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  Is EarthLink's failed
  muni Wi-Fi a blessing?

  Wireless Philadelphia, the nonprofit charged with providing broadband bundles to low-income families in Philadelphia, may be better off in the long run without EarthLink.

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  'Spore': Behind
  the prototyping

  Many of the components of Will Wright's highly anticipated evolution game started out as small concept projects that are now available to the public.
  • GameSpot's 'Chrome' review
  • Why EA is smiling today

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• iPhone to get EA's 'Spore Origins'

  The game that lets players design creatures and see them through a digital evolution is coming to Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.

  (Posted in Apple by Jonathan Skillings)

• Assessing the value of small wind-turbines

  Interest in roof-mounted wind turbines is spreading, even though their installation is hardly ever recouped in electricity savings.
  (From The New York Times)

• Comcast appeals FCC traffic-blocking ruling

  Broadband provider challenges ruling that Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent traffic was unlawful.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Steven Musil)

• For game consoles, an $8 billion Net target

  Revenue possibilities for games continue to grow, at least for the big console manufacturers, according to a new report.

  (Posted in Negative Approach by Dave Rosenberg)

• Timing rumors surface for AMD plant spin-off

  Rumors persist that Advanced Micro Devices is planning to spin off all or part of its manufacturing operations.

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

• McCain talks up oil drilling, green energy

  Republican presidential candidate says we need to drill new wells now, while supporting innovative transportation technologies and "the use of wind, tide, solar and natural gas."
  • Republican VP candidate pushes oil over clean tech
  • What you can--and can't--find about Palin on the Net
  • Audio slideshow at Republican convention
  • Full coverage of the RNC
  • Clean-tech group forms to support Obama

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Declan McCullagh)

• Dell planning to ditch factories

  CFO Brian Gladden has said the company has "more work to be done" to improve profitability. Now The Wall Street Journal reports that Dell is planning to lower costs by selling off its factories.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Dan Farber)

• Microsoft begins big ad push

  Microsoft's multi-year push, estimated at $300 million, begins with a spot featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld aired during Thursday's NFL game.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Michael Moore plans Net-only film premiere

  Filmmaker plans to premiere his latest documentary exclusively on the Internet for free, forgoing the traditional theatrical release.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Steven Musil)

• See Chrome's inner workings--and an Easter egg

  Google's new browser shows a wealth of detail for programmers building Web sites or the open-source browser itself. And a mystery: what technology underlies the Easter egg?
  • 10 things we'd like to see in Chrome
  • Full Chrome coverage

  (Posted in Business Tech by Stephen Shankland)

• 120GB Zune coming to a store near you

  The device, which was just recently confirmed to be in the works by Microsoft, has popped up on a store shelf in Atlanta.

  (Posted in Crave by Erica Ogg)

• Microsoft Research gives photo help, for a price

  Redmond's research arm has a new tool for creating photo collages, but unlike past products from the labs, consumers have to pay for AutoCollage.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Police monitor Web sex ads amid pol conventions

  Law enforcement agencies and nonprofits turn to Craigslist and other classified ad sites during political conventions to hunt prostitution or human sex trafficking.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)
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