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Achronos / bungie.net:
Halo 3 Announced — Bungie Shocks World with Surprise Game Announcement — Bungie announces Halo 3, the third and final game in the Halo Trilogy. Halo 3 will be released for Microsoft's Xbox 360 in 2007. — The game was revealed to the world at the Microsoft press conference at Grauman's Chinese Theater, in Hollywood, CA.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Engadget & Joystiq's live coverage of Microsoft's Xbox 360 E3 event — 2:42 pm - Koolaid blood spills from corpses, buildings demolished, apocalypse. The Gears of War trailer is the very first thing shown, and the applause is decent, but not deafening. CliffyB onstage now, giving us a playable demo of Gears of War.
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Microsoft:
Bill Gates Declares 10 Million-Unit Head Start for Xbox 360 and Outlines Future of Interactive Entertainment — Surprise appearance by Microsoft company founder wows gamers with unified platform vision and first look at "Halo 3." — LOS ANGELES — May 9, 2006 —Microsoft Corp. Chairman …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Hands on with the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive — Microsoft threw a little pool-side party today in downtown Hollywood after their press event let out. We were naturally in attendance, and took a chance to fool around a bit with the Xbox 360's new peripherals — well, the ones they let us touch, anyway.
Peter Bowes / BBC:
Warner to start movie downloads — Warner Brothers is to start selling film downloads via the internet using the same technology once blamed for helping people swap illegal copies. — The Hollywood studio has reached a deal with the web company Bit Torrent, which uses peer-to-peer technology …
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John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:On the plus side, you won't waste eight hours unwittingly downloading …
Kareem Mayan / Kareem Mayan's Weblog:
MySpace Launches IM — I just got word from the MySpace IM product manager that I could post this to my blog. — MySpace has soft-launched its desktop instant message client. — It's a really simple, clean-looking implementation that feels very solid and exposes the right level of functionality up front.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Squidoo: Seth Godin's Purple Albatross? — Seth Godin is an exceptional marketing consultant. I've read all his books - my favorite is Purple Cow. I routinely bring up his ideas when talking to companies about the best way to get media and early adopter attention: build an exceptional …
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Susan / The 360:
Google and eBay in Ad Industry Shoot-Out — A consortium of some of the biggest advertisers in the United States has plans to move the ad industry out the era of the cattle exchange and into the internet age. They're looking for someone to build an ADSDAQ — an online exchange similar …
USA Today:
TiVo hooks up with Internet video and ad sales service — NEW YORK — The wall separating televisions from Internet video is about to lose a few more bricks. — TiVo will unveil Tuesday a deal that will enable about 400,000 subscribers who have their machines connected via broadband Internet access …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
EarthLink: Bells must share broadband networks — WASHINGTON—Federal regulators acted illegally by not forcing the Bell companies to share their broadband networks with competitors, EarthLink told a federal appeals court on Tuesday. — The 20-minute oral arguments before the U.S. Court …
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c-span.org:
C-SPAN Statement Regarding Colbert Video — Since shortly after the event, C-SPAN made its coverage of Stephen Colbert's performance, along with President Bush's presentation and the entire White House Correspondents' Dinner, available for viewing free via its Web site www.c-span.org …
AppleInsider:
Apple MacBook, iPod changes due later this month — Apple Computer's highly anticipated line of Intel-based MacBook consumer notebooks may not turn up on Tuesday as several online reports and analysts have suggested, AppleInsider has learned. — Although Apple reportedly began manufacturing …
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Robin Good / Independent Publishing News …:
Advertising Search Becomes A Reality: TiVo Product Watch — Advertising search allows consumers to voluntarily seek and access personally selected commercial information (ads) on product and services they are interested in. — TiVo, the company that pioneered a brand new category …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Engadget & Joystiq's live coverage of Nintendo's Wii E3 event — 12:15 am - We're all seated and situated. The theater is huge with three mezzanines and 3,400 seat capacity. — 12:17 am - We're sitting in the Kodak theater waiting for the press corps, VIPs, and assorted industry folk to file in, ever so slowly.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
How deep is the online-ad well? — The memory still makes some in the financial community cringe. — During the dot-com boom, more than a few Internet start-ups planned to support free Internet services—and theoretically turn a profit—by selling online advertisements. — Needless to say, for many it didn't work.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Even Bells Need Net Neutrality — By Daniel Berninger Definition: Net Neutrality - Internet access without discrimination by use or user except as required for network management purposes. — The FCC's decision to relieve AT&T and Verizon of net neutrality requirements …
