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Soon - Send money via Skype  —  Soon you will be able to send money via skype with integrated paypal in the new Skype Version 2.5.  —  Screenshot is from the eBay developers conference 2006 in Las Vegas.  —  [via]
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Send Paypal Via Skype Soon  —  The upcoming Skype version 2.5, seen at the eBay Developer's Conference, apparently will let you send or request money to other users directly from the client software.  Since eBay, Paypal, and Skype are all one big happy family, you'll be able to Paypal money easily …
Discussion: Digital Micro-Markets
New York Times:
Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks an Expansion of Power  —  Google is building two computing centers, top and left, each the size of a football field, in The Dalles, Ore  —  THE DALLES, Ore., June 8 — On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon …
Luca Filigheddu / Thoughts on VoIP, technology:
Thunderbird VoIP  —  Well, I can really say that Abbeynet Labs is releasing one "toy" after the other!  —  Following the great success of Firefox VoIP, Abbeynet Labs released today Thunderbird VoIP.  —  The user experience is almost similar to Firefox VoIP, but in this extension …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Sony's Spelling Blunders  —  A reader of our blogging cohorts, Kotaku, hit up Sony's Ginza showroom and found a comical spelling error on the displayed Playstation 3 controller.  Sony just can't seem to get anything right as of late.  We highly doubt the SERECT spelling error will make the shelves …
Discussion: Kotaku, Ubergizmo and iBloggedThis
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flock Raises New Venture Round, Launches Public Beta  —  It's been nearly eight months since Silicon Valley based Flock released a developer version of its Firefox based browser.  This evening they are releasing their first public beta version, available for Windows, Mac and Linux machines, at Flock.com.
Read/WriteWeb:
eBay Wiki - world's largest commercial wiki launched  —  eBay, in collaboration with JotSpot, has just released a new community wiki - making it almost certainly the world's largest wiki platform for a commercial website (Wikipedia is bigger, but it's non-commercial). eBay Wiki is described as …
Matt Casamassina / IGN:
Wii Before PS3  —  Sources say Nintendo to launch its new generation console before rival Sony does PS3.  —  June 12, 2006 - At the Electronics Entertainment Expo 2006 last May in Los Angeles, Sony announced that its forthcoming PlayStation 3 console would debut worldwide on November 17 of this year.
Sharon Noguchi / Mercury News:
Teens turn away from e-mail  —  SITES LIKE MYSPACE OFFERING `INSTANT' SOCIAL SCENE, FAST MESSAGING ATTRACT YOUNG USERS, STUDY SHOWS  —  When she gets home from school, 14-year-old Jennica Paho of San Jose switches on the computer and goes to MySpace.com.  ``It's very exciting to get new pictures …
Discussion: textually.org
Mary Jo Foley / Microsoft Watch:
Scoble The Exit Interview  —  Microsoft tech evangelist and alpha blogger Robert Scoble talks about everything from his tensest moments at Microsoft, to what Microsoft could have done to keep him, as he prepares to leave the Redmond software maker and join startup PodTech.Net.
Discussion: InsideMicrosoft
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Thecus shows five-drive NAS box  —  Computex 2006 N5200 supplants N4100  —  THECUS BROKE COVER on its newest NAS product at Computex, the N5200 NAS box.  I looked at the previous N4100 a while ago, and liked it a lot, with a few minor complaints.  It looks like Thecus has addressed most of those …
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
EBay integrates Skype into auctions  —  After months of anticipation, eBay announced tonight its pilot integration of Skype, the internet telephony giant it acquired last September for approximately $4.1 billion.  The announcement was made tonight at eBay Live!, eBay's annual community conference.
Discussion: Mathew Ingram
mobiledia.com:
David Beckham Becomes Motorola's Global Brand Ambassador  —  Motorola today announced the signing of David Beckham as a global brand ambassador.  The three-year collaboration with the professional footballer will kick-off with major activities across Asia including advertising appearances …
Jonny Evans / Macworld UK:
Needham & Co predicts Mac market explosion  —  Apple's move to Intel processors and its development of Boot Camp could triple its market share in the home markets, according to Needham & Co analyst Charles Wolf.  —  He describes the dual boot and Intel move as maybe: "Conjuring the magic that could double its market share."
Discussion: The Apple Blog
USA Today:
Microsoft goes after, zaps infections to PCs  —  SEATTLE — EDITOR'S NOTE: This story, originally published Monday, misstated the number of Windows PCs scanned.  The company scanned 270 million computers in a 15-month period and found malicious programs on 5.7 million PCs.
seobuzzbox.com:
Bill Slawski Interview  —  Bill Slawski is one of the lesser known SEO's, he has a blog called SEO by the Sea.  His writing can best be described as thorough and honest.  Bill often digs deep into patents and other things that most would find too difficult to grasp.
 
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Scott M. Fulton, III / tgdaily.com:
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