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Adobe has reportedly landed a Flash deal with MLB.com upending Microsoft’s Silverlight.

Sprint continues to lose customers to other carriers as the company reported a third quarter subscriber tally of 50.5 million, down from 54 million a year ago.

The company lost 1.3 million wireless customers on a net basis in the third quarter including 1.1 million post-paid.

AOL’s dial-up business may not be worth a little more than expected–especially if Liberty Media and EarthLink get into a bidding skirmish for Time Warner’s most unloved asset.

Let’s be clear: AOL’s dial-up business is dying, but it still throws off cash and still has 8.1 million subscribers.

Netflix said Friday it ended the second quarter with more than 8.4 million subscribers, up 25 percent from a year ago, and spent less money acquiring those customers.

Those two factors added up to better than expected quarterly results and an improved outlook.

Verizon Wireless' plan to buy regional cell phone company Alltel will make it the largest cell phone operator in the country with more than 80 million subscribers.

But is a behemoth Verizon good for consumers?

On this week’s EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about the looming duopoly that’s forming between AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless, Jerry Yang’s prospects at Yahoo and next week’s Steve Jobs’ sermon.

First up, Verizon Wireless acquired Alltel for $28 million or so and now has 80 million subscribers to top AT&T Wireless’ subscriber count.

Deutsche Telekom is reportedly mulling a bid for Sprint Nextel and plans to combine it with its T-Mobile unit.

The move, reported by the Wall Street Journal, is interesting on a few fronts. For starters, a combined Sprint-T-Mobile would be the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. with roughly 82 million subscribers.

AP - Online DVD rental leader Netflix Inc. is suffering a technology breakdown that's knocked out its Web site, inconveniencing its 7.5 million subscribers.

Notable headlines:
Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com rolls out customer data sharing; eyes 1 million subscribers.

Dan Farber: SAP blesses the iPhone. Michael Krigsman: SAP Influencer Summit: SOA grows up
David Berlind: Did the W3C acknowledge CDF’s potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft starts rolling out more OOXML translators.
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