Around the Web. 8.22.08: Texting, iTunes and MySpace

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-- Goodbye, Olympics online: Hello, Democratic Convention online. Lots of live streaming should cure people frustrated by the Olympics’ Web coverage. NewTeeVee

-- R U Driving: A divided California Senate passes a bill to ban text messaging while driving. LAT

-- No iTunes in China: For days, people trying to access it have not been able to download music. Business Week

-- AT&T to the rescue: AT&T is offering home technology assistance, even for non-AT&T customers. USA Today

-- iPhone actor: Today, the iPhone goes on sale in Poland. Worried about demand, Orange, the mobile phone carrier for the iPhone, is paying people to stand in line. Reuters

-- iPhone flood: Apple plans to sell 40 million phones in the coming year. Business Week

-- Man-machine merge: Man and computer will be one in 2050, predicts Intel’s chief technology officer. Engadget

-- Music wars: Facebook may be the darling of social networks, but MySpace is king. And that may be because of music. And that’s before it launches its new, much-anticipated MySpace Music. TechCrunch

-- Yahoo sinks: Shares of Yahoo are trading below the price they were when Microsoft first began courting the company. NYT

-- Michelle Quinn