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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg 3.0 To Launch Monday: Exclusive Screenshots and Stats — Digg 3.0 will launch Monday, June 26, in the morning PST. The launch is being announced this evening, and Digg has made a number of screen shots available to me which are included in this post.
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Digg 3.0 expands beyond tech — This Monday Digg will release the next version of the enormously popular community news site digg.com. Mike Arrington and I did a TalkCrunch podcast with Digg's co-founder and Chief Architect Kevin Rose and CEO Jay Adelson, in which we discussed Digg's evolution …
Leslie Walker / Washington Post:
Online News With a New Angle — To see who will create the Internet newscast of the future, look into a mirror. — You and millions of other readers are being cast as Internet news anchors by a fresh crop of Web sites that may well represent the future of news.
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid:
Digg v3 Party Photos — On Monday Digg will be releasing version 3 of their website, so tonight they had a small party at Anu in San Francisco to celebrate the occasion. Here are a few photos, including some screenshots from v3. For more on the Digg v3 launch, check out TechCrunch.
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Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Samsungs Backpedals on Combo HD DVD/Blu-ray Player — Despite Samsung middle manager Kim Du-Hyon speaking out on Tuesday about how the company is considering a universal player, now Samsung appears to be backpedaling away from embracing the idea of a high-definition disk player that will handle both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats.
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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Testing Ad Supported Premium Video — Google is running a test offering about 2,000 premium videos available for free streaming viewing, inserting a persistent banner-type ad at the top of the screen and showing an additional post-roll video ad once the premium content has finished streaming.
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Is Testing Ads for Video Service — Google, the search engine company, said yesterday that it had started testing advertisements on its video site, matching a capability long offered by other major Internet sites. — Until now, Google Video had offered programmers …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Torrentspy names alleged MPAA hacker — A month after accusing the Motion Picture Association of America of conspiring to commit data theft, the operators of a file search engine presented more details regarding the alleged relationship between the MPAA and a man who admits hacking the small company's network.
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Paul Briggs / MobileWhack.com:
F88 Wrist Watch Mobile Phone — CEC Corp in China specially made this wrist watch phone to one of the China's most famous ping pong player, the GSM F88 Watch. It is available to the market at the price of 8,888Yuan which is about USD1,111. F88 is a watch with built-in mobile phone capabilities which have 26K colors CSTN display.
Lee Hollaar / ipi.org:
A Bad Trade: Will Congress Unwittingly Repeal the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Violate Our Trade Treaties? — Synopsis — In his recent IPI Ideas paper "Will Congress Circumvent the DMCA?," Richard Epstein notes how the "other purposes" of Rep. Boucher's (D-VA) H.R. 1201 …
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Maxthon: China's hip browser — Web surfers in China frustrated by censorship in search engines are increasingly turning to a little-known Internet browser with a big following in the Middle Kingdom. — Maxthon, a browser made by a tiny Beijing company of the same name …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
House panel OKs global rules for U.S. Net firms — update A congressional bill that would impose strict new obligations on American tech companies doing business with "Internet-restricting countries" like China cleared its first hurdle to becoming law on Thursday.
ZDNet:
Novell ditches top execs … Jack Messman has been sacked as Novell chief executive, as the company looks to speed up its Linux strategy — The board of Novell has dismissed two top executives, including chief executive Jack Messman,as part of a management shake-up at the software and networking firm.
Lakshmi Sandhana / Wired News:
Next Game Controller: Your Phone — Researchers are turning cell phones into motion-detection game controllers similar to Nintendo's new Wii device. — In a recent demonstration, the Human Interface Technology Laboratory in New Zealand used a pair of Nokia Series 60 phones in a game of AR Tennis.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft swims upstream on security — Microsoft's security ambitions don't stop with the consumer. The company also has an eye on the multibillion-dollar enterprise security market. — Now that it's launched the Windows Live OneCare security service for consumers …
