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Jul 23 2008 12:00am EDT

Last Bytes: Google, Amazon.com, San Fran Muni-Hacker Update...

-- Google formally launched Knol, its repository of "authoritative" articles on specific topics. Think Wikipedia with stronger moderation. [Google]

-- Google chief executive Eric Schmidt thinks the success of Apple's iPhone is good for the search juggernaut. Did he mention that he sits on Apple's board? [TechLand]

-- Amazon.com reported earnings that handily beat Wall Street estimates today...until you take into account a one-time $53 million non-cash gain from the sale of European DVD rental assets. Then the results are in line with expectations. [Tech Trader Daily]

-- San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom somehow got muni-hacker Terry Childs to surrender the password to the city's crippled computer network during an "unusual" jail house visit earlier this week. The system is back up now. [NYT]

-Sam Gustin. □

Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.

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