.  The site launched a beta version last year, and is now introducing a new course, expanded customization options, and multiplayer support.
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<title>BlackArrow Raises $20 Million For On-Demand TV Advertising</title>
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TV advertising doesn't have to be just on TV.  That's the premise behind BlackArrow, a startup that caters to the cable industry by offering a way to place ads on broadband Web video, on-demand TV, and digital-video recorders (with unskippable ads).  The company is announcing a new $20 million round of funding from existing investors Cisco Systems., Comcast Interactive Capital, Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund and Polaris Venture Partners.

BlackArrow lets cable companies and TV networks show the same ads on the Web and on other platforms as they do on TV, making it easier to do bundled sales.]]></description>
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<title>MySpace Music Streamed Its Billionth Song &#x201C;A Few Days&#x201D; After Launch</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It took iTunes nearly three years to get to 1 billion song downloads. MySpace Music streamed a billion songs in just a few days after it launched on September 25. And while this isn't a fair comparison (songs on MySpace are free to stream; on iTunes users were paying $0.99 each), it's an incredible milestone.

What MySpace won't say for some reason is what the billionth song was, or when exactly it was streamed (which would be nice for trivia purposes). But they are confirming that the billionth stream was initiated sometime last week, just a few days after launch. They are also issuing a rather convoluted statement:]]></description>
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<title>Bad Karma At contentSutra.  Site Sputters After Being Bought By The Guardian.</title>
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Only three months after the British newspaper publisher The Guardian Group bought Rafat Ali's ContentNext Media and his collection of blogs for a reported $30 million, one of those blogs is sputtering badly.  The blog in question is contentSutra, the Indian counterpart to its bigger and better known brother, paidContent (both cover the business of digital media).  Until recently, contentSutra was ContentNext's second biggest blog, even beating out mocoNews. 

But if you look at it now, traffic has dropped off a cliff. Posts are sporadic, and mostly consist of news roundups or the occasional post from the editors at paidContent.  ContentNext and the Guardian are currently in talks with media companies in India for possible syndication and cross-promotion deals.  Rumors are going around that ContentNext has been in talks with HT Media (publisher of the Hindustan Times), 9.9 Media, and others.  We also received an unconfirmed tip that the Guardian is trying to unload contentSutra all together, but Rafat Ali says that is not true.

In any event, the site is not doing as well as it once did.  The editor who built up contentSutra for two years, Nikhil Pahwa, left at the end of May, and launched his own competing blog, Medianama, a month later on June 27.]]></description>
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<title>French Inspirational Stores inspires VCs for 10m Euros series B funding</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Did someone declare that startups would have a hard time raising money? Not for some of them. Paris Based Inspirational Stores will announce tomorrow a 10 million euros series B lead by Atlas Ventures and OTC asset Management. Inspirational Stores offers famous high-end brands without online retail activity a full turn-key solution to give them a second life on the web starting from web presence to full logistical and customer support service.]]></description>
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<title>Bitwine Acquired By Monster Venture Partners</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bitwine, a service launched in late 2006 that lets people ask questions to experts for a fee. Originally the service was tethered to Skype; more recently it began letting users connect to experts via Skype, other VoIP service, or normal phone lines. Experts can charge their clients either by the minute or a simple flat fee. Clients pay by PayPal and the money gets sent to experts as soon as the sessions end. The service is also available as a white label product.

Monster Venture Partners will announce tomorrow that they have acquired a controlling interest in the startup, and are replacing CEO Elad Baron with a former Expedia Exec, Ronnie Gurion (Baron will remain on as President and CTO). The acquisition price was not disclosed; Bitwine had previously raised $1.5 million in a round of financing from Crossbar Capital.]]></description>
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<title>If Sales Of Halloween Masks Could Predict The Election, Obama Would Be President</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Everyone has their favorite way to predict who will win the Presidential election.  Amazon likes to keep track of Halloween mask sales.  Supporters of either candidate can buy rubber masks of each to wear for Halloween.  So far, 57 percent of the masks Amazon has sold have been Obama masks, versus 43 percent for McCain masks.

The weird thing is that is right around the same number that McCain is getting in the latest tracking polls (Obama is tracking closer to 50 percent support).  If you want some real helpful stats and links, check out Google Director of Research Peter Norvig's Presidential Election 2008 FAQ page.  He's got links to all the latest polls, election prediction markets, truth scorecards, and studies measuring media bias.  

Or you can just buy a mask.  I'm not sure if they'll let you in the voting booth with that, though.  
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<title>Stocks Battered as Financial Crisis Spreads to Europe</title>
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<description><![CDATA[European bank troubles and a warning from SAP sent stocks tumbling once again on Monday.
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<title>Cox Cleared in Verizon VoIP Patent Suit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Unlike its earlier case against Vonage, Verizon's claim of patent infringement on Internet telephony against Cox hits the skids.
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<title>Yahoo, Google Delay Ad Deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As antitrust concerns persist, companies agree to postpone controversial search-advertising partnership.
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<title>Is .NET on Linux Finally Ready?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Novell releases Mono 2.0 with compatibility for Microsoft .NET 2.0 but Novell execs admit it still some catching up to do.
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<title>Arms Race Continues in SOA</title>
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<description><![CDATA[HP and IBM load up on new features while refining their focuses -- each aiming to cash in on the appeal for software-oriented architecture.
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<title>Portuguese Bank Offers &#x27;McCain/Obama&#x27; Deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Under novel interest scheme, investment returns rise and fall with candidates' political fortunes.
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<title>Ask.com Overhauls to Take On Search Leaders</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The latest version of the search engine includes a revamped interface and other features designed to simplify a user's quest for the right results.
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<title>IBM Puts More Tools in the Cloud</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Big Blue jazzes up its tools to help ISVs and clients collaborate and build their own cloud computing services.
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<title>eBay Plans Layoffs, Snaps Up &#x27;Bill Me Later&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The online auction site sees revenue sluggish and will lay off about 10 percent of its workers.
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<title>Google, Yahoo Search Ad Deal Put on Hold</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The two online advertising giants delay implementing the controversial agreement in response to regulatory concerns.
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<title>&#x27;Name Your Price&#x27; Textbooks Hit The Web</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Frustrated with exorbitant prices and publishing politics, Columbia marketing professor planning to offer electronic version of textbook for free.
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<title>Mundie: IT Should Be Taught in the Classroom</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Research and strategy chief said the U.S. needs to bring IT to the classroom.
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<title>Apple Loses Bid to Dismiss iPhone Monopoly Suit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Class action suit against Apple and AT&T Mobility will continue.
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<title>SEC Investigating Jobs&#x27; Heart Attack Story</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated. This is not a repeat from
August.
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<title>Google, the Efficient Datacenter Company</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The world's largest search company documents how it's able to squeeze
considerable energy savings out of its many datacenters.
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<title>Friendster Hitches Onto Facebook Platform</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Social-networking pioneer the latest to support both Facebook Platform and Open Social.
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<title>Researcher Claims 200K Web Sites at Risk</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Exploiters are offering crime as a service, from the SaaS model.
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<title>Technical Analysis: TED and the Dow Hold the Clues</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two signs to watch for evidence that the bailout plan is working.
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<title>HP Readying Competitor to iPhone, G1</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A month after launching a business-centric handset, the PC player aims for consumer market -- and takes on some new foes.
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<title>Bailout Bill Passes &#x26;#151; Now The Hard Part Begins</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Will the government's massive financial rescue plan work? The answer for technology companies and their investors won't be academic.
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