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- Real-estate site expands ad deal with newspapers
(AP)
AP - Real-estate Web site Zillow.com is expanding its partnership with 282 newspapers to give national advertisers new ways to reach local markets, changes that the news companies hope will allow them to raise their fees for online ads.
- Esquire magazine unveils cover with electronic ink
(AP)
AP - Although readers keep shifting to the Internet, Esquire magazine's editor is sure print isn't dying, and he aims to prove it Monday by unveiling a 75th-anniversary issue with a cover that features electronic ink.
- Going, going gone: JetBlue auctions flights on Web
(AP)
 AP - JetBlue Airways Corp. is auctioning off more than 300 roundtrip flights and six vacation packages this week on eBay, with opening bids set between 5 and 10 cents.
- Old Web idea of micropayments finally finds a home
(AP)
AP - Seventeen-year-old Alexis Corocan spends about $5 a month on clothes, accessories and eyes of various shapes and shades for her online persona on IMVU, a popular Internet hangout.
- TI does energy efficiency on a chip
(CNET)
CNET - The key to energy efficiency in everything from hybrid cars to air conditioners is smarter chips, according to Texas Instruments.
- Yahoo search services arrive on AT&T mobile phones
(Reuters)
 Reuters - AT&T Inc is set to begin
featuring Yahoo Inc search services on the Internet menu of
mobile handsets used by its base of up to 70 million U.S.
customers, the companies said on Monday.
- EIC Squared: Chrome, iPods, and a Dell-Salesforce union
(CNET)
CNET - On this week's EIC Squared podcast ZDNet's Larry Dignan and I discuss Google's latest disruption in the Web 2.0 field, the Chrome browser, as well as Apple's product launch event on September 9.
- Trends & Innovations - Friday
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Teachers and professors are starting to use cell phones as educational tools in their classrooms, after previously banning them as distractions. Abilene Christian Univ. in Texas is giving two-thirds of its freshmen a smart phone that they're expected to use for receiving handouts in class and brainstorming. About 100 high school freshmen in N.C. are using phones during their math classes in a program sponsored by handset gear maker Qualcomm. They use the phones to play math games, network among themselves on problems and watch animation showing problems being solved.
- Chrome Hints Google Aims To Become 'Big Brother'
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - What's behind Google's release of its new Chrome browser? While the software boasts some impressive technology, does Google seriously mean to reopen the browser wars, even against its open-source partner Mozilla?
- Adobe sets Genesis mashup pilot
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Adobe Systems in October plans to launch a private pilot program for its "Genesis" mashup technology, which provides a desktop client uniting multiple tasks in a single workspace.
- IBM reworks storage strategy to tame flood of data
(Reuters)
 Reuters - IBM is making a
major push on Monday to upgrade computer storage products and
services it offers customers struggling to manage mountainous
piles of data being created inside their organizations.
- EA's Spore aims to create new worlds, businesses
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc's
creature-building game "Spore" offers players a chance to
develop new worlds -- and maybe even new lines of business for
the video game maker.
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