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12:20 PM ET, March 30, 2007

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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Apple's iPhone will be released on June 11  —  Ever since Steve Jobs' keynote at the Macworld Expo in January, we've known that the iPhone is being released sometime in June.  But we haven't known exactly when.  —  Now Cingular is confirming that the release date will be June 11.
Business Week:
Is Google Too Powerful?  —  As the Web giant tears through media, software, and telecom, rivals fear its growing influence.  Now they're fighting back  —  It's the year 2014, and Googlezon, a fearsomely powerful combination of search engine Google Inc. (GOOG ) and online store Amazon.com Inc. …
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Video Games Conquer Retirees  —  CHATAWA, Miss. — For 133 years the School Sisters of Notre Dame have lived here in a thick forest just up the hill from the Tangipahoa River.  In a modest but stately compound called St. Mary of the Pines, 52 retired members of this Roman Catholic order spend …
Jose Nazario / Security to the Core:
Today's Other Malware Threat: IE7.0.exe  —  Lest you think that the ANI thing was the only thing going on today, you'd miss the other part of today's entertainment.  There's a new Trojan spam going around trying to entice you to download MSFT IE7.0 Beta 2 (never mind that it's been released).
Discussion: Zero Day and Digital Inspiration
Susan Crawford blog:
Why I Voted For XXX  —  The ICANN Board voted today 9-5, with Paul Twomey abstaining, to reject a proposal to open .xxx.  This is my statement in connection with that vote.  I found the resolution adopted by the Board (rejecting xxx) both weak and unprincipled.
Mark Vanderbeeken / Core77 Design Studio Bullitts:
c,mm,n, the world's first open-source car  —  Earlier this week c,mm,n (website in Dutch), the world's first open-source car, was revealed at AutoRAI, the Amsterdam car show.  The initiative and vision behind the c,mm,n (pronounced "common") comes from the "Stichting Natuur en Milieu" …
Stace / Unwired View:
LOOK OUT GOOGLE.  NOKIA IS WORKING ON ITS OWN MOBILE SEARCH ENGINE!  —  With the rumors about Google Phone running wild, what is poor Nokia to do?  Well, mobile search is in pretty embryonic stage right now.  So if Google want's it's own smartphone, we want our own search engine, says Nokia.
Discussion: GigaOM and Gizmodo
David Craddock / Shacknews:
Alex St John Interview  —  Shack: Tell us a bit about yourself, and why you thought PC gaming should move from DOS to Windows.  —  Alex St John: I used to work for Microsoft several years ago, and I was originally hired to handle their publishing and printing architecture.
Business Week:
NewTube Is Just The Beginning  —  Give it up for NBC Universal and News Corp. (NWS ), because in late March the two old-media titans made the biggest splash for a nonexistent product since the iPhone.  —  Of course, Steve Jobs has a couple of prototype phones that a lucky few can dandle.
Michael Kwun / Washington Post:
An End Run on Copyright Law  —  In a March 24 op-ed, Viacom's general counsel, Michael Fricklas, defended his company's lawsuit against YouTube and Google.  Resisting the urge to litigate this case in public, we still thought it useful to reply briefly.  —  Viacom's lawsuit is an attack …
Everything USB News, Reviews, Tips:
Belkin In-Desk USB Hubs and iPod Dock Fill the Grommet Holes  —  Belkin has introduced a new and really cool line of in desk hubs that are designed to slip into those grommet holes on most desks.  The trio of products includes two USB hubs and an iPod Dock.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
T9space Reports 4 Million Pageviews a Month  —  We were first contacted by T9space a few months ago, when there was no web interface to speak of and just a simple mobile site that helped you view your MySpace profile on a phone.  In fact, it entered the market before many social sites committed to a mobile strategy of their own.
Aaron Swartz / Raw Thought:
Everything Good is Bad For You  —  While we were developing Reddit, we always used to run into people who'd recognize us and come up to say hi.  "Oh, wow," they'd say to us.  "I can't tell you how much your site has killed my productivity.  I check it a hundred times every day."
Discussion: pc4media
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Project Agape: Sean Parker To Apply Virality To Altruism  —  Yesterday I sat down with Sean Parker at his offices at the Founders Fund in San Francisco to see a demo of his new and yet-to-be-named startup (the working name for the project is Project Agape).  —  Parker is a larger …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
The Real Scrapblog is Here... Finally  —  Scrapbook maker, Scrapblog strutted its stuff at the We Media conference last month, went off the grid, and finally came back online today.  —  Scrapblogs are Flash-based slide shows made up of pages of photo or video layouts you can jazz up with a myriad of designs and effects.
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Embracing the chaos: and recognizing opportunities
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
MORE ON GOOGLECLICK: IT WILL BE FREE, AND PARTNERS WORRY
Tom / New Scientist Technology Blog:
Dyson preparing a Roomba killer?
Discussion: Gadget Lab, Gizmodo and Slashdot
Steve O'Hear / The Social Web:
Amsterdam sold for $50,000  —  IN FOCUS » See more posts on: Second Life
Discussion: 606Tech
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Treo 755p for Sprint in the wild
Paul Kapustka / NewTeeVee:
Verizon Creates Its Own TV Channel
Discussion: Verizon and rexduffdixon.com
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
BlogRovr Fetches Content From Your Favorite Blogs
Acarvin / Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth:
Using Twitter to Fight Cyberbullies
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
First Optimus Maximus prototype key revealed
Discussion: Gadget Lab
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Inside AdWords:
Pay-per-action beta — your questions answered
Discussion: WebProNews and Clickety Clack
Read/WriteWeb:
P2P: Introduction and Real World Applications
David Lenehan / Read/WriteWeb:
Top Irish Web Apps
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
OLPC manufacturer to sell $200 laptop in developed countries
Discussion: TeleRead, Slashdot and digg
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
SellABand Music Model Gaining Traction
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Fortune 500s Unwittingly Become Spammers
Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Author apologizes but fails to fix Panda worm
Discussion: Zoli's Blog and Neowin.net
Brian Briggs / BBspot:
RIAA Lawsuit Decision Matrix
Discussion: digg
 

 
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