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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.
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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 …
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. …
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).
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.
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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.
Steve O'Hear / The Social Web:
Amsterdam sold for $50,000 — IN FOCUS » See more posts on: Second Life — Going, going, gone. Amsterdam sold for $50,000. Ok it's not the real-life city, but the virtual one created in Second Life which was auctioned off this week on eBay. One of the landmark businesses in Second Life …
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.
Ellie Gibson / GamesIndustry.biz:
Eidos holding off on release of most PlayStation 3 titles until 2008 — Latest financial report reveals rise in revenues — Eidos has confirmed that it won't be releasing most of its major PS3 titles until next year, stating that the console's installed base will not be high enough before then.
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.
Paul Kapustka / NewTeeVee:
Verizon Creates Its Own TV Channel — If you are one of the select few who gets broadband via Verizon's FiOS fiber pipe, and you live in the Washington, D.C. area, on Friday you will get to watch the telco giant's leap into the content business, courtesy of its new channel humbly called FiOS1.
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.
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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.
