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Aug 27 2008 5:37pm EDT

Last Bytes: Cisco, iPhone, GNR, TiVo, more...

- Cisco has bought an email and "calendaring" startup called PostPath for $215 million. [GigaOm]

- A British advertising watchdog has yanked an iPhone ad for being "misleading." [Portfolio.com]

- The federales have busted a 27-year-old blogger for posting songs online from Guns N' Roses' upcoming album. [Portfolio.com]

- TiVo reported a quarterly profit -- only the third in its 11-year history -- on lower than expected marketing costs. [AP]

- Somehow, a computer virus made it onto the International Space Station. Great. [BBC]

-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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