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Fall meet opens at Churchill Downs

Sassy Image beat Decelerator by two lengths Sunday in the $115,900 Pocahontas as the 21-day fall meet opened at Churchill Downs.

Investors take AGA Medical's pulse ahead of IPO

Investors appear cautious ahead of AGA Medical Holdings Inc.'s initial public offering scheduled for Wednesday, as the potential blockbuster heart devices the company is developing are several years from reaching the market.

Talkin About Love wins Revidere Stakes

Talkin About Love took the lead in the deep stretch and drew off to win the $70,000 Revidere Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday, beating Cape Cod Girl by three-quarters of a length.

Quiet Harbor wins $48,000 feature at Monmouth Park

Quiet Harbor has won the $48,000 allowance feature at Monmouth Park, holding off Namaste's Wish by a neck.

Dublin takes Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga

Dublin took the lead with less than three-sixteenths of a mile to go and won the $300,000 Hopeful Stakes for 2-year-olds by two lengths Monday at Saratoga Race Course.

Shared Account wins Lake Placid

Shared Account has won the $150,000 Lake Placid Stakes by a length at Saratoga Race Course.

Court filings detail Michael Jackson film

Coming soon to a theater near you (if a judge agrees): a full-length motion picture filled with footage of Michael Jackson's last rehearsals.

Cocoa Beach takes De La Rose Stakes

Cocoa Beach, ridden by Ramon Dominguez, won the $73,850 De La Rose Stakes for fillies and mares by a neck over My Baby Baby on Wednesday at Saratoga Race Course.

Phil's Prospect wins Monmouth Park feature

Phil's Prospect overtook El Rocco in the stretch to win the $65,000 Tyro Stakes by a half-length at Monmouth Park on Sunday.

Ask the Moon wins Monmouth Park feature

Jockey Eddie Castro tied a Monmouth Park record by riding six winners on Sunday, including At the Disco in the $60,000 Bernie Dowd Handicap.

Dubious Miss wins by 2 lengths at Churchill Downs

Dubious Miss took control approaching the top of the stretch and drew away to win by two lengths over Spotsgone in the $60,747 feature race at Churchill Downs on Sunday.

Our Edge earns tough win at Monmouth Park feature

Our Edge outdueled Gone Astray in the stretch to win the $70,000 Coronado's Quest Stakes by a head at Monmouth Park on Saturday.

Gandolph Finch wins Churchill feature

Gandolph Finch took the lead leaving the backstretch to win Sunday's $49,280 Morluc Purse feature race at Churchill Downs by 1 3/4 lengths.

Lord Justice captures Monmouth Park feature

Lord Justice held off Santana Six in the stretch to score a half-length win in the $70,000 Spend a Buck Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday.

Hightap wins Churchill feature

Hightap turned back favored Luster to win Saturday's $111,500 Dogwood Stakes feature race for 3-year-old fillies at Churchill Downs.

Get Serious sets Monmouth Park turf record

Get Serious set a turf course record in winning the $70,000 Elkwood Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday, beating Carson Hall by 2 3/4 lengths.

Namaste's Wish wins Churchill feature

Namaste's Wish won the $52,700 feature race Thursday at Churchill Downs by three-quarters of a length.

Winter View takes her time, wins Keeneland feature

Winter View trailed in last place until the last quarter-mile, then pushed ahead to win the $150,000 Grade 3 Grey Goose Bewitch Stakes at Keeneland on Thursday.

Mr. Sidney wins Maker's Mark Mile at Keeneland

Lee Einsidler knew he had an eventual stakes-winning horse with Mr. Sidney, but it took a successful surgery, a switch to turf and a whole lot of patience to prove him right.

Plaxo Scales Back Automatic E-Mail Feature

Veteran e-mail users probably recall getting a message — or several — from someone they hardly know asking for updated contact information. These messages, derided by some as spam, helped Plaxo Inc. expand its contact management service.

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Exclusive: New Digg Voting Feature To Launch (Screenshot)
Source: TechCrunch

So what is it? It's not the "Real Time Digg" relaunch that will integrate data from Twitter and other sources.

Plus-size teen lit
Source: dailyfreeman.com

Like never before, teen lit is alive with plus-size characters who take on their school tormenters and get the guy, soaking up self-esteem as football heroes and big-girl models.

Inspired By Google, Microsoft Adds Voice Command Feature To Bing Search
Source: TechCrunch

It's been almost a year since Google introduced a feature that allows iPhone owners to search the Web using voice commands, and now Microsoft is getting into the game, too.

Anchors Away! Google Now Has Search Results Within Search Results
Source: TechCrunch

It's mildly annoying when I'm searching for something specific and Google returns results that are led by a huge overview page like the ones found on Wikipedia.

VOTE NOW! New Country Star
Source: http://www.newcountrystar.com/Music.php

VOTE NOW for Country's Newest Star! "It's My Lie" is climbing up Music Row and Billboard/Indiacator charts! Recently featured on WKCN and WSTH in Columbus, GA

Auto-Played Out: MySpace Music Streaming Drops 20%
Source: Fast Company

In mid-August, MySpace switched off the "auto-play" feature on its musicians' embedded audio players. The move was supposed to save MySpace money; every time one of those songs queued up, the company had to shell out royalty fees--as much as $10 million a month.

Report: Are iPhones Really Exploding All Over the World?
Source: Gizmodo

We have done some research, and it appears than the rumors of iPhones exploding all around the world—"world" as in "France, UK, and Belgium"—are greatly exaggerated. Here are all the known cases, and Apple's official answer.

Wikipedia to add editing safeguard for the living
Source: CNET.com

Wikipedia will soon be adding a feature to its English-language site that assigns an experienced editor to sign off on any changes to articles on living people, according to Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs the user-written online encyclopedia.

Delicious Freshens Up With Twitter, Which Its Founder Hates
Source: TechCrunch

Delicious was once one of the hottest social sites on the Internet. That's why Yahoo bought it in 2005. But it's weird now to even think about it as a social site, I get more of the utilitarian vibe from it these days. People still use it, but it's more of a repository.

AdWords Gets More Local
Source: TechCrunch

Google has made AdWords a little bit more local for businesses by allowing them to run location extensions on ads. According to Google, location extensions allow you to "extend" your AdWords campaigns by attaching your business address to your ads.

Go Sightseeing Without Leaving Yahoo Image Search
Source: TechCrunch

Even though Google gets more than three times the amount of traffic, Yahoo Search continues to add some pretty innovative features that its main competitor doesn't have.

Plot Multiple Searches On Google Maps
Source: TechCrunch

Google Maps is an incredibly useful tool for searching for pretty much anything in a specific geographic area, but I used to find it annoying that I would have to conduct multiple, separate searches in Google Maps for various items along a route or point of interest.

Google Health Now Lets You Upload Scanned Medical Documents
Source: TechCrunch

Whether it be bills, insurance forms, medical records or prescriptions, patients are often inundated with vast quantities of paper. Google Health is now trying to help you organize all of this paperwork in its platform.

Bing Comes To Hotmail
Source: TechCrunch

Microsoft has upgraded it's Quick Add feature in Hotmail, first announced earlier this year, with a number of features from their new Bing search engine.

Google Enhances Gmail Labeling With Drag And Drop Feature, Retires Right-Side Labels
Source: TechCrunch

Gmail is constantly adding features to help people become more organized. Today, Google has tweaked its Labels feature to add more functionality to the labels toolkit, helping users implement labels in a more organized way.

When It Comes To Search Trends, Google Is Lagging Behind Bing
Source: TechCrunch

As Microsoft tries to take away market share from Google with its new search engine, Bing, it is battling Google feature by feature. One feature where Microsoft seems to be edging out Google is with displaying recent search trends.

Google Maps Finally Gives Me The Feature I've Wanted From Day 1: What's Here?
Source: TechCrunch

I don't know about you, but when I look at an online map and see outlines of buildings, I get a little frustrated. I want to be able to click somewhere, and find out exactly what's there. And with a new feature in Google Maps, you can do just that.

I Won't Be Getting The iPhone 3G S

I just upgraded to the new OS with it's new search feature, forward/deleting individual text messages, landscape format in the mail and SMS apps is also a big boost. I will probably post later this week or early next week on my initial impressions but so far, it is good.

Ages After Yahoo And Google, Microsoft Finally Enables Web-Based IM In Hotmail
Source: TechCrunch

We'll say it right off the bat: what the hell took Microsoft so long? Years after Yahoo and Google integrated web IM features into their free webmail services (Yahoo Messenger in Yahoo Mail and Gtalk in Gmail, respectively), Redmond is finally enabling users to log into their H …

Google Similar Images First Look
Source: TechCrunch

A new 20% time Google project has just launched called, Google Similar Images. It's pretty self-explanatory, you search for an image and Google will find ones that it believes to be the same, or similar.

Yelp: Businesses may publicly respond to reviews
Source: CNET.com

Next week, Yelp is set to roll out a new feature that will allow business owners to respond to user reviews--both good and bad--of their establishments.

Google Adsense Says Goodbye To Video Units Feature
Source: TechCrunch

Google AdSense is eliminating its video units feature, which allows publishers to show YouTube content and video ads on their pages.

Gmail Gets A Panic Button
Source: TechCrunch

Have you ever sent an email, and just as it was going on its merry way, you realize you misspelled something or you sent it to the wrong person. This happens to me a lot on Gmail because sending an email is not always instant.

Is YouTube Bringing Back The Upload Status Bar?
Source: TechCrunch

Some things are so basic, there is just no excuse not to have them. For video-sharing sites, you'd think that a video upload status bar would be a standard feature—a progress bar that shows how much time you have left before your video is uploaded and ready for viewing.

Google Raises The Social Bar With New Friend Connect Feature
Source: TechCrunch

Google is now making it easier for Websites to surface Friend Connect features with what it is calling the Social Bar.

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