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Jul 30 2008 8:04am EDT

First Bytes: Dell, Microsoft, Twitter, Amazon.com...

-- Dell is testing a mobile music player it hopes may threaten the dominance of Apple's iPod. [WSJ]

-- Microsoft is working on a next-generation operating system, called Midori. The non-Windows system is being "architected" from the ground up, but don't tell Katie Hafner. [SD Times]

-- Micro-blogging phenom Twitter has turned into a user-generated newswire of sorts, as we saw with yesterday's California earthquake. [Twitter blog]

-- Amazon.com has launched a new payment service, called Checkout by Amazon, which allows consumers to use their Amazon payment info on other websites. [NYT]

-- Looks like there won't be any municipal Wi-Fi for the Big Apple. Instead, New York is looking at asking the big broadband providers to wire fiber-optics into low-income housing, a plan that will be discussed today by the city's Broadband Advisory Committee. [Center Networks]

-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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