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Wednesday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 2:35 AM on July 29, 2009

Wednesday

Microsoft, Yahoo agree on ad partnership: source
Monster merger: IBM buys SPSS for approx. $1.2 billion in cash deal
TG Daily reports Psystar to fight Apple with "guns blazin’"
Taiwan's Foxconn agrees on suicide compensation
Gizmodo reports Foxconn worker had 16 iPhone prototypes, girlfriend given MacBook
Fudzilla reports Acer's 11.6" Timeline 1810T listed in Germany
TG Daily reports Intel finds itself in Daniel's Den over battery life
Expreview reports Intel halts shipments of 34nm SSD due to firmware defects
Intel introduces new RAID controllers
X-bit labs on Intel's Clarkdale: 3.46GHz clock-speed, 32nm process tech, launch in Q1 2010
NordicHardware reports LucidPort announces USB 3.0 to SATA bridge chip
and memory makers offering DDR2 + DDR3 packages to stabilize prices
Ars Technica reports Apple eats up Toshiba flash, but maybe not 1GHz ARM for iPod
C|Net reports Verizon challenges Apple with Vcast app store
The Consumerist reports AT&T charges you a fee for getting a discount
Studios demand court shutter The Pirate Bay
Ars Technica reports Tenenbaum P2P trial features prophetic warnings of doom
DRM for news? Inside the AP's plan to "wrap" its content
Engadget reports Barnes & Noble switches to free WiFi, just the thing for your e-book reader
The New Yorker on Kindle and the future of reading
TechFlash on how Apple could take tablets beyond Microsoft's PC 'niche'
Here's the Bing contest winner

Software

Microsoft security bulletin MS09-034: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer (972260)
Microsoft security bulletin MS09-035: Vulnerabilities in Visual Studio Active Template Library
Expreview reports Nvidia discusses DirectX Compute in Windows 7 (more here)
Microsoft, Intel design Windows 7 to be speedy
SuperSite for Windows has Windows 7 product editions comparison: RTM update
TR alum wumpus on Windows 7: The best Vista Service Pack ever
Microsoft privately testing Office 2010 streaming-download model
Microsoft releases second, 'experimental' version of .Net 4 Beta 1
Whatever happened to the Conficker worm?
Engadget reports Google Voice app GV Mobile ported
to jailbroken iPhones, web app version in the works
JRE 6 update 15 release notes
CCleaner v2.22.968
VLC 1.01 is out

Gaming

Shacknews: Ubisoft's Guillemot breaks down piracy by platform;
new tool will 'tremendously' decrease PC piracy
Joystiq reports Ubisoft's Guillemot explains Splinter Cell, Red Steel delays
Xbox 360 Dash Preview invites in the mail
Engadget reports Sony's red and blue DualShock 3 controllers land in October, love this country
Digital Trends on Xbox 360 media server setup
Review: GP2X Wiz runs retrogaming rings around mainstream rivals
China bans online games which glamorize gangs
TG Daily reports Nintendo clueless about "hardcore" Wii games
C&C 4 info from Gamestar Magazine
Addiction therapists signing up to World of Warcraft
The StarCraft II no LAN controversy: A closer look
Shacknews on weekly PC sales: Digital distribution outlets
CVG: Downloadable content in decline?
Steam news: Bionic Commando and Bionic Commando Rearmed now available
TestFreaks review Wii Sports Resort
The TechZone reviews Let's Tap (Wii)

Systems and storage

Switched On: Compelling computing can keep netbook's niche
Digital Trends reviews Asus Eee 1008HA Seashell
Hardware Canucks review Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3
XSReviews on MSI 770 C45 motherboard
TweakTown has Runcore factory tour video: Production of an SSD
and 256GB Crucial M225 SSD review
Ninjalane reviews QNAP TS-219P NAS