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  Nokia's Netbook gamble

  PC companies have already stepped on Nokia's smartphone turf. Now, Nokia's making a move of its own, taking them on in the Netbook market with its Booklet 3G.
  • Video: Nokia's Booklet 3G

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  Microsoft patches Windows 7 holes

  In its biggest Patch Tuesday ever, Redmond stitches up a pair of Windows 7 holes, along with fixing up a number of zero-day flaws elsewhere.
  • Adobe fixes 28 holes in Reader, Acrobat

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• Intel earnings beat Wall Street predictions

  The chipmaker's third-quarter revenue comes in at $9.4 billion, beating analysts' expectations, which hovered at just more than $9 billion.
  • Intel CEO remarks on Netbooks, Windows 7

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Google's Postini suffers prolonged e-mail delays

  Service was disrupted for a better portion of Tuesday on some portions of Google's Postini e-mail security service, with customers reporting significant delays in e-mail delivery.

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• Still hoping to sell music by the month

  As CD sales continue to plummet, and the music industry searches for a profitable future, entrepreneurs with various approaches say they believe they can finally make online music subscriptions work.
  (From The New York Times)

• Growth of Facebook leaves MySpace in dust

  Facebook's share of the social networking market soars to nearly 60 percent, while MySpace's hold has been cut in half, according to Hitwise.

  (Posted in Media Maverick by Greg Sandoval)

• Microsoft taps the 'Family Guy' to sell Windows 7

  Software maker to announce partnership with Fox that will see the new operating system take center stage during a comedy show led by the animated series' voices.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Steve Jobs bests Zuckerberg on teens' fave list

  Apple's co-founder and CEO beats out Oprah Winfrey and Mark Zuckerberg as the most admired entrepreneur among teenagers, according to a study released by Junior Achievement.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Steven Musil)

• EFF: TI calculator hackers didn't violate DMCA

  Texas Instruments wrongly demanded that enthusiasts remove posts about digital keys used to put a new OS on their calculators, the foundation argues.

  (Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland)

• Laser gunship hits moving ground target

  The damage is modest, but a trial run by Boeing's Advanced Tactical Laser still marks a small victory for directed-energy weapons.

  (Posted in Cutting Edge by Jonathan Skillings)

• Blockbuster OnDemand lands on TiVo

  DVR maker says Blockbuster OnDemand is available to TiVo Series2, Series3, HD, and HD XL owners. Movies will be priced from $2.99 up.

  (Posted in The Digital Home by Don Reisinger)

• Twitter enlists users to help fight spam

  Microblogging service adds a "Report as spam" button as another way to try to combat spam accounts.

  (Posted in Webware by Don Reisinger)

• iMovie update reveals new Apple video format

  In minor update to iMovie, Apple unveils a major new video format it has developed. Dubbed iFrame, it produces much smaller file sizes, while maintaining high quality.

  (Posted in Apple by Jim Dalrymple)

• Yahoo settles pay-per-click fraud suit

  As part of a class-action settlement, Yahoo plans to create a new ad distribution option that will give advertisers more control over where ads purchased through Yahoo appear.

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• Want good health in your golden years? Keep working

  People who work after retiring enjoy better physical and mental health, particularly when they continue to work in their original fields, a new national study finds.

  (Posted in Health Tech by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore)
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