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Around the Web 9.22.08: SlotMusic debate, Microsoft stock buyback, iPhone adapter recall

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-- Records, 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, iTunes ... SlotMusic cards? SanDisk has lined up deals with the four major record labels to sell micro-SD cards packed with music and other goodies. LAT

-- Om Malik says SlotMusic is destined to fail. GigaOm

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-- Peter Kafka says it’s so crazy it just might work -- if the price is right. Silicon Alley Insider

-- Apple has recalled millions of iPhone power adapters, like the one pictured at right. Fortune

-- If companies are claiming to have found online cancer cures, um, they probably haven’t. LAT

-- McAfee offers $465 million for Secure Computing, which offers enterprise security services. VentureBeat

-- Betting on itself, Microsoft plans to spend as much as $40 billion to buy back its stock. It’s also boosting its dividend. PaidContent

-- An ominous sign? General Motors is cutting back on all advertising, including digital. Ad Age

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-- Watch where you’re going, texter! NYT

-- Seinfeld, we hardly knew ye. CNet

-- The banking crisis buys Yahoo some breathing room as it tries to decide its next move. All Things Digital

-- The Google-Yahoo advertising partnership is nothing to worry about. NYT

-- The Google-Yahoo advertising partnership is something to worry about. TechCrunch

-- What does Google know about its Chrome browser users? Mercury News

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-- Chris Gaither

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